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Author:

Alvarez, Raquel

Title:

Application Transiency: Towards a Fair Trade of Personal Information for Application Services

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

android
privacy
access control

File:

Download final_thesis_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member

Author:

Celik, Zeynel Berkay

Title:

Automated IoT Security and Privacy Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

IoT security and privacy
program analysis
security
privacy

File:

Download Automated_IoT_Security_and_Privacy_Analysis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick McDaniel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F. La Porta, Committee Member
Gang Tan, Committee Member
David Reitter, Outside Member
A. Selcuk Uluagac, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Yue

Title:

ON IMPROVING THE UTILITY FOR DATA ANALYSES UNDER DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Differential privacy
statistical data analyses

File:

Download YueWang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Kifer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Outside Member

Author:

Davis, Steven

Title:

Maritime Navigation and Contact Avoidance through Reinforcement Learning

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

reinforcement learning
machine learning
maritime
unmanned underwater vehicle
autonomous underwater vehicle
q learning
navigation
autonomous

File:

Download Davis_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Phillip Sustersic, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hakimi, Zeinab

Title:

Collaborative Inference for Distributed Camera System

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multi View Convolutional Neural Network
Distributed System
Context Awareness
DNN
Object Recognition

File:

Download Thesis_Hakimi.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shin, Philip

Title:

CONTEXT-AWARE COLLABORATIVE OBJECT RECOGNITION FOR MULTI CAMERA TIME SERIES DATA

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Context-Aware
Object Detection
Deep Learning
Convolutional Neural Network
MVCNN-Wavg
Multi Camera
Distributed System

File:

Download Shin_Philip_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Anderson, Skyler

Title:

Adaptive Neural Network Architectures for Power Aware Inference

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Neural Networks
Power aware inference
convolutional neural networks
semantic segmentation

File:

Download Thesis_Skyler_Anderson.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kim, Dong

Title:

Sensor Aware Machine Learning For Edge Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

convolutional neural network
machine learning
synthetic dataset

File:

Download Chris_Dong_Hyun_Kim_Master_s_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member

Author:

Shah, Shail Paragbhai

Title:

CHARACTERIZING AND OPTIMIZING ON-CHIP SHARED MEMORY RESOURCES USING MARKET-DRIVEN MECHANISMS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Resource Allocation
last level caches
characterization
memory bandwidth
auction mechanism
game theory

File:

Download Shail_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Huang, Yongzhe

Title:

Automatic IDL Generation for Privilege Separation

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

privilege separation
IDL
program partition

File:

Download Master_Thesis_yongzhe_huang.pdf

Committee Members:

Gang Tan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Trent Jaeger, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Xiao

Title:

Robust Text Spotting in Natural Images with Deep Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Text Spotting
Text Recognition
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Text Detection

File:

Download XiaoYang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Kifer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Member
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Zihan Zhou, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Kunho

Title:

Entity Resolution for Large-Scale Databases

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Entity Resolution
Author Name Disambiguation
Record Linkage
Pairwise Classification
Clustering

File:

Download Scalable_Entity_Resolution_for_Scholarly_Databases__5_.pdf

Committee Members:

Clyde Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Committee Member
Guido Cervone, Outside Member

Author:

Jain, Aman

Title:

SplitServe: Efficiently splitting complex workloads over IaaS and FaaS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Public Cloud Computing
Distributed Computing

File:

Download MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Xulong

Title:

Irregularity-aware Computation and Data Management in Manycore Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPGPUs
Manycore architecture
Data locality
Irregular applications

File:

Download PHD_thesis_Xulong.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chita R. Das, Committee Member
John (Jack) Sampson, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member

Author:

Mahmood, Navid

Title:

APPLYING DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES TO GENERATE MEDICAL IMAGES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Adversarial learning
deep learning
image synthesis
residual learning
Deep learning
Medical image
Generative network
Image registration
Residual learning

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member

Author:

Rengasamy, Prasanna Venkatesh

Title:

Tackling the computation and memory needs of interactive workloads on next generation platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CPU
Memory
Mobile
SoCs
GPGPU
ML
Feature Importance
Criticality
User Interactive
LOST
Load-to-Store
Accelerators
Energy

File:

Download PrasannaThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pattnaik, Ashutosh

Title:

Be(-A)ware of Data Movement: Optimizing Throughput Processors For Efficient Computations

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPUs
Throughput Processors
Compute Scheduling
Near Data Computing
Processing In Memory

File:

Download AshutoshPattnaik-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Outside Member
Aniruddha Vaidya, Special Member
Asit Mishra, Special Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hsu, Ting Yao

Title:

AUTOMATED VISUAL STORYTELLING POST-EDITING

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

vision-to-language
post-editing
computer vision
natural language processing
deep learning
image captioning

File:

Download Master_Thesis___Automated_Visual_Storytelling_Post_editing.pdf

Committee Members:

Clyde Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Committee Member

Author:

Choi, Jinhang

Title:

Context-Aware Design and Optimization of Embedded Deep Neural Network Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Deep Neural Networks
Design Automation
Parallel Architectures
Edge Computing

File:

Download JChoi-PhDDissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Zihan Zhou, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sefid, Athar

Title:

Record Linkage Between CiteSeerX and Scholarly Big Datasets

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Entity linking
Record linkage
text mining
data cleaning

File:

Download Athar_Sefid_Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Clyde Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member

Author:

Narayanan, Iyswarya

Title:

Towards maximizing the efficiency of datacenter power and server infrastructure

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

datacenter
power management
resource management
capacity planning
energy storage in a datacenter
datacenters

File:

Download FinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Hosam K. Fathy, Outside Member
Timothy Zhu, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yoon, Eunjung

Title:

Ensuring Service Integrity in Cloud Computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Security
Cloud Computing
Big Data
Intrusion Recovery
Computation Integrity
MapReduce

File:

Download EunjungYoon-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gang Tan, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Jia Li, Outside Member
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wong, Joseph

Title:

Smart Home Surveillance System Through Edge Computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

smart home
edge computing
security
machine learning
deep learning
motion detection
facial recognition
fog computing

File:

Download thesis_grad.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Clayman, Scott

Title:

Analyzing Pennsylvania’s Economic Resilience Considering Interdependent Infrastructures and Economic Sectors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

economic
disruption
input-output model
inoperability input-output model
multi-regional inoperability input-output model
I-O model
IIM model
MRIIM model
infrastructure
critical infrastructure
economic resilience
economic sectors
industry sectors
bayesian vector autoregression
network
clustering
centrality
components
GDP
forecasting
vulnerability

File:

Download S._Clayman_-_Master_s_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mohamad Darayi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raghu Sangwan, Committee Member
Satish Mahadevan Srinivasan, Committee Member
Youakim Badr, Committee Member
Colin Neill, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zafeiroudi, Kyriaki

Title:

Automatic Keyphrase Extraction from Scholarly Documents

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

keyphrase extraction
PageRank
word embeddings

File:

Download KDZ_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Clyde Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cunningham, James

Title:

Ultrasound Medical Image Processing with Improved Segmentation of Substantia Nigra Hyperechogenicity using Deep Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ultrasound
image processing
neural network
deep learning
substantia nigra

File:

Download Cunningham_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member

Author:

Ravichandran, Bharadwaj

Title:

BioPose-3D and PressNet-KL: A Path to Understanding Human Pose Stability from Video

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Foot Pressure Estimation
Pose Estimation
Human Stability
Deep Learning
Computer Vision

File:

Download BioPose3D_and_PressNet_KL__A_Path_to_Understanding_Stability_from_Video.pdf

Committee Members:

Yanxi Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Collins, Committee Member
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shringarputale, Sushrut Dhawal

Title:

Co-residency attacks on containers are real

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Containers
Orchestrators
Co-residency
Cloud Security

File:

Download Thesis_Title-3.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F La Porta, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khazbak, Youssef

Title:

Preserving Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

crowdsourcing
target search
privacy preserving
location privacy
crowdsourcing
mobile systems
target search
collaborative learning

File:

Download Khazbak_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Zhenhui (jessie) Li, Outside Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Haibo

Title:

Optimizing Video Processing for Next-Generation Mobile Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mobile Platform
Video Processing
Memory
Caching

File:

Download HaiboZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fan, Mengran

Title:

Accelerate the docking application on heterogeneous computing system

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPU architecture
Molecular docking

File:

Download MengranFan_Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alfares, Nader

Title:

Adapting Key-Value Storage Systems to Minimize Cost in the Public Cloud

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Public Cloud
Strong Consistency
AWS
Memcached
Object Sharing
Storage Systems
Systems

File:

Download NaderAlfares-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Shen

Title:

Quantitative Privilege Separation with Pointer Supports

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Privilege Separation
Program Analysis
Software Security

File:

Download Quantitative_Privilege_Separation_with_Pointer_Supports.pdf

Committee Members:

Gang Tan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gang Tan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Govindaraj, Vineetha

Title:

PowerPrep : A power management technique for user-facing datacenter workloads

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Datacenter workloads
computer architecture

File:

Download POWERPREP__A_POWER_MANAGEMENT_PROPOSAL_FOR_USER_FACING_DATACENTER_WORKLOAD__2_.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Malis, Alexander

Title:

Robust Network Information Flow Control

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Pi-Calculus
Information Flow Control
Raft
Distributed Computing
Denotational Semantics

File:

Download RNPiFC.pdf

Committee Members:

Danfeng Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Burke, Quinn

Title:

Misreporting Attacks in Software-Defined Networking

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

network security
cybersecurity
load balancing
software-defined networking
computer networks

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Ting He, Committee Member

Author:

Alrizah, Mshabab

Title:

Enhancing Ad-blocking Systems for Better Web Browsing Security and Privacy

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ad-blocking systems
privacy
security
Internet Security
crowdsourcing
Advertisement

File:

Download Mshabab_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Jia Li, Outside Member
Xinyu Xing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xinyu Xing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Minkin, Ilia

Title:

Applications of the compacted de bruijn graph in Comparative genomics

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

De Bruijn graph
Comparative genomics
Sequence alignment
Sequence analysis

File:

Download Minkin-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Medvedev, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Mingfu Shao, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kandimalla, Bharath

Title:

Subject Category Classification of Scholarly Papers Using Deep Attentive Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

text classification
scholarly big data
text mining
attention model
deep neural networks
word embedding
web of science

File:

Download bharath_mscs_final_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Clyde Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chatterjee, Bodhisatwa

Title:

Optimization of Modern Compilers using Approximate Computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Compiler Optimization
Approximate Computing
Dependencies
Parallelization

File:

Download Bodhi_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member

Author:

Yu, Mingli

Title:

Flow table security in software defined network

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Software Defined Networking
cache inference
Denial of Service attack

File:

Download Mingli_MSThesis__FLOW_TABLE_SECURITY_IN_SOFTWARE_DEFINED_NETWORK.pdf

Committee Members:

Ting He, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bandyopadhyay, Saptarashmi

Title:

Vessel Analysis in Narrow Band Imaging Bronchoscopic Video

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Narrow Band Imaging
Bronchoscopy
Vessel Enhancement
Vessel Segmentation
Artificial Intelligence
Lung Cancer Detection

File:

Download Saptarashmi2020-MS.pdf

Committee Members:

William Evan Higgins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jang, Geesun

Title:

High frequency ultrasound imaging with thin-film devices and embedded system

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ultrasound Imaging
Embedded System
Finger-vein
Biometric

File:

Download _Official__Master_Thesis_-_Geesun_Jang.pdf

Committee Members:

Kyusun Choi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pauley, Eric

Title:

Static Instrumentation for Performant Binary Fuzzing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

fuzzing
security
program analysis

File:

Download MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chandran, Makesh Tarun

Title:

Processing In-Memory Architecture Incorporating Systolic Dataflow for Deep Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Neural Networks
ReRAM
Processing-in-memory
Transformer
BERT
LSTM
CNN
Systolic

File:

Download Makesh_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gong, Qing

Title:

Extending Parallel Datalog with Lattice

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Datalog
Lattice
Scalability
Soufflé

File:

Download Thesis___Extending_Parallel_Datalog_with_Lattice.pdf

Committee Members:

Gang Tan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Abumurad, Abdulrahman

Title:

An Automated Framework for Flash ADC Design and Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

TIQ Comparators
Flash ADC
ADC Design Automation
Low-noise ADCs
Quality Flash ADCs
Circuit Layout Generation
Comparator Thresholds selection
Flash ADC and Process-Temperature-Voltage Variation
High-Precision Flash ADCs
Signal Switching Noise in Flash ADCs
Circuit Design Automation

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_CSE_Abumurad_Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Kyusun Choi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyusun Choi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Committee Member
Bruce Gluckman, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Steward, Michael

Title:

Global Permission Derivation Chain: Granting and Revoking Permissions Using a Distributed Ledger

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Blockchain
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
Bitcoin
Access Control
Merkle Trees
Bloom Filters
DIL
Hyperledger
Hyperledger Fabric
Distributed Applications
MQTT
ActiveMQ
Distributed Ledger
Distributed Ledger Technology
DLT
Disconnected Intermittent Low-Bandwidth

File:

Download Steward_MS_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Gang Tan, Committee Member

Author:

Thirucherai Govindarajan, Hariram

Title:

Optimization of Inter-Cache Traffic Entanglement in Tagless Caches with Tiling Opportunities

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Tagless cache

File:

Download Hariram_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stopa, Natasha

Title:

Using Female Alignment Features to Identify Reads from the Y Chromosome in Whole Genome Sequencing with Nanopore Data

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Y chromosome female alignment bioinformatic algorithms genomics

File:

Download Natasha_Stopa_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Medvedev, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mingfu Shao, Committee Member

Author:

Eden, Grant

Title:

Using a UAV and Edge Computing to Identify and Throw Away Trash

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

UAV
Edge Computing
Drone
TPU
Machine Learning

File:

Download ThesisGrantEden.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Huang, Kaiming

Title:

DataGuard: Guarded Pages for Augmenting Stack Object Protections

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Stack Protection
Guard Page

File:

Download Master_Thesis_KaimingHuang.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Gang Tan, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xiao, Yifei

Title:

Monitoring Sleep Quality Using Smartwatches

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

smartwatch
mobile health
mobile computing
machine learning
sleep quality

File:

Download Thesis_Yifei_Xiao.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xia, Tianrou

Title:

A Network-Assisted Approach for Ransomware Detection

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ransomware Detection
network security
ant colony optimization algorithm

File:

Download MasterThesis-TianrouXia.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fu, Tao Yang

Title:

GRAPH AND TRAJECTORY MINING: FRAMEWORKS,ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
representation learning
neural network
network data
trajectory data
spatio-temporal data
node classification
link prediction
travel time estmiation
route planning

File:

Download dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang-Chien Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Jia Li, Outside Member
Zhen Lei, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Zhen Lei, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Ozdemir, Ali

Title:

SELECTION ALGORITHMS FOR TRANSISTOR QUANTIZATION ADC’S BASED ON DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

TIQ
Flash ADC
Dynamic Programming
DNL
INL

File:

Download Dissertation_Ali_Ozdemir_Summer_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Kyusun Choi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyusun Choi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Jackson, Committee Member
Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sahin, Eralp

Title:

Automatic EDL generation for Intel Software Guard Extensions

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

SGX
Intel SGX
enclave
security
memory
EDL
automate

File:

Download EralpSahin-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Gang Tan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jagtap, Kirti

Title:

State Endorsement in the Smart Home IoTivity Framework

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

IoTivity
Smart Home

File:

Download State_Endorsement_on_Smart_Home_IoTivity_Framework.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahanth Gowda, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Soni, Praneet

Title:

Design and Implementation of an Automated Experimentation Facility for a Reconfigurable Geo-Distributed Key-Value Store

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Strong Consistency
Geo-distributed
Key-value Store
Experiment Facility
Reconfigurable Storage Service
Erasure Coding
Systems

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_CSE_PSU.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cosson, Adrien

Title:

Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks with Kernel-Level Hardware Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

IoT
Network Security
Intrusion Detection
Linux Kernel Module

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Gang Tan, Committee Member

Author:

Tehranchi, Farnaz

Title:

An Eyes and Hands Model: Extending Visual and Motor Modules for Cognitive Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

User modeling
Visual attention
Motor skills
Cognitive architectures
Cognitive computing
Human-computer interaction
Artificial intelligence
Error detection
Error correction
human errors
Eyes and Hands model

File:

Download FarnazTehranchi_Dissertation_v19.pdf

Committee Members:

Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reginald Adams, Jr., Outside Member
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Frank Edward Ritter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Frank Edward Ritter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Chandel, Gaurav

Title:

NOBLER : Non Blocking Reconfiguration Protocol For Linearizable Distributed Data Store

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Reconfiguration
Non-Blocking
Linearizable
Memory Stores
ABD
Distributed
System

File:

Download Master_Thesis_CSE_PSU.pdf

Committee Members:

Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shah, Rohan

Title:

Automating feedback-generation for programming assignments via crowdsourcing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Automating feedback generation
formative feedback

File:

Download Shah_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John Joseph Hannan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Beugin, Yohan

Title:

Building a Secure and Privacy-Preserving Smart Camera System

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

smart camera system
privacy-preserving
security
secure and authenticated pairing
key tree
encryption

File:

Download Building_a_Secure_and_Privacy_Preserving_Smart_Camera_System.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gang Tan, Committee Member
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wheatman, Michael

Title:

Autonomous Undersea Vehicle Control Using the UMAA Standard

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Unmanned Undersea Vehicle
Autonomous Systems
UMAA
Real-Time Control Systems

File:

Download MichaelWheatman-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark P Mahon, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Imran, Muhammad Talha

Title:

A developer-centric analysis framework for programmable accelerators

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

hardware/software co-design
programmable accelerators

File:

Download ms_thesis_talha-v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Aasheesh Kolli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Jialun

Title:

Interval Parsing Grammar For File Format Specification

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

file format
parsing language
attribute grammar
parser generator

File:

Download Interval_Parsing_Grammar_For_File_Format_Specification.pdf

Committee Members:

Gang Tan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nagarapu, Murali Nandan

Title:

Modelling Parkinson's Progression using Naturally Spoken Language Features

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Parkinson's Disease
Speech Features
Early Prediction
Progression modeling

File:

Download Murali_Nandan_Thesis_-_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahanth Gowda, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nambiar, Namitha

Title:

Attack Resilience of Cache Replacement Policies: Implementation and Experimentation In SDN

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

SDN
Dos Attack
Attack Resilience
Cache Replacement Policy

File:

Download Namitha_Nambiar.pdf

Committee Members:

Ting He, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Choi, Wonil

Title:

Case-Specific Lifetime Management Strategies for Long-Lasting Flash Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

NAND Flash
Device Lifetime
Memory Coding

File:

Download Wonil_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Brotzman-Smith, Robert

Title:

Detecting and Mitigating Cache-Based Side-Channels

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

side-channel
cache
static analysis
mitigation

File:

Download Robert_Brotzman_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gang Tan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gang Tan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Danfeng Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sun, Yiwei

Title:

Adversarial Attacks and Representation Learning for Graph-structured Data

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Adversarial Attacks
Graph Mining
Graph Representation Learning

File:

Download YiweiSunThesis_update.pdf

Committee Members:

Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suhang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Liang, Ke

Title:

Inferring Aliasing and Buffer Size Relationship in C via Graph Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Programming Language
Machine Learning
Link Prediction
Graph Neural Networks
Aliasing and Buffer Size Relationship
Code Analysis

File:

Download Liang_Ke_Thesis__1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Gang Tan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fatahi Baarzi, Ataollah

Title:

Multi-Cloud Serverless Deployment

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Serverless Computing
Cloud Computing

File:

Download FatahiBaarziMscThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abutalib Aghayev, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nurani Sundareswara, Soundarya

Title:

Availability of Privacy Policies and Terms of Service Agreements on the Web

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Privacy Policy
Terms of Service
Topic Modeling
Availability
Corpus

File:

Download Masters_Thesis___Soundarya.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shomir Wilson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Arzoo Katiyar, Committee Member

Author:

Keesara, Sai Raghav

Title:

Overcoming the bottleneck of extracting and indexing hundreds of millions of academic papers to support a scholarly big data service: a case study of CiteSeerX

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Information Retrieval
Information Extraction
Digital Libraries
Search Engine
Scalability
Academic Libraries
Elasticsearch

File:

Download Keesara_Thesis_May2021.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Jian Wu, Special Signatory
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kumar, Pramod

Title:

INFERALL: COORDINATED OPTIMIZATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE SERVING IN PUBLIC CLOUD

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ML Inference system
Machine learning in public cloud
Machine-learning-as-a-service (MLaaS)
Inference
Serving
Batching
Cloud
Serverless
Service Level Objective (SLO)
Cost-effective
Optimization
Modeling
Prediction
Machine learning inference

File:

Download Pramod_Kumar_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member

Author:

Bangalore Narasimha Prasad, Sumukha

Title:

Ultrasound Computed Tomography using Deep Learning

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ultrasound Computer Tomograpghy
Deep Learning
CRF
Encoder-Decoder
Reconstruction

File:

Download SumkhaPrasad_Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cao, Haonan

Title:

Apply Human Computer Interaction Principles to an Augmented Reality App for Human Motion Sequence Observation

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Augmented Reality
Human Computer Interaction

File:

Download Haonan-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yanxi Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Muluka, Arun Teja

Title:

Continuous Sign Language Recognition

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

SIGNUM
Sign Language
Openpose
NLP
Dee

File:

Download myThesis2021_7_8.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahanth Gowda, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Satish, Chirag

Title:

Characterizing Object Stores For Serverless Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Serverless systems
Object Stores
Characterization

File:

Download Chirag_Satish_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Aasheesh Kolli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bharadwaj, Skanda

Title:

Motion Estimation in Ultrasound Image Sequences: A Deep Learning Approach

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

motion estimation
object tracking
ultrasound imaging
deep learning
Siamese networks
convolutional neural networks
Kalman Filter

File:

Download Skanda_Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Xiang

Title:

Bridging Paired-end RNA-seq reads

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

RNA-seq
transcript assembly
de Bruijn graph

File:

Download Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mingfu Shao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member

Author:

Andrade Salazar, Alejandro

Title:

PHYSICS BASED DETECTION SYSTEM FOR MISREPORTING ATTACKS IN V2X CORE DATA FIELDS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Misbehavior Reporting
Data Centric Anomaly Detection
BSM
C-V2x
V2x
V2V
DSRC

File:

Download Securing_V2x_Core_Data_Fields_Thesis_Format.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mark P Mahon, Committee Member

Author:

George, Sumitha

Title:

Technology Driven Architecture Support for Memory Hierarchies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cache
Memory
FEFET
FeFET
NCFET
MDA
symmetric memory
2Dimensional Memory
2D Memory
Tag-less cache
Tagless
CAM
non-volatile
flip-flop
flipflop
Content Addressable Memory
Approximate CAM
Non volatility

File:

Download Uploaded_Thesis_Sumitha_George.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Special Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Thinakaran, Prashanth

Title:

Embracing Heterogeneity in Cloud Platforms through Adaptable Resource Management Framework

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

datacenters
cloud
accelerators
resource-management

File:

Download PrashanthThinakaran_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Clyde Lee Giles, Outside Member
Bikash Sharma, Special Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zolbayar, Bolor Erdene

Title:

Generating Adversarial Network Traffic Flows with GANs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Network Intrusion Detection Systems
Generative Adversarial Networks
Adversarial Network Traffic Flows
Adversarial Examples
Generating Adversarial Network Flows

File:

Download Zolbayar_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Yunju

Title:

VAR: Vulkan API Remoting for GPU-accelerated Rendering and Computation in Virtual Machines

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Virtualization
GPU
Vulkan
API Remoting

File:

Download Lee-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member