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Author:

Zhang, Kaixuan

Title:

A Representation-based Approach to Connect Regular Grammar and Deep Learning

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Leaning
Regular Grammar
Adversarial Machine Learning
Model Extraction
Topological Analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shomir Wilson, Major Field Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Xiaoting

Title:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Exploring the Robustness and Applicability of Adversarial Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Adversarial machine learning
Attribute privacy
Social good
Defense
Adversarial attacks

File:

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Committee Members:

Ting Wang, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Dinghao Wu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jinchao Xu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Knearem, Tiffany

Title:

Solidarity not Charity! Empowering Local Communities for Disaster Relief during COVID-19 through Grassroots Support

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Mutual aid
Community-based disaster relief
social media
Community informatics

File:

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Committee Members:

Jack Carroll, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Steven Haynes, Major Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yang, Fengting

Title:

Geometry Inspired Deep Neural Networks for 3D reconstruction

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

3D reconstruction
Geometry
Deep Neural Networks

File:

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Outside Unit & Field Member
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Sharon Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zihan Zhou, Major Field Member

Author:

Le, Thai Quang

Title:

Trustworthy Machine Learning: Learning under Security, Explainability and Uncertainty Constraints

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

machine learning
responsible AI
explainability
adversarial attack
adversarial defense
security
privacy
XAI
trustworthy

File:

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Major Field Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Umar, Prasanna

Title:

Mining users' self-privacy violations in online public discourse using data science techniques

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

online self-disclosure
public discourse
privacy
automated detection

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrea Tapia, Major Field Member
Christopher Griffin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Rajtmajer, Major Field Member
Anna Squicciarini, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bao, Qinkun

Title:

Precise and Scalable Side-Channel Analysis

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

information theory
software security
program analysis
side-channel

File:

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Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Major Field Member
Benjamin Hanrahan, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dinghao Wu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
James Larus, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Li

Title:

Towards Network Level Moving Target Defense with Software Defined Networking

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

network security
moving target defense
software-defined networking
network reconnaissance protection
network reflector
shadow network
SDN
SDN security application

File:

Download Li-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Linhai Song, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anna Squicciarini, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member

Author:

Cui, Limeng

Title:

Understanding and Detecting Online Misinformation with Auxiliary Data

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Misinformation detection
Graph neural networks
Knowledge graph
Social media
Fraud detection
Active learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Dongwon Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lin Lin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amulya Yadav, Major Field Member
Anna Squicciarini, Major Field Member

Author:

Luo, Yu

Title:

Towards automated recognition of bodily expression of emotion in the wild

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Body language
emotional expression
computer vision
crowdsourcing
video analysis
perception
statistical modeling
human mesh reconstruction
.

File:

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Committee Members:

James Wang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Reginald Adams, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jia Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zihan Zhou, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Farhang, Sadegh

Title:

Organizations security management in different problem domains: Empirical Evidence and game-theoretic modeling

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Security
Update
Upgrade
Game Theory
Android

File:

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Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xinyu Xing, Major Field Member
Jens Grossklags, Special Member
Anna Squicciarini, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Blair, Johnna

Title:

Assessing the Design Needs to Support Longitudinal Stability and Wellbeing for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

mental health
financial technologies
longitudinal support
digital mental health interventions
online behavior
social support
bipolar disorder
human-centered design

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
Xinning Gui, Major Field Member
Saeed Abdullah, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
S. Shyam Sundar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gupta, Srishti

Title:

From Silos to Synergy: Enabling Distributed Collaboration in Citizen Science Water Quality Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Sustainable HCI
Citizen Science
Community Informatics
Human-Centered Design

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrea Tapia, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Boyer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jack Carroll, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Liu, Lu

Title:

Understanding the dynamical patterns and hot streaks for creative careers

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

the science of science
hot streaks
creative careers
exploration and exploitation

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Committee Members:

David Hunter, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Rajtmajer, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dashun Wang, Special Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member

Author:

Luo, Dongsheng

Title:

Denoising and Integrating Complex Networks for Big Data Analysis

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Graph neural Networks
Complex Network Analysis
XAI

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Major Field Member
Xiang Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Xiao Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xu, Dongkuan

Title:

Resource-efficient Deep Learning: Democratizing AI at Scale

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Democratization
Efficient
Artificial Intelligence
Model Compression
Graph Neural Network
Acceleration

File:

Download PhD_dessertation_Dongkuan_Xu_Resource_efficient_Deep_Learning_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Major Field Member
Xiang Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiao Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member

Author:

Chen, Yueqi

Title:

Investigating Exploitable Design Patterns for More Advanced Protection Design

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

System Security
Software Security
Operating System
Exploitability

File:

Download Ph_D_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Jaeger, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peng Liu, Major Field Member
Xinyu Xing, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vasileios P. Kemerlis, Special Member
Dinghao Wu, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Doozandeh Masooleh, Pooyan

Title:

Introducing and Testing the Benefits of Videorecording for the Analysis of Tasks and Jobs

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Ethnography
Training System Design
Human Performance Modeling
Job Analysis
Task Analysis

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Committee Members:

Jack Carroll, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rustin Meyer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Aiping Xiong, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Guo, Wenbo

Title:

Explainable AI Techniques for Security

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

computer security
machine learning
explainable AI
deep learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Lin Lin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting Wang, Co-Chair, Major Member & Dissertation Advisor
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Xinyu Xing, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Jang, Jinsung

Title:

The Logic of End-user Responsibility for Cyber-governance: A Paradigm Shift from Macro-decentralized Governance to Micro-distributed Governance

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

user responsibility
cyber-governance
duty of care
tort law
legal duty
distributed attack
cybersecurity
information problem
bounded rationality
CDA
DMCA
policy

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Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Ben Johnson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Edward Glantz, Major Field Member
Fred Fonseca, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member

Author:

Mali, Ankur Arjun

Title:

Theoretically deriving computational limits of Artificial Neural Networks with bounded precision and time

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Turing machine
automata theory
deep neural networks
formal language
recurrent neural network
artificial neural networks
theoretical limits
grammatical inference
state machines
memory augmented neural networks
language modelling

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Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alexander Ororbia, Special Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Sharon Huang, Major Field Member

Author:

Yan, Yaowei

Title:

Fast Local Graph Node Proximity Ranking

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Random Walk
Graph Clustering
Community Detection
Link Prediction
Multi-network Analysis
Social Network
Social Recommendation
Adversarial Attack

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Committee Members:

Xiang Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Xiao Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Dongwon Lee, Major Field Member

Author:

Anand, Priya

Title:

Leveraging Security Patterns To Address Security Vulnerabilities In Software Systems

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Security Patterns
Vulnerability Scanning
Architectural Analysis

File:

Download dissertationReport_versionFinal_July72021.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
Jungwoo Ryoo, Chair & Major Field Represnt
Rick Kazman, Special Member
Phillip Laplante, Committee Member & Related Areas Repres
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Member Committee, Committee Member & Special Represent

Author:

Huang, Guanjie

Title:

Deep Models for Detecting Sleep-Related Problems

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

deep learning
sleep stage classsification
sleep apnea detection
cross attention
evidential learning

File:

Download dissertation__Guanjie_11_4.pdf

Committee Members:

Sharon Huang, Major Field Member
Fenglong Ma, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting Wang, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair