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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:

Download Thesis_ThaiLe_IST_B.pdf

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:

Pankova, Daria

Title:

The Search For High Energy Tau Neutrinos With The IceCube Neutrino Detector

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

neutrino
tau neutrinos
IceCube
physics
machine learning
CNN

File:

Download DPankova_Dissertation_PSU.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Douglas Cowen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephane Coutu, Major Field Member
Derek Fox, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anna Stasto, Major Field Member

Author:

Alotaik, Osama

Title:

Equitable Food Distribution - Modeling and Analysis of Food Banks Supply Chains Using Machine Learning and Recurrent Optimization-basedSimulation

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

food banks
supply chains
machine learning
simulation
food assistance
equitable distribution

File:

Download Osama_final_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eunhye Song, Major Field Member
Saurabh Basu, Major Field Member
Edward Jaenicke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shreedharan, Srisharan

Title:

Frictional mechanics of stable and unstable fault slip: Insights from ultrasonic imaging of experimental fault zones

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Fault mechanics
fault friction
slow slip events
machine learning
asperity stiffness
lab earthquakes

File:

Download Srisharan_Dissertation_V25.01.21.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris J Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Member
Jacques Riviere, Outside Member
Demian Saffer, Special Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Polasky, Andrew

Title:

Statistical Climate Model Downscaling: Methods and Application to the Midwest United States and West Africa Regions

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (PHD)

Keywords:

climate change
downscaling
self-organizing maps
machine learning
statistical downscaling

File:

Download polasky_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

George Young, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jenni Evans, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Fuentes, Major Field Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Julien, Chris

Title:

Collective Identity, Sexual Coercion, and Hegemonic Masculinity: Machine Learning and the Discourse of the Manosphere

Graduate Program:

Sociology (PHD)

Keywords:

sociology
masculinity
digital sociology
gender
machine learning
text analysis
reddit
manosphere

File:

Download CJulien_Final_Diss_v4.0.pdf

Committee Members:

David Baker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Daniel DellaPosta, Major Field Member
Burt Monroe, Outside Unit & Field Member
Charles Seguin, Major Field Member
Diane Felmlee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Sengupta, Agnimitra

Title:

Data-driven Condition Evaluation of Transportation Systems

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

nondestructive evaluation
impact echo
machine learning
infrastructure systems
traffic prediction
uncertainty
traffic dynamics
deep learning

File:

Download PSU_PhD_Agni.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
S. Ilgin Guler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Field Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Outside Unit Member
Sudeepta Mondal, Special Member
Vikash Gayah, Major Field Member

Author:

Shen, Jia Tracy

Title:

AI in Education: Effective Machine Learning Methods To Improve Data Scarcity and Knowledge Generalization

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

AI
machine learning
education
BERT
nlp
Deep Generative models
time series
model generalization
transfer learning
knowledge generalization
transformer
LSTM

File:

Download AIinED_Dissertation_final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Amulya Yadav, Major Field Member
Rebecca Passonneau, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hojjatinia, Sarah

Title:

System Identification Algorithms for Noisy Data with Application to Behavior Modeling

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

System identification
data analysis
modeling
physical activity
behavior
machine learning
algorithm
noisy data
social network
switched systems
markov
design
SARMAX
SARX
Markov jump
hybrid
health
Real Data

File:

Download Sarah-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
David E Conroy, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zheng, Xinye

Title:

Computational Approaches towards Pattern Recognition and Matching for Scientific Images

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

scientific image processing
optimal transport
machine learning
scientific image processing
machine learning
optimal transport
statistical modeling

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
Saeed M Abdullah, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Outside Member
Jia Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Jia Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor