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Author:

Patankar, Harshal D

Title:

PARTIAL-REVOCATION BASED TRUST MANAGEMENT IN AD HOC NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

IDS
Trusted Authority
TA
Trust Management
Ad Hoc Networks
Partial Revocation
Mutual Revocation
Intrusion Detection System

File:

Download Harshal-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jarvis, Nicholas Adam

Title:

DEVELOPING A JAVA BINARY OBJECT TECHNIQUE FOR TRANSFERRING HIGH VOLUMES OF DATA IN DATA CENTERS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

data transfer
ORM
binary object
relational data
serialization
java
data centers

File:

Download jarvis-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kim, Seong Jo

Title:

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE PARALLEL I/O

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MPI-IO
PVFS
collective I/O
I/O stack
code instrumentation
Parallel I/O visualization

File:

Download msthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sridharan, Srinath

Title:

Performance-reliability trade-offs in designing Re-Order Buffers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ROB
Late Binding
vulberability

File:

Download Srinath_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jang, Oh Young

Title:

DACA: a feedback control-based approach to approximate computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

approximate computing
control theory
bodytrack

File:

Download 20120808_Thesis-OhyoungJang-Submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kesten, Tuba

Title:

A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING APPLICATION INTERFERENCE ON GPUS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPU
multiple application
concurrent execution
CUDA
Hyper-Q
NVIDIA
Kepler

File:

Download Thesis_final_Kesten_Tuba.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Farhat, Farshid

Title:

Stochastic Modeling and Optimization of Stragglers in Mapreduce Framework

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MapReduce
Stochastic Modeling
Optimal Scheduling
Performance Evaluation
Queuing Theory.

File:

Download ms_thesis_mrmo_v21.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jadidi, Amin

Title:

Kernel-Based Energy Optimization In GPUs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

GPU Memory

File:

Download Amin_Jadidi.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lv, Weining

Title:

DEEP SCENE END TO END OCR TOOL

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

deep learning ocr system

File:

Download Master_thesis__final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Parija, Tulika

Title:

SAVING COMPUTATIONS BY EARLY INFERENCE TERMINATION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Deep Neural Network
Convolutional Neural Network

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Tulika_Parija_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Noureldeen, Ali

Title:

Security Study of Ranking Algorithms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ranking Algorthims
Machine Learning

File:

Download AliNoureldeen.pdf

Committee Members:

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

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

Rampalli, Sahithi

Title:

A Processing-in-Memory Accelerator Architecture for Graph Analytics

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

processing-in-memory
PIM
graphs
graph analytics
accelerator
SpMV
sparse

File:

Download Thesis_Sahithi_Rampalli.pdf

Committee Members:

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

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:

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:

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:

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:

Cao, Jeffery

Title:

Utilizing Generative Aversarial Networks To Generate Training Data From Text

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Generative Adversarial Network
GAN
text-to-image GAN
zero-shot
machine learning
image classification

File:

Download master.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas F La Porta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Ting He, Committee Member

Author:

Mahdizadeh Shahri, Sara

Title:

(Almost) Fence-less Persist Ordering

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Persistent memory
Memory persistency model

File:

Download SaraMahdizadehShahri_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Aasheesh Kolli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member

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:

Zheng, Qingyuan

Title:

A Symbolic Data Dependence Analysis With Abstract Interpretation

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Static Analysis
Alias Analysis
Data Dependence Analysis
Theorem Prover
Abstract Interpretation

File:

Download Master_Thesis_QingyuanZheng.pdf

Committee Members:

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