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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:

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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:

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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:

Dhanorkar, Shipi

Title:

An Investigation of the Design Space for Student Learning Tools that Aid Interaction with Recorded Lecture Content

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Lecture Recording
AI
Human-Computer Interaction
Design
Scenario-Based Design Research
Higher Education

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Committee Members:

Priya Sharma, Outside Unit & Field Member
D. Benjamin Hellar, Special Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major & Minor Field Member

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:

Liang, Junjie

Title:

Predictive Modeling for High Dimensional Longitudinal Data

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Longitudinal data analysis
longitudinal correlation
cluster correlation
Gaussian Process
Factorization Machines

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Committee Members:

Xiang Zhang, Major Field Member
Lin Lin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Vasant Honavar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

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:

Mello Lage, Carla Patricia

Title:

A Model to Support Information Exchange Between Organizations with Different Rhythms

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Emergency Response
Polyrhythm
Information Exchange
Organizational Rhythm

File:

Download Carla_Mello_Lage_Dissertation_CV.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Fonseca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Fonseca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Kent Forster, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member
Ann Callistro Clements, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Delane, Ryan

Title:

Opportunities for Competency-Based Learning in Software Development Courses

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Computing Education
Competency-based Education
CBE
Software Development Education
Social Constructivism

File:

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Hanrahan, Major Field Member
Steven Haynes, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Zimmerman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shen, Hua

Title:

Towards Useful AI Interpretability for Humans via Interactive AI Explanations

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Interactive AI Explanations
Conversational AI Explanations
Human-centered Explainable AI
XAI Human Evaluation
Useful AI Explanations
XAI Usefulness

File:

Download HuaShen_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Sherry Tongshuang Wu, Special Member
Kenneth Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Lin, Zhenpeng

Title:

Increasing Exploitability via Elastic Kernel Objects

Graduate Program:

Informatics (MS)

Keywords:

kernel
exploitation
static analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Xinyu Xing, Committee Member
Linhai Song, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Ting Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Seo, Jooyoung

Title:

Discovering Informal Learning Cultures of Blind Individuals Pursuing STEM Disciplines: A Computational Ethnography Using Public Listserv Archives

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

STEM
Computational Ethnography
Accessibility
Blind Learners
Visual Impairments
Machine Learning
Structural Topic Modeling
Data Science
Mailing List
Tidy Data
R
Mailing Lists
Python

File:

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Committee Members:

Gabriela Richard, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Roy Clariana, Major Field Member
ChanMin Kim, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

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:

Xue, Yuan

Title:

Deep Generative Models for Medical Images and Beyond

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Generative Models
Medical Image Analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zihan Zhou, Committee Member
Ting Wang, Committee Member
Robert Collins, Outside Member
James Duncan, Special Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khademi, Aria

Title:

Excursions in Causal Data Science: Fairness, Causal Attribution, and Applications

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Causal Inference
Interpretable Machine Learning
Fairness
Health Care
Causal Attribution

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Susser, Major Field Member
Sarah Rajtmajer, Major Field Member
Vasant Honavar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Neupane, Bikalpa

Title:

HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP APPROACH TO INVESTIGATE ALGORITHMIC JUSTICE IN AI AND MACHINE LEARNING ENABLED TALENT ACQUISITION SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

algorithmic justice
algorithmic equity
underprivileged
marginalized
AI bias
AI fairness
video based hiring systems
HRTech
hiring
interviewing
perceptions of AI
human-in-the-loop
diversity in hiring
equity in hiring
DEI

File:

Download BikalpaNeupane_FinalDissertation_Aug5_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Susser, Major Field Member
Timothy Brick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lynette Yarger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Fred Fonseca, Major Field Member
Jordan Beck, Special Member