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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:

Ajayi, Oluwadamilola

Title:

Explainable AI (XAI) for Fault Detection and Classification in Microgrids Using a Real-time Simulation Framework

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

power systems protection
fault analysis
machine learning
real-time simulation
microgrid modeling

File:

Download Oluwadamilola_Ajayi_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Idowu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Md Habib Ullah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rafic Bachnak, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Aldo W Morales, Committee Member

Author:

Barber, Nathan

Title:

Expanding the Range of Hydropower Schedules to Maximize Nuclear and Hydro Generation: Machine Learning Techniques for Practical Sensitivity Analysis

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hydropower
nuclear
sensitivity analysis
ensembles
machine learning
clustering
hydrodynamic model
ANOVA

File:

Download Barber_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven J Greybush, Committee Member
Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Struble, Nathan

Title:

Machine learning navigation solutions using unscented filters

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

machine learning
kalman filtering
visual odometry

File:

Download Thesis_nate-3.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Langelaan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Simon W Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daning Huang, Committee Member
Jay Dean Martin, Committee Member

Author:

Sengupta, Agnimitra

Title:

Evaluating the Reliability of Automatically Generated Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Surrogates

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

traffic safety
transportation engineering
vulnerable road user
pedestrian safety
bicycle safety
machine learning
statistical modeling
imbalanced data
surrogate safety measures
traffic conflict analysis
Bayesian optimization

File:

Download PSU_MS_Agnimitra_Sengupta.pdf

Committee Members:

S. Ilgin Guler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Xianbiao Hu, Committee Member