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Author:

Chia, Nai Hui

Title:

Quantum Reductions from Hard problems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

quantum comoutation
cryptographically primitives
dihedral coset problem
worst-case to average-case reduction
quantum interactive proof
subset sum problem

File:

Download Penn_State_University_Thesis-6.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean Hallgren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Hallgren, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Martin Furer, Committee Member
Jason Ryder Morton, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Weiling

Title:

APPLICATIONS OF CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS TO ENTITY RESOLUTION AND HUMAN GENOME VARIATION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

data mining
clustering
entity resolution
crowdsourcing
polymorphic HERV-K
human genome variation

File:

Download Weiling_Li-Dissertation-v1.pdf

Committee Members:

Raj Acharya, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Mary Poss, Outside Member

Author:

Iyengar, Anirudh Srikant

Title:

ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND SECURE DESIGNS OF SPINTRONIC MEMORY: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Spintronics
Security
Camouflaging
PUF
NVFF
Secrecy and Privacy
Modeling

File:

Download Anirudh_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Swaroop Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Swaroop Ghosh, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member

Author:

Sharma, Chetan

Title:

Design And Implementation Of A Cost-Effective Linearizable Geo-Distributed Key-Value Store Combining Replication And Erasure Coding

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

consistency
geo-distributed
cost-effective
cloud
erasure coding

File:

Download PSUThesis__16_.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sridhar, Srikumar

Title:

Testbed Design For Evaluation Of Active Cyber Defense Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Moving Target Defense
Container Migration
Intrusion Detection

File:

Download Srikumar_Sridhar.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gang Tan, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Yanbo

Title:

An Experimental Analysis of Predictive Coding Based On Artificial Neural Networks for Image Decoding

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial Neural Network
Image Decoding
Predictive Coding
Spatial Redundancies

File:

Download Yanbo_Sun_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Clyde Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member

Author:

Geng, Yeli

Title:

Energy-efficient Computation Offloading in Wireless Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Energy consumption
Cellular phones
Computation offloading
Wireless communication.
Wireless communication

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhen Lei, Outside Member

Author:

Funk, Christopher A

Title:

On a Computation Model for Human and Machine Symmetry Perception

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Symmetry
Deep Learning
Convolutional Neural Networks
Machine Learning
Wallpaper Groups
Topology Comparison
EEG

File:

Download ChristopherFunk-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yanxi Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yanxi Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Collins, Committee Member
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
David T Reitter, Outside Member

Author:

Sun, Chen

Title:

Scalable and Accurate Algorithms for Search in Genomic Big Data and Analysis of Genetic Variants

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Algorithm
Big Data
Database
Genomics
Probabilistic Data Structures
Data Mining
Parallel Computing
Bioinformatics
Genetic Variants
SNP
Computational Biology

File:

Download ChenSun_dissertation_v0830.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Medvedev, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Michael Degiorgio, Outside Member

Author:

Rengasamy, Vasudevan

Title:

Engineering high performance workflows for end-to-end acceleration of genomic applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Variant detection
Metagenome assembly
Word2Vec
High performance computing

File:

Download vasudevan-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Outside Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Yu San

Title:

Machine-Learning-Based Approaches for Learning Marketing Strategies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
deep learning
probabilistic generative model
marketing
crowdfunding
menu design
competition
word worth
reward
kickstarter

File:

Download yusan-Dissertation_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang-Chien Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Outside Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Jiang, Xiaoxuan

Title:

IntegratedRecognition: A Theoretically More Efficient Approach to Cached Music Recognition

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Integrated Music Recognition
Locality Recognition

File:

Download Thesis_Final__3.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Shan, Yuquan

Title:

Resource Management and Security in Distributed Computing Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Distributed Systems
Cloud Computing
Resource Scheduling
DDoS Attack

File:

Download Yuquan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Chiara Lo Prete, Outside Member

Author:

Mohammed, Adam

Title:

Detecting Non-constant Time Code in Cryptography Libraries using a Static Information Flow Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Information flow
Timing Channel
Public-key Cryptography
Static analysis

File:

Download mohammed_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Danfeng Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Motaman, Seyedhamidreza

Title:

LOW POWER, SECURE AND ROBUST DESIGNS OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

STTRAM
Sense Margin
MTJ
Slope Sensing
Process Variation
Voltage Boosting
Voltage Feedback
Self-Reference
Destructive Sensing
Domain wall memory
shift power
cache segregation
dynamic shift current modulation
dynamic write current modulation
cross-layer design
synergistic systems
Dynamic shift current modulation
Dynamic write current modulation
Variation tolerant design
Resistive RAM
computing in memory
Crossbar Array.
Data security
magnetic attack
cache bypass
checkpointing.

File:

Download Dissertation_v13_f1.pdf

Committee Members:

Swaroop Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swaroop Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member