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Author:: Yuan, Lun Pin
Title:: Towards Designing Accurate Detection Methods for Emerging Cyber Threats
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:: Anomaly Detection
Cybersecurity
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Cyberthreats
Malware
File:: Download lunpin_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Peng Liu, Co-Chair of Committee
G. Tan, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anna Squicciarini, Outside Unit & Field Member
Guohong Cao, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Li, Peixuan
Title:: Towards Practical Information Flow Security
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:: Information Flow
Dependent Label Inference
Dynamic Policy
File:: Download main.pdf
Committee Members:: Trent Jaeger, Major Field Member
G. Tan, Major Field Member
Danfeng Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Liu, Chun Yi
Title:: Performance and Lifetime Management Strategies for High-density 3D NAND Flash Storage
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:: 3D NAND flash
3D NAND SSD
Garbage Collection
SSD characterization
SSD management
Write amplification
File:: Download Chun-Yi.pdf
Committee Members:: Chitaranjan Das, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Zeng, Dongrui
Title:: Evaluating the Attack Surface of Control Flow Integrity
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:: Control Flow Integrity
Security Evaluation
Binary Analysis
Control Flow Graph
Type Inference
Attack Surface
File:: Download DZ_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Trent Jaeger, Major Field Member
Peng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
G. Tan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Major Field Member
Ben Niu, Special Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Sun, Yuanyi
Title:: Security and privacy solutions for camera and camera based authentication
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:: Two factor authentication
Mobile cameras
Privacy protection
Privacy-Preserving Publishing
File:: Download Yuanyi_Sun_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: George Kesidis, Major Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zhen Lei, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Gunasekaran, Jashwant Raj
Title:: Maximizing Resource Efficiency for Next Generation Cloud Platforms
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:: cloud
datacenter
performance
cost
File:: Download Jashwant_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Chitaranjan Das, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
George Kesidis, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Anton Nekrutenko, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bikash Sharma, Special Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Gao, Yanjun
Title:: Analysis of Text to Identify, Represent and Group Distinct Propositions
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:: natural language processing
text analysis
deep learning
computational linguistics
artificial intelligence
File:: Download Yanjun_Thesis__5_.pdf
Committee Members:: Paul Medvedev, Major Field Member
Rebecca Passonneau, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Outside Unit & Field Member

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Author:: Zare, Maryam
Title:: An Agent Learning Dialogue Policies for Sensing, Perceiving and Learning through Multi-modal Communication
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:: Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
Dialogue Systems
Learning through Communication
File:: Download MaryamZare_Dissertation_Penn_State_University.pdf
Committee Members:: Alan Wagner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Collins, Major Field Member
Rebecca Passonneau, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member

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Author:: Hsieh, Tsung Yu
Title:: Explainable Predictive Modeling and Causal Effect Estimation from Complex Time-varying Data
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:: Explainable Machine Learning
Time Series Learning
Deep Neural Networks
Attention Networks
Functional Data Analysis
Causal Inference
File:: Download Dissertation-TsungYuHsieh.pdf
Committee Members:: David Miller, Major Field Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Major Field Member
Vasant Honavar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matthew Reimherr, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Lu, Hanlin
Title:: Data Reduction for Communication-efficient Machine Learning
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:: distributed machine learning
coreset
distributed k-means
quantization
dimensionality reduction
edge-based machine learning
File:: Download Hanlin_Lu_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Major Field Member
Lingzhou Xue, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

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