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Author:

Wu, Justin

Title:

Universal Micro-credential Certifications Powered By the Blockchain: An Extension For eAsel

Graduate Program:

Informatics (MS)

Keywords:

blockchain
micro-credentials
eAsel
competency-based education
smart contracts
ethereum
blockchain certificates
ERC-721
Non-Fungible Tokens
digital badges
blockchain credentials

File:

Download JustinWu-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Steven R. Haynes, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Vincent Hanrahan, Committee Member
Edward J Glantz, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Xiaoting

Title:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Exploring the Robustness and Applicability of Adversarial Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Adversarial machine learning
Attribute privacy
Social good
Defense
Adversarial attacks

File:

Download PSU_thesis__1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Ting Wang, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Dinghao Wu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jinchao Xu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Knearem, Tiffany

Title:

Solidarity not Charity! Empowering Local Communities for Disaster Relief during COVID-19 through Grassroots Support

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Mutual aid
Community-based disaster relief
social media
Community informatics

File:

Download Knearem_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jack Carroll, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Steven Haynes, Major Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yang, Fengting

Title:

Geometry Inspired Deep Neural Networks for 3D reconstruction

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

3D reconstruction
Geometry
Deep Neural Networks

File:

Download Fengting_dessertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Outside Unit & Field Member
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Sharon Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zihan Zhou, Major Field Member

Author:

Le, Thai Quang

Title:

Trustworthy Machine Learning: Learning under Security, Explainability and Uncertainty Constraints

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

machine learning
responsible AI
explainability
adversarial attack
adversarial defense
security
privacy
XAI
trustworthy

File:

Download Thesis_ThaiLe_IST_B.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Major Field Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Umar, Prasanna

Title:

Mining users' self-privacy violations in online public discourse using data science techniques

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

online self-disclosure
public discourse
privacy
automated detection

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrea Tapia, Major Field Member
Christopher Griffin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Rajtmajer, Major Field Member
Anna Squicciarini, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Agnihotri, Devanshi

Title:

Assessing mHealth Motivational Pathways Among Hispanic Individuals Through Technological Affordances

Graduate Program:

Informatics (MS)

Keywords:

Technological affordances
self determination theory
motivational technology model

File:

Download FINALAgnihotri_MS.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Saeed M Abdullah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yunfeng Shi, Committee Member
Xinning Gui, Committee Member

Author:

Cui, Limeng

Title:

Understanding and Detecting Online Misinformation with Auxiliary Data

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Misinformation detection
Graph neural networks
Knowledge graph
Social media
Fraud detection
Active learning

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Dongwon Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lin Lin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amulya Yadav, Major Field Member
Anna Squicciarini, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhu, Lizhen

Title:

Contrastive Visual Learning from Spatiotemporal Information

Graduate Program:

Informatics (MS)

Keywords:

Contrastive learning
computer vision
perception

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Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Bradley Paul Wyble, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cha, Joonyoung

Title:

SECURITY PATTERN DETECTION IN SOFTWARE CODE USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS

Graduate Program:

Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations (MS)

Keywords:

Security Pattern
Software Code
Machine Learning
Security Pattern Detection (SPD)
Convolutional Neural Network
Long Short-Term Memory
Security
vulnerability

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Committee Members:

Jungwoo Ryoo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Joseph Fusco, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Philip Laplante, Committee Member