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Author:

Reimer, Tyler

Title:

A UAV IMAGING APPLICATION TO MONITOR BLACK CHERRY FLOWERING AND REGENERATION IN ALLEGHENY NATIONAL FOREST IN PENNSYLVANIA

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

UAV
Drone
Black Cherry
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Deep Learning
YOLO

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Daeun Choi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kelli Hoover, Committee Member
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Lafleur, Travis

Title:

Predictive Models for Gene Expression Engineering

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Transcription
Machine Learning
Biological Engineering
Synthetic Biology

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Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Major Field Member
Howard Salis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Edward O'Brien, Outside Unit & Field Member
Costas Maranas, Major Field Member
Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Ziegler, Andrew

Title:

Development of Scalable Approaches to Neutrino Mass Measurement with The Project 8 Experiment

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Beta-decay
Neutrino
Neutrino Mass
Project 8
Spectrometers
Signal Detection
Antenna
Antenna Array
Microwave Electronics
Resonant Cavities
Nuclear Physics
Cyclotron Radiation
Electrons
Tritium
Machine Learning
Triggering

File:

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Committee Members:

Carmen Carmona Benitez, Major Field Member
Douglas Cowen, Major Field Member
Luiz de Viveiros, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephanie Wissel, Major Field Member
Xingjie Ni, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mauricio Terrones, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xin, Yanan

Title:

Mobility-Based Anomaly Detection

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Mobility Analysis
Anomaly Detection
Spatial Data Mining
Deep Learning
Machine Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Alan M Mac Eachren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan M Mac Eachren, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Manzhu Yu, Committee Member
Justine Blanford, Committee Member
Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang, Outside Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mojahed Yazdi, Reza

Title:

A HYBRID DEEP LEARNING MODEL OF PROCESS-BUILD INTERACTIONS IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Wavelet Analysis
Process Monitoring
Texture Analysis
Additive Manufacturing
Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Data Analysis
Machine Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Member

Author:

O'Brien, John

Title:

Study of Process-Structure-Property Relationships in Stainless Steel 316L Made by Powder Bed Fusion

Graduate Program:

Additive Manufacturing and Design

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
316L
3D Printing
L-PBF
Machine Learning
Statistics
Process control

File:

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Committee Members:

Allison Michelle Beese, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy W. Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Committee Member
Timothy W. Simpson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Saucier, Emilie

Title:

Observations and Modeling of the Transition from an Open to Closed System at Telica Volcano, Nicaragua

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (MS)

Keywords:

Volcano
Volcanology
Geoscience
Geology
Sealing
Phreatic Eruptions
Phreatic
Telica
Nicaragua
Deformation
Modeling
Machine Learning
Geodesy
Remote Sensing
Gas Flux
Hydrothermal Mineralisation
Magmatic Plug
Seal

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Committee Members:

Maureen Feineman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Peter LaFemina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Singman, Matthew

Title:

Cognitive Signal Processing: Applying Machine Learning to Adaptive Array Signal Processing Weight Generation

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Signal Processing
Array Signal Processing
Machine Learning
Adaptive Signal Processing

File:

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory Huff, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Meng

Title:

Leveraging Machine Learning for Analyzing Individual and Aggregate-Level Healthcare Data

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Healthcare
data analtics

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Paul Griffin, Major Field Member
Kamesh Madduri, Outside Unit & Field Member
Swaminathan P. Iyer, Special Member
Qiushi Chen, Major Field Member
Kartik Ramakrishna, Special Member

Author:

Yang, Di

Title:

Essays on Determinants of Health

Graduate Program:

Health Policy and Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

Determinants of Health
Health Equity
Population Health
Social Health Insurance Consolidation
Housing Demolition
Machine Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Chris Hollenbeak, Program Head/Chair
David Vanness, Major Field Member
Yubraj Acharya, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joel Segel, Major Field Member
Kristin Sznajder, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Oghazian, Farzaneh

Title:

Knits As Material For Architectural Design: Computational Methods For Designing And Manufacturing Architectural Forms Based On The Behavior Of Knitted Textiles

Graduate Program:

Architecture (PHD)

Keywords:

Knitted Textiles
Form finding
Machine Learning
Calibration
3D Scanning
Lightweight Tension Structures
Knitted Tensioned Structures
Knitted Structures
Computational methods

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Committee Members:

Jose Pinto Duarte, Major Field Member
Nathan Brown, Outside Unit & Field Member
Benay Gursoy Toykoc, Major Field Member
Delia Dumitrescu, Special Member
Felecia Davis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Coppo Leite, Victor

Title:

Towards Temperature Field Reconstruction, an Innovative Method for Advanced Reactors Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Field Reconstruction

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Committee Members:

Arthur Motta, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
William Walters, Major Field Member
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Elia Merzari, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dillon Shaver, Special Member
Saya Lee, Major Field Member

Author:

Staskiewicz, Samantha

Title:

Investigating Mid-Latitude Atmospheric Variability Due to Arctic Sea Ice Loss Using Self-Organizing Maps

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

Atmospheric Variability
Sea Ice
Arctic
Climate Change
North America
Self-Organizing Maps
SOMs
Machine Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
Melissa Marie Gervais, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris E Forest, Committee Member
Colin M. Zarzycki, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Tianyang

Title:

Dialogue State Tracking with Universal Adversarial Triggers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Dialogue State Tracking

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rui Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonio Blanca, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Jiasheng

Title:

Modeling and Influencing Online User Behavior with Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Online User Behavior
Modeling and Influencing
Machine Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dongwon Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Xiang Zhang, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sadat Mohammadi, Milad

Title:

Human-Centric Digital Twin Model of Electric System Maintenance Technicians for Near Real-Time Health and Ergonomic Postural Risk Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Human Centric Digital Twin Model
Health Monitoring
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Ergonomic Risk Assessment

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Committee Members:

Somayeh Asadi, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Somayeh Asadi, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Messner, Major Field Member
Houtan Jebelli, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Singal, Garima

Title:

Essays in Applied Machine Learning and Economics

Graduate Program:

Economics (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Pollution Estimation

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Committee Members:

Marc Albert Henry, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Marc Henry, Major Field Member
Keisuke Hirano, Major Field Member
Manzhu Yu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Minas Sifakis, Special Member
Michael Gechter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Mekki, Bashir

Title:

TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL THERMAL MANAGAMENT SYSTEMS FOR AEROSPACE APPLICATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Topology Optimization
Heat Exchangers
Additive Manufacturing
CFD
Machine Learning
Experimental Testing

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Alexander Rattner, Major Field Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Lynch, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vikram Shyam, Special Member
Xiang Yang, Major Field Member

Author:

Kou, Tianqi

Title:

Reconceptualizing Machine Learning Reproducibility

Graduate Program:

Informatics (MS)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Reproducibility
Philosophy of Machine Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Fred Fonseca, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Priya Kumar, Committee Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Susser, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wright, Isaac

Title:

Machine Learning Methods for Regression and Classification with Functional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Functional Data
Boosting
Decision Trees
Classification
Regression
Machine Learning
Supervised Learning
Unsupervised Learning

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jia Li, Major Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Liechty, Outside Unit & Field Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Major Field Member

Author:

Li, Junde

Title:

Machine Learning and Optimization Applications on Near-term Quantum Computers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Quantum Computing
Computer Vision
Optimization
Variational Quantum Algorithms
Generative Models
Quantum Computation Advantages

File:

Download phd_dissertation_junde.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Swaroop Ghosh, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Major Field Member
Nikolay Dokholyan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chunhao Wang, Major Field Member

Author:

Chandna, Akshat

Title:

Modeling Natural Fracture Networks Using Improved Geostatistical and Geomechanical Inferences

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Fracture Characterization
Multiple Point Statistics
Geostatistics
Geomechanics
Machine Learning
Stochastic Simulation
Modeling Natural Fracture Networks
Teapot Dome

File:

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Committee Members:

Sanjay Srinivasan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kumar, Vishnu

Title:

Supply Chain Resilience through Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): Representation, Partnership Prediction, and Standardization using Graph Databases

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Supply Chain
Graph Database
Knowledge Graph
Machine Learning
Link Prediction
RDF
Manufacturing
BioPharma

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Simpson, Outside Field Member
Paul Griffin, Major Field Member
Kamesh Madduri, Outside Unit Member
Vijay Srinivasan, Special Member

Author:

Balaji, Laxmaan

Title:

A Differentiable Synthetic Prediction Market

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Prediction Market
Synthetic Prediction Market
Supervised Learning
Classification

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
C Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah Michele Rajtmajer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher H Griffin, Committee Member

Author:

Wijeyakulasuriya, Dhanushi

Title:

Modern Algorithm-based approaches for Modeling Animal Movement

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Animal Movement
Machine Learning
Extreme Value Theory
Spatial Extremes
First Arrival
Spatial Statistics

File:

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Le Bao, Committee Member
Benjamin Shaby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member
Benjamin Shaby, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jenkins, Porter

Title:

Towards Sample Efficiency in Deep Learning

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Machine Learning
Bayesian
Representation Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Jessie Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jessie Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suhang Wang, Committee Member
Zihan Zhou, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gupta, Shantanu

Title:

Predicting Driver's Takeover Decisions in a Conditionally Automated Vehicle with Gaze Based Deep Learning Architectures

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Conditionally Automated Vehicles
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Situational Awareness
Takeover Performance

File:

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Committee Members:

Yiqi Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair

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:

Cetnar, Daniel

Title:

Predicting Gene Expression For Robust Genetic System Design

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

mRNA
RNA Decay
NGS
Synthetic Biology
Gene Expression
RNase
Machine Learning
Modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Major Field Member
Howard Salis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Phillip Savage, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Outside Unit & Field Member
Seong Han Kim, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Banagere Manjunatha, Srikanth

Title:

Extreme Point Approach to Subset Selection and Data Augmentation

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Data Augmentation
Convex hull
Isometric property
Classification task

File:

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Committee Members:

Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Committee Member

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:

Chen, Ruimin

Title:

Data-driven Service Optimization and Quality Management in Cyber-physical Manufacturing Systems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Quality Management
Machine Learning
Service Optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Edward Reutzel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Soundar Kumara, Major Field Member
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Hui Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Yan Lu, Special Member

Author:

Muthumanickam, Naveen Kumar

Title:

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Framework For Multi-Phase Building Design Process - Technology Demonstration Using Design Of Office Building And Robotically 3D Printed Habitat

Graduate Program:

Architecture (PHD)

Keywords:

Building Design Optimization
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Concurrent Engineering
Model and Simulation-Based Engineering
Metamodelling
Multifidelity modelling
Surrogate Modelling
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Energy Modelling
Daylighting Simulation
Robotic Constructability
3D Printing
Additive Concrete deposition
Machine Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Timothy Simpson, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Pinto Duarte, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Lisa Iulo, Major Field Member
Gordon Warn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Loukas Kalisperis, Major Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Program Head/Chair