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Author:

Khatkhate, Amol Madhav

Title:

Anomaly Detection in Electromechanical Systems using Symbolic Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

structural health monitoring
symbolic dynamics
diagnostics
prognostics
electromechanical systems
pattern identification

File:

Download AMK-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Russell Marsh, Committee Member
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Committee Member
Dr Qian Wang, Committee Member
Eric Keller, Committee Member

Author:

Srivastav, Abhishek

Title:

Collaboration and Pattern Recognition in Distributed Sensor Networks: A statistical mechanics based approach

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Symbolic dynamics
Statistical mechanics
Information gain
Markov random fields
Sensor networks
Anomaly detection
Probabilisitc finite state automata

File:

Download AbhishekSrivastav_PhDDissertation_11222009.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Mark Levi, Committee Member

Author:

Tolani, Devendra Kumar

Title:

INTEGRATED HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF COMPLEX DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Anomaly detection
health management
prognosis
discrete event system
probabilistic robust control
damage mitigating control
life extending control

File:

Download Devendra_Tolani_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Dheeraj Sharan

Title:

DETECTION, ESTIMATION, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FATIGUE DAMAGE IN POLYCRYSTALLINE-ALLOY STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Surface Deformation
Ultrasonic NonDestructive Evaluation
Structural Health Monitoring
Condition Monitoring
Remaining Life Estimation
Pattern Recognition
Fatigue Damage Diagnosis

File:

Download DheerajSharanSingh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Matthew M Mench, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Shalabh Gupta, Committee Member

Author:

Keller, Eric Evans

Title:

REAL-TIME SENSING OF FATIGUE CRACK DAMAGE FOR INFORMATION-BASED DECISION AND CONTROL

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

damage
ultrasonic
fatigue crack

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Albert Koss, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Russell Marsh, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Marc Carpino, Committee Member

Author:

Mallapragada, Goutham

Title:

A language theoretic framework for decision and control of autonomous systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Robotics
Language Measure
Discrete-Event Systems
Path Planning
Navigation
Symbolic Dynamics
Pattern Recognition

File:

Download Goutham-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Ishanu Chattopadhyay, Committee Member

Author:

Chattopadhyay, Ishanu

Title:

Quantitative Control of Probabilistic Discrete Event Systems: A Measure-theoretic Approach

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Discrete Event Systems
Regular Languages
Language Measure
Optimal Control
Partial Observation

File:

Download armageddon.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Dr Qian Wang, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Eric Keller, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Jing

Title:

Stochastic Semistability with Application to Stochastic Consensus

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

nontangency
stochastic semistability
consensus algorithm
stochastic system
almost sure Lyapunov stability
random networks
almost sure convergence
stochastic Lyapunov function
Monte Carlo simulation

File:

Download JingZhou-PhD-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jack Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Mukherjee, Kushal

Title:

SUPERVISORY DECISION AND CONTROL OF LARGE-SCALE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

multi-agent systems
sensor networks
pattern classification
symbolic dynamics
sonar image
statistical mechanics
task allocation
optimization

File:

Download Mukherjee_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Thomas A Wettergren, Committee Member

Author:

Yasar, Murat

Title:

HYBRID SUPERVISORY CONTROL OF COMPLEX DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

supervisory control
discrete event systems
aircraft propulsion
c4isr

File:

Download MuratYasar_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member

Author:

Chakraborty, Subhadeep

Title:

Symbolic Identification of Dynamical Systems: Theory and Experimental Validation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Fault Detection and Isolation
Symbolic Dynamics
System Identification
Time Series Data Analysis
PMSM
C-MAPSS
Refractory Failure in Slagging Gasifiers

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew M Mench, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member

Author:

GUPTA, SHALABH

Title:

Behavioral Pattern Identification for Structural Health Monitoring in Complex Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Life Extending Control
Flexible Mechanical Couplings
Pulse Combustors
Stochastic Behavior
Life Estimation
Thermodynamic Formalism
Complex Systems
Symbolic Dynamics
Signal Processing
Pattern Identification
Structural Health Monitoring
Fatigue Damage
Anomaly Detection
Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis

File:

Download ShalabhGuptaThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anil Kamalakant Kulkarni, Committee Member
Donald Albert Koss, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Eric Keller, Committee Member

Author:

Sarkar, Soumik

Title:

AUTONOMOUS PERCEPTION AND DECISION MAKING IN CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Machine learning
Fault diagnosis
Gas turbine engine
Network science

File:

Download soumik_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Mark Levi, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas Wettergren, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Qin, Wubi

Title:

Feedback Performance Control for Self-Managing Computer Systems: an LPV Control Theoretic Approach

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

linear parameter varying systems (lpv)
internet services
feedback control
performance management
quality of service (qos)
request level scheduling
web server

File:

Download WubiQin-Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Dr Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Xi

Title:

Quantitative Measure of Regular Languages for Supervisory Control of Engineering Applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

coordinated robotics
behavior-based robotics
quantitative measure
regular language
discrete-event system
supervisory control

File:

Download XiWang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shashi Phoha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Prof Mark Carpino, Committee Member
John Metzner, Committee Member

Author:

Bhartiya, Yasharth

Title:

SINGLE AND MULTI-STAGE BLADED ROTORS WITH GEOMETRIC MISTUNING: REDUCED ORDER MODELING AND MISTUNING IDENTIFICATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Mistuning Identification
Mistuning
Reduced Order Modelling

File:

Download Yasharth_Bhartiya_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Alok Sinha, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alok Sinha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Suzanne Michelle Shontz, Committee Member

Author:

Wen, Yicheng

Title:

Heterogeneous Sensor Fusion in Sensor Networks: A Language-theoretic Approach

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

wireless sensor network
pattern recognition
Information fusion

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shashi Phoha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qiang Du, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Ishanu Chattopadhyay, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Sandeep

Title:

Fracture mechanics of nanoscale thin films

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Thin films
TEM
Fracture
mechanics
nanoscale

File:

Download Thesis_sandeep.pdf

Committee Members:

Md Amanul Haque, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member

Author:

Vemulapalli, Pramod Krishna

Title:

Extrema Features for Global-localization and Pattern Matching of Time-series Data

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

extrema features
subsequence matching
time series features

File:

Download PramodPhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Dr Robert T Collins, Committee Member

Author:

Jin, Xin

Title:

Situation Awareness and Adaptive Decision-Making in Autonomous Systems via Symbolic Learning

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

situation awareness
decision making
autonomous system
machine learning
autonomous navigation
sensor fusion

File:

Download Dissertation_XinJin_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Thomas Wettergren, Special Member

Author:

Shen, Zheng

Title:

Control-Oriented Modeling, State-Of-Charge, State-Of-Health, And Parameter Estimation Of Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Battery
Ritz Method
State-Of-Charge (SOC)
State-Of-Health (SOH)
Parameter Estimation
Solid Phase Diffusivity

File:

Download ZhengDissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Jerath, Kshitij

Title:

Influential Subspaces in Self-organizing Multi-agent Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Self-organization
multi-agent system
influential subspace
traffic flow
statistical mechanics
intelligent vehicles

File:

Download PhD_-_Kshitij_Jerath_-_Influential_subspaces_in_self-organizing_multi-agent_systems.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member

Author:

Fulghum, Matthew R

Title:

Turbulence Measurements in High-speed Wind Tunnels Using Focusing Laser Differential Interferometry

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

turbulence
optics
interferometry
FLDI
hypersonic
supersonic
wind tunnel

File:

Download Fulghum_dissertation_final_1dec2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Stuart Settles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Philip John Morris, Committee Member
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Member

Author:

Sarkar, Soumalya

Title:

Hierarchical Symbolic Perception in Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Symbolic Dynamics
Data Driven
Hierarchical approach
Multi-scale analysis
Combustion Instability
Fault detection

File:

Download Dissertation_Soumalya_Sarkar_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Thomas Wettergren, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Yue

Title:

ADAPTIVE INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM COMPLEX SYSTEMS VIA SYMBOLIC TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Symbolic time series analysis
Hidden Markov modeling
Pattern recognition
Finite-state Automaton
Information Fusion
Sensor Networks
Battery SOC estimation
Battery SOH estimation
Recursive Bayes Filter
Image processing

File:

Download YueLi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Thomas Wettergren, Committee Member

Author:

Jha, Devesh Kumar

Title:

Learning and Decision Optimization in Data-Driven Autonomous Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Autonomous Systems
Machine Learning
Markov Modeling
Combustion Instability
Decision Making
Motion Planning

File:

Download Devesh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Thomas Wettergren, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Jan Severin Reimann, Outside Member
Abhishek Srivastav, Special Member

Author:

Gobert, Christian J

Title:

ONLINE DISCONTINUITY DETECTION IN METALLIC POWDER BED FUSION ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES USING VISUAL INSPECTION SENSORS AND SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Machine Learning
Powder Bed Fusion
Flaw Detection
Image Processing

File:

Download Gobert_Thesis-2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Edward Reutzel, Committee Member
Guha Manogharan, Committee Member
Jan Petrich, Committee Member

Author:

Virani, Nurali

Title:

Learning Data-driven Models for Decision-making in Intelligent Physical Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

data-driven modeling
statistical learning
density estimation
context learning
context-aware decision-making
pattern classification
multi-modal sensor fusion
sequential hypothesis testing
sequential learning
dynamic sensor selection
intelligent systems

File:

Download Nurali_Virani_Dissertation_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sean Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shashi Phoha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Ji-Woong Lee, Special Member

Author:

Xiong, Sihan

Title:

BAYESIAN NONPARAMETRIC MODELING OF CATEGORICAL DATA WITH APPLICATIONS TO DYNAMIC DATA-DRIVEN SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Bayesian nonparametric
Causal inference
Panel Data
Variational Inference
Sequential Classification
Information fusion

File:

Download thesis_submit.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member
Mark Levi, Outside Member

Author:

Hauser, Michael B

Title:

Principles of Riemannian Geometry in Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Neural networks
Algebraic geometry
Riemannian manifolds
Machine learning
Non-abelian gauge theories

File:

Download thesis-principles-riemannian.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Outside Member

Author:

Chattopadhyay, Pritthi

Title:

Data-Driven Modeling and Pattern Recognition of Dynamical Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

data-driven modeling
time series analysis

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_PritthiChattopadhyay.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member

Author:

Gunn, Sean R

Title:

Neural Network Architectures in the Setting of Dynamical Systems Setting

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Dynamical Systems in Neural Networks

File:

Download Master_Thesis_Sean_Gunn.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian Foley, Committee Member

Author:

Ghalyan, Najah

Title:

Sequential Machine Learning for Decision-Making in Mechanical Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

symbolic dynamics
Hidden Markov Models
ergodicity
measure-preserving transformations
image classification
fatigue damage
thermoacoustic instabilities
probabilistic finite state automata
time series
bag-of-words
support vector machines
generating partition
quantization
lossy source coding
sliding block source coding
clustering
dynamic programming
Viterbi algorithm
anomaly detection
change point detection
transient change detection
quickest change detection
data-driven modeling

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Najah_Ghalyan.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Russell Marsh, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Outside Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Outside Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fu, Yiwei

Title:

Modeling, Prediction and Control of Engineering Systems with Long Short-Term Memory

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Robotics
Representation Learning
Autonomous Systems
Time Series

File:

Download YiweiFu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Thomas Wettergren, Special Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mondal, Sudeepta

Title:

Probabilistic Machine Learning for Advanced Engineering Design Optimization and Diagnostics

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Machine learning
Combustion
Additive Manufacturing
Multi-Fidelity Modeling
Anomaly Detection

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Sudeepta.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Amrita Basak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Member
Achintya Mukhopadhyay, Special Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair
Amrita Basak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Alqahtani, Hassan

Title:

deep learning approach to real time health monitoring for fatigue damage detection and classification

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

DEEP LEARNING
REAL-TIME HEALTH MONITORING
FATIGUE DAMAGE
CLASSIFICATION
DAMAGE DETECTION

File:

Download HASSAN_THESIS-9-2.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Eric Russell Marsh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair
Eric Russell Marsh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor