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Author:

Li, Yuelong

Title:

Low-rank and Sparse Structures in Computational Imaging: Analysis and Algorithms

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

High dynamic range imaging
Computational Imaging
Image alignment and stitching
Optimization
Statistical Estimation
Low-rank and Sparsity

File:

Download PhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William E. Higgins, Committee Member
David J. Miller, Committee Member
Sean Brennan, Outside Member
Jesse Barlow, Committee Member

Author:

Logoglu, Faruk

Title:

COATED MICRO-PARTICLES FOR IMPROVED NEUTRON DETECTION WITH 6LiF:ZnS(Ag)

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Coated micro-particles
6LiF:ZnS(Ag)
GEANT4
Optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Marek Flaska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Azaree Tresong Lintereur, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Xue

Title:

HIGH DIMENSIONAL STATISTICAL LEARNING AND DECISION MAKING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

High Dimensional Learning
Statistical Learning
Decision Making
Optimization

File:

Download Xue_Wang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Tao Yao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tao Yao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Outside Member

Author:

Rangarajan, Harini

Title:

Exploring the root phenome: Simulation modeling with a functional structural plant model

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

Plant Nutrition
"Functional Structural Plant Model"
SimRoot
Phosphorus
Nitrate
Optimization
Phene
Roots
Phenotyping
Simulation Modelling
Root Architecture

File:

Download Rangarajan_Harini_Dissertation_May_2021.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan Paul Lynch, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Member
Armen R. Kemanian, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Outside Member
Erin L Connolly, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rosenberger, Tyler

Title:

An Open-Loop Trajectory Implementation for Free Fall to Powered Flight Transition for Multirotor Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Particle Swarm Optimization
Trajectory Design
PSO
Heuristic
Quadcopter
Quadrotor
Gazebo
ROS
Controls
Implementation
Free Fall
Optimization
Open-Loop

File:

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Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member
Puneet Singla, Committee Member

Author:

Dillinger, Cody

Title:

Game-Theoretic Controller Simulation for Sampling-Based Multi-Robot Motion Planning Algorithms

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Robotics
Motion Planning
Game Theory
Algorithms
Control Theory
Optimization
Nash Equilibrium
Simulation
Multi-Robot Systems

File:

Download Dillinger_Thesis_MastersFormat_Final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Steratore, Benjamin

Title:

A Study of Heuristic Optimizers in Spacecraft Trajectory Problems

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Heuristic
Trajectory Optimization
Optimization
Particle Swarm Optimization
Gray Wolf Optimization
Ant Colony Optimization
Spacecraft

File:

Download Ben_Steratore_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Graham Melton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Daning Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Gauntt, Sean

Title:

Dynamic Analysis of Aerospace Gearboxes Featuring Hybrid Steel-Composite Gears

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Steel-Composite Gears
Hybrid Gears
Hybrid Gear Drivetrains
Drivetrain Models
Transmission Error
Optimization

File:

Download SeanGauntt-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Campbell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Campbell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Outside Member
Sean Michael Mcintyre, Special Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bayiz, Yagiz

Title:

Wing Trajectory Optimization and Modelling for Flapping Flight

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Bioinspired Robotics
Aerial Robotics
Locomotion
Flapping Flight
Optimization
Machine Learning

File:

Download YB_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark Maughmer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hosam Fathy, Special Member
Bo Cheng, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiang Yang, Major Field Member
Asok Ray, Major Field Member
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Bardakci, Ibrahim Ekrem

Title:

Convex Formulations of Probability Maximization Problems: Stochastic Approximation Frameworks and Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Probability maximization
Optimization
Stochastic Approximation
Risk Minimization
Controller Design

File:

Download ieb_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Outside Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Jing Yang, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hinkelman, Kathryn

Title:

Modelica Modeling and Ecosystem Biomimicry of District Energy Systems

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Biomimicry
Building Systems
Design
District Energy
District Heating
District Cooling
Dynamical Systems
Ecological Network Analysis
Ecosystem Biomimicry
Exergy
Modelica
Modeling and Simulation
Numerical Performance
Optimization
Steam
Sustainability
Systems

File:

Download KathrynHinkelman_PSU_Dissertation_August2023.pdf

Committee Members:

Margot Kaye, Outside Unit & Field Member
Wangda Zuo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Greg Pavlak, Major Field Member
James Freihaut, Major Field Member
Michael Wetter, Special Member
Kyri Baker, Special Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Akbari Roshan, Kamyar

Title:

Development And Application Of A ReaxFF Reactive Force Field For Copper And Copper Oxide Interactions With Silicon Via Neural Network Based Parameterization Methods

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

ReaxFF
Force Field Developement
INDEEDopt
Optimization
Molecular Dynamics
Deep Learning
Neural Network Inversion

File:

Download Kamyar_Akbari_Roshan_-_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David Miller, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member
Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Major Field Member
Adri van Duin, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kumar, Pramod

Title:

INFERALL: COORDINATED OPTIMIZATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE SERVING IN PUBLIC CLOUD

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ML Inference system
Machine learning in public cloud
Machine-learning-as-a-service (MLaaS)
Inference
Serving
Batching
Cloud
Serverless
Service Level Objective (SLO)
Cost-effective
Optimization
Modeling
Prediction
Machine learning inference

File:

Download Pramod_Kumar_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member

Author:

Sharma, Pallavi

Title:

OPTIMIZING TRUCK SCHEDULING MODEL FOR OFFICE OF PHYSICAL PLANT (OPP)

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Truck scheduling
Association Rule Mining
Apriori Algorithm
Optimization
Truck-sharing

File:

Download MSThesis_Sharma_Pallavi.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven James Landry, Committee Member
Olga Pak, Committee Member

Author:

Moorhouse, Anna

Title:

Optimization of a Structural Acoustic Black Hole Embedded in a Stringer Stiffened Composite Laminate Panel

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (MS)

Keywords:

Composite
Laminate
Acoustic Black Hole
Optimization
stiffener

File:

Download Moorhouse_MSThesis_finaldraft_1102.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair
Benjamin S Beck, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Micah Shepherd, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Peng

Title:

Confidence Regions for Response Surface Optima based on Parametric and Nonparametric Models

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Response Surface Methodology
Regression
Random Processes
Optimization
Statistical Inference

File:

Download Dissertation_Peng_Chen_08252020.pdf

Committee Members:

Enrique Del Castillo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Enrique Del Castillo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Outside Member
Wen Shen, Outside Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

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:

Alkhatib, Mohamed Redha

Title:

Alternative Ways To Feed The Arecibo Spherical Reflector

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Gregorian Sub-Reflector
Gain
Method of Moments
Optimization
Numerical Methods
Linefeed
FEKO
Electric Field

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Committee Members:

Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Breakall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julio Urbina, Major Field Member
Shizhuo Yin, Major Field Member
Thomas La Porta, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ostasz, Mateusz

Title:

Computational Design Approach for Microchannel Cold Plate cooled with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Carbon Dioxide
Cold Plate
Optimization
Heat Transfer
Thermal Management

File:

Download Ostasz_Mateusz_Thesis_Final_v4.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Alexander S Rattner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bladimir Ramos Alvarado, Committee Member

Author:

Bunn, Kevin

Title:

The Multi-Product Dynamic Lot Sizing Problem with Capacity Constraints

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Supply Chain
Optimization
Dynamic Programming
Lot Sizing
Lagrangian Relaxation

File:

Download Kevin_Bunn_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Jose Ventura, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saurabh Bansal, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paul Griffin, Major Field Member
Vittaldas Prabhu, Major Field Member

Author:

Self, Ian

Title:

Parametric Design and Optimization of Roller Coaster Support Structures Considering Sustainability and Maintenance

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Optimization
Parametric Design
Structural Engineering
Structures
Roller Coaster

File:

Download Thesis_-_Ian_Self.pdf

Committee Members:

Nathan Brown, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Boothby, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
John Messner, Committee Member
Rebecca Napolitano, Committee Member

Author:

Ying, Ziyu

Title:

Improving Performance and Energy Efficiency for Visual Computing on Resource-Constrained Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Visual Computing
Resource-Constrained Device
Optimization
Energy-Efficiency

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sharon Huang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member

Author:

Cong, Weilin

Title:

Fundamental problems in graph learning: optimization, generalization, privacy, and model design

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Graph representation learning
Optimization
Generalization

File:

Download Final_thesis__2_.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Saxena, Manan

Title:

Scalable Bayesian Inference for Generalized Multivariate Dynamic Linear Models

Graduate Program:

Informatics (MS)

Keywords:

Bayesian Statistics
Multinomial Time Series
Generalized Multivariate Dynamic Linear Models
Optimization
Microbiome

File:

Download Manan_Saxena_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Justin Silverman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Romit Maulik, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Aron Laszka, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Siyi

Title:

Analytics and Modeling for Substance Use: Transition Patterns, Policy Effects, and Patient Engagement Optimization

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Substance use
Latent transition analysis
Causal inference
Dynamic prgramming
Optimization
Capacity management

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Committee Members:

Yue Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ling Rothrock, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Uday Shanbhag, Major Field Member
Paul Griffin, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Qiushi Chen, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Saab, Samer

Title:

Investigation of Deep Neural Networks From Control and Optimization Perspectives

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Neural Networks
Optimization
Control Theory
First-order Gradient Descent
Heavy-ball Optimizer
Recurrent Neural Networks
State-space Representations

File:

Download SamerSaabJr_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shashi Phoha, Co-Chair of Committee
Puneet Singla, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Major Field Member
Asok Ray, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Godwin, James

Title:

Catalytic Depolymerization Of Switchgrass-Derived Lignin From Optimized Cosolvent Enhanced Lignocellulosic Fractionation Process To Produce Aromatics And Sustainability Assessment Of Lignin Using Life Cycle Assessment

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Transfer Hydrogenolysis
Lignin Valorization
Biomass Fractionation
Heterogeneous Catalysis
Mixed-metal Spinel
Switchgrass
Life Cycle Assessment
Response Surface Methodology
Box-Behnken Design
Optimization
Transfer Hydrogenation
Transition Metals
Lignin

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Stephen Chmely, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Juliana Vasco-Correa, Major Field Member
Tom Richard, Major Field Member
Hilal Ezgi Toraman, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Xiao, Yingtai

Title:

Optimizing Differentially Private Linear Gaussian Mechanisms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Differential Privacy
Linear Query
Database
Optimization

File:

Download _Dissertation__Optimizing_Differentially_Private_Linear_Gaussian_Mechanisms.pdf

Committee Members:

John Sampson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Major Field Member
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kiwan Maeng, Special Signatory
Kiwan Maeng, Major Field Member
Daniel Kifer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Special Member
Member Committee, Special Member