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Author:

Cunningham, James

Title:

Ultrasound Medical Image Processing with Improved Segmentation of Substantia Nigra Hyperechogenicity using Deep Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ultrasound
image processing
neural network
deep learning
substantia nigra

File:

Download Cunningham_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member

Author:

Ravichandran, Bharadwaj

Title:

BioPose-3D and PressNet-KL: A Path to Understanding Human Pose Stability from Video

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Foot Pressure Estimation
Pose Estimation
Human Stability
Deep Learning
Computer Vision

File:

Download BioPose3D_and_PressNet_KL__A_Path_to_Understanding_Stability_from_Video.pdf

Committee Members:

Yanxi Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Collins, Committee Member
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khazbak, Youssef

Title:

Preserving Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

crowdsourcing
target search
privacy preserving
location privacy
crowdsourcing
mobile systems
target search
collaborative learning

File:

Download Khazbak_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Zhenhui (jessie) Li, Outside Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Haibo

Title:

Optimizing Video Processing for Next-Generation Mobile Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mobile Platform
Video Processing
Memory
Caching

File:

Download HaiboZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fan, Mengran

Title:

Accelerate the docking application on heterogeneous computing system

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPU architecture
Molecular docking

File:

Download MengranFan_Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alfares, Nader

Title:

Adapting Key-Value Storage Systems to Minimize Cost in the Public Cloud

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Public Cloud
Strong Consistency
AWS
Memcached
Object Sharing
Storage Systems
Systems

File:

Download NaderAlfares-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Shen

Title:

Quantitative Privilege Separation with Pointer Supports

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Privilege Separation
Program Analysis
Software Security

File:

Download Quantitative_Privilege_Separation_with_Pointer_Supports.pdf

Committee Members:

Gang Tan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gang Tan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Govindaraj, Vineetha

Title:

PowerPrep : A power management technique for user-facing datacenter workloads

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Datacenter workloads
computer architecture

File:

Download POWERPREP__A_POWER_MANAGEMENT_PROPOSAL_FOR_USER_FACING_DATACENTER_WORKLOAD__2_.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Malis, Alexander

Title:

Robust Network Information Flow Control

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Pi-Calculus
Information Flow Control
Raft
Distributed Computing
Denotational Semantics

File:

Download RNPiFC.pdf

Committee Members:

Danfeng Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Burke, Quinn

Title:

Misreporting Attacks in Software-Defined Networking

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

network security
cybersecurity
load balancing
software-defined networking
computer networks

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Ting He, Committee Member

Author:

Alrizah, Mshabab

Title:

Enhancing Ad-blocking Systems for Better Web Browsing Security and Privacy

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ad-blocking systems
privacy
security
Internet Security
crowdsourcing
Advertisement

File:

Download Mshabab_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Jia Li, Outside Member
Xinyu Xing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xinyu Xing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Minkin, Ilia

Title:

Applications of the compacted de bruijn graph in Comparative genomics

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

De Bruijn graph
Comparative genomics
Sequence alignment
Sequence analysis

File:

Download Minkin-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Medvedev, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Mingfu Shao, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kandimalla, Bharath

Title:

Subject Category Classification of Scholarly Papers Using Deep Attentive Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

text classification
scholarly big data
text mining
attention model
deep neural networks
word embedding
web of science

File:

Download bharath_mscs_final_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Clyde Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chatterjee, Bodhisatwa

Title:

Optimization of Modern Compilers using Approximate Computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Compiler Optimization
Approximate Computing
Dependencies
Parallelization

File:

Download Bodhi_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Yu, Mingli

Title:

Flow table security in software defined network

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Software Defined Networking
cache inference
Denial of Service attack

File:

Download Mingli_MSThesis__FLOW_TABLE_SECURITY_IN_SOFTWARE_DEFINED_NETWORK.pdf

Committee Members:

Ting He, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bandyopadhyay, Saptarashmi

Title:

Vessel Analysis in Narrow Band Imaging Bronchoscopic Video

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Narrow Band Imaging
Bronchoscopy
Vessel Enhancement
Vessel Segmentation
Artificial Intelligence
Lung Cancer Detection

File:

Download Saptarashmi2020-MS.pdf

Committee Members:

William Evan Higgins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jang, Geesun

Title:

High frequency ultrasound imaging with thin-film devices and embedded system

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ultrasound Imaging
Embedded System
Finger-vein
Biometric

File:

Download _Official__Master_Thesis_-_Geesun_Jang.pdf

Committee Members:

Kyusun Choi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pauley, Eric

Title:

Static Instrumentation for Performant Binary Fuzzing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

fuzzing
security
program analysis

File:

Download MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chandran, Makesh Tarun

Title:

Processing In-Memory Architecture Incorporating Systolic Dataflow for Deep Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Neural Networks
ReRAM
Processing-in-memory
Transformer
BERT
LSTM
CNN
Systolic

File:

Download Makesh_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gong, Qing

Title:

Extending Parallel Datalog with Lattice

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Datalog
Lattice
Scalability
Soufflé

File:

Download Thesis___Extending_Parallel_Datalog_with_Lattice.pdf

Committee Members:

Gang Tan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Abumurad, Abdulrahman

Title:

An Automated Framework for Flash ADC Design and Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

TIQ Comparators
Flash ADC
ADC Design Automation
Low-noise ADCs
Quality Flash ADCs
Circuit Layout Generation
Comparator Thresholds selection
Flash ADC and Process-Temperature-Voltage Variation
High-Precision Flash ADCs
Signal Switching Noise in Flash ADCs
Circuit Design Automation

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_CSE_Abumurad_Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Kyusun Choi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyusun Choi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Committee Member
Bruce Gluckman, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Steward, Michael

Title:

Global Permission Derivation Chain: Granting and Revoking Permissions Using a Distributed Ledger

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Blockchain
PKI
Public Key Infrastructure
Bitcoin
Access Control
Merkle Trees
Bloom Filters
DIL
Hyperledger
Hyperledger Fabric
Distributed Applications
MQTT
ActiveMQ
Distributed Ledger
Distributed Ledger Technology
DLT
Disconnected Intermittent Low-Bandwidth

File:

Download Steward_MS_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Gang Tan, Committee Member

Author:

Stopa, Natasha

Title:

Using Female Alignment Features to Identify Reads from the Y Chromosome in Whole Genome Sequencing with Nanopore Data

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Y chromosome female alignment bioinformatic algorithms genomics

File:

Download Natasha_Stopa_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Medvedev, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mingfu Shao, Committee Member

Author:

Eden, Grant

Title:

Using a UAV and Edge Computing to Identify and Throw Away Trash

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

UAV
Edge Computing
Drone
TPU
Machine Learning

File:

Download ThesisGrantEden.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Huang, Kaiming

Title:

DataGuard: Guarded Pages for Augmenting Stack Object Protections

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Stack Protection
Guard Page

File:

Download Master_Thesis_KaimingHuang.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Gang Tan, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xiao, Yifei

Title:

Monitoring Sleep Quality Using Smartwatches

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

smartwatch
mobile health
mobile computing
machine learning
sleep quality

File:

Download Thesis_Yifei_Xiao.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xia, Tianrou

Title:

A Network-Assisted Approach for Ransomware Detection

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ransomware Detection
network security
ant colony optimization algorithm

File:

Download MasterThesis-TianrouXia.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fu, Tao Yang

Title:

GRAPH AND TRAJECTORY MINING: FRAMEWORKS,ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
representation learning
neural network
network data
trajectory data
spatio-temporal data
node classification
link prediction
travel time estmiation
route planning

File:

Download dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang-Chien Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Jia Li, Outside Member
Zhen Lei, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Zhen Lei, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Ozdemir, Ali

Title:

SELECTION ALGORITHMS FOR TRANSISTOR QUANTIZATION ADC’S BASED ON DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

TIQ
Flash ADC
Dynamic Programming
DNL
INL

File:

Download Dissertation_Ali_Ozdemir_Summer_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Kyusun Choi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyusun Choi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Jackson, Committee Member
Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sahin, Eralp

Title:

Automatic EDL generation for Intel Software Guard Extensions

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

SGX
Intel SGX
enclave
security
memory
EDL
automate

File:

Download EralpSahin-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Jagtap, Kirti

Title:

State Endorsement in the Smart Home IoTivity Framework

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

IoTivity
Smart Home

File:

Download State_Endorsement_on_Smart_Home_IoTivity_Framework.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahanth Gowda, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Soni, Praneet

Title:

Design and Implementation of an Automated Experimentation Facility for a Reconfigurable Geo-Distributed Key-Value Store

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Strong Consistency
Geo-distributed
Key-value Store
Experiment Facility
Reconfigurable Storage Service
Erasure Coding
Systems

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_CSE_PSU.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cosson, Adrien

Title:

Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks with Kernel-Level Hardware Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

IoT
Network Security
Intrusion Detection
Linux Kernel Module

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Gang Tan, Committee Member

Author:

Tehranchi, Farnaz

Title:

An Eyes and Hands Model: Extending Visual and Motor Modules for Cognitive Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

User modeling
Visual attention
Motor skills
Cognitive architectures
Cognitive computing
Human-computer interaction
Artificial intelligence
Error detection
Error correction
human errors
Eyes and Hands model

File:

Download FarnazTehranchi_Dissertation_v19.pdf

Committee Members:

Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reginald Adams, Jr., Outside Member
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Frank Edward Ritter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Frank Edward Ritter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Chandel, Gaurav

Title:

NOBLER : Non Blocking Reconfiguration Protocol For Linearizable Distributed Data Store

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Reconfiguration
Non-Blocking
Linearizable
Memory Stores
ABD
Distributed
System

File:

Download Master_Thesis_CSE_PSU.pdf

Committee Members:

Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shah, Rohan

Title:

Automating feedback-generation for programming assignments via crowdsourcing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Automating feedback generation
formative feedback

File:

Download Shah_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John Joseph Hannan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Andrade Salazar, Alejandro

Title:

PHYSICS BASED DETECTION SYSTEM FOR MISREPORTING ATTACKS IN V2X CORE DATA FIELDS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Misbehavior Reporting
Data Centric Anomaly Detection
BSM
C-V2x
V2x
V2V
DSRC

File:

Download Securing_V2x_Core_Data_Fields_Thesis_Format.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mark P Mahon, Committee Member

Author:

George, Sumitha

Title:

Technology Driven Architecture Support for Memory Hierarchies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cache
Memory
FEFET
FeFET
NCFET
MDA
symmetric memory
2Dimensional Memory
2D Memory
Tag-less cache
Tagless
CAM
non-volatile
flip-flop
flipflop
Content Addressable Memory
Approximate CAM
Non volatility

File:

Download Uploaded_Thesis_Sumitha_George.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Special Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Thinakaran, Prashanth

Title:

Embracing Heterogeneity in Cloud Platforms through Adaptable Resource Management Framework

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

datacenters
cloud
accelerators
resource-management

File:

Download PrashanthThinakaran_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Clyde Lee Giles, Outside Member
Bikash Sharma, Special Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zolbayar, Bolor Erdene

Title:

Generating Adversarial Network Traffic Flows with GANs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Network Intrusion Detection Systems
Generative Adversarial Networks
Adversarial Network Traffic Flows
Adversarial Examples
Generating Adversarial Network Flows

File:

Download Zolbayar_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Yunju

Title:

VAR: Vulkan API Remoting for GPU-accelerated Rendering and Computation in Virtual Machines

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Virtualization
GPU
Vulkan
API Remoting

File:

Download Lee-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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