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Author:

Eze, Melvin

Title:

Sub-50 nm Multi-Segment Interconnect Design: A treatise on Speed, Reliability and Signal Integrity

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Interconnect
Signal Integrity
Offset Switching
Variable Cycle Timing with Temporal Redundancy
NBTI

File:

Download MelvinEze-Dissertation-Final-eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Special Member

Author:

Ference, Gregory David

Title:

Location Recommendation for Mobile Users in Location-Based Social Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Location Recommendation
Location-Based Social Networks
Collaborative Filtering
K-Nearest Diverse Neighbor
Spatial Diversity

File:

Download GregoryFerence-MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kirubakaran, Deepak Samuel

Title:

Context-Driven Similarity-Based Retrieval of Cyber Analyst Experiences for Multi-Step Attack Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

human reasoning
experience retrieval

File:

Download Updated_Thesis_-_Deepak.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Palasamudram, Darshan Suresh

Title:

Reducing the Power Costs of Content Distribution Networks Using Batteries

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Batteries
Power
CDN

File:

Download Darshan-Thesis_Report.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bily, Paul Lawrence

Title:

Implementation and Evaluation of a Software-based Power Virtualization Technique

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

power
energy
virtualization
virtualize
management
data center
datacenter
DVFS
UPS
PDU
hierarchy
lottery scheduling

File:

Download PaulBily_PowerVirtualization_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Pisupati, Venkata Soumya

Title:

Age Estimation in Facial Images

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Age Estimation
Hierarchical estimation
Gaussian Processes
EM algorithm
Image registration
Eye coordinate localization

File:

Download ThesisV3_9-25.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert T Collins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jha, Madhav

Title:

Property testing and reconstruction with applications to data privacy

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

property testing
property reconstruction
Lipschitz function
sublinear algorithms
data privacy

File:

Download Madhav-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sofya Raskhodnikova, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Piotr Berman, Committee Member
Martin Furer, Committee Member
Jason Ryder Morton, Committee Member

Author:

Jung, Myoungsoo

Title:

Design of a Smart Non-volatile Memory Controller: Architecture Modeling, Systems Analysis, Parallel I/o Processing and Scheduling Algorithms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Solid State Disks
Non-Volatile Memory
Memory Systems
Embedded Systems
Storage Systems
Parallelism
Scheduling Algorithms

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yi

Title:

Coverage Problems in Camera Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

camera sensor
coverage
network protocol
mobile sensing
optimization
scheduling
algorithms

File:

Download YiWang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Robert T Collins, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Sharifi, Akbar

Title:

Addressing Power, Performance and End-to-end Qos in Emerging Multicores through system-wide Resource Management

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multicore Systems
Resource Management
Power
Performance
End-to-End QoS

File:

Download Akbar_Sharifi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Qinghua

Title:

Security and Privacy Support for Mobile Sensing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

mobile sensing
security and privacy
incentive
data aggregation
opportunistic mobile networks

File:

Download dissertation_QinghuaLi.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member

Author:

Butt, Asad Anwar

Title:

Multi-target Tracking Using Higher-order Motion Models

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

multi-target tracking
graphical models
higher-order models
motion models
min-cost network flow

File:

Download Asad-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Collins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yanxi Liu, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Member

Author:

Kultursay, Emre

Title:

Compiler-based Memory Optimizations for High Performance Computing Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Compilers
memory optimizations
high performance computing
application-specific hardware accelerators
many-core processors

File:

Download EmreKultursay-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Kemal Ebcioglu, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Jun

Title:

Compiler Optimizations for SIMD/GPU/Multicore Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Compiler Optimization
SIMD
GPGPU
Multicore
Scheduling
Data Layout Transformation
Tiling

File:

Download JUN-LIU-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Song, Fang

Title:

Quantum Computing: A Cryptographic Perspective

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

quantum computing
cryptography
secure computation
zero-knowledge proof
hidden subgroup problem
number field

File:

Download FangSong-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean Hallgren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adam Smith, Committee Member
Piotr Berman, Committee Member
Jason Ryder Morton, Committee Member

Author:

Gollapalli, Sujatha Das

Title:

Researcher Expertise Search, Homepage Finding and Metadata Extraction

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Academic homepages
Co-training
Feature labeling
Expert search
PageRank
Author-document-topic graph

File:

Download main.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yanjun Qi, Special Member

Author:

Godbole, Anushree

Title:

Improving Utilization of Mobile Device Technology For Distributed Emergency Response Teams

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Participatory Sensing
Emergency Management
Android
Participatory Action

File:

Download Anushree_Godbole_Masters_Thesis__final_.pdf

Committee Members:

David J Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lee, Geun Seop

Title:

Fast Regularized Total Least Squares Methods With applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Total Least Squares
Regularization
High Resolution Image Reconstruction
Newton method

File:

Download GeunseopLee-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jesse Louis Barlow, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Dr Robert Collins, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Bhatia, Sumit

Title:

Enabling Easier Information Access In Online Discussion Forums

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

online discussion forums
web forums
query suggestion
discussion summarization
speech act
dialog act.

File:

Download Bhatia_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Special Member

Author:

Heysham, Megan Elizabeth

Title:

Adaptive Password Meters with Unreliable Storage

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

adaptive password meters
password meters
passwords
security

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Adam Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Niu, Dimin

Title:

Modeling and Architecting Emerging Non-volatile Resistive Random Access Memory for Future Computer System

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Memory System
Non-Volatile Memory
Resistive Memory

File:

Download Dimin-Dissertation-final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Freilich, Max Adam

Title:

Hybrid Data Access in Smartphone-based Wireless Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

mobile computing
smartphones
ad hoc networks
data access
cooperative cache
3G

File:

Download Freilich_masters.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Joseph Hannan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Xu, Wei

Title:

Security and Privacy Mechanisms for Web and Third-party Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Web application
third-party application
OSN worm
obfuscated JavaScript
Android permission

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Heng Xu, Committee Member
David Miller, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member

Author:

Yuan, Dayu

Title:

Mining and indexing graph databases

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

data mining
graph database
query processing
index structure
information retrieval

File:

Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Sungho

Title:

system-on-chip integration of heterogeneous accelerators for perceptual computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

perceptual computing
system-on-chip
heterogeneous accelerator
stream processing

File:

Download Sungho_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Kevin M Irick, Special Member

Author:

Chen, Hung-hsuan

Title:

Identifying Similar Objects in Social Networks and Digital Libraries

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

link prediction
vertex similarity
expert search
social network

File:

Download HungHsuanChen-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert T Collins, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Longquan

Title:

Self-healing Wireless Networks under Insider Jamming Attacks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Self-healing
Insider Jamming Attacks
Jammer Identification
Wireless Networks
Node Revocation

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raj Acharya, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Muthukumaran, Divya

Title:

Automating The Placement Of Authorization Hooks in Programs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Static Analysis
Authorization

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Ray Jaeger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Adam Smith, Committee Member
John Joseph Hannan, Committee Member
Stephen George Simpson, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Kuanbei

Title:

Computational Approaches for Integrative Detection of Protein-DNA Interactions

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Peak-Calling
ChIP-seq
Gene regulation
Comparative Genomics

File:

Download Kuan-Bei.dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Webb Colby Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Webb Colby Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Yu Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ross Cameron Hardison, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member

Author:

Schmidt, David Eric

Title:

Pitfalls in the Automated Strengthening of Passwords

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Password checking
Password creation policies
Information security
Strong authentication

File:

Download Pitfalls_Automated_Strengthening_Passwords.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee David Coraor, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tian, Yuan

Title:

Advanced Path Queries in Road Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Road networks
path query
algorithm
location-based service

File:

Download Yuan-Master-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raj Acharya, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tseng, Jui-te

Title:

The Effect of Heterogeneous Agents in Socio-cognitive Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ACT-R
Cognitive modeling
Social-cognitive network
network formation
Heterogeneity

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Frank Edward Ritter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rauschert, Ingmar Peter

Title:

Human Body Pose Estimation and Segmentation with Hierarchical, Data-driven MCMC

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Human Body Pose
Pedestrian
Image Segmentation
MCMC
Bayesian Probability
Computer Vision

File:

Download ms-thesis-ipr100-rev2.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert T Collins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yaroslavtsev, Grigory

Title:

"efficient Combinatorial Methods in Sparsification, Summarization and Testing of Large Datasets"

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

algorithms
big data
sublinear algorithms
graph theory
sparsification
summarization

File:

Download main.pdf

Committee Members:

Sofya Raskhodnikova, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adam Smith, Committee Member
Piotr Berman, Committee Member
Jason Ryder Morton, Special Member

Author:

McLaughlin, Stephen Elliot

Title:

Specification-based Attacks and Defenses in Sequential Control Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Security
Cyber-Physical
Control

File:

Download dis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Seth Adam Blumsack, Special Member

Author:

Kim, Seong Jo

Title:

Parallel I/o Profiling and Optimization in Hpc Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MPI-IO
PnetCDF
HDF5
PVFS
I/O Software Stack
Code Instrumentation
Code Generation

File:

Download phd14.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member
Rajeev Thakur, Special Member

Author:

Vijayakumar, Hayawardh

Title:

Protecting Programs During Resource Access

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Operating Systems
Security
Resource Access

File:

Download submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Ray Jaeger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Special Member

Author:

Yu, Huiwen

Title:

Combinatorial And Algebraic Algorithms In Set Covering And Partitioning Problems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

k-set cover
k-set packing
streaming set cover
space saving
diversifying

File:

Download HuiwenYu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin Furer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Piotr Berman, Committee Member
Robert T Collins, Committee Member
Stephen George Simpson, Committee Member

Author:

Rujkietgumjorn, Sitapa

Title:

Quadratic Binary Optimization for Pedestrian Detection in Crowded Scenes

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Pedestrian Detection
Optimized Detection
Quadratic Binary Optimization
Occlusion
Crowds

File:

Download Rujikietgumjorn-Dissertation-final-version.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert T Collins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert T Collins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Paul GriFfin, Committee Member

Author:

Song, Yang

Title:

A Machine Learning Based Approach To App Rating Manipulation Detection

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
app rating manipulation
app store

File:

Download Yang_Song-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wu, Xuan

Title:

design and implementation of over-the-air parental control for smartphones

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

parental control
Android
context-based

File:

Download Xuan_thesis_final.pdfDownload 1-Xuan_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyusun Choi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gala, Charles Joseph

Title:

Utilizing Graphics Processing Units for Rapid Facial Recognition using Video Input

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

facial recognition
graphics processing unit
GPU
CUDA
detection
tracking
recognition
live streaming data

File:

Download CharlesGala_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Raj Acharya, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce Einfalt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Collins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lin, Bing-rong

Title:

A first principle approach toward data privacy and utility

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Data Privacy; Anonymization; Utility

File:

Download 1-ThesisFinalBing.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Kifer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Adam Smith, Committee Member
David Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Tao

Title:

A Study of DRAM Optimization to Break the Memory Wall

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

DRAM
Memory Wall
3D-stacked DRAM
Wide IO
Activation
Precharge
Refresh
Sub-array Level Parallelism

File:

Download TaoZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Jishen

Title:

Rethinking the memory hierarchy design with nonvolatile memory technologies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Memory hierarchy
Nonvolatile memory
Persistence
Memory/storage stack
Energy efficiency
Graphics memory
CMP
GPU

File:

Download jishen-zhao-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Onur Mutlu, Special Member

Author:

Dering, Matthew Lewis

Title:

Android Market Reconstruction And Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Android
Market
Security

File:

Download 1-MatthewDering-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chirravuri, Sai Krishnan

Title:

RDF3X-MPI: A Partitioned RDF engine for Data-Parallel SPARQL Querying

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

RDF3x
MPI
RDF
SPARQL
DISTRIBUTED
IN-MEMORY

File:

Download SaiChirravuri-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Piotr Berman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Fangfang

Title:

Toward Obfuscation-resilient Plagiarism Detection

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Plagiarism detection
Smartphone app repackaging
Program birthmark
Obfuscation

File:

Download Fangfang_Zhang_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
David Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Palahan, Sirinda

Title:

A Framework for Mining Significant Subgraphs and Its Application in Malware Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Significant subgraph
subgraph mining
malware behavior
malware detection

File:

Download sirinda_main_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Kifer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Collins, Committee Member
John Joseph Hannan, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member

Author:

Octeau, Damien

Title:

Analysis of Inter-Component Communication in Mobile Applications Through Retargeting

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

smartphone
security
application analysis
inter-component communication

File:

Download octeau-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
John Joseph Hannan, Committee Member
Stephen George Simpson, Committee Member
Somesh Jha, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Di

Title:

Provisioning and Harnessing Energy Storage in Datacenters

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Datacenters
Power Management
Energy Storage
Batteries

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Aman Kansal, Special Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member

Author:

Balakavi, Rahul Mv

Title:

ANALYZING IMAGE PRIVACY FOR THE MODERN WEB

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

privacy images learning models

File:

Download thesis_july26.pdf

Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chen, Ying

Title:

Protect Children Online Safety on Social Media and Mobile Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Children
Mobile Apps
Mobile Ads
Android
iOS
Social Media
Cyberbullying
Problematic Content
Solicitation
Text Mining
Privacy

File:

Download Ying_Chen_Dissertation_June_2014_4.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heng Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Alan Maceachren, Committee Member

Author:

Yin, Peifeng

Title:

User Behaviors in Social Services: Models and Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

social service
user behavior

File:

Download peifeng_yin_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang Chien Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Piotr Berman, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Nilam Ram, Committee Member

Author:

Ding, Wei

Title:

A Fresh Look At Data Locality On Emerging Multicores And Manycores

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Data Locality
Multicore
Manycore
Compiler
Loop

File:

Download Wei-Ding-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Nimmala, Spoorthi Rao

Title:

Architectural Considerations For Context Aware Applications In A Mobile Cloud Computing Environment

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Context Aware Applications
Mobile Cloud Computing

File:

Download Spoorthi_Rao_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David J Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ozdemir, Ali

Title:

Latency Analysis of Data Mining Codes

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Latency Analysis Data Mining Codes

File:

Download M.S_Thesis_Ali_Ozdemir.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wilson, Ellis H

Title:

A Protean Attack on the Compute-storage Gap in High-performance Computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Distributed Storage
High-Performance Computing
Hadoop
Filesystems
Compression
Deduplication
NAND Flash
Solid State Disks

File:

Download elliswilson_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Zhenyao

Title:

Greedy Algorithm for approximating maximum induced matching

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

graph theory
combinatorial problem
approximation algorithms
induced matching
greedy algorithms

File:

Download ZhenyaoLIMIM.pdf

Committee Members:

Piotr Berman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mukherjee, Manisha

Title:

Determination of real-time traffic flow parameters in different devices based on Qoi requirements

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Real-time traffic video processing
QoI
Vehicle detection
Vehicle tracking

File:

Download Manisha_Mukherjee_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Thomas La Porta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Holbert, Brett David

Title:

Network Topology Inference with Partial Path Information and Probabilistic Cascading Failures through Interdependent Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

topology inference
cascading failures
fault propagation

File:

Download Holbert_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Park, Mi Sun

Title:

Configurable Accelerators for Visual and Text Analytics

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Accelerators
Recognition
Vision
Text Processing
Personal Analytics

File:

Download mspark_dissertation_final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Bradley Paul Wyble, Committee Member
Omesh Tickoo, Special Member

Author:

Xiao, Yang

Title:

using attention to enhance efficiency in video-based computer systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

FPGA; neuromorphic algorithm; video-based; embedded system

File:

Download Yang_thesis_8.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Bradley Paul Wyble, Committee Member
Jack Sampson, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member
Kevin M Irick, Special Member

Author:

Zhao, Jing

Title:

Resilient and Efficient Data Access in Cognitive Radio Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

cognitive radio network
data access
cache management
channel assignment
data replication

File:

Download JingZhao-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member

Author:

Swaminathan, Karthik Venkataraman

Title:

An examination of Post-CMOS computing techniques using steep-slope device-based architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Beyond-CMOS computing
Heterojunction Tunnel FET (TFET)
device-to-architecture abstraction
heterogeneous architectures

File:

Download thesis_karthik_swaminathan.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member
Jack Sampson, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Hui

Title:

Improving The Reliability And Power-efficiency characteristics Of Emerging Many-core multiprocessors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Chip Multiprocessors
reliability
power efficiency
program scalability
NoC design

File:

Download HuiZhao-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Kandemir, Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Kandemir, Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Jue

Title:

Architecture-level Designs using Emerging Non-volatile Memories

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

architecture design
main memory
on-chip cache
non-volatile memory
low power
high performance

File:

Download 1-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Cong

Title:

Modeling, Circuit Design, and Microarchitectural Optimization of Emerging Resistive Memory

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Non-Volatile Memory
ReRAM
Computer Architecture
Memory System

File:

Download CongXu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie And Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

Author:

Booth, Joshua Dennis

Title:

Improving Performance and Energy of Parallel Sparse Computations through Hybrid Linear Solvers and Model-driven Optimization

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Numerical
Sparse
Linear Solvers
High Performance Computing
Model-Driven
Energy Aware
Hybrid Solvers
Irregular Problems

File:

Download Booth-ThesisMain-V3.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Special Member

Author:

Zeng, Qiang

Title:

Improving Software Security With Concurrent Monitoring, Automated Diagnosis, and Self-shielding

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Software security
software cruising
automated diagnosis
self-patching
calling context
buffer overflow

File:

Download Qiang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas La Porta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member

Author:

Allaho, Mohammad Yacoub

Title:

Recommendation Services for Open Source Software Community

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Open Source Software
recommender service
network analysis
Degree of Acquaintance
Degree of Knowledge
expert ranking.

File:

Download Dissertation_report_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang Chien Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Piotr Berman, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member

Author:

Kesten, Tuba

Title:

A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING APPLICATION INTERFERENCE ON GPUS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPU
multiple application
concurrent execution
CUDA
Hyper-Q
NVIDIA
Kepler

File:

Download Thesis_final_Kesten_Tuba.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Alrizah, Mshabab

Title:

Using User Historical Behavior to Predict Aggregate Ratings: Analysis and Model

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Aggregate Ratings
Prediction
Regression Analysis
E-commerce Products
Products Categories

File:

Download MshababAlrizahThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chandrashekhar, Anusha

Title:

Acceleration of monocular depth extraction for images

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Monocular depth extraction
GPU
CUDA
Hardware acceleration
non-parametric depth
fast depth estimator
computer vision

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zou, Qiaosha

Title:

design methodologies of three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D ICs)

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Integrated circuits
design methodologies
three-dimensional circuits
cost-aware designs
reliability-aware designs

File:

Download Dissertation_Qiaosha.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Kirmani, Shad

Title:

EXPLOITING GRAPH EMBEDDING FOR PARALLELISM AND PERFORMANCE

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Parallel computing
graph partitioning
topology
graphs

File:

Download ShadKirmani-Dissertation-2.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Padma Raghavan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member

Author:

Zheng, Yang

Title:

Modeling And Design Analysis Of Emerging Non-volatile Memories For Future Computer Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

STT-RAM
ReRAM
Non-volatile Memory

File:

Download YangZhengThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tuarob, Suppawong

Title:

Information Extraction and Metadata Annotation for Algorithms in Digital Libraries

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Algorithms
Search Engine
Machine Learning
Classification

File:

Download tuarob_phd_cse_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raj Acharya, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Special Member

Author:

Cao, Wenqi

Title:

Memory Analysis Towards More Efficient Live Migration of Apache Web Server

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Virtual Machine
Live Migration

File:

Download Wenqi_Cao_Master_Thesis_-_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rauscher, Richard L

Title:

The Use of Cloud Computing in Health Care

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

cloud computing
health care
healthcare
virtual machines
VMMA
Bell-LaPadula
data leakage

File:

Download 2015-04-23_1855.pdf

Committee Members:

Raj Acharya, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raj Acharya, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Eugene Joseph Lengerich, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Cotter, Matthew Joseph

Title:

Enabling Intelligent Vision Systems in a Configurable Multi-algorithm Pipeline

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Configurable Systems
Vision Algorithms
Intelligent Vision
Hardware Accelerators

File:

Download Cotter_Dissertation_PSU_CSE_2015_FinalDraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
John Phillip Sustersic Jr., Special Member
Dr Steven P Levitan, Special Member

Author:

Chang, Hau-wen

Title:

Improving Prediction, Recommendation, and Classification using User-generated Content and Relationships

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

data mining
location estimation
recommender system
keyword recommendation
text minging

File:

Download hauwen150729.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Yedlapalli, Praveen

Title:

A Study of Parallelism-locality Tradeoffs across Memory Hierarchy

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Memory
SOC
parallelism
locality

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Brigid Louise

Title:

improving object recognition performance through semantic context extraction

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

computer vision
machine vision
vision
image processing
context

File:

Download THESIS-grad.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Upreti, Nitish

Title:

Reverse Nearest Social Group Query

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

socio-spatial
database
query
social
spatial
influence
query design

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Davis, Kameran J

Title:

Real Time Object Tracking On Active Pan Tilt Zoom Camera Using Cmt

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CMT
Keypoints
Tracking
Real-time
Pan-Tilt-Zoom
Camera
Consensus-Based
Matching
Software
Canon
VB-C300

File:

Download KJDThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Phillip Sustersic Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack Sampson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Heo, Unsuk

Title:

A High-efficiency Switched-capacitance Htfet Charge Pump For Low-input-voltage Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Charge pump
DC-DC converter
power-conversion-efficiency (PCE)
switched-capacitance
tunnel FET (TFET)

File:

Download UnsukHeo_Master_Thesis0403_1.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyusun Choi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Snyder, Joshua Scott

Title:

Optimization and Hardware Acceleration of Consensus-based Matching and Tracking

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

hardware acceleration
object tracking
FPGA
CMT
hardware architecture
vision system
computer vision

File:

Download 1-Snyder_Joshua_OptimizationandAccelerationofCMT.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Stalev, Ivan Dimitrov

Title:

Improving Performance of In-memory Key-value Stores Using a 3d-stacked Architecture

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Key-value store
DRAM cache
architecture

File:

Download Stalev-Thesis-Fixed.pdf

Committee Members:

John Morgan Sampson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Poremba, Matthew Raymond

Title:

Architecting Byte-addressable Non-volatile Memories for Main Memory

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Computer Memory
Non-Volatile Memory
DRAM
Memory Scheduling
Memory Modeling
Memory Simulation

File:

Download Poremba-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Morgan Sampson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Xie, Jing

Title:

Three Dimensional Integrated Circuit Design and Test

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

VLSI
Three Dimensional Integrated Circuit
Testing
Circuit Design
Low Power
High Performance

File:

Download JingXie-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Ye

Title:

The New Security Bounds and Leakage-resilient Models for Encryption Schemes

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

PKCS #1
leakage-resilient encryption
pebbling games

File:

Download comp01.pdf

Committee Members:

Adam Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adam Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Ryder Morton, Committee Member
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Martin Furer, Committee Member

Author:

Khabsa, Madian

Title:

Towards Better Accessibility of Scholarly Data

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

scholarly data

File:

Download khabsa-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member

Author:

Jog, Adwait

Title:

Design and Analysis of Scheduling Techniques for Throughput Processors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPUs
Bandwidth
Latency
Parallelism
Memory-Systems
Scheduling
Prefetching

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Ravishankar Iyer, Special Member
Onur Mutlu, Special Member

Author:

Guttman, Diana Rose

Title:

Prefetching Optimizations for Emerging Manycores

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

prefetching
many integrated cores

File:

Download DianaGuttman-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kayiran, Onur

Title:

Parallelism-aware Resource Management Techniques for Many-core Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPU
GPGPU
architecture
many-core
throughput
warp
wavefront
scheduling
TLP
thread
parallelism
CTA
heterogeneous

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Onur Mutlu, Special Member

Author:

Park, Jeonghyung

Title:

Reuse distance models for accelerating scientific computing workloads on multicore processors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

high performance computing
scientific computing
parallel computing
performance optimization

File:

Download Jeong-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Padma Raghavan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member

Author:

Dixit, Kashyap

Title:

Robust Models For Property Testing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Property Testing
Sublinear Algorithms
Randomized Algorithms
Approximation Algorithms
Theoretical Computer Science

File:

Download KashyapDixit-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin Furer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Piotr Berman, Committee Member
Jason Ryder Morton, Committee Member

Author:

Prabhala, Bhaskar

Title:

PbMFS - Periodicity based Mobility Forecasting System

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mobility
MANETs
Next-Place Predictions
Forecasting
Opportunistic Networks
Periodicity

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas F Laporta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raj Acharya, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member

Author:

Farhat, Farshid

Title:

Stochastic Modeling and Optimization of Stragglers in Mapreduce Framework

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MapReduce
Stochastic Modeling
Optimal Scheduling
Performance Evaluation
Queuing Theory.

File:

Download ms_thesis_mrmo_v21.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor