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Author:

Wu, Justin

Title:

Universal Micro-credential Certifications Powered By the Blockchain: An Extension For eAsel

Graduate Program:

Informatics (MS)

Keywords:

blockchain
micro-credentials
eAsel
competency-based education
smart contracts
ethereum
blockchain certificates
ERC-721
Non-Fungible Tokens
digital badges
blockchain credentials

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Steven R. Haynes, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Vincent Hanrahan, Committee Member
Edward J Glantz, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Xiaoting

Title:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Exploring the Robustness and Applicability of Adversarial Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Adversarial machine learning
Attribute privacy
Social good
Defense
Adversarial attacks

File:

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Committee Members:

Ting Wang, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Dinghao Wu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jinchao Xu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Knearem, Tiffany

Title:

Solidarity not Charity! Empowering Local Communities for Disaster Relief during COVID-19 through Grassroots Support

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Mutual aid
Community-based disaster relief
social media
Community informatics

File:

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Committee Members:

Jack Carroll, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Steven Haynes, Major Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yang, Fengting

Title:

Geometry Inspired Deep Neural Networks for 3D reconstruction

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

3D reconstruction
Geometry
Deep Neural Networks

File:

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Outside Unit & Field Member
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Sharon Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zihan Zhou, Major Field Member

Author:

Le, Thai Quang

Title:

Trustworthy Machine Learning: Learning under Security, Explainability and Uncertainty Constraints

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

machine learning
responsible AI
explainability
adversarial attack
adversarial defense
security
privacy
XAI
trustworthy

File:

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Major Field Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Umar, Prasanna

Title:

Mining users' self-privacy violations in online public discourse using data science techniques

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

online self-disclosure
public discourse
privacy
automated detection

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrea Tapia, Major Field Member
Christopher Griffin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Rajtmajer, Major Field Member
Anna Squicciarini, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Agnihotri, Devanshi

Title:

Assessing mHealth Motivational Pathways Among Hispanic Individuals Through Technological Affordances

Graduate Program:

Informatics (MS)

Keywords:

Technological affordances
self determination theory
motivational technology model

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Saeed M Abdullah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yunfeng Shi, Committee Member
Xinning Gui, Committee Member

Author:

Cui, Limeng

Title:

Understanding and Detecting Online Misinformation with Auxiliary Data

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Misinformation detection
Graph neural networks
Knowledge graph
Social media
Fraud detection
Active learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Dongwon Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lin Lin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amulya Yadav, Major Field Member
Anna Squicciarini, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhu, Lizhen

Title:

Contrastive Visual Learning from Spatiotemporal Information

Graduate Program:

Informatics (MS)

Keywords:

Contrastive learning
computer vision
perception

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Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Bradley Paul Wyble, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cha, Joonyoung

Title:

SECURITY PATTERN DETECTION IN SOFTWARE CODE USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS

Graduate Program:

Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations (MS)

Keywords:

Security Pattern
Software Code
Machine Learning
Security Pattern Detection (SPD)
Convolutional Neural Network
Long Short-Term Memory
Security
vulnerability

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Committee Members:

Jungwoo Ryoo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Joseph Fusco, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Philip Laplante, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Lu

Title:

Understanding the dynamical patterns and hot streaks for creative careers

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

the science of science
hot streaks
creative careers
exploration and exploitation

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Committee Members:

David Hunter, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Rajtmajer, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dashun Wang, Special Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member

Author:

Luo, Dongsheng

Title:

Denoising and Integrating Complex Networks for Big Data Analysis

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Graph neural Networks
Complex Network Analysis
XAI

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Major Field Member
Xiang Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Xiao Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xu, Dongkuan

Title:

Resource-efficient Deep Learning: Democratizing AI at Scale

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Democratization
Efficient
Artificial Intelligence
Model Compression
Graph Neural Network
Acceleration

File:

Download PhD_dessertation_Dongkuan_Xu_Resource_efficient_Deep_Learning_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Major Field Member
Xiang Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiao Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member

Author:

Chen, Yueqi

Title:

Investigating Exploitable Design Patterns for More Advanced Protection Design

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

System Security
Software Security
Operating System
Exploitability

File:

Download Ph_D_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Jaeger, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peng Liu, Major Field Member
Xinyu Xing, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vasileios P. Kemerlis, Special Member
Dinghao Wu, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dhanorkar, Shipi

Title:

An Investigation of the Design Space for Student Learning Tools that Aid Interaction with Recorded Lecture Content

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Lecture Recording
AI
Human-Computer Interaction
Design
Scenario-Based Design Research
Higher Education

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Committee Members:

Priya Sharma, Outside Unit & Field Member
D. Benjamin Hellar, Special Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major & Minor Field Member

Author:

Doozandeh Masooleh, Pooyan

Title:

Introducing and Testing the Benefits of Videorecording for the Analysis of Tasks and Jobs

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Ethnography
Training System Design
Human Performance Modeling
Job Analysis
Task Analysis

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Committee Members:

Jack Carroll, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rustin Meyer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Aiping Xiong, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Guo, Wenbo

Title:

Explainable AI Techniques for Security

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

computer security
machine learning
explainable AI
deep learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Lin Lin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting Wang, Co-Chair, Major Member & Dissertation Advisor
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Xinyu Xing, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Liang, Junjie

Title:

Predictive Modeling for High Dimensional Longitudinal Data

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Longitudinal data analysis
longitudinal correlation
cluster correlation
Gaussian Process
Factorization Machines

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Committee Members:

Xiang Zhang, Major Field Member
Lin Lin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Vasant Honavar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jang, Jinsung

Title:

The Logic of End-user Responsibility for Cyber-governance: A Paradigm Shift from Macro-decentralized Governance to Micro-distributed Governance

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

user responsibility
cyber-governance
duty of care
tort law
legal duty
distributed attack
cybersecurity
information problem
bounded rationality
CDA
DMCA
policy

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Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Ben Johnson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Edward Glantz, Major Field Member
Fred Fonseca, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member

Author:

Mali, Ankur Arjun

Title:

Theoretically deriving computational limits of Artificial Neural Networks with bounded precision and time

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Turing machine
automata theory
deep neural networks
formal language
recurrent neural network
artificial neural networks
theoretical limits
grammatical inference
state machines
memory augmented neural networks
language modelling

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Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alexander Ororbia, Special Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Sharon Huang, Major Field Member