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Author:

Bolelli, Levent

Title:

Clustering and Topic Discovery in Scientific Literature

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Clustering
Heterogeneous Data Clustering
Data Mining
Machine Learning

File:

Download LeventBolelli-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Alan Maceachren, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Zheng, Shuyi

Title:

EFFECTIVE METHODS FOR WEB CRAWLING AND WEB INFORMATION EXTRACTION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Wrapper Induction
Information Extraction
Web Crawling
Machine Learning

File:

Download ShuyiZheng-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Ertekin, Seyda

Title:

LEARNING IN EXTREME CONDITIONS: ONLINE AND ACTIVE LEARNING WITH MASSIVE, IMBALANCED AND NOISY DATA

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Online Learning
Active Learning
Support Vector Machines
Classification
Data Mining

File:

Download SeydaErtekin_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leon Bottou, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member
Tracy Mullen, Committee Member

Author:

Guha Thakurta, Abhradeep

Title:

Differentially Private Convex Optimization For Empirical Risk Minimization And High-dimensional Regression

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Data Privacy
Differential Privacy
Machine Learning
High-dimensional Statistics
Sparse Regression

File:

Download AbhradeepThakurta-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Adam Davison Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adam Davison Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Committee Member

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:

Skocik, Michael Joseph

Title:

Bio-inspired and Neuromorphic Machine Vision System for Analyzing Three-dimensional Data

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Computer Aided Diagnosis
Computer Assisted Radiology
Alzheimer's
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Machine Learning
Machine Vision

File:

Download Michael_Skocik-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bradley Paul Wyble, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Collins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Carina Pamela Curto, Committee Member

Author:

Soleimani Bajestani, Hossein

Title:

Pattern Discovery from Unstructured and Scarcely Labeled Text Corpora

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Topic Models
Anomaly Detection
Semi-supervised Learning
Text Modeling
Credit Attribution

File:

Download Hossein-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David J. Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David J. Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
C. Lee Giles, Outside Member
David Russell Hunter, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Guangxuan

Title:

Making Sense of Conflict in Distributed Teams: A Design Science Approach

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Conflict
Design Science
CM2
Conflict Management System
Argument Detection
Text Mining
Machine Learning
Distributed Team
Open-source Software Development

File:

Download Dissertation_20161127.pdf

Committee Members:

Heng Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heng Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Daniel Cardoso Llach, Outside Member

Author:

Jha, Devesh Kumar

Title:

Learning and Decision Optimization in Data-Driven Autonomous Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

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

File:

Download Devesh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Brawner, Thomas W

Title:

The Diffusion of Instability in Authoritarian Regimes

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Diffusion
Authoritarian Regimes
Democratic Transition
Regularization
Machine Learning
Prediction
Coups

File:

Download brawner_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donna Bahry, Committee Member
Bumba Mukherjee, Committee Member
Johannes Fedderke, Outside Member

Author:

Kotobi, Khashayar

Title:

INFORMED COGNITIVE RADIOS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Cognitive Radio
Wireless Communication
Machine Learning
Data Science
Data Mining
Blockchain
Security
Spectrum Sharing

File:

Download Kotobi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Bilen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Jeffrey Mayer, Committee Member
Conrad Tucker, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Jian

Title:

Development of Automated Neuro-Simulation Protocols for Pressure and Rate Transient Analysis Applications

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Neuro-Simulation
Machine Learning
Neural Network
Numerical Reservoir Simulation
Pressure Transient Analysis
Rate Transient Analysis

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Outside Member

Author:

Enab, Khaled Ahmed

Title:

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED DESIGN PROTOCOL FOR WAG IMPLEMENTATION IN CO2 INJECTION USING FISHBONE WELLS IN LOW PERMEABILITY Oil RESERVOIRS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Enhanced Oil Recovery
WAG
CO2 Injection
Unconventional Oil Reservoirs
Tight Oil Reservoirs
Artificial Neural Network
Machine Learning

File:

Download Khaled_Enab_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Member
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Outside Member

Author:

Lim, Sunghoon

Title:

EVENT DETECTION AND PREDICTION USING ONLINE USER GENERATED DATA

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Text Mining
Social Media Analytics
Online Data Analytics
Event Detection
Event Prediction

File:

Download Dissertation_SunghoonLim_IEPHD.pdf

Committee Members:

Conrad S Tucker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Nilam Ram, Outside Member

Author:

Liang, Chen

Title:

Machine Learning Methods for Building Educational Applications: Concept Prerequisite Learning and Automatic Distractor Generation

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Concept Prerequisite Learning
Automatic Distractor Generation
Question Generation

File:

Download Chen_Liang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C. Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C. Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vasant G. Honavar, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Rebecca J. Passonneau, Outside Member
Barton K. Pursel, Special Member

Author:

Li, Jingwen

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF VISUAL CUE USAGE IN A MULTIPLE-POINT TIME-TO-CONTACT TASK

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Time-to-contact
Search Strategy
Visual cue usage
Scanpath
Machine Learning

File:

Download Jingwen_Li_-Dissertation_V2.2.pdf

Committee Members:

Ling Rothrock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andris Freivalds, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Outside Member

Author:

Funk, Christopher A

Title:

On a Computation Model for Human and Machine Symmetry Perception

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Symmetry
Deep Learning
Convolutional Neural Networks
Machine Learning
Wallpaper Groups
Topology Comparison
EEG

File:

Download ChristopherFunk-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yanxi Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yanxi Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Collins, Committee Member
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
David T Reitter, Outside Member

Author:

Fang, Kuai

Title:

Understanding Hydrologic Functions of Water Storage and Soil Moisture and Improving Predictive Capability using Big Data Machine Learning Methods

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrology
Watershed Functioning
Water Storage
Soil Moisture
Machine Learning
Deep Learning

File:

Download Kuai_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member

Author:

Liao, Cong

Title:

Towards Secure Solutions for Cloud Applications

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Cloud Computing
MapReduce
Provenance Logging
Invariant Violation Detection
Hadoop File System
Distributed Storage
Location-Awareness
Machine Learning
Adversarial Machine Learning
Security
Convolutional Neural Networks

File:

Download Dissertation-Cong.pdf

Committee Members:

Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Outside Member

Author:

Zhong, Haoti

Title:

User Protection in Social Networks using Machine Learning Techniques

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Privacy
Cyberbully
Social Networks

File:

Download User_protection_in_social_networks_using_machine_learning_techniques.pdf

Committee Members:

David Jonathan Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Outside Member

Author:

Lopez Bencosme, Christian Enmanuel

Title:

PERSONALIZED ADAPTIVE GAMIFICATION SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE AND MOTIVATION

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Gamification
Machine Learning
Player type
Perzonalization

File:

Download Dissertation_IME_PhD_ChristianLopez.pdf

Committee Members:

Conrad S. Tucker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Freivalds Andris, Committee Member
Conrad S. Tucker, Committee Member
Thomas A. Litzinger, Outside Member

Author:

Rahimi, Sohrab

Title:

Unveiling the Wall: Physical Manifestations of Socio-spatial Boundaries in the US

Graduate Program:

Architecture

Keywords:

Urban Sociology
Urban Culture
GIS
Machine Learning
Social Media
Yelp
Urban Computation
Taste
Bourdieu
Social Boundaries
Segregation
American Cities

File:

Download UnveilingTheWall_SohrabRahimi.pdf

Committee Members:

Mallika Bose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mallika Bose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clio Maria Andris, Committee Member
Xiang Zhang, Committee Member
Jose M Pinto Duarte, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Qiyuan

Title:

Examining the Effects of Learners’ Background and Social Network Position on Content-Related Interaction via the MOOC Platform

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

MOOCs
Interaction
Machine Learning
SEM
Social Network Analysis
Online Learning

File:

Download QL_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Priya Sharma, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Priya Sharma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roy Clariana, Committee Member
Simon Hooper, Committee Member
Runze Li, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Xi

Title:

Quantifying cities through user-generated geosocial content with GeoAI

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

GIScience
GeoAI
Cities
Computational Social Science
Machine Learning
Data Mining

File:

Download Xi_Liu_dissertation_revised_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Clio Maria Andris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clio Maria Andris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan M Mac Eachren, Committee Member
Donna Peuquet, Committee Member
Bruce A Desmarais, Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Tofighi, Mohammad

Title:

Informed Learning for Image Restoration and Understanding

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Cell Detection
Image Processing
Image Deblurring
Deep Learning
Video Deblurring

File:

Download Tofighi_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Committee Member
Leonid V Berlyand, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cherukuri, Venkateswara Rao

Title:

Domain Enriched Learning for Brain Image Analysis

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Brain Imaging
MRI
CT
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Priors

File:

Download venkat_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Nanyin Zhang, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Outside Member
Steven Schiff, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Schiff, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Morgan, Steven

Title:

Rights Talk at the Intersection of Religious Conservatism and US Politics

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Religion and Politics
Text as Data
Machine Learning
Political Communication

File:

Download Morgan_Dissertation_Final_3-3-20.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael J Nelson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael J Nelson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Plutzer, Committee Member
Burt Monroe, III, Committee Member
Roger Finke, Outside Member
Glenn Hunter Palmer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sengul, Mert Yigit

Title:

ATOMISTIC LEVEL INVESTIGATION OF DISSOLUTION, PRECIPITATION AND SURFACE DIFFUSION DYNAMICS AT THE AQUEOUS INTERFACES USING REAXFF AND APPLICATION OF DEEP LEARNING TO FORCE FIELD PARAMETERIZATION

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cold Sintering Process
ReaxFF
Aqueous Interfaces
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
Molecular Dynamics
Surface Diffusion
Langmuir Model

File:

Download Sengul_MY_Dissertation_MatSE.pdf

Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A. Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhao, Junqi

Title:

Towards a Proactive Real-Time Data-Driven Musculoskeletal Disorders Prevention Approach in Construction

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Construction Safety Management
Proactive Injury Prevention
Wearable Sensing
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Ergonomics
Construction Safety Management
Injury Prevention
Wearable Sensing
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Ergonomics

File:

Download Ph.D._Dissertation__Junqi_Zhao_.pdf

Committee Members:

Esther Adhiambo Obonyo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Adhiambo Obonyo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Somayeh Asadi, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member
Andris Freivalds, Outside Member
Sez Atamturktur, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gong, Xi

Title:

Machining Behavior and Material Properties in Additive Manufacturing of Ti-6Al-4V Parts

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Ti-6Al-4V
PSP Linkages
Machine Learning
Microstructure

File:

Download Xi_Gong_Dissertation_Draft_0707v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward Demeter, Committee Member
Eric Russell Marsh, Committee Member
Saurabh Basu, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Imani, Farhad

Title:

Sensor-based Modeling and Analysis of Advanced Manufacturing Systems for Quality Improvements

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Artificial Intelligence
Smart Manufacturing
Machine Learning
Process Monitoring and Control
Quality Control

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_Farhad_Imani.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy W. Simpson, Committee Member
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Outside Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Albohn, Daniel

Title:

Computationally Predicting Human Impressions of Neutral Faces

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Neutral Faces
Impression Formation
Machine Learning
Facial Expressions
Emotion Expressions

File:

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Committee Members:

Reginald Adams, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald Adams, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jose Angel Soto, Committee Member
Christopher Daryl Cameron, Committee Member
James Z Wang, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tang, Xianfeng

Title:

Beyond Accurate Graph Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Data Mining
Graph Data
Graph Neural Networks
Adversarial Attack
Robustness
Fairness
Explainable Machine Learning
Deep Learning

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_Beyond_Accurate_Graph_Neural_Networks.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suhang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiang Zhang, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Suhang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ayub, Ali

Title:

Few-Shot Continual Learning of Visual Concepts

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Continual Learning
Catastrophic Forgetting
Human-Robot Interaction
Self-Supervised Learning
Curiosity-Driven Learning
Cognitively-Inspired Learning
Robotics
Machine Learning
Computer Vision

File:

Download PhD_Thesis___Ali_Ayub.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Elisabeth Karuza, Outside Member
Alan R. Wagner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Richard Wagner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hall, Donald L

Title:

Exploitation of space-time wireless channel characteristics for indoor source localization

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Indoor Source Localization
Direction of Arrival Estimation
Machine Learning
Multipath
Polarization Diversity
Spatial Scattering
Wireless Channel

File:

Download dlh_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John F Doherty, Committee Member
David Marion Jenkins, Jr., Committee Member
Michelle Celine Vigeant, Outside Member
Erik Henry Lenzing, Special Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sterge, Nicholas

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL-STATISTICAL TRADEOFF IN APPOROXIMATE KERNEL PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Statistics
Kernel Methods
Machine Learning
Principal Component Analysis
Approximation Methods

File:

Download NicholasJSterge_Dissertation_2_0.pdf

Committee Members:

John Harlim, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Ethan Fang, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yuan, Lun Pin

Title:

Towards Designing Accurate Detection Methods for Emerging Cyber Threats

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Anomaly Detection
Cybersecurity
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Cyberthreats
Malware

File:

Download lunpin_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Co-Chair of Committee
G. Tan, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anna Squicciarini, Outside Unit & Field Member
Guohong Cao, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bhattacharya, Chandrachur

Title:

Frontiers in Data-driven Learning via Probabilistic Finite State Automata

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Data-driven
Machine Learning
Time-series analysis
Combustion Instablity
Thermoacoustic Instability
Pattern Recognition
Reduced Order Modeling
Rijke tube
Probabilisitc Finite State Automata
Symbolic Time Series Analysis
Combustion dynamics
Combustion
Hidden Markov Model
LSTM
Projection PFSA
Chaos
Natural Circulation Loop
Crack detection
Online Learning
Transfer Learning
DDDAS
PFSA
STSA

File:

Download Dissertation_ChandrachurBhattacharya_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Outside Unit Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Field Member
Daniel Haworth, Major Field Member
Achintya Mukhopadhyay, Special Member
Asok Ray, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Hu, Weiming

Title:

Uncertainty Quantification for Photovoltaic Energy Production Using Analog Ensemble

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Ensemble Forecast
Photovoltaic
Machine Learning
Deep Learning

File:

Download 2021_PSU_Dissertation_Hu.pdf

Committee Members:

George Young, Outside Unit Member
Guido Cervone, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Mann, Outside Field Member
Andrew Carleton, Major Field Member
Cynthia Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mcatee, Patrick D

Title:

Sculptured Thin Films as a Platform for Machine-Learning Based Optical Sensing of Analytes

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Sensing
Plasmonics
Machine Learning
Sculptured thin films

File:

Download McAtee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Catchmark, Outside Unit & Field Member
Osama Awadelkarim, Major Field Member
Mark Horn, Major Field Member
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sefid, Athar

Title:

Automatic Summarization and Slide Generation for Scientific Papers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Automatic Summarization
Automatic Slide Generation
Text Mining
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing

File:

Download Athar_Sefid_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris McComb, Outside Unit & Field Member
C Lee Giles, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jesse Barlow, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member

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:

Gilani, Faheem

Title:

Diffusion Maps and its Applications to Time series Forecasting and Filtering and Second Order Elliptic PDEs

Graduate Program:

Mathematics (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
kernel methods
nerural networks
chaotic dynamics
manifold learning
diffusion maps
ENSO

File:

Download Dissertation_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Alberto Bressan, Major Field Member
John Harlim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiantao Li, Major Field Member
Carina Curto, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rahimian, Mina

Title:

A Data Mining Model and a Real-Time Predictive Software Prototype for the Spatial Design and Planning of High Energy Performance Solar Community Microgrids

Graduate Program:

Architecture (PHD)

Keywords:

Data Mining
Machine Learning
Community Microgrid
Energy Consumption
Urban Scale
Energy Performance
Predictive
Software

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Mina_Rahimian.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Pinto Duarte, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Seth Blumsack, Outside Unit Member
Lisa Iulo, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Guido Cervone, Outside Field Member
Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ademujimi, Toyosi

Title:

Training of Bayesian Network model using Fusion-Learning and Engineering Models for Improved Fault Diagnostics

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Smart Manufacturing
Bayesian Network
Machine Learning
Fault Diagnostics
Small Dataset
Digital Twin
Structure Learning
Parameter Learning

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Committee Members:

Dennis Lin, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Vittaldas Prabhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Paul Griffin, Major Field Member
Daniel Finke, Major Field Member

Author:

Shin, Hyunjong

Title:

ANALYTICAL AND EMPIRICAL MODELS FOR PROCESS TRANSFORMATION TOWARDS SMARTER MAINTENANCE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Smart Maintenance
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
System Interaction
Business Process
Business Process Transformation
Human Centered System

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Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Paul Marshal Griffin, Committee Member
Suvrat Saurabh Dhanorkar, Outside Member
Felisa Preciado Higgins, Special Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Owen, Stephen

Title:

Essays on Conditional Asset Pricing and Machine Learning in Finance

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Finance
Asset Pricing
Conditional Asset Pricing
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Timothy T Simin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy T Simin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Lenkey, Committee Member
Giang Nguyen, Committee Member
Jed J Neilson, Outside Member
Quanwei Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alexey Zhdanov, Committee Member
Brent William Ambrose, Program Head/Chair
Quanwei Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yao, Huaxiu

Title:

Learning to Learn with Structured Knowledge

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Data Mining
Deep Learning
Meta-learning
Relation Learning
Few-shot Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Zhenhui Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhenhui Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suhang Wang, Committee Member
Xiang Zhang, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Elanwer, Rania

Title:

HR analytics in practice: Using machine learning to predict employee absenteeism

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Human Resource Analytics
People Analytics
Talent Analytics
Workforce Analytics
Big Data Analytics
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

David Lynn Passmore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lynn Passmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark D Threeton, Committee Member
Hyung Joon Yoon, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Outside Member
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gilbertson, Christian

Title:

Using Data-driven Methods to Find Planets Around Stars With Magnetic Activity

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics (PHD)

Keywords:

Exoplanets
Astrobiology
Astrostatistics
Machine Learning
Gaussian Process
Open Source Software
Radial Velocity
Spectroscopy
Stellar Variability
Planet Detection
Telluric Variability
Astronomy
Astrophysics

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Committee Members:

Rebekah Dawson, Major Field Member
Suvrath Mahadevan, Major Field Member
Jason Wright, Co-Chair of Committee
Eric Ford, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Kasting, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robin Ciardullo, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Shuo Shuo

Title:

Statistical Learning on High-Dimensional Multi-Source Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Transfer Learning
Multi-View Clustering
High-Dimensional Data
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xiang Zhu, Major Field Member
Lan Kong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Cornelius, Jason

Title:

Mid-Fidelity Performance Analysis for Fixed-Pitch Speed-Controlled Multirotor Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Helicopter
Multirotor
CFD
Rotorcraft
High Performance Computing
GPU
Coaxial
Coaxial Rotor
Machine Learning
Surrogate Models
Dragonfly
Drone
UAS
Urban Air Mobility
Unmanned Aerial Systems
BEMT
Aerodynamics
Aircraft
C81 Tables
OVERFLOW
ARC2D
Airfoil Performance
NASA
Langley TDT
Langley 14-by 22-ft. Subsonic Tunnel Facility
Langley Transonic Dynamics Tunnel
Hybrid BEMT-URANS CFD
Linux Bash Scripting
GPU CFD Acceleration
Gaussian Process Regression
Neural Networks
Conceptual Design
Preliminary Design

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Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Haworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sven Schmitz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Jose Palacios, Major Field Member
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Larry Young, Special Signatory

Author:

Fan, Foxian

Title:

Evolution of AM Surface Morphology during Centrifugal Disc Finishing

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Centrifugal Disc Finishing
Surface Characterization
Image Processing
Machine Learning
Mass Finishing

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Christopher Kube, Outside Unit & Field Member
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brigid Mullany, Special Member
Robert Voigt, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Liu, Heting

Title:

Machine Learning in Mobile Edge Computing: Enhancing Efficiency in Inference and Training

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Edge Computing
Resource Allocation
Machine Learning
Federated Learning

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Committee Members:

Fenglong Ma, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Major Field Member
Jing Yang, Major Field Member
Guohong Cao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tabar, Maryam

Title:

Mitigating Social Challenges among Vulnerable Communities with Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence/Data Science for Social Good
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Dongwon Lee, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amulya Yadav, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Carleen Maitland, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Rayid Ghani, Special Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Widdowson, Denise

Title:

Computational Optimization of Material Properties via a Multi-Field-Assisted Additive Manufacturing Process

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Multifield Processing
Multiobjective Optimization
Machine Learning
AI
Magnetic Particle Composite
Computational Homogenization
Support Vector Regression
Magnetic Polymer Composites
Magnetoactive Elastomer
Inverse Materials Design Problem
Additive Manufacturing
Electromagnetic
Dielectric
Microarchitecture

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Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Paris Vonlockette, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zoubeida Ounaies, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Frecker, Major Field Member

Author:

Pei, Te

Title:

Integrating Geotechnical Domain Knowledge Into Machine Learning for Slope Stability Predictions

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Slope Stability
Landslide Susceptibility Mapping
Machine Learning
Domain Knowledge
Physics-based model
Monotonicity

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Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tong Qiu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ming Xiao, Major Field Member
Tieyuan Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dharmadhikari, Susheel

Title:

Data-Driven Strategies for Engineering Design and Diagnostics

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Fatigue Damage Detection
Machine Learning
Surrogate Modeling
Pin Fin Optimization

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Committee Members:

Amrita Basak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christopher Kube, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eric Marsh, Major Field Member
Asok Ray, Major Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Lafleur, Travis

Title:

Predictive Models for Gene Expression Engineering

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Transcription
Machine Learning
Biological Engineering
Synthetic Biology

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Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Major Field Member
Howard Salis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Edward O'Brien, Outside Unit & Field Member
Costas Maranas, Major Field Member
Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Ziegler, Andrew

Title:

Development of Scalable Approaches to Neutrino Mass Measurement with The Project 8 Experiment

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Beta-decay
Neutrino
Neutrino Mass
Project 8
Spectrometers
Signal Detection
Antenna
Antenna Array
Microwave Electronics
Resonant Cavities
Nuclear Physics
Cyclotron Radiation
Electrons
Tritium
Machine Learning
Triggering

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Committee Members:

Carmen Carmona Benitez, Major Field Member
Douglas Cowen, Major Field Member
Luiz de Viveiros, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephanie Wissel, Major Field Member
Xingjie Ni, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mauricio Terrones, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xin, Yanan

Title:

Mobility-Based Anomaly Detection

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Mobility Analysis
Anomaly Detection
Spatial Data Mining
Deep Learning
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Alan M Mac Eachren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan M Mac Eachren, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Manzhu Yu, Committee Member
Justine Blanford, Committee Member
Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang, Outside Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Meng

Title:

Leveraging Machine Learning for Analyzing Individual and Aggregate-Level Healthcare Data

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Healthcare
data analtics

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Paul Griffin, Major Field Member
Kamesh Madduri, Outside Unit & Field Member
Swaminathan P. Iyer, Special Member
Qiushi Chen, Major Field Member
Kartik Ramakrishna, Special Member

Author:

Yang, Di

Title:

Essays on Determinants of Health

Graduate Program:

Health Policy and Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

Determinants of Health
Health Equity
Population Health
Social Health Insurance Consolidation
Housing Demolition
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Chris Hollenbeak, Program Head/Chair
David Vanness, Major Field Member
Yubraj Acharya, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joel Segel, Major Field Member
Kristin Sznajder, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Oghazian, Farzaneh

Title:

Knits As Material For Architectural Design: Computational Methods For Designing And Manufacturing Architectural Forms Based On The Behavior Of Knitted Textiles

Graduate Program:

Architecture (PHD)

Keywords:

Knitted Textiles
Form finding
Machine Learning
Calibration
3D Scanning
Lightweight Tension Structures
Knitted Tensioned Structures
Knitted Structures
Computational methods

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Committee Members:

Jose Pinto Duarte, Major Field Member
Nathan Brown, Outside Unit & Field Member
Benay Gursoy Toykoc, Major Field Member
Delia Dumitrescu, Special Member
Felecia Davis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Coppo Leite, Victor

Title:

Towards Temperature Field Reconstruction, an Innovative Method for Advanced Reactors Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Field Reconstruction

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Committee Members:

Arthur Motta, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
William Walters, Major Field Member
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Elia Merzari, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dillon Shaver, Special Member
Saya Lee, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Jiasheng

Title:

Modeling and Influencing Online User Behavior with Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Online User Behavior
Modeling and Influencing
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dongwon Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Xiang Zhang, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sadat Mohammadi, Milad

Title:

Human-Centric Digital Twin Model of Electric System Maintenance Technicians for Near Real-Time Health and Ergonomic Postural Risk Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Human Centric Digital Twin Model
Health Monitoring
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Ergonomic Risk Assessment

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Committee Members:

Somayeh Asadi, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Somayeh Asadi, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Messner, Major Field Member
Houtan Jebelli, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Singal, Garima

Title:

Essays in Applied Machine Learning and Economics

Graduate Program:

Economics (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Pollution Estimation

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Committee Members:

Marc Albert Henry, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Marc Henry, Major Field Member
Keisuke Hirano, Major Field Member
Manzhu Yu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Minas Sifakis, Special Member
Michael Gechter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Mekki, Bashir

Title:

TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL THERMAL MANAGAMENT SYSTEMS FOR AEROSPACE APPLICATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Topology Optimization
Heat Exchangers
Additive Manufacturing
CFD
Machine Learning
Experimental Testing

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Committee Members:

Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Alexander Rattner, Major Field Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Lynch, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vikram Shyam, Special Member
Xiang Yang, Major Field Member

Author:

Wright, Isaac

Title:

Machine Learning Methods for Regression and Classification with Functional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Functional Data
Boosting
Decision Trees
Classification
Regression
Machine Learning
Supervised Learning
Unsupervised Learning

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jia Li, Major Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Liechty, Outside Unit & Field Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Major Field Member

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:

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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:

Chandna, Akshat

Title:

Modeling Natural Fracture Networks Using Improved Geostatistical and Geomechanical Inferences

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Fracture Characterization
Multiple Point Statistics
Geostatistics
Geomechanics
Machine Learning
Stochastic Simulation
Modeling Natural Fracture Networks
Teapot Dome

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Committee Members:

Sanjay Srinivasan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kumar, Vishnu

Title:

Supply Chain Resilience through Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): Representation, Partnership Prediction, and Standardization using Graph Databases

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Supply Chain
Graph Database
Knowledge Graph
Machine Learning
Link Prediction
RDF
Manufacturing
BioPharma

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Simpson, Outside Field Member
Paul Griffin, Major Field Member
Kamesh Madduri, Outside Unit Member
Vijay Srinivasan, Special Member

Author:

Wijeyakulasuriya, Dhanushi

Title:

Modern Algorithm-based approaches for Modeling Animal Movement

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Animal Movement
Machine Learning
Extreme Value Theory
Spatial Extremes
First Arrival
Spatial Statistics

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Le Bao, Committee Member
Benjamin Shaby, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member
Benjamin Shaby, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jenkins, Porter

Title:

Towards Sample Efficiency in Deep Learning

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Machine Learning
Bayesian
Representation Learning

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Committee Members:

Jessie Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jessie Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suhang Wang, Committee Member
Zihan Zhou, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Seo, Jooyoung

Title:

Discovering Informal Learning Cultures of Blind Individuals Pursuing STEM Disciplines: A Computational Ethnography Using Public Listserv Archives

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

STEM
Computational Ethnography
Accessibility
Blind Learners
Visual Impairments
Machine Learning
Structural Topic Modeling
Data Science
Mailing List
Tidy Data
R
Mailing Lists
Python

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Committee Members:

Gabriela Richard, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Roy Clariana, Major Field Member
ChanMin Kim, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Cetnar, Daniel

Title:

Predicting Gene Expression For Robust Genetic System Design

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

mRNA
RNA Decay
NGS
Synthetic Biology
Gene Expression
RNase
Machine Learning
Modeling

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Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Major Field Member
Howard Salis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Phillip Savage, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Outside Unit & Field Member
Seong Han Kim, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khademi, Aria

Title:

Excursions in Causal Data Science: Fairness, Causal Attribution, and Applications

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Causal Inference
Interpretable Machine Learning
Fairness
Health Care
Causal Attribution

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Committee Members:

Daniel Susser, Major Field Member
Sarah Rajtmajer, Major Field Member
Vasant Honavar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Ruimin

Title:

Data-driven Service Optimization and Quality Management in Cyber-physical Manufacturing Systems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Quality Management
Machine Learning
Service Optimization

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Committee Members:

Edward Reutzel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Soundar Kumara, Major Field Member
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Hui Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Yan Lu, Special Member

Author:

Muthumanickam, Naveen Kumar

Title:

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Framework For Multi-Phase Building Design Process - Technology Demonstration Using Design Of Office Building And Robotically 3D Printed Habitat

Graduate Program:

Architecture (PHD)

Keywords:

Building Design Optimization
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Concurrent Engineering
Model and Simulation-Based Engineering
Metamodelling
Multifidelity modelling
Surrogate Modelling
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Energy Modelling
Daylighting Simulation
Robotic Constructability
3D Printing
Additive Concrete deposition
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Timothy Simpson, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Pinto Duarte, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Lisa Iulo, Major Field Member
Gordon Warn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Loukas Kalisperis, Major Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Program Head/Chair