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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:

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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:

Li, Peixuan

Title:

Towards Practical Information Flow Security

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Information Flow
Dependent Label Inference
Dynamic Policy

File:

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Committee Members:

Trent Jaeger, Major Field Member
G. Tan, Major Field Member
Danfeng Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Chun Yi

Title:

Performance and Lifetime Management Strategies for High-density 3D NAND Flash Storage

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

3D NAND flash
3D NAND SSD
Garbage Collection
SSD characterization
SSD management
Write amplification

File:

Download Chun-Yi.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nagarajan, Karthikeyan

Title:

Exploring Security Challenges and Opportunities in Emerging Memory and Computing Technologies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Non Volatile Memory
Artificial Intelligence
In-Memory Computing
Spiking Neural Networks
Fault Injection
Information Leakage
Denial of Service
Hardware Trojan
Side Channel Attack

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Karthikeyan_Nagarajan_Revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Swaroop Ghosh, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Felemban, Noor

Title:

Information Retrieval From Images and Videos in Mobile Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

mobile networks
deep learning
neural networks
image retrieval
video retrieval
cloud computing
distributed systems

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Vishal Monga, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zeng, Dongrui

Title:

Evaluating the Attack Surface of Control Flow Integrity

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Control Flow Integrity
Security Evaluation
Binary Analysis
Control Flow Graph
Type Inference
Attack Surface

File:

Download DZ_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Jaeger, Major Field Member
Peng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
G. Tan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Major Field Member
Ben Niu, Special Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sun, Yuanyi

Title:

Security and privacy solutions for camera and camera based authentication

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Two factor authentication
Mobile cameras
Privacy protection
Privacy-Preserving Publishing

File:

Download Yuanyi_Sun_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Major Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zhen Lei, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gunasekaran, Jashwant Raj

Title:

Maximizing Resource Efficiency for Next Generation Cloud Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

cloud
datacenter
performance
cost

File:

Download Jashwant_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
George Kesidis, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Anton Nekrutenko, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bikash Sharma, Special Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Yuxin

Title:

Automated Programming Frameworks for Analyzing Differential Privacy

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

differential privacy
program analysis
programming languages

File:

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Committee Members:

G. Tan, Major Field Member
Danfeng Zhang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gao, Yanjun

Title:

Analysis of Text to Identify, Represent and Group Distinct Propositions

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

natural language processing
text analysis
deep learning
computational linguistics
artificial intelligence

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul Medvedev, Major Field Member
Rebecca Passonneau, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Saghaian Nejad Esfahani, Sayed

Title:

Service Management: Resource Allocation and Security

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Resource Allocation
Security
Mission-oriented Security Model
Service Placement
Clustering Algorithm
Wireless Networks

File:

Download SayedSaghaian_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Thomas La Porta, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Mcdaniel, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Kifer, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Zare, Maryam

Title:

An Agent Learning Dialogue Policies for Sensing, Perceiving and Learning through Multi-modal Communication

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
Dialogue Systems
Learning through Communication

File:

Download MaryamZare_Dissertation_Penn_State_University.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan Wagner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Collins, Major Field Member
Rebecca Passonneau, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member

Author:

Farhadi, Vaji

Title:

Resource allocation for edge cloud and smart grid

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

DC-QSS
cascading failure
blackouts
preventive control
SCADA
PLCC
Mobile edge computing
workload scheduling
service placement
complexity analysis
algorithm design
Resource Allocation

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mort Webster, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hsieh, Tsung Yu

Title:

Explainable Predictive Modeling and Causal Effect Estimation from Complex Time-varying Data

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Explainable Machine Learning
Time Series Learning
Deep Neural Networks
Attention Networks
Functional Data Analysis
Causal Inference

File:

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Committee Members:

David Miller, Major Field Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Major Field Member
Vasant Honavar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matthew Reimherr, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lu, Hanlin

Title:

Data Reduction for Communication-efficient Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

distributed machine learning
coreset
distributed k-means
quantization
dimensionality reduction
edge-based machine learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Major Field Member
Lingzhou Xue, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, 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:

Belbasi, Mahdi

Title:

FPT Aglorithms for NP-complete Graph Problems Parameterized by Treewidth and Tree-depth

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Computer Science
Graph Theory
Tree Decomposition
Algorithm Design
Approximation Algorithms
Hamiltonian Cycle
Dominating Set
Algebraization

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Martin Fürer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Antonio Blanca, Major Field Member
Jan Reimann, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paul Medvedev, Major Field Member

Author:

De, Asmit

Title:

An Exploration into the Security Viability of RISC-V Systems and Supply Chain

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

RISC-V
Hardware Security
Systems Security
Supply Chain Vulnerability
Memory Corruption Vulnerabillity
Hardware Trojan
System-on-chip

File:

Download Thesis_final_AD.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Jaeger, Major Field Member
Peng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Swaroop Ghosh, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Sampson, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fan, Jingyao

Title:

Security and Privacy Support For Smart Grid

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

smart grid
security
privacy
power system

File:

Download JingyaoFan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Yan Li, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Major Field Member
Anna Squicciarini, Outside Unit & Field Member
Guohong Cao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Zientara, Peter

Title:

Design of a Vision Based Assistive System for Visually Impaired Persons

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

FPGA
Visually Impaired
Assistive System
Distributed
Heterogenous
Computer Vision
Grocery
CNN
DCNN

File:

Download peter_z_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jack Carroll, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fatahi Baarzi, Ataollah

Title:

Efficient Service Deployment on Public Cloud: A Cost, Performance, and Security Perspective

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Cloud Computing
Resource Management
Service Deployment

File:

Download AtaFatahiThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Zhu, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Farhat, Farshid

Title:

Comprehensive Photographic Composition Assistance through Meaningful Exemplars

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

image aesthetics
deep learning
image retrieval
recommender system

File:

Download Farshid_PSU_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Wang, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
Robert Collins, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
Wang-Chien Lee, Member Added & Major Field Represnt
Jia Li, Committee Member & Related Areas Repres
Jesse Barlow, Chair & Major Field Represnt
Zihan Zhou, Member Added & Related Areas Represent
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Challapalle, Nagadastagiri Reddy

Title:

DESIGN OF PROCESSING-IN-MEMORY ARCHITECTURES FOR DEEP LEARNING AND GRAPH APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Hardware Accelerator
Deep Learning Architecture
Deep Learning Hardware
Processing in Memory
Memory Augmented Neural Networks
Graph Convolution Neural Networks

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Major Field Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhao, Shulin

Title:

Optimizing Energy and Performance for Next-Generation Extended Reality Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Extended Reality
Virtual Reality
Augmented Reality
Energy-effiency
Performance

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Xianda

Title:

Energy and Quality Aware Video Streaming on Mobile Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Video Streaming
Mobile Device
Energy Efficiency
Quality of Experience (QoE)

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Committee Members:

Suhang Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Major Field Member
Guohong Cao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kuhlengel, Trevor Keith

Title:

Planning and Guidance of Bronchoscopy for Comprehensive Lymph Node Staging

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

lung cancer
lymph node staging
multi-destination procedures
image-guided procedures
bronchoscopy
optimal procedure planning
computer-assisted procedure planning

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Committee Members:

Ali Borhan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Collins, Major Field Member
William Higgins, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vishal Monga, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zheng, Yi

Title:

Video Analytics with In-SSD Processing Approaches

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

In-Storage-Processing
SSD
Firmware
FTL
Wear-Leveling
ORAM
Non-Volatile Memory

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Huijuan Xu, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member
John Messner, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

He, Fang

Title:

Applications of Deep Learning on Temporal and Graph Data Mining

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Temporal Data Mining
Graph Data Mining
Representation Learning
Deep Learning

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Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Major Field Member
Ting He, Major Field Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zhen Lei, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rahman, Amatur

Title:

Compression Algorithms for de Bruijn Graphs and Uncovering Hidden Assembly Artifacts

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

de Bruijn graph
compression
k-mer set
colored de Bruijn graph
assembly
unitig
unitig algorithm
assembly artifact
bidirected de Bruijn graph
palindromic unitig

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
David Koslicki, Major Field Member
Paul Medvedev, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mingfu Shao, Major Field Member

Author:

Hakimi, Zeinab

Title:

Efficient Deep Neural Networks Architectures for Video Analytics Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Neural Networks
Object Recognition
Convolutional Neural Networks
Edge Computing
Distributed Camera Intelligence System

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jack Carroll, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member

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:

Sarma, Anup

Title:

Optimizing Deep Learning for Memory and Compute : A joint Algorithm-Architecture Exploration

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Computer Architecture
Main Memory
CNN and RNN-LSTM
Inference and Training
Sparsity
Performance and Energy Efficiency

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Asit K Mishra, Special Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mahmut Kandemir, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr

Author:

Kumar, Adithya

Title:

Leveraging Heterogeneity in Designing Systems For Emerging Datacenter Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Heterogeneity
Tail Latency
Deep Learning
SmartNIC
GPU

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Timothy Zhu, Co-Chair of Committee
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Qian Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Scott, Jesse

Title:

Dynamic Stability Monitoring of Complex Human Motion Sequences via Precision Computer Vision

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

image-based stability
deep learning
machine learning
Center of Mass
Base of Support
Center of Pressure
stability
balance
motion capture
foot pressure
video
human pose
Taiji
biomechanics
stability metrics
falls
computer vision

File:

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Committee Members:

Yanxi Liu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Challis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Collins, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Guohong Cao, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shahidi, Narges

Title:

Design Trade-off for Cloud Storage

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Cloud
Cloud Storage
Storage Design
Cloud Storage Design
Serverless
SSD
NAND Flash Memories
Serverless Computing
Cloud Computing
Solid State Drives

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Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Junde

Title:

Machine Learning and Optimization Applications on Near-term Quantum Computers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Quantum Computing
Computer Vision
Optimization
Variational Quantum Algorithms
Generative Models
Quantum Computation Advantages

File:

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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:

Bhasi, Vivek

Title:

Adapting the Serverless Platform for Emerging Application Patterns

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Serverless Computing
Cloud Computing
Resource Management
Cost
SLO Compliance
QoS

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mahmut Kandemir, Dissertation Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jashwant Raj Gunasekaran, Special Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member

Author:

Ding, Ding

Title:

Violation Detection, Extra Information Release and Secure Implementation for Differentially Private Mechanisms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

differential privacy
counterexample detection
privacy mechanism
floating-point vulnerability

File:

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Committee Members:

G. Tan, Major Field Member
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Outside Unit & Field Member
Danfeng Zhang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liao, Minli

Title:

Efficiently supporting and exploiting multiple concurrent views of data in the memory hierarchy

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Cache design
Symmetric memories
Crosspoint memory
2D memory access
Multi-view memory systems
Orientation prediction
Layout transformation
Cache design
Symmetric memories
Crosspoint memory
2D memory access
Multi-view memory systems
Orientation prediction
Layout transformation

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Major Field Member
Linhai Song, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Lin, Yilei

Title:

Topology Inference in Modern Communication Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

computer networks
topology inference
NFV
queuing networks

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Major Field Member
Ting He, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mingfu Shao, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Homan, Eric

Title:

Context-Aware Perception for Edge and Embedded Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Neural Network
Context Awareness
Reinforcement Learning
Autonomy

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
Bradley Wyble, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member

Author:

Jiang, Huaipan

Title:

Exploration of Machine Learning Based Acceleration Methodologies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine learning
Acceleration
Approximation

File:

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Committee Members:

Mahmut Kandemir, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Sampson, Major Field Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Major Field Member
Nikolay Dokholyan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tan, Tianxiang

Title:

Deep learning on Mobile Devices with Neural Processing Units

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Mobile computing
Edge computing
Deep Learning

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Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member
Guohong Cao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ramezani, Morteza

Title:

Systems Optimizations for Learning and Processing on Large Scale Graphs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Graphs
Graph Processing
Graph Neural Networks

File:

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Committee Members:

Mahmut Kandemir, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Singh, Sonali

Title:

Co-Architecting Brain-inspired Algorithms and Hardware for Performance and Energy Efficiency

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Spiking Neural Networks
Neuromorphic Computing
Gradient descent
Low-power architectures
bio-inspired sensors

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alkhadhr, Shaikhah

Title:

Modeling a Clinical Acoustic Information System Using Physics-Informed Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

physics-informed neural networks
wave equation
ultrasound therapeutics
numerical modeling
information systems

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mohamed Almekkawy, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Major Field Member
David Koslicki, Major Field Member
Yun Jing, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Bhuyan, Sandeepa

Title:

Optimizing Emerging Game Streaming Applications for Mobile Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Game Streaming
Cloud Gaming
Video Game Processing
Mobile platforms
Performance
Energy-efficiency

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Mahmut Kandemir, Dissertation Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member

Author:

Xie, Tian

Title:

Resilient Cache Network Management: Algorithms, Analysis, Experiments

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

cache inference
denial of service attack
Software defined networking
cache replacement policy
access delay
attack resilience
TTL approximation
overlay routing
online routing
flow table size inference
adversarial reconnaissance
joint caching and routing
approximation algorithm

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Peng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mingfu Shao, Major Field Member
Thomas La Porta, Major Field Member

Author:

Ying, Ziyu

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Visual Computing
Resource-Constrained Device
Optimization
Energy-Efficiency

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Vajjiravelu Baskaran, Saambhavi

Title:

Distributed execution model for near-data accelerators

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

near-data accelerator
execution model
accelerator abstraction
accelerator interfaces

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Major Field Member
Linhai Song, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Liu, Yilin

Title:

Finger Motion Analysis for Interactive Applications using Wearable and Wireless IoT devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Finger motion tracking
Machine learning
Deep learning
Wearable sensing
Human behavior sensing
Wireless sensing

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Bin Li, Major Field Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amulya Yadav, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Cong, Weilin

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Graph representation learning
Optimization
Generalization

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Li, Zheyu

Title:

Accelerating Data-intensive Bioinformatic Workloads

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Bioinformatic
Genome sequencing
FPGA
In-memory computing
Whole Silde Imaging
Max Cut
Nanopore Sequencing
Sorting

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Ryoo, Jihyun

Title:

Architecture-Centric Bottleneck Analysis for Machine Learning and Deep Learning Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Computer architecture
Architecture profiling
Machine learning
Deep learning
Analysis model
High performance computing
Manycore systems
Parallel computing

File:

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Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Sampson, Major Field Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Huang, Yudi

Title:

Towards Secure and Performant Cyber-Physical Systems: Estimation, Optimization, and Control

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Cyber-physical systems
Smart Grid
Attack recovery
System resilience
Overlay routing
Cross-path attack
PMU placement

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Thomas La Porta, Major Field Member
Ting He, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Major Field Member

Author:

Behoora, Ishan

Title:

Line of sight sensors: Applications and related 1.5D terrain guarding problem variants

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

machine learning
algorithms
computational geometry
approximation
hardness
line of sight sensors

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Martin Fürer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Antonio Blanca, Major Field Member
Kamesh Madduri, Major Field Member
Reuben Kraft, Outside Unit & Field Member
Piotr Berman, Special Member

Author:

Huang, Lexiang

Title:

Optimizing Cloud Efficiency: A Performance and Cost Perspective

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Cloud Computing
Performance Debugging
Cost Optimization
System Failures

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Linhai Song, Outside Unit & Field Member
Timothy Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Major Field Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member

Author:

Kim, Sun Hyoung

Title:

Practical Static Binary Analysis with Block Memory Model

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Static Analysis
Binary Analysis
Control Flow Graph
Pointer Analysis
Type Inference

File:

Download Sun_Hyoung_Kim_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

G. Tan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Major Field Member
Danfeng Zhang, Major Field Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Zhaohui

Title:

Automated and Semi-Automated Assessment of STEM Reasoning Questions

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Automated Assessment
Machine Learning
Selective PredictionHuman-in-the-Loop
NLP
Education
Relation Networks
Contrastive Learning
Human-in-the-Loop
Selective Prediction

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Dongwon Lee, Outside Unit & Field Member
Huijuan Xu, Major Field Member
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member
Rebecca Passonneau, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Hung, Hui Ju

Title:

Algorithms and models toward novel graph problems and applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Network intervention
optimization algorithms
social networks
graph optimization problem
network intervention
social network
reinforcement learning
transfer learning
node representation

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Committee Members:

Sy-Miin Chow, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Major Field Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Major Field Member
Zhen Lei, Co-Chair of Committee
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair