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Author:

Cain, Curtis

Title:

Swimming Upstream: The Case of Black Males in Information Technology (IT) Higher Education

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Black males
career choice
diversity
digital inequality
ethnicity
race
IT workforce
theory development

File:

Download Cain.Thesis.Final.03.29.2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Eileen M Trauth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eileen M Trauth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lynette Marie Yarger, Committee Member
Suzanne Adair, Committee Member
Michael Mc Neese, Committee Member
Kshiti (K D ) Joshi, Special Member

Author:

Lu, Xin

Title:

Visual Characteristics for Computational Prediction of Aesthetics and Evoked Emotions

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Image Aesthetics Assessment
Emotion Prediction
Deep Learning

File:

Download phd_dissertation_xinlu.pdf

Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Reginald Adams Jr., Committee Member
Michelle Gayle Newman, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Changkun

Title:

Understanding Human Spatial Navigation Behaviors: A Cognitive Modeling Approach

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Cognitive Modeling
ACT-R
Navigation
Spatial
Cognitive Model.

File:

Download Thesis_Zhao_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Frank Edward Ritter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Special Member

Author:

Zheng, Saijing

Title:

Occupy MOOCs: Understanding Users' Motivations, Perceptions and Activity Trajectories

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

MOOCs
Massive Open Online Courses
Motivation
Perceptions
mix-method

File:

Download Dissertation-Saijing_Zheng-Final_Version2.pdf

Committee Members:

John Millar Carroll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Millar Carroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kyle Leonard Peck, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mukherjee, Partha

Title:

Second Screens and Social Soundtrack

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Second Screen
Social Soundtrack
Panel data regression
Social media
ANOVA
Web Search

File:

Download Dissertation_Mukherjee1.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernard James Jansen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrea H Tapia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jens Grossklags, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Special Member

Author:

Karumanchi, Sushama

Title:

Towards Achieving Secure Content Discovery in Centralized and Decentralized Systems

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

distributed search
private search
peer-to-peer network security
peer-to-peer network privacy
malicious node detection
information exchange minimization
policy-based routing enforcement
server and client security and privacy

File:

Download Sushama_Karumanchi_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Anna Squicciarini, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Anna Squicciarini, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Dinghao Wu, Committee Member
Dr. Zhenhui Jessie Li, Committee Member
Dr. Scarlett Miller, Outside Member

Author:

Sun, Xiaoyan

Title:

Using Bayesian Networks for Enterprise Network Security Analysis

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Cloud Security
Bayesian Network
Situation Awareness
System Call
Zero-day Attack
Enterprise network security

File:

Download Xiaoyan_Sun-dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Outside Member

Author:

Huang, Wenyi

Title:

Context Modeling for Semantic Text Matching and Scene Text Detection

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Citation Recommendation
Scene Text Detection
Deep Learning
Neural Networks
Context Modeling
Text in the Wild

File:

Download WenyiHuang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member

Author:

Zhong, Chen

Title:

A COGNITIVE PROCESS TRACING APPROACH TO CYBERSECURITY DATA TRIAGE OPERATIONS AUTOMATION

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Cyber Situational Awareness
Cybersecurity Data Triage
Cognitive Process Tracing
Operation Analysis
Cyber Operation Automation
Intelligent System

File:

Download Penn_State_University_Thesis__3_.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member
John Millar Carroll, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Outside Member
Robert Erbacher, Special Member

Author:

Williams, Kyle Mark

Title:

Similarity Search and Satisfaction

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Information retrieval
near duplicate detection
similarity search
good abandonment
search satisfaction

File:

Download KyleWilliams_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C. Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C. Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
David T Reitter, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member