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Author:

Yin, Alexander Chih-Jen

Title:

Learning on the job: Cooperative education, internships, and engineering problem-solving skills

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

Cooperative education
engineering education
internships
problem-solving skills
Experiential Learning Cycle
Model of Domain Learning

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Lisa R Lattuca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lisa R Lattuca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Fredericks Volkwein, Committee Member
Peggy Noel Van Meter, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Balakrishnan, Bimal

Title:

EVALUATING IMPACT OF NAVIGABILITY AFFORDANCES AND NARRATIVE TRANSPORTATION ON SPATIAL PRESENCE

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

virtual reality
narratives
navigability
spatial presence
HCI
affordances

File:

Download Balakrishnan_eTD_2008.pdf

Committee Members:

S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
Loukas N Kalisperis, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Convertino, Gregorio

Title:

AWARENESS AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING: EXPERIMENTAL METHODS

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

HCI
human-computer interaction
CSCW
computer-supported cooperative work
awareness
common ground
knowledge sharing
research method
experimental method
laboratory method
measure
process
groupware

File:

Download Convertino_PhdThesis_20080815.pdf

Committee Members:

John Millar Carroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Thomas Moran, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Hongli

Title:

EVALUATING LANGUAGE GROUP DIFFERENCES IN THE SUBSKILLS OF READING USING A COGNITIVE DIAGNOSTIC MODELING AND DIFFERENTIAL SKILL FUNCTIONING APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

Fusion model
cognitive diagnostic modeling
differential skill functioning
reading subskills
the MELAB

File:

Download Dissertation-Final-0328.pdf

Committee Members:

Hoi Kin Suen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hoi Kin Suen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pui Wa Lei, Committee Member
Bonnie J Meyer, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Yong Won Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Jung, Hyekyung

Title:

A Latent-Class Selection Model for Nonignorably Missing Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

multivariate incomplete data
nonignorable nonresponse
latent variable.

File:

Download PhD_HyekyungJung.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Walter Graham, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Bruce G. Lindsay, Committee Member

Author:

Bissell-Havran, Joanna Marie

Title:

Parents' Differential Treatment and Siblings' Academic Outcomes During Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

emerging adulthood
siblings
adolescence
academic achievement
parenting

File:

Download Bissell-Havran-dissertation-final-gr-school.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Loken, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Loken, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Mc Hale, Committee Member
Hobart H Cleveland Iii, Committee Member
Rayne Audrey Sperling, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Juyoun

Title:

Sampling contingency tables given sets of marginals and/or conditionals in the context of statistical disclosure limitation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Algebraic Statistics
Monte Carlo)
Stochastic Computation and Simulation Methods (MCM
Categorical Data Analysis
Contingency Tables
Statistical Disclosure Limitation Method

File:

Download JuyounLee-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Richards, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Yuri Zarhin, Committee Member

Author:

Yu, Lan

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A MIXED APPROACH USING THE LOGISTIC LATENT CLASS MODEL AND THINK-ALOUD PROTOCOLS TO INFORM DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTIONING

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

differential item functioning
mixture model
think-aloud protocols

File:

Download LanYuThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Hoi Kin Suen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pui Wa Lei, Committee Member
Jonna Marie Kulikowich, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Dorothy H Evensen, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Qiong

Title:

CLASS EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY IN LATENT CLASS MODELS

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

classification accuracy
correct class extraction
latent class models
sample sizes

File:

Download Dissertation_Qiong_Wu_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Pui Wa Lei, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pui Wa Lei, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hoi Kin Suen, Committee Member
Jonna Marie Kulikowich, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Gilreath, Tamika DeLaine

Title:

Multiple-context assessment of suicidal ideation, depression, and substance use among African American adolescents

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

mental health
African American
adolescents

File:

Download TamikaGFinalDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary King, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Collins O Airhihenbuwa, Committee Member
John Walter Graham, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Vu, Duy Quang

Title:

Statistical Models and Algorithms for Large Network Analysis

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

network work analysis
survival modeling
dynamic network formation
latent class modeling

File:

Download DuyVu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Russell Hunter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Anna

Title:

Supporting place sensemaking with multidimensional information representation on mobile devices

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Human Computer Interaction
Mobile application design
Sense-making
Location-based service

File:

Download Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaolong Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Millar Carroll, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Nau, Claudia L

Title:

How wrong is wrong? Monte-Carlo simulation experiments on measuring the neighborhood at the wrong scale

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

neighborhood
measurement
scale
census
tract
Monte-Carlo
simulation
BMI
health

File:

Download Dissertation_Claudia_Nau_rev2.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Matthews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Matthews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Glenn A Firebaugh, Committee Member
Barrett Alan Lee, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Special Member
Murali Haran, Special 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:

Khoury, Nicole Leighanne

Title:

Investigating Community Annoyance from Impulsive Noise Using Geostatistical Methods

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Spatial Modeling
Noise
NASA
Geostatistics

File:

Download Khoury_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Landis Rosenberger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhu, Yeying

Title:

Data-adaptive Approaches to Modeling Propensity Scores in Causal Inference Problems

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

causal inference
data-adaptive
data mining
observational studies
propensity scores

File:

Download Yeying-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

Author:

Woo, Yong

Title:

Optimization and Statistical Estimation for the Post Randomization Method

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Post Randomization Method
Statistical Disclosure Control
EM Algorithm
Generalized Linear Models
Constrained Optimization

File:

Download jwoo_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donald Richards, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member

Author:

Solea, Eftychia

Title:

Differentially Private Hypothesis Testing For Normal Random Variables.

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

differential privacy
hypothesis testing
normal distribution

File:

Download Eftychia-MS.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yang, Qiong

Title:

Reinvestigation of causal effects of Right Heart catheterization: a matching approach

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Right Heart Catheterization
Causal Inference
Matching
Sensitivity Analysis

File:

Download Qiong-Master.pdf

Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Spiro E Stefanou, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Karwa, Vishesh

Title:

Likelihood based inference in data privacy and other discrete missing data problems.

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Missing Data
Likelihood
Privacy
networks
discrete data

File:

Download VisheshKarwa-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Adam Smith, Special Member

Author:

Zhao, Yu

Title:

The performance of model fit measures by robust weighted least squares estimators in Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

model fit
fit indices
model misspecification
model size
CFA
cut-off
small sample
WLSMV
DWLS
ordinal variables

File:

Download Dissertation-Yu_Zhao.pdf

Committee Members:

Pui Wa Lei, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pui Wa Lei, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hoi Kin Suen, Committee Member
Jonna Marie Kulikowich, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Yuan

Title:

Projection Test for High-dimensional Mean Vectors with Optimal Direction

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

High-dimensional data
Hotelling's T2 test
Projection test
One-sample problem
Two-sample problem

File:

Download YuanHuang_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Lan Kong, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member

Author:

Christou, Eliana

Title:

A Non-iterative Method for Fitting the Single Index Quantile Regression Model with Uncensored and Censored Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Censored Data
Dimension reduction
Index model
Nadaraya-Watson estimator
Quantile regression.

File:

Download Christou_Eliana_PhD.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael G Akritas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member
Spiro E Stefanou, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Special Member

Author:

Samizo, Yuji

Title:

Secure Statistical Analysis on Vertically Distributed Databases

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Statistical disclosure limitaion
distributed databases
Secure multiparty computation
Lasso regression
LARS algorithm

File:

Download YujiSamizo-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
TBA1, Committee Member
TBA3, Committee Member

Author:

Snoke, Joshua Valor

Title:

STATISTICAL DATA PRIVACY METHODS FOR INCREASING RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Statistical Data Privacy
Disclosure Control
Multiparty Computation
Differential Privacy
Partitioned Data
Synthetic Data

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Naomi S Altman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Timothy Raymond Brick, Committee Member
Timothy Raymond Brick, Outside Member

Author:

Umbricht, Mark Richard

Title:

Identifying Gaps in the First-Generation Pipeline: A Study of Gaps in College Expectations, Access and Completion by First-Generation Status

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

First-generation
Higher Education
Access
Completion

File:

Download Identifying_Gaps_in_the_First-Generation_Pipline__Umbricht_-_Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

John Jesse Cheslock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Jesse Cheslock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karly Sarita Ford, Committee Member
Kelly Ochs Rosinger, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Yue

Title:

ON IMPROVING THE UTILITY FOR DATA ANALYSES UNDER DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Differential privacy
statistical data analyses

File:

Download YueWang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Kifer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Outside Member

Author:

Zechmann, Edward Louis

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF NOISE WITH FRACTIONAL-OCTAVE-BAND FILTERS AND THE VARIANCE AND KURTOSIS OF THE SOUND PRESSURE

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

highest density interval
fractional octave band
impulsive noise
moment
region of practical equivalence
kurtosis
kurtosis
highest density interval
fractional octave band
impulsive noise
moment
region of practical equivalence

File:

Download Zechmann-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Allen Russell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Allen Russell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michelle Celine Vigeant, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Outside Member
William Murphy, Special Member
Ingrid Blood, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Haining

Title:

DESIGNING SELF-CARE TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE PATIENTS’ PREHABILITATION ENGAGEMENT

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Healthcare
Prehabilitation
Rehabilitation
Social Support
HCI
Collaboration
Workflow
Facial Paralysis
Surgical Care
User-centered Design
Chronic Condition

File:

Download Zhu_19_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John M Carroll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John M Carroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Saeed M Abdullah, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Outside Member

Author:

Wright, William C

Title:

An Algebraic Perspective on Computing with Data

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Mathematics
Statistics
Sheaf Theory
Category Theory
Giry Monad
Algebraic Statistics
Topos Theory

File:

Download Wright-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jason Ryder Morton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Ryder Morton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vladimir Itskov, Committee Member
Alexei Novikov, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Outside Member

Author:

Awan, Jordan

Title:

Optimizing Finite Sample Performance of Differential Privacy

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Statistical Disclosure Control
Statistical Disclosure Limitation
Empirical Risk Minimization
Regression

File:

Download ThesisMerge.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Agarwal, Amal

Title:

Statistical Network Modeling and its Applications in Complex Large-Scale Systems

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Clustering
Environmental studies
Exponential-family random graphical model
Variational Inference
Dynamic Network
Weighted Network
Pollution Detection

File:

Download Amal-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Committee Member
Xiang Zhan, Outside Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Johnston, Ann

Title:

Register based human population size estimation: a geometric perspective toward assessing sensitivity to unverifiable independence assumptions

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Log-linear models
Capture-recapture
Sensitivity analysis
Data integration
Official statistics

File:

Download AnnJohnston-MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sheng, Ben

Title:

The Integration of Multiple Data Sources for HIV/AIDS Incidence and Prevalence Estimation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

antenatal clinic surveillance
HIV prevalence
statistical models
antenatal clinic surveillance
HIV prevalence
statistical models
routine HIV testing among pregnant women
Antenatal clinic
Unlinked anonymous HIV testing
Routine HIV testing
Calibration parameter
Linear mixed-effects model
weakly supervised learning
semi-supervised learning
logistic regression
contingency table
HIV recency
HIV incidence

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Committee Members:

Le Bao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Le Bao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Xun Cao, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nixon, Michelle Anne

Title:

Privacy Preserving Methods in the Era of Big Data: New Methods and Connections

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Statistical Data Privacy
Synthetic Data
Statistical Disclosure Control
Differential Privacy
Knockoffs

File:

Download Nixon_dissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair