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Author:

Leng, Shiyang

Title:

Energy Cooperation and Information Freshness in Wireless Networks

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

wireless communications
energy harvesting
wireless energy transfer
information freshness
age of information
game theory
Stackelberg game
machine learning
deep reinforcement learning
stochastic geometry
dynamic programming

File:

Download ShiyangLengDissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Aylin Yener, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aylin Yener, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F La Porta, Committee Member
Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Committee Member
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Outside Member
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhou, Keren

Title:

machine learning-enhanced dynamic laser speckle imaging for rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Antibacterial susceptibility testing
phenotype
bacteria
laser speckle imaging
machine learning

File:

Download Ms_kz_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zheng, Xinye

Title:

Computational Approaches towards Pattern Recognition and Matching for Scientific Images

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

scientific image processing
optimal transport
machine learning
scientific image processing
machine learning
optimal transport
statistical modeling

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
Saeed M Abdullah, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Outside Member
Jia Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Jia Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rodriguez, Raphael

Title:

Improving the Predictability of Racial Preference Attitudes: Using Machine Learning Models to Predict Concurrent Implicit-Explicit Black-Preference Attitudes

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

racism
machine learning
implicit
iat

File:

Download rodriguez_mastersThesis_Summer2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Frank Edward Ritter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Susser, Committee Member
Shomir Wilson, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xiao, Yifei

Title:

Monitoring Sleep Quality Using Smartwatches

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

smartwatch
mobile health
mobile computing
machine learning
sleep quality

File:

Download Thesis_Yifei_Xiao.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fu, Tao Yang

Title:

GRAPH AND TRAJECTORY MINING: FRAMEWORKS,ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
representation learning
neural network
network data
trajectory data
spatio-temporal data
node classification
link prediction
travel time estmiation
route planning

File:

Download dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang-Chien Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Jia Li, Outside Member
Zhen Lei, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Zhen Lei, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Hojjatinia, Sarah

Title:

System Identification Algorithms for Noisy Data with Application to Behavior Modeling

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

System identification
data analysis
modeling
physical activity
behavior
machine learning
algorithm
noisy data
social network
switched systems
markov
design
SARMAX
SARX
Markov jump
hybrid
health
Real Data

File:

Download Sarah-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
David E Conroy, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Choi, Soyoung Young

Title:

Exploring family caregiving experiences in heart failure: Utilization of machine-assisted text analysis

Graduate Program:

Nursing

Keywords:

heart failure
caregivers
family
qualitative research
machine learning
topic modeling
sentiment analysis

File:

Download Dissertation_in_Nursing_Soyoung_Choi.pdf

Committee Members:

Lisa Ann Kitko, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lisa Ann Kitko, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Judith E Hupcey, Committee Member
Barbara Ann Birriel, Committee Member
Suhang Wang, Outside Member
Lisa Ann Kitko, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cao, Jeffery

Title:

Utilizing Generative Aversarial Networks To Generate Training Data From Text

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Generative Adversarial Network
GAN
text-to-image GAN
zero-shot
machine learning
image classification

File:

Download master.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas F La Porta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Ting He, Committee Member

Author:

Noble, Joshua

Title:

Applied Numerical Methods in Characterizing Optical Nanomaterials and Nanostructures

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

holography
optics
pulse reconstruction
ultrafast
near field
numerical methods
machine learning
nonlinear
nanostructures
2d materials

File:

Download Noble_Dissertation_2020_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Xingjie Ni, Committee Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Outside Member
Hans Hallen, Special Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shreedharan, Srisharan

Title:

Frictional mechanics of stable and unstable fault slip: Insights from ultrasonic imaging of experimental fault zones

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Fault mechanics
fault friction
slow slip events
machine learning
asperity stiffness
lab earthquakes

File:

Download Srisharan_Dissertation_V25.01.21.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris J Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Member
Jacques Riviere, Outside Member
Demian Saffer, Special Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pezanowski, Scott

Title:

Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence to Derive Meaningful Information on Geographic Movement Described in Text

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

geographic movement
geovisual analytics
machine learning
natural language processing
big data analytics
geographic movement
geovisual analytics
machine learning
natural language processing
big data analytics
artificial intelligence
deep learning
visualization
GIScience
Information Retrieval

File:

Download 20210321_PezanowskiScott-Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Nick Giacobe, Committee Member
Alan M Mac Eachren, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zigner, Michael

Title:

Machine Learning Models of Participation in Work-Related Training

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

workforce development
human resource development
human resources analytics
machine learning
predictive modeling
work related training
training and development

File:

Download Zigner_Dissertation_Revised_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Lynn Passmore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lynn Passmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael W Harvey, Committee Member
Cynthia Pellock, Committee Member
Jonna Marie Kulikowich, Outside Member
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wilkinson, Collin

Title:

Adventures In High Dimensions: Understanding Glass For The 21ST Century

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Glass
glass relaxation
glass-ceramics
machine learning
crystallization

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_ReformatedUpdated.pdf

Committee Members:

John C Mauro, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John C Mauro, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan B Sinnott, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Seong Han Kim, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Uwazuruonye, Kaosisochi

Title:

Modeling Pilots' Visual Attention Using Enhanced Flight Vision Systems

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

pilot's visual attention
Enhanced flight vision system
machine learning
time series analysis
pilot's control behavior
low visibility

File:

Download Modeling_Pilots__Visual_Attention_Using_Enhanced_Flight_Vision_Systems.pdf

Committee Members:

Amy Ruth Pritchett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Bingyuan

Title:

Topics on Nonconvex Learning

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Nonconvex optimization
machine learning
statistical learning
deep learning

File:

Download Thesis_BingyuanLiu.pdf

Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Yanyuan Ma, Committee Member
Zihan Zhou, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Robinson, Matthew

Title:

Neural Networks and Self-Organizing Cellular Automata

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

neural networks
emergent behavior
emergence
self-organizing systems
self-organization
machine learning
cellular automata

File:

Download Robinson-Thesis-ms-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thang N. Bui, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thang N. Bui, Program Head/Chair
Susan Kathryn Eskin, Committee Member
Linda Marie Null, Committee Member
Sukmoon Chang, Committee Member
Jeremy Joseph Blum, Committee Member
Hyuntae Na, Committee Member
Hien Nguyen, Committee Member
Md Faisal Kabir, Committee Member

Author:

Yu, Monong

Title:

Cosmic-ray iron spectrum measured by the ISS-CREAM experiment

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

cosmic rays
direct measurements
machine learning
neural networks

File:

Download Monong_Yu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Miguel Mostafa, Major Field Member
Douglas Cowen, Major Field Member
Stephane Coutu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Randy McEntaffer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Stephanie Wissel, Major Field Member

Author:

Manickavasagam Pounraja, Vijay Kumar

Title:

Computational methods for dissecting the genetic basis of neurodevelopmental disorders

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)

Keywords:

exome-sequencing
CNV
machine learning
rare variant genetics
genomics
neurodevelopmental disorders
random forest
apriori algorithm
rare combinations
combinatorial analysis

File:

Download Vijay_Kumar_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Naomi Altman, Major Field Member
Vasant Honavar, Outside Field Member
Yifei Huang, Major Field Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Reka Albert, Outside Unit Member
George Perry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sha, Congzhou

Title:

Manifold Learning in Structural Biology: Docking, Folding, and Simulation

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

differentiable programming
machine learning
neural networks
structural biology
Lie group
statistical mechanics
molecular dynamics
RNA structure
differential geometry

File:

Download Sha_dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Elizabeth Proctor, Major Field Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Outside Field Member
Nikolay Dokholyan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Raymond Hohl, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Washington, Richard

Title:

the use of machine learning and genetic algorithms for clutter classification and radarcom signal design

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radar
wireless communications
clutter
lpi
radarcom
machine learning

File:

Download FinalThesis_RichardWashington.pdf

Committee Members:

Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Dmitriy Garmatyuk, Special Signatory
Saba Mudaliar, Special Signatory

Author:

Gerg, Isaac

Title:

Domain Enriched Machine Learning for Synthetic Aperture Sonar

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
deep learning
sonar
autofocus
semantic segmentation
automatic target recogition
classification

File:

Download 2022_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan Wagner, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Doherty, Major Field Member
Jing Yang, Major Field Member
Vishal Monga, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Thomas F La Porta, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Snow, Zackary K

Title:

Flaws in Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing: Formation Mechanisms, Detection Methods, and Effect on Fatigue

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

additive manufacturing
qualification
process monitoring
fatigue
titanium
machine learning

File:

Download Dissertation_-_final_07232021.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Reutzel, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jayme Keist, Outside Field Member
Timothy Simpson, Outside Unit Member
Abdalla Nassar, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Deshong, Eric

Title:

Fault Characterization and Diagnostics Supporting Condition-Based Operation and Maintenance of Gas Turbine Engines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

gas turbine engine
axial turbine
machine learning
condition-based operation and maintenance
predictive maintenance
condition monitoring
efficiency
durability
turbine cooling
blade tip clearance

File:

Download DeShong_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Reid Berdanier, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karen Thole, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Lynch, Major Field Member
Michael Jonson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Polasky, Andrew

Title:

Statistical Climate Model Downscaling: Methods and Application to the Midwest United States and West Africa Regions

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

climate change
downscaling
self-organizing maps
machine learning
statistical downscaling

File:

Download polasky_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

George Young, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jenni Evans, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Fuentes, Major Field Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Julien, Chris

Title:

Collective Identity, Sexual Coercion, and Hegemonic Masculinity: Machine Learning and the Discourse of the Manosphere

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

sociology
masculinity
digital sociology
gender
machine learning
text analysis
reddit
manosphere

File:

Download CJulien_Final_Diss_v4.0.pdf

Committee Members:

David Baker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Daniel DellaPosta, Major Field Member
Burt Monroe, Outside Unit & Field Member
Charles Seguin, Major Field Member
Diane Felmlee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Kumar, Vikas

Title:

Improved Facial Expression Recognition Using Noisy Student Training and Synthetic Data Generation

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Facial expression recognition
student-teacher network
semisupervised learning
multi-level attention
Facial expression recognition student-teacher network
semisupervised learning multi-level attention
facial expression recognition
unsupervised learning
student teacher network
machine learning
deep learning
GAN
CNN

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Kifer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Committee Member

Author:

Le, Thai Quang

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

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

File:

Download Thesis_ThaiLe_IST_B.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Peterson, Mallory

Title:

Leveraging Neural Imaging for the Management of Hydrocephalus

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

hydrocephalus
brain volume
machine learning
neural imaging

File:

Download Mallory_Peterson_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xuemei Huang, Major Field Member
Judith Todd Copley, Major Field Member
James Broach, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Harbaugh, Major Field Member
Steven Schiff, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vishal Monga, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Guo, Wenbo

Title:

Explainable AI Techniques for Security

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

computer security
machine learning
explainable AI
deep learning

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Naegele, Steven M

Title:

Investigation of Wind Regimes in Kuwait and the Northeastern U.S. Coast Using Observations and Self-Organizing Maps of Model Output

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

wind
wind energy
wind regime
atmospheric model
machine learning
self-organizing maps

File:

Download Naegele_Dissertation_Draft_-_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Markowski, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Steven Greybush, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
George Young, Major Field Member
Susan Stewart, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jared Lee, Special Member
Melissa Gervais, Major Field Member

Author:

Melton, Elizabeth

Title:

Searching For Transiting Planets Around One Million Stars

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

exoplanets
machine learning

File:

Download Melton_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ian Czekala, Major Field Member
Rebekah Dawson, Major Field Member
Jason Wright, Major Field Member
Joel Hartman, Special Member
Hyungsuk Tak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eric Feigelson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rebekah Dawson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Williams, Glen

Title:

Towards the Next-Generation of Engineering Design Artificial Intelligence: A Framework for Additive Manufacturing Machine Learning Development

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

additive manufacturing
machine learning
artificial intelligence
design
manufacturing

File:

Download Glen_Williams.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas Meisel, Major Field Member
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Chris McComb, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Sengupta, Agnimitra

Title:

Data-driven Condition Evaluation of Transportation Systems

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

nondestructive evaluation
impact echo
machine learning
infrastructure systems
traffic prediction
uncertainty
traffic dynamics
deep learning

File:

Download PSU_PhD_Agni.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
S. Ilgin Guler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Field Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Outside Unit Member
Sudeepta Mondal, Special Member
Vikash Gayah, Major Field Member

Author:

Pankova, Daria

Title:

The Search For High Energy Tau Neutrinos With The IceCube Neutrino Detector

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

neutrino
tau neutrinos
IceCube
physics
machine learning
CNN

File:

Download DPankova_Dissertation_PSU.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Douglas Cowen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephane Coutu, Major Field Member
Derek Fox, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anna Stasto, Major Field Member

Author:

Wood, Noah

Title:

Fusion of SAR and Electrooptical Imagery for Vehicle Classification Using Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
data fusion
sar
variability

File:

Download NoahWood_MSthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Marion Jenkins, Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Rasool, Asif

Title:

Three Essays in Applied Economics: Topics in Agricultural Economics and Public Finance

Graduate Program:

Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)

Keywords:

Climate change
machine learning
cluster analysis
US livestock industry
panel data analysis
fixed effect models

File:

Download AFG.pdfDownload Rasool_Dissertation_May_2024.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas Wrenn, Program Head/Chair
Chad Dechow, Outside Field Member
Daniel Brent, Major Field Member
Seth Blumsack, Outside Unit Member
Yizao Liu, Major Field Member
Dave Abler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Douglas Wrenn, Major Field Member

Author:

Scott, Jesse

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

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:

Alotaik, Osama

Title:

Equitable Food Distribution - Modeling and Analysis of Food Banks Supply Chains Using Machine Learning and Recurrent Optimization-basedSimulation

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

food banks
supply chains
machine learning
simulation
food assistance
equitable distribution

File:

Download Osama_final_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eunhye Song, Major Field Member
Saurabh Basu, Major Field Member
Edward Jaenicke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Struble, Nathan

Title:

Machine learning navigation solutions using unscented filters

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
kalman filtering
visual odometry

File:

Download Thesis_nate-3.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Langelaan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Simon W Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daning Huang, Committee Member
Jay Dean Martin, Committee Member

Author:

Ajayi, Oluwadamilola

Title:

Explainable AI (XAI) for Fault Detection and Classification in Microgrids Using a Real-time Simulation Framework

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

power systems protection
fault analysis
machine learning
real-time simulation
microgrid modeling

File:

Download Oluwadamilola_Ajayi_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Idowu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Md Habib Ullah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rafic Bachnak, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Aldo W Morales, Committee Member

Author:

Sengupta, Agnimitra

Title:

Evaluating the Reliability of Automatically Generated Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Surrogates

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

traffic safety
transportation engineering
vulnerable road user
pedestrian safety
bicycle safety
machine learning
statistical modeling
imbalanced data
surrogate safety measures
traffic conflict analysis
Bayesian optimization

File:

Download PSU_MS_Agnimitra_Sengupta.pdf

Committee Members:

S. Ilgin Guler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Xianbiao Hu, Committee Member

Author:

Vargas Venegas, Carlos

Title:

Physics-Infused Reduced-Order Modeling of Aerothermal Loads for Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

hypersonic
fluid-thermal-structural
aerothermoelasticity
data-driven
physics-driven
physics-based
reduced-order modeling
machine learning
field inversion
aerothermal
turbulent viscous-inviscid interactions
neural ordinary differential equations
direct collocation
optimization
kriging
proper-orthogonal decomposition
latin hypercube sampling
thermoelastic
hypersonic vehicle
RANS
skin-panel
two-dimensional
gaussian process regression
computational fluid dynamics
supported panel
augmentation
augmented
model augmentation
surrogate
POD-kriging
POD
algebraic
differential
algebraic augmentation
differential augmentation
NODE
PIROM
analysis

File:

Download ms-thesis-corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Daning Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

Author:

Arguijo, Juan

Title:

Vision system for the detection of apples in the green fruit stage

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

apple
green fruit
vision system
machine learning
detections

File:

Download Arguijo_Juan_MS-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Heinz Heinemann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long He, Committee Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Shirin Ghatrehsamani, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member

Author:

Shen, Jia Tracy

Title:

AI in Education: Effective Machine Learning Methods To Improve Data Scarcity and Knowledge Generalization

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

AI
machine learning
education
BERT
nlp
Deep Generative models
time series
model generalization
transfer learning
knowledge generalization
transformer
LSTM

File:

Download AIinED_Dissertation_final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Amulya Yadav, Major Field Member
Rebecca Passonneau, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dasu, Vishnu

Title:

Mitigating Unfairness In Deep Learning

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
fairness
software engineering
deep learning

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Committee Members:

G. Gary Tan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shagufta Mehnaz, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Edmunds, Brandon

Title:

Fisher Information for Private Training of Machine Learning Models

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
privacy
fisher information

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Committee Members:

Mehrdad Mahdavi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kiwan Maeng, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Barber, Nathan

Title:

Expanding the Range of Hydropower Schedules to Maximize Nuclear and Hydro Generation: Machine Learning Techniques for Practical Sensitivity Analysis

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

hydropower
nuclear
sensitivity analysis
ensembles
machine learning
clustering
hydrodynamic model
ANOVA

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Committee Members:

Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven J Greybush, Committee Member
Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Saha, Gourab

Title:

A Vision Towards Developing a Spatially And Temporally Robust Data-Driven Modeling Framework To Predict Continuous Stream Nitrate Concentration At Data-Scarce Locations

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

LSTM
stream nitrate modeling
deep learning
machine learning
water quality
c-Q relationship

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Long He, Major Field Member
Cibin Raj, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chaopeng Shen, Outside Field Member
Jonathan Duncan, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Shakerian, Shahrad

Title:

Digital Twin Enabled Facilities Maintenance Management through the Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Sensory-Level Data

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Facility maintenance
digital twins
machine learning
signal processing
failure prediction
early failure detection
anomaly detection

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Committee Members:

Bill Sitzabee, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Somayeh Asadi, Major Field Member
Houtan Jebelli, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Asok Ray, Outside Unit & Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies