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Author:

Weidman, Jake Anthony

Title:

POLICIES, STANDARDS, AND PRACTICES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT STATE OF ORGANIZATIONAL SECURITY AT UNIVERSITIES AND CORPORATIONS

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Information Security
Security Policies
Security Policy
Policies
Organzational Security
2FA

File:

Download Weidman-Dissertation_-_FINAL_-_Informatics.pdf

Committee Members:

Don Shemanski, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Don Shemanski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Gerry Santoro, Committee Member
Krishna Prasad Jayakar, Outside Member

Author:

Tantawi, Yasmin

Title:

THE PARALINGUISTIC FUNCTION OF EMOJIS ON TWITTER: A REGION-BASED ANALYSIS OF TWITTER USE IN THE USA

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

paralinguistics
emojis
social informatics
human computer interaction

File:

Download TantawiThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John M. Carroll, Committee Member
Carleen Maitland, Committee Member

Author:

Grace, Rob Robert

Title:

Incorporating social media in community emergency response

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

crisis response
sensemaking
crisis informatics
emergency management
social media
risk communication

File:

Download Dissertation_Rob_Grace_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Fonseca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Fonseca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrea Tapia, Committee Member
Jack Carroll, Committee Member
Clio Maria Andris, Outside 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:

Aurite, William Robert

Title:

FACTORS IN GENETIC DATA SHARING DECISIONS

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Genetic Data Sharing
Genetic Data
Genetic Data Privacy
Personal Privacy
Interdependent Privacy

File:

Download Aurite_Dissertation_Informatics_-FINAL-_.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrea Tapia, Committee Member
Lynette Yarger, Committee Member
Alyssa Ann Gamaldo, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

You, Yue

Title:

Self-diagnosis through chatbot-based symptom checkers: user experiences and design considerations

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Symptom checker
AI algorithms
chatbot
app review

File:

Download Final_Master_Thesis_of_Yue_You.pdf

Committee Members:

Xinning Gui, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saeed M Abdullah, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pena, Joslenne

Title:

Promoting Computational Grounding Through Informal Coding Workshops for Non-programmers

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

non-programmers
design-based research
computer science education

File:

Download Final_Joslenne_s_Dissertation_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin Vincent Hanrahan, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member
Roy Clariana, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ma, Ning

Title:

Understanding Ride-Sharing in On-Demand Platforms: Stakes, Dependency, and Sharing

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Sharing
Gig Work
On-demand Platforms
Uber
Stakeholder
Algorithmic Management

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin Vincent Hanrahan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Vincent Hanrahan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John M Carroll, Committee Member
Daniel Susser, Committee Member
Michael Maffie, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lu, Xi

Title:

Detecting Self-Reported Memory Problems in Transcripts of Interviews with Older Adults

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Discourse Analysis
Healthcare Text Mining
Alzheimer's Disease

File:

Download Detecting_Self_Reported_Memory_Problems_in_Transcripts_of_Interviews_with_Older_Adults.pdf

Committee Members:

Pransenjit Mitra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang, Committee Member
Shomir Wilson, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Reep, James Allen

Title:

Promoting Change Readiness using a Simulated Event Communication Technique: Lessons Learned in a Public Safety Answering Point

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

crisis informatics
organizational change
change readiness
change management

File:

Download Reep_Dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrea Tapia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrea Tapia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carleen Maitland, Committee Member
Peter Kent Forster, Committee Member
Anthony C Robinson, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kamani, Mohammad Mahdi

Title:

Multiobjective Optimization Approaches for Bias Mitigation in Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Bias Mitigation
Multiobjective Optimization
Pareto Efficient
Pareto Frontier
Class-imbalance
Bilevel Optimization
Fairness

File:

Download Kamani_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Xiang Zhang, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Outside Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jia Li, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, 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:

Cromity, Steve

Title:

PolyBandit: Polymorphic Linux Command Line Simulation

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Polylab
Automatic Problem Generation
Cybersecurity Education
Education Technology

File:

Download Cromity.s-MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Nick Giacobe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward J Glantz, Committee Member
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
Michael Keith Hills, Special Signatory
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Murugan, Priyadarshini

Title:

Modeling Longitudinal Behavior Dynamics Among Extremist Users in Twitter Data

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Twitter
Extremist users
Chaos test
Hurst Exponent
Behavioral Patterns

File:

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Committee Members:

Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher H Griffin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Sarah Michele Rajtmajer, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Winkler, Stephanie

Title:

Privacy Management for Student Data in Higher Education Learning Analytics Applications

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

learning analytics
privacy
higher education

File:

Download SWinklerThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Susser, Committee Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member
Aiping Xiong, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Xinyang

Title:

Toward Secure Deep Learning Systems

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

deep learning
computer security
attack
defense
privacy

File:

Download Final_Thesis-85.pdf

Committee Members:

Ting Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ting Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xinyu Xing, Committee Member
Suhang Wang, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Special Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wu, Justin

Title:

Universal Micro-credential Certifications Powered By the Blockchain: An Extension For eAsel

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

blockchain
micro-credentials
eAsel
competency-based education
smart contracts
ethereum
blockchain certificates
ERC-721
Non-Fungible Tokens
digital badges
blockchain credentials

File:

Download JustinWu-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Steven R. Haynes, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Vincent Hanrahan, Committee Member
Edward J Glantz, Committee Member

Author:

Xi, Zhaohan

Title:

Beyond Images: Robustifying Representation Learning against Trojaning Attacks

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Representation Learning
Graph Learning
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning Security

File:

Download combinepdf.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Minghui Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Fenglong Ma, Major Field Member
Ting Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jinghui Chen, Major Field Member

Author:

Tabar, Maryam

Title:

Mitigating Social Challenges among Vulnerable Communities with Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence/Data Science for Social Good
Machine Learning

File:

Download Doctoral_Dissertation_Final.pdf

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:

Ye, Muchao

Title:

Evaluating and Certifying the Adversarial Robustness of Neural Language Models

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Adversarial Robustness
Neural Language Models

File:

Download final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Fenglong Ma, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rui Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting Wang, Major Field Member
Jinghui Chen, Major Field Member

Author:

Jonas, Rebecca

Title:

Intra-Rural Digital Divides in Appalachia: Pathways for Digital Literacy and Inclusion

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

HCI
digital divides
rural America
Appalachia
digital skills
public libraries

File:

Download Jonas_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Daniel Susser, Major Field Member
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Kelley Cotter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrea Miller, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Romera Rodriguez, Guillermo

Title:

Understanding Non-Participation in a Self-Regulated Computer-Mediated Communication Implementation: Exploring Challenges and Implications

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Education
Educational Technology
Computer-Mediated Communication
Self-Regulation
Gamification

File:

Download Dissertation_Reformatted-1.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Andrea Tapia, Major Field Member
Jack Carroll, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Zimmerman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Yubo Kou, Major Field Member

Author:

Doty, Christopher

Title:

Crisis Media - Discovering Social Media's Role in the Emergency Management Process

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Social Media
Data Mining
Interviews
Emergency Management
Crisis
Disaster

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_-_Doty.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Prasenjit Mitra, Major Field Member
Timothy E. Kohler, Special Member
Stephanie Madden, Outside Unit & Field Member
Andrea Tapia, Major Field Member
Nick Giacobe, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Bidgoli, Morvareed

Title:

If You See Something Suspicious Online, Report It: An Investigation into Addressing and Overcoming the Challenges in Cybercrime Reporting

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

cybercrimes
cybercrime reporting
information policy
information security
cybersecurity

File:

Download FINAL_Dissertation_-_Morvareed_Bidgoli.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Forster, Major Field Member
Jens Grossklags, Special Member
Anna Squicciarini, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Baumer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rohatgi, Shaurya

Title:

Design and Data Mining Techniques for Large-Scale Scholarly Digital Libraries and Search Engines

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Mathematical information retrieval
Figure classification
Large-scale scholarly documents
Generative artificial intelligence
Scientific question-answering systems

File:

Download Final_Thesis-5.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amulya Yadav, Major Field Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Seo, Hae Seung

Title:

Empirical Studies on Platform-Driven and User-Initiated Methods for Misinformation Correction

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Misinformation Correction
Social Media
Misinformation
Warning
Online Experiment
Fake News

File:

Download SEO_Ph_D_Dissertation_113023.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Dongwon Lee, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bu Zhong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Aiping Xiong, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kelley Cotter, Major Field Member

Author:

Khademi, Aria

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

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

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Aria_Khademi.pdf

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:

Agnihotri, Devanshi

Title:

Assessing mHealth Motivational Pathways Among Hispanic Individuals Through Technological Affordances

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Technological affordances
self determination theory
motivational technology model

File:

Download FINALAgnihotri_MS.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Saeed M Abdullah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yunfeng Shi, Committee Member
Xinning Gui, Committee Member

Author:

Shen, Hua

Title:

Towards Useful AI Interpretability for Humans via Interactive AI Explanations

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Interactive AI Explanations
Conversational AI Explanations
Human-centered Explainable AI
XAI Human Evaluation
Useful AI Explanations
XAI Usefulness

File:

Download HuaShen_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Sherry Tongshuang Wu, Special Member
Kenneth Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Neupane, Bikalpa

Title:

HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP APPROACH TO INVESTIGATE ALGORITHMIC JUSTICE IN AI AND MACHINE LEARNING ENABLED TALENT ACQUISITION SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

algorithmic justice
algorithmic equity
underprivileged
marginalized
AI bias
AI fairness
video based hiring systems
HRTech
hiring
interviewing
perceptions of AI
human-in-the-loop
diversity in hiring
equity in hiring
DEI

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Susser, Major Field Member
Timothy Brick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lynette Yarger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Fred Fonseca, Major Field Member
Jordan Beck, Special Member

Author:

Ma, Zhao

Title:

Error in Scale Reliant Covariation Analysis

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Covairation Analysis
Uncertainity Quantification
Sequence Count Data
Bioinformatics

File:

Download ZhaoMa-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Justin Silverman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Mi, Erica

Title:

Immersive Reality Capabilities of Relieving Hiraeth

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

extended reality
immersive reality
presence
telepresence
embodiment
360 video
hiraeth
memory

File:

Download Immersive_Reality_Capabilities_of_Relieving_Hiraeth.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Fred Fonseca, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carleen Maitland, Committee Member
Kelley Cotter, Committee Member

Author:

Burns, Marc

Title:

UPDATING AND EXTENDING THE KEYSTROKE MODEL WITH A NATURALISTIC STUDY

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Human-Computer Interaction
Keystroke-Level Model
HCI
Human Factors
Big Data
Typing Speed
Mouse Moves

File:

Download Burns-Marc-IST-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Frank Ritter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Nick Giacobe, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Zhenpeng

Title:

Increasing Exploitability via Elastic Kernel Objects

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

kernel
exploitation
static analysis

File:

Download Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Xinyu Xing, Committee Member
Linhai Song, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Ting Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Xian

Title:

Adversarial Policy Training against Deep Reinforcement Learning.

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Reinforcement Learning
Adversarial Attacks

File:

Download Xian_Wu_master.pdf

Committee Members:

Xinyu Xing, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ting Wang, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Linhai Song, Committee Member

Author:

Kou, Tianqi

Title:

Reconceptualizing Machine Learning Reproducibility

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Reproducibility
Philosophy of Machine Learning

File:

Download final.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Fonseca, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Priya Kumar, Committee Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Susser, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Saxena, Manan

Title:

Scalable Bayesian Inference for Generalized Multivariate Dynamic Linear Models

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Bayesian Statistics
Multinomial Time Series
Generalized Multivariate Dynamic Linear Models
Optimization
Microbiome

File:

Download Manan_Saxena_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Justin Silverman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Romit Maulik, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Aron Laszka, Committee Member

Author:

Delane, Ryan

Title:

Opportunities for Competency-Based Learning in Software Development Courses

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Computing Education
Competency-based Education
CBE
Software Development Education
Social Constructivism

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin Hanrahan, Major Field Member
Steven Haynes, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Zimmerman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhou, Shijie

Title:

Link Prediction on Heterophilic Graphs via Disentangled Representation Learning

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Graph Learning
Heterophilic Graph
Disentangled Representation Learning
Machine Learning

File:

Download Shijie_Zhou_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Suhang Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Xiang Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Pang, Ren

Title:

Understanding and Mitigating Neural Backdoors

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

backdoor attack
deep learning
backdoor defense
AutoML
Neural Architecture Search

File:

Download main.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiang Zhang, Major Field Member
Fenglong Ma, Major Field Member
Ting Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Gui, Fanlu

Title:

Exploring Social Interactions in Online Exercise Classes

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

group exercise
physical activity
fitness
social interaction

File:

Download Fanlu_Dissertation_0705.pdf

Committee Members:

Xinning Gui, Major Field Member
Melissa Bopp, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jack Carroll, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saeed Abdullah, Major Field Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Biggs, Heidi

Title:

Mapping new Terrains in Sustainable HCI: Land/Body Doubling and Justice-Oriented Critical Posthuman Subjectivities

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Human Computer Interaction
Interaction Design
Design Research
Sustainable Human Computer Interaction
Climate Change
Anthropocene Era
Wetlands
Design Fiction
Climate Justice

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Daniel Susser, Major Field Member
Audrey Desjardins, Special Member
Eduardo Navas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shaowen Bardzell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yubo Kou, Major Field Member

Author:

Subbakrishna Adishesha, Amogh

Title:

Improving Usability of Noisy and Unstructured Biomedical Imaging and Healthcare Text Data Modalities

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Data Usability
Noise Removal
CT imaging
Histotomography
Micro CT
Angular Upsampling
Healthcare Text data
Healthcare topic modeling
Language Models

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
James Wang, Major Field Member
Sharon Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Major Field Member
Keith Cheng, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick La Riviere, Special Member

Author:

Luo, Junyu

Title:

Advancing Predictive Models in Healthcare: From Single to Multi-Modality

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Healthcare Data
Predictive Model
Deep Learning

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sharon Huang, Major Field Member
Fenglong Ma, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rui Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lu Lin, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Lan

Title:

Applying machine learning and NLP techniques to Cyber Security: three selected studies

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Malware detection
firmware emulation
deep learning

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Peng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Taegyu Kim, Major Field Member

Author:

Liang, Junjie

Title:

Predictive Modeling for High Dimensional Longitudinal Data

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Longitudinal data analysis
longitudinal correlation
cluster correlation
Gaussian Process
Factorization Machines

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Committee Members:

Xiang Zhang, Major Field Member
Lin Lin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Vasant Honavar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dhanorkar, Shipi

Title:

An Investigation of the Design Space for Student Learning Tools that Aid Interaction with Recorded Lecture Content

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Lecture Recording
AI
Human-Computer Interaction
Design
Scenario-Based Design Research
Higher Education

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Committee Members:

Priya Sharma, Outside Unit & Field Member
D. Benjamin Hellar, Special Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major & Minor Field Member

Author:

Huang, Chieh Yang

Title:

Toward Intelligent Writing Support Beyond Completing Sentences

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Writing Support
Story Generation
Novel Writing
Large Language Model
Crowd Writing
Language Generation
Story Understanding
Creative Writing

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Syed Billah, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Rebecca Passonneau, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Wang, Zhilong

Title:

Deep Learning for Security-oriented Program Analysis

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Software Security
Program Analysis
Binary Analysis

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Peng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amulya Yadav, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhu, Lizhen

Title:

Contrastive Visual Learning from Spatiotemporal Information

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Contrastive learning
computer vision
perception

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Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Bradley Paul Wyble, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chen, Cen

Title:

Mining Social Media to Unveil Emotional Contagion and Perceptions of Personal Fitness Information (PFI) Among mHealth App Users Over the Past Decades

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Mobile Health
Social Informatics
Personal Fitness Information
Emotional Contagion

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Jack Carroll, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Aiping Xiong, Committee Member
Nicole Kreisberg, Committee Member

Author:

Tian, Ye

Title:

Supporting claim-making in democratic deliberation through an information recommendation system

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Information overload
recommendation systems
claim-making
democratic deliberation

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Committee Members:

Andrea Tapia, Major Field Member
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Guoray Cai, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Gastil, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Shaokun

Title:

Lexicographic Hyperparameter Optimization and its Applications

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Hyperparameter optimization
temporal distribution shifts
AutoML

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Qingyun Wu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jinghui Chen, Committee Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Lu Lin, Committee Member

Author:

Dai, Enyan

Title:

Towards Trustworthy Graph Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Trustworthy
Graph Neural Networks
Robustness
Privacy
Fairness
Explainability

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xiang Zhang, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lu Lin, Major Field Member

Author:

Hua, Dianya Mia

Title:

Pleasure Activism: Designing for Women’s Masturbation

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Pleasure Activism
Human Sexuality
Women's Masturbation
Interaction Design
Design History
Human-computer Interaction

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Yubo Kou, Major Field Member
Eli Blevis, Special Member
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xinning Gui, Major Field Member
Shaowen Bardzell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Hoesing, Mitchell

Title:

Sources And Methods: A Longitudinal Examination of CHI Papers’ Data Sources and Study Methodologies

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Large-language models
GPT
Multi-instance Multi-label classification

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Dodge, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair
Luke Zhang, Committee Member
Aron Laszka, Committee Member

Author:

Ng, Ho Yin

Title:

Understanding Researchers' Behaviors and Design Considerations for AI-Assisted Scientific Caption Writing

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

User understanding
AI writing assistant
Caption writing
Scientific writing

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Committee Members:

Kenneth Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saeed M Abdullah, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Srinath, Mukund

Title:

Analysis and Simplification of Privacy Policy Documents at Scale

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

natural language processing
machine learning
privacy policy
data mining

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Committee Members:

Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair
Rui Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
C Lee Giles, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shomir Wilson, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member

Author:

Prajapati, Rupesh

Title:

Leveraging Large Darknets for Actionable Threat Intelligence: An Artificial Intelligence-Driven Approach

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Threat Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
AI
Network Telescopes
Darknet
Machine Learning
Cybersecurity
Cyber Threat
Internet Landscape
Temporal Change Detection

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Committee Members:

Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair
Vasant Honavar, Major Field Member
Jia Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michalis Kallitsis, Special Member
Dinghao Wu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Yen, Major Field Member

Author:

Puhan, Amrit

Title:

Recovering Ground Truth Rankings When The Majority Is Misinformed

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Computational Social Choice
AI
Voting
Bayesian Inference
Multi-agent systems
Statistical Modeling
Concentration Analysis

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Committee Members:

Hadi Hosseini, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin Silverman, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Luke Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Ma, Renkai

Title:

Navigating Creator Governance: A Human-Centered Design Approach to Multi-Platform Creators’ Practices

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

creator governance
content creation
content moderation
content creator

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xinning Gui, Major Field Member
Priya Kumar, Major Field Member
Yubo Kou, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anne Hoag, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Dave, Neisarg

Title:

Analyzing the Stability, Learnability, and Precision of Symbolic Structures by Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Symbolic Tasks
Recurrent Neural Networks
Large Language Models
Stability
Learnability
Precision

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Committee Members:

Daniel Kifer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sarah Rajtmajer, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
C Lee Giles, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ankur Arjun Mali, Special Member

Author:

Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan, Kamala

Title:

Re-imagining Pregnant Embodiment: Designing for Pregnancy After Loss

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Human-Computer Interaction
Women's Health
Pregnancy After Loss

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xinning Gui, Major Field Member
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shaowen Bardzell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yubo Kou, Major Field Member

Author:

Gautam, Sanjana

Title:

The Learning Code : Designing AI-Driven Adaptive Learning Systems for Social Learning

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

education and learning
adaptive learning
social learning
personal data tracking
artificial intelligence
collaborative learning
system design

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Whitt, Heather

Title:

Scenario-Based Assessment of Information Technology Alignment and Misalignment: Incorporating User Perspectives

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

scenario-based methods
IT alignment

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Committee Members:

Rosalie Ocker, Major Field Member
Steven Haynes, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Edward Glantz, Major Field Member
James Thomas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lee, Sian

Title:

Beyond the Information Given: Factors Intensifying or Attenuating Individuals’ Susceptibility to Misinformation

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Misinformation
Fake News
Associative Inference
Cognitive Ability
Fact Check
Fact-Checker
Warning Message
Political Stance Congruency
Misinformation
Fake News
Associative Inference
Cognitive Ability
Fact Check
Fact-Checker
Warning Message
Political Stance Congruency
Susceptibility
Social Media

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Dongwon Lee, Major Field Member
Aiping Xiong, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mauricio Nascimento, Minor Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Heaton, Connor

Title:

Learning to Contextualize the Field of Sports Analytics

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Representation Learning
Sports Analytics
Deep Learning
Sequential Modeling

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Dongwon Lee, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Andrew Wiesner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Adenuga, Iyadunni

Title:

User Agency in AI-infused Systems

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Human Agency
Human-Centric AI-infused Systems
Scale Validation
Explainable AI
User-centered Design

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Hadi Hosseini, Major Field Member
Christopher Dancy, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jonathan Dodge, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Wang, Shan

Title:

Understanding Pain Points of ACT-R Modelers: A Human-Centered Approach

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Cognitive Modeling
Human-Centered Approach
ACT-R
Pain Points
Human-Computer Interaction
Error Modeling
Individual Differences
Cognitive Architectures

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Committee Members:

Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair
Farnaz Tehranchi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Frank Ritter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Luke Zhang, Major Field Member
Aiping Xiong, Major Field Member

Author:

Girona, Antonio

Title:

Navigating Trust, Privacy, and Mental Health: Remote Workers’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic—A Textual Analysis of Reddit Data

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Social Media
Covid-19
Remote Work
Workplace Surveillance
Mental Health

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lynette Yarger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Priya Kumar, Major Field Member
Fred Fonseca, Major Field Member
Roderick Lee, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Wu, Yiran

Title:

An Empirical Study on Challenging Math Problem Solving with LLM-based Conversational Agents

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

LLM application
LLM Tool-use
AI for Science

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Committee Members:

Qingyun Wu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lu Lin, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Fenglong Ma, Committee Member

Author:

Ni, Haomiao

Title:

Deep Learning for Visual Data Analysis and Synthesis in Healthcare and Beyond

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Healthcare AI
Generative AI

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
James Wang, Major Field Member
Sharon Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Fenglong Ma, Major Field Member
Ying Sun, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Mendu, Sanjana

Title:

Developing Conversational User Interfaces To Deliver Evidence-Based Health Interventions

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

healthcare
human-computer interaction
mixed-methods
conversational user interface
generative AI
smart speaker
chronic pain
physical activity
health intervention

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Committee Members:

Xinning Gui, Major Field Member
Saeed Abdullah, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew High, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Jo, Jeongwon

Title:

Understanding and Designing for Coproduction: Socio-technical Approaches to Prolonged Crisis Response

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

coproduction
support exchange
crisis relief
crisis

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Committee Members:

Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair
Xinning Gui, Major Field Member
Jack Carroll, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Karimi, Younes

Title:

Analysis of Extremist and Terrorist Groups on Twitter

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

ISIS
Iran
Extremism
Terrorism
Twitter
X
Social Media
Large Language Model
LLM
User Classification
Propaganda
Islamic Regime
Authoritarian Regime
Islamic State
Extremist Groups
Dataset
Behavior Modeling
Social Network Mining
Image Classification

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sarah Rajtmajer, Major Field Member
Shomir Wilson, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Tavana, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anna Squicciarini, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Liu, Jiachen

Title:

Data-Driven Scene Reconstruction, Understanding and Generation

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

data-driven
3D scene reconstruction
plane reconstruction
generalizability
scene layout generation
floorplan

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
James Wang, Major Field Member
Sharon Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Fenglong Ma, Major Field Member
Huijuan Xu, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Lyu, Yao

Title:

"WHEN IS NOT THE INFRASTRUCTURE": A STUDY OF THE ENTANGLEMENT BETWEEN HUMAN AND SOCIO-TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Human-Computer Interaction
Infrastructure Studies
Accessible Computing

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Committee Members:

Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair
Marcela Borge, Outside Unit & Field Member
Priya Kumar, Major Field Member
Jack Carroll, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhao, Tianxiang

Title:

Deep Learning for Structured Data: Weak Supervision and Interpretability

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Weak Supervision
Graph Neural Network
Data Mining
Machine Learning
Sequential Decision Process

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sharon Huang, Major Field Member
Xiang Zhang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suhang Wang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vasant Honavar, Major Field Member

Author:

Wang, Haizhou

Title:

Using AI Technologies To Solve Software Security Challenges

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Large Language Model
Artificial Intelligence
Software Security
Reverse Engineering
Deep Learning
Information Security

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Peng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sharon Huang, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member