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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:

Download BikalpaNeupane_FinalDissertation_Aug5_final.pdf

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