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1. Interrupt And IPC Driven Kernel Framework For Prevention Against Smartphone Malware

Open Access

Author:: Chaugule, Ashwin
Title:: Interrupt And IPC Driven Kernel Framework For Prevention Against Smartphone Malware
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: ipc
interrupts
kernel
smartphones
malware
security
File:: Download Ashwin_Chaugule-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

2. Towards Trusted Computational Services: Result Verification Schemes for MapReduce

Open Access

Author:: Huang, Chu
Title:: Towards Trusted Computational Services: Result Verification Schemes for MapReduce
Graduate Program:: Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:: watermark
verification
MapReduce
File:: Download HUANG_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

3. SensorEar: A Sensor Network Base Voice Eavesdropping System

Open Access

Author:: Ruan, Ge
Title:: SensorEar: A Sensor Network Base Voice Eavesdropping System
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: sensor network
privacy
audio
compression
File:: Download Ge_Ruan_MS_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

4. PARTIAL-REVOCATION BASED TRUST MANAGEMENT IN AD HOC NETWORKS

Open Access

Author:: Patankar, Harshal D
Title:: PARTIAL-REVOCATION BASED TRUST MANAGEMENT IN AD HOC NETWORKS
Graduate Program:: Computer Science
Keywords:: IDS
Trusted Authority
TA
Trust Management
Ad Hoc Networks
Partial Revocation
Mutual Revocation
Intrusion Detection System
File:: Download Harshal-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

5. ANGEL: A HYBRID CONTENT-BASED FILTERING TOOL FOR PROTECTING TEENS’ SAFETY IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK

Open Access

Author:: Zhang, Lei
Title:: ANGEL: A HYBRID CONTENT-BASED FILTERING TOOL FOR PROTECTING TEENS’ SAFETY IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Teens　
Social network
Filtering
Machine Learning
File:: Download Theis_.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Knifer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

6. Stolen Vehicle Tracking using Sensor Networks

Open Access

Author:: Jain, Soumya
Title:: Stolen Vehicle Tracking using Sensor Networks
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: sleep scheduling
slave sensors
sensor network
roadside access point
File:: Download MS_Thesis_-_Soumya_Jain.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

7. DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS IN IEEE 802.11S WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS

Open Access

Author:: Dutt, Sudeep
Title:: DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS IN IEEE 802.11S WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Wireless
DDoS
IEEE 802.11s
WMN
File:: Download Sudeep_Dutt.pdf
Committee Members:: George Kesidis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

8. DICE: A NONDETERMINISTIC MEMORY ALIGNMENT DEFENSE AGAINST HEAP TAICHI

Open Access

Author:: Zhong, Wei
Title:: DICE: A NONDETERMINISTIC MEMORY ALIGNMENT DEFENSE AGAINST HEAP TAICHI
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: heap spraying
allocation granularity
shellcode injection
security
File:: Download Dice.pdf
Committee Members:: Daniel Kifer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

9. Compromise-Resilient Anti-Jamming Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks

Open Access

Author:: Jiang, Xuan
Title:: Compromise-Resilient Anti-Jamming Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Jamming
Compromise-Resilient
Sensor Networks
File:: Download XuanJiang_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Guohong Cao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose Antonio Ventura, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raj Acharya, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

10. DETECTING OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL MEDIAS FOR PROTECTION OF ADOLESCENT ONLINE SAFETY

Open Access

Author:: Chen, Ying
Title:: DETECTING OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL MEDIAS FOR PROTECTION OF ADOLESCENT ONLINE SAFETY
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: offensive language
children online safety
social media
File:: Download Ying_Chen_Master_Thesis_Dec_2011_3.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heng Xu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

11. Detecting Policy Violators in Online Social Community an Extended Bayesian Belief Network Approach

Open Access

Author:: Huang, Shuo
Title:: Detecting Policy Violators in Online Social Community an Extended Bayesian Belief Network Approach
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Social Network
Spam
Page Rank
Bayesian Network
Mutual Information
File:: Download new_final_v2.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

12. An Analysis Of Anonymity In Bitcoin Using P2P Network Traffic

Open Access

Author:: Koshy, Diana
Title:: An Analysis Of Anonymity In Bitcoin Using P2P Network Traffic
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Bitcoin
CoinSeer
anonymity
deanonymization
File:: Download DianaKoshy_MS_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

13. CoinSeer: A Telescope Into Bitcoin

Open Access

Author:: Koshy, Philip
Title:: CoinSeer: A Telescope Into Bitcoin
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Bitcoin
security
CoinSeer
File:: Download PhilipKoshy_MS_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

14. QoSn-Based Management for Participatory Sensing

Open Access

Author:: Zhao, Yu
Title:: QoSn-Based Management for Participatory Sensing
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: QoSn-Based
Participatory Sensing
File:: Download master_thesis__final_version_.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

15. A Customized Real Time Restaurant Recommendation System

Open Access

Author:: Jiang, Rui
Title:: A Customized Real Time Restaurant Recommendation System
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: machine learning
natural language process
real-time recommendation
customized
File:: Download RuiJian_MastersThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

16. Self-healing Wireless Networks under Insider Jamming Attacks

Open Access

Author:: Li, Longquan
Title:: Self-healing Wireless Networks under Insider Jamming Attacks
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Self-healing
Insider Jamming Attacks
Jammer Identification
Wireless Networks
Node Revocation
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raj Acharya, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

17. Advanced Path Queries in Road Networks

Open Access

Author:: Tian, Yuan
Title:: Advanced Path Queries in Road Networks
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Road networks
path query
algorithm
location-based service
File:: Download Yuan-Master-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Wang Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raj Acharya, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

18. A Machine Learning Based Approach To App Rating Manipulation Detection

Open Access

Author:: Song, Yang
Title:: A Machine Learning Based Approach To App Rating Manipulation Detection
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: machine learning
app rating manipulation
app store
File:: Download Yang_Song-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

19. design and implementation of over-the-air parental control for smartphones

Open Access

Author:: Wu, Xuan
Title:: design and implementation of over-the-air parental control for smartphones
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: parental control
Android
context-based
File:: Download Xuan_thesis_final.pdfDownload 1-Xuan_thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyusun Choi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

20. ANALYZING IMAGE PRIVACY FOR THE MODERN WEB

Open Access

Author:: Balakavi, Rahul Mv
Title:: ANALYZING IMAGE PRIVACY FOR THE MODERN WEB
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: privacy images learning models
File:: Download thesis_july26.pdf
Committee Members:: George Kesidis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

21. measurement study of user feedback in mobile app stores

Open Access

Author:: Zeng, Ke
Title:: measurement study of user feedback in mobile app stores
Graduate Program:: Computer Science
Keywords:: mobile app stores
user rating and comments
review spam detection
user feedback analysis
topic model
File:: Download Ke_Zeng-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

22. A High-Performance System for Anonymity in Peer-to-Peer File Transfer Networks

Open Access

Author:: Frederick, Tyler James
Title:: A High-Performance System for Anonymity in Peer-to-Peer File Transfer Networks
Graduate Program:: Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:: BitTorrent
Tor
P2P
Peer-to-Peer
Entanglement
DC Net
Dining Cryptographers
Bandwidth
File Sharing
File Transfer
File:: Download Master_s_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

23. Protect My Child, A New Paradigm in Parental Control

Open Access

Author:: Tack, Jonsimon
Title:: Protect My Child, A New Paradigm in Parental Control
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Parental Control
Mobile Devices
Child Safety
File:: Download Jonsimon_Tack_Masters_Thesis_Protect_My_Child.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Committee Member

24. A PRIVACY-RESPECTING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE CAMERAS

Open Access

Author:: Liu, Sha
Title:: A PRIVACY-RESPECTING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE CAMERAS
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: mobile cameras
privacy protection
Bluetooth
BLE broadcast
face matching
File:: Download Sha_Liu-Thesis-Graduation.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member

25. Towards Flexible and Realistic Insider Mission Simulation

Open Access

Author:: Zhang, Tao
Title:: Towards Flexible and Realistic Insider Mission Simulation
Graduate Program:: Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:: Insider threat
Insider mission
Mission dimension
Business process
Insider mission simulation
File:: Download MS-Thesis-Tao-final-version-_2018_July_10.pdf
Committee Members:: Peng Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member

26. MUTATION BASED PROTOCOL FUZZER FOR IOT

Open Access

Author:: Karamchandani, Neeraj
Title:: MUTATION BASED PROTOCOL FUZZER FOR IOT
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Fuzzer
Android Things
HomeKit
IoT
Internet of Things
Security of Internet of Things
File:: Download Thesis_draft3.4.2.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

27. Security Study of Ranking Algorithms

Open Access

Author:: Noureldeen, Ali
Title:: Security Study of Ranking Algorithms
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Ranking Algorthims
Machine Learning
File:: Download AliNoureldeen.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

28. APPGRADER: AN APP QUALITY GRADING SYSTEM BASED ON CODE-LEVEL FEATURES

Open Access

Author:: Li, Xi
Title:: APPGRADER: AN APP QUALITY GRADING SYSTEM BASED ON CODE-LEVEL FEATURES
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Mobile App Ranking
App Quality Evaluation
App View
Graph Convolutional Network
Deep Learning
File:: Download Xi-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

29. Testbed Design For Evaluation Of Active Cyber Defense Systems

Open Access

Author:: Sridhar, Srikumar
Title:: Testbed Design For Evaluation Of Active Cyber Defense Systems
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Moving Target Defense
Container Migration
Intrusion Detection
File:: Download Srikumar_Sridhar.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gang Tan, Committee Member

30. Smart Home Surveillance System Through Edge Computing

Open Access

Author:: Wong, Joseph
Title:: Smart Home Surveillance System Through Edge Computing
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: smart home
edge computing
security
machine learning
deep learning
motion detection
facial recognition
fog computing
File:: Download thesis_grad.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Program Head/Chair

31. Robust Network Information Flow Control

Open Access

Author:: Malis, Alexander
Title:: Robust Network Information Flow Control
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Pi-Calculus
Information Flow Control
Raft
Distributed Computing
Denotational Semantics
File:: Download RNPiFC.pdf
Committee Members:: Danfeng Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

32. Monitoring Sleep Quality Using Smartwatches

Open Access

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

33. A Network-Assisted Approach for Ransomware Detection

Open Access

Author:: Xia, Tianrou
Title:: A Network-Assisted Approach for Ransomware Detection
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Ransomware Detection
network security
ant colony optimization algorithm
File:: Download MasterThesis-TianrouXia.pdf
Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

34. Honeymodels: Machine Learning Honeypots

Open Access

Author:: Abdou, Ahmed
Title:: Honeymodels: Machine Learning Honeypots
Graduate Program:: Computer Science
Keywords:: Machine Learning
Security
Detection
Adversarial Machine Learning
File:: Download AhmedAbdouThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

35. Evaluating Realistic Deployments of Trusted Execution Environments in the Tor Network

Open Access

Author:: King, Rachel
Title:: Evaluating Realistic Deployments of Trusted Execution Environments in the Tor Network
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering (MS)
Keywords:: trusted execution environments
security
tor network
File:: Download RachelKing_MSThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

36. Systematic Evaluation of Geo-Location Privacy Mechanisms

Open Access

Author:: Heon, Alban Philippe
Title:: Systematic Evaluation of Geo-Location Privacy Mechanisms
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering (MS)
Keywords:: privacy
obfuscation mechanism
location privacy
File:: Download Alban_Heon_Penn_State_University_thesis_geoind_corrected_2.pdf
Committee Members:: Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

37. Generating Adversarial Network Traffic Flows with GANs

Open Access

Author:: Zolbayar, Bolor Erdene
Title:: Generating Adversarial Network Traffic Flows with GANs
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Network Intrusion Detection Systems
Generative Adversarial Networks
Adversarial Network Traffic Flows
Adversarial Examples
Generating Adversarial Network Flows
File:: Download Zolbayar_MS_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

38. Semantic Image Retrieval via Graph Representation and Metric Learning

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Author:: Wang, William
Title:: Semantic Image Retrieval via Graph Representation and Metric Learning
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering (MS)
Keywords:: Semantic image retrieval
Image-to-image retrieval
Scene graph
Graph convolutional network
Metric learning
Deep learning
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Committee Members:: Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Wang-Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

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