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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

Author:

Zhao, Bo

Title:

SUPPORTING NEW SERVICES IN 3G NETWORKS: ENERGY AND SECURITY PERSPECTIVES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Web Browsing
3G Networks
Energy
Smartphone
Power
Security
Service
Cloud Computing

File:

Download BoZhao-Dissertation_ready_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Heng Xu, Committee Member

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

Author:

Liu, Changlei

Title:

Supporting Multi-Missions In Wireless Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

sensor network
multi-mission
wireless
approximation algorithm
coverage
landmine
monitoring

File:

Download Changlei-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

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

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

Author:

Hsu, Hung-Yuan

Title:

A SECURITY FRAMEWORK FOR MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Traceback
Network Access Control
Ad Hoc Networks
Power Efficiency

File:

Download HungYuan_Dissert.pdf

Committee Members:

Jialiang Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali R Hurson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Piotr Berman, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member

Author:

Song, Hui

Title:

SECURE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS: BUILDING BLOCKS AND APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Vehicle Anti-Theft
Time Synchronization
Key Management
Key Revocation
Mobile Sink
Least Privilege
Sensor Networks

File:

Download HuiSong-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Carleen Frances Maitland, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Jing

Title:

Data Dissemination in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

VANET
ad hoc network
wireless network
data dissemination

File:

Download JingZhao-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Shin, Jaesheung

Title:

RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

load balancing
multi-hop wireless relay network
wireless mesh networks
wireless cellular networks
resource allocation
link channelization
routing
network formation

File:

Download Shin_Diss_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas F Laporta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
John Metzner, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Bai, Kun

Title:

Damage Management in Database Management Systems

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Security
Data Damage
Database
Integrity

File:

Download kun_bai_final_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chao Hsien Chu, Committee Member
Thomas La Porta, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Xie, Liang

Title:

Mitigating Rapidly Propagating Worm Threats in Emergent Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

p2p networks
cellular networks
worm threats
countermeasures

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Zan Huang, Committee Member

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

Author:

Pirretti, Matthew Gregory

Title:

Secure Communications in Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Sensor networks
security
secure localization
secure clusterhead election
energy attacks

File:

Download Pirretti_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member

Author:

Shao, Min

Title:

Security and Privacy Support for Wireless Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

sensor networks
privacy
security

File:

Download MinShao-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tom F. La Porta, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Heng Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Myongsoo

Title:

DESIGN OF COMMUNICATION NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR THE SMART GRID

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Smart Grid
Communication Network
Utility Security
Key Exchange
One core ring network

File:

Download MyongsooKim.pdf

Committee Members:

John Metzner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Metzner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member

Author:

Hicks, Boniface Patrick

Title:

Secure Systems Development Using Security-Typed Languages

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

language-based security
Jif
security-typed language
information flow
security
secure software engineering

File:

Download e-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Joseph Hannan, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Stephen George Simpson, Committee Member
Michael Johannes Hicks, Committee Member

Author:

Patankar, Pushkar Deepak

Title:

Adaptive Social Networking With Applications To Security

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Social Networks
Peer-to-Peer Systems
Unstructured Networks
Botnets

File:

Download Pushkar-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Raju

Title:

Mitigating Congestion in Wireless Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Rate Selection
Network Coding
Congestion
Wireless Networks
Multi-Rate
Routing

File:

Download RajuKumar-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas La Porta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member

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

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

Author:

Eswaran, Sharanya

Title:

UTILITY-BASED DYNAMIC RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION IN MISSION-ORIENTED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

wireless networks
resource management
network utility
optimization

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas La Porta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Tracy Mullen, Committee Member
Archan Misra, Committee Member

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

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

Author:

Lu, Xiaonan

Title:

IMAGE ANALYSIS AND METADATA EXTRACTION FOR DOCUMENT SEARCH

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

metadata extraction
image analysis
document search

File:

Download Thesis_Lu.pdf

Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
David Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Xinran

Title:

Protecting software from attack and theft via program analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

software security
software plagiarism detection
malware detection
program analysis

File:

Download Xinran-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Zan Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Fang, Yang

Title:

zeta functions of complexes from PGSp(4)

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

zeta
identity
PGSp(4)

File:

Download Thesisfy.pdf

Committee Members:

Winnie Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wen Ching Winnie Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dale Brownawell, Committee Member
William C Waterhouse, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Jhi, Yoon-Chan

Title:

A STUDY OF SELECTED SECURITY MEASURES AGAINST NON-LEGITIMATE USE OF CODE

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

code detection
software plagiarism detection
proactive worm containment
code identification
code characterization

File:

Download YoonchanJhi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zan Huang, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Yibo

Title:

VARIATION-AWARE BEHAVIORAL SYNTHESIS FOR NANOMETER VLSI CHIPS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

High-Level Synthesis
Behavioral Synthesis
ESL

File:

Download Yibo-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

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

Author:

Yang, Yi

Title:

Towards Compromise Resilient Wireless Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Computer Science
Sensor Networks
Security
Node Compromise

File:

Download YiYang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Yan

Title:

INTEGRATED SERVICE MODEL IN HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

network mobility
service convergence
heterogeneous networks
location privacy
overload control

File:

Download Yan_Sun_thesis_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Tom La Porta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas La Porta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Heng Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Zang

Title:

DESIGNING AND SECURING AN EVENT PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR SMART SPACES

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Event Processing
Smart Spaces
Access Control

File:

Download Zang_Li_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Hsien Chu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Hsien Chu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Jack C Hayya, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Shengzhi

Title:

Virtualization-based Security Analysis of Production Server Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Virtualization
security analysis
driver diversity
heterogeneous virtual machine migration
availability preserving

File:

Download Shengzhi_Zhang-Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Dr Soundar Kumara, Committee Member

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

Author:

Zhu, Zhichao

Title:

Data Service Analysis, Threats and Countermeasures in Wireless Mobile Environments

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

3G
Data Mining
Mobile Worms
Social Network
Location Proof
Location Privacy

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member

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

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

Author:

Zheng, Qiang

Title:

Detecting and Recovering from Large-scale Failures in The Internet

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Internet
large-scale failures
detection
recovery

File:

Download QiangZheng-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Lin

Title:

Livsic Theorem for cocycles with value in Gl(n,Q_p)

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Livsic theorem
p-adic field
dynamical systems

File:

Download LinZhu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Anatole Katok, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Manfred Heinz Denker, Committee Member
Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Natarajan, Vivek Kamakshipuram

Title:

Node Misbehavior Detection and Secure Trust Metadata Management in Mobile Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Computer Science
Security
Trust Metadata Management
Delay-Tolerant Network
Mobile Ad-Hoc Network
Denial-Of-Service Attack

File:

Download proposal.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Metzner, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Zhen Lei, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Xiong, Xi

Title:

Preserving System Integrity in Commodity Computers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Software Security
Operating System Security
Virtualization
Intrusion Recovery
OS Kernel

File:

Download xi_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
David Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Zhi

Title:

Security and Privacy of New Features on Smartphones

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

phone sensing
notification services
sensor management
security and privacy in phone
trojan application
spam and phishing

File:

Download ZhiXu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Tom La Porta, Committee Member
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member

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

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

Author:

Cole, Robert James

Title:

Multi-step Attack Detection via Bayesian Modeling Under Model Parameter Uncertainty

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

intrusion detection
IDS
uncertainty
Bayesian modeling
security

File:

Download ColeThesisCorrected2.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Benjamin Gill, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Special Member

Author:

Li, Qinghua

Title:

Security and Privacy Support for Mobile Sensing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

mobile sensing
security and privacy
incentive
data aggregation
opportunistic mobile networks

File:

Download dissertation_QinghuaLi.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Wei

Title:

Security and Privacy Mechanisms for Web and Third-party Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Web application
third-party application
OSN worm
obfuscated JavaScript
Android permission

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Heng Xu, Committee Member
David Miller, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Zhou

Title:

Broadband Optical Wireless Communications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Optical wireless communications
Power-line communications
Aircraft wireless network
indoor navigation
LED
OFDM
MIMO

File:

Download Zhou_Zhou_PhD_dissertation_-_Broadband_Optical_Wireless_Communications_-_for_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Mohsen Kavehrad, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mohsen Kavehrad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Iam Choon Khoo, Committee Member
John Metzner, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

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

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

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

Author:

Kim, Jungyoon

Title:

Real-time Ventricular Fibrillation Detection for Pervasive Health Monitorinng

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Energy Consumption
Ventricular Fibrillation
Real-time Detection
Wearable Health Monitoring System
Factor Analysis

File:

Download Jungyoon_Kim_Disertation_Final_1.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Hsien Chu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Hsien Chu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member

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

Author:

Zhang, Fangfang

Title:

Toward Obfuscation-resilient Plagiarism Detection

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Plagiarism detection
Smartphone app repackaging
Program birthmark
Obfuscation

File:

Download Fangfang_Zhang_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
David Miller, Committee Member

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

Author:

Chen, Ying

Title:

Protect Children Online Safety on Social Media and Mobile Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Children
Mobile Apps
Mobile Ads
Android
iOS
Social Media
Cyberbullying
Problematic Content
Solicitation
Text Mining
Privacy

File:

Download Ying_Chen_Dissertation_June_2014_4.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heng Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Alan Maceachren, Committee Member

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

Author:

Zhao, Jing

Title:

Resilient and Efficient Data Access in Cognitive Radio Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

cognitive radio network
data access
cache management
channel assignment
data replication

File:

Download JingZhao-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Committee Member

Author:

Zeng, Qiang

Title:

Improving Software Security With Concurrent Monitoring, Automated Diagnosis, and Self-shielding

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Software security
software cruising
automated diagnosis
self-patching
calling context
buffer overflow

File:

Download Qiang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas La Porta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Bin

Title:

Identifying Private Data Leakage Threats in Web Browsers

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Browse extensions
dynamic analysis
system calls
private browsing mode
privacy breaches
Android applications

File:

Download Bin_Zhao_Dissertation_Aug_2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Carleen Frances Maitland, Special Member

Author:

Huang, Chu

Title:

Towards Effective Techniques For Cyber Maneuver Defenses

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

moving target defense
software diversity

File:

Download final_chu.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
Zhen Lei, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Jun

Title:

Protecting Server Programs and Systems: Privilege Separation, Attack Surface Reduction, And Risk Assessment

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Security and Protection
Privilege Separation
Attack Surface Reduction
Risk Assessment

File:

Download JunWang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Xin

Title:

New Techniques for Trustworthy Mobile Computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Trust management
Tactical networks
Android security
Mobile privacy
Static taint analysis

File:

Download XinChen-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member

Author:

Hu, Wenjie

Title:

Energy Optimization for Smartphones in Wireless Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Energy
Smartphones
Wireless Networks

File:

Download Dissertation-WenjieHu-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Special Member

Author:

Huang, Heqing

Title:

A STUDY OF SYSTEM VULNERABILITY AND MALWARE ON ANDROID

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Android Security
Vulnerability
Malware

File:

Download HeqingHuang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas La Porta, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member

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

Author:

Zhang, Xiaomei

Title:

Efficient and Quality-Aware Data Access in Mobile Opportunistic Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mobile Opportunistic Networks
Data Transmission
Transient Community
Truth Analysis
Mobile Crowdsourcing
Task Allocation
Mobile Opportunistic Networks
Social Networks
Data Transmission
Transient Community
Truth Analysis
Mobile Crowdsourcing
Task Allocation

File:

Download Xiaomei-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Outside Member

Author:

Ren, Chuangang

Title:

A Study of Selected Issues in Android Security

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Android
Computer Security
Android Security

File:

Download final-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member

Author:

Xie, Zhen

Title:

TOWARDS TRUSTWORTHY RATING SYSTEMS FOR MOBILE APP STORES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Mobile
App store
collusion group
abused app
biclique community
GroupTie
AppWacther

File:

Download XieZhen-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Zhen Lei, Outside Member

Author:

Ming, Jiang

Title:

Pipelined Symbolic Taint Analysis

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

taint analysis
pipelining taint analysis
offline symbolic taint analysis
multi-core architectures

File:

Download JiangMing-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dinghao Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Guangxuan

Title:

Making Sense of Conflict in Distributed Teams: A Design Science Approach

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Conflict
Design Science
CM2
Conflict Management System
Argument Detection
Text Mining
Machine Learning
Distributed Team
Open-source Software Development

File:

Download Dissertation_20161127.pdf

Committee Members:

Heng Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heng Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Daniel Cardoso Llach, Outside Member

Author:

Sun, Xiao

Title:

Achieving Smart Health with Mobile Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Smart health
Mobile sensing
Mobile computing
Machine learning
Disease containment

File:

Download XiaoSun-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Outside Member

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

Author:

Hu, Nan

Title:

Stochastic Resource Allocation Strategies With Uncertain Information In Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

stochastic resource allocation
markov decision process
uncertainty
sensor network

File:

Download Dec2016_NanHu_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas F Laporta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Outside Member

Author:

Jiang, Yufei

Title:

Program Analysis Based Bloatware Mitigation and Software Customization

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Bloatware
Program Analysis
Feature Creep
Software Customization
Bytecode
Android

File:

Download YufeiJiang-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dinghao Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Outside Member

Author:

Qiu, Zhicong

Title:

Semisupervised Active Learning and Group Anomaly Detection with Unknown or Label-Scarce Categories

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Active learning (AL)
cross entropy
inductive bias
logistic regression
p-value
rare classes
regularization
semisupervised learning (SL).
Active learning
cross entropy
inductive bias
logistic regression
p-value
rare classes
regularization
semi-supervised learning
group anomaly detection
network intrusion detection
Gaussian mixture model
Bonferroni approximation

File:

Download Comp.pdf

Committee Members:

David Jonathan Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John F Doherty, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Outside Member

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

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

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

Author:

Yang, Yi

Title:

Energy Optimization for Wireless Communications on Mobile Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Wireless network
Energy optimization
Mobile devices

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member

Author:

Wu, Yibo

Title:

Resource-Aware Crowdsourcing in Wireless Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Crowdsourcing
Mobile Devices
Photo
Video
Wireless Networks

File:

Download yibo_wu_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Outside Member

Author:

Qiu, Li

Title:

Improving Capacity and Robustness of Wireless Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Cache
Network capacity
Popularity-aware caching
Social links
Amplify-and-forward
Direct link placement

File:

Download dissertation_li.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Outside Member

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

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

Author:

Xu, Jun

Title:

BATTLING CYBER ATTACKS WITH SOFTWARE CRASH DIAGNOSIS

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Software security
Software crash diagnosis
Software vulnerability

File:

Download jun_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Xinyu Xing, Committee Member
Trent Ray Jaeger, Outside Member

Author:

Xu, Dongpeng

Title:

Opaque Predicate: Attack and Defense in Obfuscated Binary Code

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Opaque Predicate
Software Obfuscation
Cryptographic Function Detection
Binary Code Analysis

File:

Download DongpengXu-Dissertation-v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Dinghao Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Trent Jaeger, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Shuai

Title:

Advanced Reverse Engineering Techniques for Binary Code Security Retrofitting and Analysis

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

reverse engineering
software security
binary code analysis

File:

Download shuai-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dinghao Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Trent Jaeger, Outside Member
Danfeng Zhang, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Pei

Title:

Advanced Software Obfuscation Techniques and Applications

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

obfuscation
software protection
reverse engineering
empirical study
mobile apps

File:

Download main.pdf

Committee Members:

Dinghao Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Danfeng Zhang, Outside Member

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

Author:

Geng, Yeli

Title:

Energy-efficient Computation Offloading in Wireless Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Energy consumption
Cellular phones
Computation offloading
Wireless communication.
Wireless communication

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhen Lei, Outside Member

Author:

Guo, Pinyao

Title:

Detection and Prevention: Toward Secure Mobile Robotic Systems

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

secure mobile robotic system
cyber-physical system security
intrusion detection
anomaly detection
vehicle security
robot security
intrusion prevention

File:

Download pinyao-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member

Author:

Lin, Yu San

Title:

Machine-Learning-Based Approaches for Learning Marketing Strategies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
deep learning
probabilistic generative model
marketing
crowdfunding
menu design
competition
word worth
reward
kickstarter

File:

Download yusan-Dissertation_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang-Chien Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Outside Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Liao, Cong

Title:

Towards Secure Solutions for Cloud Applications

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Cloud Computing
MapReduce
Provenance Logging
Invariant Violation Detection
Hadoop File System
Distributed Storage
Location-Awareness
Machine Learning
Adversarial Machine Learning
Security
Convolutional Neural Networks

File:

Download Dissertation-Cong.pdf

Committee Members:

Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Outside Member

Author:

Zhong, Haoti

Title:

User Protection in Social Networks using Machine Learning Techniques

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Privacy
Cyberbully
Social Networks

File:

Download User_protection_in_social_networks_using_machine_learning_techniques.pdf

Committee Members:

David Jonathan Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Yue

Title:

ON IMPROVING THE UTILITY FOR DATA ANALYSES UNDER DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Differential privacy
statistical data analyses

File:

Download YueWang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Hu, Zhisheng

Title:

Reinforcement learning for adaptive cyber defense: Algorithms, analysis and experiments

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Reinforcement learning
Adaptive cyber defense

File:

Download Hu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yoon, Eunjung

Title:

Ensuring Service Integrity in Cloud Computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Security
Cloud Computing
Big Data
Intrusion Recovery
Computation Integrity
MapReduce

File:

Download EunjungYoon-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gang Tan, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Jia Li, Outside Member
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

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

Author:

Khazbak, Youssef

Title:

Preserving Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

crowdsourcing
target search
privacy preserving
location privacy
crowdsourcing
mobile systems
target search
collaborative learning

File:

Download Khazbak_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Zhenhui (jessie) Li, Outside Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Program Head/Chair