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Author:

Ghurye, Akshay Dattatraya

Title:

DETECTION AND EVALUATION OF COMMUNITY STRUCTURES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

parallel programming
community detection
overlapping
social networks
complexity

File:

Download AkshayGhurye-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar R. T. Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Achampong, Christina

Title:

An Evolutionary Game Model of Self-Deception and the Effect of Belief on Performance

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

collaboration
competition
hawk-dove
evolutionary dynamics
game theory
self-deception

File:

Download Christina__Achampong_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eli Christopher C Byrne, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Christopher C Byrne, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Odewade, Taiwo Oiuwaseyi

Title:

An Application of a Thesaurus Process Model to Human Resource Business Process Modeling

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Business Process Model
Business Process Modelling

File:

Download MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eli Christopher C Byrne, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Guo, Sijia

Title:

Predictive Analytics of Patient Hospital Adverse Events after Colorectal Surgery

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Regression
Readmission
Mortality
Length of Stay
Complication

File:

Download Sijia_Guo_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guodong Pang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkataraman Shankar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Julaiti, Juxihong

Title:

Simplifying Large Scale-free Networks by Optimizing The Information Content and Incomprehensibility

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Scale-free Networks
Simplification
Shannon Entropy

File:

Download FINAL_MSTHESIS_JUXIHONG.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seifu Chonde, Committee Member
Janis Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Nadig, Adithya

Title:

Distributed Control of a Parcel Delivery System through Crowdsourcing

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Crowdsourcing
Parcel Delivery System
Auction
Genetic Algorithm
Distributed Algorithm
Distributed Arrival Time Controller

File:

Download Nadig_Thesis_Crdsrcing_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Vittaldas V Prabhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Mohan, Tharun

Title:

Improve Food Supply Chain Traceability using Blockchain

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

food supply chain
food tracebility systems
blockchain

File:

Download Improve_Food_Supply_Chain_Traceability_using_Blockchain.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry Harrison, Committee Member
Janis Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Lawrence

Title:

Blockchain Smart Contracts in Megacity Logistics

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

blockchain
ethereum
hyperledger
bitcoin
cryptocurrency
megacity
supply chain
traceability
smart contracts
tracking
transparency
negotiation
procurement
hyperledger sawtooth
permissioned
permissionless
immutability
security

File:

Download Blockchain_Smart_Contracts_in_Megacity_Logistics_4_.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member
Nicklaus A Giacobe, Committee Member

Author:

Hoffman, Michael L

Title:

Condition-based Maintenance Policy Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms and Gaussian Markov Improvement Algorithm

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

condition-based maintenance
maintenance optimization
genetic algorithm
gaussian markov improvement algorithm

File:

Download Hoffman_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eunhye Song, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Brundage, Committee Member

Author:

Chumongkhon, Visanu

Title:

ONLINE CUSTOMER REVIEW ANALYTICS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Text Classification
Machine Learning
Sentiment Analysis
Topic Modeling
Online Review Analytics
Support Vector Machine
Convolutional Neural Network
VADER

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Visanu_Chumongkhon.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sheth, Sureel Shreyas

Title:

Identifying and Mitigating Maverick Spend at Penn State Purchasing Services

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Maverick Spend
Purchasing Services
P-card
SRFC
Mitigation Strategies

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Terry Harrison, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Meng

Title:

Design Anywhere Manufacture Anywhere: A Novel Distribution Manufacturing Framework

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Manufacturing process
Shape descriptor
Do-It-Yourself

File:

Download Liu_Meng_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member

Author:

Davaasuren, Dolzodmaa

Title:

Analysis of Opioid Related Adverse Events and Signal Detection with Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Opioid drugs
Adverse Drug Events
Adverse Drug Reactions
Drug-Drug Interaction

File:

Download FInal_thesis_DD.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Voigt, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Runsang

Title:

Self-organizing network modelling of 3D objects

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Computer-aided design
Shape matching
Network modelling
object recognition

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member

Author:

Qiu, Zihang

Title:

markov decision-making process for risk reduction strategies in breast cancer

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Markov Chain
Markov Decision Making Process
Breast Cancer
Hierarchical Gaussian Process
Missing Data Imputation
Treatment Policy
Transition Probability

File:

Download Zihang_Qiu-Thesis45.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member

Author:

Shen, Sida

Title:

Sepsis Data Analytics

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Machine learning
Deep learning
Sepsis
Healthcare
Unsupervised Learning
Data Mining

File:

Download Thesis_Sida_Shen_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member

Author:

Yadav, Pranjali

Title:

DATA VIZUALIZATION WITH VIRTUAL REALITY

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

virtual reality
data visualization
analytics

File:

Download PranjaliYadav_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Beom Ki

Title:

Machine Learning in Cardiac Diseases - Comparison of Performance of Selected Algorithms

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Healthcare
Classification
Supervised Learning
Prediction
Data Analysis
Data Science
Cardiovascular

File:

Download BKLEE_Thesis_FinalDraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Griffin, Committee Member

Author:

Goda, Mit Piyush

Title:

Blockchain enabled vaccine supply chain provenance

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Vaccine Provenance
Blockchain
Vaccine Supply Chain

File:

Download Blockchain_enabled_Vaccine_Supply_Chain_Provenance.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member

Author:

Raval, Ronish Samir

Title:

STATE-OF-THE-ART DEEP LEARNING FOR MULTI-PRODUCT INTERMITTENT TIME SERIES FORECASTING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Time Series
Forecasting
Deep Learning
Statistical Analysis

File:

Download Thesis_MSIE_Ronish_Samir_Raval.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member