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Author:

Cain, Curtis

Title:

Swimming Upstream: The Case of Black Males in Information Technology (IT) Higher Education

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Black males
career choice
diversity
digital inequality
ethnicity
race
IT workforce
theory development

File:

Download Cain.Thesis.Final.03.29.2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Eileen M Trauth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eileen M Trauth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lynette Marie Yarger, Committee Member
Suzanne Adair, Committee Member
Michael Mc Neese, Committee Member
Kshiti (K D ) Joshi, Special Member

Author:

Lu, Xin

Title:

Visual Characteristics for Computational Prediction of Aesthetics and Evoked Emotions

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Image Aesthetics Assessment
Emotion Prediction
Deep Learning

File:

Download phd_dissertation_xinlu.pdf

Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Reginald Adams Jr., Committee Member
Michelle Gayle Newman, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Changkun

Title:

Understanding Human Spatial Navigation Behaviors: A Cognitive Modeling Approach

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Cognitive Modeling
ACT-R
Navigation
Spatial
Cognitive Model.

File:

Download Thesis_Zhao_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Frank Edward Ritter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Special Member

Author:

Zheng, Saijing

Title:

Occupy MOOCs: Understanding Users' Motivations, Perceptions and Activity Trajectories

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

MOOCs
Massive Open Online Courses
Motivation
Perceptions
mix-method

File:

Download Dissertation-Saijing_Zheng-Final_Version2.pdf

Committee Members:

John Millar Carroll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Millar Carroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kyle Leonard Peck, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mukherjee, Partha

Title:

Second Screens and Social Soundtrack

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Second Screen
Social Soundtrack
Panel data regression
Social media
ANOVA
Web Search

File:

Download Dissertation_Mukherjee1.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernard James Jansen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrea H Tapia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jens Grossklags, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Special Member

Author:

Karumanchi, Sushama

Title:

Towards Achieving Secure Content Discovery in Centralized and Decentralized Systems

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

distributed search
private search
peer-to-peer network security
peer-to-peer network privacy
malicious node detection
information exchange minimization
policy-based routing enforcement
server and client security and privacy

File:

Download Sushama_Karumanchi_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Anna Squicciarini, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Anna Squicciarini, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Dinghao Wu, Committee Member
Dr. Zhenhui Jessie Li, Committee Member
Dr. Scarlett Miller, Outside Member

Author:

Sun, Xiaoyan

Title:

Using Bayesian Networks for Enterprise Network Security Analysis

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Cloud Security
Bayesian Network
Situation Awareness
System Call
Zero-day Attack
Enterprise network security

File:

Download Xiaoyan_Sun-dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Outside Member

Author:

Huang, Wenyi

Title:

Context Modeling for Semantic Text Matching and Scene Text Detection

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Citation Recommendation
Scene Text Detection
Deep Learning
Neural Networks
Context Modeling
Text in the Wild

File:

Download WenyiHuang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member

Author:

Zhong, Chen

Title:

A COGNITIVE PROCESS TRACING APPROACH TO CYBERSECURITY DATA TRIAGE OPERATIONS AUTOMATION

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Cyber Situational Awareness
Cybersecurity Data Triage
Cognitive Process Tracing
Operation Analysis
Cyber Operation Automation
Intelligent System

File:

Download Penn_State_University_Thesis__3_.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member
John Millar Carroll, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Outside Member
Robert Erbacher, Special Member

Author:

Williams, Kyle Mark

Title:

Similarity Search and Satisfaction

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Information retrieval
near duplicate detection
similarity search
good abandonment
search satisfaction

File:

Download KyleWilliams_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C. Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C. Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhenhui Li, Committee Member
David T Reitter, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, 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:

Becker, Jonathan David

Title:

A RESOURCE DEPENDENCE PERSPECTIVE ON STATEWIDE HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGES

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Resource Dependence Theory
Organizational Theory
Health Information Exchanges
State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program
HIE
SHIECAP
RHIO
Regional Health Information Organizations
Board of Directors
Strategy
Organizational Performance
Information systems

File:

Download JB-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Carleen Frances Maitland, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carleen Frances Maitland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Irene Petrick, Committee Member
Rosalie Ocker, Committee Member
Shawn Mitchell Clark, 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:

Peyton, Tamara

Title:

The Sociotechnical Mediation of Lower-Income Pregnancy: A User-Centered Approach to Improving a HCI Design Space

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Pregnancy
HCI
Design
Sociotechnical Design
Mobile Design
Health
Qualitative Research
Informatics

File:

Download Diss_-__Peyton_-_Digitally_Mediated_Transition_FINAL_PUBLICATION_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrea H Tapia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrea H Tapia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lynette Marie Yarger, Committee Member
Jessica Nicole Kropczynski, Committee Member
Michelle Lynn Frisco, Outside Member

Author:

Endsley, Tristan Caroline

Title:

An Examination Of Cultural Influences On Team Cognition And Information Sharing In Emergency Crisis Management Domains: A Mixed Methodological Approach

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Team Cognition
Culture
Multicultural Teamwork
Emergency Crisis Management
Team Mental Models
Teams
Teamwork
Information Sharing
Team Communication
Hidden Knowledge
Mixed Methodology
Blended Epistemology
Quantitative
Qualitative
Simulation
NeoCITIES
Team Simulation

File:

Download EndsleyDissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael David Mcneese, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael David Mcneese, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Kent Forster, Committee Member
Frederico T Fonseca, Committee Member
Susan Mohammed, Outside Member

Author:

Bui, Ngot Phu

Title:

LABELING ACTORS AND UNCOVERING CAUSAL ACCOUNTS OF THEIR STATES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Social Network
Graph Kernel
Temporal Causality
Sentiment Analysis
Actor Labeling
Social Media

File:

Download NgotBui-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C. Lee Giles, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Ping Li, Outside Member
Dashun Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Mingyi

Title:

Discovering and Mitigating Software Vulnerabilities Through Large-scale Collaboration

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

software vulnerability
bug bounty
memory corruption
software diversity
crowdsourcing

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jens Grossklags, Committee Member
Xinyu Xing, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member