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Author:

Tannous, Albert

Title:

Side Channel Attack for Keystroke Logging

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

without root access
unprivileged
user level
xlookupstring
linux
keylogger
keylogging
password cracking
password guessing
timing attack
timing
side channel attack
side channel
keyboard mapping
keycode
keysym
keystroke
brute force

File:

Download Albert_Tannous_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Venkateswaran, Aravindhan

Title:

Mobility Prediction Based Intelligent Algorithms for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Relay Nodes
Mobility Control
MANETs
Energy

File:

Download Aravindhan_-_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Raj Acharya, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Carleen Frances Maitland, Committee Member
Venkatesh Sarangan, Committee Member

Author:

Viswanath, Archana

Title:

Enhanced force directed graph embedding algorithms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

graph embedding
graph drawing
force directed method

File:

Download Archana-MS-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjukta Bhowmick, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cover, Bryan Alan

Title:

Analyzing the Benefits of Scratchpad Memories for Scientific Matrix Computations

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

software-controlled
CMP
computer architecture
cache
scratchpad
memory
matrix multiplication

File:

Download thesis-main.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Jane Irwin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Padma Raghavan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chang, Christopher

Title:

A Simple and Fast Vector Symbol Reed-Solomon Burst Error Decoding Method

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

burst error decoding
reed-solomon decoding
vector symbol decoding
error trapping

File:

Download chang_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John Metzner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Gopalakrishna, Chandrika

Title:

TEMPORAL IDENTIFICATION OF USAGE PATTERNS AND OUTLIERS IN WEB SEARCHING USING TENSOR ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Transaction log
Search Engine
Tensor

File:

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Committee Members:

Bernard James Jansen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Park, Dongkook

Title:

Design of High-Performance, Energy-Efficient, and Reliable Network-on-Chip (NoC) Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Network-on-Chip
on-chip interconnection
low-power
reliability
router architecture

File:

Download Microsoft_Word_-_Thesis-Final-Submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Vijayakumar, Dharani Sankar

Title:

Implementation and Evaluation of a storage system for long term data

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Data Availability
Secret Sharing
Archival Data
Secret Redistribution

File:

Download dharani_draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhou , Ding

Title:

MINING SOCIAL DOCUMENTS AND NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

social network
machine learning
information retrieval
user modeling

File:

Download dzhou-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hongyuan Zha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jia Li, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Joshi, Dhiraj

Title:

Image Analysis and Retrieval by Spatial Models and Information Integration

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

story picturing
image retrieval
statistical modeling

File:

Download djoshi.thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jia Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member

Author:

Elmacioglu, Ergin

Title:

EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS FOR NAME LINKAGE AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

record linkage
data cleaning
entity resolution

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Piotr Berman, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Patrick M Reed, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Feng

Title:

DEEP SUBMICRON (DSM) DESIGN AUTOMATION TECHNIQUES TO MITIGATE PROCESS VARIATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

high level synthesis
design automation
process variations

File:

Download FWthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, 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:

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:

Niedzwiecki II, John Joseph

Title:

Evaluation of Log-Based Block and Wear-Leveling Techniques

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

flash
flash memory
wear-leveling
log-based

File:

Download Thesis-Niedzwiecki.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

JEONG, JIEUN

Title:

Algorithms for classification and prediction of protein structure and function

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

protein structure
protein folds
hairpin loops
folding rules
approximation algorithms
gene regulatory network

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Piotr Berman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arthur Mallay Lesk, Committee Member
Webb Colby Miller, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, 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:

Kashalkar, Kiran Ashok

Title:

Implementation of an efficient wireless routing protocol based on small end-to-end sequence numbers.

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Routing protocol
implementation
ns-2

File:

Download Kiran-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Metzner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jain, Kanishk

Title:

Quality of Service Benefits of Flash in a Storage System

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

throughput
fairness
quality of service
hybrid store
flash
storage system
response time
random
sequential

File:

Download KanishkJain_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Malkowski, Konrad

Title:

CO-ADAPTING SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS AND ARCHITECTURES TOWARD ENERGY-EFFICIENT HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

scientific applications
power
adaptivity
optimization
energy-efficient
architecture
performance

File:

Download malkowski_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Padma Raghavan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Michael Perrone Iii, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member

Author:

Kotapati, Kameswari

Title:

Assessing Security of Mobile telecommunication networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Three dimensional taxonomy
cascading attacks
attack graphs
vulnerability assessment
EndSec
CAT
aCAT
eCAT
Network dependency Model
MAPSec evaluation

File:

Download kkotapati-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas F Laporta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Carleen Frances Maitland, 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:

St.Clair, Luke

Title:

SHAMON - ESTABLISHING TRUST IN DISTRIBUTED VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

trusted virtualization
virtualization
trusted computing
formal validation

File:

Download stclair-ms.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Vembar, Laxman

Title:

Target Re-identification in Anonymized Social Network Graphs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

anonymization
social networks
privacy

File:

Download Laxman-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Adam Smith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Johansen, Lisa Yvette

Title:

EMAIL COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST AND THEIR APPLICATION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

domain reputation
social network
email

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rai, Lav

Title:

FUSION AND REGISTRATION OF 3D MEDICAL IMAGE DATA AND ENDOSCOPIC VIDEO

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CT video registration
virtual endoscopy
image-guided surgery
lung cancer
bronchoscopy
calibration
transfer function
vignetting
light source
virtual reality
texture mapping

File:

Download PhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

William Evan Higgins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raj Acharya, Committee Member
Robert T Collins, Committee Member
H J Sommer Iii, 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:

Hassan, Mohamed N

Title:

Security Enforcement in Mobile Telephony Server

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

security
selinux
smartphones security
reference monitor
mobile telephony server
attention commands
openmoko
LSM

File:

Download MohamedHassan-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lin, Michael

Title:

Data Collection Using RFID and Mobile Readers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

networking
mobile robots
rfid
mesh networks

File:

Download thesisfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas F Laporta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas La Porta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Malavalli, Manjesh Bhargav

Title:

TRUNCATED URV DECOMPOSITIONS (TURVDS) FOR SUBSPACE TRACKING IN “SLOW-MOVING” VIDEO SEQUENCES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

rank-revealing decompositions
subspace tracking

File:

Download ManjeshMalavalli-MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jesse Louis Barlow, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mushtaq, Muhammad Umar

Title:

Reliability and Power Analysis of FinFET-based FPGAs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

FPGA
FinFET
Soft-Error
Process Variations
Sub-Threshold Leakage
Independent Gate Control

File:

Download muhammad_umar_mushtaq_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Parbhakar, Manu

Title:

Use of Neural Networks in Financial Trading and Asset Allocation

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Neural
Technical Indicators
ANN
AI

File:

Download Manu_Final_Copy.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jarvis, Nicholas Adam

Title:

DEVELOPING A JAVA BINARY OBJECT TECHNIQUE FOR TRANSFERRING HIGH VOLUMES OF DATA IN DATA CENTERS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

data transfer
ORM
binary object
relational data
serialization
java
data centers

File:

Download jarvis-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Irani, Nazneen Noshir

Title:

AN INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY-PEOPLE INVESTIGATION OF INFORMATION PRIVACY- THE CASE OF CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
children online safety
value sensitive design
Online privacy
privacy tool

File:

Download Nazneen_Irani_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Xu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heng Xu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Traynor, Patrick Gerard

Title:

Characterizing the Impact if Rigidity on the Security of Cellular Telecommunications Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

sms
security
cellular networks

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member

Author:

Falkenstern, Paul

Title:

Electronic Design Automation Challenges in Three Dimensional Integrated Chips (3D ICs)

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

OpenAccess
Scan Chains
Three Dimensional Integrated Chips (3D ICs)
Floorplan
Power/Ground Network Synthesis

File:

Download falkenst_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Yuan Xie, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tan, Qingzhao

Title:

Designing New Crawling and Indexing Techniques for Web Search Engines

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

digital library
information retrieval
incremental crawler
Search engine

File:

Download Qingzhao-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C. Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Dean R. Snow, Committee Member

Author:

Kamath, Radhesh Muralidhara

Title:

Applying Netlabel to Network Access Control in a Virtualized Environment

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

network security
virtualization
security
system security

File:

Download radhesh_kamath_ms_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Harris, Robert S.

Title:

Improved Pairwise Alignmnet of Genomic DNA

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

comparative genomics
homology search
BLAST
local alignment
sequence alignment

File:

Download ThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Webb Colby Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Narayanan, Sri Hari Krishna

Title:

Software Based Techniques for Robust Computing on Chip Multiprocessors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Temperature
Robustness
Reliability
Chip Multi Processors
compilers
Soft Errors

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Mahmut Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Tracy Mullen, Committee Member
Boyana Norris, Committee Member

Author:

Srinivasan, Suresh

Title:

Toward Low Power and Reliable FPGA Design

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Soft Errors
Leakage Power
Permanent Failures
FPGAs
Process Variations

File:

Download Suresh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member

Author:

Sridharan, Srinath

Title:

Performance-reliability trade-offs in designing Re-Order Buffers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ROB
Late Binding
vulberability

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Son, Seung Woo

Title:

Software-Based Disk Power Management for Scientific Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Low power
compiler
disk subsystem
parallel file system
runtime

File:

Download SeungWooSon-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member

Author:

Arnold, Todd

Title:

A Traffic Engineering Attribute for BGP

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

BGP
routing
networking
MPLS

File:

Download TArnold-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Glover-Akpey, Wilfred A,

Title:

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A LIGHT-WEIGHT MICROCONTROLLER ON FPGA FOR HIGH-SPEED DATA ACQUISITION APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

microcontroller
FPGA
data acquisition

File:

Download ThesisM_Wilfred.pdf

Committee Members:

Kyusun Choi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yang, Xin

Title:

Computational Methods for Manifold learning

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

dimensionality estimator
dimensionality reduction
manifold learning

File:

Download manifold.pdf

Committee Members:

Hongyuan Zha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne Michelle Shontz, Committee Member
Yanxi Liu, Committee Member
Chun Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Puttasiddaiah, Yogitha

Title:

3D NUCA CACHE ARCHITECTURE ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

3D
NUCA

File:

Download Thesis-Yogitha.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Yuan Xie, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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