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402. Pushing the power and performance envelope of Next-generation Handheld platforms

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Open Access
Author:
Chidambaram Nachiappan, Nachiappan
Title:
Pushing the power and performance envelope of Next-generation Handheld platforms
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
SoC platforms
mobile
handheld
performance
energy
power
architecture
system design
virtualization
IP chaining
File:
Download dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Mahmut Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

403. New Techniques for Trustworthy Mobile Computing

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Open Access
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

405. Irregular Graph Algorithms on Modern Multicore, Manycore, and Distributed Processing Systems

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Open Access
Author:
Slota, George Michael
Title:
Irregular Graph Algorithms on Modern Multicore, Manycore, and Distributed Processing Systems
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
graph mining
high performance computing
graph partitioning
subgraph isomorphism
File:
Download slota-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Kamesh Madduri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Sivasankaran Rajamanickam, Special Member

406. Energy Optimization for Smartphones in Wireless Networks

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Open Access
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

407. Semantic Modeling for Natural Language using Web Knowledge

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Open Access
Author:
Wu, Zhaohui
Title:
Semantic Modeling for Natural Language using Web Knowledge
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Entity Representation
Wikipedia
Sense Representation
Term Informativeness
Locally-defined Entity
Novel Entity Discovery
File:
Download Zhaohui-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
C Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member

416. Efficient and Quality-Aware Data Access in Mobile Opportunistic Networks

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Open Access
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

418. Impact of Quality of Information on Performance and Scalability of Wireless Networks

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Open Access
Author:
Rager, Scott Thomas
Title:
Impact of Quality of Information on Performance and Scalability of Wireless Networks
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Network Performance
Network Scalability
Quality of Information
Backpressure Routing
Wireless Networks
File:
Download rager_dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Thomas F Laporta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member

419. Large-Scale Object Recognition for Embedded Wearable Platforms

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Open Access
Author:
Advani, Siddharth Kishin
Title:
Large-Scale Object Recognition for Embedded Wearable Platforms
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Embedded vision systems
Real-time systems
File:
Download Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack Sampson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee Giles, Committee Member
Kevin Irick, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Outside Member

420. EXPLOITING AND ACCOMMODATING ASYMMETRIES IN MEMORY TO ENABLE EFFICIENT MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS

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Open Access
Author:
Cheng, Hsiang-Yun
Title:
EXPLOITING AND ACCOMMODATING ASYMMETRIES IN MEMORY TO ENABLE EFFICIENT MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Memory systems
Asymmetric access
Energy efficiency
Cache
Memory request scheduling
Power management
Non-volatile memory
File:
Download Dissertation_HsiangYunCheng_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Outside Member

421. DIGITAL/MIXED-SIGNAL CIRCUIT DESIGNS WITH STEEP SLOPE III-V TUNNEL TRANSISTORS

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Open Access
Author:
Kim, Moon Seok
Title:
DIGITAL/MIXED-SIGNAL CIRCUIT DESIGNS WITH STEEP SLOPE III-V TUNNEL TRANSISTORS
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Steep Slope Transistor
Heterojunction Tunnel FETs
TFETs
HTFETs
Digital/Mixed-Signal Circuit Designs
Energy Efficiency
File:
Download Moon_PhD_Dissertation_Final_v3.pdf
Committee Members:
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Outside Member

422. PREDICTION AND ASSESSMENT OF AMBIENT ENERGY SIGNALS FOR ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS

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Open Access
Author:
Mohapatra, Jagruti
Title:
PREDICTION AND ASSESSMENT OF AMBIENT ENERGY SIGNALS FOR ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Prediction
energy harvesting
Non-volatile processors
backup
File:
Download jagrutimohapatra_thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member

424. Enforcing Execution Integrity for Software Systems

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Open Access
Author:
Ge, Xinyang
Title:
Enforcing Execution Integrity for Software Systems
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Security
Operating System
File:
Download xinyang-dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Trent Jaeger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Trent Jaeger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member
Gang Tan, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Outside Member
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Mathias Payer, Special Member

425. Automatically Extracting Semantic Scholarly Entities from Academic Papers

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Kaiyu
Title:
Automatically Extracting Semantic Scholarly Entities from Academic Papers
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Information Extraction
Scholarly Entity
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
File:
Download Kaiyu_Wang_thesis__final_version.pdf
Committee Members:
C.Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
C.Lee Giles, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member

427. IMPROVING COST-EFFICACY IN PUBLIC CLOUDS: OPTIMAL CONTROL SUBJECT TO CLOUD-TENANT INTERACTIONS

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Cheng
Title:
IMPROVING COST-EFFICACY IN PUBLIC CLOUDS: OPTIMAL CONTROL SUBJECT TO CLOUD-TENANT INTERACTIONS
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Public cloud
Tenant
Cost-efficacy
File:
Download chengwang-dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Outside Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

428. PROTECTING IAAS CLOUDS THROUGH CONTROL OF CLOUD SERVICES

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Open Access
Author:
Sun, Yuqiong
Title:
PROTECTING IAAS CLOUDS THROUGH CONTROL OF CLOUD SERVICES
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Cloud Security
Mandatory Access Control
Information Flow Control
Cloud Service Vulnerability
File:
Download Dissertation-YuqiongSun.pdf
Committee Members:
Trent R. Jaeger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Trent R. Jaeger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick D. Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
C. Lee Giles, Outside Member
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member

430. THIRD-PARTY LIBRARY SECURITY MANAGEMENT FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS

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Open Access
Author:
Hu, Wenhui
Title:
THIRD-PARTY LIBRARY SECURITY MANAGEMENT FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Security
Third-party library
Isolation
Android
Integrity Verification
Policy
File:
Download Dissertation-WenhuiHu.pdf
Committee Members:
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member
Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Damien Octean, Special Member
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

431. DATA DEPENDENT OPTIMIZATION VISION ARCHITECTURE

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Open Access
Author:
Lee, Chris Songjin
Title:
DATA DEPENDENT OPTIMIZATION VISION ARCHITECTURE
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Image processing
Region of interest
Object detection
Computer architecture
Vision pipeline
Accelerator
File:
Download Chris_Dissertation_13.pdf
Committee Members:
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Outside Member
Kevin Irick, Special Member

432. Design and Exploration of Accelerator-rich Multi-core Systems

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Open Access
Author:
Chandramoorthy, Nandhini
Title:
Design and Exploration of Accelerator-rich Multi-core Systems
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
heterogeneous architectures
processor modeling
accelerator-rich architectures
File:
Download dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Kevin Irick, Outside Member
Luca Benini, Special Member

433. Stochastic Resource Allocation Strategies With Uncertain Information In Sensor Networks

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Open Access
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

434. Scalable graph and mesh algorithms on distributed-memory systems

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Open Access
Author:
Panitanarak, Thap
Title:
Scalable graph and mesh algorithms on distributed-memory systems
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
parallel computation
graph algorithm
distributed memory algorithm
graph data structure
linear solver
mesh warping
SSSP
mesh partitioning
File:
Download Thap-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Kamesh Madduri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne M. Shontz, Committee Member
Mahmut T. Kandemir, Committee Member
Keefe B. Manning, Outside Member

436. Optimal Cyber-Defense Strategies For Advanced Persistent Threats: A Game Theoretical Analysis

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Open Access
Author:
Acquaviva, Jeffrey R
Title:
Optimal Cyber-Defense Strategies For Advanced Persistent Threats: A Game Theoretical Analysis
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Network Security
Game Theory
Advanced Persistent Threats
Zero-Sum Games
Cyber attack modeling
File:
Download Acquaviva_thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Tom LaPorta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Mahon, Committee Member
Bruce Einfalt, Committee Member

439. Object Recognition Using Structured Feature Extraction With A Reconfigurable, Neurosynaptic Processor

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Open Access
Author:
Gomatam, Priyanka
Title:
Object Recognition Using Structured Feature Extraction With A Reconfigurable, Neurosynaptic Processor
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Truenorth
neuromorphic hardware
object detection
histogram of oriented gradients
neural network hardware
File:
Download PSUThesisP-2.pdf
Committee Members:
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack Sampson, Committee Member

440. Semantic Structuring of Scientific Information in Scholarly Documents

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Open Access
Author:
Alzaidy, Rabah Aboulrahman
Title:
Semantic Structuring of Scientific Information in Scholarly Documents
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
academic search engine
digital library
bar chart data extraction
knowledge base construction
automated chart unerstanding
taxonomy construction
hypernym detection
knowledge graph
File:
Download RabahThesisPSUFinal_2_.pdf
Committee Members:
C. Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C. Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse Barlow, Committee Member
Vasant Honavar, Committee Member
Bruce A. Desmarais, Outside Member

445. BATTERY STATE ESTIMATION AND ANOMALY DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING

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Open Access
Author:
Garg, Mayank
Title:
BATTERY STATE ESTIMATION AND ANOMALY DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Battery SOC estimation
Battery anomaly detection
Machine learning
Supervised Learning
Unsupervised Learning
File:
Download Mayank_Garg_MS_Thesis_CSE.pdf
Committee Members:
Daniel Kifer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

446. Knowledge Graph Creation from Structure Knowledge

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Shuting
Title:
Knowledge Graph Creation from Structure Knowledge
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Knowledge Graph
Web Knowledge Base
Education Data Mining
File:
Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Clyde Lee Giles, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Bruce A Desmarais Jr., Outside Member

448. Enabling New Computation Paradigms with Emerging Technologies

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Open Access
Author:
Tsai, Wei Yu
Title:
Enabling New Computation Paradigms with Emerging Technologies
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Non-Boolean Computation
Neural Networks
Coupled Scillators
Low-power Computation
Image Processing
Audio Processing
File:
Download dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Bruce Gluckman, Outside Member

450. Testing Geometric Properties of Two-Dimensional Figures and Images

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Open Access
Author:
Murzabulatov, Meiram
Title:
Testing Geometric Properties of Two-Dimensional Figures and Images
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Property testing
Tolerant property testing
convexity
connectedness
distance approximation
2D geometry
being a half-plane
File:
Download My-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr.Sofya Raskhodnikova, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr.Sofya Raskhodnikova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr.Piotr Berman, Committee Member
Dr.Martin Furer, Committee Member
Dr.Carina Pamela Curto, Outside Member

452. An Exposure of Android Social Media Applications and the Data ISPs Can Collect

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Open Access
Author:
Krych, Daniel Erle
Title:
An Exposure of Android Social Media Applications and the Data ISPs Can Collect
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Android security
Android privacy
Dynamic analysis
Social media
Privacy policies
Dshell
File:
Download Krych_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr. Patrick McDaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. David Reitter, Committee Member
Dr. Mahmut Kandemir, Committee Member

458. HARDWARE SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN FOR OPTIMIZING MEMORY HIERARCHY IN MANY-CORE AND MULTI-SOCKET SYSTEMS

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Open Access
Author:
Kotra, Jagadish Babu
Title:
HARDWARE SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN FOR OPTIMIZING MEMORY HIERARCHY IN MANY-CORE AND MULTI-SOCKET SYSTEMS
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Hardware-software co-design
memory hierarchy
manycore processors
memory
caches
File:
Download Jagadish-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member

463. SECURITY IN SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING - AN ANALYSIS OF NEW ATTACK AND DEFENSE VECTORS

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Open Access
Author:
Achleitner, Stefan
Title:
SECURITY IN SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING - AN ANALYSIS OF NEW ATTACK AND DEFENSE VECTORS
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Network Security
Software Defined Networking
Cyber Security
Computer Networks
File:
Download StefanAchleitner-PhD-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Thomas F Laporta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Outside Member

464. Hardware-Aware Computation Reorganization for Memory Intensive Applications

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Open Access
Author:
Kislal, Orhan Memduh
Title:
Hardware-Aware Computation Reorganization for Memory Intensive Applications
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
memory
performance
compiler
approximate computing
File:
Download omk_diss_submit.pdf
Committee Members:
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Outside Member

466. Characterizing the Limits and Defenses of Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings

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Open Access
Author:
Papernot, Nicolas
Title:
Characterizing the Limits and Defenses of Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
computer security
machine learning
adversarial examples
File:
Download Papernot_PhD_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Patrick D. McDaniel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick D. McDaniel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Trent Jaeger, Committee Member
Thomas F. La Porta, Committee Member
Aleksandra B. Skavkovic, Outside Member
Dan Boneh, Special Member
Ian J. Goodfellow, Special Member

467. Self-powered Internet-of-Things Nonvolatile Processor and System Exploration and Optimization

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Open Access
Author:
Ma, Kaisheng
Title:
Self-powered Internet-of-Things Nonvolatile Processor and System Exploration and Optimization
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Nonvolatile Processor
Self-powered
Internet-of-Things
Architecture Exploration
Energy Harvesting
Fog Computing
File:
Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John (Jack) Sampson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Outside Member

470. HIERARCHICAL SPARSE GRAPH COMPUTATIONS ON MULTICORE PLATFORMS

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Open Access
Author:
Kabir, Humayun
Title:
HIERARCHICAL SPARSE GRAPH COMPUTATIONS ON MULTICORE PLATFORMS
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
k-core
k-truss
multicore
sparse matrix
network analysis
graph analysis
File:
Download Humayun-Dissertation-final.pdf
Committee Members:
Kamesh Madduri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut T. Kandemir, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Vasant Honavar, Outside Member

473. Generation and Evaluation of Design Using Deep Neural Networks

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Open Access
Author:
Dering, Matthew Lewis
Title:
Generation and Evaluation of Design Using Deep Neural Networks
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Deep learning
design
generative models
prototyping
File:
Download Dering-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Daniel Kifer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Committee Member
Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Committee Member
Timothy Raymond Brick, Outside Member

477. MODELING, MONITORING AND SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES FOR NETWORK RECOVERY FROM MASSIVE FAILURES

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Open Access
Author:
Zad Tootaghaj, Diman
Title:
MODELING, MONITORING AND SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES FOR NETWORK RECOVERY FROM MASSIVE FAILURES
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Network Recovery
Massive Disruption
Stochastic Optimization
Uncertainty
Network Recovery Massive Disruption
Uncertainty.
Cascading Failures
Interdependent Networks
Power Grid
Software-Defined Networking
File:
Download diman-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Thomas F Laporta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ting He, Committee Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Committee Member
Marek Flaska, Outside Member

478. Cloud Provider's Energy-Efficient Operation and Effective Pricing Design

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Open Access
Author:
Nasiriani, Neda
Title:
Cloud Provider's Energy-Efficient Operation and Effective Pricing Design
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
energy efficiency
cloud datacenter
demand response
pricing design
game theory
risk modeling
resource capacity variation
File:
Download NedaNasiriani-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
George Kesidis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Member
Di Wang, Special Member

479. Regulating Programs’ Access To Privacy-Sensitive Sensors

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Open Access
Author:
Petracca, Giuseppe
Title:
Regulating Programs’ Access To Privacy-Sensitive Sensors
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
User Privacy
Privacy-Sensitive Sensors
Privacy Violations
Privacy Protection Mechanisms
System Sensors Abuse
Graphical User Interface Attacks
User-Initiated Operations
Confused Deputy Attacks
Mobile Systems Security
File:
Download Petracca_Dissertation_Document.pdf
Committee Members:
Trent Ray Jaeger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Thomas Laporta, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Outside Member

480. Quantum Reductions from Hard problems

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Open Access
Author:
Chia, Nai Hui
Title:
Quantum Reductions from Hard problems
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
quantum comoutation
cryptographically primitives
dihedral coset problem
worst-case to average-case reduction
quantum interactive proof
subset sum problem
File:
Download Penn_State_University_Thesis-6.pdf
Committee Members:
Sean Hallgren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Hallgren, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Martin Furer, Committee Member
Jason Ryder Morton, Outside Member

481. APPLICATIONS OF CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS TO ENTITY RESOLUTION AND HUMAN GENOME VARIATION

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Open Access
Author:
Li, Weiling
Title:
APPLICATIONS OF CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS TO ENTITY RESOLUTION AND HUMAN GENOME VARIATION
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
data mining
clustering
entity resolution
crowdsourcing
polymorphic HERV-K
human genome variation
File:
Download Weiling_Li-Dissertation-v1.pdf
Committee Members:
Raj Acharya, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Mary Poss, Outside Member

482. ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND SECURE DESIGNS OF SPINTRONIC MEMORY: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS

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Open Access
Author:
Iyengar, Anirudh Srikant
Title:
ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND SECURE DESIGNS OF SPINTRONIC MEMORY: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Spintronics
Security
Camouflaging
PUF
NVFF
Secrecy and Privacy
Modeling
File:
Download Anirudh_dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Swaroop Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Swaroop Ghosh, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member

483. Design And Implementation Of A Cost-Effective Linearizable Geo-Distributed Key-Value Store Combining Replication And Erasure Coding

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Open Access
Author:
Sharma, Chetan
Title:
Design And Implementation Of A Cost-Effective Linearizable Geo-Distributed Key-Value Store Combining Replication And Erasure Coding
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
consistency
geo-distributed
cost-effective
cloud
erasure coding
File:
Download PSUThesis__16_.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr. Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

485. An Experimental Analysis of Predictive Coding Based On Artificial Neural Networks for Image Decoding

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Open Access
Author:
Sun, Yanbo
Title:
An Experimental Analysis of Predictive Coding Based On Artificial Neural Networks for Image Decoding
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Artificial Neural Network
Image Decoding
Predictive Coding
Spatial Redundancies
File:
Download Yanbo_Sun_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Clyde Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member

486. Energy-efficient Computation Offloading in Wireless Networks

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Open Access
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

487. On a Computation Model for Human and Machine Symmetry Perception

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Open Access
Author:
Funk, Christopher A
Title:
On a Computation Model for Human and Machine Symmetry Perception
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Symmetry
Deep Learning
Convolutional Neural Networks
Machine Learning
Wallpaper Groups
Topology Comparison
EEG
File:
Download ChristopherFunk-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Yanxi Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yanxi Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Collins, Committee Member
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
David T Reitter, Outside Member

488. Scalable and Accurate Algorithms for Search in Genomic Big Data and Analysis of Genetic Variants

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Open Access
Author:
Sun, Chen
Title:
Scalable and Accurate Algorithms for Search in Genomic Big Data and Analysis of Genetic Variants
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Algorithm
Big Data
Database
Genomics
Probabilistic Data Structures
Data Mining
Parallel Computing
Bioinformatics
Genetic Variants
SNP
Computational Biology
File:
Download ChenSun_dissertation_v0830.pdf
Committee Members:
Paul Medvedev, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Michael Degiorgio, Outside Member

489. Engineering high performance workflows for end-to-end acceleration of genomic applications

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Open Access
Author:
Rengasamy, Vasudevan
Title:
Engineering high performance workflows for end-to-end acceleration of genomic applications
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Variant detection
Metagenome assembly
Word2Vec
High performance computing
File:
Download vasudevan-dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Kamesh Madduri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Outside Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member

490. Machine-Learning-Based Approaches for Learning Marketing Strategies

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Open Access
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

492. Resource Management and Security in Distributed Computing Systems

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Open Access
Author:
Shan, Yuquan
Title:
Resource Management and Security in Distributed Computing Systems
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Distributed Systems
Cloud Computing
Resource Scheduling
DDoS Attack
File:
Download Yuquan-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
George Kesidis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Chiara Lo Prete, Outside Member

495. LOW POWER, SECURE AND ROBUST DESIGNS OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES

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Open Access
Author:
Motaman, Seyedhamidreza
Title:
LOW POWER, SECURE AND ROBUST DESIGNS OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
STTRAM
Sense Margin
MTJ
Slope Sensing
Process Variation
Voltage Boosting
Voltage Feedback
Self-Reference
Destructive Sensing
Domain wall memory
shift power
cache segregation
dynamic shift current modulation
dynamic write current modulation
cross-layer design
synergistic systems
Dynamic shift current modulation
Dynamic write current modulation
Variation tolerant design
Resistive RAM
computing in memory
Crossbar Array.
Data security
magnetic attack
cache bypass
checkpointing.
File:
Download Dissertation_v13_f1.pdf
Committee Members:
Swaroop Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swaroop Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member

496. EXTRACTING BETTER PERFORMANCE FROM THE PARALLELISM OFFERED BY SSDS

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Open Access
Author:
Elyasi, Nima
Title:
EXTRACTING BETTER PERFORMANCE FROM THE PARALLELISM OFFERED BY SSDS
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Solid State Drive (SSD)
Scheduling
Data Replication
Tail Latency
Parallelism
Performance
File:
Download Nima_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Outside Member
Changho Choi, Special Member

497. SINGLING-OUT VS. BLENDING-IN: OUTLIER DETECTION AND DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY IN DATA

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Open Access
Author:
Kuo, Yu Hsuan
Title:
SINGLING-OUT VS. BLENDING-IN: OUTLIER DETECTION AND DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY IN DATA
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
outlier detection
outlier explanation
differential privacy
File:
Download PSU_dissertation_kuo.pdf
Committee Members:
Daniel Kifer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Zhenhui Li, Outside Member

499. Temporal and Structural Machine Learning from Transportation Data

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Open Access
Author:
Zhan, Hongyuan
Title:
Temporal and Structural Machine Learning from Transportation Data
Graduate Program:
Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:
machine learning
time series prediction
optimization
intelligent transportation
structural learning
File:
Download HyZhanDissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Kamesh Madduri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member
Necdet S Aybat, Outside Member
Kesheng Wu, Special Member
Xiaoye Sherry Li, Special Member
Gabriel Gomes, Special Member