Masoud Akhoondi
Dissertation: Scalable Techniques for Security and Anonymity in Distributed Systems Scalable Techniques for Security and Anonymity in Distributed Systems
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Advisor: Harsha Madhyastha
Graduated: Fall 2015
Hind Al Hakami
Dissertation: Data Structures and Algorithms for de novo Sequence Assembly
Advisor: Stefano Lonardi
Graduated: Spring 2017
Azeem Aqil
Dissertation: Resource Efficient Frameworks for Network and Security problems
Advisor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy
Graduated: Fall 2017
Benjamin T Arai
Dissertation: Approximate Query Processing for Distributed Data Systems
Advisor: Dimitrios Gunopulos
Graduated: Spring 2008
Mustafa Yasir Arslan
Dissertation: Resource Allocation Techniques to Improve the Performance of Wireless Networks
Advisor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy
Graduated: Fall 2012
Ahmed Atya
Dissertation: Exploiting Time Series Primitives to Solve Realistic Data Mining Problems
Advisor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy
Graduated: Summer 2016
Md. Tanzirul Azim
Dissertation: Fault Discovery, Localization, and Recovery in Smartphone Apps
Advisor: Iulian Neamtiu
Graduated: Summer 2016
Petko Dimitrov Bakalov
Dissertation: Complex Trajectory Pattern and Similarity Queries
Advisor: Vassilis Tsotras
Graduated: Summer 2008
Anirban Banerjee
Dissertation: Measuring and Modeling Applications for Content Distribution in the Internet
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos and Laxmi Bhuyan
Graduated: Fall 2008
Ergude Bao
Dissertation: Algorithms for Reference Assisted Genome and Transcriptome Assemblies
Advisor: Tao Jiang and Thomas Girke (Bioinformatics)
Graduated: Spring 2014
Dhiman Barman
Dissertation: Challenges in Security and Traffic Management in Enterprise Networks
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos
Graduated: Fall 2008
Nurjahan Begum
Dissertation:
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Spring 2016
Mehmet Belviranli
Dissertation: Efficient Execution of Scientific Applications on Heterogeneous Architectures
Advisor: Laxmi Bhuyan
Graduated: Fall 2016
Torsten Berger
Dissertation: An Integrated Approach to Hierarchial Planning, Plan Execution, and On-Line Learning in Uncertain Continuous Domains
Advisor: Jay Farrell
Graduated: Spring 1998
Yordanos Beyene
Dissertation:
Advisor: Chinya Ravishankar
Graduated: Fall 2014
Pamela Bhattacharya
Dissertation: Quantitative Decision-making in Software Engineering
Advisor: Iulian Neamtiu
Graduated: Spring 2012
Serdar Bozdag
Dissertation: Combinatorial Approaches to the Physical Mapping Problem
Advisor: Stefano Lonardi
Graduated: Summer 2008
Ioannis Broustis
Dissertation: Achieving Efficient Spectrum Usage in Ultra Wide Band Ad Hoc
Advisor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy, Michalis Faloutsos
Graduated: Spring 2005
Michael Butkiewicz
Dissertation: Taming Webpage Complexity to Optimize User Experience on Mobile Devices
Advisor: Harsha Madhyastha
Graduated: Fall 2015
Ayse Betul Buyukkurt
Dissertation: High-Level Optimizations in ROCCC - Riverside Optimizing Compiler for Configurable Computing
Advisor: Walid Najjar
Graduated: Fall 2007
Bilson Jake Libres Campana
Dissertation: Pattern-Based Data Mining on Diverse Multimedia and Time Series Data
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Fall 2012
Yiqun Cao
Dissertation: Novel Structure Similarity-Based Methods for Identifying Drug-Like Compounds
Advisor: Tao Jiang
Graduated: Summer 2010
Juan Casse
Dissertation:
Advisor: Christian Shelton
Graduated: Fall 2014
E. Busra Celikkaya
Dissertation: Multivariate Continuous-Time Models: Approximate Inference Algorithms and Medical Informatics Applications
Advisor: Christian Shelton
Graduated: Winter 2016
Bhrigu Celly
Dissertation: Smoldering Combustion: Animation and Control
Advisor: Victor Zordan
Graduated: Summer 2015
Chieh Changfan
Dissertation:
Advisor: Yu-chin Hsu
Graduated: Summer 1999
Georgos Chatzimilioudis
Dissertation: Data Analysis and Query Processing in Wireless Sensor Network
Advisor: Dimitrios Gunopulos
Graduated: Spring 2010
Fang Chen
Dissertation: Resource Management and Multimedia Support in Peer-to-Peer Systems
Advisor: Vana Kalogeraki
Graduated: Spring 2005
Xi Chen
Dissertation: Verification and Analysis of System Designs with Functional and Performance Constraints
Advisor: Harry Hsieh
Graduated: Summer 2005
Xi (Cynthia) Chen
Dissertation: Verification and Analysis of System Designs With Functional and Performance Constraints
Advisor: None
Graduated: Summer 2005
Xiaojing (Tracy) Chen
Dissertation: Multi-Target Tracking in Surveillance Cameras
Advisor: Bir Bhanu (EE)
Graduated: Fall 2015
Yanping Chen
Dissertation:
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Spring 2015
Shiwen Cheng
Dissertation:
Advisor: Vagelis Hristidis
Graduated: Spring 2015
Chun Shing (Eric) Cheung
Dissertation: MPSoC Simulation and Implementation of KPN Applications
Advisor: Harry Hsieh
Graduated: Summer 2009
Yuan-chi (Bill) Chiu
Dissertation: State-Annotated Motion Graphs
Advisor: Victor Zordan
Graduated: Winter 2007
Ming-Ying Chung
Dissertation: Distributed Symbolic Reachability Analysis
Advisor: Gianfranco Ciardo
Graduated: Fall 2007
Tuan Dao
Dissertation: Managing Applications in Resource Constrained Settings
Advisor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy
Graduated: Winter 2017
Jonathan Dautrich Jr.
Dissertation: Achieving Practical Access Pattern Privacy in Data Outsourcing
Advisor: Chinya Ravishankar
Graduated: Spring 2014
Teresa Davies
Dissertation:
Advisor: Zizhong Chen
Graduated: Fall 2014
Paul DiLorenzo
Dissertation: Breathing, Laughing, Sneezing, Coughing: Model and Control of an Anatomically Inspired Physically-Based Human Torso Simulation
Advisor: Victor Zordan
Graduated: Spring 2009
Chong Ding
Dissertation: Coordinated Sensing in a PTZ Camera Networking
Advisor: Amit Roy-Chowdhury (EE)
Graduated: Winter 2008
Carlotta Domeniconi
Dissertation: Locally Adaptive Techniques for Pattern Recognition
Advisor: Dimitrios Gunopulos
Graduated: Summer 2002
Adam Dou
Dissertation: Scheduling in Multiprocess Systems
Advisor: Harsha Madhyastha
Graduated: Fall 2011
Ioannis Drougas
Dissertation: Rate Allocation in Distributed Stream Processing Systems
Advisor: Vana Kalogeraki
Graduated: Fall 2008
Denisa Duma
Dissertation: Title: A combinatorial Pooling Strategy for the Selective Sequencing of Very Large and Repetitive Genomes
Advisor: Stefano Lonardi
Graduated: Fall 2013
Alex Edgcomb
Dissertation: Automated Video-Based Fall Detection
Advisor: Frank Vahid
Graduated: Spring 2014
Essia Hamouda Elhafsi
Dissertation: Modeling Forking Nodes with State-Dependent Routing: Application to Asymmetric Networks
Advisor: Mart Molle
Graduated: Fall 2005
Jakob Eriksson
Dissertation: Techniques for Routing Scalability and Security in Open Networks
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos & Srikanth Krishnamurthy
Graduated: Summer 2006
Yu Fan
Dissertation: Continuous Time Bayesian Network Approximate Inference and Social Network Applications
Advisor: Christian Shelton
Graduated: Fall 2009
Linan Feng
Dissertation:
Advisor: Bir Bhanu (EE)
Graduated: Fall 2014
Min Feng
Dissertation: The SpiceC Parallel Programming System
Advisor: Rajiv Gupta
Graduated: Fall 2012
Zi Feng
Dissertation: Security, Reliability and Performance Issues in Wireless Networks
Advisor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy
Graduated: Winter 2013
Edward Fernandez
Dissertation: Hardware Implementation of a String Matching Algorithm based on the FM-Index
Advisor: Walid Najjar
Graduated: Fall 2012
Andres Figueroa
Dissertation: Efficient Algorithms for Oligonucleotide Fingerprinting of Ribosomal DNA Genese in the Analysis of Microbial Communities
Advisor: Tao Jiang
Graduated: Summer 2004
Qi Fu
Dissertation: Algorithmic Methods in Oligonucleotide Fingerprinting of Ribosomal RNA Genes
Advisor: Marek Chrobak
Graduated: Summer 2007
Zheng Fu
Dissertation: A Combinatorial Approach to Genome-Wide Ortholog Assignment via Genome Rearrangement
Advisor: Tao Jiang
Graduated: Summer 2007
Lan Gao
Dissertation: Security Designs for Uni- and Multi-Processors
Advisor: Marek Chrobak & Jun Yang
Graduated: Summer 2007
Ioannis Gasparis
Dissertation: Ensuring Users' Privacy and Security on Mobile Devices
Advisor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy
Graduated: Winter 2017
Ece Gelal
Dissertation: Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Networks Using Antenna Arrays
Advisor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy
Graduated: Spring 2009
Tony Givargis
Dissertation: System-Level Exploration for Pareto-Optimal Configuration in Parameterized System-on-a-Chip Architectures
Advisor: Frank Vahid
Graduated: Spring 2001
Ann Gordon-Ross
Dissertation: Hot Caches, Cool Techniques: Online Tuning of Highly Configurable Caches for Reduced Energy Consumption
Advisor: Frank Vahid
Graduated: Spring 2007
Dan Grissom
Dissertation: Design of Topologies for Interpreting Assays on Digital Microfluidic Biochips
Advisor: Philip Brisk
Graduated: Spring 2014
Danhua (DG) Guo
Dissertation: Multicore Scheduling for Network Scheduling Based on Highest Random Weight
Advisor: Laxmi Bhuyan
Graduated: Spring 2010
Jiani Guo
Dissertation: Message Scheduling in a Cluster-Based Active Router for Multimedia Applications
Advisor: Laxmi Bhuyan
Graduated: Summer 2006
Sandeep Kumar Gupta
Dissertation: External Memory Algorithms for Shortest Distance and Spatio-Temporal Queries on Road Network
Advisor: Chinya V. Ravishankar
Graduated: Summer 2006
Marios Hadjieleftheriou
Dissertation: Novel Spatio-Temporal Queries for Moving Object Applications
Advisor: Vassilis Tsotras
Graduated: Fall 2004
Huseyin Hakkoymaz
Dissertation: Clustering Techniques for Data Mining and Protein Design Around The Concept of Locality
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh and Dimitrios Mourikis (Bioengineering)
Graduated: Summer 2010
Robert Halstead
Dissertation: Using Multithreaded Techniques to Mask Memory Latency of FPGA Accelerators
Advisor: Walid Najjar
Graduated: Winter 2015
Huy Hang
Dissertation:
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos
Graduated: Fall 2014
Yuan Hao
Dissertation: Supervised and Unsupervised Discovery of Structures in Large Data Archives
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Winter 2014
Elena Harris
Dissertation: Computational Methods for Epigenetic Studies
Advisor: Stefano Lonardi
Graduated: Spring 2010
Md. Abid Hasan
Dissertation: Accurate prediction model on Biomolecular data
Advisor: Stefano Lonardi
Graduated: Fall 2019
Md. Mahbub Hasan
Dissertation: Improving User Query Results Through Diversification
Advisor: Vassilis Tsotras
Graduated: Winter 2014
Md. Mahmudul Hasan
Dissertation: Online Activity Understanding and Labeling in Natural Videos
Advisor: Amit Roy-Chowdhury (EE)
Graduated: Summer 2016
Yihua He
Dissertation: Measuring and Modeling the Internet: Topology, Routing and Their Interplay
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos
Graduated: Fall 2007
Jim Herold
Dissertation: Data Mining Students' Ordinary Handwritten Coursework
Advisor: Thomas Stahovich (ME)
Graduated: Spring 2013
Kevin Horan
Dissertation: Gene Function Prediction Based on Sequence
Advisor: Christian Shelton and Thomas Girke (Bioinformatics)
Graduated: Fall 2011
Bing Hu
Dissertation: Mining Time Series Data: Moving From Toy Problems to Realistic Deployments
Advisor: EamonnKeogh
Graduated: Winter 2014
Yi Hu
Dissertation: Peer-to-Peer Support for Large Scale Interactive Applications
Advisor: Laxmi Bhuyan
Graduated: Fall 2012
Chen Huang
Dissertation: Synthesis of Custom Networks of Processing Elements Onto Field-Programmable Gate Arrays for Physical System Emulation
Advisor: Frank Vahid
Graduated: Spring 2012
Shihong Huang
Dissertation: An Integrated Approach to Program Redocumentation
Advisor: Scott Tilley & Thomas Payne
Graduated: Spring 2004
Ting-Kai Huang
Dissertation: Understanding Online Malicious Behavior: Social Malware and Email Spam
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos/Harsha Madhyastha
Graduated: Summer 2013
Yu-Ting (Claire) Huang
Dissertation: Algorithms and Software for PCR Primer Design
Advisor: Marek Chrobak
Graduated: Spring 2015
Wenyu Huo
Dissertation: Query Processing on Temporally Evolving Social Data
Advisor: Vassilis Tsotras
Graduated: Spring 2013
Enoch Oi-Kee Hwang
Dissertation: Functional Partitioning for Low Power
Advisor: Frank Vahid & Yu-chin Hsu
Graduated: Spring 1999
Marios Iliofotou
Dissertation: Analyzing Network-Wide Interactions Using Graphs: Techniques and Applications
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos
Graduated: Winter 2011
Michael Izbicki
Dissertation: Divide and Conquer Algorithms for Faster Machine Learning
Advisor: Christian Shelton
Graduated: Fall 2017
Gentian Jakllari
Dissertation: Broadcasting with Cooperative Diversity in All-Wireless Networks: Centralized and Distributed Protocols
Advisor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy, Michalis Faloutsos
Graduated: Spring 2005
Jobin James
Dissertation: Perfornamce Analysis of Wireless Networks: Challenging the Assumptions in Simulation and Modeling
Advisor: Satish Tripathi
Graduated: Summer 2003
Wojciech Szymon Jawor
Dissertation: Competitive algorithms for packet scheduling in computer networks
Advisor: Marek Chrobak
Graduated: Summer 2006
Dennis Jeffrey
Dissertation: Dynamic State Alteration Techniques for Automatically Locating Software Errors
Advisor: Rajiv Gupta
Graduated: Summer 2009
Lingling Jin
Dissertation: Software Thermal Monitoring and Management for High-performance Microprocessors
Advisor: Jun Yang
Graduated: Fall 2006
Xiaoqing Jin
Dissertation: Verification and Validation for Hybrid System
Advisor: Gianfranco Ciardo
Graduated: Summer 2013
Zhixing Jin
Dissertation:
Advisor: Bir Bhanu (EE)
Graduated: Fall 2014
Mehran Kafai
Dissertation: Real-World Face and Vehicle Recognition
Advisor: Bir Bhanu (EE)
Graduated: Spring 2013
Kin Fai Kan
Dissertation: Towards Information-Economical Classification and Ranking
Advisor: Christian Shelton
Graduated: Summer 2008
Thomas Karagiannis
Dissertation: Novel Techniques and Models for Network Traffic Profiling: Characterizing the Unknown
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos
Graduated: Spring 2006
Kyriakos Karenos
Dissertation: Traffic Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
Advisor: Vana Kalogeraki
Graduated: Spring 2008
Abhijith Kashyap
Dissertation: Improving User Efficiency in Structured Data Exploration
Advisor: Vagelis Hristidis
Graduated: Fall 2013
Monik Khare
Dissertation: Topics in Approximation Algorithms
Advisor: Neal Young
Graduated: Fall 2012
Farzad Khorasani
Dissertation: High Performance Vertex-Centric Graph Analytics on GPUs
Advisor: Rajiv Gupta
Graduated: Fall 2016
Taeyoung Kim
Dissertation: System-Level Electromigration-Induced Dynamic Reliability Management
Advisor: Sheldon Tan
Graduated: Spring 2017
Sai Charan Koduru
Dissertation: Size Oblivious Programming of Clusters for Irregular Parallelism
Advisor: Rajiv Gupta
Graduated: Fall 2015
Christos Koufogiannakis
Dissertation: Approximation Algorithms for Covering Problems
Advisor: Neal Young
Graduated: Fall 2009
Jilong Kuang
Dissertation: Power-Efficient Scheduling of Network Applications on Multicore Architecture
Advisor: Laxmi Bhuyan
Graduated: Fall 2011
Dhananjay Kulkarni
Dissertation: Techniques for Query Optimization, Scheduling, and Load Shedding in Data Stream Management Systems
Advisor: Chinya V. Ravishankar
Graduated: Fall 2007
Amlan Kusum
Dissertation: Adapting Data Representations for Optimizing Data-Intensive Applications
Advisor: Rajiv Gupta
Graduated: Fall 2016
Antony Ming Lam
Dissertation: Learning Ranking Functions for Video Search on the Web
Advisor: Christian Shelton and Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury
Graduated: Fall 2010
Theodoros Lappas
Dissertation: Algorithmic Challenges in Social Media Search
Advisor: Vassilis Tsotras & Dimitris Gunopulos
Graduated: Summer 2011
Lap Kong (Eric) Law
Dissertation: Composable Wireless Network Architectures and Protocols
Advisor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy
Graduated: Summer 2007
WeeSan Lee
Dissertation: Enabling Instructional Applications on Pentop Computers
Advisor: Thomas Stahovich (ME)
Graduated: Winter 2009
Haifeng Li
Dissertation: Studies on Several Bioinformatics Problems with Machine Learning Techniques
Advisor: Tao Jiang
Graduated: Summer 2005
Jing Li
Dissertation: Algorithmic Approaches for Haplotype Inference from Pedigree Data and Haplotype-Based Gene Association Mapping
Advisor: Tao Jiang
Graduated: Spring 2004
Tai-Ching Li
Dissertation: Profiling, modelling and classifying online user behavior
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos
Graduated: Fall 2017
Wei Li
Dissertation: RNA-Seq Transcriptome Assembly: Sparsity, Bias Correction and Multiple Sample Comparison
Advisor: Tao Jiang
Graduated: Summer 2012
Guangdeng (Danny) Liao
Dissertation: Accelerating I/O Processing in Server Architectures
Advisor: Laxmi Bhuyan
Graduated: Summer 2011
Changhui Lin
Dissertation: Imposing Minimal Memory Ordering on Multiprocessors
Advisor: Rajiv Gupta
Graduated: Summer 2013
Hanlung Lin
Dissertation:
Advisor: Thomas Stahovich (ME)
Graduated: Winter 2015
Jessica Lin
Dissertation: Discovering Unusual and Non-Trivial Patterns in Massive Time Series Databases
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Spring 2005
Song Lin
Dissertation: Data Management and Data Analysis Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks
Advisor: Dimitrios Gunopulos
Graduated: Summer 2007
Yingqiang Lin
Dissertation: Feature Synthesis and Analysis by Evolutionary Computation for Object Detection and Recognition
Advisor: Bir Bhanu (EE)
Graduated: Spring 2003
Lan Liu
Dissertation: Some Algorithmic Problems Concerning the Inference and Analysis of Tag SNPs, Haplotypes and Pedigrees
Advisor: Tao Jiang
Graduated: Summer 2007
Zheng Liu
Dissertation: Combinatorial and Statistical Approaches for Some Challenges in Oligonucleotide Fingerprinting of Ribosomal RNA Genes
Advisor: Tao Jiang
Graduated: Summer 2006
Yan Luo
Dissertation: Performance Evaluation and Low Power Design of Network Processors
Advisor: Laxmi Bhuyan & Jun Yang
Graduated: Summer 2005
Roman Lysecky
Dissertation: Warp Processing and Just-in-Time Field Programmable Gate Array Compilation
Advisor: Frank Vahid
Graduated: Spring 2005
Susan Lysecky
Dissertation: eBlocks: Enabling Design of Basic Embedded Systems by Novice Users
Advisor: Frank Vahid
Graduated: Spring 2006
Saugat Majumdar
Dissertation: Designing Signature Schemes Secure with Short Passwords
Advisor: Chinya V. Ravishankar
Graduated: Winter 2007
Jeffrey McDaniel
Dissertation: Design Automation of Continuous Flow-Based Microfluidic Biochips
Advisor: Philip Brisk
Graduated: Summer 2016
Richard W. McHard
Dissertation: Sperner Properties of the Ideals of a Boolean Lattice
Advisor: L. H. Harper
Graduated: Spring 2009
Guobiao Mei
Dissertation: Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms with Applications to Collaborative Data and Images
Advisor: Christian Shelton
Graduated: Summer 2008
Bailey Miller
Dissertation: Accelerating Synchronous Many-Core Networks on FPGAs
Advisor: Frank Vahid
Graduated: Spring 2014
Seyed Hamid Mirebrahim
Dissertation: Efficient Methods for Analysis of Ultra-Deep Sequencing Data
Advisor: Stefano Lonardi
Graduated: Fall 2015
Abhishek Mitra
Dissertation: Acceleration of Streaming Application on FPGAs from High Level Constructs.
Advisor: Walid Najjar
Graduated: Fall 2008
Katya Mkrtchyan
Dissertation: Bio-Image Analysis for Understanding Plant Development and Mosquito Behaviors
Advisor: Amit Roy-Chowdhury (EE)
Graduated: Winter 2017
Yehdhih Ould Mohamed Moctar
Dissertation: Parallel Routing for FPGAs With Sparse Intra-Cluster Routing Crossbars
Advisor: Philip Brisk
Graduated: Spring 2014
Satya R Mohanty
Dissertation: Fair Scheduling in Multiple Aggregated Links
Advisor: Laxmi Bhuyan
Graduated: Summer 2007
Mirella Moura Moro
Dissertation: The Role of Structural Aggregation for Query Processing over XML Data
Advisor: Vassilis Tsotras
Graduated: Winter 2007
Roger Moussalli
Dissertation: Hardware Acceleration of Database Applications
Advisor: Walid Najjar
Graduated: Winter 2013
Abdullah Mueen
Dissertation: Exact Primitives for Time Series Data Mining
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Winter 2013
Sohail Nadimi
Dissertation: Physics-Based Evolutionary Strategies and Dynamic Sensor Fusion for Moving Object Detection
Advisor: Bir Bhanu (EE)
Graduated: Spring 2003
Vijayanand (Vijay) Nagarajan
Dissertation: IMPRESS: Improving Multicore Performance and Reliability via Efficient Support for Software Monitoring
Advisor: Rajiv Gupta
Graduated: Fall 2009
Nandita Nayak
Dissertation:
Advisor: Amit Roy-Chowdhury (EE)
Graduated: Fall 2014
Hoang Thanh Nguyen
Dissertation: Individual 3D Face Modeling and Recognition in a Video Network
Advisor: Bir Bhanu (EE)
Graduated: Fall 2012
Jinfeng Ni
Dissertation: Spatial and Spatio-temporal Queries in the Presence of Uncertainty and Movement
Advisor: Chinya V. Ravishankar
Graduated: Fall 2006
Jianxia Ning
Dissertation: Survivability Considerations in Wireless Networks
Advisor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy
Graduated: Fall 2012
Rachid Ounit
Dissertation: Computing The Microbiome: Faster, More Accurate and More Efficients Methods for The Analysis of Metagenomes
Advisor: Stefano Lonardi
Graduated: Winter 2017
Dimitrios Papadopoulos
Dissertation: Clustering and Indexing Methods for High Dimensional Data and Moving Objects
Advisor: Dimitrios Gunopulos
Graduated: Winter 2005
Smruti Parichha
Dissertation: Accurate and Secure Time-Based Localization With 802.11-Compatible Entities
Advisor: Mart Molle
Graduated: Fall 2012
Konstantinos Pelechrinis
Dissertation: Security and Performance Considerations in Wireless Networks
Advisor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy
Graduated: Summer 2010
Dorian Perkins
Dissertation: Modeling the Size Frequency Distributions of the Trilobite Aulacopleura koninckii and its Implications for Understanding Trilobite
Advisor: Harsha Madhyastha
Graduated: Fall 2015
Anton Polishko
Dissertation: Computational Methods for Exploring Nucleosome Dynamics
Advisor: Stefano Lonardi
Graduated: Spring 2014
Kishore Kumar Pusukuri
Dissertation: Runtime Support For Maximizing Performance on Multicore Systems
Advisor: Rajiv Gupta
Graduated: Summer 2012
Zhen Qin
Dissertation:
Advisor: Christian Shelton
Graduated: Spring 2015
Md. Sazzadur Rahman
Dissertation: Detecting Social Malware and its Ecosystem in Online Social Networks
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos
Graduated: Fall 2012
Thanawin (Art) Rakthanmanon
Dissertation: Efficient Algorithms for High Dimensional Data Mining
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Fall 2012
Chotirat Ann Ratanamahatana
Dissertation: Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness of Dynamic Time Warping in Large Time Series Databases
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Spring 2005
Thomas Repantis
Dissertation: Synergy: Quality of Service Support for Distributed Stream Processing Systems
Advisor: Vana Kalogeraki
Graduated: Summer 2008
Michael Rice
Dissertation: Title: Algorithms for Constrained Route Planning in Road Networks
Advisor: Vassilis Tsotras
Graduated: Fall 2013
Eduardo Irigoyen Ruiz
Dissertation: Effective and Efficient Analysis on Internet-Based Social Networks
Advisor: Vagelis Hristidis
Graduated: Winter 2014
Shouq Sadah
Dissertation:
Advisor: Vagelis Hristidis
Graduated: Spring 2017
Arun Kumar Saha
Dissertation: Cross Layer Techniques to Secure Peer-to-Peer Protocols for Location, Adjacency, and Identity Verification
Advisor: Mart Molle
Graduated: Summer 2006
Mariam Salloum
Dissertation: Query Answering in Data Integration Systems
Advisor: Vassilis Tsotras
Graduated: Winter 2012
Ricky J Sethi
Dissertation: A Physics-Based, Neurobiologically-Inspired Stochastic Framework for Activity Recognition
Advisor: Thomas Payne(CS), Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury(EE)
Graduated: Spring 2009
Moloud Shahbazi
Dissertation: Domain-Specific Analysis and Search on User-Generated Content
Advisor: Vagelis Hristidis
Graduated: Winter 2017
David Sheldon
Dissertation: Design Space Exploration of Parameterized Systems using Design of Experiments
Advisor: Frank Vahid
Graduated: Summer 2011
Guanqun (Wilson) Shi
Dissertation: Combinatorial Approaches to Accurate Identification of Orthologous Genes
Advisor: Tao Jiang
Graduated: Summer 2011
Jin-Wien Shieh
Dissertation: Time Series Retrieval: Indexing and Mining Large Data Sets
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Spring 2010
Mohammad Shokoohi-Yekta
Dissertation: Meaningful Rule Discovery and Adaptive Classification of Multi-Dimensional Time Series Data
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Winter 2015
Georgos Siganos
Dissertation: Analyzing the Cooperation of ISPs in the Internet Routing: Security Implications and Accurate Internet Models
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos
Graduated: Summer 2005
Indrajeet Singh
Dissertation:
Advisor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy
Graduated: Fall 2014
Shailendra Singh
Dissertation: Flexible Resource Management in Wireless Networks
Advisor: Srikanth Krishnamurthy
Graduated: Winter 2016
Vineet Singh
Dissertation: User Assisted Data Structure Debugging and Verification
Advisor: Rajiv Gupta
Graduated: Fall 2016
Scott Sirowy
Dissertation: Emulation of SystemC Applications for Portable FPGA Binaries
Advisor: Frank Vahid
Graduated: Spring 2010
Yougang Song
Dissertation: New Approaches to Mobile Code Security and Recoverable Persistent Storage
Advisor: Brett D. Fleisch
Graduated: Fall 2006
Greg Stitt
Dissertation: Synthesis from Software Binaries: An Enabling Technology for Dynamic and Transparent Synthesis
Advisor: Frank Vahid
Graduated: Spring 2007
Alan Peisheng Su
Dissertation: A Study of False Loop and False Path in High-Level Synthesis
Advisor: Yu-chin Hsu
Graduated: Fall 1998
Sharmila Subramaniam
Dissertation: Optimizing Business Processes Through Log Analysis
Advisor: Dimitrios Gunopulos
Graduated: Spring 2006
Dinesh Chander Suresh
Dissertation: Energy-Efficient Encoding Techniques for Off-Chip Data Buses
Advisor: Walid Najjar
Graduated: Summer 2006
Li Tan
Dissertation: The Interplay Between Energy Efficiency and Resilience for Scalable High Performance Computing Systems
Advisor: Zizhong Chen
Graduated: Fall 2015
Olga Tanseichuk
Dissertation: Some Clustering and Classification Problems in High- Throughput Metagenomics and Cheminformatics
Advisor: Tao Jiang
Graduated: Winter 2014
Oben Moses Tataw
Dissertation: Image/Time Series Mining Algorithms: Applications to Developmental Biology, Document Processing and Data Streams
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh (CS) and Amit Roy-Chowdhury (EE)
Graduated: Spring 2013
Chen Tian
Dissertation: Speculative Parallelization On Multicore Processors
Advisor: Rajiv Gupta
Graduated: Spring 2010
Yuan Tian
Dissertation: Project: Improvement of Image Search by Augmenting Text with Image Similarity
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Winter 2013
Md Reaz Uddin
Dissertation: Identifying Interesting Behaviors From� Moving Object Trajectories
Advisor: Chinya V Ravishankar & Vassilis Tsotras
Graduated: Winter 2014
Liudmila Ulanova
Dissertation:
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Spring 2016
Vladimir Vacic
Dissertation: Computational Methods for Discovery of Cellular Regulatory Mechanisms
Advisor: Stefano Lonardi
Graduated: Summer 2008
Zografoula Vagena
Dissertation: Query Processing and Optimization for Structural Selection Queries Over XML Data
Advisor: Vassilis Tsotras
Graduated: Fall 2005
Nicholas Valler
Dissertation: Spreading Processes on Networks: Theory and Applications
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos
Graduated: Fall 2012
Marcos R Vieira
Dissertation: Complex Motion Pattern Queries for Trajectories
Advisor: Vassilis Tsotras
Graduated: 2011
Jason Villarreal
Dissertation: Compiled Acceleration of C Programs on FPGA
Advisor: Walid Najjar
Graduated: Spring 2008
Michalis Vlachos
Dissertation: Similarity and Indexing in Multi-Dimensional Spaces
Advisor: Dimitrios Gunopulos
Graduated: Summer 2004
Keval Vora
Dissertation: Exploiting Asynchrony for Performance and Fault Tolerance in Distributed Graph Processing
Advisor: Rajiv Gupta
Graduated: Fall 2017
Dung Tien Vu
Dissertation: Efficient Parallel Processing of Multimedia� Applications on Multi-core Architechtures
Advisor: Laxmi Bhuyan
Graduated: Summer 2014
Min Wan
Dissertation: Approximating stationary measures of structured continuous-time Markov models using matrix diagrams
Advisor: Gianfranco Ciardo
Graduated: Fall 2008
Peng Wang
Dissertation: Security and Privacy in Search Services
Advisor: Chinya Ravishankar
Graduated: Spring 2014
Wei Wang
Dissertation: Energy-Efficient Data Delivery Schemes in Wireless and Mobile Environments
Advisor: Chinya V. Ravishankar
Graduated: Winter 2007
Wei-Bung (Bob) Wang
Dissertation: Optimization Problems Concerning Tag SNP Selection, Haplotype Inference, and Detection of Horizontal Gene Transfers
Advisor: Tao Jiang
Graduated: Spring 2011
Xiaoyue Wang
Dissertation: Data Mining Techniques on Historical Image Databases
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Spring 2010
Yan Wang
Dissertation: Dynamic Analysis Techniques for Effective and Efficient Debugging
Advisor: Rajiv Gupta
Graduated: Summer 2014
Yi Wang
Dissertation: Measuring and Inferring Demographics From Multi-Mode Communication Networks
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos
Graduated: Summer 2013
Li Wei
Dissertation: Efficient Pattern Discovery in Massive Time Series Databases
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Fall 2006
Xuetao Wei
Dissertation: Understanding and Improving the Smpartphone Ecosystem: Measurements, Security and Tools
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos
Graduated: Fall 2013
Jian (Jarod) Wen
Dissertation: Title: Revisiting Aggregation Techniques for Data Intensive Applications
Advisor: Vassilis Tsotras
Graduated: Fall 2013
Nkenge Wheatland
Dissertation: Capturing and Animating Hand and Finger Motion for 3D Communicative Characters
Advisor: Victor Zordan
Graduated: Summer 2016
Matthew Wiley
Dissertation:
Advisor: Vagelis Hristidis
Graduated: Spring 2016
Titus Winters
Dissertation: Educational Data Mining: Collection and Analysis of Score Matrices for Outcomes-Based Assessment
Advisor: Tom Payne
Graduated: Spring 2006
Chun-Chih James Wu
Dissertation: Goal-Directed Biped Stepping and Push Recovery With Momentum Control
Advisor: Victor Zordan
Graduated: Winter 2011
Panruo Wu
Dissertation: Silent Data Corruption Resilient Mathix Factorizations
Advisor: Zizhong Chen
Graduated: Fall 2016
Wei Wu
Dissertation: Power/Thermal Modeling and Dynamic Thermal Management for SRAM Structure
Advisor: Sheldon Tan
Graduated: Winter 2008
Yonghui Wu
Dissertation: On the Accurate Construction of Genetic Linkage Maps
Advisor: Stefano Lonardi
Graduated: Summer 2008
Xiaopeng Xi
Dissertation: Fast Time Series Classification With Applications on Large Time Series Databases
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Summer 2007
Guowu Xie
Dissertation: Reverse Engineering User Behaviors From Network Traffic
Advisor: Michalis Faloutsos
Graduated: Spring 2013
Jing Xu
Dissertation: A Continuous Time Bayesian Network Approach for Intrusion Detection
Advisor: Christian Shelton
Graduated: Summer 2010
Li Yan
Dissertation: Approximation Algorithms for the Fault-Tolerant Facility Placement Problem
Advisor: Marek Chrobak
Graduated: Spring 2013
Yi-Wen Yang
Dissertation: Algorithms for Determining Differentially Expressed Genes and Chromosome Structures From High-Throughput Sequencing Data
Advisor: Tao Jiang
Graduated: Fall 2015
Dragomir Yankov
Dissertation: Learning from Time Series in the Presence of Noise: Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Approaches
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Spring 2008
Jingnan Yao
Dissertation: Scheduling Network Applications Based on Divisible Load Theory (DLT)
Advisor: Laxmi Bhuyan
Graduated: Summer 2007
Teddy Yap
Dissertation: Mobile Robot Navigation With Low-Cost Sensors
Advisor: Christian Shelton
Graduated: Fall 2009
Lexiang Ye
Dissertation: Proposed: Learning from Time Series in the Resource Limited Situations
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Spring 2010
Curtis Yu
Dissertation:
Advisor: Harsha Madhyastha
Graduated: Fall 2014
Jia Yu
Dissertation: Low Power Design and Compiler Optimization for Network Processors
Advisor: Laxmi Bhuyan & Jun Yang
Graduated: Summer 2007
Jinqing (Andy) Yu
Dissertation: Formal Verification of Asynchronous Systems Using Decision Diagrams
Advisor: Gianfranco Ciardo
Graduated: Spring 2008
Jesin Zakaria
Dissertation: Title: Developing Efficient Algorithms for Data Mining Large Scale High Dimensional Data
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Fall 2013
Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti
Dissertation: Search and Retrieval Algorithms for Distributed Data Management Systems
Advisor: Dimitrios Gunopulos
Graduated: Summer 2005
Donghui Zhang
Dissertation: Aggregation Computation over Complex Objects
Advisor: Vassilis Tsotras
Graduated: Summer 2002
Xiao Zhang
Dissertation: Fair Scheduling for Input-Queued Crossbar Switches
Advisor: Laxmi Bhuyan
Graduated: Summer 2005
Li Zhao
Dissertation: Architectural Analysis and Acceleration for Server Network Processing
Advisor: Laxmi Bhuyan
Graduated: Summer 2005
Yang Zhao
Dissertation: Bridging the Gap Between Logic and Probabilistic Model Checking
Advisor: Gianfranco Ciardo
Graduated: Summer 2013
Jie Zheng
Dissertation: Efficient Algorithms for Identification and Analysis of Repetitive Patterns in Biological Sequences
Advisor: Stefano Lonardi & Tao Jiang
Graduated: Summer 2006
Bo Zhou
Dissertation: Extracting Actionable Information From Bug Reports
Advisor: Rajiv Gupta
Graduated: Fall 2016
Li Zhou
Dissertation: Supporting Message Confidentiality and Authenticity in Dynamic Peer Groups and Wireless Sensor Networks
Advisor: Chinya V. Ravishankar
Graduated: Summer 2006
Minli Zhu
Dissertation: SOLAR: Secure Overlay LAN ARchitecture
Advisor: Mart Molle
Graduated: Fall 2005
Qiang Zhu
Dissertation: Data Mining Historical Manuscripts and Culture Artifacts
Advisor: Eamonn Keogh
Graduated: Fall 2011
Shanzhong Zhu
Dissertation: Managing Erratic Data Streams in the Distributed Environments
Advisor: Chinya V. Ravishankar
Graduated: Fall 2006