428 students have received a Ph.D. degree from the Deparment since 1986.
2024
Dr. Mohammad Mahmudul Alam, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2024
Dissertation: Neuro-symbolic Representations and their Applications to Deep Learning
Mentors: Tim Oates and Ed Raff
Dr. Md Toufiq Hasan Anik, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2024
Dissertation: The Impact of Device Aging on the Resiliency of Cryptographic Devices Against Physical Attacks
Mentor: Naghmeh Karimi
Dr. Jayalakshmi Mangalagiri, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2024
Dissertation: A Progressive Meta-Algorithm to Synthesize Very Large Super-Resolution Images with Fine Details
Mentors: Aryya Gangopadhyay and David Chapman
Dr. Maksim Eren Erin, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2024
Dissertation: Advanced Semi-supervised Tensor Decomposition Methods for Malware Characterization
Mentor: Charles Nicholas, First position: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Current position: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. Sai Sree Laya Chukkapalli, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2024
Dissertation: Towards Preserving Privacy and Building Trust Among the Users of Cyber-Physical Systems
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: IBM, Current position: IBM
Dr. Dingyi Pei, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2024
Dissertation: The Role of Synergies in Controlling Human-Machine Interfaces
Mentor: Ramana Vinjamuri
Dr. Hasib-al Rashid, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, August 2024
Dissertation: HAC-M-DNN: Hardware Aware Compression of Sustainable Multimodal Deep Neural Networks for Efficient Real-time Edge Deployment
Mentor: Tinoosh Mohsenin
Dr. Anantaa Kotal, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2024
Dissertation: Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing Using Generative Models
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: University of Texas at El Paso, Current position: University of Texas at El Paso
Dr. Bharat Prakash, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2024
Dissertation: Language-Guided Hierarchical Agents
Mentors: Tinoosh Mohsenin and Tim Oates, First position: Qualcomm, Current position: Qualcomm
Dr. Priyanka Ranade, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2024
Dissertation: Neurosymbolic Narrative Construction from Open Source Intelligence
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. Cyrus Bonyadi, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2024
Dissertation: Toward a Unified, Hierarchical Ontology of Consensus Proofs in Autonomous Distributed Computing
Mentor: Alan Sherman
Dr. Enis Golaszewski, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2024
Dissertation: Automatically Binding Cryptographic Context to Messages in Network Protocols Using Formal Methods
Mentor: Alan Sherman
Dr. Abdulaziz Alshaeri, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2024
Dissertation: Supporting Secure and Privacy-Preserving Interactions in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Mentor: Mohamed Younis
Dr. Robert Joyce, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2024
Dissertation: Investigating Antivirus Scan Results as a Source of Features and Labels for Machine Learning
Mentor: Charles Nicholas
Dr. Mona Alkanhal, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2024
Dissertation: Lightweight Mutual Authentication Protocols for IoT Systems
Mentor: Mohamed Younis
Dr. Khondoker Hossain, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2024
Dissertation: Trojan (Backdoor) Attack Detection in Deep Neural Networks
Mentor: Tim Oates
Dr. Mehdi Rezaee, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2024
Dissertation: From Latent Knowledge Gathering to Side Information Injection in Discrete Sequential Models
Mentor: Frank Ferraro
2023
Dr. William Walton, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2023
Dissertation: Multi-View Mammographic Image Registration Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Mentor: Seung-Jun Kim, First position: JHU APL, Current position: JHU APL
Dr. Qitao Xie, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2023
Dissertation: Deep Learning Based Chatbot in Fintech Applications
Mentors: Jianwu Wang and Qingquan Zhang
Dr. Michael A. Tope, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2023
Dissertation: Near Optimal Sampling to Discover and Bound the Communication Rate of a Discrete Memoryless Channel
Mentor: Joel Morris, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. Aritran Piplai, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2023
Dissertation: Knowledge Graphs and Reinforcement Learning: a Hybrid Approach for Cybersecurity Tasks
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso, Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso
Dr. Hedyeh Bagherzadeh, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2023
Dissertation: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Investigations for Novel Coil Designs
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa
Dr. Balaji Viswanathan, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2023
Dissertation: Building Likeable Robots for Seniors: Enhancing Emotional Connection, Communication and Safety through Human-Robot Interaction
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: Invento Robotics, Current position: Invento Robotics
Dr. Fahad Sayeed Siddiqui, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2023
Dissertation: Predicting Sleep Disordered Breathing Events
Mentor: Nilanjan Banerjee
Dr. Hao Chen, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2023
Dissertation: Complex Radio Scene Analysis: Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Approaches
Mentor: Seung-Jun Kim
Dr. Samit S Shivadekar, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2023
Dissertation: A Streaming Tensor Decomposition Analysis for Earth Science Informatics
Mentor: Milton Halem, First position: Visiting Lecturer, UMBC, Current position: Visiting Lecturer, UMBC
Dr. Vipin Pillai, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2023
Dissertation: Learning Explainable Models using Self-Supervised Learning
Mentor: Hamed Pirsiavash, First position: Amazon, Current position: Amazon
Dr. Akshayvarun Subramanya, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2023
Dissertation: A Closer Look at Adversarial Robustness of Deep Networks for Visual Recognition
Mentor: Hamed Pirsiavash, First position: Apple, Current position: Apple
Dr. Md Sadique Hasan, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2023
Dissertation: Instrumentation, microfluidics and machine learning for rapid, ultrasensitive, and high throughput bioburden detection
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa and Govin Rao
Dr. Nicholas R. Allgood, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2023
Dissertation: A Quantum Solution for Calculation of Optimal Cluster Centers
Mentor: Charles Nicholas, First position: KetPsiShield, Current position: KetPsiShield
Dr. Irina Belyaeva, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2023
Dissertation: Tensor Methods for Joint Analysis and Fusion of Brain Imaging Data: Application to fMRI and MEG Analysis and Fusion
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Johns Hopkins Medicine, Current position: Johns Hopkins Medicine
2022
Dr. Deepa Gupta, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2022
Dissertation: Brain Connectivity Biomarker Characterization by Using EEG and TMS techniques
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa, First position: Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Current position: Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience
Dr. Brian Wayne Stevens, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2022
Dissertation: Interweave Cognitive Radio for 4G Long Term Evolution and 5G New Radio Self-Reliant Networks
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Current position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Md Shafiqul Islam, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2022
Dissertation: Analysis and Protocols to Establish Downlink for Communication Across the Air-Water Interface
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Current position: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
Dr. Yousef Ebrahimi, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2022
Dissertation: Anonymity of the Base-Station in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: Cisco, Current position: Cisco
Dr. Qingyuan Zheng, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2022
Dissertation: Machine Learning Can Help Humans Create Art
Mentor: Adam Bargteil, First position: Tencent Americas, Current position: Tencent Americas
Dr. Aniruddha Saha, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2022
Dissertation: Backdoor Attacks in Computer Vision: Towards Adversarially Robust Machine Learning Models
Mentor: Hamed Pirsiavash, First position: University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Current position: University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Dr. Yao Yao, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2022
Dissertation: Innovative Radio Frequency Signal Application in Sensing and Communication
Mentor: Ting Zhu
Dr. Jie Chen, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2022
Dissertation: Low Rank and Sparse Representation-based Approaches to Hyperspectral Detection
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Research Fellow, Mayo Clinic
Dr. Rami Mowakeaa, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2022
Dissertation: Lifelong Multitask Learning Algorithms: Nonlinearity, Scalability, and Applications
Mentor: Seung-Jun Kim and Tulay Adali
Dr. Zhen Qi, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2022
Dissertation: Stability and Accessibility of Turing Rolls, Soliton Crystals, and Single Solitons in Microresonators
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk
Dr. Asmita Korde-patel, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2022
Dissertation: Systematic Effects of Compressive Sensing for Time-Series Photometric Measurements for Space Observatories
Mentor: Tinoosh Mohsenin and Richard K. Barry, First position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Cente, Current position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Cente
Dr. Hakju Oh, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2022
Dissertation: Agile Lifecycle Management of Standards for Data Exchange
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: NIST, Current position: NIST
Dr. Wu Yusen, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2022
Dissertation: Building Scalable, Trusted, and Decentralized Byzantine Fault Tolerance Systems for IoT
Mentor: Yelena Yesha and Phuong Nguyen, First position: University of Miami Institute for Data Science and Computing., Current position: University of Miami Institute for Data Science and Computing.
Dr. Lalouani Wassila, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2022
Dissertation: AI Cyber threat in cyber physical systems
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: Towson University, Current position: Towson University
Dr. Mohammad Abu Baker Siddique Akhonda Akhonda, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2022
Dissertation: Common and Distinct Subspace Analysis in Data fusion: Application to the Fusion of Brain Imaging Data
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: National Institutes of Health, Current position: National Institutes of Health
Dr. Seyed-morteza Hosseini, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, May 2022
Dissertation: Energy-Efficient Implementation of Neural Networks Compressed with Cyclic Sparsely Connected Architectures
Mentor: Tinoosh Mohsenin, First position: Qualcomm, Current position: Qualcomm
Dr. Xin Liu, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, May 2022
Dissertation: Leveraging Backscatter for Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Sensing Networks
Mentor: Ting Zhu, First position: Ohio State University, Current position: Ohio State University
Dr. Joseph R. Collins, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2022
Dissertation: Topological Time Series Classification
Mentor: David Chapman, First position: Northrop Grumman, Current position: Northrop Grumman
Dr. Sumit Menon, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2022
Dissertation: Semi-Supervised Expectation Maximization with Contrastive Outlier Removal.
Mentor: David Chapman, First position: Home Depot, Current position: Home Depot
Dr. Ajinkya Borle, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2022
Dissertation: Quantum Optimization for Linear Algebra Problems
Mentor: Samuel Lomonaco, First position: UMBC, Current position: UMBC
Dr. Trevor Kroeger, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2022
Dissertation: On the Resiliency of Physical Unclonable Functions against Power Analysis Attacks
Mentor: Naghmeh, First position: JHU APL, Current position: JHU APL
Dr. Haneen, M Bawayan, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2022
Dissertation: Management Techniques for Reliable Microgrid Operation
Mentor: Mohamed Younis
Dr. Wei Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2022
Dissertation: Efficient and reliable cross-technology communication in heterogeneous IoT networks
Mentor: Ting Zhu, First position: Intelligent Automation, Current position: Intelligent Automation
2021
Dr. Colin William Shea, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2021
Dissertation: Homogeneous Scheduling of Deep Neural Networks
Mentor: Tinoosh Mohsenin, First position: Boeing Research & Technology ·, Current position: Boeing Research & Technology ·
Dr. Avani Dave, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2021
Dissertation: Towards the Design of Resiliant Embedded Systems
Mentor: Chintan Patel and Nilanjan Banerjee, First position: Intel Corporation, Current position: Intel Corporation
Dr. Kaushik Velusamy, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2021
Dissertation: Orchestrating Non-Blocking Asynchronous Framework for HPC Systems and Applications
Mentor: Milton Halem, First position: Argonne National Laboratory, Current position: Argonne National Laboratory
Dr. Andre T. Nguyen, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2021
Dissertation: Uncertainty for Malware Detection and CyberDefense
Mentor: Charles Nicholas and Edward Raff, First position: JURA Bio, Current position: JURA Bio
Dr. Akshay Peshave, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2021
Dissertation: Unsupervised Thematic Phrase Extraction From Single Text Artifact
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: GE Research, Current position: GE Research
Dr. Henan Zhao, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2021
Dissertation: The Perceptually Accurate Visual Display of Quantitative Quantum Physics Data
Mentor: Marc Olano, First position: Siemens Digital Industries Software, Current position: Siemens Digital Industries Software
Dr. Chao Liu, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2021
Dissertation: Building Practical, Efficient, and Reliable Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems
Mentor: Alan Sherman and Haibin Zhang
Dr. Nisha Pillai, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2021
Dissertation: Interactive Robots with Probabilistic Conceptualization and Optimized Perceptual Understanding
Mentor: Cynthia Matuszek, First position: Postdoc/Univ of Mississippi, Current position: Postdoc/Univ of Mississippi
Dr. Tiantian Xie, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2021
Dissertation: Cache and Bandwidth Aware Real-time Subsurface Scattering
Mentor: Marc Olano, First position: Epic Games, Current position: Epic Games
Dr. Isaac K. Mativo, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2021
Dissertation: Novel Machine Learning Tools to Enhance Mortality Prediction
Mentor: Yelena Yesha, First position: Director of Development Projects, PointCross Life Sciences, Current position: UMBC
Dr. Ashwinkumar Ganesan, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2021
Dissertation: Supervised Training Strategies for Low Resource Language Processing
Mentor: Tim Oates and Frank Ferraro, First position: Amazon, Current position: Amazon
Dr. Hang Gao, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2021
Dissertation: Towards Learning A Better Text Encoder
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: ebay, Current position: ebay
Dr. Farid Javani, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2021
Dissertation: Privacy-Preserving Protocols with Oblivious Transfer and Mix Networks
Mentor: Alan Sherman, First position: Meta, Current position: Meta
Dr. Kenneth Ma, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2021
Dissertation: An Iterative Training Sampling Approach to Training Sample Augmentation and Data Expansion for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Current position: Data Scientist at Peraton Inc.
Dr. Hedyeh Bagherzadeh, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2021
Dissertation: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Investigations for Novel Coil Designs
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa
2020
Dr. Smriti Prathapan, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2020
Dissertation: Design Space Exploration of Data-centric Architectures
Mentor: Milton Halem, First position: University of Miami, Current position: University of Miami
Dr. Dorsa Ziaei, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2020
Dissertation: Deep Machine Learning Solutions for Feature Identification and Detection for Very Large Medical mages
Mentor: Milton Halem, First position: Computational Scientist II at Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Current position: Computational Scientist II at Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Dr. Filip J. Dabek, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2020
Dissertation: Analysis of Irregular Event Sequences in Healthcare using Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Visualization
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: Research Scientist, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Current position: Research Scientist, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Dr. Alexander Kaplunovich, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2020
Dissertation: Real-time Automatic Hyperparameter Tuning for Deep Learning in Serverless Cloud
Mentor: Yelena Yesha, First position: CEO Cloudtalk, Current position: CEO Cloudtalk
Dr. Seyed Ehsan Jamali Mahabadi, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2020
Dissertation: Modeling phase noise and responsivity in photodetectors
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: University of Southern Florida, Current position: Silvaco
Dr. Kevin M. Pritchard, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2020
Dissertation: Signal Processing, Performance Metrics, and Lifetime of a 6LiF:ZnS(Ag) Neutronc Detector with WLS Fibers and SIPM Photodetector
Mentor: Ryan Robucci, First position: NIST, Current position: NIST
Dr. Sunil Gandhi, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2020
Dissertation: Artifact Removal From Electroencephalography Data
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: Amazon, Current position: Amazon
Dr. Qunfang Long, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2020
Dissertation: Data-driven Techniques for the Study of Brain Dynamics and Identification of Subgroups: Application to Multi-subject Resting-state fMRI Data
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK),, Current position: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK),
Dr. James W Shey, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2020
Dissertation: Power Supply Analysis for Device Verification
Mentor: Chintan Patel, First position: Assistant Professor at United States Naval Academy, Current position: Assistant Professor at United States Naval Academy
Dr. Brien J Croteau, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2020
Dissertation: Attack-Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems
Mentor: Ryan Robucci, First position: U.S. Navy, Current position: U.S. Navy
Dr. Zicheng Chi, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, May 2020
Dissertation: Enabling Seamless Communication and RF sensing among Heterogeneous IoT Devices
Mentor: Ting Zhu, First position: Cleveland State University., Current position: Cleveland State University.
Dr. Stanislav Bobovych, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2020
Dissertation: Low-Power Context Aware Hierarchical System Design
Mentor: Nilanjan Banerjee and Ryan Robucci
Dr. Ramin Ayanzadeh, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2020
Dissertation: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Advance Problem-Solving with Quantum Annealers
Mentor: Milton Halem and Tim Finin, First position: UMBC, Current position: UMBC
Dr. Hadis Dashtestani, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2020
Dissertation: Multivariate Statistical Learning for Multimodal Neuroimaging Data Fusion
Mentor: Milton Halem, First position: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Current position: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Dr. Suchita Bhinge, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2020
Dissertation: Adaptive Constrained Independent Vector Analysis: Application to Large-Scale fMRI Analysis
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: AggDirect, Current position: AggDirect
2019
Dr. Mahbubur Rahman, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2019
Dissertation: Methods for Designing Human Augmented Intelligent Systems
Mentor: Nilanjan Banerjee, First position: WeWork, Current position: Flexport
Dr. Ankur Padia, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2019
Dissertation: Joint Models to Refine Knowledge Graphs
Mentor: Frank Ferraro and Tim Finin, First position: Philips Research Americas, Current position: Philips Research Americas
Dr. Taneeya Satyapanich, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2019
Dissertation: Modeling and Extracting Information about Cybersecurity Events from Text
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Kasetsart University, Current position: Kasetsart University
Dr. John Seymour, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2019
Dissertation: Detecting, Quantifying, and Remediating Dataset Bias in Malware Datasets
Mentor: Charles Nicholas, First position: Salesforce, Current position: Salesforce
Dr. Akram Ahmed, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, August 2019
Dissertation: Efficient Topology Construction and Autonomous Networking for Underwater Acoustic Nodes
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Current position: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Dr. John Winder, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2019
Dissertation: Abstract Decision Making and Concept Formation for Adaptability and Generalization
Mentor: Marie desJardins, First position: UMBC, Current position: UMBC
Dr. Jeffrey Turner, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2019
Dissertation: Visual computational context: using compositions and non target pixels for novel class discovery
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: Clarifai, Current position: Clarifai
Dr. Sudip Mittal, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2019
Dissertation: Knowledge for Cyber Threat Intelligence
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: Univ. of North Carolina Wilmington, Current position: Mississippi State University
Dr. Sandeep Narayanan, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2019
Dissertation: A Framework for Detecting Anomalous Behaviors in Smart Cyber-Physical Systems
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: Cisco, Current position: Cisco
Dr. Karan K. Budhraja, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2019
Dissertation: Programming Agent-Based Models by Demonstration
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: Infinite Analytics
Dr. Adam Bekit, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2019
Dissertation: Endmember finding and linear spectral mixture analysis in the compressively sensed domain
Mentor: Chein I Chang
Dr. Charles Della Porta, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2019
Dissertation: A Compressive Sensing Approach to Hyperspectral Image Classification
Mentor: Chein I Chang, First position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Current position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Bernard Lampe, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2019
Dissertation: Compressive sensing with applications to hyperspectral image processing
Mentor: Chein I Chang, First position: Raytheon, Current position: Raytheon
Dr. Bai Xue, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2019
Dissertation: A Compressive Sensing Approach to Hyperspectral Image Classification
Mentor: Chein I Chang
2018
Dr. Miguel R. Ossandon, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2018
Dissertation: Computational Methods for Rare Cell Detection in Streak Image Flow Cytometry
Mentor: Kostas Kalpakis, First position: National Cancer Institute, Current position: National Cancer Institute
Dr. Ari Rapkin Blenkhorn, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2018
Dissertation: GPU-accelerated Rendering of Atmospheric Glories
Mentor: Marc Olano, First position: Leidos, Current position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Yi Sun, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2018
Dissertation: On the Integration of Inconsistent Knowledge with Bayesian Networks
Mentor: Yun Peng
Dr. Yan Li, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2018
Dissertation: Monitoring Humans and Improving Wireless Network Performance with Heterogeneous IoT Devices
Mentor: Ting Zhu
Dr. David Lachut, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2018
Dissertation: A Comprehensive View of Home Energy Management
Mentor: Nilanjan Banerjee, First position: Sr. Professional Staff, Applied Physics Laboratory, JHU, Current position: Sr. Professional Staff, Applied Physics Laboratory, JHU
Dr. Muhammad Rahman, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2018
Dissertation: Understanding the Logical and Semantic Structure of Large Documents
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Postdoc, Center for Language and Speech Processing, JHU, Current position: National Institute of Health
Dr. Qinglei Meng, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2018
Dissertation: Non-invasive Neural Monitoring and Stimulation
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa, First position: NIH NIDA
Dr. Shaokang Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2018
Dissertation: Analysis of Stability and Noise of Passively Modelocked Comb Lasers
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: Risk Modelling Analyst, Aegon, Current position: SubCom
Dr. Edward Raff, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2018
Dissertation: Malware Detection and Cyber Security via Compression
Mentor: Charles Nicholas, First position: Booz Allen Hamilton, Current position: Booz Allen Hamilton
Dr. Darren Emge, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2018
Dissertation: Independent Vector Analysis for Steady State Visually Evoked Potential Data Analysis
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: ARL RDECOM, Current position: ARL RDECOM
Dr. Lee Li-chien, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2018
Dissertation: Hyperspectral Band Selection by Virtual Dimension
Mentor: Chein I Chang
2017
Dr. Alexander Nelson, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2017
Dissertation: ACCESS: An Adaptive Contactless Capacitive Electrostatic Sensing System
Mentor: Nilanjan Banerjee and Ryan Robucci, First position: Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Dr. Ali Jafari, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2017
Dissertation: A Scalable and Low Power Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Multimodal Data Classification in Embedded Real-Time Systems
Mentor: Tinoosh Mohsenin, First position: Research Scientist, Intel Labs, Current position: Research Scientist, Intel Labs
Dr. Abhay Kashyap, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2017
Dissertation: Deep Representation of Lyrical Style and Semantics for Music Recommendation
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Walmart Labs, Current position: Walmart Labs
Dr. Prajit Das, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2017
Dissertation: Context-dependent privacy and security management on mobile devices
Mentor: Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, First position: Cisco, Current position: Cisco
Dr. Bryan Wilkinson, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2017
Dissertation: Identifying and Ordering Scalar Adjectives using Lexical Substitution
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: Visiting Assistant Professor, UMBC, Current position: Miner & Kasch
Dr. Jennifer Sleeman, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2017
Dissertation: Dynamic Data Assimilation for Topic Modeling
Mentor: Tim Finin and Milton Halem, First position: Visiting Assistant Professor, UMBC, Current position: JHUAPL
Dr. Navid Golpayegani, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2017
Dissertation: The Lightweight Virtual File System
Mentor: Milton Halem, First position: NASA, Current position: NASA
Dr. Mark Bolstad, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2017
Dissertation: Rendering Massive Models
Mentor: Marc Olano, First position: Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, Current position: Janelia Research Campus, HHMI
Dr. Nikolaos Baroutis, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2017
Dissertation: Efficient Traffic Morphing Techniques for Boosting Base-Station’s Location Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: Visiting Assistant Professor, UMBC, Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor, UMBC
Dr. Zois Boukouvalas, Ph.D. in Math, August 2017
Dissertation: Development of ICA and IVA Algorithms with Application to Medical Image Analysis
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Research Associate, University of Maryland, College Park, Current position: Assistant Professor, American University
Dr. David J. Mountain, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, May 2017
Dissertation: A General Purpose Neural Processor
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. Amey Mahesh Kulkarni, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, May 2017
Dissertation: Heterogeneous and Scalable Sketch-based Framework for Big Data Acceleration on Low Power Embedded Cores
Mentor: Tinoosh Mohsenin, First position: Autel Robotics, Current position: NVIDIA
Dr. Ahmed Amer Shahin, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, May 2017
Dissertation: Infrastructure-less Group Data Sharing using Smart Devices
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: Assistant Professor , Zagazig University, Egypt, Current position: Assistant Professor , Zagazig University, Egypt
Dr. Clare T. Grasso, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2017
Dissertation: A Semantically Rich Cognitive Search Assistant For Clinical Notes
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. Mary L. Mathews, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2017
Dissertation: Creating a Collaborative Situational-Aware IDS
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. Robert A. Brandon, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2017
Dissertation: Vector Space Models of Executable Code
Mentor: Charles Nicholas, First position: DoD, Current position: Booz Allen Hamilton
Dr. Yin Huang, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2017
Dissertation: InMem: A Parallel Distributed Indexed In-Memory Computation System for Big Data Analytics
Mentor: Yelena Yesha, First position: DoD, Current position: NIST
Dr. Zhichuan Huang, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2017
Dissertation: Data, Energy and Privacy Management Techniques for Sustainable Microgrids
Mentor: Ting Zhu, First position: Sun Yat-sen University, Current position: Research Associate
Dr. Yuri Zvi Levin-schwartz, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2017
Dissertation: Blind Source Separation for Multimodal Fusion of Medical Imaging Data
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, Current position: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Dr. Yue Hu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2017
Dissertation: Modeling Nonlinearity and Noise in High-Current Photodetectors
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, Current position:
Dr. Nelofar Mosavi, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2017
Dissertation: Optical and RF Beam Propagation in Turbulent Media
Mentor: Curtiis Menyuk, First position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Current position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Tanmay Abhay Kulkarni, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2017
Dissertation: Self Powered Glucose Biosensing System
Mentor: Gymama Slaughter
2016
Dr. Timothy J. Blattner, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2016
Dissertation: The Hybrid Task Graph Scheduler
Mentor: Milton Halem, First position: NIST, Current position: NIST
Dr. Grace Crowder, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2016
Dissertation: Content-Based Metadata for Touting in a Distributed Information Retrieval Framework
Mentor: Charles Nicholas, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. Wesley Griffin, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2016
Dissertation: Quality Guided Variable Bit Rate Texture Compression
Mentor: Marc Olano, First position: NIST, Current position: NIST
Dr. Sami S. Alsemairi, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2016
Dissertation: Cross-Layer Techniques for Boosting Base-Station Anonymity in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: Assistant Professor, The Institute of Public Administration, Saudi Arabia, Current position: Assistant Professor, The Institute of Public Administration, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Yao Li, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2016
Dissertation: Recursive Band Processing Algorithms for Finding Unknown Targets in Hyperspectral Imagery
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Amazon, Current position: Tik Tok
Dr. Omar Shehab, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2016
Dissertation: Solving Mathematical Problems in Quantum Regime
Mentor: Samuel Lomonaco, First position: IonQ Inc., Current position: IBM
Dr. Zhiguang (steven) Wang, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2016
Dissertation: Learning Representations and Modeling Temporal Signals: Symbolic Approximation, Deep Learning, Optimization and Beyond
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: GE Global Research, Current position: Head of Engineering, Amber Group
Dr. Robert Holder, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2016
Dissertation: Rapid Plan Adaptation Through Offline Analysis of Potential Plan Disruptors
Mentor: Marie desJardins and Tim Finin, First position: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Current position: Data Scientist at Miner & Kasch
Dr. Yichuan Gui, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2016
Dissertation: Convexification and Deconvexification for Training Artificial Neural Networks
Mentor: Yun Peng, First position: NoizIvy.org, Current position: The Climate Corporation
Dr. Pavan Kumar Kamaraju, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2016
Dissertation: An Automated Method for Analyzing Unstructured Health Data
Mentor: Zary Segal, First position: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Current position: Streem, Inc.
Dr. Cheng Gao, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2016
Dissertation: Finding Endmember Classes and Endmembers in Hyperspectral Image
Mentor: Chein-I Chang
Dr. Hsiao-chi Li, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2016
Dissertation: Simplex Volume Growing Analysis for Finding Endmembers in Hyperspectral Imagery
Mentor: Chein-I Chang
2015
Dr. Yatish Joshi, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2015
Dissertation: Distributed Protocols for Connectivity Restoration in Damaged Wireless Sensor Networks
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: Senior Technical Staff, Cisco, Current position: Technical Leader, Cisco
Dr. Yu Wang, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2015
Dissertation: The Modeling Equation: Solving the Physically-Based Modeling and Animation Problem with a Unified Solution
Mentor: Marc Olano, First position: R&D Core Graphics team at VMware Inc., Current position: R&D Core Graphics team at VMware Inc.
Dr. Yunsu Lee, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2015
Dissertation: Automatic Service Search and Composability Analysis in Large Scale Service Networks
Mentor: Yun Peng, First position: Guest Researcher at NIST
Dr. Tanvir Mahmood, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2015
Dissertation: Polarization-insensitive all-optical dual pump-phase trans-multiplexing from 2 × 10-GBd OOKs to 10-GBd RZ-QPSK using cross-phase modulation in a passive nonlinear birefringent photonic crystal fiber
Mentor: Gary Carter, First position: Senior Optical Systems Engineer, ClariPhy Communications, Current position: Senior Optical Systems Engineer, ClariPhy Communications
Dr. Edward Luzhansky, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2015
Dissertation: Quantum Cascade Lasers Modulation and Applications
Mentor: Fow Sen Choa, First position: Mission Optical Systems Lead at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Current position: Mission Optical Systems Lead at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. Sushmita Rao, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, May 2015
Dissertation: Accurate Dynamic Power Supply Analysis and Delay Estimation
Mentor: Chintan Patel, First position: Altera, Current position: Altera
Dr. John Ward, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, May 2015
Dissertation: Increasing Base-Station Anonymity in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: Group Supervisor, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics lab., Current position: Group Supervisor, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics lab.
Dr. Varish Mulwad, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2015
Dissertation: TABEL — A Domain Independent and Extensible Framework for Inferring the Semantics of Tables
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: UMBC, Current position: GE Research
Dr. Yan Kang, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2015
Dissertation: A Semantic Resolution Framework for Integrating Manufacturing Service Capability Data
Mentor: Yun Peng, First position: Software Engineer at Cerner, Current position: Software Engineer at Cerner
Dr. James Cahill, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2015
Dissertation: Rayleigh-Scattering-Induced Noise in Analog RF-Photonic Links
Mentor: Gary Carter
Dr. Brice Cannon, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2015
Dissertation: Simultaneous Polarization-Insensitive Phase-space Trans-multiplexing and Wavelength Multicasting via Cross-phase Modulation in a Photonic Crystal Fiber at 10 GBd
Mentor: Gary M. Carter, First position: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Current position: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Aaron Delong, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2015
Dissertation: A study of polarization attraction: the first application to a BPSK signal and an evaluation of robustness to transmission impairments
Mentor: Gary Carter, First position: JHU/APL, Current position: JHU/APL
Dr. Huguens Jean, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2015
Dissertation: Paper Form Classification for Information Systems Strengthening in Developing Countries
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: senior engineer, Captricity, Current position: Google
2014
Dr. Randy Schauer, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2014
Dissertation: Using Markov Logic Networks to Provide Autonomic Management of High Performance Computing System Configurations and Operations
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: Raytheon, Current position: Raytheon
Dr. Edward J. Birrane, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2014
Dissertation: Virtual Circuit Provisioning in Challenged Sensor Internetworks, with Application to the Solar System Internet
Mentor: Alan Sherman and Mohammed Younis , First position: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Current position: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Fahad Zafar, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2014
Dissertation: Medical Image Quality Assessment for Stereoscopic Display Devices Using Computational Observers
Mentor: Yaacov Yesha
Dr. Gengshen Fu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2014
Dissertation: Entropy rate estimators and their application to blind source separation
Mentor: Tulay Adali , First position: Amazon, Current position: Amazon
Dr. Lushan Han, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2014
Dissertation: Schema Free Querying of Semantic Data
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Samsung, Current position: ruyi.ai
Dr. Oleg Aulov, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2014
Dissertation: Human Sensor Networks for Disasters
Mentor: Milton Halem, First position: NIST, Current position: NIST
Dr. Edward Birrane, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2014
Dissertation: Circuit Provisioning in Challenged Sensor Internetworks
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: Group Supervisor, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics lab., Current position: Group Supervisor, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics lab.
Dr. Adrian Rosebrock, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2014
Dissertation: A Rapidly Deployable Image Classification System Using Feature Views
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: IDMyPill.com, Current position: IDMyPill.com
Dr. Wortman Dana, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2014
Dissertation: Datasets Using Levels of Abstraction
Mentor: Penny Rheingans, First position: Senior Instructor, University of Colorado – Colorado Springs, Current position: CEO Rabid Troll Studios LLC
Dr. Christopher Morris, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2014
Dissertation: Classification: Application to fMRI and LTM Data
Mentor: Penny Rheingans, First position: Northrop Grumman, Current position: Northrop Grumman
Dr. Wei Du (tu), Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2014
Dissertation: Feature Extraction and Fusion for Supervised and Semi-supervised
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: NIH, Current position: Capital One, Bethesda, MD
Dr. Shi-yu Chen, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2014
Dissertation: Algorithm Design and Analysis for Finding Endmembers in Hyperspectral Imagery
Mentor: Chein-I Chang
Dr. Andrew Paylor, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2014
Dissertation: Second Order Statistics Targets-Specified Virtual Dimensionality
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Northrop Grumman, Current position: Northrop Grumman
Dr. Robert Schultz, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2014
Dissertation: Progressive Band Processing for Hyperspectral Imaging
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Boeing, Current position: Northrup Grummon
Dr. Damon Bradley, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2014
Dissertation: On the Detection of Radio Frequency Interference in Spaceborne Microwave Radiometers using Negentropy Approximations and Complex Kurtosis Coefficients as Test Statistics
Mentor: Joel Morris, First position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Current position: Founder DeepSpace Technologies
Dr. David J. Cornwell, Ph.D. in Math, May 2014
Dissertation: Amplified Quantum Transforms
Mentor: Samuel Lomonaco and Thomas Armstrong, First position: Leidos, Current position: atsec information security
2013
Dr. Lloyd Emokpae, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2013
Dissertation: Design and Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Networks with Reflected Links
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center, Current position: Founder and CEO Lasarrus Clinic and Research Center
Dr. Timothy Leschke, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2013
Dissertation: Applying Data Visualization Techniques to Support the Analysis of Digital Forensic Data
Mentor: Charles Nicholas, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. Benjamin Johnson, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2013
Dissertation: Reference Advice for Word Sense Disambiguation
Mentor: Sergei Nirenburg, First position: CoBrain, Current position: Lecturer, UMBC
Dr. Xianshu Zhu, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2013
Dissertation: Finding Story Chains and Creating Story Maps in Newswire Articles
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: Member Research Staff, Philips, Current position: Invitae
Dr. Michael John Oehler, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2013
Dissertation: Private Packet Filtering Searching for Sensitive Indicators without Revealing the Indicators in Collaborative Environments
Mentor: Dhananjay Phatak, First position: DoD, Current position: United States Naval Academy
Dr. Tyler Simon, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2013
Dissertation: Multiple Objective Task Scheduling for Scalable High Performance Computing
Mentor: Yaacov Yesha, First position: NASA, Current position: DoD
Dr. Shiming Yang, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2013
Dissertation: On Prediction and Estimation for Datastream Utilizing Sparsity and Structure
Mentor: Kostas Kalpakis, First position: Research Assistant, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Dr. Zhonghua Zhu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2013
Dissertation: Reconfigurable Metro-optical Network Enabled by Monolithically Integrated Photonic Devices
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen, First position: CoAdna Photonics, Inc., Current position: CoAdna Photonics, Inc.
Dr. Xing Chen, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2013
Dissertation: High Power Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Laser Array For Standoff Photoacoustic Chemical
Mentor: Fow Sen Choa, First position: NeoPhotonics Corporation
Dr. Dingkai Guoi, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2013
Dissertation: Mid-Infrared Photonic Integration
Mentor: Fow Sen Choa, First position: Entegris, Inc.
Dr. Peter Fu, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2013
Dissertation: Three Dimensional Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis in Predicting Trauma Patient Outcomes Using Vital Signs Signals
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Dr. James Macglashan, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2013
Dissertation: Multi-Source Option-Based Policy Transfer
Mentor: Marie desJardins, First position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Brown University, Current position: Sony AI
Dr. Joel Sachs, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2013
Dissertation: Supporting Citizen Science and Biodiversity Informatics on the Semantic Web
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Current position: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Dr. Rory Mulvaney, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2013
Dissertation: The Haar Wavelet Motif Relating Decision Trees, Neural Networks, and the Rule-Exception Sets
Mentor: Dhananjay Phatak
Dr. Josiah Dykstra, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2013
Dissertation: Digital Forensics for Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing
Mentor: Alan Sherman, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. Matthew Anderson, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2013
Dissertation: Independent Vector Analysis: Theory, Algorithms. and Applications
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Northrop Grumman Corporation, Current position: BAE Systems, Nashua, NH
Dr. Sai Ma, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2013
Dissertation: Analysis of brain network connectivity in fMRI data using spatial information
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: UMBC, Current position: Mystic Valley Regional School, MA
Dr. Pedro Rodriguez, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2013
Dissertation: Data-Driven Group Analysis of Complex-Valued FMRI Data
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Current position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Ganesh Saiprasad, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2013
Dissertation: Automatic Detection of Adrenal Gland Abnormality Using The Random Forest Classification Framework Combined With Histogram Analysis
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: NIST, Current position: NIST
Dr. Albert Kir, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2013
Dissertation: On Optimizing Contrast Quality and Acquisition Time of SSFP-Sequence -Based techniques for Structural and Functional MR Imaging via Extended Phase Graph (EPG) Analysis
Mentor: Joel Morris and Alan McMillan, First position: Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Current position: Magnetic Resonance Research Center
2012
Dr. Kevin Fisher, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2012
Dissertation: Real-Time Progressive Band Processing for Linear Spectral Unmixing and Endmember Extraction
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Current position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. Yasaman Haghpanah Jahromi, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2012
Dissertation: A Trust and Reputation Mechanism Through Behavioral Modeling of Reviewers
Mentor: Marie desJardins, First position: NIST, Current position: Qualtrics
Dr. David Chapman, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2012
Dissertation: A Decadal Gridded Hyperspectral Infrared Record for Climate
Mentor: Milton Halem, First position: Postdoctoral fellow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia, Current position: University of Miami
Dr. Phuong Nguyen, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2012
Dissertation: Data Intensive Scientific Compute Model For Multicore Clusters
Mentor: Milton Halem, First position: UMBC, Current position: Quality Software Services, Inc.
Dr. Niyati Chhaya, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2012
Dissertation: Joint Inference for Extracting Soft Biometric Text Descriptors From Patient Triage Images
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: Adobe, Current position: Adobe
Dr. Karuna Joshi, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2012
Dissertation: Semantically Rich, Policy Based Framework to Automate Lifecycle of Cloud Based Services
Mentor: Yelena Yesha and Tim Finin, First position: Assistant Research Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Current position: Associate Professor, Information Systems, UMBC
Dr. Senel Fatih, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2012
Dissertation: Relay Node Placement for Federating Segmented Wireless Sensor Networks
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Antalya International University,Turkey, Current position: Universität Osnabrück
Dr. Cheng Liwei, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2012
Dissertation: Fabrication and Operation of Integrated Distributed BRAGG Relfector Thermally Tunable Quantum Cascade Lasers
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa, First position: JDSU, Current position: Intel
Dr. Niels Kasch, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2012
Dissertation: Mining Commonsense Knowledge from the Web: Towards Inducing Script-like Structures From Large-scale Text Sources
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: JHU/APL, Current position: Atos zData
Dr. Patti Ordonez Rozo, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2012
Dissertation: Multivariate Time Series Analysis of Physiological and Clinical Data
Mentor: Tim Oates and Marie desJardins, First position: UMBC Training Centers, Current position: Assoc. Prof., UMBC
Dr. David Trimm, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2012
Dissertation: Clustering and Visualization Techniques for Aggregate Trajectory Analysis
Mentor: Penny Rheingans, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. Houcheng Lee, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2012
Dissertation: Diffserv Assured Forwarded and Robust Header Compression: Performance Analysis
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu
Dr. Mohammad Shahine, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2012
Dissertation: Semiconductor Laser Dynamics With Optop-Electric Feedback
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
2011
Dr. Justin Martineau, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2011
Dissertation: Identifying and Isolating Text Classification Signals from Domain and Genre Noise for Sentiment Analysis
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Samsung Research, Current position: Samsung Research
Dr. Dean Wright, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2011
Dissertation: Finding a Temporal Frame Comparison Function for the Metacognitive Loop
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: White Oak Technologies, Current position: Novetta
Dr. Wenjia Li, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2011
Dissertation: A Security Framework to Cope with Node Misbehaviors in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Georgia Southern University, Current position: New York Institute of Technology
Dr. Curt Tilmes, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2011
Dissertation: Enabling Reproducibility of Scientific Data Flows through Tracking and Representation of Provenance
Mentor: Milton Halem and Yelena Yesha, First position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Current position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. Palani Kodeswaran, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2011
Dissertation: On the use of context and policies in declarative networked systems
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: IBM Research, India, Current position: IBM Research, India
Dr. Marc Pickett, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2011
Dissertation: Towards Relational Theory Formation from Undifferentiated Sensor Data
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: Naval Research Laboratory, Current position: Google
Dr. Soumi Ray, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2011
Dissertation: Discovery of theoretical entities
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: National Library of Medicine, NIH, Current position: National Library of Medicine, NIH
Dr. Jaewook Kim, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2011
Dissertation: A Semantic Analysis of XML Schema Matching for B2B Systems Integration
Mentor: Yun Peng kh, First position: Oracle, Current position: Google
Dr. Fuesane Cheng, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2011
Dissertation: Cover Model Pivot Indices for Flexible, Adaptable and Agile Systems
Mentor: Yelena Yesha, First position: Travelers Indemnity Co., Current position: Travelers Indemnity Co.
Dr. Keng-hao Liu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2011
Dissertation: Progressive Band Prioritization and Selection of Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Academic Sinica, Taiwan (postdoc), Current position: National Sun Yet Sen University, Taiwan
Dr. Englin Wong, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2011
Dissertation: Partial Volume estimation of Magnetic Resonance Image Using Linear Spectral Mixing Analysis
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Current position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. Wei Xiong, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2011
Dissertation: Estimation of Effective Spectral Dimensionality for Hyperspectral Imagery
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Airvana (Boston), Current position: HBO
2010
Dr. Richard Carback, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2010
Dissertation: Engineering Practical End-to-End Verifiable Voting Systems
Mentor: Alan Sherman, First position: Convergent Technologies, Current position: Convergent Technologies
Dr. Russell Fink, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2010
Dissertation: Applying trustworthy computing to End-to-End electronic voting
Mentor: Alan Sherman, First position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Current position: Senior Professional Staff, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Haleh Safavi, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2010
Dissertation: Hyperspectral data dimensionality reduction and applications
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Engineer, NASA, Current position: Engineer, NASA
Dr. Qiang Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2010
Dissertation: Coherent beam combining through mutual injection locking of individual lasers
Mentor: Li Yan, First position: Infinera, Current position: Equinix
Dr. Zareen Syed, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2010
Dissertation: Wikitology: A novel hybrid knowledge base derived from wikipedia
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan, Current position: IBM Research
Dr. Jesse English, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2010
Dissertation: Learning by reading: Automatic knowledge extraction through semantic analysis
Mentor: Sergei Nirenburg, First position: UMBC, Current position: Senior Research Scientist, RPI
Dr. Sourav Mukherjee, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2010
Dissertation: Stochastic graph grammars: Parameter learning and applications
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: Microsoft, Current position: Faculty, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Dr. Edward Zieglar, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2010
Dissertation: Issues and approaches to generalizing two-party authentication protocols for multi-party authentication
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. John Krautheim, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, May 2010
Dissertation: Building trust into utility cloud computing
Mentor: Dhananjay Phatak and Alan Sherman, First position: DoD, Current position: Broadcom
Dr. Xiaoli Jiao, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2010
Dissertation: Unsupervised target detection and classification for hyperspectral imagery
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Postdoctor, SAIC, Current position: Postdoctor, SAIC
Dr. Donald Miner, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2010
Dissertation: A framework for predicting and controlling system-level properties of agent-based models
Mentor: Marie desJardins, First position: ClearEdge IT Solutions, Current position: EMC Greenplum
Dr. Sookyoung Lee, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2010
Dissertation: Optimized relay node placement for federating wireless sensor sub-networks
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: Post Doc, UMBC, Current position: Ewha Womans University, Korea
Dr. Nicolle Correa, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2010
Dissertation: Fusion of multiple neuroimaging modalities using canonical correlation analysis
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Amazon.com Inc., Current position: Amazon.com Inc.
Dr. Olukayode Okusaga, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2010
Dissertation: Study of dual injection-locked optoelectronic oscillators
Mentor: Gary Carter, First position: Army Research Laboratory, Current position: Army Research Laboratory
Dr. Muhammad Talukder, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2010
Dissertation: Analysis of self-induced transparency modelocking of quantum cascade lasers
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: Assistant Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,, Current position: Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
2009
Dr. Mikhail Itskovich, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2009
Dissertation: VLSI design of an integrated system for Iddt testing
Mentor: Jim Plusquellic, First position: UMBC, Current position: Department of Commerce
Dr. Parag Namjoshi, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2009
Dissertation: Computational problems in haplotype inference
Mentor: Kostas Kalpakis, First position: Agnik LLC, Current position: Agnik LLC
Dr. Kamalika Das, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2009
Dissertation: Privacy preserving distributed data mining based on multi-objective optimization and algorithmic game theory
Mentor: Hillol Kargupta, First position: NASA Ames Research Center, Current position: Intuit
Dr. Jesus Caban, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2009
Dissertation: Generation and visualization of relational statistical deformation models for morphological image analysis
Mentor: Penny Rheingans, First position: National Institute of Health, Current position: US Navy Brain Trauma Center
Dr. Ekarat Laohavaleeson, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, August 2009
Dissertation: VLSI modules for power supply monitor and power analysis countermeasure
Mentor: Chintan Patel, Current position:
Dr. Michael Novey, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2009
Dissertation: Complex ICA using nonlinear functions
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Northrop Grumman, Current position: Northrop Grumman
Dr. Blazej Bulka, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2009
Dissertation: Efficient planning using plan libraries to capture the structure of the state space
Mentor: Marie desJardins, First position: Clark & Parsia, Current position: Google
Dr. Abdelrahman Desoky, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, May 2009
Dissertation: Nostega: A Novel Noiseless Steganography Paradigm
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: Independent Consultant, Current position: Workday
Dr. Adam Anthony, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2009
Dissertation: Stochastic and iterative techniques for relational data clustering
Mentor: Marie desJardins, First position: Assistant Professor, Baldwin-Wallace University, Current position: InfluxData
Dr. Eric Eaton, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2009
Dissertation: Selective knowledge transfer for machine learning
Mentor: Marie desJardins, First position: Lockheed Martin, Current position: Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Michael Smith, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2009
Dissertation: A new model for trust and reputation: Learning about competence and commitment
Mentor: Marie desJardins, First position: MITRE, Current position: MITRE
Dr. Akshay Java, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2009
Dissertation: Mining Social Media Communities and Content
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Microsoft Live Labs, Current position: Google
Dr. Yiou Li, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2009
Dissertation: Novel second-order methods for data-driven fMRI analysis
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, Current position: Micro Focus, Sunnyvale, CA
Dr. Wei Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2009
Dissertation: Novel data-driven methods for target detection and classification and their application to Raman spectroscopy
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Intelligent Automation Inc., Current position: Intelligent Automation Inc.
Dr. Chao-cheng Wu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2009
Dissertation: Design and analysis of maximum simplex volume-based endmember extraction algorithms
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology,, Current position: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology,
Dr. Zhipeng Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2009
Dissertation: Micro-ring based planar lightwave circuit devices for optical communications
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen, First position: Infinera, Current position: Ciena Communications
Dr. Jiazheng Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2009
Dissertation: Micro-ring based planar lightwave circuit devices for optical communications
Mentor: Joel Morris
2008
Dr. Dhruva Acharyya, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2008
Dissertation: Hardware results demonstrating the effectiveness of defect detection and fault localization using multiple supply pad based IDDT measurements
Mentor: Jim Plusquellic, First position: IBM, Current position: Verigy
Dr. Reza Rad, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2008
Dissertation: Detection & Localization of Hardware Trojans through Analysis of Power Ports Transient Signals
Mentor: Jim Plusquellic, First position: UMBC, Current position: Maxlinear Inc
Dr. Yongmei Shi, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2008
Dissertation: An investigation of linguistic information for speech recognition error detection
Mentor: Scott Cost and Lina Zhou, First position: Research Assoc, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Current position: Research Assoc, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. James Parker, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2008
Dissertation: Observation techniques for detecting malicious behavior in ad hoc networks
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. Paul Mcnamee, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2008
Dissertation: Textual representations for corpus-based bilingual retrieval
Mentor: Charles Nicholas, First position: Principal Computer Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Current position: Senior Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Thomas Briggs, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2008
Dissertation: Constraint generation and reasoning in OWL
Mentor: Yun Peng, First position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Shippensburg State University, Current position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Shippensburg State University
Dr. Hualiang Li, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2008
Dissertation: Complex-valued adaptive signal processing using Wirtinger calculus and its application to independent component analysis
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Research Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Current position: Cognizant, Hartford, CT
Dr. Chia-chien Wei, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2008
Dissertation: All-optical signal processing in optical communication systems
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Zhihang Hu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2008
Dissertation: Analysis of chalcogenide-glass photonic crystal fibers
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: Princeton University, Current position: Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Baylor University
Dr. Suresh Reddy Purini, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2008
Dissertation: Studies in bounded query hierarchies
Mentor: Richard Chang, First position: Postdoc, TIFR, Mumbai, Current position: Assistant Prof, IIIT, Hyderabad
Dr. Sethuram Kodeswaran, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2008
Dissertation: Content and context aware networking using semantic tags
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: Broadwing Corporation (Corvis Operations), Current position: American Institutes for Research
Dr. Shilang Tang, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2008
Dissertation: Data and energy management in wireless sensor networks
Mentor: Kostas Kalpakis, First position: Association of American Medical Colleges, Current position: Association of American Medical Colleges
Dr. Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2008
Dissertation: From sensors to structures: Unsupervised language learning
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Wheaton College, Current position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Wheaton College
Dr. William Astar, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2008
Dissertation: 10 Gb/s polarization-insensitive OOK-to-BPSK modulation format conversion using a single SOA, and its performance in OOK/DBPSK mixed-modulation format, long-haul DWDM transmission
Mentor: Gary Carter, First position: UMBC, Current position: UMBC
Dr. Wei-min Liu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2008
Dissertation: Unsupervised hyperspectral target detection
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: postdoctor, Naval Medical Research Center, Current position: postdoctor, Naval Medical Research Center
Dr. Bharath Ramakrishna, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, May 2008
Dissertation: Computer Aided Detection (CAD) for Meniscal and Articular Cartilages on Magnetic Resonance (MR) Images
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: software engineer, UCLA hospital
Dr. Kanishka Bhaduri, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2008
Dissertation: Efficient local algorithms for distributed data mining in large scale peer to peer environments: A deterministic approach
Mentor: Hillol Kargupta, First position: Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, Current position: Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
Dr. Souptik Datta, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2008
Dissertation: Analysis on hyperspectral signature coding
Mentor: Hillol Kargupta, First position: Industry, Current position: Director, Data Science, Genesis Media LLC
Dr. Marcella Wilson, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2008
Dissertation: The comparison of online social networks in terms of structure and evolution
Mentor: Charles Nicholas, First position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Current position: Lecturer, Department of Technology and Security, Bowie State University
Dr. Waleed Youssef, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2008
Dissertation: Intelligent gateways placements techniques for improved dependability of wireless sensor networks
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: IBM Networks Solutions, Current position: IBM Networks Solutions
Dr. Sumit Chakravarty, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2008
Dissertation: Probabilistic approximate algorithms for distributed data mining in peer-to-peer networks
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Engineer, WV, Current position: Assistant Professor, New York Polytech. University
Dr. Yonglin Gu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2008
Dissertation: Design, fabrication and characterization of hetero-PN-junction devices for photovoltaic and photodetection applications
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa
Dr. Song Han, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2008
Dissertation: Ultrafast dual-gain-media neodymium:glass laser
Mentor: Li Yan
2007
Dr. Pranam Kolari, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2007
Dissertation: Detecting spam blogs: An adaptive online approach
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Yahoo!, Current position: Walmart Labs
Dr. Haimonti Dutta, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2007
Dissertation: Empowering scientific discovery by distributed data mining on the grid infrastructure
Mentor: Hillol Kargupta, First position: Research Scientist, Columbia University, Current position: Research Scientist, Columbia University
Dr. Alark Joshi, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2007
Dissertation: Art-inspired techniques for visualizing time-varying data
Mentor: Penny Rheingans, First position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Yale University, Current position: Professor of Computer Science, University of San Francisco
Dr. Mingkai Hsueh, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, August 2007
Dissertation: Reconfigurable Computing for Algorithms in Hyperspectral Image Processing
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Software Engineer, Gatan, CA, Current position: Software Engineer, Gatan, CA
Dr. Olga Ratsimor, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2007
Dissertation: Opportunistic bartering of digital goods and services in pervasive environments
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Intelligent Automation Inc, Current position: DoD
Dr. Jiping Wen, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2007
Dissertation: Investigation of performance statistics in a high bit-rate terrestrial WDM system
Mentor: Gary Carter
Dr. Anand Patwardhan, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2007
Dissertation: Trustworthy data management in pervasive environments
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: Cougaar Software, Current position: Cougaar Software
Dr. Kun Liu, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2007
Dissertation: Multiplicative Data Perturbation for Privacy Preserving Data Mining
Mentor: Hillol Kargupta, First position: IBM Research, Current position: Yahoo! Labs
Dr. Mahesh Sivakumar, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2007
Dissertation: Architectures and Algorithms for Survivable Wavelength-Shared Optical WDM Mesh Networks
Mentor: Krishna Sivalingam, First position: Cisco Systems
Dr. Hua Jiao, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2007
Dissertation: Investigation of the combined effect of polarization-mode dispersion and polarization-dependent loss on system performance
Mentor: Gary Carter
Dr. Jingzhou Yan, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2007
Dissertation: Novel indium phosphide based broadband bipolar cascade lasers and broadband gain materials: Designs, MOCVD growth studies, and fabrications
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa, Current position:
Dr. Oleg Sinkin, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2007
Dissertation: Calculation of Bit Error Rates in Optical Fiber Communications Systems in the Presence of Nonlinear Distortion and Noise
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: Tyco Telecom, Current position: Tyco Subcom
2006
Dr. Yong Rao, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2006
Dissertation: Automatic multimedia content analysis and management
Mentor: Padma Mundur, First position: Amazon, Current position: Yahoo!
Dr. Qianjun Xu, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2006
Dissertation: Active Querying for Semi-Supervised Clustering
Mentor: Marie desJardins, First position: Microsoft, Current position: Microsoft
Dr. Rong Pan, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2006
Dissertation: Semantically-linked Bayesian network: A framework for probabilistic inference over multiple Bayesian networks
Mentor: Yun Peng, First position: Industry, Current position: NexTag
Dr. Thomas Goff, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2006
Dissertation: Network connection striping by end systems
Mentor: Dhananjay Phatak
Dr. Jianxin Cai, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2006
Dissertation: Advanced Photonic Devices Fabricated by Selective-Area-Growth Techniques
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa, Current position:
Dr. Abhishek Singh, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, May 2006
Dissertation: An Analytical Framework for Defect Simulation and Estimation of Power Grid Effects in Defect-based Test Methodologies
Mentor: Jim Plusquellic
Dr. Li Ding, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2006
Dissertation: Enhancing Semantic Web Data Access
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Current position: CTO ruyi.ai
Dr. Dan Scholnik, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2006
Dissertation: Shared Wideband Transmit Antenna Arrays: Optimal Pattern Synthesis and Spatio-temporal Delta-sigma Modulation
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: NRL, Current position: NRL
Dr. Baohong Jiao, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2006
Dissertation: Constrained Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: GIS developer, Tetra Tech, Fairfax, VA, Current position: GIS developer, Tetra Tech, Fairfax, VA
Dr. Jing Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2006
Dissertation: Applications of Independent Component Analysis to Hyperspectral Data Exploitation
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Xerox , NY, Current position: Logsitics, CA
Dr. Su Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2006
Dissertation: Statistical Signal Processing Applications to Hyperspectral Signature Characterization
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Postdoctor, SUNY, medical school, Current position: Engineer, SONY, CA
Dr. Aihua Guo, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2006
Dissertation: Traffic Engineering with Quality-of-Service in Multi-layer GMPLS Optical Networks
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen, First position: ADVA Optical Networking, Current position: ADVA Optical Networking
Dr. Xiangjun Zhao, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2006
Dissertation: Optical Components and Subsystems Used in Optical Packet Switching Networks: Theory and Experiments
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa, First position: Research Engineer at Chorum, Current position: Google Fiber
2005
Dr. Matthew Gaston, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2005
Dissertation: Organizational learning and network adaptation in multi-agent systems
Mentor: Marie desJardins, First position: DoD, Current position: Director,SEI Emerging Technology Center, CMU
Dr. Zhongli Ding, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2005
Dissertation: BayesOWL: A probabilistic framework for uncertainty in semantic web
Mentor: Yun Peng, First position: Amazon, Current position: Google
Dr. Guoyun Ru, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2005
Dissertation: Slab-coupled buried waveguide high power semiconductor laser and optical amplifier
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa, First position: Coherent
Dr. Sasikanth Avancha, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2005
Dissertation: A holistic approach to secure sensor networks
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: IBM Research, Current position: IBM Research
Dr. Vasundhara Puttagunta, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2005
Dissertation: Computations over data streams
Mentor: Kostas Kalpakis, First position: Google, Current position: Microsoft
Dr. Hai Xu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2005
Dissertation: Investigation of the polarization mode dispersion effects in recirculating loop systems
Mentor: Gary Carter
Dr. Xiaohui Yang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2005
Dissertation: The Enabling Technologies in Reconfigurable Wdm Networks
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Jie Lin, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2005
Dissertation: InP-Based Photonic Integrated Modulator
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa, First position: Associate Professor, Current position: JDSU
Dr. Aurenice Oliveira (lima), Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2005
Dissertation: Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Computation of Penalties Induced by Polarization Mode Dispersion in Optical Fiber Transmission Systems
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: Assistant Professor, School of Technology, Michigan Technological University, Current position: Assistant Professor, School of Technology, Michigan Technological University
Dr. Eleanor Chlan, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2005
Dissertation: Botanically Inspired Visualization: Exploring Hierarchical Data Sets with Extent and Variation
Mentor: Penny Rheingans, First position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Current position: Associate Program Chair for Computer Science, Information Assurance, and Information Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University WSE Engineering for Professionals
Dr. Ying Zhang, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2005
Dissertation: Routing and Multicasting in WDM and ADHOC Networks
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu
Dr. Kemal Akkaya, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2005
Dissertation: Energy and QoS aware routing protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
Mentor: Mohamed Younis, First position: Asst. Prof., Southern Illinois University, Current position: Prof., Florida International University
Dr. Wenze Xi, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2005
Dissertation: Maximum Likelihood Electronic Equalization and Integrated Coding and Equalization for Optical Communications Systems
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: NIH, Current position: Staff Scientist, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Dr. Amitkumar Mahadevan, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2005
Dissertation: On RCD codes as a class of LDPC codes: Properties, decoding, and performance evaluation
Mentor: Joel Morris
Dr. Xiao Lin, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2005
Dissertation: Optical Channel Monitoring Based on Integrated Planar Lightwave Circuits and Fast Fourier Transform Technologies
Mentor: Li Yan
2004
Dr. Lik (harry) Chen, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2004
Dissertation: An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Image Matters LLC, Current position: Curbside
Dr. Lalana Kagal, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2004
Dissertation: A Policy-Based Approach to Governing Autonomous Behavior in Distributed Environments
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Current position: Principal Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Dr. Xiaocheng Luan, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2004
Dissertation: Adaptive Middle Agent for Service Matching in the Semantic Web: A Quantitative Approach
Mentor: Yun Peng and Tim Finin, First position: Aquilent, Current position: Everyday Health
Dr. Ali Bicak, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2004
Dissertation: Zone Routing In Mobile Ad Hoc and Peer-to-Peer Networks
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu, First position: TeleniX Corporation, Current position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Marymount University
Dr. Elbert Nhan, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2004
Dissertation: Polarization Stability of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers With Asymmetric Aperture Geometries
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Youyong Zou, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2004
Dissertation: Agent-Based Services for the Semantic Web
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: ImageMatters LLC, Current position: Serco
Dr. Dipanjan Chakraborty, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2004
Dissertation: Service Discovery and Composition in Pervasive Environments
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: IBM Research, Current position: Penn State
Dr. Anocha Yimsiriwattana, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2004
Dissertation: Distributed Quantum Computing
Mentor: Samuel Lomonaco
Dr. Chauhan Lee, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2004
Dissertation: Spectrum-Encoded Optical CDMA Systems Employing Planar Lightwave Circuit Technology
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Filip Perich, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2004
Dissertation: On peer-to-peer data management in pervasive computing environments
Mentor: Anupam Joshi, First position: Cougaar Software, Current position: Google
Dr. Jeffrey Undercoffer, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2004
Dissertation: Intrusion Detection: Modeling System State to Detect and Classify Aberrant Behaviors
Mentor: John Pinkston , First position: DoD, Current position: senior executive, DoD
Dr. Vadim Okun, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2004
Dissertation: Specification mutation for test generation and analysis
Mentor: Yaacov Yesha, Current position:
Dr. Chintan Patel, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, 2004
Dissertation: Defect Detection and Diagnosis Using Quiescent Signal Analysis
Mentor: Jim Plusquellic, First position: UMBC, Current position: UMBC
2003
Dr. Gargi Banerjee Dasgupta, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2003
Dissertation: Traffic Engineering and Performance. Optimization in IP jMPLS Networks
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu, First position: IBM Research, New Delhi, Current position: IBM Research, New Delhi
Dr. Olga Streltchenko, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2003
Dissertation: Exploring Trading Dynamics in a Derivative Securities Market of Heterogeneous Agents
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Algorithmics Inc, Current position: Export Development Canada
Dr. Yu Sun, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2003
Dissertation: Polarization Effects in a Recirculating Loop System and System Using a Recirculating Loop
Mentor: Gary Carter
Dr. Wei Chen, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2003
Dissertation: WDM Filter in All Optical Network
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Ivan Lima, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2003
Dissertation: Investigation of the Performance Degradation Due to Polarization Effects in Optical Fiber Communication Systems
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University, Current position: Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University
Dr. William Martin, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2003
Dissertation: The Weight Enumerator Function For the RCD Array Codes: A Class of Regular LDPC Codes
Mentor: Joel Morris
Dr. Koustuv Dasgupta, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2003
Dissertation: Efficient resource management techniques in distributed data systems
Mentor: Kostas Kalpakis, First position: IBM Research, New Delhi, Current position: Senior Research Scientist, Xerox India Innovation Hub
Dr. Yingzi Du, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2003
Dissertation: Text Detection and Restoration for Color Video Images
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Research Assistant Professor, Naval Academy, MD, Current position: Director of Engineering, Qualcomm
Dr. Kerri Guilfoyle, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2003
Dissertation: Application of Linear and Nonlinear Mixture Models to Hyperspectral Imagery Analysis Using Radial Basis Function Neural Networks
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. Jianwei Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2003
Dissertation: Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) Design for Real-time Implementation of Hyperspectral Detection and Classification Algorithms
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Senior Engineer, Applied Materials, CA
Dr. Jochen Dorring, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2003
Dissertation: Ultra-fast, All-optical Signal Processing Techniques for Reconfigurable Networks
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Ronald Holzloehner, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2003
Dissertation: A Covariance Matrix Method for the Computation of Bit Errors in Optical Transmission Systems
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: Max-Planck Institute, Erlangen, Germany, Current position: European Southern Observatory, Munich, Germany
Dr. Charles Laberge, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2003
Dissertation: On Turbo-coded hybrid ARQ techniques constrained by Time Division Multiplex Signal Formats
Mentor: Joel Morris, First position: Honeywell Aerospace Research & Tech Cnt. (concurrent), Current position: Professor of the Practice, UMBC
Dr. Edward Perl, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2003
Dissertation: Analysis of Signaling in IP/WDM Networks
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu
2002
Dr. Wei Lu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2002
Dissertation: Ultrashort Pulse Generation from Actively Mode-Locked Broadband Inhomogenously Broadened Lasers
Mentor: Li Yan
Dr. Naomi Avigdor, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2002
Dissertation: Building a Scalable and Reliable Parallel File System Using Commodity Computer
Mentor: Charles Nicholas
Dr. Vince Calhoun, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2002
Dissertation: Independent Component Analysis for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Assistant Professor, Hartford University, and Dept. of Psychiatry, Yale University, Current position: Professor, Depts. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Neurosciences, Psychiatry and Computer Science, University of New Mexico Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Yale University
Dr. Taehwan Kim, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2002
Dissertation: Fully-Complex Multilayer Perceptron and Its Application to Communications
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: The MITRE Corporation, VA, Current position: The MITRE Corporation, El Segundo, CA
Dr. Ye Chen, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2002
Dissertation: An extended Bayesian belief network model of multi-agent systems for supply chain management
Mentor: Yun Peng, First position: SAP
2001
Dr. Ali Selcuk, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2001
Dissertation: Probabilistic optimization techniques for multicast key management and bias estimation in linear cryptanalysis
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu, First position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Bilkent University, Turkey, Current position: Professor, TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Dr. Shan Zhong, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2001
Dissertation: Planar waveguide based optical performance monitoring techniques and their applications in all-optical networks
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Ruo-mei Mu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2001
Dissertation: Comparison of the chirped return-to-zero and dispersion managed soliton modulation formats in wavelength division multiplexed systems
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: Tyco Telecom, Current position: Tyco Subcom
Dr. Yi Cai, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2001
Dissertation: On Forward Error Correction Codes and Line-coding Schemes in Optical Fiber Communications
Mentor: Tulay Adali and Joel Morris, First position: TyCom, Ltd, Current position: Tyco Subcom
Dr. Hongmei Ni, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2001
Dissertation: Partial Likelihood for Nonlinear Signal Processing and its Applications in Communications
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Hughes Network Systems, Current position: Wireless Highways, Vienna, VA
Dr. Shao-shan Chiang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2001
Dissertation: Automatic Target Detection and Classification in Hyperspectral Imagery
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Assistant Professor, Long Hua University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, Current position: Professor of Electrical Engineering, Long Hua University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Dr. Daniel Heinz, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2001
Dissertation: Constrained Least Squares Approaches to Target Detection and Image Classification for Remotely Sensed Images
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Northop Grumann, Current position: STC
Dr. Ian Soboroff, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2001
Dissertation: Combining content-based and collaborative filtering
Mentor: Charles Nicholas, First position: NIST, Current position: NIST
2000
Dr. Sanjay Joshi, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2000
Dissertation: Joint-domain representations using discrete-domain frames
Mentor: Joel Morris, First position: Lucent, Current position: Globus Medical
Dr. William Freeman, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2000
Dissertation: Decentralized Security for Network-Attached Storage
Mentor: Ethan Miller, First position: DoD, Current position: Northrop Grumman
Dr. Bo Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2000
Dissertation: Frequency Domain Approaches for Equalizer Design for Discrete Multitone Systems
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Aware Tech. Inc., Current position: Aware Tech., Inc.
Dr. Qian Du, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2000
Dissertation: Topics in Hyperspectral Image Analysis
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M, Kingsville, Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and COmputer Engineering, Mississippi State University
Dr. Agustin Ifarraguerri, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2000
Dissertation: Hyperspectral Image Analysis with Convex Cones and Projection Pursuit
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: US Army, Edgewood, Current position: Engineer, SAIC, VA
Dr. Hsuan Ren, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2000
Dissertation: Unsupervised and Generalized Orthogonal Subspace Projection and Constrained Energy Minimization for Target Detection and Classification in Remotely Sensed Imagery
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: Assistant Professor, National Central University, Taiwan, Current position: Associate Professor, National Central University, Taiwan
Dr. Paul Thouin, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2000
Dissertation: Image Restoration of Low Resolution Text and Document Images
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. Se (richard) Chung, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2000
Dissertation: Metal-organic chemical vapor deposition of gallium nitride semiconductor
Mentor: JC Chen
Dr. Ding Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2000
Dissertation: Polarization effects in dense WDM system
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: 3M Corporation, Current position: 3M Corporation
Dr. Tao Yu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2000
Dissertation: Optimal Pulse Formats in Optical Fiber Communication Systems
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: Nortel, Current position: General Photonics Corporation
1999
Dr. Richard Cott Cost, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 1999
Dissertation: A framework for developing conversational agents
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Research Assistant Professor, UMBC, Current position: Chief Scientist, Information Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Sashi Lazar, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1999
Dissertation: Enterprise network management using intelligent mobile agents
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu
Dr. Robert Rosenberry, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1999
Dissertation: Signaling protocols and network architectures in ATM environments
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu
Dr. Jen-yu Fan, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1999
Dissertation: Design, fabrication and application of photonic components for all-optical networking and switching
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa, First position: Adtech Optics, Current position: unk
Dr. Liming Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1999
Dissertation: A bandwidth-on-demand access network based on integrated tunable coherent transceivers
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa, Current position:
Dr. Linglan Zhang (edwards), Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1999
Dissertation: Computational models for the formation of protocell structures
Mentor: Yun Peng, Current position:
Dr. Wiliam Maughan, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1999
Dissertation: Towards network security management in an Internetwork environment
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu, First position: DoD, Current position: Division Director, Cyber Security Division, DHS Science and Technology Directorate
1998
Dr. Paula Reitan, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 1998
Dissertation: Hybrid Approaches to Color Image Quantization
Mentor: Charles Nicholas, First position: NASA GSFC, Current position: Internal Revenue Service
Dr. Muhammad Rabi, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 1998
Dissertation: Relationships among algebraic and security properties of cryptographic functions, and a security architecture for intelligent agents
Mentor: Alan Sherman and Tim Finin
Dr. Bradley Fordham, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 1998
Dissertation: The evolving data model: Modeling electronic commerce and other semanti-centric domains
Mentor: Yelena Yesha, First position: NIST, Current position: Oracle
Dr. Shih-hsiang Hsu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 1998
Dissertation: Monolithically integrated receiver module for high-speed wavelength division multiplexing applications
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Ellis Clarke, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1998
Dissertation: The empirical use of continuous variables in Bayesian belief networks for exploratory data analysis
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Maryland Medical Research Institute
Dr. Timothy Gibson, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1998
Dissertation: Long-term UNIX File System Activity and the Efficacy of Automatic File Migration
Mentor: Ethan Miller, First position: US Army, Current position: Hewlett Packard
Dr. Ishan Weerakoon, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1998
Dissertation: Hierarchical mobile user location tracking: Design and analysis
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu
Dr. Clark Brumbley, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1998
Dissertation: Kalman Filtering and Subspace Projection Approaches to Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Classification
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: DoD, Current position: deceased
Dr. John Hryniewicz, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1998
Dissertation: Chemically assisted ion beam etching for photonics applications
Mentor: Yung-Jui Chen
Dr. Haifeng Li, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1998
Dissertation: Wavelength-division-multiplexing photonic integrated circuits using phased-array waveguide grating multi/demultiplexers
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Jye-hong Chen, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1998
Dissertation: Opto-electronic devices and subsystems for all-optical networks
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa, Current position:
Dr. Dongsheng Wu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1998
Dissertation: Time-frequency signal analysis via Cohen’s class of distributions and implementation algorithms
Mentor: Joel Morris
1997
Dr. Vasileios Megalooikonomou, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 1997
Dissertation: Quantization of distributed estimation with unknown observation statistics
Mentor: Yelena Yesha, First position: Temple University, Current position: Temple University
Dr. Xiao Liu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 1997
Dissertation: Canonical piecewise linear network and distribution learning for nonlinear filtering
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: GlobeSpan Semiconductor Inc, Current position: GlobeSpan Semiconductor Inc
Dr. Raja Holavanahali, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 1997
Dissertation: Sensors using phase modulation fluorometry
Mentor: Gary Carter
Dr. Wenhua Lin, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 1997
Dissertation: Phased-array waveguide grating multi/demultiplexers and their applications in wavelength division multiplexing networks
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Michael Grasso, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1997
Dissertation: Speech Input in Multimodal Environments: Effects of Perceptual Structure on Speed, Accuracy, and Acceptance
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine,University of Maryland School of Medicine, Current position: Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine,University of Maryland School of Medicine
Dr. Mirela Djordjevic-stojkovic, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1997
Dissertation: Proof Transformations in Constructive Type Theory
Mentor: James Sasaki, First position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Manhattanville College, Current position: Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Manhattanville College
Dr. Jianhua Xuan, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1997
Dissertation: Medical image understanding: Segmentation, modeling and representation
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America, Current position: Professor, Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA.
Dr. Yen-ping Ho, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1997
Dissertation: .Grating based multi/demultiplexing devices for wavelength division multiplexing network systems
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Mei-hao Shih, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1997
Dissertation: Integrated photonic devices for optical communication and interconnect
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa
1996
Dr. Yannis Labrou, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 1996
Dissertation: Semantics for an agent communication language
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: UMBC, Current position: Fujitsu Research
Dr. David Lazoff, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 1996
Dissertation: Network reliability and optimal resource allocation in distributed database systems
Mentor: Brooke Stephens
Dr. Vincent Marier, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1996
Dissertation: Diagnosing faults in protocol testing
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD, retired
Dr. Raghu Vallurupalli, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1996
Dissertation: Protocol testing hierarchies, maximum fault coverage and fault diagnosis
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu
Dr. Alexander Wenjia, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1996
Dissertation: Channel Assignment and location Tracking in Wireless Networks
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu, First position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Towson Univ., Current position: Professor of Computer Science, Towson University,
Dr. Odysseas Pentakalos, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1996
Dissertation: Performance evaluation of hierarchical mass storage systems
Mentor: Yelena Yesha, First position: BearingPoint, Current position: Northrop Gruman
1995
Dr. Youhong Lu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 1995
Dissertation: Biorthogonal-like functions and their application to generalized Gabor expansions, and signal processing
Mentor: Joel Morris
Dr. Yue Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1995
Dissertation: MRI statistics and model-based MR image analysis
Mentor: Tulay Adali, First position: Georgetown University, Current position: Grant A. Dove Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Dr. Rita Doerr (mccardell), Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1995
Dissertation: LexicalSemantic and Statistical Approach to Lexical Collocation
Mentor: James Mayfield, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. Kao-yang Huang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1995
Dissertation: Characteristics and applications of frequency modulation of gallium arsenide external cavitiy lasers
Mentor: Gary Carter
Dr. Mark Althouse, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1995
Dissertation: Vapor Cloud Detection in Multispectral Infrared Image Sequences Using Co-occurrence Matrix Methods
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: US Army, Current position: DoD
Dr. Venkata Chinni, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1995
Dissertation: Numerical Study of Integrated Optical Waveguide Devices
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: Ranch Neworks, Current position: General Partner at Sterling iCapital
1994
Dr. Konstantinos Kalpakis, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 1994
Dissertation: Parallel Computations
Mentor: Yaacov Yesha, First position: UMBC, Current position: UMBC
Dr. Thomas Anastasio, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1994
Dissertation: Mapping of dataflow programs by local structure analysis
Mentor: Howard Motteler, First position: UMBC, Current position: Salisbury State University, retired
Dr. Claudia Pearce, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1994
Dissertation: A dynamic hypertext environment through n-gram analysis
Mentor: Charles Nicholas, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. Larry Wagoner, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1994
Dissertation: Group theory as a basis for searching and routing techniques
Mentor: Brooke Stephens, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
Dr. David Flater, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1994
Dissertation: Towards a global federation of heterogeneous resources
Mentor: Yelena Yesha, First position: NIST, Current position: NIST
Dr. Liu Zheng, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1994
Dissertation: Picosecond pulse generation and compression using semiconductor lasers: Experiments and simulations
Mentor: Gary Carter
Dr. Mingcho Wu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1994
Dissertation: Monolithically integrated photonic devices for optical interconnect applications
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Venkata Chinni, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1994
Dissertation: Numerical Study of Integrated Optical Waveguide Devices
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: AT&T Bell Labs, Current position: Datum Global
1993
Dr. Raj Nair, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 1993
Dissertation: Analysis of routing algorithms for large networks
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu, First position: Netrix Corporation, Current position: CTO, Azuki Systems
Dr. Joseph Harsanyi, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 1993
Dissertation: Detection and Classification of Subpixel Spectral Signatures in Hyperspectral Image Sequences
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: President, ASIT, Current position: President, ASIT
Dr. Shukri Abdallah, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1993
Dissertation: Routing in hierarchical networks
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu, First position: FORE Systems, Current position: Software Engineer, Ericsson
1992
Dr. Vivek Srinivas, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 1992
Dissertation: Exciton dynamics in gallium arsenide quantum wells
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Win-tsung Lo, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1992
Dissertation: Location on tree networks and allocation on Hypercube multiprocessors
Mentor: Shietung Peng
Dr. Anthony Chung, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1992
Dissertation: Length optimization and fault coverage of protocol test sequences
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu, First position: Assistant Professor, College of Computing, Depaul University, Current position: Associate Professor, College of Computing and Digital Media, Depaul University
Dr. Ralph Semmel, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1992
Dissertation: A knowledge-based approach to automated query formulation
Mentor: James Mayfield, First position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Current position: Director, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
1991
Dr. Linda Rosenberg Wilbanks, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1991
Dissertation: Canto: A hypertext data model
Mentor: Charles Nicholas, First position: NASA GSFC, Current position: CIO, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (retired)
Dr. John Alexander, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1991
Dissertation: An analysis of the general properties and convergence of a connectionist model employing probability data as weights and parameters
Mentor: Brooke Stephens, First position: Towson Univ., Current position: now Prof. Emeritus
Dr. Che-fen Tang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1991
Dissertation: Adaptive array systems using QR-based RLS and CRLS techniques with systolic array architectures
Mentor: S. Tretter and K. Liu
Dr. Wooyoung Soh, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1991
Dissertation: Episodic learning through conceptual clustering in a parallel activation model for diagnostic reasoning
Mentor: James Mayfield, First position: Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, Hannam University, Current position: Professor of Computer Engineering, Hannam University
1990
Dr. Roberta Sabin, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1990
Dissertation: Metacyclic error-correcting codes
Mentor: Samuel Lomonaco, First position: Loyola University Maryland, Current position: Professor (Emeritus) Computer Science Department, Loyola University
Dr. Keith Gallagher, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1990
Dissertation: Using program slicing in software maintenance
Mentor: James Lyle, First position: Loyola University in Maryland, Current position: Florida Institute of Technology
Dr. Gur Adhar, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1990
Dissertation: Parallel algorithms for problems involving perfect graphs
Mentor: Shei-Tung Peng, First position: UNC Wilmington, Current position: now a Professor at UNCW
Dr. Yuan-bao Shieh, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1990
Dissertation: Modeling and integration of fault tolerance techniques in distributed systems
Mentor: Shietung Peng
1989
Dr. Moon-seog Jun, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1989
Dissertation:
Mentor: Shei-Tung Peng, First position: Morgan State University, Current position: Soongsil University, Korea
1988
Dr. Thomas Hudson, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1988
Dissertation: Design and analysis of several parallel algorithms for multiplying very large integers
Mentor: Shei-Tung Peng, First position: DoD, Current position: DoD
1985
Dr. Sanjeev B Ahuja, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1985
Dissertation: An artificial intelligence environment for the analysis and classification of errors in discrete sequential processes (simulation, abduction, diagnostic, set-covering, modeling)
Mentor: Jim Reggia, First position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Neurology, University of Maryland Institute of Advanced Computer Studies, Current position: Progressive Intelligence Inc.