Dissertation Defense Announcements

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Vaishakh Krishnan

Dec. 3, 2020 - Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: "Statistical Modeling of Ship Airwakes Including the Feasibility of Applying Machine Learning"


Avijit Das

Dec. 2, 2020 - Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Learning and Optimization for Real-Time Microgrid Energy Management Systems "

Eric Nieves


Eric Nieves

Nov. 23, 2020 -Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: "Applying Blind Source Separation to Magnetic Anomaly Detection"

Charles Wheelus


Charles Wheelus

Nov. 20, 2020 - Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Network Feature Engineering and Data Science Analytics forCyber Threat Intelligence"

Konstantinos Tountas


Konstantinos Tountas

Nov. 13, 2020 - Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Connected Multi-domain Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence: Autonomous Localization, Networking, and Data Conformity Evaluation"

Kazi Naimul Hoque


Kazi Naimul Hoque

Nov. 12, 2020 - Department ofOcean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: "A Reference Architecture forNetwork Function Virtualization"


Roxana M. Herschelman

Sept. 17, 2020 -Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Spatial Network Big Data Approaches to Emergency Management Information Systems"

Piyush Jain


Piyush Jain

July 17, 2020 - Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "HPCC based Platform for COPD Readmission Risk Analysis with implementation of Dimensionality reduction and balancing techniques"

Paul Gorday


Paul Gorday

June 22, 2020 - Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Machine Learning Demodulator Architectures for Power-Limited Communications"

Min Shi


Min Shi

June 12, 2020 - Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Multifaceted Embedding Learning for Networked Data and Systems"

Mazhar Sher


Mazhar Sher

Apr. 3, 2020 - Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Development of Point-of-Care Assays for Disease Diagnostic and Treatment Monitoring for Resource-Constrained Settings"


Kristina Francke

Apr. 1, 2020 - Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: "Empirical Analysis of theDissipated Acoustic Energy in Wave Breaking"


Feng Liu

Apr. 1, 2020 - Department ofElectrical Engineering & Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Meta-Learning and Ensemble Methods for Deep Neural Networks"

Bishow Shaha


Bishow Shaha

Mar. 26, 2020 - Department ofCivil, Environment, and Geomatics Engineering

Dissertation Title: "Critical Evaluation of Leachate Clogging Potential in Gravity Collection Systems and Management Solutions"

Abdulrahman K. Alnaim


Abdulrahman K. Alnaim

Feb. 27, 2020 - Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Towards a Security Reference Architecture for Network Function Virtualization"

Ahmed M. Alwakeel


Ahmed M. Alwakeel

Feb. 27, 2020 - Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "A Reference Architecture for Network Function Virtualization"

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