Thesis & Dissertation Defenses
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| Time & Place | Student & Advisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 07/26/2021 3:00PM CDT Online/Virtual |
Parth Riddhish Sanghani Advisor: Dr. Christoph Eick |
M.S. Thesis: Reinforcement Learning Approach For UH Leduc Poker (UHLPO) |
| 07/22/2021 10:00AM CDT Online/Virtual |
Terry Hodgson Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah |
M.S. Thesis: Defining and Assessing a Novel Spatio-Chromatic Basis for Unsupervised, Class-Agnostic Scene Segmentation |
| 07/16/2021 1:00PM CDT Online/Virtual |
Aobo Jin Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Object Oriented 3D Modeling from a Single View Sketch |
| 06/09/2021 2:00PM CDT Online/Virtual |
Brian Holtkamp Advisors: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok and Dr. Chang Yun |
Ph.D. Proposal: A Framework for Measuring and Improving VR Competency |
| 05/19/2021 10:30AM CDT Online/Virtual |
Sikder Tahsin Al Amin Advisor: Dr. Carlos Ordonez |
Ph.D. Proposal: Efficient Machine Learning on Data Science Languages with Data Summarization |
| 05/18/2021 11:00AM CDT Online/Virtual |
Nazanin Beheshti Advisor: Dr. Lennart Johnsson |
Ph.D. Proposal: Classification of 3D images using ML, Focusing on resource efficiency: memory, “work”, energy |
| 05/14/2021 3:00PM CDT Online/Virtual |
Pavan Kumar Paluri Advisor: Dr. Albert M.K. Cheng |
Ph.D. Proposal: Hierarchical Real-Time Scheduling in Virtualized Systems: Design, Implementation and Optimization |
| 05/07/2021 3:00PM CDT Online/Virtual |
Mohammad Rajiur Rahman Advisors: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok and Dr. Shishir Shah |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Visual Summarization of Lecture Videos to Enhance Navigation |
| 05/07/2021 1:00PM CDT Online/Virtual |
Farah Naz Chowdhury Advisors: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok and Dr. Thamar Solorio |
M.S. Thesis: Identifying Important Predictor Variables in Keyword Generation for Lecture Videos |
| 05/07/2021 12:00PM CDT Online/Virtual |
Shoumik Sharar Chowdhury Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah |
M.S. Thesis: Anomaly Detection from Videos using Graph Convolution Networks |
| 05/07/2021 10:00AM CDT Online/Virtual |
Amirreza Shirani Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio |
Ph.D. Dissertation: NLP-enabled Design Assistance For Visual Communication |
| 05/05/2021 1:00PM CDT Online/Virtual |
Elena Torre Advisor: Dr. Albert M.K. Cheng |
B.S. Senior Honors Thesis: Fault Tolerance in a Two-State Regularity-Based Checkpointing System |
| 04/30/2021 3:00PM CDT Online/Virtual |
Guangli Dai Advisor: Dr. Albert M.K. Cheng |
Ph.D. Proposal: Resource Partitioning in Real-Time Virtualized Systems: Optimization, Implementation, and Application |
| 04/30/2021 11:00AM CDT Online/Virtual |
Nour Smaoui Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Improving angle and time estimation for concurrent Ultra-wideband localization through transmitter-side techniques |
| 04/27/2021 10:00AM CDT Online/Virtual |
Yifan Zhang Advisor: Dr. Arjun Mukherjee |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Discover Fine-Grained Latent Information using Pre-Trained Language Models |
| 03/22/2021 9:00AM CST Online/Virtual |
Jose Velazco-Garcia Co-Advisor: Dr. Ernst Leiss Co-Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos |
Ph.D. Proposal: Platform for Interactive Immersion into Imaging Data with Augmented Reality Interface |
| 12/08/2020 1:00 PM CST Online/Virtual |
Siddhesh Singh Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel |
Ph.D. Proposal: Parallel I/O on Compressed Data Files |
| 12/07/2020 9:00 AM CST Online/Virtual |
Raafat Feki Advisor: Dr. Edgar Gabriel |
Ph.D. Proposal: Parallel I/O in Low Latency Storage Systems |
| 12/02/2020 10:00 AM CST Online/Virtual |
Miloud Aqqa Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Compression Artifact Removal for Improved Video Analytics |
| 11/23/2020 10:00 AM CST Online/Virtual |
Zechun Cao Advisor: Dr. Stephen Huang |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Intrusion Detection Based on Network Packet Latency and Hacker's Behavior |
| 11/19/2020 10:00 AM CST Online/Virtual |
Gustavo Aguilar Alas Advisor: Dr. Thamar Solorio |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Neural Sequence Labeling on Social Media Text |
| 11/16/2020 11:00 AM CST Online/Virtual |
Avisha Das Advisor: Dr. Rakesh Verma |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Proactive Defense through Automated Attack Generation: A Multi-pronged Study of Generated Deceptive Content |
| 11/12/2020 2:30 PM CST Online/Virtual |
Nour Smaoui Advisor: Dr. Omprakash Gnawali |
Ph.D. Proposal: Concurrent UWB localization: a scalable, efficient, cost-effective and accurate approach |
| 11/05/2020 10:00 AM CST Online/Virtual |
Daneil Biediger Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok |
Ph.D. Proposal: Dynamic Shortest Hamiltonian Path with Variable Threat Weights in Countering Swarm Threats |
| 11/05/2020 1:00 PM CST Online/Virtual |
Oluwamayowa Adeleke Advisor: Dr. Deniz Gurkan |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Application Agnostic Network Traffic Modeling for Realistic Traffic Generation |
| 10/23/2020 3:00 PM CDT Online/Virtual |
Duong Nguyen Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Multi-scale Coherent Structure Extraction and Visualization for Flow Analysis |
| 10/22/2020 1:00 PM CDT Online/Virtual |
Mohammed Alshair Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok |
Ph.D. Proposal: Enhancing Therapists’ User Experiences in Utilizing Remote Virtual Communicator Immersive Therapy Tools for Patients with Autism |
| 09/15/2020 2:30 PM CDT Online/Virtual |
Mohammad Rajiur Rahman Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok |
Ph.D. Proposal: Visual Summarization of Lecture Video Segments for Enhanced Navigation |
| 09/09/2020 4:00PM CDT Online/Virtual |
Yifan Zhang Advisor: Dr. Arjun Mukherjee |
Ph.D. Proposal: Sentiment and Style Analysis via Pre-trained Language Models |