Thesis and Project Repository
This page contains recent Ph.D. Dissertations, Ph.D. Comprehensives, M.S. Theses and M.S. Project Reports.
2016-2017
| Student Name | Title | Document Type | Advisor Name |
| Alan Cleary |
Ph.D. |
Brendan Mumey |
2015-2016
| Student Name | Title | Document Type | Advisor Name |
| Patrick Donnelly |
Learning Spectral Filters for Single- and Multi-label Classification of Musical Instruments |
Ph.D. Thesis |
John Sheppard |
| Utkarsh Goel | Ph.D. Comprehensive |
Mike Wittie |
|
| Isaac Griffith |
Design Pattern Decay - A Study of Design Pattern Grime and its Impact on Quality and Technical Debt |
Ph.D. Comprehensive |
Clem Izurieta |
| Aaron Hall | Ph.D. Thesis |
Rocky Ross, Denbigh Starkey |
|
| Guangchi Liu |
Trust Assessment in Online Social Networks |
Ph.D. Comprehensive |
Qing Yang |
| Logan Perreault |
Improved Scalability and Expressiveness for Continuous Bayesian Networks |
Ph.D. Comprehensive |
John Sheppard |
| Hasari Tosun |
Efficient Machine Learning Using Partitioned Restricted Boltzmann Machines |
Ph.D. Thesis |
John Sheppard |
| Sean Yaw |
Scheduling for Optimized Network Resource Utilization #SmartGrid #Cloud |
Ph.D. Comprehensive |
Brendan Mumey |
| Peng Zou | M.S. Thesis |
Binhai Zhu |
2014-2015
| Student Name | Title | Document Type | Advisor Name |
| Nathan Fortier |
Inference and Learning in Bayesian Networks Using Overlapping Swarm Intelligence |
Ph.D. Thesis |
John Sheppard |
| Doug Galarus | Ph.D. Comprehensive |
Rafal Angryk |
|
| Isaac Griffith |
Technical Debt Management in Release Planning - A Decision Support Framework |
M.S. Thesis |
Clem Izurieta |
| Chang Liu | Heterogeneous Data Integration for Operations and Travel Information Integration Sharing | M.S. Thesis |
Qing Yang |
| Rachael Luhr | The Application of Technical Debt Mitigation Techniques to a Multidisciplinary Software Project | M.S. Thesis |
Clem Izurieta |
| Karthik Ganesan Pillai |
Modeling Spatiotemporal Co-occurrence Patterns (STCOPs) |
Ph.D. Thesis |
Rafal Angryk, |
| Michael Schuh |
High Dimensional Data Indexing with Applications |
Ph.D. Comprehensive |
Rafal Angryk, |
| Michael Schuh |
High Dimensional Data Indexing with Applications |
Ph.D. Thesis |
Rafal Angryk, |
| Shane Strasser |
An Empirical and Theoretical Analysis of Factored Evolutionary Algorithms |
Ph.D. Comprehensive |
John Sheppard |
| Hasari Tosun |
Atomic Energy Models for Machine Learning: Atomic Restricted Boltzmann Machines |
Ph.D. Comprehensive |
John Sheppard |
2013-2014
| Student Name | Title | Document Type | Advisor Name |
| Melissa Dale | M.S. Thesis | Clem Izurieta | |
| Nathan Fortier |
Inference and Learning in Bayesian Networks Using Overlapping Swarm Intelligence |
Ph.D. Comprehensive | John Sheppard |
| Ivan Judson | Algorithmic Aspects of Resource Allocation in Cognitive Radio Wireless Networks | Ph.D. Thesis | Brendan Mumey |
|
Xiaoming Li |
Interpersonal Trust Measurements from Social Interactions in Facebook | M.S. Thesis | Qing Yang |
| Karthik Ganesan Pillai | Mining Spatiotemporal Co-occurrence Patterns from Massive Data Sets with Evolving Regions | Ph.D. Comprehensive | Rafal Angryk, Piet Martens |
| Nick Ryhajlo | Fuzzy Bayesian Networks for Prognostics and Health Management | M.S. Project | John Sheppard |
| Liessman Sturlaugson | Extending Inference in Continuous Time Bayesian Networks | Ph.D. Comprehensive | John Sheppard |
| Liessman Sturlaugson | Extending Inference in Continuous Time Bayesian Networks | Ph.D. Thesis | John Sheppard |
| Tim Wylie | The Discrete Fréchet Distance With Applications | Ph.D. Thesis | Binhai Zhu |
2012-2013
| Student Name | Title | Document Type | Advisor Name |
| Eben Howard | Cascading Impact of Lag on User Experience in Cooperative Multiplayer Games | M.S. Thesis | Mike Wittie |
| Daniel Salinas | An Enumerative Approach to Computing Cut Sets in Metabolic Networks | M.S. Thesis | Brendan Mumey |
| Tim Wylie | The Discrete Fréchet Distance and Applications | Ph.D. Comprehensive | Binhai Zhu |
2011-2012
| Student Name | Title | Document Type | Advisor Name |
| Patrick Donnelly | Bayesian Approaches to Musical Instrument Classification Using Timbre Segmentation | Ph.D. Comprehensive | John Sheppard |
| Jeff Elser | Search Engine Tuning with Genetic Algorithms | M.S. Project | John Paxton |
| Andrew Hamilton | An Anytime Algorithm for Trust Propagation in Social Networks | M.S. Project | John Sheppard |
| Ivan Judson | Investigating Topology Control and Cognitive Radios to Exploit Television Whitespace in Building Spare Broadband Networks | Ph.D. Comprehensive | Brendan Mumey |
| Adib Roy | Active Learning Animations for the Theory or Computing: The FSA Simulator | M.S. Project | Rocky Ross |
2010 - 2011
| Student Name | Title | Document Type | Advisor Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Banda | Framework for Creating Large-Scale Content-Based Image Retrieval System (CBIR) for Solar Data Analysis | Ph.D. Comprehensive | Rafal Angryk |
| Juan Banda | Framework for Creating Large-Scale Content-Based Image Retrieval System (CBIR) for Solar Data Analysis | Ph.D. Thesis | Rafal Angryk |
| Grant Nelson | VIDESUPRA: An Astrophysics Simulator | M.S. Thesis | Denbigh Starkey |
| Travis Schanz | A Taxonomy of Modular Grime in Design Patterns | M.S. Thesis | Clem Izurieta |
| Scott Wahl | Error-Bounded Probabilistic Graphical Model Simplification | Ph.D. Comprehensive | John Sheppard |
| Leif Wickland | PHP Acceleration in the Cloud | M.S. Project | Rocky Ross |