We are very proud of our Ph.D. graduates, who contributed to the advance of knowledge in their fields as a doctoral students and continue to contribute in their current positions in academia, industry or government organizations. A total of 244 students have received a Ph.D. degree from the Department since Dr. Sanjeev Ahuja completed his dissertation in 1986 on the application of abductive reasoning to analyzing and classifying errors in discrete sequential processes. We also maintain a list of the Department's Ph.D. candidates.
244 students have received a Ph.D. degree from the Department since 1986.
2013
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. 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
Dr. Pedro Rodriguez, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2013
Dissertation: Data-Driven Group Analysis of Complex-Valued FMRI Data
Mentor: Tulay Adali
Dr. Matthew Anderson, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2013
Dissertation: Independent Vector Analysis: Theory, Algorithms. and Applications
Mentor: Tulay Adali
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
Dr. Damon Bradley, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2013
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
Dr. James Macglashan, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2013
Dissertation: Multi-Source Option-Based Policy Transfer
Mentor: Marie desJardins, First position: Brown University, Current position: Brown University
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
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. Rory Mulvaney, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2012
Dissertation: The Haar Wavelet Motif Relating Decision Trees, Neural Networks, and the Rule-Exception Sets
Mentor: Dhananjay Phatak
Dr. Ganesh Saiprasas, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2012
Dissertation: Automatic Detection of Adrenal Gland Abnormality Using The Random
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: NIST, Current position: NIST
Dr. Karuna Joshi, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2012
Dissertation: Forest Classification Framework Combined With Histogram Analysis
Mentor: Yelena Yesha and Tim Finin, First position: UMBC, Current position: UMBC
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: UMBC
Dr. David Chapman, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2012
Dissertation: A Decadal Gridded Hyperspectral Infrared Record for Climate
Mentor: Milton Halem, First position: Columbia, Current position: Columbia
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
Dr. Niyati Chhaya, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2012
Dissertation: Joint Inference for Extracting Soft Biometric Text Descriptorsfrom Patient Triage Images
Mentor: Tim Oates, First position: Adobe, Current position: Adobe
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: Antalya International University,Turkiye, Current position: Antalya International University,Turkiye
Dr. Mohammad Shahine, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2012
Dissertation: Semiconductor Laser Dynamics With Optop-Electric Feedback
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Houcheng Lee, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2012
Dissertation: Diffserv Assured Forwarded and Robust Header Compression: Performance Analysis
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu
Dr. Patti Ordóñez 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: Asst. Prof., University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras
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. 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: EMC, Current position: EMC
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: White Oak Technologies
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. 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: Academic Sinica, Taiwan (postdoc)
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 Dimentionality for Hyperspectral Imagery
Mentor: Chein-I Chang, First position: software engineer, Airvana (Boston), Current position: software engineer, Airvana (Boston)
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. 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: Naval Research Laboratory
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. 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. Jaewook Kim, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2011
Dissertation: A Semantic Analysis of XML Schema Matching for B2B Systems Integration
Mentor: Yun Peng, First position: Oracle, Current position: Oracle
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: Asst. Prof., Georgia Southern University, Current position: Asst. Prof., Georgia Southern University
2010
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, NIH
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: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Current position: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Dr. Frank 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: DoD
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. 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: UMBC
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. 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. 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: UMBC
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: National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
Dr. Sourav Mukherjee, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2010
Dissertation: Stochastic graph grammars: Parameter learning and applications
Mentor: Timothy Oates, First position: Microsoft, Current position: Microsoft
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: JHU/APL, Current position: JHU/APL
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
2009
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: Asst Prof, EE, National Taipei University of Tech., Current position: Asst Prof, EE, National Taipei University of Tech.
Dr. Jiazheng Wang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2009
Dissertation: Micro-ring based planar lightwave circuit devices for optical communications
Mentor: Joel Morris
Dr. Adam Anthony, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2009
Dissertation: Stochastic and iterative techniques for relational data clustering
Mentor: Marie desJardins, First position: Baldwin-Wallace College, Current position: Baldwin-Wallace College
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: Bryn Mawr College
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. 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: Independent Consultant
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. 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: Microsoft
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: Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco
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. 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. 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: Clark & Parsia
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. 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: NASA Ames Research Center
Dr. Mikhail Itskovich, Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, December 2009
Dissertation: VLSI design of an integrated system for Iddt testing
Mentor: Jim Plusquellic
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. 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
2008
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
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: Engineer, NASA subcontractor
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. 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. 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: Thompson Reuters
Dr. Song Han, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2008
Dissertation: Ultrafast dual-gain-media neodymium:glass laser
Mentor: Li Yan
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2008
Dissertation: From sensors to structures: Unsupervised language learning
Mentor: Timothy Oates, First position: Wheaton College, Current position: Wheaton College
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: JH/APL, Current position: JHU/APL
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: Baylor University
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. Chia-chien Wei, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2008
Dissertation: All-optical signal processing in optical communication systems
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
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. 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: Research Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Dr. Thomas Briggs, Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2008
Dissertation: Constraint generation and reasoning in OWL
Mentor: Yun Peng, First position: Shippensburg State University, Current position: Shippensburg State University
2007
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. 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 Disortion and Noise
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: Tyco Telecom, Current position: Tyco Subcom
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
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. 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. 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. 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. 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: Intelligent Automation Inc
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: Columbia University, Current position: 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: Yale University, Current position: Boise State University
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: Yahoo!
2006
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 Exploitatio
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. 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: Design engineer at InPhenix
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. 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. Li Ding, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2006
Dissertation: Enhancing Semantic Web Data Access
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: Stanford, Current position: RPI
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. 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
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. 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!
2005
Dr. Ying Zhang, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2005
Dissertation: Routing and Multicasting in WDM and ADHOC Networks
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu
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
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: Assoc. Prof., Southern Illinois 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: JHU/APL, Current position: JHU/APL
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. 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. 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: Michigan Technical University, Current position: Michigan Technical University
Dr. Jie Lin, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2005
Dissertation: InP-Based Photonic Integrated Modulator
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa
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. Vasundhara Puttagunta, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2005
Dissertation: Computations over data streams
Mentor: Kostas Kalpakis
Dr. Xiaohui Yang, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2005
Dissertation: The Enabling Technologies in Reconfigurable Wdm Networks
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
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
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: Co-Director, CMU SEI Cyber Innovation Center
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
2004
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: Shared Spectrum Co.
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: 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. 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: IBM Research
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. Anocha Yimsiriwattana, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 2004
Dissertation: Distributed Quantum Computing
Mentor: Samuel Lomonaco
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: Lockheed Martin
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: Asst Prof, 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. 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 Maters LLC, Current position: Apple
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: MIT, Current position: MIT
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. 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. 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: Assistant Prof, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
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: NSA, Current position: NSA
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. 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. Edward Perl, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2003
Dissertation: Analysis of Signaling in IP/WDM Networks
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu
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: UMBC
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. 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. Ivan Lima, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2003
Dissertation: Investigation of the Performance Degredation Due to Polarization Effects in Optical Fiber Communication Systems
Mentor: Curtis Menyuk, First position: North Dakota State University, Current position: North Dakota State University
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. 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. Wei Chen, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2003
Dissertation: WDM Filter in All Optical Network
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
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: RBC Capital Markets
2002
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
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: CTO & Director, Image Analysis and MR Research, Mind Research Network, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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. Wei Lu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, December 2002
Dissertation: Ultrashort Pulse Generation from Actively Mode-Locked Broadband Inhomogenously Broadened Lasers
Mentor: Li Yan
2001
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
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: Prof, 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: Engineer, US Army subcontractor
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: Joel Morris and Tulay Adali, First position: TyCom, Ltd
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. 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. 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 Profesor of Computer Science, Bilkent University, Turkey, Current position: Assistant Profesor of Computer Science, Bilkent University, Turkey
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
2000
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 University, Kingsvlle, Current position: Associate Professor, 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: NSA, Current position: NSA
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
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. Se (richard) Chung, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2000
Dissertation: Metal-organic chemical vapor deposition of gallium nitride semiconductor
Mentor: JC Chen
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.
Dr. Sanjay Joshi, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 2000
Dissertation: Joint-domain representations using discrete-domain frames
Mentor: Joel Morris
1999
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
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. 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, Current position:
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
Dr. Richard Cost, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 1999
Dissertation: A framework for developing conversational agents
Mentor: Tim Finin, First position: UMBC, Current position: JHU/APL
1998
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: NSA, Current position: deceased
Dr. Ishan Weerakoon, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1998
Dissertation: Hierarchical mobile user location tracking: Design and analysis
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu
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. Jye-hong Chen, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1998
Dissertation: Opto-electronic devices and subsystems for all-optical networks
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa
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
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. 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. John Hryniewicz, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1998
Dissertation: Chemically assisted ion beam etching for photonics applications
Mentor: Yung-Jui Chen
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. 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. 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. 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
1997
Dr. Mei-hao Shih, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1997
Dissertation: Integrated photonic devices for optical communication and interconnect
Mentor: Fow-Sen Choa
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. Mirela Djordjevic-stojkovic, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1997
Dissertation: Proof Transformations in Constructive Type Theory
Mentor: James Sasaki, Current position:
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, Current position:
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: Associate Professor, Virginia Tech.
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. 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. 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
1996
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 Wijesinha, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1996
Dissertation: Channel Assignment and location Tracking in Wireless Networks
Mentor: Deepinder Sidhu, First position: Towson Univ., Current position: Towson Univ.
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
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. 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
1995
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: NSA
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
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. 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. 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: Professor, Virginia Tech
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
1994
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
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. 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. 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. 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. Mingcho Wu, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 1994
Dissertation: Monolithically integrated photonic devices for optical interconnect applications
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
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. Konstantinos Kalpakis, Ph.D. in Computer Science, August 1994
Dissertation: Parallel Computations
Mentor: Yaacov Yesha, First position: UMBC, Current position: UMBC
1993
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
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. 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
1992
Dr. Ralph Semmel, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1992
Dissertation: A knowledge-based approach to automated query formulation
Mentor: James Mayfield, First position: JHU/APL, Current position: Director, JHU/APL
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: DePaul University, Current position: DePaul University
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. Vivek Srinivas, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, August 1992
Dissertation: Exciton dynamics in gallium arsenide quantum wells
Mentor: Ray (YJ) Chen
1991
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
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. Linda Rosenberg, Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1991
Dissertation: Canto: A hypertext data model
Mentor: Charles Nicholas, First position: NASA GSFC, Current position: US Navy – NCIS
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
1990
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
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: Prof. Loyoya U. Maryland. Former Chair of CS)
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
1986
Dr. Sanjeev Ahuja, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1986
Dissertation: An artificial intelligence environment for the analysis and classification of errors in discrete sequential processes (simulation, abduction, diagnostic, set-covering, modelling)
Mentor: Jim Reggia, First position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Neurology, University of Maryland Institute of Advanced Computer Studies, Current position: KPMG International
