440 students have received a Ph.D. degree from the Department since 1985.
2025
Dr. Kasra Darvish, Ph.D. in CS, 2025
Dissertation: From Perceptions to Meaning: Multimodal and Contrastive Machine Learning to Ground Human Intentions and Language
Mentors: Cynthia Matuszek and Frank Ferraro
Dr. Luke Richards, Ph.D. in CS, 2025
Dissertation: Assurance of Machine Learning for Human-Robot Interaction
Mentors: Cynthia Matuszek
Dr. Janerra Allen, Ph.D. in EE, 2025
Dissertation: Functional magnetic resonance imaging of spatiotemporal brain dynamics in patients with schizophrenia
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
Dr. Hasibul Hasan, Ph.D. in EE, 2025
Dissertation: System development and machine learning for binding protein-based glucose monitoring platform for online bioprocess monitoring
Mentors: Gary Carter
First Position: RICOVR Healthcare
Dr. Farshad Safavi, Ph.D. in CS, 2025
Dissertation: Emotion Recognition via Multimodal Fusion for Human–Robot Interaction Using Deep Learning
Mentors: Ramana Vinjamuri
2024
Dr. Cyrus Bonyadi, Ph.D. in CS, 2024
Dissertation: Toward a Unified, Hierarchical Ontology of Consensus Proofs in Autonomous Distributed Computing
Mentors: Alan Sherman
Dr. Enis Golaszewski, Ph.D. in CS, 2024
Dissertation: Automatically Binding Cryptographic Context to Messages in Network Protocols Using Formal Methods
Mentors: Alan Sherman
Dr. Sai Sree Laya Chukkapalli, Ph.D. in CS, 2024
Dissertation: Towards Preserving Privacy and Building Trust Among the User’s of Cyber Physical Systems
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: IBM
Current Position: IBM
Dr. Anantaa Kotal, Ph.D. in CS, 2024
Dissertation: Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing Using Generative Models
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: University of Texas at El Paso
Current Position: University of Texas at El Paso
Dr. Priyanka Ranade, Ph.D. in CS, 2024
Dissertation: Neurosymbolic Narrative Construction from Open Source Intelligence
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Jayalakshmi Mangalagiri, Ph.D. in CS, 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 CS, 2024
Dissertation: Advanced Semi-supervised Tensor Decomposition Methods for Malware Characterization
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
First Position: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Current Position: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. Robert Joyce, Ph.D. in CS, 2024
Dissertation: Investigating Antivirus Scan Results as a Source of Features and Labels for Machine Learning
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
First Position: King Khalid University
Current Position: Booz Allen Hamilton
Dr. Rachit M. Sood, Ph.D. in CE, 2024
Dissertation: Fabrication and Testing of Photonics and Electronics Devices
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
First Position: Phase Sensitive Innovations, Inc.
Dr. Mehdi Rezaee, Ph.D. in CS, 2024
Dissertation: From Latent Knowledge Gathering to Side Information Injection in Discrete Sequential Models
Mentors: Frank Ferraro
First Position: Machine Learning Engineer, Adobe
Current Position: Machine Learning Engineer, Adobe
Dr. Muntasir Mahmud, Ph.D. in EE, 2024
Dissertation: Protocols for Air-Water Communication and Underwater Localization using Nonlinear Optoacoustic Links
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
Dr. Shorooq Alaskar, Ph.D. in CS, 2024
Dissertation: Optimized Dynamic Electric Vehicles Charging in Smart Cities
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
Dr. Abdulaziz Alshaeri, Ph.D. in CS, 2024
Dissertation: Supporting Secure and Privacy-Preserving Interactions in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: Assistant Professor King Khalid University
Dr. Mona Alkanhal, Ph.D. in CS, 2024
Dissertation: Lightweight Mutual Authentication Protocols for IoT Systems
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
Dr. Md Toufiq Hasan Anik, Ph.D. in CE, 2024
Dissertation: The Impact of Device Aging on the Resiliency of Cryptographic Devices Against Physical Attacks
Mentors: Naghmeh Karimi
Dr. Dingyi Pei, Ph.D. in EE, 2024
Dissertation: The Role of Synergies in Controlling Human-Machine Interfaces
Mentors: Ramana Vinjamuri
Dr. Rui Jin, Ph.D. in EE, 2024
Dissertation: Flexible FMRI Data Analysis Using Machine Learning
Mentors: Seung-Jun Kim
Dr. Khondoker Hossain, Ph.D. in CS, 2024
Dissertation: Trojan (Backdoor) Attack Detection in Deep Neural Networks
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: Research Scientist, GE Aerospace
Current Position: Research Scientist, GE Aerospace
Dr. Mohammad Mahmudul Alam, Ph.D. in CS, 2024
Dissertation: Neuro-symbolic Representations and their Applications to Deep Learning
Mentors: Tim Oates and Ed Raff
First Position: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. Arnab Neelim Mazumder, Ph.D. in CE, 2024
Dissertation: Reg-Tune: A Regression-focused Fine-tuning Technique for Energy-efficient Embedded Deployment
Mentors: Tinoosh Mohsenin
Dr. Hasib-Al Rashid, Ph.D. in CE, 2024
Dissertation: HAC-M-DNN: Hardware Aware Compression of Sustainable Multimodal Deep Neural Networks for Efficient Real-time Edge Deployment
Mentors: Tinoosh Mohsenin
First Position: Zywie, Inc.
Current Position: Amazon Web Services
Dr. Bharat Prakash, Ph.D. in CS, 2024
Dissertation: Language Guided Hierarchical Agents
Mentors: Tinoosh Mohsenin and Tim Oates
First Position: Qualcomm
Current Position: Qualcomm
Dr. Benjamin R. Gabrielson, Ph.D. in EE, 2024
Dissertation: Efficient Methods for Higher-Order Factorizations: Accuracy, Scalability, and Generalization
Mentors: Tülay Adali
Dr. Lawrence J. Sebald, Ph.D. in CS, 2024
Dissertation: Shigure – A high-performance object storage system with rich metadata provided by a distributed ledger
Mentors: Yaacov Yesha
2023
Dr. Aritran Piplai, Ph.D. in CS, 2023
Dissertation: Knowledge Graphs and Reinforcement Learning: a Hybrid Approach for Cybersecurity Tasks
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso
Dr. Nicholas R. Allgood, Ph.D. in CS, 2023
Dissertation: A Quantum Solution for Calculation of Optimal Cluster Centers
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
First Position: KetPsiShield
Current Position: KetPsiShield
Dr. Hedyeh Bagherzadeh, Ph.D. in EE, 2023
Dissertation: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Investigations for Novel Coil Designs
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
Dr. Md Sadique Hasan, Ph.D. in EE, 2023
Dissertation: Instrumentation, microfluidics and machine learning for rapid, ultrasensitive, and high throughput bioburden detection
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa and Govin Rao
First Position: ORISE Fellow, FDA
Current Position: ORISE Fellow, FDA
Dr. Vipin Pillai, Ph.D. in CS, 2023
Dissertation: Learning Explainable Models using Self-Supervised Learning
Mentors: Hamed Pirsiavash
First Position: Amazon
Current Position: Amazon
Dr. Akshayvarun Subramanya, Ph.D. in CS, 2023
Dissertation: A Closer Look at Adversarial Robustness of Deep Networks for Visual Recognition
Mentors: Hamed Pirsiavash
First Position: Apple
Current Position: Apple
Dr. Qitao Xie, Ph.D. in EE, 2023
Dissertation: Deep Learning Based Chatbot in Fintech Applications
Mentors: Jianwu Wang and Qingquan Zhang
First Position: Endurance International Group
Current Position: Endurance International Group
Dr. Michael A. Tope, Ph.D. in EE, 2023
Dissertation: Near Optimal Sampling to Discover and Bound the Communication Rate of a Discrete Memoryless Channel
Mentors: Joel Morris
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Samit S Shivadekar, Ph.D. in CS, 2023
Dissertation: A Streaming Tensor Decomposition Analysis for Earth Science Informatics
Mentors: Milton Halem
First Position: Visiting Lecturer, UMBC
Current Position: Visiting Lecturer, UMBC
Dr. Fahad Sayeed Siddiqui, Ph.D. in CS, 2023
Dissertation: Predicting Sleep Disordered Breathing Events
Mentors: Nilanjan Banerjee
Dr. William Walton, Ph.D. in EE, 2023
Dissertation: Multi-View Mammographic Image Registration Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Mentors: Seung-Jun Kim
First Position: JHU APL
Current Position: JHU APL
Dr. Hao Chen, Ph.D. in EE, 2023
Dissertation: Complex Radio Scene Analysis: Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Approaches
Mentors: Seung-Jun Kim
Dr. Balaji Viswanathan, Ph.D. in CS, 2023
Dissertation: Building Likeable Robots for Seniors: Enhancing Emotional Connection, Communication and Safety through Human-Robot Interaction
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: Invento Robotics
Current Position: Invento Robotics
Dr. Irina Belyaeva, Ph.D. in CS, 2023
Dissertation: Tensor Methods for Joint Analysis and Fusion of Brain Imaging Data: Application to fMRI and MEG Analysis and Fusion
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Johns Hopkins Medicine
Current Position: Johns Hopkins Medicine
2022
Dr. Qingyuan Zheng, Ph.D. in CS, 2022
Dissertation: Machine Learning Can Help Humans Create Art
Mentors: Adam Bargteil
First Position: Tencent Americas
Current Position: Tencent Americas
Dr. Jie Chen, Ph.D. in EE, 2022
Dissertation: Low Rank and Sparse Representation-based Approaches to Hyperspectral Detection
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Research Fellow, Mayo Clinic
Dr. Zhen Qi, Ph.D. in EE, 2022
Dissertation: Stability and Accessibility of Turing Rolls, Soliton Crystals, and Single Solitons in Microresonators
Mentors: Curtis Menyuk
Dr. Joseph R. Collins, Ph.D. in CS, 2022
Dissertation: Topological Time Series Classification
Mentors: David Chapman
First Position: Northrop Grumman
Current Position: Northrop Grumman
Dr. Sumit Menon, Ph.D. in CS, 2022
Dissertation: Semi-Supervised Expectation Maximization with Contrastive Outlier Removal.
Mentors: David Chapman
First Position: Home Depot
Current Position: Home Depot
Dr. Deepa Gupta, Ph.D. in CE, 2022
Dissertation: Brain Connectivity Biomarker Characterization by Using EEG and TMS techniques
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
First Position: Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience
Current Position: Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience
Dr. Aniruddha Saha, Ph.D. in CS, 2022
Dissertation: Backdoor Attacks in Computer Vision: Towards Adversarially Robust Machine Learning Models
Mentors: Hamed Pirsiavash
First Position: University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Current Position: University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Dr. Brian Wayne Stevens, Ph.D. in CE, 2022
Dissertation: Interweave Cognitive Radio for 4G Long Term Evolution and 5G New Radio Self-Reliant Networks
Mentors: 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 CE, 2022
Dissertation: Analysis and Protocols to Establish Downlink for Communication Across the Air-Water Interface
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
Current Position: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
Dr. Yousef Ebrahimi, Ph.D. in CE, 2022
Dissertation: Anonymity of the Base-Station in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: Cisco
Current Position: Cisco
Dr. Lalouani Wassila, Ph.D. in CS, 2022
Dissertation: AI Cyber threat in cyber physical systems
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: Towson University
Current Position: Towson University
Dr. Haneen, M Bawayan, Ph.D. in EE, 2022
Dissertation: Management Techniques for Reliable Microgrid Operation
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
Dr. Trevor Kroeger, Ph.D. in EE, 2022
Dissertation: On the Resiliency of Physical Unclonable Functions against Power Analysis Attacks
Mentors: Naghmeh
First Position: JHU APL
Current Position: JHU APL
Dr. Ajinkya Borle, Ph.D. in CS, 2022
Dissertation: Quantum Optimization for Linear Algebra Problems
Mentors: Samuel Lomonaco
First Position: UMBC
Current Position: UMBC
Dr. Rami Mowakeaa, Ph.D. in EE, 2022
Dissertation: Lifelong Multitask Learning Algorithms: Nonlinearity, Scalability, and Applications
Mentors: Seung-Jun Kim and Tulay Adali
Dr. Hakju Oh, Ph.D. in CS, 2022
Dissertation: Agile Lifecycle Management of Standards for Data Exchange
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: NIST
Current Position: NIST
Dr. Yao Yao, Ph.D. in CS, 2022
Dissertation: Innovative Radio Frequency Signal Application in Sensing and Communication
Mentors: Ting Zhu
Dr. Xin Liu, Ph.D. in CE, 2022
Dissertation: Leveraging Backscatter for Ultra-Low-Power Wireless Sensing Networks
Mentors: Ting Zhu
First Position: Ohio State University
Current Position: Ohio State University
Dr. Wei Wang, Ph.D. in EE, 2022
Dissertation: Efficient and reliable cross-technology communication in heterogeneous IoT networks
Mentors: Ting Zhu
First Position: Intelligent Automation
Current Position: Intelligent Automation
Dr. Seyed-Morteza Hosseini, Ph.D. in CE, 2022
Dissertation: Energy-Efficient Implementation of Neural Networks Compressed with Cyclic Sparsely Connected Architectures
Mentors: Tinoosh Mohsenin
First Position: Qualcomm
Current Position: Qualcomm
Dr. Asmita Korde-Patel, Ph.D. in EE, 2022
Dissertation: Systematic Effects of Compressive Sensing for Time-Series Photometric Measurements for Space Observatories
Mentors: Tinoosh Mohsenin and Richard K. Barry
First Position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Cente
Current Position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Cente
Dr. Mohammad Abu Baker Siddique Akhonda Akhonda, Ph.D. in EE, 2022
Dissertation: Common and Distinct Subspace Analysis in Data fusion: Application to the Fusion of Brain Imaging Data
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: National Institutes of Health
Current Position: National Institutes of Health
Dr. Wu Yusen, Ph.D. in CS, 2022
Dissertation: Building Scalable, Trusted, and Decentralized Byzantine Fault Tolerance Systems for IoT
Mentors: 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.
2021
Dr. Farid Javani, Ph.D. in CS, 2021
Dissertation: Privacy-Preserving Protocols with Oblivious Transfer and Mix Networks
Mentors: Alan Sherman
First Position: Meta
Current Position: Meta
Dr. Chao Liu, Ph.D. in CS, 2021
Dissertation: Building Practical, Efficient, and Reliable Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems
Mentors: Alan Sherman and Haibin Zhang
Dr. Andre T. Nguyen, Ph.D. in CS, 2021
Dissertation: Uncertainty for Malware Detection and CyberDefense
Mentors: Charles Nicholas and Edward Raff
First Position: JURA Bio
Current Position: JURA Bio
Dr. Kenneth Ma, Ph.D. in EE, 2021
Dissertation: An Iterative Training Sampling Approach to Training Sample Augmentation and Data Expansion for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Current Position: Data Scientist at Peraton Inc.
Dr. Avani Dave, Ph.D. in CE, 2021
Dissertation: Towards the Design of Resiliant Embedded Systems
Mentors: Chintan Patel and Nilanjan Banerjee
First Position: Intel Corporation
Current Position: Intel Corporation
Dr. Nisha Pillai, Ph.D. in CS, 2021
Dissertation: Interactive Robots with Probabilistic Conceptualization and Optimized Perceptual Understanding
Mentors: Cynthia Matuszek
First Position: Postdoc/Univ of Mississippi
Current Position: Postdoc/Univ of Mississippi
Dr. Hedyeh Bagherzadeh, Ph.D. in EE, 2021
Dissertation: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Investigations for Novel Coil Designs
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
Dr. Henan Zhao, Ph.D. in CS, 2021
Dissertation: The Perceptually Accurate Visual Display of Quantitative Quantum Physics Data
Mentors: Marc Olano
First Position: Siemens Digital Industries Software
Current Position: Siemens Digital Industries Software
Dr. Tiantian Xie, Ph.D. in CS, 2021
Dissertation: Cache and Bandwidth Aware Real-time Subsurface Scattering
Mentors: Marc Olano
First Position: Epic Games
Current Position: Epic Games
Dr. Kaushik Velusamy, Ph.D. in CS, 2021
Dissertation: Orchestrating Non-Blocking Asynchronous Framework for HPC Systems and Applications
Mentors: Milton Halem
First Position: Argonne National Laboratory
Current Position: Argonne National Laboratory
Dr. Akshay Peshave, Ph.D. in CS, 2021
Dissertation: Unsupervised Thematic Phrase Extraction From Single Text Artifact
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: GE Research
Current Position: GE Research
Dr. Hang Gao, Ph.D. in CS, 2021
Dissertation: Towards Learning A Better Text Encoder
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: ebay
Current Position: ebay
Dr. Ashwinkumar Ganesan, Ph.D. in CS, 2021
Dissertation: Supervised Training Strategies for Low Resource Language Processing
Mentors: Tim Oates and Frank Ferraro
First Position: Amazon
Current Position: Amazon
Dr. Colin William Shea, Ph.D. in CE, 2021
Dissertation: Homogeneous Scheduling of Deep Neural Networks
Mentors: Tinoosh Mohsenin
First Position: Boeing Research & Technology ·
Current Position: Boeing Research & Technology ·
Dr. Isaac K. Mativo, Ph.D. in CS, 2021
Dissertation: Novel Machine Learning Tools to Enhance Mortality Prediction
Mentors: Yelena Yesha
First Position: Director of Development Projects, PointCross Life Sciences
Current Position: UMBC
2020
Dr. James W Shey, Ph.D. in EE, 2020
Dissertation: Power Supply Analysis for Device Verification
Mentors: Chintan Patel
First Position: Assistant Professor at United States Naval Academy
Current Position: Assistant Professor at United States Naval Academy
Dr. Seyed Ehsan Jamali Mahabadi, Ph.D. in EE, 2020
Dissertation: Modeling phase noise and responsivity in photodetectors
Mentors: Curtis Menyuk
First Position: University of Southern Florida
Current Position: Silvaco
Dr. Smriti Prathapan, Ph.D. in CS, 2020
Dissertation: Design Space Exploration of Data-centric Architectures
Mentors: Milton Halem
First Position: University of Miami
Current Position: University of Miami
Dr. Dorsa Ziaei, Ph.D. in CS, 2020
Dissertation: Deep Machine Learning Solutions for Feature Identification and Detection for Very Large Medical mages
Mentors: 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. Hadis Dashtestani, Ph.D. in CS, 2020
Dissertation: Multivariate Statistical Learning for Multimodal Neuroimaging Data Fusion
Mentors: Milton Halem
First Position: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Current Position: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Dr. Ramin Ayanzadeh, Ph.D. in CS, 2020
Dissertation: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Advance Problem-Solving with Quantum Annealers
Mentors: Milton Halem and Tim Finin
First Position: UMBC
Current Position: UMBC
Dr. Stanislav Bobovych, Ph.D. in CS, 2020
Dissertation: Low-Power Context Aware Hierarchical System Design
Mentors: Nilanjan Banerjee and Ryan Robucci
Dr. Kevin M. Pritchard, Ph.D. in EE, 2020
Dissertation: Signal Processing, Performance Metrics, and Lifetime of a 6LiF:ZnS(Ag) Neutronc Detector with WLS Fibers and SIPM Photodetector
Mentors: Ryan Robucci
First Position: NIST
Current Position: NIST
Dr. Brien J Croteau, Ph.D. in EE, 2020
Dissertation: Attack-Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems
Mentors: Ryan Robucci
First Position: U.S. Navy
Current Position: U.S. Navy
Dr. Filip J. Dabek, Ph.D. in CS, 2020
Dissertation: Analysis of Irregular Event Sequences in Healthcare using Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Visualization
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: Research Scientist, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Current Position: Research Scientist, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Dr. Sunil Gandhi, Ph.D. in CS, 2020
Dissertation: Artifact Removal From Electroencephalography Data
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: Amazon
Current Position: Amazon
Dr. Zicheng Chi, Ph.D. in CE, 2020
Dissertation: Enabling Seamless Communication and RF sensing among Heterogeneous IoT Devices
Mentors: Ting Zhu
First Position: Cleveland State University.
Current Position: Cleveland State University.
Dr. Qunfang Long, Ph.D. in EE, 2020
Dissertation: Data-driven Techniques for the Study of Brain Dynamics and Identification of Subgroups: Application to Multi-subject Resting-state fMRI Data
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK),
Current Position: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK),
Dr. Suchita Bhinge, Ph.D. in EE, 2020
Dissertation: Adaptive Constrained Independent Vector Analysis: Application to Large-Scale fMRI Analysis
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: AggDirect
Current Position: AggDirect
Dr. Alexander Kaplunovich, Ph.D. in CS, 2020
Dissertation: Real-time Automatic Hyperparameter Tuning for Deep Learning in Serverless Cloud
Mentors: Yelena Yesha
First Position: CEO Cloudtalk
Current Position: CEO Cloudtalk
2019
Dr. Sudip Mittal, Ph.D. in CS, 2019
Dissertation: Knowledge for Cyber Threat Intelligence
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: Univ. of North Carolina Wilmington
Current Position: Mississippi State University
Dr. Sandeep Narayanan, Ph.D. in CS, 2019
Dissertation: A Framework for Detecting Anomalous Behaviors in Smart Cyber-Physical Systems
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: Cisco
Current Position: Cisco
Dr. John Seymour, Ph.D. in CS, 2019
Dissertation: Detecting, Quantifying, and Remediating Dataset Bias in Malware Datasets
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
First Position: Salesforce
Current Position: Salesforce
Dr. Adam Bekit, Ph.D. in EE, 2019
Dissertation: Endmember finding and linear spectral mixture analysis in the compressively sensed domain
Mentors: Chein I Chang
Dr. Charles Della Porta, Ph.D. in EE, 2019
Dissertation: A Compressive Sensing Approach to Hyperspectral Image Classification
Mentors: 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 EE, 2019
Dissertation: Compressive sensing with applications to hyperspectral image processing
Mentors: Chein I Chang
First Position: Raytheon
Current Position: Raytheon
Dr. Bai Xue, Ph.D. in EE, 2019
Dissertation: A Compressive Sensing Approach to Hyperspectral Image Classification
Mentors: Chein I Chang
Dr. Ankur Padia, Ph.D. in CS, 2019
Dissertation: Joint Models to Refine Knowledge Graphs
Mentors: Frank Ferraro and Tim Finin
First Position: Philips Research Americas
Current Position: Philips Research Americas
Dr. John Winder, Ph.D. in CS, 2019
Dissertation: Abstract Decision Making and Concept Formation for Adaptability and Generalization
Mentors: Marie desJardins
First Position: UMBC
Current Position: UMBC
Dr. Akram Ahmed, Ph.D. in CE, 2019
Dissertation: Efficient Topology Construction and Autonomous Networking for Underwater Acoustic Nodes
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Current Position: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Dr. Mahbubur Rahman, Ph.D. in CS, 2019
Dissertation: Methods for Designing Human Augmented Intelligent Systems
Mentors: Nilanjan Banerjee
First Position: WeWork
Current Position: Flexport
Dr. Taneeya Satyapanich, Ph.D. in CS, 2019
Dissertation: Modeling and Extracting Information about Cybersecurity Events from Text
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Kasetsart University
Current Position: Kasetsart University
Dr. Jeffrey Turner, Ph.D. in CS, 2019
Dissertation: Visual computational context: using compositions and non target pixels for novel class discovery
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: Clarifai
Current Position: Clarifai
Dr. Karan K. Budhraja, Ph.D. in CS, 2019
Dissertation: Programming Agent-Based Models by Demonstration
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: Infinite Analytics
2018
Dr. Edward Raff, Ph.D. in CS, 2018
Dissertation: Malware Detection and Cyber Security via Compression
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
First Position: Booz Allen Hamilton
Current Position: Booz Allen Hamilton
Dr. Lee Li-Chien, Ph.D. in EE, 2018
Dissertation: Hyperspectral Band Selection by Virtual Dimension
Mentors: Chein I Chang
Dr. Shaokang Wang , Ph.D. in EE, 2018
Dissertation: Analysis of Stability and Noise of Passively Modelocked Comb Lasers
Mentors: Curtis Menyuk
First Position: Risk Modelling Analyst, Aegon
Current Position: SubCom
Dr. Qinglei Meng, Ph.D. in EE, 2018
Dissertation: Non-invasive Neural Monitoring and Stimulation
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
First Position: NIH NIDA
Dr. Miguel R. Ossandon, Ph.D. in CS, 2018
Dissertation: Computational Methods for Rare Cell Detection in Streak Image Flow Cytometry
Mentors: Kostas Kalpakis
First Position: National Cancer Institute
Current Position: National Cancer Institute
Dr. Ari Rapkin Blenkhorn, Ph.D. in CS, 2018
Dissertation: GPU-accelerated Rendering of Atmospheric Glories
Mentors: Marc Olano
First Position: Leidos
Current Position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. David Lachut, Ph.D. in CS, 2018
Dissertation: A Comprehensive View of Home Energy Management
Mentors: 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 CS, 2018
Dissertation: Understanding the Logical and Semantic Structure of Large Documents
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Postdoc, Center for Language and Speech Processing, JHU
Current Position: National Institute of Health
Dr. Yan Li, Ph.D. in CS, 2018
Dissertation: Monitoring Humans and Improving Wireless Network Performance with Heterogeneous IoT Devices
Mentors: Ting Zhu
Dr. Darren Emge, Ph.D. in EE, 2018
Dissertation: Independent Vector Analysis for Steady State Visually Evoked Potential Data Analysis
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: ARL RDECOM
Current Position: ARL RDECOM
Dr. Yi Sun, Ph.D. in CS, 2018
Dissertation: On the Integration of Inconsistent Knowledge with Bayesian Networks
Mentors: Yun Peng
2017
Dr. David J. Mountain, Ph.D. in CE, 2017
Dissertation: A General Purpose Neural Processor
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Clare T. Grasso, Ph.D. in CS, 2017
Dissertation: A Semantically Rich Cognitive Search Assistant For Clinical Notes
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Mary L. Mathews, Ph.D. in CS, 2017
Dissertation: Creating a Collaborative Situational-Aware IDS
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Prajit Das, Ph.D. in CS, 2017
Dissertation: Context-dependent privacy and security management on mobile devices
Mentors: Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin
First Position: Cisco
Current Position: Cisco
Dr. Robert A. Brandon, Ph.D. in CS, 2017
Dissertation: Vector Space Models of Executable Code
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
First Position: DoD
Current Position: Booz Allen Hamilton
Dr. Nelofar Mosavi, Ph.D. in EE, 2017
Dissertation: Optical and RF Beam Propagation in Turbulent Media
Mentors: Curtiis Menyuk
First Position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Current Position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Yue Hu, Ph.D. in EE, 2017
Dissertation: Modeling Nonlinearity and Noise in High-Current Photodetectors
Mentors: Curtis Menyuk
Current Position: Infinera
Dr. Tanmay Abhay Kulkarni, Ph.D. in EE, 2017
Dissertation: Self Powered Glucose Biosensing System
Mentors: Gymama Slaughter
Dr. Mark Bolstad, Ph.D. in CS, 2017
Dissertation: Rendering Massive Models
Mentors: Marc Olano
First Position: Janelia Research Campus, HHMI
Current Position: Janelia Research Campus, HHMI
Dr. Navid Golpayegani, Ph.D. in CS, 2017
Dissertation: The Lightweight Virtual File System
Mentors: Milton Halem
First Position: NASA
Current Position: NASA
Dr. Nikolaos Baroutis, Ph.D. in CS, 2017
Dissertation: Efficient Traffic Morphing Techniques for Boosting Base-Station’s Location Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, UMBC
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, UMBC
Dr. Ahmed Amer Shahin, Ph.D. in CE, 2017
Dissertation: Infrastructure-less Group Data Sharing using Smart Devices
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: Assistant Professor , Zagazig University, Egypt
Current Position: Assistant Professor , Zagazig University, Egypt
Dr. Alexander Nelson, Ph.D. in CE, 2017
Dissertation: ACCESS: An Adaptive Contactless Capacitive Electrostatic Sensing System
Mentors: Nilanjan Banerjee and Ryan Robucci
First Position: Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Dr. Abhay Kashyap, Ph.D. in CS, 2017
Dissertation: Deep Representation of Lyrical Style and Semantics for Music Recommendation
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Walmart Labs
Current Position: Walmart Labs
Dr. Jennifer Sleeman, Ph.D. in CS, 2017
Dissertation: Dynamic Data Assimilation for Topic Modeling
Mentors: Tim Finin and Milton Halem
First Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, UMBC
Current Position: JHUAPL
Dr. Bryan Wilkinson, Ph.D. in CS, 2017
Dissertation: Identifying and Ordering Scalar Adjectives using Lexical Substitution
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, UMBC
Current Position: Miner & Kasch
Dr. Zhichuan Huang, Ph.D. in CS, 2017
Dissertation: Data, Energy and Privacy Management Techniques for Sustainable Microgrids
Mentors: Ting Zhu
First Position: Sun Yat-sen University
Current Position: Research Associate
Dr. Ali Jafari, Ph.D. in CE, 2017
Dissertation: A Scalable and Low Power Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Multimodal Data Classification in Embedded Real-Time Systems
Mentors: Tinoosh Mohsenin
First Position: Research Scientist, Intel Labs
Current Position: Research Scientist, Intel Labs
Dr. Amey Mahesh Kulkarni, Ph.D. in CE, 2017
Dissertation: Heterogeneous and Scalable Sketch-based Framework for Big Data Acceleration on Low Power Embedded Cores
Mentors: Tinoosh Mohsenin
First Position: Autel Robotics
Current Position: NVIDIA
Dr. Zois Boukouvalas, Ph.D. in Others, 2017
Dissertation: Development of ICA and IVA Algorithms with Application to Medical Image Analysis
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Research Associate, University of Maryland, College Park
Current Position: Assistant Professor, American University
Dr. Yuri Zvi Levin-Schwartz, Ph.D. in EE, 2017
Dissertation: Blind Source Separation for Multimodal Fusion of Medical Imaging Data
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Current Position: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Dr. Yin Huang, Ph.D. in CS, 2017
Dissertation: InMem: A Parallel Distributed Indexed In-Memory Computation System for Big Data Analytics
Mentors: Yelena Yesha
First Position: DoD
Current Position: NIST
2016
Dr. Grace Crowder, Ph.D. in CS, 2016
Dissertation: Content-Based Metadata for Touting in a Distributed Information Retrieval Framework
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Yao Li, Ph.D. in EE, 2016
Dissertation: Recursive Band Processing Algorithms for Finding Unknown Targets in Hyperspectral Imagery
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Amazon
Current Position: Tik Tok
Dr. Cheng Gao, Ph.D. in EE, 2016
Dissertation: Finding Endmember Classes and Endmembers in Hyperspectral Image
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
Dr. Hsiao-Chi Li, Ph.D. in EE, 2016
Dissertation: Simplex Volume Growing Analysis for Finding Endmembers in Hyperspectral Imagery
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
Dr. Wesley Griffin, Ph.D. in CS, 2016
Dissertation: Quality Guided Variable Bit Rate Texture Compression
Mentors: Marc Olano
First Position: NIST
Current Position: NIST
Dr. Robert Holder, Ph.D. in CS, 2016
Dissertation: Rapid Plan Adaptation Through Offline Analysis of Potential Plan Disruptors
Mentors: Marie desJardins and Tim Finin
First Position: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Current Position: Data Scientist at Miner & Kasch
Dr. Timothy J. Blattner, Ph.D. in CS, 2016
Dissertation: The Hybrid Task Graph Scheduler
Mentors: Milton Halem
First Position: NIST
Current Position: NIST
Dr. Sami S. Alsemairi, Ph.D. in CS, 2016
Dissertation: Cross-Layer Techniques for Boosting Base-Station Anonymity in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mentors: 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. Omar Shehab, Ph.D. in CS, 2016
Dissertation: Solving Mathematical Problems in Quantum Regime
Mentors: Samuel Lomonaco
First Position: IonQ Inc.
Current Position: IBM
Dr. Zhiguang (Steven) Wang, Ph.D. in CS, 2016
Dissertation: Learning Representations and Modeling Temporal Signals: Symbolic Approximation, Deep Learning, Optimization and Beyond
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: GE Global Research
Current Position: Head of Engineering, Amber Group
Dr. Yichuan Gui, Ph.D. in CS, 2016
Dissertation: Convexification and Deconvexification for Training Artificial Neural Networks
Mentors: Yun Peng
First Position: NoizIvy.org
Current Position: The Climate Corporation
Dr. Pavan Kumar Kamaraju, Ph.D. in CS, 2016
Dissertation: An Automated Method for Analyzing Unstructured Health Data
Mentors: Zary Segal
First Position: KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Current Position: Streem, Inc.
2015
Dr. Sushmita Rao, Ph.D. in CE, 2015
Dissertation: Accurate Dynamic Power Supply Analysis and Delay Estimation
Mentors: Chintan Patel
First Position: Altera
Current Position: Altera
Dr. Edward Luzhansky, Ph.D. in EE, 2015
Dissertation: Quantum Cascade Lasers Modulation and Applications
Mentors: 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. Tanvir Mahmood, Ph.D. in EE, 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
Mentors: Gary Carter
First Position: Senior Optical Systems Engineer, ClariPhy Communications
Current Position: Senior Optical Systems Engineer, ClariPhy Communications
Dr. James Cahill, Ph.D. in EE, 2015
Dissertation: Rayleigh-Scattering-Induced Noise in Analog RF-Photonic Links
Mentors: Gary Carter
Dr. Aaron Delong, Ph.D. in EE, 2015
Dissertation: A study of polarization attraction: the first application to a BPSK signal and an evaluation of robustness to transmission impairments
Mentors: Gary Carter
First Position: JHU/APL
Current Position: JHU/APL
Dr. Brice Cannon, Ph.D. in EE, 2015
Dissertation: Simultaneous Polarization-Insensitive Phase-space Trans-multiplexing and Wavelength Multicasting via Cross-phase Modulation in a Photonic Crystal Fiber at 10 GBd
Mentors: Gary M. Carter
First Position: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Current Position: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Yu Wang, Ph.D. in CS, 2015
Dissertation: The Modeling Equation: Solving the Physically-Based Modeling and Animation Problem with a Unified Solution
Mentors: Marc Olano
First Position: R&D Core Graphics team at VMware Inc.
Current Position: R&D Core Graphics team at VMware Inc.
Dr. Yatish Joshi, Ph.D. in CE, 2015
Dissertation: Distributed Protocols for Connectivity Restoration in Damaged Wireless Sensor Networks
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: Senior Technical Staff, Cisco
Current Position: Technical Leader, Cisco
Dr. John Ward, Ph.D. in CE, 2015
Dissertation: Increasing Base-Station Anonymity in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
Mentors: 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 CS, 2015
Dissertation: TABEL — A Domain Independent and Extensible Framework for Inferring the Semantics of Tables
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: UMBC
Current Position: GE Research
Dr. Huguens Jean, Ph.D. in EE, 2015
Dissertation: Paper Form Classification for Information Systems Strengthening in Developing Countries
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: senior engineer, Captricity
Current Position: Google
Dr. Yunsu Lee, Ph.D. in CS, 2015
Dissertation: Automatic Service Search and Composability Analysis in Large Scale Service Networks
Mentors: Yun Peng
First Position: Guest Researcher at NIST
Dr. Yan Kang, Ph.D. in CS, 2015
Dissertation: A Semantic Resolution Framework for Integrating Manufacturing Service Capability Data
Mentors: Yun Peng
First Position: Software Engineer at Cerner
Current Position: Software Engineer at Cerner
2014
Dr. Edward J. Birrane, Ph.D. in CS, 2014
Dissertation: Virtual Circuit Provisioning in Challenged Sensor Internetworks, with Application to the Solar System Internet
Mentors: Alan Sherman and Mohammed Younis
First Position: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Current Position: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Randy Schauer, Ph.D. in CS, 2014
Dissertation: Using Markov Logic Networks to Provide Autonomic Management of High Performance Computing System Configurations and Operations
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: Raytheon
Current Position: Raytheon
Dr. Shi-Yu Chen, Ph.D. in EE, 2014
Dissertation: Algorithm Design and Analysis for Finding Endmembers in Hyperspectral Imagery
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
Dr. Andrew Paylor, Ph.D. in EE, 2014
Dissertation: Second Order Statistics Targets-Specified Virtual Dimensionality
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Northrop Grumman
Current Position: Northrop Grumman
Dr. Robert Schultz, Ph.D. in EE, 2014
Dissertation: Progressive Band Processing for Hyperspectral Imaging
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Boeing
Current Position: Northrup Grummon
Dr. Damon Bradley, Ph.D. in EE, 2014
Dissertation: On the Detection of Radio Frequency Interference in Spaceborne Microwave Radiometers using Negentropy Approximations and Complex Kurtosis Coefficients as Test Statistics
Mentors: Joel Morris
First Position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Current Position: Founder DeepSpace Technologies
Dr. Oleg Aulov, Ph.D. in CS, 2014
Dissertation: Human Sensor Networks for Disasters
Mentors: Milton Halem
First Position: NIST
Current Position: NIST
Dr. Edward Birrane, Ph.D. in CS, 2014
Dissertation: Circuit Provisioning in Challenged Sensor Internetworks
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: Group Supervisor, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics lab.
Current Position: Group Supervisor, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics lab.
Dr. Wortman Dana, Ph.D. in CS, 2014
Dissertation: Datasets Using Levels of Abstraction
Mentors: Penny Rheingans
First Position: Senior Instructor, University of Colorado – Colorado Springs
Current Position: CEO Rabid Troll Studios LLC
Dr. Christopher Morris, Ph.D. in CS, 2014
Dissertation: Classification: Application to fMRI and LTM Data
Mentors: Penny Rheingans
First Position: Northrop Grumman
Current Position: Northrop Grumman
Dr. David J. Cornwell, Ph.D. in Others, 2014
Dissertation: Amplified Quantum Transforms
Mentors: Samuel Lomonaco and Thomas Armstrong
First Position: Leidos
Current Position: atsec information security
Dr. Lushan Han, Ph.D. in CS, 2014
Dissertation: Schema Free Querying of Semantic Data
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Samsung
Current Position: ruyi.ai
Dr. Adrian Rosebrock, Ph.D. in CS, 2014
Dissertation: A Rapidly Deployable Image Classification System Using Feature Views
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: IDMyPill.com
Current Position: IDMyPill.com
Dr. Wei Du (Tu), Ph.D. in EE, 2014
Dissertation: Feature Extraction and Fusion for Supervised and Semi-supervised
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: NIH
Current Position: Capital One, Bethesda, MD
Dr. Gengshen Fu, Ph.D. in EE, 2014
Dissertation: Entropy rate estimators and their application to blind source separation
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Amazon
Current Position: Amazon
Dr. Fahad Zafar, Ph.D. in CS, 2014
Dissertation: Medical Image Quality Assessment for Stereoscopic Display Devices Using Computational Observers
Mentors: Yaacov Yesha
2013
Dr. Josiah Dykstra, Ph.D. in CS, 2013
Dissertation: Digital Forensics for Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing
Mentors: Alan Sherman
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Timothy Leschke, Ph.D. in CS, 2013
Dissertation: Applying Data Visualization Techniques to Support the Analysis of Digital Forensic Data
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Peter Fu, Ph.D. in CS, 2013
Dissertation: Three Dimensional Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis in Predicting Trauma Patient Outcomes Using Vital Signs Signals
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Dr. Ganesh Saiprasad, Ph.D. in EE, 2013
Dissertation: Automatic Detection of Adrenal Gland Abnormality Using The Random Forest Classification Framework Combined With Histogram Analysis
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: NIST
Current Position: NIST
Dr. Michael John Oehler, Ph.D. in CS, 2013
Dissertation: Private Packet Filtering Searching for Sensitive Indicators without Revealing the Indicators in Collaborative Environments
Mentors: Dhananjay Phatak
First Position: DoD
Current Position: United States Naval Academy
Dr. Rory Mulvaney, Ph.D. in CS, 2013
Dissertation: The Haar Wavelet Motif Relating Decision Trees, Neural Networks, and the Rule-Exception Sets
Mentors: Dhananjay Phatak
Dr. Xing Chen, Ph.D. in EE, 2013
Dissertation: High Power Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Laser Array For Standoff Photoacoustic Chemical
Mentors: Fow Sen Choa
First Position: NeoPhotonics Corporation
Dr. Dingkai Guoi, Ph.D. in EE, 2013
Dissertation: Mid-Infrared Photonic Integration
Mentors: Fow Sen Choa
First Position: Entegris, Inc.
Dr. Albert Kir, Ph.D. in EE, 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
Mentors: Joel Morris and Alan McMillan
First Position: Magnetic Resonance Research Center
Current Position: Magnetic Resonance Research Center
Dr. Shiming Yang, Ph.D. in CS, 2013
Dissertation: On Prediction and Estimation for Datastream Utilizing Sparsity and Structure
Mentors: Kostas Kalpakis
First Position: Research Assistant, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Dr. James Macglashan, Ph.D. in CS, 2013
Dissertation: Multi-Source Option-Based Policy Transfer
Mentors: Marie desJardins
First Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Brown University
Current Position: Sony AI
Dr. Lloyd Emokpae, Ph.D. in CE, 2013
Dissertation: Design and Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Networks with Reflected Links
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center
Current Position: Founder and CEO Lasarrus Clinic and Research Center
Dr. Zhonghua Zhu, Ph.D. in EE, 2013
Dissertation: Reconfigurable Metro-optical Network Enabled by Monolithically Integrated Photonic Devices
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
First Position: CoAdna Photonics, Inc.
Current Position: CoAdna Photonics, Inc.
Dr. Benjamin Johnson, Ph.D. in CS, 2013
Dissertation: Reference Advice for Word Sense Disambiguation
Mentors: Sergei Nirenburg
First Position: CoBrain
Current Position: Lecturer, UMBC
Dr. Joel Sachs, Ph.D. in CS, 2013
Dissertation: Supporting Citizen Science and Biodiversity Informatics on the Semantic Web
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Current Position: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Dr. Xianshu Zhu, Ph.D. in CS, 2013
Dissertation: Finding Story Chains and Creating Story Maps in Newswire Articles
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: Member Research Staff, Philips
Current Position: Invitae
Dr. Matthew Anderson, Ph.D. in EE, 2013
Dissertation: Independent Vector Analysis: Theory, Algorithms. and Applications
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Northrop Grumman Corporation
Current Position: BAE Systems, Nashua, NH
Dr. Sai Ma, Ph.D. in EE, 2013
Dissertation: Analysis of brain network connectivity in fMRI data using spatial information
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: UMBC
Current Position: Mystic Valley Regional School, MA
Dr. Pedro Rodriguez, Ph.D. in EE, 2013
Dissertation: Data-Driven Group Analysis of Complex-Valued FMRI Data
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Current Position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Tyler Simon, Ph.D. in CS, 2013
Dissertation: Multiple Objective Task Scheduling for Scalable High Performance Computing
Mentors: Yaacov Yesha
First Position: NASA
Current Position: DoD
2012
Dr. Kevin Fisher, Ph.D. in CE, 2012
Dissertation: Real-Time Progressive Band Processing for Linear Spectral Unmixing and Endmember Extraction
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Current Position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. Houcheng Lee, Ph.D. in CS, 2012
Dissertation: Diffserv Assured Forwarded and Robust Header Compression: Performance Analysis
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
Dr. Cheng Liwei, Ph.D. in EE, 2012
Dissertation: Fabrication and Operation of Integrated Distributed BRAGG Relfector Thermally Tunable Quantum Cascade Lasers
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
First Position: JDSU
Current Position: Intel
Dr. Yasaman Haghpanah Jahromi, Ph.D. in CS, 2012
Dissertation: A Trust and Reputation Mechanism Through Behavioral Modeling of Reviewers
Mentors: Marie desJardins
First Position: NIST
Current Position: Qualtrics
Dr. David Chapman, Ph.D. in CS, 2012
Dissertation: A Decadal Gridded Hyperspectral Infrared Record for Climate
Mentors: Milton Halem
First Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia
Current Position: University of Miami
Dr. Phuong Nguyen, Ph.D. in CS, 2012
Dissertation: Data Intensive Scientific Compute Model For Multicore Clusters
Mentors: Milton Halem
First Position: UMBC
Current Position: Quality Software Services, Inc.
Dr. Senel Fatih, Ph.D. in CS, 2012
Dissertation: Relay Node Placement for Federating Segmented Wireless Sensor Networks
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Antalya International University,Turkey
Current Position: Universität Osnabrück
Dr. David Trimm, Ph.D. in CS, 2012
Dissertation: Clustering and Visualization Techniques for Aggregate Trajectory Analysis
Mentors: Penny Rheingans
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Mohammad Shahine, Ph.D. in EE, 2012
Dissertation: Semiconductor Laser Dynamics With Optop-Electric Feedback
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Niyati Chhaya, Ph.D. in CS, 2012
Dissertation: Joint Inference for Extracting Soft Biometric Text Descriptors From Patient Triage Images
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: Adobe
Current Position: Adobe
Dr. Niels Kasch, Ph.D. in CS, 2012
Dissertation: Mining Commonsense Knowledge from the Web: Towards Inducing Script-like Structures From Large-scale Text Sources
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: JHU/APL
Current Position: Atos zData
Dr. Patti Ordonez Rozo, Ph.D. in CS, 2012
Dissertation: Multivariate Time Series Analysis of Physiological and Clinical Data
Mentors: Tim Oates and Marie desJardins
First Position: UMBC Training Centers
Current Position: Assoc. Prof., UMBC
Dr. Karuna Joshi, Ph.D. in CS, 2012
Dissertation: Semantically Rich, Policy Based Framework to Automate Lifecycle of Cloud Based Services
Mentors: Yelena Yesha and Tim Finin
First Position: Assistant Research Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Current Position: Associate Professor, Information Systems, UMBC
2011
Dr. Wenjia Li, Ph.D. in CS, 2011
Dissertation: A Security Framework to Cope with Node Misbehaviors in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Georgia Southern University
Current Position: New York Institute of Technology
Dr. Palani Kodeswaran, Ph.D. in CS, 2011
Dissertation: On the use of context and policies in declarative networked systems
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: IBM Research, India
Current Position: IBM Research, India
Dr. Keng-Hao Liu, Ph.D. in EE, 2011
Dissertation: Progressive Band Prioritization and Selection of Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Academic Sinica, Taiwan (postdoc)
Current Position: National Sun Yet Sen University, Taiwan
Dr. Englin Wong, Ph.D. in EE, 2011
Dissertation: Partial Volume estimation of Magnetic Resonance Image Using Linear Spectral Mixing Analysis
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Current Position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. Wei Xiong, Ph.D. in EE, 2011
Dissertation: Estimation of Effective Spectral Dimensionality for Hyperspectral Imagery
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Airvana (Boston)
Current Position: HBO
Dr. Curt Tilmes, Ph.D. in CS, 2011
Dissertation: Enabling Reproducibility of Scientific Data Flows through Tracking and Representation of Provenance
Mentors: Milton Halem and Yelena Yesha
First Position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Current Position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. Justin Martineau, Ph.D. in CS, 2011
Dissertation: Identifying and Isolating Text Classification Signals from Domain and Genre Noise for Sentiment Analysis
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Samsung Research
Current Position: Samsung Research
Dr. Dean Wright, Ph.D. in CS, 2011
Dissertation: Finding a Temporal Frame Comparison Function for the Metacognitive Loop
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: White Oak Technologies
Current Position: Novetta
Dr. Marc Pickett, Ph.D. in CS, 2011
Dissertation: Towards Relational Theory Formation from Undifferentiated Sensor Data
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: Naval Research Laboratory
Current Position: Google
Dr. Soumi Ray, Ph.D. in CS, 2011
Dissertation: Discovery of theoretical entities
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: National Library of Medicine, NIH
Current Position: National Library of Medicine, NIH
Dr. Fuesane Cheng, Ph.D. in CS, 2011
Dissertation: Cover Model Pivot Indices for Flexible, Adaptable and Agile Systems
Mentors: Yelena Yesha
First Position: Travelers Indemnity Co.
Current Position: Travelers Indemnity Co.
Dr. Jaewook Kim, Ph.D. in CS, 2011
Dissertation: A Semantic Analysis of XML Schema Matching for B2B Systems Integration
Mentors: Yun Peng kh
First Position: Oracle
Current Position: Google
2010
Dr. Richard Carback, Ph.D. in CS, 2010
Dissertation: Engineering Practical End-to-End Verifiable Voting Systems
Mentors: Alan Sherman
First Position: Convergent Technologies
Current Position: Convergent Technologies
Dr. Russell Fink, Ph.D. in CS, 2010
Dissertation: Applying trustworthy computing to End-to-End electronic voting
Mentors: 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 EE, 2010
Dissertation: Hyperspectral data dimensionality reduction and applications
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Engineer, NASA
Current Position: Engineer, NASA
Dr. Xiaoli Jiao, Ph.D. in CS, 2010
Dissertation: Unsupervised target detection and classification for hyperspectral imagery
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Postdoctor, SAIC
Current Position: Postdoctor, SAIC
Dr. Muhammad Talukder, Ph.D. in EE, 2010
Dissertation: Analysis of self-induced transparency modelocking of quantum cascade lasers
Mentors: Curtis Menyuk
First Position: Assistant Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Current Position: Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Dr. Edward Zieglar , Ph.D. in CS, 2010
Dissertation: Issues and approaches to generalizing two-party authentication protocols for multi-party authentication
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. John Krautheim, Ph.D. in CE, 2010
Dissertation: Building trust into utility cloud computing
Mentors: Dhananjay Phatak and Alan Sherman
First Position: DoD
Current Position: Broadcom
Dr. Olukayode Okusaga, Ph.D. in EE, 2010
Dissertation: Study of dual injection-locked optoelectronic oscillators
Mentors: Gary Carter
First Position: Army Research Laboratory
Current Position: Army Research Laboratory
Dr. Qiang Wang, Ph.D. in EE, 2010
Dissertation: Coherent beam combining through mutual injection locking of individual lasers
Mentors: Li Yan
First Position: Infinera
Current Position: Equinix
Dr. Donald Miner, Ph.D. in CS, 2010
Dissertation: A framework for predicting and controlling system-level properties of agent-based models
Mentors: Marie desJardins
First Position: ClearEdge IT Solutions
Current Position: EMC Greenplum
Dr. Sookyoung Lee, Ph.D. in CS, 2010
Dissertation: Optimized relay node placement for federating wireless sensor sub-networks
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: Post Doc, UMBC
Current Position: Ewha Womans University, Korea
Dr. Jesse English, Ph.D. in CS, 2010
Dissertation: Learning by reading: Automatic knowledge extraction through semantic analysis
Mentors: Sergei Nirenburg
First Position: UMBC
Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, RPI
Dr. Zareen Syed, Ph.D. in CS, 2010
Dissertation: Wikitology: A novel hybrid knowledge base derived from wikipedia
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
Current Position: IBM Research
Dr. Sourav Mukherjee, Ph.D. in CS, 2010
Dissertation: Stochastic graph grammars: Parameter learning and applications
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: Microsoft
Current Position: Faculty, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Dr. Nicolle Correa, Ph.D. in EE, 2010
Dissertation: Fusion of multiple neuroimaging modalities using canonical correlation analysis
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Amazon.com Inc.
Current Position: Amazon.com Inc.
2009
Dr. Chao-Cheng Wu, Ph.D. in EE, 2009
Dissertation: Design and analysis of maximum simplex volume-based endmember extraction algorithms
Mentors: 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. Ekarat Laohavaleeson, Ph.D. in CE, 2009
Dissertation: VLSI modules for power supply monitor and power analysis countermeasure
Mentors: Chintan Patel
Current Position: Xilinx Inc.
Dr. Kamalika Das, Ph.D. in CS, 2009
Dissertation: Privacy preserving distributed data mining based on multi-objective optimization and algorithmic game theory
Mentors: Hillol Kargupta
First Position: NASA Ames Research Center
Current Position: Intuit
Dr. Mikhail Itskovich, Ph.D. in CE, 2009
Dissertation: VLSI design of an integrated system for Iddt testing
Mentors: Jim Plusquellic
First Position: UMBC
Current Position: Department of Commerce
Dr. Jiazheng Wang, Ph.D. in EE, 2009
Dissertation: Micro-ring based planar lightwave circuit devices for optical communications
Mentors: Joel Morris
Dr. Parag Namjoshi, Ph.D. in CS, 2009
Dissertation: Computational problems in haplotype inference
Mentors: Kostas Kalpakis
First Position: Agnik LLC
Current Position: Agnik LLC
Dr. Blazej Bulka, Ph.D. in CS, 2009
Dissertation: Efficient planning using plan libraries to capture the structure of the state space
Mentors: Marie desJardins
First Position: Clark & Parsia
Current Position: Google
Dr. Adam Anthony, Ph.D. in CS, 2009
Dissertation: Stochastic and iterative techniques for relational data clustering
Mentors: Marie desJardins
First Position: Assistant Professor, Baldwin-Wallace University
Current Position: InfluxData
Dr. Eric Eaton, Ph.D. in CS, 2009
Dissertation: Selective knowledge transfer for machine learning
Mentors: Marie desJardins
First Position: Lockheed Martin
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Michael Smith, Ph.D. in CS, 2009
Dissertation: A new model for trust and reputation: Learning about competence and commitment
Mentors: Marie desJardins
First Position: MITRE
Current Position: MITRE
Dr. Abdelrahman Desoky, Ph.D. in CE, 2009
Dissertation: Nostega: A Novel Noiseless Steganography Paradigm
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: Independent Consultant
Current Position: Workday
Dr. Jesus Caban, Ph.D. in CS, 2009
Dissertation: Generation and visualization of relational statistical deformation models for morphological image analysis
Mentors: Penny Rheingans
First Position: National Institute of Health
Current Position: US Navy Brain Trauma Center
Dr. Zhipeng Wang, Ph.D. in EE, 2009
Dissertation: Micro-ring based planar lightwave circuit devices for optical communications
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
First Position: Infinera
Current Position: Ciena Communications
Dr. Akshay Java, Ph.D. in CS, 2009
Dissertation: Mining Social Media Communities and Content
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Microsoft Live Labs
Current Position: Google
Dr. Michael Novey, Ph.D. in CS, 2009
Dissertation: Complex ICA using nonlinear functions
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Northrop Grumman
Current Position: Northrop Grumman
Dr. Yiou Li, Ph.D. in EE, 2009
Dissertation: Novel second-order methods for data-driven fMRI analysis
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco
Current Position: Micro Focus, Sunnyvale, CA
Dr. Wei Wang, Ph.D. in EE, 2009
Dissertation: Novel data-driven methods for target detection and classification and their application to Raman spectroscopy
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Intelligent Automation Inc.
Current Position: Intelligent Automation Inc.
2008
Dr. James Parker, Ph.D. in CS, 2008
Dissertation: Observation techniques for detecting malicious behavior in ad hoc networks
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Sethuram Kodeswaran, Ph.D. in CS, 2008
Dissertation: Content and context aware networking using semantic tags
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: Broadwing Corporation (Corvis Operations)
Current Position: American Institutes for Research
Dr. Paul Mcnamee, Ph.D. in CS, 2008
Dissertation: Textual representations for corpus-based bilingual retrieval
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
First Position: Principal Computer Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Marcella Wilson, Ph.D. in CS, 2008
Dissertation: The comparison of online social networks in terms of structure and evolution
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
First Position: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Technology and Security, Bowie State University
Dr. Wei-Min Liu, Ph.D. in EE, 2008
Dissertation: Unsupervised hyperspectral target detection
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: postdoctor, Naval Medical Research Center
Current Position: postdoctor, Naval Medical Research Center
Dr. Bharath Ramakrishna, Ph.D. in CE, 2008
Dissertation: Computer Aided Detection (CAD) for Meniscal and Articular Cartilages on Magnetic Resonance (MR) Images
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: software engineer, UCLA hospital
Dr. Sumit Chakravarty, Ph.D. in EE, 2008
Dissertation: Probabilistic approximate algorithms for distributed data mining in peer-to-peer networks
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Engineer, WV
Current Position: Assistant Professor, New York Polytech. University
Dr. Zhihang Hu, Ph.D. in EE, 2008
Dissertation: Analysis of chalcogenide-glass photonic crystal fibers
Mentors: Curtis Menyuk
First Position: Princeton University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Baylor University
Dr. Yonglin Gu, Ph.D. in EE, 2008
Dissertation: Design, fabrication and characterization of hetero-PN-junction devices for photovoltaic and photodetection applications
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
Dr. William Astar, Ph.D. in EE, 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
Mentors: Gary Carter
First Position: UMBC
Current Position: UMBC
Dr. Kanishka Bhaduri, Ph.D. in CS, 2008
Dissertation: Efficient local algorithms for distributed data mining in large scale peer to peer environments: A deterministic approach
Mentors: Hillol Kargupta
First Position: Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
Current Position: Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
Dr. Souptik Datta, Ph.D. in CS, 2008
Dissertation: Analysis on hyperspectral signature coding
Mentors: Hillol Kargupta
First Position: Industry
Current Position: Director, Data Science, Genesis Media LLC
Dr. Dhruva Acharyya, Ph.D. in CE, 2008
Dissertation: Hardware results demonstrating the effectiveness of defect detection and fault localization using multiple supply pad based IDDT measurements
Mentors: Jim Plusquellic
First Position: IBM
Current Position: Verigy
Dr. Reza Rad, Ph.D. in CE, 2008
Dissertation: Detection & Localization of Hardware Trojans through Analysis of Power Ports Transient Signals
Mentors: Jim Plusquellic
First Position: UMBC
Current Position: Maxlinear Inc
Dr. Shilang Tang, Ph.D. in CS, 2008
Dissertation: Data and energy management in wireless sensor networks
Mentors: Kostas Kalpakis
First Position: Association of American Medical Colleges
Current Position: Association of American Medical Colleges
Dr. Song Han, Ph.D. in EE, 2008
Dissertation: Ultrafast dual-gain-media neodymium:glass laser
Mentors: Li Yan
Dr. Waleed Youssef, Ph.D. in CS, 2008
Dissertation: Intelligent gateways placements techniques for improved dependability of wireless sensor networks
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: IBM Networks Solutions
Current Position: IBM Networks Solutions
Dr. Chia-Chien Wei, Ph.D. in EE, 2008
Dissertation: All-optical signal processing in optical communication systems
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Suresh Reddy Purini, Ph.D. in CS, 2008
Dissertation: Studies in bounded query hierarchies
Mentors: Richard Chang
First Position: Postdoc, TIFR, Mumbai
Current Position: Assistant Prof, IIIT, Hyderabad
Dr. Yongmei Shi, Ph.D. in CS, 2008
Dissertation: An investigation of linguistic information for speech recognition error detection
Mentors: Scott Cost and Lina Zhou
First Position: Research Assoc, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Current Position: Research Assoc, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. in CS, 2008
Dissertation: From sensors to structures: Unsupervised language learning
Mentors: Tim Oates
First Position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Wheaton College
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Wheaton College
Dr. Hualiang Li, Ph.D. in EE, 2008
Dissertation: Complex-valued adaptive signal processing using Wirtinger calculus and its application to independent component analysis
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Research Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Current Position: Cognizant, Hartford, CT
Dr. Thomas Briggs, Ph.D. in CS, 2008
Dissertation: Constraint generation and reasoning in OWL
Mentors: Yun Peng
First Position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Shippensburg State University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Shippensburg State University
2007
Dr. Anand Patwardhan, Ph.D. in CS, 2007
Dissertation: Trustworthy data management in pervasive environments
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: Cougaar Software
Current Position: Cougaar Software
Dr. Mingkai Hsueh, Ph.D. in CE, 2007
Dissertation: Reconfigurable Computing for Algorithms in Hyperspectral Image Processing
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Software Engineer, Gatan, CA
Current Position: Software Engineer, Gatan, CA
Dr. Oleg Sinkin, Ph.D. in EE, 2007
Dissertation: Calculation of Bit Error Rates in Optical Fiber Communications Systems in the Presence of Nonlinear Distortion and Noise
Mentors: Curtis Menyuk
First Position: Tyco Telecom
Current Position: Tyco Subcom
Dr. Jingzhou Yan, Ph.D. in EE, 2007
Dissertation: Novel indium phosphide based broadband bipolar cascade lasers and broadband gain materials: Designs, MOCVD growth studies, and fabrications
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
Current Position: JDSU
Dr. Jiping Wen, Ph.D. in EE, 2007
Dissertation: Investigation of performance statistics in a high bit-rate terrestrial WDM system
Mentors: Gary Carter
Dr. Hua Jiao, Ph.D. in EE, 2007
Dissertation: Investigation of the combined effect of polarization-mode dispersion and polarization-dependent loss on system performance
Mentors: Gary Carter
Dr. Haimonti Dutta, Ph.D. in CS, 2007
Dissertation: Empowering scientific discovery by distributed data mining on the grid infrastructure
Mentors: Hillol Kargupta
First Position: Research Scientist, Columbia University
Current Position: Research Scientist, Columbia University
Dr. Kun Liu, Ph.D. in CS, 2007
Dissertation: Multiplicative Data Perturbation for Privacy Preserving Data Mining
Mentors: Hillol Kargupta
First Position: IBM Research
Current Position: Yahoo! Labs
Dr. Mahesh Sivakumar, Ph.D. in CS, 2007
Dissertation: Architectures and Algorithms for Survivable Wavelength-Shared Optical WDM Mesh Networks
Mentors: Krishna Sivalingam
First Position: Cisco Systems
Dr. Alark Joshi, Ph.D. in CS, 2007
Dissertation: Art-inspired techniques for visualizing time-varying data
Mentors: Penny Rheingans
First Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Yale University
Current Position: Professor of Computer Science, University of San Francisco
Dr. Pranam Kolari, Ph.D. in CS, 2007
Dissertation: Detecting spam blogs: An adaptive online approach
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Yahoo!
Current Position: Walmart Labs
Dr. Olga Ratsimor, Ph.D. in CS, 2007
Dissertation: Opportunistic bartering of digital goods and services in pervasive environments
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Intelligent Automation Inc
Current Position: DoD
2006
Dr. Baohong Jiao, Ph.D. in EE, 2006
Dissertation: Constrained Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis
Mentors: 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 EE, 2006
Dissertation: Applications of Independent Component Analysis to Hyperspectral Data Exploitation
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Xerox , NY
Current Position: Logsitics, CA
Dr. Su Wang, Ph.D. in EE, 2006
Dissertation: Statistical Signal Processing Applications to Hyperspectral Signature Characterization
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Postdoctor, SUNY, medical school
Current Position: Engineer, SONY, CA
Dr. Thomas Goff, Ph.D. in CS, 2006
Dissertation: Network connection striping by end systems
Mentors: Dhananjay Phatak
Dr. Jianxin Cai, Ph.D. in EE, 2006
Dissertation: Advanced Photonic Devices Fabricated by Selective-Area-Growth Techniques
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
Current Position: JDSU
Dr. Xiangjun Zhao, Ph.D. in EE, 2006
Dissertation: Optical Components and Subsystems Used in Optical Packet Switching Networks: Theory and Experiments
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
First Position: Research Engineer at Chorum
Current Position: Google Fiber
Dr. Abhishek Singh, Ph.D. in CE, 2006
Dissertation: An Analytical Framework for Defect Simulation and Estimation of Power Grid Effects in Defect-based Test Methodologies
Mentors: Jim Plusquellic
Dr. Qianjun Xu, Ph.D. in CS, 2006
Dissertation: Active Querying for Semi-Supervised Clustering
Mentors: Marie desJardins
First Position: Microsoft
Current Position: Microsoft
Dr. Yong Rao, Ph.D. in CS, 2006
Dissertation: Automatic multimedia content analysis and management
Mentors: Padma Mundur
First Position: Amazon
Current Position: Yahoo!
Dr. Aihua Guo, Ph.D. in EE, 2006
Dissertation: Traffic Engineering with Quality-of-Service in Multi-layer GMPLS Optical Networks
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
First Position: ADVA Optical Networking
Current Position: ADVA Optical Networking
Dr. Li Ding, Ph.D. in CS, 2006
Dissertation: Enhancing Semantic Web Data Access
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Current Position: CTO ruyi.ai
Dr. Dan Scholnik, Ph.D. in EE, 2006
Dissertation: Shared Wideband Transmit Antenna Arrays: Optimal Pattern Synthesis and Spatio-temporal Delta-sigma Modulation
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: NRL
Current Position: NRL
Dr. Rong Pan, Ph.D. in CS, 2006
Dissertation: Semantically-linked Bayesian network: A framework for probabilistic inference over multiple Bayesian networks
Mentors: Yun Peng
First Position: Industry
Current Position: NexTag
2005
Dr. Sasikanth Avancha, Ph.D. in CS, 2005
Dissertation: A holistic approach to secure sensor networks
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: IBM Research
Current Position: IBM Research
Dr. Aurenice Oliveira (Lima), Ph.D. in EE, 2005
Dissertation: Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Computation of Penalties Induced by Polarization Mode Dispersion in Optical Fiber Transmission Systems
Mentors: Curtis Menyuk
First Position: Assistant Professor, School of Technology, Michigan Technological University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Technology, Michigan Technological University
Dr. Ying Zhang, Ph.D. in CS, 2005
Dissertation: Routing and Multicasting in WDM and ADHOC Networks
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
Dr. Guoyun Ru, Ph.D. in EE, 2005
Dissertation: Slab-coupled buried waveguide high power semiconductor laser and optical amplifier
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
First Position: Coherent
Dr. Jie Lin, Ph.D. in EE, 2005
Dissertation: InP-Based Photonic Integrated Modulator
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
First Position: Associate Professor
Current Position: JDSU
Dr. Hai Xu, Ph.D. in EE, 2005
Dissertation: Investigation of the polarization mode dispersion effects in recirculating loop systems
Mentors: Gary Carter
Dr. Amitkumar Mahadevan, Ph.D. in EE, 2005
Dissertation: On RCD codes as a class of LDPC codes: Properties, decoding, and performance evaluation
Mentors: Joel Morris
Dr. Vasundhara Puttagunta, Ph.D. in CS, 2005
Dissertation: Computations over data streams
Mentors: Kostas Kalpakis
First Position: Google
Current Position: Microsoft
Dr. Xiao Lin, Ph.D. in EE, 2005
Dissertation: Optical Channel Monitoring Based on Integrated Planar Lightwave Circuits and Fast Fourier Transform Technologies
Mentors: Li Yan
Dr. Matthew Gaston, Ph.D. in CS, 2005
Dissertation: Organizational learning and network adaptation in multi-agent systems
Mentors: Marie desJardins
First Position: DoD
Current Position: Director,SEI Emerging Technology Center, CMU
Dr. Kemal Akkaya, Ph.D. in CS, 2005
Dissertation: Energy and QoS aware routing protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
Mentors: Mohamed Younis
First Position: Asst. Prof., Southern Illinois University
Current Position: Prof., Florida International University
Dr. Eleanor Chlan, Ph.D. in CS, 2005
Dissertation: Botanically Inspired Visualization: Exploring Hierarchical Data Sets with Extent and Variation
Mentors: 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. Xiaohui Yang, Ph.D. in EE, 2005
Dissertation: The Enabling Technologies in Reconfigurable Wdm Networks
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Wenze Xi, Ph.D. in EE, 2005
Dissertation: Maximum Likelihood Electronic Equalization and Integrated Coding and Equalization for Optical Communications Systems
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: NIH
Current Position: Staff Scientist, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Dr. Zhongli Ding, Ph.D. in CS, 2005
Dissertation: BayesOWL: A probabilistic framework for uncertainty in semantic web
Mentors: Yun Peng
First Position: Amazon
Current Position: Google
2004
Dr. Dipanjan Chakraborty, Ph.D. in CS, 2004
Dissertation: Service Discovery and Composition in Pervasive Environments
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: IBM Research
Current Position: Penn State
Dr. Filip Perich, Ph.D. in CS, 2004
Dissertation: On peer-to-peer data management in pervasive computing environments
Mentors: Anupam Joshi
First Position: Cougaar Software
Current Position: Google
Dr. Ali Bicak, Ph.D. in CS, 2004
Dissertation: Zone Routing In Mobile Ad Hoc and Peer-to-Peer Networks
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
First Position: TeleniX Corporation
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Marymount University
Dr. Chintan Patel, Ph.D. in CE, 2004
Dissertation: Defect Detection and Diagnosis Using Quiescent Signal Analysis
Mentors: Jim Plusquellic
First Position: UMBC
Current Position: UMBC
Dr. Jeffrey Undercoffer, Ph.D. in CS, 2004
Dissertation: Intrusion Detection: Modeling System State to Detect and Classify Aberrant Behaviors
Mentors: John Pinkston
First Position: DoD
Current Position: senior executive, DoD
Dr. Elbert Nhan, Ph.D. in EE, 2004
Dissertation: Polarization Stability of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers With Asymmetric Aperture Geometries
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Chauhan Lee, Ph.D. in EE, 2004
Dissertation: Spectrum-Encoded Optical CDMA Systems Employing Planar Lightwave Circuit Technology
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Anocha Yimsiriwattana, Ph.D. in CS, 2004
Dissertation: Distributed Quantum Computing
Mentors: Samuel Lomonaco
Dr. Lik (Harry) Chen, Ph.D. in CS, 2004
Dissertation: An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Image Matters LLC
Current Position: Curbside
Dr. Lalana Kagal, Ph.D. in CS, 2004
Dissertation: A Policy-Based Approach to Governing Autonomous Behavior in Distributed Environments
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Current Position: Principal Research Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Dr. Youyong Zou, Ph.D. in CS, 2004
Dissertation: Agent-Based Services for the Semantic Web
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: ImageMatters LLC
Current Position: Serco
Dr. Vadim Okun, Ph.D. in CS, 2004
Dissertation: Specification mutation for test generation and analysis
Mentors: Yaacov Yesha
Current Position: NIST
Dr. Xiaocheng Luan, Ph.D. in CS, 2004
Dissertation: Adaptive Middle Agent for Service Matching in the Semantic Web: A Quantitative Approach
Mentors: Yun Peng and Tim Finin
First Position: Aquilent
Current Position: Everyday Health
2003
Dr. Yingzi Du, Ph.D. in EE, 2003
Dissertation: Text Detection and Restoration for Color Video Images
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Research Assistant Professor, Naval Academy, MD
Current Position: Director of Engineering, Qualcomm
Dr. Kerri Guilfoyle, Ph.D. in EE, 2003
Dissertation: Application of Linear and Nonlinear Mixture Models to Hyperspectral Imagery Analysis Using Radial Basis Function Neural Networks
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Jianwei Wang, Ph.D. in EE, 2003
Dissertation: Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) Design for Real-time Implementation of Hyperspectral Detection and Classification Algorithms
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Senior Engineer, Applied Materials, CA
Dr. Ivan Lima, Ph.D. in EE, 2003
Dissertation: Investigation of the Performance Degradation Due to Polarization Effects in Optical Fiber Communication Systems
Mentors: 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. Ronald Holzloehner, Ph.D. in EE, 2003
Dissertation: A Covariance Matrix Method for the Computation of Bit Errors in Optical Transmission Systems
Mentors: Curtis Menyuk
First Position: Max-Planck Institute, Erlangen, Germany
Current Position: European Southern Observatory, Munich, Germany
Dr. Gargi Banerjee Dasgupta, Ph.D. in CS, 2003
Dissertation: Traffic Engineering and Performance. Optimization in IP jMPLS Networks
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
First Position: IBM Research, New Delhi
Current Position: IBM Research, New Delhi
Dr. Edward Perl, Ph.D. in EE, 2003
Dissertation: Analysis of Signaling in IP/WDM Networks
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
Dr. Yu Sun, Ph.D. in EE, 2003
Dissertation: Polarization Effects in a Recirculating Loop System and System Using a Recirculating Loop
Mentors: Gary Carter
Dr. William Martin, Ph.D. in EE, 2003
Dissertation: The Weight Enumerator Function For the RCD Array Codes: A Class of Regular LDPC Codes
Mentors: Joel Morris
Dr. Charles Laberge, Ph.D. in EE, 2003
Dissertation: On Turbo-coded hybrid ARQ techniques constrained by Time Division Multiplex Signal Formats
Mentors: Joel Morris
First Position: Honeywell Aerospace Research & Tech Cnt. (concurrent)
Current Position: Professor of the Practice, UMBC
Dr. Koustuv Dasgupta, Ph.D. in CS, 2003
Dissertation: Efficient resource management techniques in distributed data systems
Mentors: Kostas Kalpakis
First Position: IBM Research, New Delhi
Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, Xerox India Innovation Hub
Dr. Wei Chen, Ph.D. in EE, 2003
Dissertation: WDM Filter in All Optical Network
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Jochen Dorring, Ph.D. in EE, 2003
Dissertation: Ultra-fast, All-optical Signal Processing Techniques for Reconfigurable Networks
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Olga Streltchenko, Ph.D. in CS, 2003
Dissertation: Exploring Trading Dynamics in a Derivative Securities Market of Heterogeneous Agents
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Algorithmics Inc
Current Position: Export Development Canada
2002
Dr. Naomi Avigdor, Ph.D. in CS, 2002
Dissertation: Building a Scalable and Reliable Parallel File System Using Commodity Computer
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
Dr. Wei Lu , Ph.D. in EE, 2002
Dissertation: Ultrashort Pulse Generation from Actively Mode-Locked Broadband Inhomogenously Broadened Lasers
Mentors: Li Yan
Dr. Vince Calhoun, Ph.D. in EE, 2002
Dissertation: Independent Component Analysis for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mentors: 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 EE, 2002
Dissertation: Fully-Complex Multilayer Perceptron and Its Application to Communications
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: The MITRE Corporation, VA
Current Position: The MITRE Corporation, El Segundo, CA
Dr. Ye Chen, Ph.D. in CS, 2002
Dissertation: An extended Bayesian belief network model of multi-agent systems for supply chain management
Mentors: Yun Peng
First Position: SAP
2001
Dr. Ian Soboroff, Ph.D. in CS, 2001
Dissertation: Combining content-based and collaborative filtering
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
First Position: NIST
Current Position: NIST
Dr. Shao-Shan Chiang, Ph.D. in EE, 2001
Dissertation: Automatic Target Detection and Classification in Hyperspectral Imagery
Mentors: 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 EE, 2001
Dissertation: Constrained Least Squares Approaches to Target Detection and Image Classification for Remotely Sensed Images
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: Northop Grumann
Current Position: STC
Dr. Ruo-Mei Mu, Ph.D. in EE, 2001
Dissertation: Comparison of the chirped return-to-zero and dispersion managed soliton modulation formats in wavelength division multiplexed systems
Mentors: Curtis Menyuk
First Position: Tyco Telecom
Current Position: Tyco Subcom
Dr. Ali Selcuk, Ph.D. in CS, 2001
Dissertation: Probabilistic optimization techniques for multicast key management and bias estimation in linear cryptanalysis
Mentors: 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 EE, 2001
Dissertation: Planar waveguide based optical performance monitoring techniques and their applications in all-optical networks
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Hongmei Ni, Ph.D. in EE, 2001
Dissertation: Partial Likelihood for Nonlinear Signal Processing and its Applications in Communications
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Hughes Network Systems
Current Position: Wireless Highways, Vienna, VA
Dr. Yi Cai, Ph.D. in EE, 2001
Dissertation: On Forward Error Correction Codes and Line-coding Schemes in Optical Fiber Communications
Mentors: Tulay Adali and Joel Morris
First Position: TyCom, Ltd
Current Position: Tyco Subcom
2000
Dr. Qian Du, Ph.D. in EE, 2000
Dissertation: Topics in Hyperspectral Image Analysis
Mentors: 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 EE, 2000
Dissertation: Hyperspectral Image Analysis with Convex Cones and Projection Pursuit
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: US Army, Edgewood
Current Position: Engineer, SAIC, VA
Dr. Hsuan Ren, Ph.D. in EE, 2000
Dissertation: Unsupervised and Generalized Orthogonal Subspace Projection and Constrained Energy Minimization for Target Detection and Classification in Remotely Sensed Imagery
Mentors: 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 EE, 2000
Dissertation: Image Restoration of Low Resolution Text and Document Images
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Ding Wang , Ph.D. in EE, 2000
Dissertation: Polarization effects in dense WDM system
Mentors: Curtis Menyuk
First Position: 3M Corporation
Current Position: 3M Corporation
Dr. Tao Yu, Ph.D. in EE, 2000
Dissertation: Optimal Pulse Formats in Optical Fiber Communication Systems
Mentors: Curtis Menyuk
First Position: Nortel
Current Position: General Photonics Corporation
Dr. William Freeman, Ph.D. in CS, 2000
Dissertation: Decentralized Security for Network-Attached Storage
Mentors: Ethan Miller
First Position: DoD
Current Position: Northrop Grumman
Dr. Se (Richard) Chung, Ph.D. in EE, 2000
Dissertation: Metal-organic chemical vapor deposition of gallium nitride semiconductor
Mentors: JC Chen
Dr. Sanjay Joshi, Ph.D. in EE, 2000
Dissertation: Joint-domain representations using discrete-domain frames
Mentors: Joel Morris
First Position: Lucent
Current Position: Globus Medical
Dr. Bo Wang , Ph.D. in EE, 2000
Dissertation: Frequency Domain Approaches for Equalizer Design for Discrete Multitone Systems
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Aware Tech. Inc.
Current Position: Aware Tech., Inc.
1999
Dr. Sashi Lazar, Ph.D. in CS, 1999
Dissertation: Enterprise network management using intelligent mobile agents
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
Dr. Robert Rosenberry, Ph.D. in CS, 1999
Dissertation: Signaling protocols and network architectures in ATM environments
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
Dr. Wiliam Maughan, Ph.D. in CS, 1999
Dissertation: Towards network security management in an Internetwork environment
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
First Position: DoD
Current Position: Division Director, Cyber Security Division, DHS Science and Technology Directorate
Dr. Jen-Yu Fan, Ph.D. in EE, 1999
Dissertation: Design, fabrication and application of photonic components for all-optical networking and switching
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
First Position: Adtech Optics
Current Position: unk
Dr. Liming Wang, Ph.D. in EE, 1999
Dissertation: A bandwidth-on-demand access network based on integrated tunable coherent transceivers
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
Current Position: JDSU
Dr. Richard Cott Cost, Ph.D. in CS, 1999
Dissertation: A framework for developing conversational agents
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Research Assistant Professor, UMBC
Current Position: Chief Scientist, Information Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Linglan Zhang (Edwards), Ph.D. in CS, 1999
Dissertation: Computational models for the formation of protocell structures
Mentors: Yun Peng
Current Position: USPTO
1998
Dr. Muhammad Rabi, Ph.D. in CS, 1998
Dissertation: Relationships among algebraic and security properties of cryptographic functions, and a security architecture for intelligent agents
Mentors: Alan Sherman and Tim Finin
Dr. Paula Reitan, Ph.D. in CS, 1998
Dissertation: Hybrid Approaches to Color Image Quantization
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
First Position: NASA GSFC
Current Position: Internal Revenue Service
Dr. Clark Brumbley, Ph.D. in EE, 1998
Dissertation: Kalman Filtering and Subspace Projection Approaches to Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Classification
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: DoD
Current Position: deceased
Dr. Ishan Weerakoon, Ph.D. in CS, 1998
Dissertation: Hierarchical mobile user location tracking: Design and analysis
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
Dr. Timothy Gibson, Ph.D. in CS, 1998
Dissertation: Long-term UNIX File System Activity and the Efficacy of Automatic File Migration
Mentors: Ethan Miller
First Position: US Army
Current Position: Hewlett Packard
Dr. Jye-Hong Chen, Ph.D. in EE, 1998
Dissertation: Opto-electronic devices and subsystems for all-optical networks
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
Current Position: Professor and Chair National Chio-Tung University
Dr. Dongsheng Wu, Ph.D. in EE, 1998
Dissertation: Time-frequency signal analysis via Cohen’s class of distributions and implementation algorithms
Mentors: Joel Morris
Dr. Shih-Hsiang Hsu, Ph.D. in EE, 1998
Dissertation: Monolithically integrated receiver module for high-speed wavelength division multiplexing applications
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Haifeng Li, Ph.D. in EE, 1998
Dissertation: Wavelength-division-multiplexing photonic integrated circuits using phased-array waveguide grating multi/demultiplexers
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Ellis Clarke, Ph.D. in CS, 1998
Dissertation: The empirical use of continuous variables in Bayesian belief networks for exploratory data analysis
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: Maryland Medical Research Institute
Dr. Bradley Fordham, Ph.D. in CS, 1998
Dissertation: The evolving data model: Modeling electronic commerce and other semanti-centric domains
Mentors: Yelena Yesha
First Position: NIST
Current Position: Oracle
Dr. John Hryniewicz, Ph.D. in EE, 1998
Dissertation: Chemically assisted ion beam etching for photonics applications
Mentors: Yung-Jui Chen
1997
Dr. Mei-Hao Shih, Ph.D. in EE, 1997
Dissertation: Integrated photonic devices for optical communication and interconnect
Mentors: Fow-Sen Choa
Dr. Raja Holavanahali, Ph.D. in EE, 1997
Dissertation: Sensors using phase modulation fluorometry
Mentors: Gary Carter
Dr. Mirela Djordjevic-Stojkovic, Ph.D. in CS, 1997
Dissertation: Proof Transformations in Constructive Type Theory
Mentors: 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. Wenhua Lin, Ph.D. in EE, 1997
Dissertation: Phased-array waveguide grating multi/demultiplexers and their applications in wavelength division multiplexing networks
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Yen-Ping Ho, Ph.D. in EE, 1997
Dissertation: .Grating based multi/demultiplexing devices for wavelength division multiplexing network systems
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Michael Grasso, Ph.D. in CS, 1997
Dissertation: Speech Input in Multimodal Environments: Effects of Perceptual Structure on Speed, Accuracy, and Acceptance
Mentors: 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. Xiao Liu, Ph.D. in EE, 1997
Dissertation: Canonical piecewise linear network and distribution learning for nonlinear filtering
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: GlobeSpan Semiconductor Inc
Current Position: GlobeSpan Semiconductor Inc
Dr. Jianhua Xuan, Ph.D. in EE, 1997
Dissertation: Medical image understanding: Segmentation, modeling and representation
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America
Current Position: Professor, Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA.
Dr. Vasileios Megalooikonomou, Ph.D. in CS, 1997
Dissertation: Quantization of distributed estimation with unknown observation statistics
Mentors: Yelena Yesha
First Position: Temple University
Current Position: Temple University
1996
Dr. David Lazoff, Ph.D. in CS, 1996
Dissertation: Network reliability and optimal resource allocation in distributed database systems
Mentors: Brooke Stephens
Dr. Vincent Marier, Ph.D. in CS, 1996
Dissertation: Diagnosing faults in protocol testing
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD, retired
Dr. Raghu Vallurupalli, Ph.D. in CS, 1996
Dissertation: Protocol testing hierarchies, maximum fault coverage and fault diagnosis
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
Dr. Alexander Wenjia, Ph.D. in CS, 1996
Dissertation: Channel Assignment and location Tracking in Wireless Networks
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
First Position: Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Towson Univ.
Current Position: Professor of Computer Science, Towson University,
Dr. Yannis Labrou, Ph.D. in CS, 1996
Dissertation: Semantics for an agent communication language
Mentors: Tim Finin
First Position: UMBC
Current Position: Fujitsu Research
Dr. Odysseas Pentakalos, Ph.D. in CS, 1996
Dissertation: Performance evaluation of hierarchical mass storage systems
Mentors: Yelena Yesha
First Position: BearingPoint
Current Position: Northrop Gruman
1995
Dr. Mark Althouse, Ph.D. in EE, 1995
Dissertation: Vapor Cloud Detection in Multispectral Infrared Image Sequences Using Co-occurrence Matrix Methods
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: US Army
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Venkata Chinni, Ph.D. in EE, 1995
Dissertation: Numerical Study of Integrated Optical Waveguide Devices
Mentors: Curtis Menyuk
First Position: Ranch Neworks
Current Position: General Partner at Sterling iCapital
Dr. Kao-Yang Huang, Ph.D. in EE, 1995
Dissertation: Characteristics and applications of frequency modulation of gallium arsenide external cavitiy lasers
Mentors: Gary Carter
Dr. Rita Doerr (Mccardell), Ph.D. in CS, 1995
Dissertation: LexicalSemantic and Statistical Approach to Lexical Collocation
Mentors: James Mayfield
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Youhong Lu, Ph.D. in EE, 1995
Dissertation: Biorthogonal-like functions and their application to generalized Gabor expansions, and signal processing
Mentors: Joel Morris
Dr. Yue Wang, Ph.D. in EE, 1995
Dissertation: MRI statistics and model-based MR image analysis
Mentors: Tulay Adali
First Position: Georgetown University
Current Position: Grant A. Dove Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1994
Dr. Larry Wagoner, Ph.D. in CS, 1994
Dissertation: Group theory as a basis for searching and routing techniques
Mentors: Brooke Stephens
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Claudia Pearce, Ph.D. in CS, 1994
Dissertation: A dynamic hypertext environment through n-gram analysis
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
Dr. Venkata Chinni, Ph.D. in EE, 1994
Dissertation: Numerical Study of Integrated Optical Waveguide Devices
Mentors: Curtis Menyuk
First Position: AT&T Bell Labs
Current Position: Datum Global
Dr. Liu Zheng, Ph.D. in EE, 1994
Dissertation: Picosecond pulse generation and compression using semiconductor lasers: Experiments and simulations
Mentors: Gary Carter
Dr. Thomas Anastasio, Ph.D. in CS, 1994
Dissertation: Mapping of dataflow programs by local structure analysis
Mentors: Howard Motteler
First Position: UMBC
Current Position: Salisbury State University, retired
Dr. Mingcho Wu, Ph.D. in EE, 1994
Dissertation: Monolithically integrated photonic devices for optical interconnect applications
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Konstantinos Kalpakis, Ph.D. in CS, 1994
Dissertation: Parallel Computations
Mentors: Yaacov Yesha
First Position: UMBC
Current Position: UMBC
Dr. David Flater, Ph.D. in CS, 1994
Dissertation: Towards a global federation of heterogeneous resources
Mentors: Yelena Yesha
First Position: NIST
Current Position: NIST
1993
Dr. Joseph Harsanyi, Ph.D. in EE, 1993
Dissertation: Detection and Classification of Subpixel Spectral Signatures in Hyperspectral Image Sequences
Mentors: Chein-I Chang
First Position: President, ASIT
Current Position: President, ASIT
Dr. Raj Nair, Ph.D. in CS, 1993
Dissertation: Analysis of routing algorithms for large networks
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
First Position: Netrix Corporation
Current Position: CTO, Azuki Systems
Dr. Shukri Abdallah, Ph.D. in CS, 1993
Dissertation: Routing in hierarchical networks
Mentors: Deepinder Sidhu
First Position: FORE Systems
Current Position: Software Engineer, Ericsson
1992
Dr. Anthony Chung, Ph.D. in CS, 1992
Dissertation: Length optimization and fault coverage of protocol test sequences
Mentors: 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 CS, 1992
Dissertation: A knowledge-based approach to automated query formulation
Mentors: James Mayfield
First Position: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Current Position: Director, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Vivek Srinivas, Ph.D. in EE, 1992
Dissertation: Exciton dynamics in gallium arsenide quantum wells
Mentors: Ray (YJ) Chen
Dr. Win-Tsung Lo, Ph.D. in CS, 1992
Dissertation: Location on tree networks and allocation on Hypercube multiprocessors
Mentors: Shietung Peng
1991
Dr. John Alexander, Ph.D. in CS, 1991
Dissertation: An analysis of the general properties and convergence of a connectionist model employing probability data as weights and parameters
Mentors: Brooke Stephens
First Position: Towson Univ.
Current Position: now Prof. Emeritus
Dr. Linda Rosenberg Wilbanks, Ph.D. in CS, 1991
Dissertation: Canto: A hypertext data model
Mentors: Charles Nicholas
First Position: NASA GSFC
Current Position: CIO, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (retired)
Dr. Wooyoung Soh, Ph.D. in CS, 1991
Dissertation: Episodic learning through conceptual clustering in a parallel activation model for diagnostic reasoning
Mentors: James Mayfield
First Position: Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, Hannam University
Current Position: Professor of Computer Engineering, Hannam University
Dr. Che-Fen Tang, Ph.D. in EE, 1991
Dissertation: Adaptive array systems using QR-based RLS and CRLS techniques with systolic array architectures
Mentors: S. Tretter and K. Liu
1990
Dr. Keith Gallagher, Ph.D. in CS, 1990
Dissertation: Using program slicing in software maintenance
Mentors: James Lyle
First Position: Loyola University in Maryland
Current Position: Florida Institute of Technology
Dr. Roberta Sabin, Ph.D. in CS, 1990
Dissertation: Metacyclic error-correcting codes
Mentors: Samuel Lomonaco
First Position: Loyola University Maryland
Current Position: Professor (Emeritus) Computer Science Department, Loyola University
Dr. Gur Adhar, Ph.D. in CS, 1990
Dissertation: Parallel algorithms for problems involving perfect graphs
Mentors: Shei-Tung Peng
First Position: UNC Wilmington
Current Position: now a Professor at UNCW
Dr. Yuan-Bao Shieh, Ph.D. in CS, 1990
Dissertation: Modeling and integration of fault tolerance techniques in distributed systems
Mentors: Shietung Peng
1989
Dr. Moon-Seog Jun, Ph.D. in CS, 1989
Dissertation: nan
Mentors: Shei-Tung Peng
First Position: Morgan State University
Current Position: Soongsil University, Korea
1988
Dr. Thomas Hudson, Ph.D. in CS, 1988
Dissertation: Design and analysis of several parallel algorithms for multiplying very large integers
Mentors: Shei-Tung Peng
First Position: DoD
Current Position: DoD
1985
Dr. Sanjeev B Ahuja, Ph.D. in CS, 1985
Dissertation: An artificial intelligence environment for the analysis and classification of errors in discrete sequential processes (simulation, abduction, diagnostic, set-covering, modelling)
Mentors: 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.