CSE PhD Dissertations
2011-2012 PhD Graduates
| Cho | Gyu Choon | 3D Visualization of In-flight Recorded Data Advisor(s): Ouyang, Ming |
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| Durak | Nurcan | Coronal Loop Detection from Solar Images and Extraction of Salient Contour Groups from
Cluttered Images Advisor(s): Nasraoui, Olfa |
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| Mohammad | Fahim | A systems-based approach for detecting molecular interactions across tissues Advisor(s): Rouchka, Eric |
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| Igwe | Selwyn | Onyebuchi | Medical Image Storage System For Metadata-based Retrieval Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel |
| Li | Dazhuo | Bayesian Nonparametric Clusterings in Relational and High-Dimensional Settings with Applications in Bioinformatics Advisor(s): Rouchka, Eric |
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| Mohamed | Yehia Hassan | Khalil | Data center resilience assessment: storage, networking, and security Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel |
| Walgampaya | Chamila | Kumara | Click fraud: how to spot it, how to stop it? Advisor(s): Kantardzic, Mehmed |
2010-2011 PhD Graduates
| Bchir | Ouiem | Unsupervised and semi-supervised clustering with learnable cluster dependent kernels Advisor(s): Frigui, Hichem |
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| Ben Abdallah | Ahmed Chamseddine | A generic framework for context-dependent fusion with application to landmine detection Advisor(s): Frigui, Hichem |
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| Ben Ismail | Mohamed | Maher | Image annotation and retrieval based on multi-modal feature clustering and similarity propagation Advisor(s): Frigui, Hichem |
| El-Said Abd ElSalam | Waleed | Hassan | Enhanced cryptographic approaches for SCADA network security Advisor(s): Graham, James H. |
| Kelley | Robert | Roy | Advisor(s): Kumar, Anup |
| Meredith | Jason | Daron | Adaptive constrained clustering with application to dynamic image database categorization and visualization Advisor(s): Frigui, Hichem |
| Rojkova | Viktoria | Borisovna | Features extraction using random matrix theory Advisor(s): Kantardzic, Mehmed |
| Saka | Esin | Swarm Intelligence for Clustering Dynamic Data Sets for Web Usage Mining and Personalization Advisor(s): Nasraoui, Olfa |
2009-2010 PhD Graduates
| Ashikhmin | Aleksey | Yuryevich | Field Intrusion Detection System for Scada Networks Advisor(s): Graham, James H., Desoky, Ahmed |
| Carter | Brian | S | Optimizing the Deployment of Heterogeneous Sensor Networks Advisor(s): Ragade, Rammohan |
| El-Zehiry | Noha | Youssry | A Graph Cut Framework for 2D/3D Implicit Front Propagation with Application to the Image Segmentation Problem Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel |
| Fadeev | Aleksey | Sergeyevich | Efficient Representation, Indexing, and Retrieval of Multimedia Data Advisor(s): Frigui, Hichem |
| Gearheart Bogard | Christy | Marie | DNA-based Computing for Secure Circuitry Design Advisor(s): Rouchka, Eric |
| Jeannot | Cedric | Joel | A Secure Architecture for Digital Content Protection in Corporate Environments Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel |
| Johnson | Nathan | Patrick | Enhancing reliability with Latin Square redundancy on desktop grids Advisor(s): Graham, James H. |
| Mahdi | Rami | Nezar | Reduced hyperBF networks: practical optimization, regularization, and applications in bioinformatics Advisor(s): Rouchka, Eric |
| Missaoui | Walid | Oualid | Generalized multi-stream hidden Markov models Advisor(s): Frigui, Hichem |
| Rojas | Carlos | Clemente | Pattern Discovery from Evolving Transactional Data Streams Advisor(s): Nasraoui, Olfa; Imam, Ibrahim; Desoky, Ahmed; Kantardzic, Mehmed; El-baz, Aymen |
| Zhang | Lijun | Focused Image Search in the Social Web Advisor(s): Nasraoui, Olfa; Imam, Ibrahim; Desoky, Ahmed; Kantardzic, Mehmed; Wolfe, Joanna; Baeza-Yates, Ricardo (Yahoo! Research); |
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| Zhuhadar (Said) | Leyla | Automated Discovery, Categorization, and Retrieval of Personalized Semantically E-Learning Resources Advisor(s): Nasraoui, Olfa |
2008-2009 PhD Graduates
| Alkhayat | M. | Iyad | 2008-09 |
| Battisha | Mohamed | Mohamed Hosny | 2008-09 |
| Caudill | Joshua | David | Bridging the semantic gap in content-based image retrieval Advisor(s): Frigui, Hichem |
| Cha | I. | Elizabeth | Computational Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tags for Understanding Gene Regulation Advisor(s): Rouchka, Eric; Chang, Dar-jen; Cooper, Nigel; Elmaghraby, Adel; Ouyang, Ming |
| Foreman | James | Christopher | Architecture for intelligent power systems management, optimization, and storage Advisor(s): Ragade, Rammohan |
| Ghanta | Sujana | Diagnostic test for fetal chromosomal abnormalities using biallelic Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel |
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| Rickard | Heather | Erin | The Effectiveness of Self-Organizing Maps in Mammographic Image Analysis Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel |
| Zhang | Zhiyong | Focused Image Search in the Social Web Advisor(s): Nasraoui, Olfa |
2007-2008 PhD Graduates
| Ge | Li | 2007-08 | |
| Habas | Piotr | Andrzej | Advisor(s): Zurada, Jacek |
| Hieb | Jeffrey | Lloyd | Advisor(s): Graham, James H. |
| Wampler | Douglas | R. | Methods for detecting kernel rootkits Advisor(s): Graham, James H. |
| Yang | Rong | Category-Based Graph Models for Simulating Web Domains Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel |
2006-2007 PhD Graduates
| Alampalayam | Sathishkumar | Porusappan | 2006-07 |
| Cao | Bin | Optimization of complex nested queries in relational databases Advisor(s): Badia, Antonio; Cerrito, Patricia; Chang, Dar-Jen; Kantardzic, Mehmed; Ragade, Rammohan K. |
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| Eltonsy | Nevine | Hassan-Mohamed | Morphology of cancer growth for the detection of masses in mammography Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel; Tourassi, Georgia D.; Graham, James H.; Frigui, Hichem; Wong, Julius P. |
| Francom | Joseph | LeGrande | Identity management in health care Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Chang, Dar-Jen; Elmaghraby, Adel; DePuy, Gail W.; Ragade, Rammohan K. |
| George | Abraham | Mobility management in heterogenous multi-hop wireless networks Advisor(s): Kumar, Anup; Srinivasan, S.; Kantardzic, Mehmed; Ragade, Rammohan K.; Chang, Dar-Jen |
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| Hardin | Charles | Timothy | 2S-PSO: A dual state particle swarm optimizer Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel; Chang, Dar-Jen; DePuy, Gail W.; Graham, James H.; Rouchka, Eric C |
| Li | Kuo-Chen | Plausible neural network: Theories and applications Advisor(s): Chang, Dar-Jen; Kantardzic, Mehmed; Rouchka, Eric; Zurada, Jacek; Cooper, Nigel |
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| Lotfy | Hewayda | Mohamed Sayed | Intelligent system for content-based image retrieval segmentation Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel; Kantardzic, Mehmed; Chang, Dar-Jen; Imam, Ibrahim N.; Hadizadeh, Jafar |
| Rashad | Sherif | Said | Mobility-based predictive call admission control and resource reservation Advisor(s): Kantardzic, Mehmed; Kumar, Anup; Elmaghraby, Adel; Nasraoui, Olfa; Usher, John S. |
| Sadeghian | Pedram | Navigation assistance in large-scale virtual environments: The data mining approach Advisor(s): Kantardzic, Mehmed; Badia, Antonio; Chang, Dar-Jen; Elmaghraby, Adel; Wolfe, Joanna |
2005-2006 PhD Graduates
| Boratyn | Grzegorz | M. | Extraction and selection of relevant information in proteomic mass spectra for biomarker identification Advisor(s): Zurada, Jacek M.; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Kantardzic, Mehmed M.; Klein, John B.; Min, Hokey |
| Cobb | Andrew | Thomas | Dynamic measures for object-oriented software Advisor(s): Ragade, Rammohan K.; Chang, Dar-Jen; Elmaghraby, Adel; Imam, Ibrahim N.; Usher, John S. |
| Kuban | Paul | Albert | An architecture for the extension of fixed controller area networks to IEEE 802.15.4 wireless personal area networks Advisor(s): Ragade, Rammohan K.; Cole, Joseph D.; Elmaghraby, Adel |
| Leon | Elizabeth | Scalable and adaptive evolutionary clustering for noisy and dynamic data Advisor(s): Nasraoui, Olfa; Elmaghraby, Adel; Ragade, Rammohan K.; Badia, Antonio; DePuy, Gail |
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| Patel | Sandip | Chunilal | Secure Internet-based communication protocol for SCADA networks Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Chang, Dar-Jen; Elmaghraby, Adel; Ragade, Rammohan K.; Ralston, Patricia A. S. |
| Qian | Tongfeng | New families of voltage-mode and current-mode filter circuits Advisor(s): Aronhime, Peter B.; Cox, Hollace L.; Cole, Joseph B.; Wong, Julius P.; Zurada, Jacek M. |
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| Salem | Ahmed | H. | Power optimization algorithms for next generation mobile networks Advisor(s): Kumar, Anup, Elmaghraby, Adel; Ragade, Rammohan, Chang, Dar-Jen; Alexander, Suraj |
| Xie | Bin | On secure communication in integrated Internet and heterogeneous multi-hop wireless networks Advisor(s): Kumar, Anup; Srinivasan, S.; Ragade, Rammohan K.; Liu, Xiangqian; Desoky, Ahmed H.; Chang, Dar-Jen |
2004-2005 PhD Graduates
| Cui | Xiaohui | A study of collective intelligence in multiagent systems Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Ragade, Rammohan K.; Wilhelm, Mickey R.; Chang, Dar-jen; Kumar, Anup |
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| Smolinski | Tomasz | Grzegorz | Classificatory decomposition for time series clustering and categorization Advisor(s): Zurada, Jacek M.; Chenoweth, Darrel L.; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Kantardzic, Mehmed M.; Min, Hokey |
| Soliman | Maha | Mohammed | A model for mining distributed frequent sequences Advisor(s): Kantardzic, Mehmed; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Chang, Dar-jen; Imam, Ibrahim N.; Zurada, Jozef |
| Yu | Yingbing | Anomaly intrusion detection and threat evaluation using artificial immunity model and fuzzy logic Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Ragade, Rammohan K.; Chang, Dar-jen; O'Connor-Holloman, Carol |
2003-2004 PhD Graduates
| El-Said | Mostafa | Mohamed | Dynamic Bandwidth Pricing and Allocation Model Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Kumar, Anup; Kantardzic, Mehmed M.; Chang, Dar-Jen; Wong, Julius P. |
| Kirk | James | Stephen | Algorithms to improve topography preservation in self-organizing maps Advisor(s): Zurada, Jacek M.; Chang, Dar-jen; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Holloman, Carol O'Connor; Kantardzic Mehmed M. |
| Lysetskiy | Mykola | Input-controlled neural dynamics and its statistics in the olfactory system pattern processing Advisor(s): Zurada, Jacek M.; Aronhime, Peter B.; Cox, Hollace L.; Kantardzic, Mehmed M.; Lozowski, Andrzej G |
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| Mostafa | Mostafa | Gamal Ahmed | 2003-04 |
| Saleem | Alaaeldin | Moawad | Handoff management in wireless data networks using topography-aware mobility prediction Advisor(s): Kumar, Anup; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Ragade, Rammohan K.; Kantardzic, Mehmed M.; Wong, Julius P. |
2002-2003 PhD Graduates
| Choi | Hee | Jun | Processing and analysis of DNA microarrays Advisor(s): Desoky, Ahmed H.; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Chang, Dar-jen; Cooper, Nigel G. F.; Rouchka, Eric C. |
| Emam | Ahmed | ZayedMohmed | 2002-03 |
| Gaweda | Adam | Edward | Optimal data-driven rule extraction using adaptive fuzzy-neural models Advisor(s): Zurada, Jacek M.; Aronhime, Peter B.; Lilly, John H.; Karwowski, Waldemar; Ralston, Patricia |
| Kamal | Ahmed | Hussein | Parallel inductive logic programming for pharmacophore discovery Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Spatola, Amo F.; Kumar, Anup; Chang, Dar-jen; Desoky, Ahmed H. |
| Lewis | James | Eugene | Strategies of distributed genetic algorithms for three-dimensional bin packing in a SLS machine Advisor(s):Ragade, Rammohan K.; Kumar, Anup; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Biles, William E.; DePuy, Gail W. |
| Smolikova | Renata | Neural and statistical modeling of ultrasound backscatter Advisor(s): Zurada, Jacek M.; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Chang, Dar-jen; Ralston, Patricia A.; Tourassi, Georgia D. |
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| Wachowiak | Mark | Paul | Similarity metrics and optimization for multimodal biomedical image registration Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Zurada, Jacek M.; Chang, Dar-jen; Roberts, Craig S.; Tourassi, Georgia D. |
| Yu | Wen-Bin | Agent-based demand forecasting for supply chain management Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Chang, Dar-jen; Desoky, Ahmed; Kumar, Anup; Min, Hokey |
2001-2002 PhD Graduates
| Ahmed El-Melegy | Moumen | Taha | Zoom-lens camera calibration for an active vision system Advisor(s): Farag, Aly; Cleaver, Thomas; Hill, John C.; Sahoo, Prasanna; Chang, Dar-jen; Zhang, Zhengyou |
| Hamed | Essam | MohamedRamzy | An agent-based intrusion detection system using fuzzy logic for computer system threat evaluation Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Kamel, Khaled A.; DePuy, Gail W.; Chang, Dar-jen |
| Liao | Anthony | Yueh-Hsiang | A statistical pattern recognizer employing artificial neural network and principal component analysis Advisor(s): Sun, Gwong C.; Chang, Dar-jen; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Holloman, Thomas L.; Guan, Jian |
2000-2001 PhD Graduates
| Carpenter Jr. | Thomas | E. | Coloring perfect graphs in parallel using even pairs Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Chang, Dar-Jen; Desoky, Ahmed H.; Kezdy, Andre; Kumar, Anup |
| Elfayoumy | Sherif | Ahmed | Agent-based architecture for online performance tuning of parallel and distributed computation Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Kamel, Khaled A.; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Alexander, Suraj M.; Ragade, Rammohan K. |
1999-2000 PhD Graduates
| Albert | Thomas | Anthony | A computer vision system for automated measurement of leukocyte rolling velocities in vivo Advisor(s): Cleaver, Thomas G.; Desoky, Admed H.; Miller, Frederick N.; Sahoo, Prasanna K. |
| Branson | Jeremy | S. | Trainable fuzzy system incorporating dynamically variable asymmetric spreads and negative rule defuzzification Advisor(s): Lilly, John H.; Ralston, Patricia A.; Deshpande, Pradeep B.; Zurada, Jacek M.; Das, Manabendra N. |
| Hemayed | Elsayed | Eissa | 3D trinocular active vision system for surface reconstruction Advisor(s): Farag, Aly A.; Zurada, Jacek M.; Chang, Dar-jen; Darji, Udayan; Seales, Brent |
| Lozowski | Andrzej | G. | Hamiltonian approximation of strange attractors Advisor(s): Zurada, Jacek M.; Aronhime, Peter B.; Cox, Hollace L.; Dowling, Timothy E.; Pitts, William K. |
| Yamany | Sameh | M. | Surface point signatures for free form object registration and recognition Advisor(s): Farag, Aly A.; Zurada, Jacek M.; Lilly, John; Sahoo, Prasanna; Chenoweth, Darrel |
1998-1999 PhD Graduates
| Aly | Alaaeldin | A. | Scheduling paralel applications in a heterogeneous networked-clusters Advisor(s): Kamel, Khaled A.; Kumar, Anup; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Evans, Gerald W.; Riehl, Arthur M. |
| Cholewo | Thomasz | J. | Neural networks with dynamic synapses for time series prediction Advisor(s): Zurada, Jacek M.; Cichocki, Andrzej; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Kumar, Anup; Ragade, Rammohan K. |
| El-Refai | Mohamed | Yassin | A distributed multi-agent tour planner system Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Kamel, Khaled A.; Alexander, Suraj M.; Chang, Dar-jen; Kantardzic, Mehmed M. |
| Fries | Terrence | Paul | An agent-based approach for fault diagnosis in manufacturing systems Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Biles, William E.; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Kamel, Khaled A.; Ragade, Rammohan K. |
| Lata | Zbigniew | J. | Current-mode signal processing synthesis Advisor(s): Aronhime, Peter B.; Kubicka, Ewa; Ragade, Rammohan K.; Wong, Julius P.; Zurada, Jacek M. |
1997-1998 PhD Graduates
| Ahmed | Mohamed | Nooman | Novel image segmentation and registration algorithms for the study of brain structure and function Advisor(s): Farag, Aly A.; Chenoweth, Darrel; Zurada, Jacek; Sahoo, Prasanna; Darji, Udayan B. |
| Jansing | Eric | David | Feature extraction and edge detection using a fractal-based metric Advisor(s): Chenoweth, Darrel L.; Maron, Melvin J.; Sahoo, Prasanna K.; Zurada, Jacek M.; Desoky, Ahmed H. |
| Karachiwala | Irfan | Shabbir | Visualizing the performance of distributed discrete-event simulations Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Alexander, Suraj M.; Kumar, Anup, Ragade, Rammohan K. |
| Miller | Damon | Andrew | Dynamic complexity reduction of multilayer feedforward neural networks Advisor(s): Zurada, Jacek M.; Cox, Hollace L.; Faraj, Aly A.; Graham, James H.; Kubici, Grzegorz M. |
| Wang | Kechang | Theorems for design enhancement of current-mode networks Advisor(s): Aronhime, Peter B.; Chang, Dar-Jen; Desoky, Ahmed H.; Wong, Julius P.; Zurada, Jacek M. |
1996-1997 PhD Graduates
| Graviss | Kenton | Joseph | A neuromorphic approach to optimal temperature control in household refrigerators Advisor(s): Zurada, J. M.; Collins, R. L.; Aronhime, P. B.; Ralston, P. A. Stark; Elmaghraby, A. S. |
| Huang | Fengliang | Jason | 1996-97 |
| Rogers | George | E. | Neural network-fuzzy logic approach for robot safety Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Desoky, Ahmed H.; Kamel, Khaled A.; Karwowski, Waldemar; Ragade, Rammohan K. |
1995-1996 PhD Graduates
| Athavale | Nitindra | Nandakumar | Staged allocation scheme for assigning acyclic task graphs to multiprocessors Advisor(s): Ragade, Rammohan; Chang, Dar-Jen; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Fenske, T.E.; Kumar, Anup |
| Cushman | Pauline | K. | Varying the interface and using simulation in the design of an intelligent tutoring system Advisor(s): Ragade, Rammohan; Graham, James H.; Cleaver, Thomas G.; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Rude-Parkins C.R. |
| Soliman | Hussam | Mohamed | Efficient strategies for distributed simulation and decision support systems Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Chang, Dar-Jen; Kumar, Anup; Alexander, Suraj; El-Sharkaw, Mohamed |
1994-1995 PhD Graduates
| Cooper | Brian | Edward | Fractional Brownian motion for representing natural image texture Advisor(s): Chenoweth, Darrel L.; Clever, Thomas; Desoky, Ahmed; Sahoo, Prasanna K.; Farag, Aly A. |
| El-Sadany | Tarek | Anis | Feature-guided grammatical system Advisor(s): Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Graham, James H.; Chang, Dar-Jen; Kamel, Khaled; Alexander, Suraj M. |
| Grove Jr. | Ralph | Frederick | Parallel diagnostic reasoning Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Kumar, Anup; Alexander, Suraj M.; Kamel, Khaled |
| Sun | Gwong-Chain | Magic graphs Advisor(s): Holloman, Thomas L.; Chenoweth, Darrel L.; Wong, Julius P.; Huang, Wei-Feng; Kumar, Anup |
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| Zurada | Jozef | M. | Investigation of artificial neural networks for sensory integration and decision making in robot safety systems Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Kamel, Khaled; Karwowski, W; Ragade, Rammohan |
1993-1994 PhD Graduates
| Ahuja | Sanjay | Purshotam | Performance based reliability optimization for computer networks and distributed systems Advisor(s): Kumar, Anup; Ragade, Rammohan; Chang, Dar-Jen; Cole, Joseph D.; Parsaei, Hamid R. |
| Desai | Mehul | Shailesh | Network transformations and synthesis of current-mode circuits Advisor(s): Aronhime, Peter B.; Zurada, Jacek M.; Lilly, John H.; Ward, Thomas L.; Wong, Julius P. |
| Smith | Porter | Eugene | New approaches to balanced tree data structures Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Riehl, Arthur M.; Chang, Dar-Jen; Robert, John; Holloman, Thomas L. |
| Wright | Andrew | Louis | Development and analysis of hybrid fuzzy/statistically-based controllers Advisor(s):Ralston, Patricia S.; Stoll, Kenneth E.; Graham, James H.; Maron, Melvin J.; Dean Owen Harper |
1992-1993 PhD Graduates
| Guan | Jian | A hybrid model for diagnostic reasoning with learning capabilities Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Alexander, Suraj M.; Chang, Dar-Jen; Holloman, Thomas L.; Kamel, Khaled A. |
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| Konda | Venkata | R. | Advanced loop parallelization theory and techniques Advisor(s): Kumar, Anup; Ragade, Rammohan; Chang, Dar-Jen; Alexander, Suraj M.; Kamel, Khaled A. |
| Mattei | Michael | D. | Large vocabulary lexical access from continuous phonemes using syllablic segmentation Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Desoky, Ahmed H.; Cleaver, Thomas; Chang, Dar-Jen; Dr. Foulke |
| Russell | Carol | Schuler | Standard simulation-knowledge interface Advisor(s): Graham, James H.; Elmaghraby, Adel S.; Evans, Gerald W.; Ragade, Rammohan; Kamel, Khaled |
1991-1992 PhD Graduates
| Kang | Mim | J. | Analysis of actual single-layer neural networks with feedback Advisor(s): Zurada, Jacek M.; Aronhime, Peter B.; Cleaver, Thomas L.; Chenoweth, Darrel L.; Bell, Samuel |
1990-1991 PhD Graduates
| Pertunen | Cary | Drake | Global optimization using nonparametric statistics Advisor(s): Stuckman, B.E.; Graham, James H.; Usher, John S.; Scheer, D.J.; Chenoweth, Darrel L. |

