2002 Defense Notices
MS Thesis Defense
ARUN-PRASAD CHIMATA
MS/EE
Development of an Adaptive
Polarization-Mode Dispersion Compensation System
December 17,2002
3:00 p.m.
Gemini Room
Committee:
C. Allen, Chair
K. Demarest
R. Hui
MS Thesis Defense
SREENIVAS SUNIL PENUMARTHY
MS/CoE
Design and Development of a User Level Thread Library for Testing and
Reproducing Concurrency Scenarios
December 17, 2002
11:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
Committee:
J. James, Chair
A. Agah
G. Minden
MS Thesis Defense
MAGESH KANNAN
MS/CoE
Design and Implementation of Composite Protocols
December 16, 2002
11:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Gary Minden, Chair
Joseph Evans
Victor Frost
MS Thesis Defense
KIRAN KUMAR C.S.K.
MS/CS
A Generic Spider for Capturing Online Ontologies
December 10, 2002
4:00 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
Committee:
S. Gauch,Chair
A. Agah
D. Andrews
MS Thesis Defense
SIVAPRASATH MURUGESHAN
MS/CS
A robust Persistent Storage Architecture for ACE
December 3, 2002
10:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jeremiah James, Chair
Arvin Agah
Susan Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
JINGFENG JIANG
MS/CS
An Offline Motion Tracking Algorithm for Elastic Strain Imaging
November 25, 2002
11:00 a.m.
1011 Learned Hall
COMMITTEE:
John Gauch & Tim Hall, Co-chairs
Glenn Prescott
Swapan Chakrabarti
MS Thesis Defense
MATTHEW C. SCHLESENER
MS/EE
Performance Evaluation of Telephony Routing Over IP
November 25, 2002
1:00
Sprint Campus, Overland Park, KS
COMMITTEE:
Victor Frost, Chair
Joseph Evans
Gary Minden
MS Thesis Defense
BRIAN DOYLE
MS/CS
Extendable Online Testing System
November 22,2002
10:00a.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah,Chair
Swapan Chakrabarti
Nancy Kinnersley
MS Thesis Defense
LOGESHWARAN VIJAYAN
MS/EE
Applications of Wavelet Transforms and Neural Network Traffic
November 20, 2002
3:00 p.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Swapan Chakrabarti, Chair
David W. Petr
Glenn Prescott
MS Thesis Defense
PRADEEP KUMAR KONDAMURI
MS/EE
Characterization of Polarization-Mode Dispersion on
Buried Single-Mode Fibers
November 19, 2002
10:00a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE;
Christopher Allen, Chair
Rongqing Hui
James Stiles
MS Thesis Defense
SUJIT RUPERT BALIGA
MS/CoE
Design of a Space Based Internet Emulation System
November 18, 2002
10:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Gary Minden, Chair
Joseph Evans
Victor Frost
MS Thesis Defense
MAHESH AKARAPU
MS/CS
Evaluation of the Dynamic TCP Congestion Control Scheme in the Enable Service
November 5, 2002
1:00 p.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Victor Frost, Chair
Joseph Evans
Jerry James
MS Thesis Defense
GURUVAYURAPPAN
MS/EE
Spatial and Temporal Processing for a Landmine Detection Radar
October 29, 2002
11:00 a.m
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
James Stiles, Chair
Christopher Allen
Glenn Prescott
MS Thesis Defense
KARTHIK BALASUBRAMANIAN
MS/CoE
Aggregation for Measurement Efficiency in the Enable Service
October 3, 2002
1:00 p.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Dr. Joseph Evans, Chair
Dr. Victor Frost
Dr. Arvin Agah
MS Thesis Defense
SANDHYA RALLAPALLI
MS/CS
Emulation of a Space Based Internet Communication Link:
Design and Implementation
September 3, 2002
11:15 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
G. Minden, Chair
J. Evans
V. Frost
MS Thesis Defense
DANICO LEE
MS/CS
Integrating HTML Document Structure and Contents to Identify Similar XML
Domain Documents Using K-Nearest-Neighbor Classification
August 15, 2002
3:30 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
C. Tsatsoulis, Chair
A. Agah
J. Grzymala-Busse
MS Thesis Defense
SANKARANARAYANAN VIDYARAMAN
MS/CoE
Security in the Ambient Computational Environment
August 14, 2002
2:00 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
J. Evans, Chair
G. Minden
A. Agah
PhD Dissertation Defense
NATHAN A. GOODMAN
PhD/EE
SAR and MTI Processing of Sparse Satellite Clusters
July 2, 2002
11:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
Committee:
Dr. James Stiles, Chair
Dr. Prasad Gogineni
Dr. Christopher Allen
Dr. Glenn Prescott
Dr. James Toplicar
MS Thesis Defense
Jerome Thomas
MS/EE
Low-Coherence, High-Resolution Optical Reflectometry for
Fiber Length Measurement
June 17, 2002
2:00 p.m.
Mercury Room, 315 Nichols Hall
Committee:
Dr. Rongqing Hui, Chair
Dr. Ken Demarest
Dr. Chris Allen
PhD Dissertation Defense
KOK MENG PUA
PhD/EE
Feature Based Video Sequence Identification
May 17, 2002
10:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
Committee:
Dr. Susan Gauch, Chair
Dr. John Gauch
Dr. Joseph Evans
Dr. Jeremiah James
Dr. Tom Schreiber (Psychology)
MS Thesis Defense
KHASHAYAR RAZPOUSH BAGHAEI
MS/CS
Evaluation of Task Allocation Methodologies for Mobile Multi Robot Systems
May 10, 2002
10:00 a.m.
Reading Room, Nichols Hall
Committee:
Dr. Arvin Agah, Chair
Dr. Hossein Saiedian
Dr. Jeremiah James
MS Thesis Defense
CHETAN KHANNA
MS/EE
A Comparison of Three Interleaving Techniques for Turbo Product Codes
April 26, 2002
9:30 a.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
Committee:
G. Prescott, Chair
D. Petr
S. Chakrabarti
MS Thesis Defense
RENZO HAYASHI
MS/CoE
The Ambient Computational Environments Architecture for Reliable, Secure, and Pervasive Computing
April 26, 2002
2:30 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
Committee:
G. Minden, Chair
A. Agah
J. James
MS Thesis Defense
JOHNNY R. TABASH
MS/CS
Towards a Framework for Distributed Scientific Visualization
April 26, 2002
3:00 p.m.
105 Snow Hall
Committee:
Dr. James Miller, Chair
Dr. Nancy Kinnersley
Dr. Jeremiah James
MS Thesis Defense
SEK KEN CHONG
MS/EE
Development of a 1319 NM Laser Radar Using Fiber Optics and RF Pulse Compression
April 22, 2002
3:45 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
Committee:
C. Allen, Chair
S. Gogineni
R. Hui
MS Thesis Defense
SARAT C. POTHURI
MS/CoE
Modeling of Traffic Variability with Applications to Performance Evaluation
April 19, 2002
9:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
Committee:
Dr. David W. Petr, Chair
Dr. Victor S. Frost
Dr. Swapan Chakrabarti
MS Thesis Defense
SERHAN YENGULALP
MS/CS
Robust Collaborative Distributed Application Framework
April 19, 2002
9:00 a.m.
105 Snow Hall
Committee:
Dr. James Miller, Chair
Dr. Perry Alexander
Dr. Arvin Agah
MS Thesis Defense
YANKI COBANOGLU
MS/EE
Development of a Hybnd RF/Laser Radar with RF Pulse Compression
April 19, 2002
3:45 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
Committee:
C. Allen, Chair
S. Gogineni
R. Hui
MS Thesis Defense
JOSEPH G. SHANNONHOUSE
MS/CS
A Framework for Building High Performance Computing Environments
April 18, 2002
11:00 a.m.
105 Snow Hall
Committee:
James Miller, Chair
Jerry James
Victor Wallace
MS Thesis Defense
KURT L. SCHUELER
MS/CS
Approximate Geometric Methods for the Modeling of Fiber Placed Composite Structure
April 16, 2002
3:00 p.m.
408 Snow Hall
Committee:
James Miller, Chair
Costas Tsatsoulis
Richard Hale
MS Thesis Defense
PROBHAHARAN KUMARAKULASINGAM
MS/CoE
Sound Localization Using a Mobile Robot
April 12, 2002
2:00 p.m.
217 Nichols Hall
Committee:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Swapan Chakrabarti
John Gauch
