2004 Defense Notices
MS Project Defense
ADITYA MANDAPAKA
MS/CS
KUSAR - A Communication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
December 16, 2004
11:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
David Andrews, Chair
Perry Alexander
Susan Gauch
MS Project Defense
MICHAEL FINLEY
MS/CoE
Hardware/Software Codesign: Software Thread Manager
December 15, 2004
11:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
David Andrews, Chair
Perry Alexander
Jerry James
MS Project Defense
KELLY DIRKS
MS/CS
Database System to Automate Tracking of Youth Gymnastics Levels and Advancement
December 15, 2004
8:00 a.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Nancy Kinnersley, Chair
Arvin Agah
Susan Gauch
MS Project Defense
Justin Marz
MS/EE
The Design and Implementation of Various Subsystems for Pico-Satellites
December 12, 2004
3:00 9.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Glenn Prescott, Chair
David Andrews
Trevor Sorensen
MS Thesis Defense
BRETT A. BECKER
MS/CoE
802.11 Wireless Network Visualization and Case Study: Lawrence, KS
December 2, 2004
2:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Joseph Evans, Chair
Gary Minden
John Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
JEREMY CHEN
MS/CS
Dimensionality Reduction of Protein Flexibility Using Kernal Principal Analysis
November 29, 2004
11:00 a.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Xue-Wen Chen, Chair
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
John Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
SWATHY GIRI
MS/CS
XML Classification
November 15, 2004
4:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
John Gauch
Douglas Niehaus
MS Thesis Defense
HANS HARMON
MS/CoE
Design and Construction of a Robot for Polar Region Navigation
October 22, 2004
10:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Dr. Arvin Agah, Chair
Dr. Christopher Allen
Dr. Costas Tsatsouli
MS Thesis Defense
HINKO VINCAR
MS/CS
An Application Framework for Modile Resource-Constrained
Computing Environments
October 13, 2004
6:00 p.m.
163 Rengier Hall
Edwards Campus
COMMITTEE:
Dr. Hossein Saiedian, Chair
Dr. Perry Alexander
Dr. Arvin Agah
MS Thesis Defense
SEN ZHANG
MS/EE
Advanced Optical Modulation Formats for High-Speed Lightwave System
August 31, 2004
9:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Rongqing Hui, Chair
Christopher Allen
John Gauch
MS Project Defense
SIREESHA GADDIPATI
MS/CS
MySQlAdmin - Web Interface to Mysql
August 27,2004
4:00 p.m.
Gemini Room
COMMITTEE:
John Gauch, Chair
Susan Gauch
Arvin Agah
MS Project Defense
JULIE JOHNSON
MS/CS
Bandavya Virtual Assistant
August 25, 2004
11:00 a.m.
250 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Perry Alexander
John Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
ROHIT PARTHASARATHY
MS/EE
Fine-Resolution Radar for Near-Surface Layer Mapping
August 25, 2004
9:00 a.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Prasad Gogineni, Chair
Christopher Allen
Glenn Prescott
MS Thesis Defense
RICHARD STANSBURY
MS/CoE
Integration and Evaluation of Sensor Modalities for Polar Robots
August 20, 2004
10:00 a.m.
246 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Victor Frost
Costas Tsatsoulis
MS Thesis Defense
RAMAKRISHNAN KRISHNASWAMY
MS/EE
Capturing Modes in Bursty Network Traffic
August 10, 2004
10:00 a.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
David W. Petr, Chair
Victor Wallace, Co-Chair
John Gauch
MS Project Defense
FERNANDO PALACIOS SOTO
MS/CS
Finding an Upper Bound for the Transmit Code Problem Using Genetic Algorithms
August 5, 2004
10:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
James Stiles
Perry Alexander
MS Thesis Defense
PANKAJ KUMAR GOEL
MS/CS
Wireless Authentication System and 802-1x Port Access Control Using PEAP
July 26, 2004
9:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Joseph Evans, Chair
Jeremiah James
Arvin Agah
MS Project Defense
PAVANI HARIDASYAM
MS/CoE
Debugging with DSVI: A Case Study
July 15, 2004
3:00 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jeremiah James,Chair
Douglas Niehaus
David Andrews
MS Project Defense
FAYEZ M. SHANTANU
MS/CoE
Investigation of the Multiport Gen-Lock Graphics Card
in Providing True 3-D View in Color
July 6, 2004
11:00 a.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Swapan Chakrabarti, Chair
Perry Alexander
David Andrews
PhD Dissertation Defense
CINDY M. KONG SHING CHEONG
PHD/CS
Defining A Modular Semantics for a Model-Oriented Design Language
July 1, 2004
10:30 a.m.
246 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
Perry Alexander, Chair
Gary Minden
David Andrews
Jeremiah James
Allan Pasco*
MS Project Defense
PETER HINDMAN
MS/EE
Development of a Hardware-Based Digital Signal Processing Laboratory
for EECS 644
June 28, 2004
9:30 a.m.
2003 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Glenn Prescott, Chair
David Petr
Swapan Chakrabarti
MS Project Defense
FAYEZ M. SHANTANU
MS/CoE
Investigation of the Multiport Gen-Lock Graphics
Card in Providing True 3-D Views in Color
Time/Location TBA
COMMITTEE:
Swapan Chakrabarti, Chair
Perry Alexander
David Andrews
MS Project Defense
BOON-LONG LEE
MS/CoE
Wireless Network for Kansas Turnpike Application
June 21, 2004
8:30 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Gary Minden, Chair
Jeremiah James
Victor Frost
MS Thesis Defense
GANESH SHANKARAN
MS/CoE
Dectection of Threads in a Chat Session
May 24, 2004
10:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Jeremiah James
MS Thesis Defense
JAMES MAURO
MS/CoE
Security Model in the Ambient Computational Environment
May 24, 2004
2:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Gary Minden, Chair
Arvin Agah
Perry Alexander
MS Thesis Defense
ABHINAY KUCHIKULLA
MS/EE
Design and Development of a Wideband Coherent Radar Depth Sounder
May 21, 2004
9:00 a.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Prasad Gogineni, Chair
Christopher Allen
Pannirselvam Kanagaratnam
MS Thesis Defense
RAJIV RAMANASANKARAN
MS/CS
A Framework for Recording and Replay of Software that Performs I/O
May 20, 2004
3:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jeremiah James, Chair
Douglas Niehaus
Perry Alexander
MS Thesis Defense
JORGE ORTIZ
MS/CoE
Hardware/Software Co-Design of Schedulers for Real Time and Embedded Systems
May 19
3:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
David Andrews, Chair
Douglas Niehaus
Perry Alexander
MS Thesis Defense
MICHAEL FRISBIE
MS/CS
A Unified Scheduling Model for Precise Computation Control
May 17, 2004
2:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Douglas Niehaus, Chair
David Andrews
Jeremiah James
MS Project Defense
HARISH RAMAMOORTHY
MS/EE
Radar Depth Sounder Processing and Digital Elevation Map of Outlet Glaciers
May 17, 2004
10:30 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Pannirselvan Kanagaratnam, Chair
Prasad Gogineni
David Braaten
MS Thesis Defense
MITCHELL TROPE
MS/CoE
HERT: Hardware-Software Co-Design of a Low-Level Embedded Executive
Using the Reactor Model
May 13, 2004
3:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
David Andrews, Chair
Douglas Niehaus
Jeremiah James
MS Project Defense
MEI LIU
MS/CS
IR Evaluation System
May 5, 2004
2:00 p.m.
2001-B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
John Gauch
MS Project Defense
LAKSHMINARASIMHA RAO VISWANADHA
MS/CoE
Research Dissemination Via E-Learning
May 4, 2004
3:00 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE;
John Gauch, Chair
Arvin Agah
David Andrews
MS Project Defense
SANDEEP KALBURGIE
MS/EE
Inducing Strong Rules From Raw Data Sets
May 4, 2004
1:00 p.m.
2001-B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Chair
Perry Alexander
John Gauch
PhD Dissertation Defense
HUSEYIN SEVAY
PhD/EE
Multiagent Reactive Plan Application Learning in Dynamic Environments
May 3, 2004
10:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Costas Tsatsoulis, Chair
Douglas Niehaus
Susan Gauch
Arvin Agah
Stephen Benedict
MS Thesis Defense
SHANKAR RANGANATHAN
MS/CS
Text Classification Combining Clustering and Hierarchical Approaches
May 3, 2004
2:30 p.m.
2001-B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Perry Alexande
David Andrews
MS Project Defense
ARAVIND CHANDRAMOULI
MS/CS
Incorporating User Profile in Key Concept Search
April 23, 2004
1:30 p.m.
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Nancy Kinnersley
Arvin Agah
MS Project Defense
ANTHONY LEUNG
MS/EE
Performance Analysis of SCM/WDM Optical Transmission Link for Fiber-to-the-Home
April 23, 2004
1:30 p.m.
Room 246, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Rongqing Hui, Chair
Victor Frost
Hossein Saiedian
MS Thesis Defense
SUNDARSAN KRISHNAN
MS/EE
Modeling and Simulation Analysis of an FMCW Radar for Measuring Snow Thickness
April 2, 2004
2:00 p.m.
Executive Conference Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Glenn Prescott, Chair
Prasad Gogineni
David Braaten
MS Project Defense
RAGHAVENDRA SHANTHA
MS/CoE
Computer Applications in Orofacial Force Physiology - ForceWinRT
February 13, 2004
3:30p.m.
246 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
John Gauch, Chair
Rongqing Hui
Arvin Agah
MS Project Defense
VIKRAM CHELLAPA
MS/CoE
Content-Based Searching With Relevance Ranking for Learning Objects
February 3, 2004
3:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Jeremiah James
Perry Alexander
MS Project Defense
RAVIPRAKASH RAJARAMAN
MS/EE
Design of a 2-8 GH@ Twelve (12)
Element Vivaldi Linear Array Antenna for a Snow Radar System
February 2, 2004
9:00a.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Prasad Gogineni, Chair
Glenn Prescott
Pannir Kanagaratnam
MS Project Defense
GIRISH SUBRAMANIAN
MS/CoE
A Multi-Path Extension to the Dynamic Source
Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
January 30, 2004
11:30a.m.
Executive Conference Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Joseph Evans, Chair
Jeremiah James
John Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
DEVANAND RAJOO RAVINDRAN
MS/CS
Key Concept: Exploiting Hierarchical Relationships for
Conceptually Indexed Data
January 30, 2004
10:30a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Jeremiah James
Costas Tsatsoulis
MS Project Defense
HITESH MALHOTRA
MS/CS
True Mobility for Mobile Networks
January 30, 2004
8:00a.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Joseph Evans, Chair
John Gauch
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
MS Project Defense
MOHAMMED POTTAYIL
MS/CoE
Functional Array Waveguide Grating Devices
for Optical Communications
January 30, 2004
3:00p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Rongqing Hui, Chair
Victor Frost
Christopher Allen
MS Project Defense
VIVEK RAMACHANDRAN
MS/CoE
Distributed Control Software for Synthetic Aperture Radar
January 30, 2004
2:00 p.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Prasad Gogineni, Chair
Christopher Allen
Arvin Agah
MS Project Defense
ABHISHEK SHIVADAS
MS/CS
Intelligent Correction Tool for XML
January 30, 2004
1:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
John Gauch, Chair
Susan Gauch
Edward Meyen
MS Project Defense
SUCHIT BATHEJA
MS/CoE
Temporal Search Engine - A Time Based Query System
January 30, 2004
3:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
John Gauch
Edward Meyen
MS Thesis Defense
SWEATHA RAO
MS/CoE
Hardware/Software Co-Design for Timer Services
January 29, 2004
3:30p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
David Andrews, Chair
Perry Alexander
Douglas Niehaus
MS Project Defense
KALYANA CHAKRAVARTHY KOKA
MS/CS
User Mode Kurt
January 29, 2004
8:30 a.m.
EECS Conference Room, Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Douglas Niehaus, Chair
Jeremiah James
David Andrews
MS Project Defense
SACHIN S. SIDDHAYE
MS/CS
Rule Induction from Incompletely Specified Data
January 28, 2004
2:30 p.m.
EECS Conference Room, Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Chair
Perry Alexander
Susan Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
NANDISH CHALISHAZAR
MS/EE
Extended 802.1\6 Network and Radio Propagation Model for Inter-Rover
Communication in Polar Regions
January 28, 2004
1:00 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Glenn Prescott, Chair
Victor Frost
James Roberts
MS Thesis Defense
ABDUL JABBAR MOHAMMAD
MS/EE
Multi-Lind Indium Satellite Communication Sys Cem
January 28, 2004
2:30 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Victor Frost , Chair
Christopher Allen
Glenn Prescott
MS Thesis Defense
BHASKAR NATARAJA KUMAR
MS/EE
Estimation of Rain Height from Rain Rate Using
Regression Based Statistical Model:Application to Sea Winds on ADE OS-II
January 28, 2004
8:30a.m.
Executive Conference Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Glenn Prescott, Chair
Richard K. Moore
David Braaten
MS Project Defense
BALAJI NAGARAJAN
MS/EE
Time Frequency Analysis: An Application to FMCW Radars
January 27, 2004
10:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Glenn Prescott, Chair
Christopher Allen
Swapan Chakrabarti
MS Thesis Defense
VENKATESH PHADNAVIS
MS/CS
Mechanical Verification of a Theory of Reproductibility
January 27, 2004
3:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jeremiah James, Chair
Douglas Niehaus
Perry Alexander
MS Project Defense
ANAND MADHAVAN
MS/CS
Telemetry and Data Handling Model for KUTESat
January 23, 2004
11:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Jeremiah James
Arvin Agah
MS Project Defense
ASHVINI CANJEEVARAM GANESH
MS/EE
Characterization of Standard Single-Mode Fiber
Link for a NRZ Modulated Optical Signal at 40 Gbps
January 23, 2004
1:30 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Christopher Allen, Chair
Rongqing Hui
Victor Frost
MS Project Defense
NAVEEN NELAPUDI
MS/CS
Incremental Clustering of Learning Objects
January 22, 2004
4:00 p.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Xue-Wen Chen
MS Thesis Defense
VISHNU KANTH REDDY CHALLAM
MS/CS
Ontology Based User Profiles for Contextual Information Retrieval
January 22, 2004
10:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
David Andrews
MS Project Defense
ANIL KUMAR NIMMAGADDA
MS/CS
Online Event Calendar
January 22, 2004
2:00 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
John Gauch, Chair
Susan Gauch
Arvin Agah
MS Project Defense
SYED UBAYEEDYRRAHMAN
MS/CS
Intelligent Tagger for E-Learning
January 21, 2004
2:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Costas Tsatsoulis
Arvin Agah
MS Thesis Defense
CHIDAMBARAM PAVANASAM
MS/CoE
Vestigial Side Band Demultiplexing for High Spectral
Efficiency WDM Systems
January 14, 2004
10:30 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Kenneth Demarest, Chair
Rongqing Hui
Christopher Allen
MS Thesis Defense
RADHAKRISHNAN R. MUKKAI
MS/CS
Design of the New and Improved NetSpec Controller
January 8, 2004
10:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jeremiah James, Chair
Douglas Niehaus
David Andrews
