2005 Defense Notices
MS Project Defense
VIJAY RAMAMURTHY
MS/CS
Calendar Tool for Web-Based Course Scheduling System
December 14, 2005
2:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Perry Alexander
Donna Haverkamp
MS Project Defense
AJAY RAMAMURTHY
MS/CS
Dynamic Chat Room and User Tracking and Profiling
December 14, 2005
9:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Perry Alexander
Donna Haverkamp
MS Project Defense
PAUL BRENTANO
MS/CS
Large Scale Collaboration on the Web
December 13, 2005
4:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Nancy Kinnersley
MS Project Defense
VINOD MURALIDHAR
MS/CS
HAWZO.com - A Client - server Based P2F E-Commerce System for Online Book Lending
December 13, 2005
10:30 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Perry Alexander
Anne Ya Zhang
MS Thesis Defense
ANUPAMA VEERAGANDHAM
MS/EE
ODFM Testbed - Analysis and Implementation Framework
December 13, 2005
1:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Gary Minden, Chair
James Roberts
Victor Frost
MS Project Defense
FARZANA YASMEEN
MS/CoE
TEUI - Test Equipment User Interface
December 8, 2005
9:30 a.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Daniel Deavours, Chair
John Gauch
Arvin Agah
MS Thesis Defense
BARATH PARATHASARATHY
MS/EE
Design and Development of an Airborne Multi-Channel Radar for High Resolution Mapping of Internal Layers
December 3, 2005
1:00 p.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Pannirselvam Kanagaratnam, Chair
Sivaprasad Gogineni
Glenn Prescott
MS Project Defense
SIVASANKAR PONNAMBALAM
MS/CS
Automated Profile Transfer in Key Concept System
November 30, 2005
9:00 a.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Arvin Agah
Anne Ya Zhang
MS Project Defense
CHIA-CHI CHANG
MS/CS
Web Based Course Scheduling System
November 28, 2005
9:00 a.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Arvin Agah
David Petr
PhD Dissertation Defense
PRADEEP KUMAR KONDAMURI
PHD/EE
Predicting First-Order PDM Outage Rates on Long-Haul Optical Fiber Links Using Measured and Modeled Temporal and Spectral DG Data
November 4, 2005
10:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Christopher Allen, Chair
Victor Frost
Kenneth Demarest
Rongqing Hui
David Braaten
Douglas Hague*
PhD Dissertation Defense
SOHEL KHAN
PHD/EE
Optimizing Providers' Utility in Peer Networks Applying Automatic Pricing and Game Theory
October 24, 2005
1:30 p.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
David W. Petr, Chair
Victor Frost
John Gauch
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
Tyrone Duncan
Jianbo Zhang*
MS Thesis Defense
KARTHIK MONOCOMBU RAMAKRISHNAN
MS/EE
Performance Benchmarks for Passive UHF RFID Tags
October 17, 2005
1:00 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Daniel Deavors, Chair
James Stiles
Kenneth Demarest
MS Project Defense
SRIRAM CHADALAVADA
MS/CS
KUTESAT Pathfinder Software Implementation
September 1, 2005
3:30 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
David Andrews, Chair
Arvin Agah
Susan Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
TEE KOON YEOW
MS/CS
Dimensional Information-Based Web Documents Segmentation
August 29, 2005
2:00 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Xue-Wen Chen
MS Project Defense
GNANA DEEPTI MANDAVA
MS/CS
Web Based Course Scheduling System
August 26, 2005
3:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Arvin Agah
Perry Alexander
MS Thesis Defense
KALPESH ZINJUWADIA
MS/CoE
Genisys - A Component Inversion Engine
July 25, 2005
2:00 p.m.
Mercury Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Perry Alexander, Chair
David Andrews
Arvin Agah
MS Thesis Defense
RAKHEE KESWANI
MS/EE
Computational Model for Re-entrant Multiple Hardware Threads
July 21, 2005
11:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Daniel Deavours, Chair
Perry Alexander
James Stiles
MS Thesis Defense
SAID ISMAIL ZAGHLOUL
MS/CoE
TCP Performance Over Multilink Long Delay Wireless Networks
July 20, 2005
10:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Victor Frost, Chair
Gary Minden
David Petr
MS Thesis Defense
BYRON GERLACH
MS/CS
Support Vector Based Gene Selection for Cancer Classification
July 8, 2005
2:00 p.m.
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Xue-Wen Chen, Chair
Arvin Agah
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
MS Thesis Defense
BRANDON A. HEAVEY
MS/EE
Development of a Radar System for Measurement of Sea Ice Thickness
July 6, 2005
10:30 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Prasad Gogineni, Chair
Christopher Allen
Pannirselvam Kanagaratnam
MS Thesis Defense
RYAN SHEAHAN
MS/CS
Improving Retrieval Times in the Temporal Search Engine
June 29, 2005
1:00 p.m.
Gemini Room Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Perry Alexander
Nancy Kinnersley
MS Thesis Defense
DOUG HERBERS
MS/CoE
Collaborative E-mail Filtering
June 28, 2005
10:30 a.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Perry Alexander
Victor Frost
MS Thesis Defense
VIVEK JOHN KURISUNKAL
MS/EE
Development of an Algorithm for Correcting Sea Winds Measurements for Rain Effects
June 24, 2005
10:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Glenn Prescott, Chair
David Braaten
Richard K. Moore
MS Thesis Defense
JAN PAVEL GRZYMALA-BUSSE
MS/CS
Web Personalization Using Direct Concept Matching
June 17, 2005
2:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Perry Alexander
Gary Minden
MS Thesis Defense
MIRCO SPERETTA
MS/CS
Personalizing Search Based on User Search Histories
June 17, 2005
11:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Arvin Agah
Perry Alexander
MS Thesis Defense
CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR
MS/CS
Selecting Neural Network Topologies: A Hybrid Approach Combining Neural Networks with Genetic Algorithms
June 14, 2005
9:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Nancy Kinnersley
John Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
SYED IRFAN CHANTH BASHA
MS/CS
Merging Bursty Traffic in Weakly Stable Markovian Networks
June 3, 2005
10:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Man Kong, Chair
Victor Wallace, Co-Chair
Victor Frost
MS Thesis Defense
STEVEN SANTOSO
MS/CS
Missing Attribute Values
June 1, 2005
10:30 a.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Chair
Man Kong
John Gauch
MS Project Defense
RUSSELL HOFER
MS/EE
Conceptual Redesign of a 2.3 - 2.4 GHZ 8-Element Phased-Array Antenna
May 26, 2005
10:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Christopher Allen, Chair
Prasad Gogineni
Kenneth Demarest
PhD Dissertation Defense
RICHARD L. BROWNRIGG
PHD/CS
Data Visualization with Spacetime Maps
May 25, 2005
10:00 a.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
James Miller, Chair
Victor Wallace, Co-Chair
Man Kong
John Gauch
Ross Black*
PhD Dissertation Defense
JUNGWOO RYOO
PHD/CS
An XML-Based Software Architecture View Sescription Language (AVDL)
May 25, 2005
9:00 a.m.
1A Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Hossein Saiedian, Chair
David Andrews
Arvin Agah
Susan Gauch
Robert Zerwekh*
MS Thesis Defense
EERA MITTUR
MS/CS
Segemntation of IRC Chat-Room Data into Topically-Cohesive Sections
May 24, 2005
10:30 a.m
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Jeremiah James
John Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
BRENT STEPHENS
MS/CS
Using Genetic Algorithms to Discover Selection Criteria for Resolving Contradictory Solutions Returned by CBR
May 20, 2005
2:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Costas Tsatsoulis, Chair
Arvin Agah
Susan Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
ROQUE GAGLIANO MOLLA
MS/EE
Non-Linear Fiber Optics for Bio-Imaging
May 20, 2005
8:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Rongqing Hui, Chair
Victor Frost
Kenneth Demarest
MS Project Defense
ANTHONY NEUMANN
MS/CS
Enhanced Water Balance Model Application
May 18, 2005
9:30 a.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
James Miller, Chair
Arvin Agah
John Gauch
MS Project Defense
DIMITAR DIMITROV MANEV
MS/CS
An Object-Oriented Framework for Digital Image Processing
May 16, 2005
9:30 a.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
John Gauch, Chair
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Jeremiah James
MS Project Defense
SAINA PARIZADEH
MS/CoE
Generating Exercise Programs with the InMotion2 Robotic System
May 16, 2005
1:30 p.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Nancy Kinnersely
John Gauch
MS Project Defense
PRAVEEN SRINIVASAN
MS/CS
Reproducible Concurrency for NPTL Based Applications
May 13, 2005
11:00 a.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jeremiah James, Chair
Douglas Niehaus
David Andrews
MS Project Defense
RAMAKRISHNAN RAMACHANDRAN
MS/CS
Implementation of a Record/Replay Framework System Call
May 12, 2005
2:30 p.m.
2001 EATON HALL
COMMITTEE:
Jeremiah James, Chair
Douglas Niehaus
Susan Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
MANIVANNAN ELANGOVAN
MS/CoE
An Empirical Study of User-Perceived Interoperability of Bluetooth Devices
May 6, 2005
1:30 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Daniel Devours, Chair
Gary Minden
John Gauch
PhD Dissertation Defense
WESAM ALANQAR
PHD/EE
Service Profile-Aware Control Plane: A Multi-Instance Fixed Point Approximation Within a Multi-Granularitiy VPN Loss Networks Perspective
April 25, 2005
1:30 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Victor Frost, Chair
David W. Petr
Rongqing Hui
Daniel Deavours
Tyrone Duncan*
MS Thesis Defense
DEEPTI MOKKAPATI
MS/CS
Evaluation of Effects of a Performance Evaluation Tool on Systems Performance
April 14, 2005
1:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Douglas Niehaus, Chair
Jeremiah James
David Andrews
PhD Dissertation Defense
RAZALI JIDIN
PHD/EE
Extending the Thread Programming Model Across CPU and FPGA Hybrid Architecture
April 15, 2005
3:30 p.m.
246 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
David Andrews, Chair
Douglas Niehaus
Jeremiah James
Perry Alexander
Carl E. Locke*(C&PE)
MS Thesis Defense
VISWESWARAN SRINIVASAMURTHY
MS/EE
Model Based Signal Processing for GPR Data Inversion
April 13, 2005
4:00 p.m.
Gemini Room, Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Prasad Gogineni, Chair
Muhammad Dawood
Pannirselvam Kanagaratnam
MS Thesis Defense
TZVETELINA D. MANEVA
MS/CoE
Mathematical Morphology Filters for Enhancement of Color Images
February 23, 2005
10:30 a.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
John Gauch, Chair
Jerzy Gerzymala-Busse
James Miller
MS Thesis Defense
SHADAB MOZAFFAR
MS/EE
Multiband Multistatic Synthetic Aperature Radar for Ice Sheet Measurements
February 1, 2005
10:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Christopher Allen, Chair
Glenn Prescott
Prasad Gogineni
MS Thesis Defense
DUSHYANTH NATARAJ
MS/CS
A Framework to Gain Finer Grained Control Over Nachos Threads
February 1, 2005
9:00 a.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jeremiah James, Chair
Douglas Niehaus
John Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
ASHWIN MOHAN
MS/EE
Applications of Eigen Value Analysis to Signal Processing
January 31, 2005
1:30 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
James Stiles, Chair
Glenn Prescott
Muhammad Dawood
MS Thesis Defense
BADRI PRASAD SUBRAMANYAN
MS/CS
Real-Time Networking for QoS onTDM Based Ethernet
January 26, 2005
3:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Douglas Niehaus, Chair
David Andrews
Jeremiah James
MS Thesis Defense
HARIPRASAD SAMPATHKUMAR
MS/CS
Using Time Division Multiplexing to Support Real Time Networking on Ethernet
January 25, 2005
9:00 a.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Douglas Niehaus, Chair
Jeremiah James
David Andrews
MS Thesis Defense
ATULYA TEJA DEEKONDA
MS/EE
Optimal Space-Time Transmit Signal for Multi-Static SAR
January 24, 2005
1:30 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
James Stiles, Chair
Glenn Prescott
Muhammad Dawood
MS Project Defense
MITHUN HEBBAR
MS/CoE
Voice Over Internet Protocol: A Study and Design for an Implementation
January 19, 2005
11:00 a.m.
2001 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
David W. Petr, Chair
David Andrews
John Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
HARIHARAN SUBRAMANIAN
MS/CS
Systems Performance Evaluation Methods for Distributed Systems Using Data Streams
January 18, 2005
11:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Douglas Niehaus, Chair
David Andrews
Jeremiah James
MS Project Defense
SUBHAJYOTI PAUL
MS/CoE
Database and Web Application to View Radio Echograms and Thickness Plots of Greenland Ice Sheet Data
January 14, 2005
10:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Prasad Gogineni, Chair
David Andrews
John Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
SUDHA SIVASHANMUGAM
MS/CS
A Bayesian Intelligent System for Autonomous Radar and Vehicle Control During Polar Ice Sheet Measurements
January 10, 2005
9:30 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Costas Tsatsoulis, Chair
Perry Alexander
Jeremiah James
