EECS MS and PhD Defense Notices
2006 Defense Notices
MS Project Defense
SUNIL PEECHU
MS/EE
Security for KUASAR
December 11, 2007
4:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
David Andrews, Chair
Arvin Agah
David Petr
MS Thesis Defense
KANNAN CHANDRASEKARA
MS/CS
Concept Based Author Recommender System for Citeseer
December 11, 2007
11:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Joseph Evans, Chair
Susan Gauch, co-chair
Arvin Agah
Luke Huan
PhD Comprehensive Defense
JENNIFER STREB
PHD/CS
A Methodology for Automated Verification of Rosetta Specification Transformations
December 7, 2007
3:00 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Perry Alexander, Chair
David Andrews
Gary Minden
Costas Tsatsoulis
Craig Huneke*
MS Thesis Defense
THAMER ABUYASIN
MS/CoE
Enabling Task Level Parallelism in HandelC
December 7, 2007
2:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
David Andrews, Chair
Arvin Agah
Perry Alexander
PhD Dissertation Defense
SOSHANT BALI
PHD/EE
Detection and Mitigation of Impairments for Real-Time Multimedia Applications
December 3, 2007
2:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Victor Frost, Chair
Joseph Evans
David Petr
James Sterbenz
Tyrone Duncan*
MS Thesis Defense
WEIPING CHANG
MS/EE
Applying Optical Sensors to Detect Trapped Beads by Dieletrophoresis in the Microfluidic Channel
November 30, 2007
3:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Rongqing Hui, Chair
Chris Allen
Xue-Wen Chen
PhD Comprehensive Defense
LI CHENG
PHD/CS
A Model-Based Approach for Testing Dynamic Multi-Tier Web Applications
November 28, 2007
9:30 a.m.
2001-B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Hossein Saiedian, Chair
Arvin Agah
Gary Minden
Xue-Wen Chen
Thomas Glavinich*
MS Thesis Defense
SERHIY MOROZOV
MS/CS
Prime Number Based Hierarchical Data Labeling Scheme for Relational Databases
November 19, 2007
1:30 p.m.
155 Regnier Hall (Edwards Campus)
COMMITTEE:
Hossein Saiedian, Chair
Arvin Agah
James Sterbenz
MS Thesis Defense
EDWARD SZCZUKA
MS/EE
Universal Instrument Landing System (ILS) Interlock Controller with Remoting Capability
November 6, 2007
2:00 p.m.
2001-B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Joseph Evans, Chair
Chris Allen
Swapan Chakrabarti
MS Thesis Defense
BENJAMIN PANZER
MS/EE
Development of an Electrically Small Vivaldi Antenna: The CReSIS Aerial Vivaldi
October 8, 2007
4:15 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Chris Allen, Chair
Shannon Blunt
Kenneth Demarest
James Stiles
MS Thesis Defense
MARK STOCKMYER
MS/CS
Development and Analysis of a Gravity-Simulated Particle-Packing Algorithm for Modeling Optimized Rocket Propellants
October 5, 2007
3:30 p.m.
155 Regnier Hall (Edwards Campus)
COMMITTEE:
Hossein Saiedian, Chair
Arvin Agah
Xue-Wen Chen
MS Thesis Defense
KEVIN HIGGINS
MS/CS
An Evaluation of the Performance and Database Access Strategies of Java Object-Relational Mapping Frameworks
October 5, 2007
2:00 p.m.
155 Regnier Hall (Edwards Campus)
COMMITTEE:
Hossein Saiedian, Chair
Arvin Agah
Xue-Wen Chen
MS Thesis Defense
MARK SNYDER
MS/CS
A Modular, Algebra-Sequenced Paramorphic Constraint-Based Type Checker for Rosetta
September 14, 2007
1:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Perry Alexander, Chair
Nancy Kinnersley
Man Kong
MS Thesis Defense
SHANE SANTNER
MS/EE
Symmetric Multiprocessor Design for Hybrid FPGA/CPU SoCs
August 31, 2007
1:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
David Andrews, Chair
Arvin Agah
Perry Alexander
PhD Dissertation Defense
PRADEEP NATARAJAN
PHD/CS
Expert System-Based Post-Stroke Robotic Rehabilitation for Hemiparetic Arm
August 29, 2007
1:00 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Swapan Chakrabarti
Xue-Wen Chen
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Wen Liu*
MS Thesis Defense
PHILIP WEAVER
MS/CoE
Implementing Reflective Metaprogramming for Rosetta Using InterpreterLib
August 29, 2007
11:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Perry Alexander, Chair
Arvin Agah
Nancy Kinnersley
PhD Dissertation Defense
ARAVIND CHANDRAMOULI
PHD/CS
A Co-operative Web Services Paradigm for Crawler Support
August 24, 2007
2:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Arvin Agah
Perry Alexander
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Estela Gavosto*
MS Project Defense
VINAY REDDY
MS/CoE
Web Based Course Conflict Checker
August 24, 2007
12:15 p.m.
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Man Kong
James Miller
MS Thesis Defense
VICTOR PETTY
MS/CoE
A Framework for Radio Frequency Spectrum Measurement and Analysis
August 24, 2007
10:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Gary Minden, Chair
Joseph Evans
Alex Wyglinski
MS Thesis Defense
ATCHUTHA RAMA VIVEK PAKALAPATI
MS/CS
Improving Indexing Efficiency through Incremental Indexing
August 24, 2007
10:15 a.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Arvin Agah
Frank Brown
MS Thesis Defense
RAMACHANDRAN SATHYANARAYANAN
MS/EE
Geobricks: A Simulation Based Study of Wireless Sensor Networks for Polar Regions
August 23, 2007
12:15 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Glenn Prescott, Chair
Chris Allen
Swapan Chakrabarti
MS Thesis Defense
SRIKANTH PAGADARAI
MS/EE
Sidelobe Suppression of OFDM-Based Cognitive Radios in DSA Environment
August 23, 2007
9:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Alexander Wyglinski, Chair
Gary Minden
Erik Perrins
MS Thesis Defense
FREDERICK WEIDLING
MS/CoE
A Design Workflow for Software Defined Radios
August 22, 2007
2:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Gary Minden, Chair
Joseph Evans
Alex Wyglinski
MS Thesis Defense
AFZAL SYED
MS/EE
Comparison of Noncoherent Detectors for SOQPSK and GMSK in Phase Noise Channels
August 17, 2007
9:00 a.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Erik Perrins, Chair
Daniel Deavours
Glenn Prescott
MS Thesis Defense
MATTHEW COOK
MS/CS
A 3-Dimensional Modeling System Inspired by the Cognitive Process of Sketching
August 15, 2007
10:00 a.m.
2001-B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Nancy Kinnersley
James Miller
MS Thesis Defense
PADMAJA YATHAM
MS/EE
Waveform Design for Radar Embedded Communication
August 13, 2007
8:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Shannon Blunt, Chair
Victor Frost
Erik Perrins
MS Project Defense
WILLIAM DOWER
MS/EE
Hybrid Signal Processing Techniques for Shared Spectrum Multistatic Radars
July 30, 2007
9:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Shannon Blunt, Chair
Chris Allen
James Stiles
MS Project Defense
VISWANATH GANTA
MS/CoE
Custom Maps Implementation on Google Maps Using Google Maps API
July 20, 2007
2:00 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
James Miller, Chair
Arvin Agah
Wei-Chao Wang
PhD Dissertation Defense
RICHARD STANSBURY
PHD/CS
Constraint-based Task Selection and Configuration for Autonomous Mobile Robots
July 19, 2007
2:00 p.m.
317 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Chris Allen
Prasad Gogineni
Carl Leuschen
David Braaten*
PhD Dissertation Defense
ERIC AKERS
PHD/CS
Autonomous Mobile Robot Localization in Large-Scale Environments Using Only a Camera
July 18, 2007
2:00 p.m.
317 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Prasad Gogineni
Donna Haverkamp
Carl Leuschen
David Braaten*
MS Thesis Defense
MANJUNATH NARAYANA
MS/CoE
Automatic Tracking of Moving Objects in Video for Surveillance Applications
July 18, 2007
10:30 a.m.
2001-B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Donna Haverkamp, Chair
Arvin Agah
James Miller
PhD Comprehensive Defense
GARRIN KIMMELL
PHD/CS
Monadic Representation and Refinement of System-Level Properties
July 9, 2007
3:30 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Perry Alexander, Chair
David Andrews
Gary Minden
Bill Harrison*
Craig Huneke*
MS Project Defense
DILEEP KUMARASWAMY
MS/EE
Simplified Detection Techniques for Serially Concatenated Coded Continuous Phase Modulations
July 6, 2007
9:00 a.m.
129 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Erik Perrins, Chair
Shannon Blunt
Victor Frost
MS Project Defense
TIAOTIAO XIE
MS/EE
Design and Development of Class E RF Power Amplifier Prototype Using a Power MOSFET
July 6, 2007
8:30 a.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Prasad Gogineni, Chair
Chris Allen
David Braaten
Fernando Rodriguez-Morales
PhD Dissertation Defense
DANIYAL ALGHAZZAWI
PHD/CS
Inferring Cognitive Learning Styles in e-Learning Environment
June 19, 2007
1:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
John Gauch, Chair
Susan Gauch
Jim Miller
Gary Minden
Ron Aust*
MS Thesis Defense
WILLIAM KRITIKOS
MS/CoE
Feasibility of Serial ATA Cables as the Physical Link in High Performance Computing Clusters
May 30, 2007
2:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Perry Alexander, Chair
David Andrews
Ron Sass
MS Thesis Defense
JONATHAN KENSLER
MS/CS
On Adaptive Bidding with the Contract Net Protocol for Task Allocation in Multi-Robot Systems
May 29, 2007
2:00 p.m.
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Nancy Kinnersley
MS Thesis Defense
NAZIA AHMED
MS/EE
Hardware & Software Techniques to Linearize the Frequency Sweep of an FMCW Radar for Range Resolution Improvement
May 18, 2007
9:30 a.m.
317 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Carl Leuschen, Chair
Chris Allen
Prasad Gogineni
MS Thesis Defense
THOMAS HIGGINS
MS/EE
Dimensionality Aspects of Adaptive Radar Pulse Compression
May 16, 2007
1:25 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Shannon Blunt, Chair
Chris Allen
James Stiles
PhD Dissertation Defense
RAKESH RAJBANSHI
PHD/EE
OFDM-Based Cognitive Radio for DSA Networks
May 14, 2007
9:30 a.m.
2001-B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Gary Minden, Chair
Joseph Evans
David Petr
Alexander Wyglinski
Tyrone Duncan*
MS Thesis Defense
PRAVEEN LAKKARAJU
MS/CS
Document Similarity Based On Concept Tree Distance
May 11, 2007
10:00 a.m.
317 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
John Gauch
Donna Haverkamp
PhD Comprehensive Defense
ABDUL JABBAR MOHAMMAD
PHD/EE
A Framework to Quantify Network Resilience and Survivability
May 7, 2007
2:00 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
James Sterbenz, Chair
David Andrews
Victor Frost
Alexander Wyglinski
Tyrone Duncan*
David Hutchinson*
Caterina Scoglio*
MS Thesis Defense
BHARGAV THEERTHAM
MS/CS
Novel Algorithm for Elucidating Biologically Relevant Chemical Diversity Metrics
May 7, 2007
9:00 a.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
John Gauch, Chair
Arvin Agah
Luke Huan
Jianwen Fang
Gerald Henry Lushington
MS Thesis Defense
ANDREW SCHMIDT
MS/CoE
Quantifying Effective Memory Bandwidth of Platform FPGAs
May 4, 2007
1:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Perry Alexander, Chair
David Andrews
Ron Sass
PhD Dissertation Defense
ERIK ANDERSON
PHD/EE
Abstracting the Hardware/Software Boundary through a Standard System Support Layer and Architecture
May 4, 2007
10:30 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
David Andrews, Chair
Perry Alexander
Douglas Niehaus
Ron Sass
Yang Zhang*
MS Thesis Defense
JONATHAN VAN EENWYK
MS/CoE
Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Automate Human Vision Screening
April 30, 2007
10:00 a.m.
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Perry Alexander
Susan Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
TEMIDAYO AJAYI
MS/CoE
Incomplete Data Mining-A Rough Set Approach
April 30, 2007
9:00 a.m.
1 Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Chair
Swapan Chakrabarti
John Gauch
PhD Dissertation Defense
ZHONGJUN WANG
PHD/CS
A Hybrid Algorithm and Its Applications to Fuzzy Logic Modeling of Non-linear Systems
April 27, 2007
3:30 p.m.
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Man Kong, Chair
Xue-Wen Chen
John Gauch
James Miller
Chuan-Tau Lan*
PhD Comprehensive Defense
KEITH PRESTON
PHD/EE
A Unified Hardware Software Priority Scheduling Model for General Purpose Systems
April 23, 2007
3:00 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
David Andrews, Chair
Arvin Agah
Terry Clark
Douglas Niehaus
Saul Stahl*
MS Thesis Defense
CHANDINI VEERAMACHANENI
MS/EE
Development of a Clutter Cancellation Algorithm for Fast Flowing Outlet Glaciers
April 23, 2007
9:00 a.m.
317 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Carl Leuschen, Chair
David Braaten
Prasad Gogineni
MS Thesis Defense
KRISHNA PRIYA KOTCHERLAKOTA
MS/CS
Topic Specific Spider for Taxonomic Documents
April 20, 2007
12:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
David Andrews
Donna Haverkamp
MS Project Defense
THOMAS BULIS
MS/CS
Real-World Implementation of Object-Oriented Patterns
April 13, 2007
10:00 a.m.
317 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Perry Alexander
John Gauch
MS Thesis Defense
JORDAN GUFFEY
MS/EE
OFDM Physical Layer Implementation for the Kansas University Agile Radio
April 10, 2007
2:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Gary Minden, Chair
Erik Perrins
Alex Wyglinski
MS Thesis Defense
SUNDARA KUMARA VADIVELU
MS/EE
Grating Lobe Suppression through Subarray Rotation for Fine Resolution Antenna Arrays
April 6, 2007
9:30 a.m.
129 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Prasad Gogineni, Chair
Chris Allen
Glenn Prescott
MS Thesis Defense
BRETT BARKER
MS/CS
Applications of Expert Systems to Configuring Software Defined Radios
March 30, 2007
10:00 a.m.
317 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Gary Minden
Alex Wyglinski
PhD Comprehensive Defense
DAVID JOHNSON
PHD/CS
Better Human Robot Interaction Through the Use of Multiple Modalities, Dialog Management, Contexts, and Semantics
February 16, 2007
3:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Swapan Chakrabarti
John Gauch
Donna Haverkamp
Sara Wilson*
PhD Comprehensive Defense
JORGE ORTIZ
PHD/EE
Synthesis Techniques for Semi-custom Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor Cores
February 12, 2007
9:45 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
David Andrews, Chair
Arvin Agah
Perry Alexander
Terry Clark
Saul Stahl*
MS Project Defense
ERIC BEAN
MS/CS
Defect Prevention and Detection in Software for Automated Test Equipment
January 26, 2007
3:00 p.m.
153 Regnier Hall (Edwards Campus)
COMMITTEE:
Hossein Saiedian, Chair
Arvin Agah
Wei-Chao Wang
MS Thesis Defense
CHRIS LINGOR
MS/CS
Summary Extraction from Chat Data
January 25, 2007
2:00 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch, Chair
Wei-Chao Wang
Donna Haverkamp
MS Thesis Defense
SANTHOSH SUNDARARAMAN
MS/CS
A Framework in XORP to Implement Policies for a Routing Control Platform
January 24, 2007
2:30 p.m.
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Joseph Evans, Chair
David Petr
James Sterbenz
MS Thesis Defense
ASHWIN CHIMATA
MS/CS
Implementing a Routing Control Platform Using XORP
January 23, 2007
2:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Joseph Evans, Chair
Victor Frost
James Sterbenz
MS Project Defense
VANDANA SAMALA
MS/CS
Information Extraction from Taxonomic Literature
January 19, 2007
11:00 a.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Susan Gauch
Perry Alexander
Luke Huan
MS Thesis Defense
GUNASHEKAR JAYARAMAN
MS/EE
A 4-Element Teardrop Antenna Array
January 18, 2007
11:00 a.m.
317 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Kenneth Demarest, Chair
Chris Allen
Sivaprasad Gogineni
MS Thesis Defense
DINESH DATLA
MS/EE
Spectrum Surveying for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
January 17, 2007
3:30 p.m.
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Gary Minden, Chair
Joseph Evans
Alexander Wyglinski
MS Project Defense
KUYILMOZHINANGAI SHANMUGASUNDARAM
MS/EE
Design and Implementation of a Digital Down Converter for a Multi-Channel FMCW Radar
January 4, 2007
10:00 a.m.
317 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Christopher Allen
Sivaprasad Gogineni
Glenn Prescott
