Graduate Student Research

Uma Nalluri

• Graduated Winter 2009
• Committee Chair: Ankur Teredesai, Ph. D.
• Committee Members: Martine De Cock, Ph. D., Patricia Victor
• Project: Utility of Distrust in Online Recommender Systems

Eric Fickenscher

• Graduated Autumn 2008
• Committee Chair: Isabelle Bichindaritz, Ph. D.
• Committee Members: Wayne Warren
• Project: Using Voxelization and Ray-Tracing to Identify Wall Thinness of Polygonal Models

John C. Reed Jr.

• Graduated Summer 2008
• Committee Chair: Isabelle Bichindaritz, Ph. D.
• Committee Members: Ankur M. Teredesai, Ph. D.
• Project: Machine Learning Applications for Analyzing Sailboat Race Handicaps

Amalia Annest

• Graduated Spring 2008
• Committee Chair: Isabelle Bichindaritz, Ph. D.
• Committee Members: Donald Chinn, Ph. D.
• Project: Iterative Bayesian Model Averaging: A Method for the Application of Survival Analysis to High-Dimensional Microarray Data

Ryan M. Potter

• Graduated Spring 2008
• Committee Chair: Isabelle Bichindaritz, Ph. D.
• Committee Members: Joseph Felsenstein, Ph. D., Menaka Muppa, M.S.
• Project: Constructing Phylogenetic Trees using Multiple Sequence Alignment

Ernest Cho

• Graduated Winter 2008
• Committee Chair: Sam Chung, Ph.D.
• Commitee Members: Daniel Zimmerman, Ph.D., Menaka Muppa, M.S.
• Project: Automatic Web Services Generation

Omar Hafeez

• Graduated Winter 2008
• Committee Chair: Sam Chung, Ph.D.
• Committee Members: Martine De Cock, Ph.D., Sergio Davolos, Ph.D.
• Project: Toward an Intelligent Service Broker with Imprecise Constraints: Fuzzy Logic Based Service Selection by using SAWSDL

Craig Niiyama

• Graduated Winter 2008
• Committee Chair: Sam Chung, Ph.D.
• Committee Members: Donald Chinn, Ph.D., Sergio Davolos, Ph.D.
• Project: Service-Oriented Software Reeingineering Methodology for Composite Services

Jennifer Leaf

• Graduated: Summer 2007
• Committee Chair: George Mobus, Ph.D.
• Committee Member: Steve Hanks, Ph.D.
• Project: DynSysMod: A Framework for Modeling Composite Dynamic Systems

Jean Nakamura

• Graduated: Summer 2007
• Committee Chair: Isabelle Bichindaritz, Ph.D.
• Commitee Member: Don McLane
• Project: Predicting Time-to-Failure of Industrial Machines with Temporal Data Mining

Gowri Allampalli-Nagaraj

• Graduated: Spring 2007
• Committee Chair: Isabelle Bichindartiz, Ph.D.
• Committee Member: George Mobus, Ph.D.
• Project: Semantic Indexing of Images Using a Web Ontology Language

Robert Bunge

• Graduated: Spring 2007
• Committee Chair: Sam Chung, Ph.D.
• Committee Members: Barbara Endicott-Popovksy, Ph.D., Don McLane
• Project: Network Perimeter Security for Service Oriented Architecture

Logan Dillard

• Graduated: Spring 2007
• Committee Chair: Steve Hanks, Ph.D.
• Committee Member: Isabelle Bichindaritz, Ph.D.
• Thesis: Negation in Semtiment Classification

Sowoon Pyo

• Graduated: Spring 2007
• Committee Chair: George Mobus, Ph.D.
• Committee Members: Sam Chung, Ph.D., Ankur Teredesai, Ph.D.
• Project: Sensor Network with User Supplied Connectivity

Rathnavel Rajagopal

• Graduated: Spring 2007
• Committee Chair: George Mobus, Ph.D.
• Committee Members: Ruth Rea, Ph.D.
• Thesis: Knowledge Discovery in form of Prototypical cases using Advanced Data Mining Techniques

Phil Bonderud

• Graduated: Winter 2007
• Committee Chair: Sam Chung, Ph.D.
• Committee Member: Barbara Endicott-Popowski, Don McLane
• Project: S-QoS4WS: Secure Quality of Service for Web Services Using the 3rd Party Certifications

Mark Paul

• Graduated: Winter 2007
• Committee Chair: George Mobus, Ph.D.
• Committee Member: Donald Chinn, Ph.D.
• Thesis: The Potential Of Latent Semantic Analysis To Identify Themes In Online Forums

Shu-Fang Newman

• Graduated: Autumn 2006
• Committee Chair: Edwin Hong, Ph.D.
• Committee Member: Moshe Rosenfeld, Ph.D.
• Project: Seismographic Data Compression - Applying Modified Tunstall Coding

Joseph Byung Chul An

• Graduated: Spring 2006
• Committee Chair: Sam Chung, Ph.D.
• Committee Member: Rogene Eichler West, Ph.D.
• Project: Service-Oriented Software Reengineering: SoSR

Kristen Shinohara

• Graduated: Spring 2006
• Committee Chair: Josh Tenenberg, Ph.D.
• Committee Member: Donald Chinn, Ph.D. & Carol Hert
• Project: Designing Assistive Software for Blind Users

Kameron Romines

• Graduated: Winter 2006
• Committee Chair: Ed Hong, Ph.D.
• Committee Member: Donald Chinn, Ph.D.
• Thesis: Hyperspectral Image Compression with Optimization for Spectral Analysis

Mike Spiz

• Graduated: Winter 2006
• Committee Chair: Isabelle Bichindaritz, Ph.D.
• Committee Member: Steve Hanks, Ph.D. & LouAnn Lyon-Banks
• Thesis: Using Latent Semantic Indexing for Data Deduplication

Sean Tierney

• Graduated: Winter 2006
• Committee Chair: Isabelle Bichindaritz, Ph.D.
• Committee Member: Don McLane
• Project: Knowledge Discovery in Cyber Vulnerability Databases

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