!Computer!Science:!Ph.D.!Dissertation!Topics!
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2019 Dissertation Titles
• Software Quality Understanding by Analysis of Abundant Data (SQUAAD): Towards
Better Understanding of Life Cycle Software Qualities, Principal Investigator (P.I): Barry
Boehm, Professor
• Efficient Graph Processing with Graph Semantics Aware Intelligent Storage, P.I: Murali
Annavaram, Professor
• Representation Problems in Brain Imaging, P.I: Greg Ver Steeg, Assistant Professor
• The Complexity of Functions, P.I: Leonard Adleman, Professor
• Defending Industrial Control Systems: An End-To-End Approach for Managing Cyber-
Physical Risk, P.I: Clifford Neuman, Associate Professor
• Enabling Spatial-Visual Search for Geospatial Image Databases, P.I:!Cyrus Shahabi,
Professor
• Graph Embedding Algorithms for Attributed and Temporal Graphs, P.I:!Emilio Ferrara,
Assistant Professor
• Computational Models for Multidimensional Annotations of Affect, P.I:!Shrikanth
Narayanan, Professor
• Speeding up Path Planning on State Lattices and Grid Graphs by Exploiting Freespace
Structure, P.I:!Sven Koenig, Professor
• Incrementality for visual reference resolution in spoken dialogue systems, P.I:!Kallirroi
Georgila, Assistant Professor
• Calibrating COCOMO(R) II for Functional Size Metrics, P.I:!Barry Boehm, Professor
• Understanding and Optimizing Internet Video Delivery, P.I:!Ramesh Govindan,
Professor
• Data Scarcity in Robotics: Leveraging Structural Priors and Representation Learning, P.I:!
Gaurav Sukhatme, Professor
• Leveraging Training Information for Efficient and Robust Deep Learning, P.I:!Fei Sha,
Associate Professor
• Learning from Planners to Enable New Robot Capabilities, P.I:!Gaurav Sukhatme,
Professor
• Deep Representations for Shapes, Structures and Motion, P.I:!Hao Li, Associate
Professor
• Leveraging Structure for Learning Robot Control and Reactive Planning, P.I:!Gaurav
Sukhatme, Professor
• Efficient Bounded-Suboptimal Multi-Agent Path Finding and Motion Planning via
Improvements to Focal Search, P.I:!Sven Koenig, Professor
• Improving Network Security through Collaborative Sharing, P.I:!John Heidemann,
Professor
• Detecting and Characterizing Network Devices Using Signatures of Traffic About End-
Points, P.I: John Heidemann, Professor
• Dynamic Topology Reconfiguration of Boltzmann Machines on Quantum Annealers, P.I:!
Robert Lucas, Associate Professor