Professor Arvin Agah Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The University of Kansas
Contact Courses Office Hours Publications Research Students				Students   Graduate Students Advised Ph.D. Committee Chair Brett Barker, Ph.D. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah), Expected.   Christopher M. Gifford, Ph.D. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah), Expected.   Yaling Liu, Ph.D. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah), Expected.   Jason R. Stewart, Ph.D. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah), Expected.   David O. Johnson, Ph.D. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Swapan Chakrabarti, John Gauch, Donna Haverkamp, and Sara Wilson), Expected; Comprehensive Examination, “Better human robot interaction through the use of multiple modalities, dialog management, contexts, and semantics,” February 2007.   Christopher M. Taylor, Ph.D. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Xue-Wen Chen, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, John Gauch, Elizabeth Friis), Expected; Comprehensive Examination, “A novel data mining technique combining genetic algorithms and set theory for rule discovery,” May 2006.   Pradeep Natarajan, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Xue-Wen Chen, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, John Gauch, Wen Liu), Expected; Comprehensive Examination, “Expert system-based post-stroke robotic rehabilitation for hemiparetic arm,” October 2005.   Eric L. Akers, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: David Braaten, John Gauch, Prasad Gogineni, and Costas Tsatsoulis), Expected; Comprehensive Examination, “Localization in a large-scale environment using only a camera,” June 2005.   Richard S. Stansbury, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: David Braaten, Victor Frost, Prasad Gogineni, and Costas Tsatsoulis), Expected; Comprehensive Examination, “Control of modular robotic systems using constraint satisfaction,” June 2005.     Graduate Students Advised M.S. Committee Chair James W. Bley, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah), Expected.   Matthew Cook, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah), Expected.   Jonathan Kensler, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Nancy Kinnersley and Jerzy Grzymala-Busse), “SOn adaptive bidding with the contract net protocol for task allocation in multi-robot systems,” May 2007.   Jonathan D. Van Eenwyk, M.S. Computer Engineering, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Perry Alexander and Susan Gauch), “Using artificial intelligence techniques to automate human vision screening,” April 2007.   Thomas O. Bulis, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Perry Alexander and John Gauch), Project, “Real-world implementation of object-oriented patterns,” April 2007.   Brett A. Barker, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Gary Minden and Alexander Wyglinski), “Applications of expert systems to configuring software defined radios,” March 2007.   Jason R. Stewart, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Perry Alexander and Man Kong), “Should one be unified or extreme when developing entertainment software?,” December 2006.   Christopher M. Gifford, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Chris Allen, Glenn Prescott, and Georgios Tsoflias), “Robotic seismic sensors for polar environments,” August 2006.   Patrick J. Casteel, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Man Kong and Nancy Kinnersley), “Subjective evaluation of simple textile property visualizations,” July 2006.   Paul Brentano, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Jerzy Grzymala-Busse and Nancy Kinnersley), Project, “Large scale collaboration on the Web,” December 2005.   Christopher M. Taylor, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: John Gauch and Nancy Kinnersley), “Selecting neural network topologies: a hybrid approach combining genetic algorithms and neural networks,” June 2005.   Saina Parizadeh, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Swapan Chakrabarti and Nancy Kinnersley), Project, “Generating exercise programs with the InMotion2 robotic system,” May 2005.   Hans Harmon, M.S. Computer Engineering, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Chris Allen and Costas Tsatsoulis), “Design and construction of a robot for polar region navigation”, October 2004.   Julie Johnson, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Perry Alexander and John Gauch), “Bandavya virtual assistant”, Project, August 2004.   Richard S. Stansbury, M.S. Computer Engineering, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Victor Frost and Costas Tsatsoulis), “Integration and evaluation of sensor modalities for polar robots”, August 2004.   Fernando Palacios Soto, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Perry Alexander and James Stiles), “Finding an upper bound for the transmit code problem using genetic algorithms”, Project, August 2004.   Wu Meng, M.S. Computer Engineering, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: John Gauch and Nancy Kinnersley), “Optimizing GUI design using Genetic Algorithm”, Project, December 2003.   Eric Akers, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Jerry James and Gary Minden), “Modeling and simulation of a mobile robot for polar environments”, October 2003.   Balaji Rajagopalan, M.S. Computer Engineering, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Susan Gauch and Jerry James), “Statistical analysis of human factor studies of graphical user interface components”, May 2003.   Todd Blackman, M.S. Computer Engineering, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Victor Frost and Costas Tsatsoulis), “Genetic algorithms for a multiagent approach to the game of Go”, April 2003.   John M. Fines, M.S. Computer Engineering, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Frank Brown and Swapan Chakrabati), “Machine tool positioning error compensation using artificial neural networks”, April 2003.   Richard Fleming, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Nancy Kinnersley and Jim Miller), “Programming techniques: data driven design and AI”, Project, December 2002.   Brian Doyle, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Swapan Chakrabati and Nancy Kinnersley), “Extendable online testing system”, Project, November 2002.   Prasanna Ganesh Ramasubramanian, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Susan Gauch and Gary Minden), “A word sense based contextual information retrieval system”, July 2002.   Khashayar Razpoush Baghaei, M.S. Computer Science, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Hossein Saiedian and Jeremiah James), “Evaluation of task allocation methodologies for multi-robot systems”, May 2002.   Prabhaharan Kumarakulasingam, M.S. Computer Engineering, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: John Gauch and Swapan Chakrabati), “Sound localization using a mobile robot”, April 2002.   Mara Elizabeth Jones, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: W. Perry Alexander and Nancy Kinnersley), “Evolution of digital images”, (Subsequently: ScriptPro, Mission, Kansas), August 2000.   Robert Lasater Dollarhide, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: John Gauch and Susan Gauch), “Evolving behavior-based brains for robot search teams”, (Subsequently: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas), May 2000.   Daniel James Collins, M.S. Computer Science with honors (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Nancy Kinnersley and Jim Miller), “Evolutionary brains for small flying robots”, (Subsequently: Celeritas Technologies, Overland Park, Kansas), December 1999.   Hui Sha, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Jerzy Grzymala-Busse and John Gauch), “Human-computer interaction using only images and sounds”, (Subsequently: Tellabs, Lisle, Illinois), December 1999.   John Travis Butler, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: John Gauch and Nancy Kinnersley), “Human interactions with mobile service robots: aesthetic qualities and movement patterns”, (Subsequently: Lockheed Martin Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona), May 1999.   Fei He, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: John Gauch and Susan Gauch), “Enhanced multimedia human-computer interaction using force feedback”, (Subsequently: Ernst & Young, Kansas City, Missouri), May 1999.   Bona Patria Nasution, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Swapan Chakrabati and John Gauch), “Currency exchange rate prediction utilizing artificial neural networks and Kalman filters”, (Subsequently: DMR Consulting, Redmond, Washington), December 1998.   Ph.D. Committee Member Jorge L. Ortiz, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Chair: David Andrews, Committee: Arvin Agah, Perry Alexander, Swapan Chakrabarti, and Ronald R Sass), Expected.   Wilhelmus A.J. Anemaat, Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering (Chair: Richard Hale, Committee: Arvin Agah, David Downing, Chuan-Tau Lan, Jan Roskam), Expected; Comprehensive Examination, “A knowledge-based design framework for aircraft conceptual and preliminary design,” October 2006.   Sandhya Gabbur, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Costas Tsatsoulis, Committee: Arvin Agah, Susan Gauch, Donna Haverkamp, and Prakash Shenoy), Expected; Comprehensive Examination, “Reputation based buyer strategies for seller selection in multi-agent electronic markets,” September 2006.   Lynne Yengulalp, Ph.D. Mathematics (Chair: William Fleissner, Committee: Arvin Agah, Robert Brown, Jack Porter, and Judith Roitman), Expected; Comprehensive Examination, June 2006.   Heather Amthauer, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Costas Tsatsoulis, Committee: Arvin Agah, Xue-Wen Chen, Susan Gauch, and John Kelly), Expected; Comprehensive Examination, “Learning where to look for genetic networks,” June 2006.   Mirco Speretta, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah, Perry Alexander, Xue-Wen Chen, and Teruna Siahaan), Expected; Comprehensive Examination, “Cross-site browsing with automatically built ontologies,” May 2006.   Yiannis Zachariou, Ph.D. Mathematics, (Chair: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Committee: Arvin Agah, Tyrone Duncan, Yaozhong Hu, and Jeffrey Lang), “Stochastic adaptive control,” Expected; Comprehensive Examination, March 2006.   Aravind Chandramouli, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah Perry Alexander, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, and Estela Gavosto), Expected; Comprehensive Examination, June 2005.   David Janzen, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah, Perry Alexander, John Gauch, and Carey Johnson), “The influence of test-driven development on internal software quality: an empirical evaluation,” August 2006; Comprehensive Examination, “Software architecture improvement through test-driven development: an empirical study,” April 2005.   Diego M. Maldonado, Ph.D. Mathematics (Chair: Rodolfo Torres, Committee: Arvin Agah, Estela Gavosto, William Paschke, and Atanas Stefanov), “Multilinear singular integrals and quadratic estimates,” July 2005; Comprehensive Examination, “The Cauchy integral on Lipschitz curves and the T(b)-Theorem,” March 2004.   Glenn Rice, Ph.D. Mathematics, (Chair: Daniel Katz, Committee: Arvin Agah, Craig Huneke, Satyagopal Mandal, and Bangere Purnaprajna), June 2005.   Jungwoo Ryoo, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah, David Andrews, Susan Gauch, and Robert Zerwekh), “An XML-based software architecture view description language (AVDL),” May 2005; Comprehensive Examination, June 2003.   Vijay Ramasami, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Chair: Prasad Gogineni, Committee: Arvin Agah, David Braaten, Pannir Kanagaratnam, and Glenn Prescott), Comprehensive Examination, “Clutter cancellation and model-based signal processing for airborne ice-penetrating radars,” May 2005.   Neil M. Epstein, Ph.D. Mathematics, (Chair: Craig Huneke, Committee: Arvin Agah, Daniel Katz, Satyagopal Mandal, and Bangere Purnaprajna), “Closure operators in commutative algebra: tight closure, phantom depth, and *-spread,” April 2005; Comprehensive Examination, November 2004.   Giulio Caviglia, Ph.D. Mathematics (Chair: Craig Huneke, Committee: Arvin Agah, Robert Brown, Daniel Katz, and Bangere Purnaprajna), “Koszul algebras, Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity, and generic initial ideas,” July 2004; Comprehensive Examination, May 2003.   B. Grant Crawford, Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering (Chair: David Downing, Committee: Arvin Agah, Mark Ewing, Rick Hale, and Jan Roskam), “Design and evaluation of an autonomous, obstacle avoiding, flight control system using visual sensors,” June 2004; Comprehensive Examination, November 2003.   Huseyin Sevay, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Costas Tsatsoulis, Committee: Arvin Agah, Stephen Benedict, Susan Gauch, and Douglas Niehaus), “Multiagent reactive plan application learning in dynamic environments,” May 2004; Comprehensive Examination, “Learning cooperative reactive plans in multiagent systems,” November 1999.   Antonis Pantakis Stylianou, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (Chair: W. Carl Luchies, Committee: Arvin Agah, Ken Fischer, Lorin Maletsky, David Lerner), “Local muscle fatigue of elbow flexors: SEMG analysis and effects on motor control performance,” March 2004; Comprehensive Examination, June 2002.   Kahtan A. Awni, D.E. Aerospace Engineering (Chair: Dave Downing, Committee: Arvin Agah, Bob Zerwekh, Jan Roskam, and Mark Ewing), “Flight system design for a receiver aircraft to perform autonomous aerial refueling provided with relative position data link,” January 2004.   Ellen Mir, Ph.D. Mathematics (Chair: Jack Porter, Committee: Arvin Agah), “Relative topological properties of Hausdorff Spaces,” June 2003; Comprehensive Examination, March 2001.   Yongwei Yao, Ph.D. Mathematics (Chair: Craig Huneke, Committee: Arvin Agah, Daniel Katz, Satyagopal Mandal, and Bangere Purnaprajna), “Finite F-Representation type and primary decomposition,” July 2002; Comprehensive Examination, September 2000.   Daniel C. Cliburn, Ph.D. Computer Science, (Chair: James Miller, Committee: Arvin Agah, Nancy Kinnersley, and Terry Slocum), “Representing multiple uncertainties in graphical decision support systems,” August 2001; Comprehensive Examination, November 2000.   Yongseok Won, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (Chair: W. Carl Luchies, Committee: Arvin Agah, Terry Faddis, Bedru Yimmer, and Carole Zebas), “Strength requirements in fall arrest biomechanics,” April 2001; Comprehensive Examination, June 2000.   Andrew B. Williams, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Chair: Costas Tsatsoulis, Committee: Arvin Agah, Susan Gauch, and Douglas Niehaus), Comprehensive Examination, “Learning ontologies in a multiagent system,” June 1999.     M.S. Committee Member   Karthikeyan Varadarajan, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Gary Minden, Committee: Arvin Agah and Daniel Deavours), “RFID security and privacy in consumer items and payment systems,” June 2006.   Senthil Shanmugham, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Joseph Evans), “Perceptual video quality measurement for streaming video over mobile networks,” June 2006.   Robert Yeganeh, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and James Miller), “A multi-level approach for video temporal segmentation based on adaptive examples,” June 2006.   Srikanth Pyneni, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), “Verifying user authenticity in chat rooms,” May 2006   Daniel Leung, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Costas Tsatsoulis, Committee: Arvin Agah and Susan Gauch), “Tell me what I need: a multiagent, collaborative approach to learn sufficient, classification knowledge,” May 2006.   Suman Bir Singh Kansakar, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Ya Zhang), Project, “Syngraph – a relational database application,” May 2006.   Srinath Vaidyanathan, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Donna Haverkamp), Project, “Contextual search architecture,” January 2006.   Farzana Yasmeen, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Daniel Deavours, Committee: Arvin Agah and John Gauch), Project, “TEUI – Test Equipment User Interface,” December 2005.   Sivasankar Ponnambalam, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Ya Zhang), Project, “Automated profile transfer in key concept system,” November 2005.   Chia-chi Chang, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and David Petr), Project, “Web based course scheduling system,” November 2005.   Sriram Chadalavada, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: David Andrews, Committee: Arvin Agah and Susan Gauch), Project, “KUTESAT Pathfinder Software Implementation,” September 2005.   Gnana Deepti Mandava, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), Project, “Web Based Course Scheduling System,” August 2005.   Kalpesh Zinjuwadia, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Perry Alexander, Committee: Arvin Agah and David Andrews), “Genisys – a component inversion engine,” July 2005.   Byron Gerlach, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Xue-Wen Chen, Committee: Arvin Agah and Jerzy Grzymala-Busse), “Support vector based gene selection for cancer classification,” June 2005.   Mirco Speretta, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), “Personalizing search based on user search histories,” June 2005.   Brent Stephens, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Costas Tsatsoulis, Committee: Arvin Agah and Susan Gauch), “Using genetic algorithms to discover selection criteria for resolving contradictory solutions returned by CBR,” May 2005.   Anthony R. Neumann, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: James Miller, Committee: Arvin Agah and John Gauch), Project, “Enhanced water balance model application,” May 2005.   Kelly Dirks, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Nancy Kinnersley, Committee: Arvin Agah and Susan Gauch), Project, “Database system to automate tracking of youth gymnastics levels and advancement”, December 2004.   Hinko Vincar, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), “mFrame: an application framework for mobile resource-constrained computing environments”, October 2004.   Sireesha Gaddipati, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Susan Gauch), Project, “Web interface to Mysql”, August 2004.   Pankaj Kumar Goel, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Joe Evans, Committee: Arvin Agah and Jerry James), “Wireless authentication system and 802.1x port access control using PEAP”, July 2004.   Pratibha Rao, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), Project, “Design and development of KU-Automata: a web-based learning environment”, May 2004.   James Mauro, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Gary Minden(, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), “Security model in the ambient computational environment”, May 2004.   Lakshmi N. Viswanadha, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and David Andrews), Project, “Research dissemination via e-learning”, May 2004.   Aravind Chandramouli, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Nancy Kinnersley), Project, “Incorporating user profile in key concept search”, April 2004.   Raghavendra Vasanth Shantha, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Rongqing Hui), Project, “Computer applications in orofacial force physiology”, February 2004.   Vivek Ramachandran, M.S. Electrical Engineering (Chair: Prasad Gogineni, Committee: Arvin Agah and Chris Allen), Project, “Distributed control software for synthetic aperture radar”, January 2004.   Syed Ubayeedur Rahman, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Costas Tsatsoulis), “Intelligent tagger for e-learning”, January 2004.   Anand Madhavan, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Jerry James), “Telemetry and Data Handling model for KUTESAt”, January 2004.   Anil Kumar Nimmagadda, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Susan Gauch), “online event calendar”, January 2004.   Nicholas Evangelopoulos, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), “Intelligent exam grading: text-mining free-text answers”, December 2003.   Muhammad Anan, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah and Susan Gauch), “Assessing maintainability of recovered architectures”, December 2003.   Venkat Seshadri, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), Project, “Implementation of relevance feedback in image retrieval using color moments and histogram”, September 2003.   Drue Anthony Hull, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Joe Evans, Committee: Arvin Agah and Victor Frost), “The WiOX pulse oximeter: a portable wireless implementation”, June 2003.   Rajan Vijayaraghavan, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Jospeh Evans), “An architecture for logging, indexing and retrieving information from Microsoft MSN Messenger”, April 2003.   Jake Chambers, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), “The development and application of a standardized architectural description language for modeling data network architectures”, April 2003.   Praveen Sirivolu, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and David Andrews), “An application for automatically capturing user document content to build user profiles”, January 2003.   Solomon Nagelli, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah), “Chat data indexing and retrieval”, January 2003.   Rama Krishnan Kalicut, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Jerry James, Committee: Arvin Agah and Gary Minden), “Implementation of a single threaded user level asynchronous I/O library using the reactor pattern”, January 2003.   Subhash Induri, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), “Experiments on automatic text categorization in KeyConcept”, January 2003.   Ajitha Arcot, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and David Andrews), “An extensible system to capture user activity”, January 2003.   Balaji Meruva, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Jim Miller), “Online consensus planning tool”, December 2002.   Kiran Kumar, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and David Andrews), “A generic spider for capturing online ontologies”, December 2002.   Sreenivas Sunil Penumarthy, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Jerry James, Committee: Arvin Agah and Gary Minden), “Design and development of a user level thread library for testing and reproducing concurrency scenarios”, December 2002.   Sivaprasath Murugeshan, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Jerry James, Committee: Arvin Agah and Susan Gauch), “A robust persistent storage architecture for ACE”, December 2002.   Karthik Balasubramanian, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Joseph Evans, Committee: Arvin Agah and Victor Frost), “Aggregation for measurement efficiency in the ENABLE service”, October 2002.   Danico K. Lee, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Costas Tsatsoulis, Committee: Arvin Agah and Jerzy Grzymala-Busse), “Integrating HTML document structure and contents to identify similar XML domain documents using K-Nearest-Neighbor classification”, August 2002.   Sankaranarayanan Vidyaraman, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Joseph Evans, Committee: Arvin Agah and Gary Minden), “Security in the ambient computational environment”, August 2002.   Renzo Hayashi, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Gary Minden, Committee: Arvin Agah and Susan Gauch), “The ambient computational environments architecture for reliable, secure, and pervasive computing”, April 2002.   Kenneth Bolton, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Nancy Kinnersley, Committee: Arvin Agah and John Gauch), “Project: Visualization of commonly taught algorithms and data structures”, April 2002.   Serhan Yengulalp, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: James Miller, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), “Robust collaborative distributed application framework”, April 2002.   Ravi Chamarty, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Gary Minden, Committee: Arvin Agah and Joseph Evans), “Implementation and performance of an integrated OCaml-based active node”, June 2001.   Xinqun Zheng, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Committee: Arvin Agah and John Gauch), “Comparative study of methods to deal with missing attribute values based on preterm birth data sets”, March 2001.   Karthik Rajagopal, M.S. Electrical Engineering (Chair: Glenn Prescott, Committee: Arvin Agah and Joseph Evans), “Performance analysis of time tracker in a 3G WCDMA system”, January 2001.   Scott M. Daugherty, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Susan Gauch), “Video temporal segmentation by analysis of representative images”, December 2000.   Yuhong Liu, M.S. Electrical Engineering (Chair: David W. Petr, Committee: Arvin Agah and Victor Frost), “Usage-sensitive pricing scheme in multiservice networks”, July 2000.   Deepak Sreekantan, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Joseph Evans, Committee: Arvin Agah and Victor Frost), “Implementation and evaluation of traffic engineering over MPLS”, July 2000.   Ajay Uggirala, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Victor Frost, Committee: Arvin Agah and Douglas Niehaus), “Exploring the impact of differentiated services on carrier networks”, July 2000.   Hemang M. Parekh, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Gary Minden, Committee: Arvin Agah and Jospeh Evans), “Design, implementation and performance evaluation of synthetic aperture radar image processor on FPGA”, June 2000.   Steven G. Pennington, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Jospeh Evans, Committee: Arvin Agah and Victor Frost), “An architecture for an ambient computing system”, June 2000.   Courtlan Telford, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: James Miller, Committee: Arvin Agah and John Gauch), “Kansas precipitation visualization information system”, June 2000.   Jason Chaffee, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Douglas Niehaus), “Personal ontologies for web navigation”, May 2000.   Antonis Pantakis Stylianou, M.S. Mechanical Engineering (Chair: W. Carl Luchies, Committee: Arvin Agah and Robert Sorem), “EMG signal processing using the maximum likelihood method”, May 2000.   Luis Masaya, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Jospeh Evans), “Scalability in a meta-search engine”, March 2000.   Carlos Javier Castro Pena, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Jospeh Evans, Committee: Arvin Agah and Douglas Niehaus), “Performance evaluation of software virtual private networks (VPN)”, March 2000.   Pankaj Shah, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Committee: Arvin Agah and Susan Gauch), “A comparison of the AQ and LERS machine learning algorithms with truncated rule sets”, January 2000.   Rajashree M. Patil, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Susan Gauch), “Real-time video segmentation and shot recall”, December 1999.   Gopi Krishna Vaddi, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: David W. Petr, Committee: Arvin Agah and Jospeh Evans), “Design and analysis of a self-configuring CAC for AAL2 with load estimation (scale)”, December 1999.   Wen-Chi Wang, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and John Gauch), “Ontology-based temporal site monitor”, December 1999. Chanaka R. Liyanaarachchi, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and John Gauch), “Distributed search architecture for searching of information on the Web”, December 1999.   Shobha Rani Doraswamy, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Costas Tsatsoulis), “Real time detection and tracking of people”, November 1999.   Sharon Learned, M.S. Electrical Engineering (Chair: Swapan Chakrabati, Committee: Arvin Agah and Dave Petr), “Speaker-dependent isolated word recognition using cepstrum, mel-warped cepstrum analysis and neural networks”, November 1999.   Sandeep Mukthavaran, M.S. Electrical Engineering (Chair: Jospeh Evans, Committee: Arvin Agah and Gary Minden), “Design and FPGA implementation of an adaptive demodulator”, August 1999.   Benjamin C. Phelps, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Nancy Kinnersley), “Personalized information filtering using a combination of methods”, June 1999.   Alexander Pretschner, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and James Miller), “Ontology based personalized search”, June 1999.   Lutz Gerhard, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and John Gauch), “Visualizing multi-dimensional conceptual hierarchies”, April 1999.   Undergraduate Research Students Joel James Angelone, Undergraduate Research Assistant, NSF funded project, “Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS),” Spring 2006–Present.   DeQuincy Faulcon, Virginia State University, NSF Undergraduate Research Experience program at Elizabeth City State University, “Graphical user interfaces for the PRISM rover,” Summer 2005.   Mark L. Roland, Electrical Engineering, “Arts and robotics,” Spring 2005–Fall 2005.   Isham D. Nelson, Computer Science, Honors Project, “Graphical user interfaces for dental applications”, Fall 2004–Spring 2005.   Josh Oechslin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Undergraduate Research Student, NSF REU, “Biomechanical Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduates”, Summer 2004.   Delbert Joe, Haskell Indian Nations University, Bridge Program, “Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)”, Summer 2003–Spring 2004. Anup K. Misra, Pennsylvania State University, Undergraduate Research Student, NSF REU, “Biomechanical Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduates”, Summer 2002.   Sushila Alyssa Shenoy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Undergraduate Research Student, NSF REU, “REU: Mobile sensor web for polar ice sheet measurements”, Summer 2002.   Anup K. Misra, Pennsylvania State University, Undergraduate Research Student, NSF REU, “Biomechanical Engineering Research Experience for Undergraduates”, Summer 2002.   Benjamin Shockley, Aerospace Engineering, Undergraduate Research Assistant, NASA funded project, “An autonomous mobile radar for temperate ice thickness measurements”, Summer 2001– Summer 2002.   Paul Vernon, Computer Engineering, Undergraduate Research Assistant, NSF funded project, “Ambiguity resolution for intelligent systems using a cognitive robot”, Spring 2002.   Eric Akers, Computer Engineering, Undergraduate Research Assistant, NSF funded project, “Mobile sensor web for polar ice sheet measurements”, Spring 2002.   Richard Stansbury, Computer Engineering, Undergraduate Research Assistant, NSF funded project, “Mobile sensor web for polar ice sheet measurements”, Spring 2002.   Lance W. Feagan, Computer Engineering, Undergraduate Research Assistant, NSF funded project, “Mobile sensor web for polar ice sheet measurements”, Fall 2001–Summer 2002.   Russell W. Webb, Computer Engineering, Undergraduate Research Assistant, NSF funded project, “Ambiguity resolution for intelligent systems using a cognitive robot”, Summer 2001–Fall 2001.   Sam Albers, Computer Engineering, Undergraduate Research Assistant, NASA funded project, “An autonomous mobile radar for temperate ice thickness measurements”, Summer 2001–Fall 2001.   Armando Daniel Noriega, Engineering Physics, Undergraduate Research Assistant, NASA funded project, “An autonomous mobile radar for temperate ice thickness measurements”, Summer 2001.   Brandon Warner, Mechanical Engineering, Undergraduate Research Assistant, NASA funded project, “An autonomous mobile radar for temperate ice thickness measurements”, Summer 2001.   Brice McIver, Computer Engineering, Hourly Research Assistant, “Cognitive robot for ambiguity resolution”, Summer 2000.   Charlie Womack, Computer Engineering, Research Student, “Office and home automations for ambient computing environments”, Fall 1999.   Stephen Hill, Aerospace Engineering, Research Student, “Design of a small autonomous blimp”, Summer 1999.   Michael W. Turvey, Computer Engineering, Research Student, “Distributed processing of genetic algorithms using a client/server model”, Spring 1999.   Daniel Herring, Computer Engineering, Research Student, “An anthropomorphic foot mechanism for legged robot locomotion”, Spring 1999–Summer 1999.   Anthony Nicholson, Computer Engineering, Honors Student Advisee, “Hardware and software design of a robot soccer team”, Fall 1998–Spring 1999.   Simon Peck, Computer Engineering, Hourly Research Student, “A new type of robot locomotion: the spherical robot”, Fall 1998–Spring 1999.   Isaac Charles Ellis, Computer Engineering, Student Research Awardee, “Application of genetic algorithms to simulated robot soccer”, Summer 1998–Fall 1998.   Claudio P. Santos, Computer Engineering, Student Research Awardee, “Control of a mobile robot using FGPA chips”, Summer 1998–Fall 1998.   Luis Yamamoto, Aerospace Engineering, Directed Research Advisee, “Novel aircraft prototype design as a flying robot”, Spring 1998.   Chong Ssu (Richard) Hong, Computer Engineering, Hourly Research Assistant, “Design of a web page for robotics laboratory”, Spring 1998.   Brian Doyle, Computer Engineering, Hourly Research Assistant, “Coordination and interaction issues in a team of soccer playing robots”, Spring 1998.
Arvin Agah (June 2007)