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Students
Ph.D. Students
- Mark Calnon, Expected Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah).
- Patrick G. Clark, Expected Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah); Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Swapan Chakrabarti, Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse, Prajna Dhar, and Bo Luo), "Novel data structures and algorithms for modeling, analysis, and human-comprehension of firewall policies," December 2011.
- John W. Gibbons, Expected Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah); Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Perry Alexander, Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse, Prajna Dhar, James Miller, and Brian Potetz), "Modeling content life span in online social networks using data mining," December 2011.
- Daniel Leung, Expected Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah); Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Swapan Chakrabarti, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Sarah Kieweg, and Brian Potetz), "Robustness and energy efficiency in distributed map making of small autonomous indoor robots," April 2009.
- Najla Ahmad, Expected Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah); Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya, Victor Frost, Sarah Kieweg, and Brian Potetz), "Intent recognition in multi-agent systems," January 2009.
- Maryamossadat N. Mahani, Expected Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah); Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Sara Campion, Swapan Chakrabarti, Man Kong, and Brian Potetz), "Dynamic application-independent strategic organization formation and re-organization in multi-agent systems," November 2009.
- Christopher L. Redford [Weather Underground, San Francisco, California], Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Swapan Chakrabarti, Prajna Dhar, Luke Huan, and Brian Potetz), "Evidentialist foundationalist argumentation applied to multi-agent systems," April 2012; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Paul Atchley, Swapan Chakrabarti, Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya, and Brian Potetz), "Argumentation-based negotiation in multi-agent systems," March 2009.
- Keith A. Preston [Apple, Inc., Cupertino, California], Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Chair: Arvin Agah, Co-Chair: David Andrews, Committee: Andrew Gill, Douglas Niehaus, and Saul Stahl), "A unified hardware software priority scheduling model for general purpose systems," October 2011; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: David Andrews, Committee: Arvin Agah, Terry Clark, Douglas Niehaus, and Saul Stahl), "A unified hardware software priority scheduling model for general purpose systems," April 2007.
- Christopher M. Gifford [Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland], Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Swapan Chakrabarti, Brian Potetz, Sarah Seguin, and Leigh Stearns), "Collective machine learning: Team learning and classification in multi-agent systems," November 2009; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Chris Allen, Swapan Chakrabarti, Carl Leuschen, and Georgios Tsoflias), "Heterogeneous collaborative learning for robotics and applied artificial intelligence," January 2008.
- Yaling Liu [Epic Systems Corporation, Verona, Wisconsin], Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Xue-Wen Chen, Sarah Kieweg, Man Kong, and James R. Miller), "A process-based search engine," July 2009; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Xue-Wen Chen, Sarah Kieweg, Man Kong, and James R. Miller), "A process-based search engine," August 2008.
- Christopher M. Taylor [PaperWise, Inc., Springfield, Missouri], Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Xue-Wen Chen, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Nancy Kinnersley, and Elizabeth Friis), "A multi-tiered genetic algorithm for data mining and hypothesis refinement," January 2009; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Xue-Wen Chen, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, John Gauch, and Elizabeth Friis), "A novel data mining technique combining genetic algorithms and set theory for rule discovery," May 2006.
- Sandhya Beldona Gabbur [], Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Co-Chair: Costas Tsatsoulis, Committee: Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya, Andy Gill, Jun Huan, Prasad Kulkarni, and Prakash Shenoy), "Reputation based buyer strategies for seller selection in electronic markets," December 2008; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Costas Tsatsoulis, Committee: Arvin Agah, Susan Gauch, Donna Haverkamp, and Prakash Shenoy), "Reputation based buyer strategies for seller selection in multi-agent electronic markets," September 2006.
- David O. Johnson [University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri], Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Swapan Chakrabarti, Xue-Wen Chen, Brian Potetz, and Sara Wilson), "Human robot interaction through semantic integration of multiple modalities, dialog management, and contexts," October 2008; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Swapan Chakrabarti, John Gauch, Donna Haverkamp, and Sara Wilson), "Better human robot interaction through the use of multiple modalities, dialog management, contexts, and semantics," February 2007.
- Heather Amthauer [Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland], Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Co-Chair: Costas Tsatsoulis, Committee: Perry Alexander, Xue-Wen Chen, Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya, and John Kelly), "Applying machine learning methods to suggest network involvement and functionality of genes in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae," September 2008; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Costas Tsatsoulis, Committee: Arvin Agah, Xue-Wen Chen, Susan Gauch, and John Kelly), "Learning where to look for genetic networks," June 2006.
- Pradeep Natarajan [IBM Corporation, Lenexa, Kansas], Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Swapan Chakrabarti, Xue-Wen Chen, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Wen Liu), "Expert system-based post-stroke robotic rehabilitation for hemiparetic arm," August 2007; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Xue-Wen Chen, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, John Gauch, and Wen Liu), "Expert system-based post-stroke robotic rehabilitation for hemiparetic arm," October 2005.
- Richard S. Stansbury [Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL], Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Chris Allen, David Braaten, Prasad Gogineni, and Carl Leuschen), "Constraint-based Task Selection and Configuration for Autonomous Mobile Robots," July 2007; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: David Braaten, Victor Frost, Prasad Gogineni, and Costas Tsatsoulis), "Control of modular robotic systems using constraint satisfaction," June 2005.
- Eric L. Akers [Pinnacle Technology, Inc., Lawrence, KS], Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: David Braaten, Prasad Gogineni, Donna Haverkamp, and Carl Leuschen), "Autonomous Mobile Robot Localization in Large-Scale Environments Using Only a Camera," July 2007; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: David Braaten, John Gauch, Prasad Gogineni, and Costas Tsatsoulis), "Localization in a large-scale environment using only a camera," June 2005.
M.S. Students
- Ashlee Martz, Expected M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah).
- Brien Smith Martinez, Expected M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah).
- Dipen Shah, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Man Kong and Prasad Kulkarni), Project, "Multimedia mobile unit: Broadcast data from polar regions in near-real time," April 2010.
- John W. Gibbons, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: James Miller and Brian Potetz), "Friend Lens: Novel Web content sharing through strategic manipulation of cached HTML," February 2010.
- Patrick G. Clark, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Swapan Chakrabarti and Jerzy Grzymala-Busse), "Identifying vision disorders using iris color analysis," July 2009.
- Joseph S. Makarewicz, M.S. Computer Engineering, (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Carl Leuschen and Brian Potetz), "A novel method for digital image acquisition from a scanning electron microscope," April 2009.
- Mark Soenen, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Prasad Kulkarni and James R. Miller), "Design and implementation of a highly modifiable retail e-commerce Website," July 2008.
- Matthew T. Cook, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Nancy Kinnersley and James R. Miller), "A 3-dimensional modeling system inspired by the cognitive process of sketching," August 2007.
- Jonathan Kensler, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Arvin Agah, Committee: Nancy Kinnersley and Jerzy Grzymala-Busse), "On 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
 
- Hongliang Fei, Expected Ph.D. Computer Science; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Jun Huan, Committee: Arvin Agah, Xue-Wen Chen, Bo Luo, and Hongguo Xu), "Learning from the data with structured input and output," December 2011.
- Bryan Banz, Expected Ph.D. Computer Science; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: James Miller, Committee: Arvin Agah, John Doveton, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, and Nancy Kinnersley), "A framework for model development using dimension reduction and low-cost surrogate functions," April 2009.
- Li Cheng, Expected Ph.D. Computer Science; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah, Xue-Wen Chen, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, and Thomas Glavinich), "A model-based approach for testing dynamic multi-tier web applications," November 2007.
- Vijay Ramasami, Expected Ph.D. Electrical Engineering; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Prasad Gogineni, Committee: Arvin Agah, David Braaten, Pannir Kanagaratnam, and Glenn Prescott), "Clutter cancellation and model-based signal processing for airborne ice-penetrating radars," May 2005.
- Muthukumaran Pitchaimani, Expected Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Joseph Evans, Committee: Arvin Agah, Victor Frost, Prasad Kulkarni, and Christine Sundstrom) "Enabling adaptation in cognitive networks."
- Bing Han, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Xue-Wen Chen, Committee: Arvin Agah, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Jun Huan, and Tyrone Duncan) "Detecting cancer-related genes and gene-gene interactions by machine learning methods," December 2011; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Xue-Wen Chen, Committee: Arvin Agah, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Jun Huan, and Gerald Lushington), "Integrative method for differential gene networks detection and analysis," December 2009.
- Serhiy L. Morozov, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Bo Luo, and Saul Stahl) "A distributed, architecture-centric approach to computing accurate recommendations from very large and sparse datasets," July 2011; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Bo Luo, and Saul Stahl), "A novel approach to the analysis of very large datasets for recommender systems," December 2008.
- Daniel McNeill, Ph.D. Mathematics (Chair: Jack Porter, Committee: Arvin Agah, William Fleissner, Judith Roitman, and Rodolfo Torres) "Properties of H-Sets, Katetov Spaces, and H-Closed extensions with countable remainder," April 2011; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Jack Porter, Committee: Arvin Agah, William Fleissner, Judith Roitman, and Rodolfo Torres), "Cardinality bounds of H-sets in Urysohn spaces," May 2009.
- Jennifer Lohoefener, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Perry Alexander, Committee: Arvin Agah, Andy Gill, Craig Huneke, and Gary Minden), "A methodology for automated verification of Rosetta specification transformations," April 2011.
- Yiannis Zachariou, Ph.D. Mathematics (Chair: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Committee: Arvin Agah, Tyrone Duncan, Jack Porter, and Zsolt Talata), "Identification, adaptive control and computational methods for some stochastic modeling," February 2011; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Committee: Arvin Agah, Tyrone Duncan, Yaozhong Hu, and Jeffrey Lang), "Stochastic adaptive control," March 2006.
- Alexander Senf, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Xue-Wen Chen, Committee: Arvin Agah, Jun Huan, James Miller, and Ilya Vakser), "A machine learning approach to query time-series microarray data sets for functionally related genes using hidden Markov models," January 2011; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: Xue-Wen Chen, Committee: Arvin Agah, Jun Huan, James Miller, and Ilya Vakser), "A machine learning approach to analyze cellular pathways using microarray data of D. melanogaster with profile hidden Markov models," September 2009.
- Jorge L. Ortiz, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Chair: Perry Alexander, Co-Chair: David Andrews, Committee: Arvin Agah, Swapan Chakrabarti, Kirk McClure, and James Sterbenz), "Synthesis techniques for semi-custom dynamically reconfigurable superscalar processors," November 2009; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: David Andrews, Committee: Arvin Agah, Perry Alexander, Terry Clark, and Saul Stahl), "Synthesis techniques for semi-custom dynamically reconfigurable processor cores," February 2007.
- Elena Popel, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Chair: Glenn Prescott, Co-Chair: Mehmet Bilgen, Committee: Arvin Agah, Brian Potetz, and Irena Smirnova), "Motion analysis in magnetic resonance elastography," October 2009.
- Chadd Clary, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (Chair: Lorin Maletsky, Committee: Arvin Agah, Michael Detamore, Kenneth Fischer, Terence McIff, and Albert Romkes), "A combined experimental-computational method to generate reliable subject specific models of the knee's ligamentous constraint," July 2009.
- Mei Liu, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Xue-Wen Chen, Committee: Arvin Agah, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, Jun Huan, and Robert Ward), "Discovering domain-domain interactions toward genome-wide protein interaction and function predictions," June 2009.
- Lynne Yengulalp, Ph.D. Mathematics (Chair: William Fleissner, Committee: Arvin Agah, Jack Porter, Judith Roitman, and Rodolfo Torres), April 2009; Comprehensive Examination (Chair: William Fleissner, Committee: Arvin Agah, Robert Brown, Jack Porter, and Judith Roitman), June 2006.
- Aravind Chandramouli, Ph.D. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah Perry Alexander, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, and Estela Gavosto), "A co-operative Web services paradigm for crawler support," August 2007; Comprehensive Examination, June 2005.
- Wilhelmus A.J. Anemaat, Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering (Chair: Richard Hale, Committee: Arvin Agah, David Downing, Chuan-Tau Lan, Jan Roskam), "A knowledge-based design framework for aircraft conceptual and preliminary design," April 2007; Comprehensive Examination, October 2006.
- 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.
- 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 P. 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, William Fleissner, and Judith Roitman), "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.
M.S. Committee
- Divya Iyer, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Prasad Kulkarni, Committee: Arvin Agah and Bo Luo), "Exploring the suitability of existing tools for constructing executable Java slices," January 2012.
- Evan Austin, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Perry Alexander, Committee: Arvin Agah and Andy Gill), "HaskHOL: A Haskell hosted domain specific language for higher-order logic theorem proving," July 2011.
- Deepak Chellamani, M.S. Electrical Engineering (Chair: Joseph Evans, Committee: Arvin Agah and Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya), "A novel DHT routing protocol for Manets," April 2010.
- Robert Tyson Thedinger, M.S. Information Technology (Chair: James P.G. Sterbenz, Committee: Arvin Agah and Joseph Evans), "Store and haul: Improving mobile ad-hoc network connectivity through repeated controlled flooding," April 2010.
- Steven Haenchen, M.S. Information Technology (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah and Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya), "Advanced text searching of all electronic information related to forensic discovery," November 2009.
- Tsz Ping Chan, M.S. Electrical Engineering (Chair: Shannon Blunt, Committee: Arvin Agah, James Stiles, and Mihai Popescu), "Reiterative minimum mean square error estimator for direction of arrival estimation and biomedical functional brain imaging," July 2008.
- Seak Fei Lei, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Jun Huan, Committee: Arvin Agah and Xue-Wen Chen), "Towards protein function annotation for matching remote homologs," June 2008.
- Adnan Chaudhry, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Jim Miller, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), Project, "Web-based course scheduling system," April 2008.
- Kumar Goundan, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah and Prasad Kulkarni), Project, "An event-based mechanism for client synchronization with a database," March 2008.
- Witold Rzepnicki, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah and Prasad Kulkarni), "Evaluating the impact of content delivery networks on performance and scalability of content-rich and highly transactional e-commerce Websites," March 2008.
- Jayanth Venkataraman, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Douglas Niehaus, Committee: Arvin Agah and Prasad Kulkarni), "A programming model for precise computation of video pipelines," February 2008.
- Kannan Chandrasekaran, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Joseph Evans, Committee: Arvin Agah and Jun Huan), "Concept based author recommender system for Citeseer," December 2007.
- Thamer Abuyasin, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: David Andrews, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), "Enabling task level parallelism in HandelC," December 2007.
- Sunil Peechu, M.S. Electrical Engineering (Chair: David Andrews, Committee: Arvin Agah and David Petr), "Security for KUASAR," December 2007.
- Serhiy L. Morozov, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah and James Sterbenz), "Prime number based hierarchical data labeling scheme for relational databases," November 2007.
- Mark Stockmyer, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah and Xue-Wen Chen), "Development and analysis of a gravity-simulated particle-packing algorithm for modeling optimized rocket propellants," October 2007.
- Kevin Higgins, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah and Xue-Wen Chen), "An evaluation of the performance and database access strategies of Java object-relational mapping frameworks," October 2007.
- Shane Santner, M.S. Electrical Engineering (Chair: David Andrews, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), "Symmetric multiprocessor design for hybrid FPGA/CPU SoCs," August 2007.
- Philip Weaver, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Perry Alexander, Committee: Arvin Agah and Nancy Kinnersley), "Implementing Reflective Metaprogramming for Rosetta Using InterpreterLib," August 2007.
- Atchutha Rama Vivek, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Susan Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Frank Brown), "Improving indexing efficiency through incremental indexing," August 2007.
- Viswanath Chowdary Ganta, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: James Miller, Committee: Arvin Agah and John Gauch), Project, "Custom maps implementation on Google maps using Google maps API," July 2007.
- Manjunath Narayana, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: Donna Haverkamp, Committee: Arvin Agah and James Miller), "Automatic tracking of moving objects in video for surveillance applications," July 2007.
- Bhargav Theertham, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah, Jun Huan, Jianwen Fang, and Gerald Henry Lushington), "Novel algorithm for elucidating biologically relevant chemical diversity metrics," May 2007.
- Shankar Dheeraj Konidena, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Ron Sass, Committee: Arvin Agah and John Gauch), Project, "Adaptive algorithm for high-performance FPGA cores," December 2006.
- Eduardo Cardoce, M.S. Computer Engineering (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Swapan Chakrabarti), "Coding videophone sequences at better perceptual quality by using face detection and MPEG coding," December 2006.
- Kellen F. Bombardier, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), "Application of irregular data formats for improved performance of 16-bit digital signal processing systems," December 2006.
- Manuel Richey, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: Hossein Saiedian, Committee: Arvin Agah and Perry Alexander), "A New test-focused development process for open source software," December 2006.
- Prabu Renganathan, M.S. Computer Science (Chair: John Gauch, Committee: Arvin Agah and Donna Haverkamp), Project, "Performance analysis and evaluation on next generation Intel Xscale micro-architecture based processors for handheld devices," December 2006.
- 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.
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