Sky Moon
Spring 2014 Project
Committee Chair: Dr. Sam Chung
Committee Members: Dr. Barbara Endicott-Popovsky
Thesis: Multiple-Criteria Query Statement Probabilities Based Database Insider Attack Monitoring System
William Kim
Spring 2014 Project
Committee Chair: Dr. Sam Chung
Committee Members: Dr. Barbara Endicott-Popovsky
Thesis: Software Architecture Model Driven Reverse Engineering Approach to Open Source Software Development
Ji Zhang
Spring 2014 Project
Committee Chair: Dr. Ankur M. Teredesai
Committee Members: Dr. Jie Sheng
Thesis: Supervised Nearest Neighbor Searching for Visual Tracking
Muaz Mian
Spring 2014 Project
Committee Chair: Dr. Ankur M. Teredesai
Committee Members: Dr. Senjuti Basu Roy, David Hazel
Thesis: Healthcare Big Data Exploration in Real-Time
Aniruddah Desai
Spring 2014 Project
Committee Chair: Dr. Ankur M. Teredesai
Committee Members: David Hazel, Dr. Gregory Benner
Thesis: Data Visualization in Educational Datasets using a Rule-Based Inference System
Yitao Li
Autumn 2013 Project
Committee Chair : Dr. Senjuti Basu Roy
Committee Members: Dr. Ling Ding, Dr. Ankur M. Teredesai
Thesis: Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Paper-Author Identification Problem
Samba Ramasubramanian
Autumn 2013 Project
Committee Chair: Dr. Sam Chung
Committee Members: Dr. Ling Ding, Dr. Seungwan Ryu
Thesis: Secure and Smart Media Sharing Based on Direct Communications Among Mobile Devices Underlying in LTE-A Cellular Network
Michael Pitts
Autumn 2013 Project
Advisor: Dr. Senjuti Basu-Roy
Committee Member: Dr. Ankur Teredesai
Thesis: ALIAS: A Tool for Disambiguating Authors in Microsoft Academic Search
Jayshree Agarwal
Graduated: Fall 2013
Committee Chair: Senjuti Basu Roy, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Ankur Teredesai, Ph.D.
Thesis: Predicting Risk of Re-hospitalization for Congestive Heart Failure Patients
Charles Costarella
Graduated: Spring 2013
Committee Chair: Dr. Sam Chung
Committee Members:Dr. Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity, University of Washington, Dr. David Dittrich, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
Project: Hardening Honeynets Against Honeypot-Aware Botnet Attacks
Jeremiah Miller
Graduated: Spring 2013
Committee Chair: Dr. Sam Chung
Committee Members: Dr. Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity, University of Washington, Dr. Teresa Escrig, Dr. Yan Bai, Dr. Jan Whittington
Project: From GPS Device to Mobile Native App to Mobile Web App: Geolocation Field Data Collection in WA State Water Resources
Michael Schweiger
Graduated: Spring 2013
Committee Chair: Dr. Sam Chung
Committee Members: Dr. Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity, University of Washington
Project: Malware Analysis on the Cloud: Increased Performance, Reliability, and Flexibility
Swathi Balakrishna
Graduated: Winter 2013
Committee Members: Dr. Ling Ding
Project: An Efficient Client Server Assignment for Internet Distributed Systems
2012 Research Projects
Eric Johnson
Graduated: Fall 2012
Committee Chair: Ankur Teredesai, Ph.D.
Thesis: Predicting Urgent Care Clinic and Emergency Department Wait Times
Arta Shayandeh
Graduated: Spring 2012
Committee Chair: Ankur Teredesai, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Senjuti Basu Roy, Ph.D.
Thesis: Adaptive Probabilistic Topic Models for Social Networks
Travis Rautman
Graduated: Spring 2012
Committee Chair: Ankur Teredesai, Ph.D.
Thesis: ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Cup 2012
2011 Research Projects
Ashish Bindra
Graduated: Fall 2011
Committee Chair: Ankur Teredesai, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Martine De Cock
Thesis: SocialLDA:Scalable Topic Modeling in Social Networks
Aaron Munger
Graduated: Fall 2011
Committee Chair: Ankur Teredesai, Ph.D.
Thesis: Relation Extraction from Biomedical Text Using SVMs with Dependency Tree Kernels
Brenton Lessley
Graduated: Summer 2011
Committee Chair: Donald Chinn, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Matthew Alden, Ph.D., Daniel Bryan, Ph.D., Ehsan Feroz, Ph.D.
Thesis: Application of an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm to Financial Statement Fraud Classification
Garima Tiwari
Graduated: Spring 2011
Committee Chair: Ankur Teredesai, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Jie Sheng, Ph.D.
Thesis: Crowdsourced Evaluation for Reranked Twitter Search
Aparna Sundara Rajan
Graduated: Spring 2011
Committee Chair: Ankur Teredesai, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Matthew Alden, Ph.D., Daniel Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Thesis: Keyword Bidding in Sponsored Search Using an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm
Leo Hansel
Graduated: Spring 2011
Committee Chair: Sam Chung, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Jie Sheng, Ph.D.
Project: Improving both Interoperability and Performance of Unmanned Systems by Using JAUS and EtherCAT
John Patanian
Graduated: Winter 2011
Committee Chair: Ankur Teredesai, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Anil Varma, Ph.D., Feng Xue, Ph.D., Naresh Iyer, Ph.D.
Project: Adaptive Real-Time Power Plant Fault Detection: Improving Reliability of Industrial Equipment
2010 Research Projects
Charles Bryan
Graduated Winter 2010
Committee Chair: Dr. Donald Chinn
Committee Members: Dr. Josh Tenenberg
Project: InterAcText: Introduction to Java Programming, a Computer-Based Interactive Java Programming Textbook (Appendix A)
2009 Research Projects
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
2008 Research Projects
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.
Committee 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 Reengineering Methodology for Composite Services
2007 Research Projects
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-Popovsky, 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-Popovsky, 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
2006 Research Projects
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