csee-thesis-list (CSEE Department) Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering

CSEE Department: Recent Dissertation/Thesis

(this list is periodically updated.)
Winter'07
M.S. Thesis:

Manali Kesarkar, Low Power Fast Fourier Transform Processor, MS-EE thesis, defense date: May 2, 2007 (Advisor: Chuanjun Zhang)

John Joseph Howard, Multiple Sequence Alignment Homology Benchmark, MS-CS thesis, defense date: April 20, 2007 (Advisor: Deendayal Dinakarpandian)

Saurabh Bhandari, A Hybrid Approach for Efficient Multicasting in WDM Networks, MS-CS thesis, defense date: April 6, 2007 (Advisor: E. K. Park)

Zhichuan Li, Modeling Organization Structures in UML, MS-CS thesis, defense date: March 21, 2007 (Advisor: Yijie Han)

Fall'06
Ph.D. Dissertation:

Amit Sinha, On Methodology and Analysis of Broadband Access Network Traffic, Ph.D. dissertation (Computer Networking), defense date: December 13, 2006 (Advisor: Deep Medhi)

Jianyu Lou,Frame-based Packet Scheduling Algorithms for Input Queued Switches, Ph.D. dissertation (Computer Networking), defense date: December 1, 2006 (Advisor: Xiaojun Shen)

Manish Mehta, Authentication and Key Establishment in Computer and Communication Networks: No Silver Bullet, Ph.D. dissertation (Computer Networking), defense date: September 15, 2006 (Advisor: Lien Harn)

M.S. Thesis:

Maheswar Reddy Gunampally, Quantification of Gene Expressions for Microarray Images, MS-EE thesis, defense date: December 13, 2006 (Advisor: Yu-Ping Wang)

Venetia Raheja, Tandem Machine Learning for the Identification of Xenobiotic Responsive Target Genes, MS-CS thesis, defense date: December 7, 2006 (Advisor: Deendayal Dinakarpandian)

Jung Ha Hong, On the Queueing Analysis of Packet Aggregation Systems and Their Asymptotic Behavior, MS-CS thesis, defense date: December 7, 2006 (Advisor: Khosrow Sohraby)

John Michael Schreiber, Performance Analysis of Disk Scheduling Mechanisms with Long-Range Dependent Access Requests, MS-CS thesis, defense date: December 5, 2006 (Advisors: Deep Medhi and Jerry Place)

Deepali Paknikar, SUGGG: Web Search Application based on Information Foraging and Berrypicking Theory, MS-CS thesis, defense date: August 16, 2006 (Advisor: Deep Medhi)

Summer'06
Ph.D. Dissertation:

Nitin Prabhu, Transaction Processing in Mobile Database System, Ph.D. dissertation (Computer Science and Informatics), defense date: July 31, 2006 (Advisor: Vijay Kumar)

Debopam Acharya, Data in Your Space (DAYS): A Data Staging and Push-Pull based Location Dependent Wireless Data Dissemination System, Ph.D. Dissertation (Computer Science and Informatics), defense date: June 28, 2006 (Advisor: Vijay Kumar)

M.S. Thesis:

Palanivel Rathinam Ramalingam, Using Forwarding Host to Improve End to End Network Performance, MS-CS thesis, defense date: July 25, 2006 (Advisor: Cory Beard)

Anubhav Visen, An MPLS DiffServ based Traffic Engineering and QoS Architecture, MS-EE thesis, defense date: June 28, 2006 (advisor: Cory Beard)

Winter'06
Ph.D. Dissertation:

Jayesh Kumaran, Approximation Models and Approaches for Computing Performance Measures That Arises in Single Server Queueing Systems, Ph.D. dissertation (Telecommunication Networking), defense date: May 3, 2006 (Advisor: Appie van de Liefvoort)

Balaji Krithikaivasan, Forecasting Models and Adaptive Quantized Bandwidth Provisioning for Nonstationary Network Traffic, Ph.D. dissertation (Computer Networking), defense date: February 7, 2006 (Advisor: Deep Medhi)
M.S. Thesis:

Sunil Wagh, Semantic Templates for Summarizing Results From Evidence Based Medicine Analyses, MS-CS thesis, defense date: May 3, 2006 (advisor: Deendayal Dinakarpandian)

Sagar Hatkar, Cross Layered Routing Implementation for Ultra Wideband Communication, MS-EE thesis, defense date: May 2, 2006 (advisor: Cory Beard)

Balaji Jayaraman Hierarchical Representation of Protein Folding Patterns Based on Contact Map Distances, MS-CS thesis, defense date: May 1, 2006 (advisor: Deendayal Dinakarpandian)

Venkatesh Subramaniam Viswanathan, Automatic Diagram Generation based on Ontological Framework, MS-CS thesis, defense date: March 22, 2006 (advisor: Yugi Lee) (NOTE: awarded UMKC-level Best MS thesis award in 2006)

Jubin Nalin Sanghvi, IFREE - An Indexed Forest of Representer Expressions Extractor for Position Frequency Matrices to Rapidly Detect Sequence Motifs , MS-CS thesis, defense date: February 23, 2006 (advisor: D. Dinakarpandian)

Chandra Sekhar Surapaneni, Dynamically Organized and Scalable Virtual Organizations in Grid Computing , MS-CS thesis, defense date: February 16, 2006 (advisor: Deep Medhi)

Fall'05
Ph.D. Dissertation:

Denizhan N. Alparslan, Modeling and Analysis of Generalized Random Mobility Models for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Ph.D. dissertation (Telecommunication Networking), defense date: September 7, 2005 (Advisor: Khosrow Sohraby)
M.S. Thesis:

Ashok K Dandpat, Classification of Multiplex Florescence In Situ Hybridization Images Using Fuzzy Clustering and Wavelets-Based Preprocessing , MS-EE thesis, defense date: December 16, 2005 (advisor: Yu-Ping Wang)

Sujaa Rani Mohan, Association Rule based Data Mining Approaches for Web Cache Maintenance and Adaptive Intrusion Detection Systems , MS-CS thesis, defense date: December 16, 2005 (advisor: EK Park)

Uday Joshi, FLEXGRID: A Framework for Building P2P based Internet Grids, MS-CS thesis, defense date: December 15, 2005 (advisor: Prem Uppuluri)

Priya Parasuram, Homologous Modeling and Structure Calculation of MTF1-6 Zing Finger Protein using NMR Techniques , MS-CS thesis, defense date: December 12, 2005 (advisor: J. Laity (Biological Sciences))

Madhura Maideo, A Semantic Framework for Context-Aware Data Mining , MS-CS thesis, defense date: December 7, 2005 (advisor: Yugyung Lee)

Daniel Fokum, The Effects of MAC Layer Parameters on Quality of Service provided by 802.11E , MS-CS thesis, defense date: December 2, 2005 (advisor: Cory Beard)

Swetha Thummala, Reducing Effects of False Alarms using Responses , MS-CS thesis, defense date: October 20, 2005 (advisor: Prem Uppuluri)

Sachin Singh, REMIO: A Novel method to speed up remote I/O for desktop Grids , MS-CS thesis, defense date: October 18, 2005 (advisor: Prem Uppuluri)

Deepti Agarwal, Roaming Decisions: Decision Support System Architecture for Smart Devices using Predefined Models , MS-CS thesis, defense date: October 14, 2005 (advisor: Deep Medhi)

Usha Damodaran, Packet Loss Effects on MPEG4 , MS-EE thesis, defense date: September 13, 2005 (advisor: Cory Beard)

Summer'05
M.S. Thesis:

Vinit M. Nagda, Mitigating Denial of Service Attacks in Mobile Ad hoc Networks , MS-CS thesis, defense date: July 22, 2005 (advisor: Vijay Kumar)

Saurabh Pathak, An Approach for Efficient Hybrid System Call Interposition , MS-CS thesis, defense date: July 20, 2005 (advisor: Prem Uppuluri)

Preeti Naik, SECURE LIB: An Improvement to Library based System Call Interposition , MS-CS thesis, defense date: May 18, 2005 (advisor: Prem Uppuluri)

Mayura Vuchuru, Detecting Race Condition Attacks on File Systems, MS-CS thesis, defense date: May 17, 2005 (advisor: Prem Uppuluri)

Winter'05
M.S. Thesis:

Hangmei Lin, Studies on Modeling of Mutual Coupling in Linear Dipole Array , MS-EE thesis, defense date: May 6, 2005 (advisor: Deb Chatterjee)

Tian Li, VIRTUAL ROUTE: An Architecture to Ensure Resource Availability for Critical Services in a Dynamic Routing Environment , MS-CS thesis, defense date: May 5, 2005 (advisor: Deep Medhi)

Vijay Kumar Nalla, Automated Splice Site Analysis by Information Theory , MS-CS thesis, defense date: April 25, 2005 (advisor: Peter Rogan)

Vikram Gollakata, SADA: An Algorithm for Protein Structure Motif Discovery, MS-CS thesis, defense date: April 21, 2005 (advisor: Deendayal Dinakarpandian)

Sushil Puradkar, Context aware service discovery and composition for Pervasive computing, MS-CS thesis, defense date: February 3, 2005, (advisor: Yugi Lee)

Fall'04
Ph.D. Dissertation:

Dijiang Huang, Many-to-many Secure Group Communication and Its Applications, Ph.D. dissertation (Computer Networking), defense date: December 10, 2004 (advisor: Deep Medhi)

Shekhar Srivastava, Models and Algorithms for Effective Traffic Engineering of Tunnel-based Backbone Networks, Ph.D. dissertation (Computer Networking), defense date: November 5, 2004 (advisor: Deep Medhi)

M.S. Thesis:

Olena Parkhomenko, Semantic Routing-based Search in P2P Networks with Ontological Peer Profiling, MS-CS thesis, defense date: December 17, 2004 (advisor: Yugi Lee)

Brijraj Vaghani, Improvement in Spectral Efficiency for Wireless Emergency Communications, MS-EE thesis, defense date: December 16, 2004 (advisor: Cory Beard)

Arpan Biswas, Complexity Analysis of Protein Families, MS-CS thesis, defense date: December 15, 2004 (advisor: Deendayal Dinakarpandian)

Iyad Katib, Wavelength Converter Placement in Wavelength-Routed All-Optical Networks: A Heuristic Algorithm and A Comparative Analysis of Benefits of Wavelength Conversion Gain Against Fixed and Alternate Routing, MS-CS thesis, defense date: December 15, 2004 (advisor: Deep Medhi)

Brian K. Hare, Feature Selection in DNA Microarray Analysis, MS-CS thesis, defense date: December 10, 2004 (advisor: Deendayal Dinakarpandian)

Pavan Yanala, Automated Detection of Metaphase Chromosomes for FISH and Routine Cytogenetics, MS-EE thesis, defense date: December 8, 2004, (co-advisors: Jerry Knopp and Peter Rogan)

Wenhong Tian, Stochastic Modeling and Dimensioning in All-Optical Networks, MS-CS Thesis, defense date: December 8, 2004 (advisor: Ken Mitchell)

Ragib Hussain, Wavelet Transform based Peak Detection with Application to Biomedical Imaging, MS-EE thesis, defense date: December 7, 2004 (advisor: Yu-Ping Wang)

Kelly Kerns, A Self-Organized Data Mining Agent Framework to Dynamically Discover Neural Networks, MS-CS thesis, defense date: December 3, 2004 (advisor: Vijay Kumar)

Dan Mesimer, Optical Packet Switching under Self-Similar Arrivals, MS-CS thesis, defense date: December 2, 2004 (advisor: Jerry Place)