List of Doctoral Dissertations & MS Theses

Christian C. Ellis
Terrain-aware Autonomous Ground Navigation in Unstructured Environments Informed by Human Demonstrations
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Anthony Fascia
Spectral Projection Model for Electromagnetic Scattering and Radiation
Advisor: Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Todd Matthew Morehouse
A Machine Learning-enabled Intelligent, Adaptive, and Autonomous Radio System
Advisor: Ruolin Zhou

Jeffrey Rodriguez
High Dynamic Range Coherent RF/Photonic Links and Related Device Technologies
Advisor: Yifei Li

Chencheng Zhou
Dependability Modeling and Analysis of Blockchain-Based Systems
Advisor: Liudong Xing

Eric Kobina Aikins
Effects of Environmental and Operational Conditions on Performance of Underwater Electroacoustic Transducers
Advisor: David A. Brown

Chinmay Subodh Mahabal
5G Based V2V Communication for Autonomous Vehicles
Advisor: Honggang Wang; Hua Fang

Venkateswaran Shekar
Dynamic Transportation Network Demand Profiling with Applications to Measure Network Vulnerability and Congestion Management
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Saikath Bhattacharya
Tradespace Analysis Incorporating Reliability, Availability, Maintainability,and Affordability        
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Patrick R. DaSilva
Hardware Based Embedded Systems Security
Advisor: Paul J. Fortier

Qisi Liu
Probabilistic Reliability and Security Risk Assessment
Advisor: Liudong Xing

Maskura Nafreen
Reliability and Performance Modeling of Software Applications and Processes
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Guilin Zhao
Competing Failure Analysis in Dynamic Internet of Things Systems Considering Random Propagation and Isolation Time
Advisor: Liudong Xing

Bentolhoda Jafary
Reliability and Maintenance Modeling of Systems Subject to Positive and Negatively Correlated Component Failure
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Vidhyashree Nagaraju
Software Reliability and Security Assessment: Modeling and Algorithms
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

David Arthur Prairie
Improve Decision Support System Operations through Evidence Based Knowledge Evolution
Advisor: Paul J. Fortier

Paul C. Proffitt
High Clutter, Close Range Wi-Fi Imaging and Probabilistic, Learning Classifier
Advisor: Honggang Wang

Prinkle Sharma
Misbehavior Detection in Vehicular Networks with Machine Learning
Advisor: Hong Liu

MD Nashid Anjum
Mobility Modeling and Analysis of Airborne Networks
Advisor: Honggang Wang

Keith D. Gilbert
A Framework for Multiple Algorithm Source Separation
Advisor: Karen L. Payton

Zhouzhou Li
A Practical and Efficient Security Scheme for Wireless Body Area Networks
Advisor: Liudong Xing

Lavanya Mandava
Reliability Modeling and Optimization of Cloud-Raid Storage Systems with Imperfect Fault Coverage
Advisor: Liudong Xing

John Russel Summerfield
Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Ambiguity Function Analysis and Design
Advisor: Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Cochran, John C.
A General Theory of the Slotted Cylinder Projector (SCP) Transducer
Advisor: David A. Brown

Liu, Yang
Source Enumeration, Localization and Spectral Estimation Using Co-Prime and Other Sparse Sensor Arrays
Advisor: John R. Buck

Mahmud, Md Shaad
A Novel Approach to Predict and Prevent Bradycardia of Preterm Infants Using Time-Frequency Analysis
Co-advisors: Honggang Wang and Yong K. Kim

Rooney, Ian Max Teplitz
Variance Reduction Techniques for Power Spectral Density Estimation with Coprime Sensor Arrays
Advisor: John R. Buck

Ahmad, Moh'd
Spectral Domain Fast Multipole Method for Solving Integral Equations in Electromagnetic Wave Scattering
Advisor: Dayalan Kasilingam

Huang, Jingfang
QOE-Aware Scalable Video Transmission Over Resource-Constrained Cognitive Radio Networks
Advisor: Honggang Wang

Viall, Benjamin Roy
Wireless Health Indicator Patch for Patient Education and Diagnostics (WHIPPED): An Integrated System Approach to Patient Self-care
Advisor: Paul J. Fortier

Xu, Longtao
Photonic Integrated Circuit Technologies for RF Photonic Links
Advisor: Yifei Li

Adhikari, Kaushallya
Performance Analysis of Product Processing of Colinear Sparse Arrays
Advisor: John Buck

Rashwan, Abdelnaser
Quality-Driven Secure Routing for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks Using Secret Sharing
Advisor: Honggang Wang

Tuladhar, Saurav R.
Improved Sample Matrix Inversion Adaptive Beamformers for Uniform Linear Arrays using Array Polynomial
Advisor: John R. Buck

Wang, Yujie
Reliability Modeling of Probabilistic Competing Failures
Advisors: Honggang Wang, Liudong Xing

Zhang, Zhaoyang
Secure and Energy-Efficient Wireless Body Area Networks
Advisor: Honggang Wang

Hague, David A.
The Generalized Sinusoidal Frequency Modulated Waveform for Active Sonar Systems
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck

Jin, Shilei
Advanced Components for RF Photonic Links
Advisor: Dr. Yifei Li

Randall, Robert Craig
Velocity Control of Piezoelectric Transducers with Class D Power Switching Amplifiers
Advisor: Dr. David A. Brown

Zonouz, Amir Ehsani
Application Communication Reliability in Wireless Sensor Networks
Advisors: Liudong Xing, Vinod M. Vokkarane

Khomchuk, Petro
Parameter Estimation and Moving Target Classifications Capabilities
Co-Advisors: Dr. Igal Bilik, Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam

Wang, Chaonan
Reliability and Sensitivity Analysis of Complex Systems and Networks
Advisor: Liudong Xing

Ma, Ruiping
Survivability Design and Analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks
Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing

Northardt, Ernest T.
Applications and Extensions of Deterministic
Co-Advisors:Dr. Igal Bilik, Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam

Sarangapani, Sairajan
Investigation of Electromechanical Properties of Stripe-Electroded Tangentially Polarized Bars and Cylinders
Co-Advisors: Dr. David A. Brown, Dr. Boris S. Aronov

Bachand, Corey L.
Electroacoustic Transducer and Transmit System Modeling for Performance Prediction
Co-Advisors: Dr. Boris S. Aronov, Dr. David A. Brown, Dr. Igal Bilik

Boddu, Prashanthi
Reliability Optimization of Complex Series-Parallel Systems with K-out-of-n: G Subsystem Redundancy
Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing

Dastgheib-Beheshti, Babak
Development of a Full Experimental Framework for the Technical Reference Model of Wireless Sensor Networks
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Jarvis, Susan
A Novel Method for Multi-Class Classification Using Support Vector Machines
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Tannous, Ola
Combinatorial Reliability Evaluation and Optimization for Dynamic Standby Systems
Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing

Tsalolikhin, Evgeny
Mobile Localization Using the Adaptive Channel Modeling in AOA-TOA Domain
Advisor: Dr. Igal Bilik

Shen, Bichuan
Modeling and Learning for Fish Identification and Vehicle and Pattern Detection
Co-Advisors: Dr. Liudong Xing, Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Shrestha, Akhilesh
Dependability Modeling and Analysis of Mission Critical Systems
Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing

Ho, Pei-Gee (Peter) 
Multivariate Time Series Model Based Support Vector Machine for Multiclass Remote Sensing Image Classification and Region Segmentation 
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Chen, Honglei 
Auto Regressive Aperture Extrapolation for Adaptive Array Processing 
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Wang, Zhenhai 
Factor Analysis for Seismic Profiling and Adaptive Blind Source Separation for Bandlimited Speech 
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Zhang, Jiaming 
Region of Interest Segmentation and Video Coding in Dynamic Video Backgroundsh 
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen 

Oishi, Tetsuro 
Underwater directional Transducers and Arrays Using Baffled Piezoelectric Cylindrical Shells 
Co-Advisors: Dr. David A. Brown, Dr. Boris Aronov

Roodbeen, Steven A. 
Component Sum Interval Analysis: Training Artificial Neurons and Neural Networks 
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen  

Tao, Xiaoli 
Multi-Class Classification of Remote Sensing Data with Improved Artificial Neural Networks 
Advisor: Dr. Howard Michel

Wang, Dajun 
Mining T-Outliers in High Dimensional Time Series Financial Data 
Advisor: Dr. Paul Fortier

Wang, Xianju 
Study of a Novel Theory in ICA Image Restoratin and Enhancement, with Special Reference to Ultrasonic NDE Images and SAR Images 
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Yu, Qin 
Denial-of-Service Countermeasure With Immunization and Regulation 
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu  

Djordjevic, Miroslav 
Numerical Methods for Electromagnetic Modeling of Vehicles over a Wide Range of Frequencies 
Advisor: Dr. Branislav M. Notaros

Blackmon, Fletcher 
Linear and Non-Linear Opto-Acoustic Underwater Communications 
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes & Dr. Gilbert Fain

Ilic, Milan 
Higher Order Hexahedral Finite Elements for Electromagnetic Modeling 
Advisor: Dr. Branislav M. Notaros 

Hong, Baoming 
Integrated Automatic Face Recognition Based on Multiresolution Transform and Multiscale Local Feature Representations 
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Wang, Junfeng 
Techniques for Compensating Unknown Motion Effects in SAR/ISAR Imaging 
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam 

Qidwai, Uvais Ahmad 
2-D Blind Deconvolution for Image Restoration with Applications to Ultrasonic NDE 
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Zhang, Xiaohui 
Independent Component Analysis for Remote Sensing Image Processing and Pattern Recognition 
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen  

Guo, Qiushuang 
Propagation of Acoustic Waves in Bars and Determination Of Dynamic Acoustic Constants 
Advisor: Dr. David A. Brown

Mukhin, Denis 
Framework for Association Rules Mining 
Advisor: Dr. Paul Fortier  

Cheng, Tzu-Hung 
Wavelet-Based Image/Video Compression 
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen  

McCarrick, Charles David 
An Analytical Model for Pyramidal Horn Antennas with Ridges 
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam

Lee, Gwo Giun 
On Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis Using Gaussian Markov Random Field 
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Bryce  Afonso
Network-less Wireless Sensing for Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Investigations
Advisor: Hong Liu

Karen Alves da Mata
Machine Learning for Predictive Resilience Modeling
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Erika Caushi
Assessment of the Scalability of 1D FR-CNN for Signal Identification and Classification over a Wideband Channel
Advisor: Ruolin Zhou

Justin Vancour Conor
Multi and Single Frequency Target Strength Model Accuracy Comparison
Advisor: Paul J. Gendron

Christopher Dentremont
Dataset Generation for Deep Learning to Authenticate Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) at Physical Layer for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of Transportation Infrastructure
Advisor: Hong Liu

Avery Jackson
Electronic Design for Driving Orthogonal and Tertiary Dipoles for Acoustic Spiral Waves
Advisor: David A. Brown

Jin Feng Lin
Machine Learning-based Angle-of-Arrival Estimation of RF Signals
Advisor: Ruolin Zhou

Noah Oikarinen
Terrain Preference Modeling using Bayesian Bradley-Terry for Autonomous Navigation from Human Demonstration
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Michael O'Keefe
Heterogeneous integration of III-V MUTC photodetector integrated on thin film lithium niobate for use in coherent pm optical link
Advisor: Yifei Li

Mini Kusum Paudel
Autoregressive Model Incorporating the Windowing Technique for Improved Long-Term Prediction of Software Defect Discovery
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Devaj Rishi Ramsamooj
GenVRAD: Dataset Generator for Machine Learning Detection of Vehicle-Roadside Attacks
Advisor(s): Hong Liu; Prinkle Sharma

Marcel Almeida Vieira
Anomaly Report Cycling Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy for Defense in Wireless Sensor Networks
Advisor: Hong Liu

C.J. Berg
A comparison of two approaches for rainfall estimation from underwater acoustics in Buzzards Bay
Advisor: John R. Buck

Sushovan Bhadra
A Stochastic Petri Net Model of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Michael R. Bisbano
Active Sonar Localization with Acoustic Spiral Waves  David A. Brown
Advisor: Paul J. Gendron

Bikram Das
Community-based Design of a Privacy Critical Mobile Application for a Campus Safety Escort Program
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Zakaria Faddi
Application of Reliability and Resilience Models to Machine Learning
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Ryan Ferreira
Evaluation of a Bayes factor broadband active acoustic inference scheme for underwater waveguides
Advisor: Paul J. Gendron

Adam W. Harte
Implementation of Analog Electronic Hardware for Training Neural Networks
Advisor: David P. Rancour

Cedric Leonardo
Lifetime Modeling and Prototyping of Wireless Sensor Network: Integrating Application-Specific Characteristics in Bridge Structural Health Monitoring
Advisor(s): Hong Liu; Prinkle Sharma

Daniel J. Lopes
A Bayes Factor Approach to High Frequency Broadband Active Acoustic Detection via a Ray Theoretic Based Prior
Advisor: Paul J. Gendron

Jason Lee Poirier
Design of Millimeter Wave Radio-over-Fiber Communication Channel for use in 5G/6G Wireless Infrastructure
Advisor: Yifei Li

William Edward Sullivan
Underwater Unmanned Self Track Algorithm and Platform Using the Ordinary Least Squares
Advisor: David A. Brown

Ebenezer Mawunyo Yawlui
Optimal Release Policy for Covariate Software Reliability Models
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Alex Amorim
Analysis of Convolutional Neural Networks for Underwater Acoustic Signal Classification
Advisor: Ruolin Zhou

Tess Marie Arikian-O’Connell
An Investigation of the Mesh Approximation Using the Spectral Projection Model for Electromagnetic Scattering from Circular Conducting Cylinders
Advisor: Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Michael John Benker
Efficient and High Dynamic Range Gallium Arsenide Optical Modulators
Advisor: Yifei Li

Timothy Chase
Data Optimization for Power in Large Arrays of Sensors
Advisor: David P. Rancour

Lucio De Pra
2-Dimensional ISAR Imaging Using Near Infra-Red (NIR)
Advisor: Yifei Li

Haval Marsho Elias
Single-Pattern Filter Algorithm for Training Analog Artificial Neural Networks
Advisor: David P. Rancour

Brad Paiva
Machine Learning with FPGA Acceleration for Signal Classification
Advisor: Ruolin Zhou

Onelis Ivette Sanchez
A Comparison of Thresholding Methods for Two-Dimensional Wavelet-Based Image Denoising
Advisor: Paul J. Gendron

Priscila de Paula Silva
Non-equidistant Checkpointing and Quantitative Resilience Modeling
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Julia Sorrentino
Covariate Software Vulnerability Discovery Model to Support Cybersecurity Test & Evalu­ation
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Joshua J. Steakelum
Covariate Software Defect Detection Models to Explicitly Characterize Changepoints
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Azad Abir Tasnim
Bounds on Bearing Estimation Precision for Binaural Broadband Active Sonar
Advisor: John R. Buck

Dylan Tocci
Decentralized Reinforcement Learning with FPGA Acceleration for Anomaly Detection in UAV Network
Advisor: Ruolin Zhou

Jacob Aubertine
An Extensible Tool incorporating Covariate Software Reliability Models
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

David  Campos Anchieta
Improving the Robustness of the Dominant Mode Rejection Beamforming with Median Filtering
Advisor: John R. Buck

Paul M. Coble
RADAR Cross-Section Measurement Using Micro-Photonics
Advisor: Yifei Li

Savas Erdim
Designing a Covariance Matrix Tapered MVDR Beamformer that is Universal Over Notch Width
Advisor: John R. Buck

Daniel S. Garcia
A Study of Post Quantum Cipher Suites for Key Exchange
Advisor: Hong Liu

Abigail Rachel Keith
Analysis and Implementation of Infotaxis as a Practical Strategy to Maximize Target-Search Efficiency
Advisor: John R. Buck

Yegor Dennis Shea
Efficient Dipole Analysis in Electroencephalography
Advisor: Honggang Wang

Michael James St. Pierre
Directional Factors of Cylindrical Piezoelectric Transducers
Advisor: David A. Brown

Matthew Sylvia
Spectral Projection-Based Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering from Elliptical, Conducting Cylinders to Study the Angular Coherence of Radar Backscatter
Advisor: Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Gwendolyn J. Viall
Remote Instrumented Beehive for Tracking Colony Health
Advisor: Paul J. Fortier

Cameron S. Whittle
Mitigation Techniques Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks on Software Defined Networks
Advisor: Hong Liu

David M. Austin
An Examination of Adversarial Machine Learning on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Advisor: Hong Liu

Abner C. Barros
A Computational Bayesian Approach to Localize a Mobile Scatterer from Sub-Rayleigh Resolvable Acoustic Wavefronts in Refractive Media
Advisor: Paul J. Gendron

Jawanza K. Foster
Challenges in Designing a Waveguide to Transmit Sound to a Dolphin in an MRI
Advisor: John R. Buck

Muhammad Umer Maqbool
Designing and Prototyping of an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
Advisor: Paul J. Gendron

Massoud H. Massoud
High Dynamic Range Radio Frequency Amplifier
Advisor: Yifei Li

Charles E. Montes
Reliability Allocation Problem for Complex Dynamic Systems
Advisor: Liudong Xing

Jean Pierre
A Monte Carlo Simulation Framework for Reliability Analysis of Dynamic Standby Sparing Systems
Advisor: Liudong Xing

Jingya Xu
Data Validation with Machine Learning for Storage Area Networking Utilities
Advisor: Hong Liu

Dylan Z. Baker
Secure Software-Defined Integrated Space Communication Service Networks
Advisor: Hong Liu

Joseph M. Collins
Environmental Monitoring of Harmful Agrochemicals Via Future Microelectromechanical (MEMS) Fabrication
Advisor: Paul J. Fortier

Rebecca Field
An Improved Method for Secure and Reliable Cryptosystem Message Transmission
Advisor: Hong Liu

Muri, Richard
Processor-in-Memory Computer Architectures
Advisor: Paul J. Fortier

Matthew David Tidwell
Designing Linear FM Active Sonar Waveforms for Continuous Line Source Transducers to Maximize the Fisher Information at a Desired Bearing
Advisor: John R. Buck

Curtis, Matthew J.
Multiplicative Processing of Stepped Frequency Measurements for Super-Resolution Range Profile Estimation
Advisor: Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Esfar-E-Alam, A.M.
Cloud Based Wireless Health and Its Application of Sleep Monitoring
Advisor: Honggang Wang

Furtado, Matthew David
Identifying Threats to the Security Credential Management System for Vehicular Communications
Advisor: Hong Liu

Goonan, Christopher A.
Computing the scattering from periodic, rough surfaces without including evanescent modes
Advisor: Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Lowney, Mark Phillip Jr.
Trust Management in Underwater Acoustic Manets Based on Cloud Theory Using Multi-Parameter Metrics
Advisor: Hong Liu

Mushrall, Robert III
Segmented Viral Distribution of Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL) for the Security Credential Management System (SCMS)
Advisor: Hong Liu

Rodriguez, Jeffrey
Modeling and Design of High-Speed/High-Linearity Photodetectors for Optical-to-RF Conversion
Advisor: Yifei Li

Silva, Jacob Leonard
Synchronization of Communication Transmissions Through Underwater Acoustic Multi-Path Environments
Advisor: Paul J. Gendron

Turcotte, Tyler Matthew 
Wideband Multi-Channel Transceiver for Acoustics Communications
Advisor: Paul J. Gendron

Bautista, Radienxe
Performance Prediction of Coprime Sampled Arrays in Spatially Correlated Noise
Advisor: John R. Buck

Brown, Steven J.
Measuring Deflection of a Road Surface
Advisor: Paul J. Fortier

Cannon, Kari E.
Characterization of a Distributed Netted Sensor System for Magnetic Anomaly Detection
Advisor: Paul J. Gendron

Goncalves, David J.
Vehicle Occupant Vitals Monitoring
Advisor: Hong Liu

Li, Di
Wireless Indoor Positioning by Noise Based on Ultra-Wideband
Advisor: Yifei Li

Murthy, Anusha Krishna
Reliability and Cost of Two Failure Mode System Subject to correlated Failures and ECM Algorithms for Failure Count NHPP Software Reliability Modes
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Rawnaque, Ferdousi Sabera
Comparing the Effect of Aperture Extension on the Peak Sidelobe Level of Spare Arrays
Advisor: John R. Buck

Risvey, Md Alimul
Design of 10-nm FinFET
Advisor: David P. Rancour

Ryan, Colin
The Unit Circle Diagonally Loaded MVDR Beamformer and a Perturbation Analysis of Practical Adaptive Beamformers
Advisor: John R. Buck

Shrestha, Prabin K.
Application of Music Algorithm for Separating Ground and Vegetation Components in Pol-Insar Measurements
Advisor: Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Tombs, Joshua
Introducing Security Measures to an Underwater Drifter
Advisor: Paul J. Fortier

Zeng, Yanhao
Reliability Modeling and Analysis for Hardware-Software Co-Design Systems with Warm Standby Sparing
Advisor: Liudong Xing

Abueh, Yeka Joseph
Authentication in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
Advisor: Hong Liu

Charles-Ogan, Tamunoala
A Risk Based Design Framework for Magnetic Anomaly Detection via a Distributed Netted Sensor System
Advisor: Paul J. Gendron

Crossman, Matthew A.
Two-Factor Authentication Through Field Communication
Advisor: Hong Liu

Liu, Qisi
Reliability of Cloud-Raid Storage System
Advisor: Liudong Xing

Mahmud, Md Shaad
Design and Implementation of a Non-Contact Sensor Node for Wireless Health Monitoring System
Advisor: Honggang Wang

Mandava, Lavanya
Imperfect Coverage Analysis for Cloud-Raid Systems
Advisor: Liudong Xing

Nagaraju, Vidhyashree
Algorithms for Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process Software Reliability Models and Software Rejuvenation Considering Correlated Failures
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Naraharisetti, Sri Shanmukha
Square Root Carry Select Adder Using BEC for Area Efficient Processors
Advisor: Dr. David P. Rancour

Noyes, Daniel Robert
Security Analysis and Improvement of USB Technology
Advisor: Hong Liu

Shruhan, Andrew Paul
Fourth Order Processing Technique for Separating Ground and Vegetation Components in Polarimetric SAR Interferometry
Advisor: Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Zhao, Guilin
System Reliability Considering Probabilistic Failure Isolation and Random Propagation Time
Advisor: Liudong Xing

Basavaraj, Veeresh Varad
Algorithms for Transportation Network Vulnerability Assessment, Defense, and Restoration
Advisor: Lance Fiondella

Caldwell, Stephen A.
Design of an Analog Time Division Multiplexed Telemetry ASIC
Advisor: Dr. David P. Rancour

Dugas, Brennan Michael
Orthogonal time-Frequency Modulation for Wireless Communication Systems
Advisor: Dayalan Kasilingam

Jafary, Bentolhoda
Quantifying the Impact of Correlated Failures on Discrete and Continuous Component-based Systems
Advisor: Dr. Lance Fiondella

Larcom, Jonathan Andrew
Mitigation of GPS Spoofing Attacks on Civillian Surface Transportation
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu

Lee, Benjamin W.
Class D Power Amplifier for Driving a Piezoelectric Transducer
Advisor: Dr. David Brown

Malaguti, Brandon D.
Monitoring Real Time Pavement Conditions Using an RFID Wireless Sensing Network
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Prairie, David A.
Systems Architecture for Internet of Things Machine to Machine Supporting Seasonal Load Restrictions Management
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Sheabar, Zaidan F.
Wireless Underground Sensing: A Semi-Passive RFID Smart Sensor Node Design
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Tannous, Massarrah
Reliability Modeling and Evaluation of Mesh Topology in Storage Area Networks
Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing

Wang, Jin
Real Time Design and Implementation of FPGA Based Sobel Edge Detection Video Processing Embedded System
Advisor: Dr. Honggang Wang

Gangidi, Adithya R.
Automatic Segmentation of Intravascular Ultrasound Images Based on Temporal Texture Analysis
Advisor: Dr. Honggang Wang

Joshi, Shrey
Efficacy of the Gauss-Markov Model in Acoustic Channel Estimation
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Gendron

Liu, Yang
Designing an MRI Pulse Sequence to Minimize the Cramer-Roa Lower Bound for T1 Estimation of Brain Tissues
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck

McKennon, Justin P.
Temperature Sensor
Advisor: Dr. David P. Rancour

Paradis, Brady Robert
Development of a High Frequency Underwater Acoustic Modem
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Gendron

Rooney, Ian M.T.
Implementing Physical Constraints for Noise-Only Mode Shape Estimation
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck

Amfo-Out, Wisdom
Modeling and Designing of Micro-Fluidic Sensor
Advisor: Dr. David P. Rancour

DaSilva, Patrick R.
Electrocardiogram Collection, Pattern Recognition and Classification System Supporting a Mobile Cardiovascular Disease Detection Aid
Advisor: Dr. Paul Fortier

Fernandes, Flavio G.
Increasing the Capacity of Wireless Communication Systems Using Antenna Pattern Diversity
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam

Hague, David Andrew
A Deterministic Filterback Compressive Sensing Model for BAT Biosonar
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck

Olson, Jacob S.
A Learning Distributed Sensor Array via Artificial Neural Networks
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Ranjan, Shivesh
Speaker Independent Single Channel Source Separation Using Sinusoidal Features
Advisor: Dr. Karen L. Payton

Rhoades, Nathan A.
Microfluidic Sensor Capable of Detecting Fluid Temperature and Flow Rate Simultaneously
Advisor: Dr. David Rancour

Adhikari, Kaushallya
Information Theoretic Bounds for Mobile Source Localization in an Urban Environment
Advisor: Dr. Igal Bilik

Baniya, Prabhat
Quasi-Chaotic Lidar
Advisor: Dr. Yifei Li

Burke, Joseph W.
Concept of Nonlinear Obervability Applied to Range-Aided Navigation
Advisor: Dr. Steven C. Nardone

Chabior, John K.
Technique for 3-Dimensional Digital Magnetic Compass Calibration
Advisor: Dr. Steven C. Nardone

Ferreira, Matthew J.
Analysis of and Enhancements to the Short-Time Speech Transmission Index
Advisor: Dr. Karen L. Payton

Kanjee, Mohammed Raza
Towards the Development of a Two-Tiered Physiological Authentication Protocol for Healthcare Sensor Networks
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu

Magham, Madhulika
Securing Wireless Multimedia Through a Joint Design of Watermaking and Reed-Solomon Code
Advisor: Dr. Honggang Wang

Shannon, Stephen P.
Wireless Cardiac Sensor Calibration Using Motion Analysis for MEMS Sensors
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Sharma, Bikash
Analysis of Multimode Cylindrical Antennas for Mimo Applications
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Song, Zhe
Depth-color Based 3D Image Transmission over Wireless Networks with QoE Provisions
Advisor: Dr. Honggang Wang

Tadayon, Navid
Modeling of Cooperation in Deterministic and Random Wireless Networks
Advisor: Dr. Honggang Wang

Tuladhar, Saurav Ratna
Optimum Array Design to Maximize Fisher Information for Bearing Estimation
Advisor: Dr. John Buck

Augustine, Shane
Development of a Low Cost, Free Space Optics Transceiver for Wireless Sensor Networks
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Divi, Kalyani
Modeling Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks in Healthcare Systems
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu

Jangra, Sandeep
Performance Analysis of VMWARE ESX Server
Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing

Shakya, Sudeep
Measurement and Statistical Modeling of RF Indor Characteristics in Path-Loss and Space-Time Domain
Advisor: Dr. Igal Bilik

Shrestha, Monika
Algorithm and Specification for Reliability Analysis of Systems with Dependent Failures
Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing

Shrestha, Rojan
Orthogonal Chirp Division Multiplexing (OCDM) for ISI and ICI Mitigation in Wireless Systems
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam

Viall, Benjamin Roy
Static Analysis Techniques for the Reverse Engineering of Objective C Binaries to Facilitate Malicious Code Identification and Source Recovery
Advisor: Dr. Michael J. Geiger

Bhat, Shwetha S.
Neural Network for Forecasting
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel 

Bhutra, Abhinav
Training Circuit for Complex Valued Neuron
Advisor: Dr. David P. Rancour 

Gilbert, Keith D.
Source Enumeration of Non-Instantaneous Speech Mixtures Using a Probabilistic Model of Pitch Harmonics
Advisor: Dr. Karen L. Payton 

Magalhaes, Jeffrey
Phase Only Pattern Synthesis on Curved Arrays
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck 

Savery, Nicholas T.
Implementation of a Buoy Based Underwater Global Positioning System
Advisor: Dr. Michael J. Geiger 

Sharma, Nabin S.
Trading Detection for Resolution in Active Sonar Receivers
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck 

Tannous, Ola
Independent Component Analysis of Polarimetric SAR Data for Separating Ground and Vegetation Scattering
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam 

Wang, Renyuan
InGaAsP Quantum Well Optical Phase Modulator for Integrated Optical Phase-Locked-Loop
Advisor: Dr. Yifei Li 

Zhu, Xiaoli
Designing Optimal Symmetric Linear Arrays with Fixed Apertures
Advisor: John R. Buck

Balasubramanian, Chandrika
Design and Implementation of a Wireless Sensor Network Architecture
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Dasari, Kiran
Development of Sensor Ontology for Environmental Monitoring and Situational Assessment
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier 

Randall, Robert Craig
Design of a Smart Ultrasonic Obstacle Detection System Using Multiple Frequencies for the Dartmouth Autonomous Vehicle
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel 

Siggelkoe, Erik R.
Increased Rate Dynamic Time Warping for Bioacoustic Signal Classification
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck 

Belhe, Ashutosh
Technique for Estimating the Shapes of Cylinders of Arbitrary Cross Sections from Electromagnetic Scattering Patterns
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Boddu, Prashanthi
Reliability Analysis of Complex Dynamic Systems
Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing

Borah, Randall D.
Investigation of the Thermal Properties of PTC and NTC Ceramics for the Application of Controlling Heat Flow
Advisor: Dr. David P. Rancour

Forbes, Daniel R.
Integrated Technical Reference Model Evaluated Through Biomechanical Gait Analysis
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Joshi, Hemant
Autonomous Mobile Sensor Networks Architecture for Hazard Detection and Surveillance
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Powell, Makia S.
A Low-Area, Low-Latency Implementation of High-Radix SRT Division Using an Alternative Algorithm
Advisor: Dr. David P. Rancour

Shrestha, Mona
Generation of a Short-Time Speech Transmission Index to Predict Speech Intelligibility
Advisor: Dr. Karen L. Payton

Vasi, Nishaat
Stochastic Modeling of Lifetime and Coverage in a Wireless Sensor Network
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Yilmaz, Erdem
Design, Development and Characterization of Wearable Microstrip Antennas with Low Conductivity Materials
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Brahme, Shweta J.
Methods to Develop a Use Case for a Patient Esisode
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Emard, Nicholas M.
Implementation of Super-Resolution Beamforming on a Digital Signal Processor
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Joshi, Aditya
Designing Digital filters with a Desired Group Delay
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck

Leveille, Eric A.
Analysis, Redesign and Verification of the Iver2 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Motion Controller
Advisor: Dr. Steven C. Nardone

Malhotra, Sudhanshu
Clockless CMOS Implementation of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Advisor: Dr. David P. Rancour

Mohapatra, Prateeti
Dynamic Function Personalization in Generalized Software Packages
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Natarajan, Preethi
Optimization of Collaborative Beamforming in Wireless Sensor Networks
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Ozer, Sedat
On the Classification Performance of Support Vector Machines Using Chebyshev Kernel Functions
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Rajagopalan, Shreenath
Feedback Neural Network Equalizer for Wireless Communications
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Rajan, Vivek
Comparative Study of Multivariate Indexed K-Means and Multivariate Indexed K-Median Algorithm
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Saripalle, Rishi Kanth
Development of Ontology, Rule Mapping Engine and Case Retrieval System for Multi-Dimensional Clinical Informatics
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Chopra, Roochi
On Best Objective Functions For Genetically Evolved Antennas
Advisor: Dr. Steven C. Nardone

Javvadi, Sreekar
An Autoregressive Technique for Range Alignment in Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Joshi, Prakash
A Framework for Rapid Application Development of Distributed image Analysis Algorithms Using Evolvable, Composable Web Services
Advisor: Dr. Theophano Mitsa

Li, Haoli
Fault-Tolerance and Reliability in Networked Sensor Systems
Advisor: Dr. Liudong Xing

Lin, Shunde
Semantic Discovery of Peers in a JXTA Based Sensor Network
Advisor: Dr. Theophano Mitsa

Liu, Sheng
Investigation of cylindrical Transducer with the Layered Bafflew
Advisor: Dr. David A. Brown, Boris Aronov

Sethumadhavan, Bharath
Quasi Othogonal Space Time Block Codes for Mimo Wireless Communication Systems
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Shrestha, Akhilesh
Reliability Analysis of hierarchical Distributed Sensor Networks
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu, Dr. Liudong Xing

Thakur, Sachin R.
Mining Sequential Patterns a Study and Performance Evaluation of Algorithm AprioriAll
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Yang, Guangjie
Development of a Rule-Based Point-of-Care Decision Support System
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Abdelmalek, Pierre M.
Task Oriented Machine Learning And Review
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Bachand, Corey
An Investigation of Power Delivery and Tuning for Underwater Piezoelectric Projectors
Advisor: Dr. David A. Brown

Chennamaraju, Amarnath
A Generic Data Acquisition Tool to aid building a Data Warehouse
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Iringentavida, Sushanth
CMOS Implementation of Phase-Encoded Complex-Valued Artificial Neuron
Advisor: Dr. David P. Rancour

Kodiyala, Kanth N.
Performance Analysis of Multiple Antenna Systems with Partial Feedback
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Kumar, Saurabh
An Efficient Antenna Subset Selection Scheme for Wireless MIMO Systems
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Madiraju, Rekha M.
Approach to Dyspnea- A Computer Aided Case Based Reasoning Tool
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Makkinejad, Masiar
A Constant Modulus Algorithm Based Frequency Domain Approach to Blind Equalization for Frequency-Selective
Advisor: Dr. Antonio H. Costa & Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Manchikatla, Lavanya
Supporting the Automation of Cranberry Farms Using Data Mining
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Nayak, Ramanand
Amplitude Compression of Speech using Wavelet Transform and Performance Comparison of Different Wavelet Families
Advisor: Dr. Karen L. Payton

Pasala, Suresh C.
Automation and Remote Monitoring of Engine Driven Pumping Stations
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Pisharody, Amit Narayan
Search Engine Optimization Technique Using Keyword Relations
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Prabhakar, Rashmi
Implementation of a Hearing Loss Simulator on DSP Hardware
Advisor: Dr. Karen L. Payton

Regmi, Sundar
Study of Coupled Vibrations in Piezoelectric Cylindrical Shells
Advisor: Dr. David A. Brown

Rosa, William T.
Flexible Transactions: Correctness Criteria
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Wu, Xiaojun
Signal Analysis and Modeling for Ultrasonic Characterization of Materials
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Yellambhatla, Shashi K.
Clock-less UART
Advisor: Dr. David P. Rancour

Ainsworth, Annette E
Development of an Array Analysis Program for Investigation of Acoustic Transducers and Arrays
Advisor: Dr. David A. Brown 

Challapalli, Krishna Mohan
Employing Artificial Neural Network to Find Proteins That Are Similar to Clostridium Botulinum
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Illic, Andelija
Optimal Large-Domain Hexahedral Meshing for Higher Order Finite Element Mmodeling in Electromagnetics
Advisor: Dr. Branislav M. Notaros

Kancharla, Sushanth
Assciative Classification Rule Mining
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Malhotra, Saurabh
The Use of Fully Polarietric Synthetic Aperture Rabar measurements to Study Surface Slopes and Roughness
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Nomula, Madhukar
Estimation of Vegetation Bias in Polarmimetric SAR Interferometry
Advisor: Dr. Dayala P. Kasilingam

Sarangarajan, Beena
Developing a Framework for Clinical Decsion Support Systems
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Sharma, Gurukumar A.
Developing Independent Agents for a Distributed Intrusion Detection System Using Clustering Techniques
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Sharma, Sonal
Making Technique for Distributed Denial of Service Attack Prevention
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu

Suryanarayanan, Ranjini
Reliability Evaluation of DiffServ Nodal Performance
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu & Dr. Liudong Xing

Zhou, Tong
Performance Analysis of Synchronized Pseudo-Random Number Generator Protocol (Spring)
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu

Chirra, Sunil K.
Performance Evailuation of Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

De, Nilanjana
Indoor Radio Propagation Measurements in the Frequency Range 800-900 MHz
Advisor: Dr. Branislav M. Notaros

Jin, Xu
Priority Dropping in Application of QOS Video Communication Over IP
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu

Kumaar, TR Satish
Multivariate Data mining Using Indexed K-Means
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Lobo, Lester C.
An Investigation Into the Use of Oblique Decision Tress for Efficient Data Modeling
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Malladi, Rama Kishan
Speckle Filtering of SAR Images Using Holder Regularity Analysis of the Sparse Code
Advisor: Dr. Antonio H. Costa & Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Mantri, Kishore
Web Usage Mining: Tracking User Traversal Patterns
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Meng, Tianzhu
Sensitivity of Magnitude and Peak Frequency Features in Sound in a Simple Underwater Acoustic Environment
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck

Muthukalayappan, Subbiah
Image Processing Applications on Network of Workstations
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Shiao, Tsung-Jieh
Optimal Array Design and Sensitivity for Amode Filtering
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck

Simsek, Ergun
Evaluation of Closed-Form Green's Functions for Multi-Layer Microstrip Antennas and Circuits
Advisor: Dr. Branislav M. Notaros

Wang, Lei
Time Series Forecasting Methods
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Ball, Kennan R.
Localization of Dolphin Whistles Using Frequency Domain Beamforming of a Narrow Aperture Handheld Audio/Video Array
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck

Costa, Michael A.
A Comparison of Relational and Object-Relational Databases Used in the Management of Multimedia Media Data
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Chen, Hao
Remote Sensing Data Unsupervised Classification Using Gauss-Markov Random Fields and PCA
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Huang, Xiaozhou
Autoregressive Synthesis of Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) Whistles
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck

Jagannathan, Subashree
Approaching Clinical Decision Making with Case-Based Reasoning, Rule-Based Reasoning and Data Mining
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Kotapati, Kameswari
Attack Generator for Network Vulnerability Assessment
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu

Kunjithapatham, Shyamala
Processing Lansat TMData Complex-Valued Neural Networks
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Mogili, Nagaraju
Performance evaluation of TCP over wired-cum-wireless networks
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Singhal, Praveen
Differentiating Fish Infra-Red Spectrography Using Artificial Neural Networks
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Venkatesan, Haripriya
Developing an Efficient Scheduling Algorithm for Grid Computing
Advisor: Dr. Howard E. Michel

Wang, Zhong
Ultrasonic Image Blind Deconvolution Using Higher Order Statistics and Hopfield Neural Network
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Buddhineni, Rama Rao
Design and Development of a Marine Acoustic Accelerometer Using Optical Fiber Interferometry
Advisor: Dr. David A. Brown

Fei, Teng
The Study of Multicast Technology in the Online Auction Application - A Performance Approach
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu

Hengstler, Stephan
A Novel Chirp Modulation Spread Spectrum Technique for Multiple Access
Advisor: Dr. Antonio H. Costa & Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Jia, Weifeng
A Mechanism for Internet TestBed Automatic Configuration
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu

Pradhan, Sundip
Knowledge Acquisition and Representation from Database
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Sharma, Bharat
Genetic-Miner: A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Data Mining
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Walsh, Michael J.
An Empirical-Bayesian and Missing-Data Approach to Angles-Only Target Motion Analysis with Application to Passive Sonar Line Arrays
Advisor: Dr. Steven C. Nardone 

Bommireddipalli, Vijay
Knowledge Representation and Utilization in a Flexible Rule Based System
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Cao, Yiqun
A Stepper Control and Data Acquisition System for Cranberry Research
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Charry, Ashok R.
Digital Signal Processing on Local Area Networks - a Parallel Computing Resource
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck

Chen, Honglei
k-Means Spatial/Clustering Filters for Speckle Removal in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Fang, Hongdu
Real-Time Image on QOS Web
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu

Gifford, Craig M.
An Adaptive Interacting Multiple Model Estimator Using a Fuzzy Inference System
Advisor: Dr. Steven C. Nardone

Li, Haiyang
Feature Extraction and Neural Classification of Textile Materials
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Li, Zhiyong
The Design of Quality of Service Web
Advisor: Dr. Hong Liu

Liang, Wei
Design and Development of Spatial/Temporal Components of Advanced Fisheries Management Information System (AFMIS) Database
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Oishi, Tetsuro
Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy for Water Pollution
Advisor: Dr. David A. Brown

Serefoglu, Firat
Cranberry Spectral Reflectometer
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes & Dr. Steven C. Nardone

Shen, Bichuan
The Principles of Neural Networks Paradigm and their Application to Prediction Problems
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Shrestha, Binesh
Performance of Neural Networks With Unsupervised and Partially Supervised Training in Pattern Classification
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Smart, Andrew J.
Web Based Data Distribution Methods
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Tao, Baiyun
Biomedical Image Reconstruction Using Artificial Neural Networks
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan P. Kasilingam

Yan,Xiang
Vibration Analysis of Annular Plates for Flexural Disk Transducers
Advisor: Dr. David A. Brown 

DaPonte, Philip John
Systems Control for Ground Source Heat Pump Laboratory using LabView
Advisor: Dr. Steven C. Nardone

Dippel, Holger A.
Synchronized Ring Interconnection Network
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Dou, Hu
An Incoherent Feedback Algorithm for Single Mode Excitation in the Underwater Acoustic Channel
Advisor: Dr. John R. Buck

Hadi, Hussein Abdul
Design and Development of a Constraint Server
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Harris, Joseph David
Absorption and Attenuation Measurements of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts in Conjunction with the Development of a Meter to Image the Forward Scattering Phase Function
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Kannan, Vijay
Artificial Neural Network Based Image Reconstruction in Electrical Impedance Tomography
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam

Khan, Ayub A.
Modeling of Hydrogen Effects in Pseudomorphic High Electron Mobility Transistor by Monte Carlo Method
Advisor: Dr. David P. Rancour

Mutha, Rahul R.
Modeling of Hydrogen Effects in Gallium Arsenide Field Effect Transistors by Monte Carlo Method
Advisor: Dr. David P. Rancour

Ranganathan, Bharathidhasan M.
Remote Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition as Applied to Distributed Waste Water Treatment
Advisor: Dr. Gilbert Fain

Shelton, Brian Michael
A Feasibility Study of Underwater Vehicle Communications and Tracking Using a Shallow-Angle, Surface-Penetrating Laser
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Shi, Jian
Extracting Ocean Surface Wave Information from Synthetic Aperture Radar Images of the Ocean by Using Artificial Neural Networks
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam

Xuan, Rongwei
A Model of Scattering and Absorption of Light by Cranberry Leaves
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Wu, Cha-Ur
Machine Vision Based Vehicle Tracking and Counting
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Zhou, Baosen
Synthetic Aperture Radar Detection of Moving Targets
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam

Ginawi, Ahmed Y.
Measuring the Reflection of Light to Detect the Stress of Cranberry Plants
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Jia, Yunwei
An Optimal Control Approach to Modeling Fish Population Dynamics
Advisor: Dr. Steven C. Nardone

Jin, Xiaohai
An InGaAs Photodiode Scanning Camera for use in Cranberry Bogs
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Li, Yang
The Application of Neural Networks for Predicting the Investment Quality of Stocks
Advisor: Dr. Dayalan Kasilingam

Lin, Chen
A Comparison of Java and C++ in CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture)
Advisor: Dr. John W. Gray

Ramasubramanian, Ashok
A Comparison Between Conventional and Wavelet Based Amplitude Compression Schemes
Advisor: Dr. Karen L. Payton

Smith, Scott J.
Design of an RF Power Amplifier for Wireless Applications Using a CMOS Process
Advisor: Dr. David P. Rancour

Tian, Jun
Target Tracking in a Maneuvering Environment
Advisor: Dr. Steven C. Nardone

Chao, Liang
Computer Vision in Automated Fish Processing

Du, Yang
Wavelet Analysis for SAR Image Segmentation Using Bhattacharyya Distance for Channel Selection
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Ketterer, Helmut
A Modified Smoothed Wigner Distribution Signal Synthesis Algorithm and Short-Time and Orthogonal Approaches for Time-Frequency Analysis
Advisor: Dr. Antonio H. Costa

Kotsidou, Kassiana
A 2D-Mesh Interconnection Network for Massively Parallel Processing Systems
Advisor: Dr. Ardsher Ahmed

Prasad, Anitha
Concurrency Control in Real-Time Object Oriented Database Systems: A Semantic Approach
Advisor: Dr. Paul J. Fortier

Yu, Liwen
A Modified Recurrent Neural Network and its Applications on Non-Stationary Time Series Predication
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Zhou, Zhaoji (George Z. Zhou)
Automatic Digital Display Optical-Electronic Fabric Density Meter (ADDOEFDM)
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Cheng, Tzu-Hung
The Application of Joint Time-Frequency Representations in Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Ehsan, Monzurul
An Analytical Model and an Algorithm for Calculating the Distortion Generated in the On-State NMOS Switch
Advisor: Dr. Robert H. Caverly

Hassel, Michael
A Digital VLSI Hardware Implementation of a Fuzzy-Logic Controller
Advisor: Dr. Robert H. Caverly

Kamat, Gajendra
Image Segmentation Using Fuzzy Thresholding Criteria
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Lizotte, Christopher David
Above Surface Optical Tracking of Underwater Vehicles
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Sharma, Shantnu
Recovery Management for a High Performance Main Memory Object Oriented Database
Advisor: Dr. Paul Fortier

Golden, Stuart Alan

Exponential Polynomial Signals: Estimation, Analysis, & Applications

Zhang, Yong
Computer Generated Holograms and Optical Wavelet Transforms
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Kalloniatis, Antony
A Study of Matrix Computation Algorithms and their Implementation on Parallel Computer Architectures
Advisor: Dr. Ardsher Ahmed

Pu, Yubin
Applications of Wavelet Transform to Radar Signal/Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Southworth, Kenneth McDowell
Design of an Optical System Which Observes Optical Attenuation Coefficients of the Ocean as well as Optically Tracks an Underwater Vehicle
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Tang, Zhi Wen
The Influence of Temperature on Pin Diode Resistance
Advisor: Dr. Robert H. Caverly

Xu, Yaode
Short Term Stock Market Decision Support System Using a Class Sensitive Neural Network
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

You, Guanghua
Class Sensitive Neural Network and its Application in Classification, Prediction and Image Segmentation
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Greenberg, Jeffrey Stevan
Raytrack: An Optical System Ray Tracing Program
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Lee, Gwo Giun
On the Wavelet Transform and its Applications to Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Tardif, Eric C.
Electrical Materials Characterization Station
Advisor: Dr. Robert H. Caverly

Berggren, Scott David
An Isothermal Deep-Level Transient Spectroscopy System Implemented with Rate-Scanning Software
Advisor: Dr. David P. Rancour

Chen, Jianzhong
Use of a Bragg Cell and Transmission Phase Diffraction Gratings for Fiber Optics Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Guey, Jiann-Ching
Wigner Distribution and its Application to Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Lai, Hongtao
A Conjugate Gradient Neural Network and its Applications in Image Processing
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Li, Chunhua
On an Improved Probabilistic Neural Network with Application to Sonar Signal Classification
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

McCarrick, Charles D.
The Quadrifilar Helical Antenna
Advisor: Dr. Gino Zarrillo

Pahooja, Mandakini
Study of Conceptual Dependency Theory
Advisor: Dr. Edmund B. Staples

Savoie, Matthew James
An Evaluation of Navigation Solution Estimation Algorithms for the Global Positioning System
Advisor: Dr. Steven C. Nardone

Straney, Cynthia Barbee
An Analysis of the Chaotic Behavior in a Classical System Using Two-Point Correlation and in a Quantum System Through the Measurement of the Lyapunov Exponents
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Xie, Xiang
A New Method of Frequency Diversity Processing in Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Evaluation
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Wang, Huan-Sheng
Vector Quantization of Images Based on Nonuniform Codebook Design Method
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Aguiar, Steven K.
Optimum Signal Processing Technique by Computer Simulation and Analysis for the Measurement of Pseudorange and Doppler Shifts for GPS Signals Degraded by Realistic Noise
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Allan, Nicholas
Characterization of Generalized Cross Correlators Applied to Time Delay Estimation
Advisor: Dr. Nixon A. Pendergrass

Ferkinhoff, David J.
An Evaluation of Nonlinear Estimation Techniques Used to Perform Target Analysis
Advisor: Dr. Steven C. Nardone

Kassab, Faouzi C.
Circularly Polarized Rectangular Microstrip Antenna
Advisor: Dr. Gino Zarrillo

Liu, Tianwen
The Implementation and Comparison of Three Neural Networks
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Paradis, Bonnie C.
The Conceptual Design of an Underwater Acoustic Fathovelocimeter
Advisor: Dr. Thomas J. Curry

Wan, Khai Chew
Hardware Simulation and Test Generation through PROLOG-Based Environment
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Araujo, John
Precision Distance Measurement Using Multi-Time Mode Laser Interferometry
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Chen, Ting-Yao
Speaker-Independent Digit-Recognition Using the ADSP-2100 Development System
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Guo, Qiang
Vector Quantization of Images Based on Spatial Correlation Analysis
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Harrison, Brian F.
A Comparative Analysis of the Single Dwell Alignment Detector and DPSK Detector in the Acquisition of Spread Spectrum Signals
Advisor: Dr. Thomas J. Curry

Mo, Lena
On Software Development of an Expert System for Image Segmentation
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Petrus, Raed Shawkat
PIN Diode Carrier Lifetime at High d.c. Forward Currents
Advisor: Dr. Robert Caverly

Sin, Sam-Kit
High Resolution Deconvolution Techniques and their Applications in Ultrasonic NDE
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Tsai, Ming-jen
A Real-Time Expert System Shell Design of Energy Management Systems
Advisor: Prof. Lenine M. Gonsalves

Wen, Zhongxiu
On Effective Compression Using Vector Quantization and Pyramid Processing
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Asokaraj, Veeramani
Modeling Simulation and Analysis of Latch-Up in CMOS Integrated Circuits
Advisor: Dr. Robert Caverly

Barbosa, Fernando J.
High Resolution Laser Plotter
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Hsu, Wei-Lien
Overview of Enhancement of Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation/Testing of Material by Using Modern Signal Processing

Phaneuf, Gail M.
Pin Diode Distortion Model for Low Frequencies and Low Bias Levels
Advisor: Dr. Robert Caverly

Qasim, Ahmed M.
Application of Descriptive Regularization to Travel-Time Tomography for Oil Exploration
Advisor: Dr. Roman S. Rutman

Sue, Chouzan
Two-Dimensional Spectral Analysis and Its Computer Graphics Display Issues
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Asokaraj, Subitha
RING-NET: A Local Area Network Using Token Ring Approach
Advisor: Dr. Paul R. Caron

Habboosh, Amir W.
SMUMOD: An Underwater Sound Propagation Model with Color Display
Advisor: Dr. Thomas J. Curry

Jarvis, Susan
Characterization of Ocean Ambient Noise With Applications in Broad Band Signal Processing
Advisor: Dr. Thomas J. Curry

Kang, Yue-Ren
Expert System for Chinese Traditional Medicine (CTM)
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Mo, Wei
Development of a General-Purpose Expert System Shell - GPSHELL - in Arity/Prolog
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Wang, Chwan-Sheng
A Knowledge-Based Expert System for Injection Molding Machine with a Certainty Factor
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Wen, Chuanju
Dynamic Programming Approach to Image Contour Extraction
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Wu, Rong-Hou
Study of a Class of Invariant Recognition for Machine Vision
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Zeidan, Gilbert J.
Compact High Resolution Laser Scanner
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Braga, Bruce F.
Computer Model of an Adaptive Noise Cancelling System for Correlated Data
Advisor: Dr. Thomas J. Curry

Fu, Chi-Leung
Adaptive Prediction and Estimation of Windpower Parameters for Windpower Control Systems
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Fu, Homin
Pattern Analysis of Underwater Transients and Exploration Seismic Data
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Hamdan, Bassam J. F.
On the Generation of Nonstationary Random Sequences
Advisor: Dr. Dean J. Schmidlin

Ved, Niten G.
An Operator Interface to a Computer Network
Advisor: Dr. Paul R. Caron

Albergaria, Nuno Vasco
RSNET : An RS-232/C Based Local Area Network
Advisor: Dr. John W. Gray

Costa, Antonio Horacio
Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis on an IBM Personal Computer
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Iu, Siu-Leong
A Study of New Invariant Sets of Fourier Descriptors
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Bianchini, Michael J.
A Mathematical Analysis of the Operating Characteristics of a Sampling Phase Detector Built at the Raytheon Bedford Laboratories
Advisor: Dr. Daniel J. Murphy

Viall, Philip H.
XS6809 Simulator/Debugger for 6809 Microprocessors by Motorola
Advisor: Dr. Paul R. Caron

Chern, Shiunn-Jang
Time Delay Estimation and Target Motion Analysis
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Chiang, Lih-Wen
Laser Image Scanning by Computer
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Lai, Jimmy Wai Kow
Reading System of Laser Scanning Controlled by a PDP 11/45 Minicomputer
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Hawe, William R.
An Implementation of the International Communications Protocol X.25 for 8080 Compatible Microprocessors

Hu, Cheng-Yih
Study of a Class of Computer Vision Problems
Advisor: Dr. Chi Hau Chen

Messier, Claire V.
MESS: Microprocessor Educational Software System
Advisor: Dr. Hans van den Biggelaar

Gent, Kurt
On the Problem of Divergence in Kalman Filter Target Motion Analysis
Advisor: Dr. Daniel J. Murphy

Gouveia, Miguel F.
Application of the Square Root Information Filter to the Bearing-Only Target Motion Analysis Problem
Advisor: Dr. Daniel J. Murphy

Kwan, Tommy Wai-Funs
Spectral Analysis of the Seismic Data

Guo, Show-Po
Optical Simulation of Sound Propagation in Deep Ocean
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

May, David C.
Real Time Multitasking Process Controller

Perruzzi, Joseph J.
Optimal Controllers for Underwater Vehicles
Advisor: Dr. Daniel J. Murphy

Powers, Donald E.
A Multiprocessor Operating System Microcomputer
Advisor: Dr. John O. B. Greaves

Lau, Philip Cho K.
Study of a Class of Imagery Recognition Problems
Advisor: Dr. Lee E. Estes

Messier, Paul R.
MMT: A Multitask Operating System for an Eight Bit Microcomputer
Advisor: Dr. Hans van den Biggelaar

Souza, Robert J.
ASDS: A Microprocessor-Based Data Communications Switch
Advisor: Dr. John O. B. Greaves

Chen, Patrick Ci-chung
Seismological and Reconnaissance Imagery Pattern Recognition

Davis, John S.
Noisy Bearings Only Maneuvering Target Problem
Advisor: Dr. Daniel J. Murphy

Guimond, Brian W.
Passive Target Motion Analysis (TMA) in a Maneuvering Target Environment
Advisor: Dr. Daniel J. Murphy

Schofield, William S.
Microwave Techniques for Measuring the Electron Density of a Steady-State Plasma
Advisor: Dr. Paul R. Caron