The Department wishes to extend its congratulations to the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering graduate students that were recently admitted to candidacy for the doctoral degree. The following students were recognized at the Doctoral Candidates Recognition Reception that was held last Tuesday, November 1st in the UC Ballroom:

 

Computer Science

David Chapman
Mentor: Dr. Milton Halem
"Multidimensional Map Reduce for Remote Sensing Applicators

Niyati Chhaya
Mentor: Dr. Tim Oates
"Joint Inference for Extracting Text Descriptors from Triage Images of Mass Disaster Victims"

Yasaman Haghpanah
Mentor: Dr. Marie desJardins
"A Trust Model for Decision Making in Supply Chain Management"

Lushan Han
Mentor: Dr. Tim Finin
"GoRelations: An Intuitive Query System for Linked Data"

Karuna Joshi
Mentor: Dr. Yelena Yesha, Dr. Tim Finin
"Framework for an Integrated Lifecycle of Virtualized Services"

Varish Mulwad
Mentor: Dr. Tim Finin
"Generating Linked Data by Inferring the Semantics of Tables"

Randy Schauer
Mentor: Dr. Anupam Joshi
"A Framework for the Intelligent Management of Distributed Rack-Based Blade Operations"

Fatih Senel
Mentor: Dr. Mohamed Younis
"Relay Node Placement for Federating Segmented Wireless Sensor Network"

Shiming Yang
Mentor: Dr. Konstantin Kalpakis
"Improving the Traffic Flow Forecasts for Road Networks with Data Assimilation"

Xianshu Zhu
Mentor: Dr. Tim Oates
"Finding Story Chain in Newswire Articles"

 

Electrical Engineering

Matthew Anderson
Mentor: Dr. Tulay Adali
"Joint Blind Source Separation with Multivariate Gaussian Model: Algorithms, Performance Analysis and Applications"

Damon Bradley
Mentor: Dr. Joel Morris
"On the Analysis, Modeling, and Mitigation of Radio Frequency Interference for Spaceborne Microwave Radiometers"

Sai Ma
Mentor: Dr. Tulay Adali
"Analysis of Brain Network Connectivity in MRI Data Using Spatial Information"

Ganesh Saiprasad
Dr. Chein-I Chang
"Adrenal Gland Abnormality Detection Using Random Classification Forest"