2016 Student Presentations & Defenses
Master’s Thesis Defense – Hongkai Wu
Advisor: Grace Hui Yang, Ph.D.
Title: Modeling User Explorations in Dynamic Search: An Ontological Perspective
Date and Time: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 10:30 am
Location: St. Mary’s 326
DOCTORAL THESIS PROPOSAL PRESENTATION – Yifang Wei
Advisor: Lisa Singh, Ph.D.
Title: Event Detection in Open Source Big Data
Date and Time: Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 10:30 am
Location: St. Mary’s 326
DOCTORAL THESIS PROPOSAL PRESENTATION – Tonghe Wang
Advisor: Calvin Newport, Ph.D.
Title: Fairness for Distributed Algorithms
Date and Time: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 10:00 am
Location: St. Mary’s 326
Undergraduate Thesis Presentation – Jordan King
Advisor: Lisa Singh, PhD
Title: Methods to Overcome Challenges When Learning Arabic Word Embeddings for Text Mining Tasks
Date and Time: Thursday, May 5th, 2016 at 10:00 am
Location: St. Mary’s 326
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: BRAD MOORE
Advisor: Micah Sherr, Ph.D.
Title: Privacy Preservation in the Presence of Advanced Persistent Threats
Date and Time: Friday, April 22, 2016 at 12:45 pm
Location: St. Mary’s 326
DISSERTION DEFENSE: HENRY TAN
Advisor: Micah Sherr, Ph.D.
Title: Network Level Attacks and Defenses Against Anonymity Networks
Date and Time: Monday, April 18, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Location: St. Mary’s 326
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: ANDREW YATES
Advisors: Nazli Goharian, Ph.D., and Ophir Frieder, Ph.D.
Title: Identifying Real World Concepts in Social Media
Date and Time: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 2:00 pm
Location: St. Mary’s 326
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: JASON SOO
Title: Search in Adverse Environments
Adviser: Ophir Frieder, Ph.D.
Date and Time: Monday, Feb 22, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Location: St. Mary’s 326
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: JON PARKER
Title: Effective and Efficient Binarization of Degraded Document Images
Adviser: Ophir Frieder, Ph.D.
Date and Time: Monday, Feb 1, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Location: St. Mary’s 326
There is a list of our past Student Presentations here.