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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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There is a list of our past Student Presentations here.