Dissertation Defense Announcements

Amirjavad Ahmadian Hosseini
July 1, 2024 - Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering

Dissertation Title: “Developing Amine-Modified Silica Materials for CO2 Capture from Different Gas Streams”

Kavita Varma
May 31, 2024 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: “AI Computation of L1-norm error Principal Components
with Applications to Training Dataset Curation and Detection of Change”

Mustafa O. Ayanoglu
April 21, 2024 - Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: “Influence of Deformation Constraints of Honeycomb Core Cells on the Bending Stiffness of Single-Face Sandwich”

John T. Hancock III
April 08, 2024 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: “Fraud Detection in Highly Imbalanced Big Data with Novel and Efficient Data Reduction Techniques”

Mila Anastasova
April 1, 2024 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: “Classical and Post-Quantum Cryptography on Modern ARM-based
Processors”

Hamid Akbarian
March 26, 2024 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: “Deep Learning-Based Anomaly Detection in Space Systems and Operations”

Adriana McKinney
March 25, 2024 - Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: “Small Unmanned Marine Hydrokinetic Platforms for Power Generation in Coastal and Tidal Waters”

Azadeh Abdollah Zadeh
March 25, 2024 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: “Advancing One-Class Classification: a comprehensive analysis from theory to novel applications”

Hugo Pimentel
March 25, 2024 - Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: “Modeling, Implementation and Control of a CVT Based PTO for a Small Scale MHK-Turbine in Low Flow Speed Current”

Hector Lopez
March 15, 2024 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: “Facilitating Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Through Cooperative Games and Fuzzy Inference Systems”

Aishwarya Nair
March 14, 2024 - Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: “Navigation and Coordination of artificial swimmers using Deep Reinforcement Learning”

Michael Kobold
March 1, 2024 - Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: “Background Structure Functions, A Basis to Reduce Acoustic Power Requirements and Improve Images”

Joseph P. Marcheggiani
February 27th, 2024 - Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: “The Detectability of Goliath Grouper Sounds in Nearshore Waters Using Normal Mode Propagation Model”