Computing and Information Systems
Empowering Black Women In Computing: Fostering Inclusion and Belonging Through Virtual Communities
Doctoral Candidate Name: Luce-Melissa Kouaho Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: April 7, 2025 – 4:00 PM Defense Location: https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/94896388511?pwd=JRm6rUohE3YaZAbu7qdQN19em0gTvC.1 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Manuel Perez-Quinones Committee Members: Dr. Mejias, Dr. Wilson, Dr. Najjar, Dr. Gibas, Abstract: This dissertation takes a liberatory socio-technical approach to explore how technology can empower Black undergraduate […]
Advancing Parallel Computing Benchmarking: Multi-Level Performance Analysis and Progressive Pedagogy for Parallel Programming Education
Doctoral Candidate Name: Xinyao Yi Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: April 7, 2025 – 10:00 AM Defense Location: Woodward Hall 237 and Zoom https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/4812482929?omn=93261372564 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Yonghong Yan Committee Members: Dr. Erik Saule, Dr. Tyler Allen, Dr. Dong Dai, Dr. Jinpeng Wei Abstract: As heterogeneous parallel architectures grow increasingly […]
Automated In-Situ Analysis for Hydrodynamic Simulation
Doctoral Candidate Name: Kewei Yan Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: April 4, 2025 – 10:00 AM Defense Location: Woodward 212/237, or Zoom https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/my/kyan2?pwd=YWU3Z2RBNHNlcFZhOEcwSVo1blBMZz09 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Yonghong Yan Committee Members: Dr. Tyler Allen, Dr. Dong Dai, Dr. Erik Saule, Dr. Jinpeng Wei Abstract: Hydrodynamic simulations are computational models used to […]
Generative AI for Serendipity Recommendations
Doctoral Candidate Name: Zhe Fu Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: April 8, 2025 – 10:00 AM Defense Location: Woodward 309 Committee chair’s Name: Xi (Sunshine) Niu Committee Members: Jimmy Huang, David Wilson, Razvan Bunescu, Depeng Xu Abstract: Serendipity is a concept associated with accidental and unexpected discoveries that are valuable. In […]
Towards Automated and Explainable Cyber Threat Hunting Leveraging Generative AI
Doctoral Candidate Name: Moumita Das Purba Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: November 6, 2024 – 12:00 PM Defense Location: https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/98944936353 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Bill Chu Committee Members: Dr. Depeng Xu, Dr. Mohamed Shehab, Dr. Benjamin J. Radford, Dr. Mark Pizzato Abstract: As cyber threats continue to grow in both volume […]
BYZANTINE FAULT TOLERANT CONSENSUS FOR HYPERLEDGER FABRIC
Doctoral Candidate Name: Ahmed Alsalih Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: October 25, 2024 – 11:45 AM Defense Location: Woodward Hall room 154 and Zoom https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/my/aalsalih Committee chair’s Name: Yongge Wang Committee Members: Chao Wang, Jinpeng Wei, Xi (Sunshine) Niu, Yasin Raja Abstract: The decentralized systems take a significant role in the […]
Probabilistic Generative Neural Priors For Enhanced Generalization and Regularization
Doctoral Candidate Name: Akarsh Pokkunuru Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: August 30, 2024 – 2:00 PM Defense Location: WOODWARD 335 Committee chair’s Name: Razvan Bunescu Committee Members: Amirmohammad Rooshenas, Gabriel Terejanu, Minwoo Lee, Alireza Tabarraei Abstract: Learning continuous functions parameterized by neural networks has become a novel paradigm for representing complex, […]
Leveraging Domain Knowledge for Enhanced Causal Structure Learning and Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Observational Data
Doctoral Candidate Name: Md Hasan Jawad Chowdhury Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: August 9, 2024 – 3:00 PM Defense Location: Woodward 335 and https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/92136445530?pwd=wly8d0M8ZBEuSPACHEgXkvQEH6rRvt.1 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Gabriel Terejanu Committee Members: Dr. Minwoo Lee, Dr. Razvan Bunescu, Dr. Jim Conrad Abstract: Causal modeling provides us with powerful counterfactual reasoning and […]
Beyond Causal Pairs: A Probabilistic Approach to Causal Structure Learning From Cause-Effect Pair Relationships Using Graph Neural Network
Doctoral Candidate Name: Md Rezaur Rashid Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: August 8, 2024 – 11:00 AM Defense Location: Woodward-309 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Gabriel Terejanu Committee Members: Dr. Razvan Bunescu, Dr. Siddharth Krishnan, Dr. Minwoo Lee, Dr. Shannon Reid Abstract: Machine learning has risen to the forefront of scientific research […]
Advancing Medical Image Registration and Tumor Segmentation with Deep Learning: Design, Implementation and Transfer into Clinical Application
Doctoral Candidate Name: Yaying Shi Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: July 19, 2024 – 12:00 PM Defense Location: Woodward 212 and https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/94325931444 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Yonghong Yan Committee Members: Dr. Min Shin, Dr. Razvan C. Bunescu, Dr. Srijan Das, Dr. Xiuxia Du Abstract: The advancement of medical imaging has significantly […]