Computing and Information Systems
Towards Designing Engaging and Ethical Human-Centered AI Partners for Human-AI Co-Creativity
Doctoral Candidate Name: Jeba Rezwana Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: July 14, 2023 – 10:00 AM Defense Location: Woodward 338 (Zoom link: https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/92658867847) Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Mary Lou Maher Committee Members: Dr. Heather Lipford, Dr. Wenwen Dou, Dr. Doug Markant Abstract: Human-AI co-creativity involves a human and an AI collaborating […]
Computational Analysis of the Chinese government’s Use of Online Social Networks
Doctoral Candidate Name: Zhuo Cheng Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: July 18, 2023 – 10:30 AM Defense Location: https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/5237819349?pwd=ajN4MFB6bHJjYm13VVpScmhMa1JGUT09 Committee chair’s Name: Samira Shaikh Committee Members: Wlodek Zadrozny, Razvan Bunescu, Min Jiang, Tiffany Gallicano Abstract: This dissertation aims to contribute to our understanding of Chinese government engagement on social media platforms. […]
Towards Multi-Party Conversation Modeling
Doctoral Candidate Name: Khyati Mahajan Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: July 19, 2023 – 1:30 PM Defense Location: https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/92443196381?pwd=bmhNTmNKWHdyTHhIVjdMSXNSMlY3UT09 Committee chair’s Name: Samira Shaikh Committee Members: Wlodek Zadrozny, Razvan Bunescu, Xi (Sunshine) Niu, Mohamed Shehab Abstract: Recent advances in the field of Natural Language Processing, specifically in Natural Language Generation (NLG) […]
Data Mining and Deep Learning Systems for Network Traffic Classification and Characterization at Scale
Doctoral Candidate Name: Maya Uma Kapoor Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: June 14, 2023 – 3:00 PM Defense Location: Woodward Hall Committee chair’s Name: Committee Members: Abstract: The real, complex network environment consists of an ever-increasingly diverse and large amount of data encapsulated in packets. Surveillance and monitoring of this traffic […]
REX: A Source-to-Source OpenMP Compiler for Productive Research of Parallel Programming
Doctoral Candidate Name: Anjia Wang Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: April 11, 2023 – 3:00 PM Defense Location: WOODW 237 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Yonghong Yan Committee Members: Dr. Harini Ramaprasad, Dr. Dong Dai, Dr. Erik Saule, Dr. Jinpeng Wei Abstract: The growing complexity of high-performance computing (HPC) systems has led […]
EVALUATING RISK APPEAL APPROACHES BASED ON PMT TOWARDS MAKING SECURE DECISIONS
Doctoral Candidate Name: Elham Al Qahtani Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: December 9, 2022 – 10:00 AM Defense Location: https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/5744094270 Committee chair’s Name: Mohamed Shehab Committee Members: Heather Lipford, Chao Wang, and Rich Lambert Abstract: To explain changes in users’ security behaviors and behavioral intentions, we investigated the different messaging approaches […]
A User-Based Stance Analysis for Gauging Public Opinion with Stance Detection in Twitter Data
Doctoral Candidate Name: Ali Almadan Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: November 10, 2022 – 1:00 PM Defense Location: Zoom link: https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/92706165257 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Mary Lou Maher Committee Members: Abstract: Stance detection in social media data has received attention in recent years as an approach to determine the standpoint of […]
Recommender System for Improving Churn Rate
Doctoral Candidate Name: Yuehua Duan Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: September 9, 2022 – 11:00 AM Defense Location: https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/99949364169 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Zbigniew W. Ras Committee Members: Dr. Aidong Lu, Dr. Angelina Tzacheva, Dr. Moutaz Khouja Abstract: Customer churn leads to higher customer acquisition cost, lower volume of service consumption […]
Personalized Interaction-Focused Interventions for Mitigating Misinformation
Doctoral Candidate Name: Safat Siddiqui Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: August 11, 2022 – 2:00 PM Defense Location: https://charlotte-edu.zoom.us/j/99967385609 Committee chair’s Name: Committee Members: Abstract: This dissertation addresses a novel approach to assessing users’ interaction tendencies on social media as a basis for personalized interventions that can make the truth louder […]
Automated Classification and Mitigation of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
Doctoral Candidate Name: Ehsan Aghaei Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: July 26, 2022 – 1:00 PM Defense Location: CCI – Room 338 Committee chair’s Name: Xi Niu Committee Members: Bill Chu, Waseem Shadid, Yasin Raja Abstract: With the widespread use of computers and networks, cybersecurity has emerged as a crucial concern […]