Dissertation Defense Announcements

Brittny Freeman
November 07, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: “A Framework for Non-Intrusive Ocean Current Turbine Rotor Blade Imbalance Fault Detection”

Ali Hashemi

September 21, 2022 - Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering

Dissertation Title: "Advanced Data Science and Physics-Based Modeling for Dynamic Systems"

Arash Golchubian

July 29, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Image Quality and Beauty Detection Using Deep Learning"

Linir Zamir

July 29, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Decentralized Systems for Information Sharing in Dynamic Environment Using Localized Consensus"

Brian Koziel 

July 11, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Towards Deployable Quantum-Safe Cryptosystems"

Mojtaba Bisheh Niasar 

July 7, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Efficient and Secure Implementation of Classic and Post-Quantum Public-Key Cryptography"

Murtadha Hssayeni

July 6, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Deep Learning Regression Models for Limited Biomedical Time-Series Data"

Rami Elkhatib 

July 1, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Efficient Implementation of Post-Quantum Cryptography"

Mohammad Ghaseminejad Raeini

June 30, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Selected Applications of MPC"

Dennis Estrada

June 24, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Machine Learning Methods for Image Enhancement in

Degraded Visual Environments"

Ankitha Arvan

June 23, 2022 - Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering

Dissertation Title: "Analysis of Deep Foundation Systems in Multi-layered Soil Strata"

Yu Huang

May 26, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "A Unified Soft Sensing Framework for Complex Dynamical Systems"

Arezoo Hasankhani

May 23, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Modeling, Path Planning, and Control Co-Design of Marine Current Turbines"

Babak Mosavati

May 5, 2022 - Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: "Application of Organ-on-a-chip Technology for Mass Transport Analysis in Physiological and Pathological Conditions"

Kayhan Ulgen

Apr. 22, 2022 - Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: "Hydrodynamic Performance and Seakeeping Analysis of a Catamaran in Transforming Near-Shore Head and Following Seas"

Joffrey Leevy

Apr. 18, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting Botnet Attacks in IoT Networks"

Sandhya Sharma

Mar. 30, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Development of Microfluidic Platforms for Infectious Diseases

Diagnosis and Sperm Cell Sorting"

Eva Suarez

Mar. 25, 2022 - Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatics Engineering

Dissertation Title: "Stochastic Methodology to Quantify Flood-Risk for

South Florida Coastal Areas"

Osamah M. Al-Omair

Mar. 22, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "Incorporating Emotion Recognition in Co-Adaptive Systems"

Mohammad Alharbi

Mar. 15, 2022 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: "A Probabilistic Checking Model for Effective Explainability Based on Personality Traits"

Moaed A. Abd

Jan. 24, 2022 - Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: "Artificial Intelligence (AI) Enables Sensorimotor Integration for Prosthetic Hand Dexterity"