Dissertation Defense Announcements

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George Orfanidis
April 22, 2026 - 听Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淥n Time-Series Analysis by Structured Matrix Decompositions with Applications to Signal Direction-of-Arrival Estimation"

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Trey Michael Brauch
April 02, 2026 - Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: 鈥淎coustic Response of the CNT-Reinforced Multilayered Acoustic Foam Composites (MAFC)"

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Theyab Alsolami
April 02, 2026 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淧rivacy-Preserving Intrusion Detection for the Internet of Medical Things Using Ensemble Machine Learning and Federated Learning"

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Ali Abidalkareem
March 30, 2026 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淧redictive Analytics in Oncology and Ophthalmology: Machine Learning Applications for Diabetic Retinopathy and Breast Cancer"

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Apoorv Tripathi
March 24, 2026 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淟LM for Clinical Named Entity Recognition: A Study on RAG for PubMed and UMLS"

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Praveen Borra
March 23, 2026 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淩esource-Constrained Evacuation Route Planning: A Capacity-Aware Charge-Encoded State-Space Approach"

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Tuan Vo
March 20, 2026 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淓xtraction and Interpretation of EEG Features听for Diagnosis and Severity Prediction of AD and FTD听using Deep Learning"

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Anca Muresan
March 2, 2026 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淕raph-Based and Uncertainty-Aware Machine Learning听for Academic Performance Prediction"

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Muhammad Tanveer Jan
February 16, 2026 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淢achine Learning for Elderly Behavior and Risk Incident Modeling"

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Kimoy Williams
February 09, 2026 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淯nmanned Aerial Systems Path Planning with Dynamic Rerouting Using a Space-Time Graph"

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Zahra Salekshahrezaee
November 24, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淩obust Anomaly Detection under Data Imbalance, Noise, and Label Scarcity"

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William Fairman
November 20, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淩obotic Monitoring System for Complex Aquatic Environments"

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Radivoje Stankovic
November 5, 2025 - Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: 鈥淥n the Drainage Vortices of Liquid in a Container with Two Outlets"

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Md Ruhul Amin
November 5, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淚nterpretable Machine Learning Frameworks for Detecting and Characterizing Adaptive Processes in Genomic Data"

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Abhishek Ratanpara
November 3, 2025 - Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: 鈥淢icrofluidic Investigation of Green Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization Using Waste Concrete and Seawater"

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Lars Skaug
November 3, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淎dvancing Road Safety Through Data Integration, Location Accuracy, and Risk-Based Route Optimization"

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Sandipan Paul Arnab
October 24, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淔rom Specialized to Generalized Frameworks: Broadening Machine
Learning Approaches to Detect Natural Selection"

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Yanbin Lin
October 13, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淓fficient and Robust Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Complex and Dynamic Environments"

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Mary Anne Walauskis
November 3, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淣ovel Unsupervised Frameworks for Automated Class Distribution Estimation and Binary Label Generation for Tabular Data"

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Hadi Esfandi
August 28, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淎 Computational Framework for Multi-Scale Analysis of Mouse Cerebral Blood Flow Regulation"

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Sasha Ivana Fung
July 03, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淎ssessment, Modeling, and Advanced Applications of Marine Renewable Energy Systems"

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Rishabh Lingam
July 03, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淎 Study on Sentence-Level Argument Identification in Imbalanced Student Essay Corpora"

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Uptal K. Dhar
July 02, 2025 - Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: 鈥淟aminectomy and Minimally Invasive Surgery for Human Lumbar Spine"

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Omar Neil Gonzalez
July 01, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淯ser Behavior Anomaly Detection Approaches to Mitigate Insider Threats"

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Mostapha Al Saidi
April 11, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淒eep Learning for Computer Vision Applications in Medical Diagnostics and Wildlife Monitoring: Challenges in Classification, Class Imbalance, and Object Tracking鈥

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Ali Salem Abdulmajeed Altaher
April 04, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淎pplications of Deep Learning and Signal Processing in Acoustics, Oceanography, and Biometrics鈥

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Magdalyn E. Elkin
April 14, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淧redictive and Generative Modeling for Biomedical Data Analytics鈥

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Vithulan Suthakaran
March 21, 2025 - Civil, Environmental, and Geomatics Engineering

Dissertation Title: 鈥淧hosphorus Removal Using Novel Carbon Adsorbents Derived from Waste Algae: An Industrial Ecology Approach to Mitigate Algal Blooms鈥

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Wenqiang Xu
March 12, 2025 - Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title: 鈥淎 Self-sustained Autonomous System for Long-term Arctic Monitoring鈥

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Abdulelah Al Hanif
February 24, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淥ptimizing Intrusion Detection in IoT Network Environments through Diverse Detection Techniques鈥

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Abdulkarim Faraj Alqahtani
February 3, 2025 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dissertation Title: 鈥淎utomated Detection of Offensive Texts Based on Ensemble
Learning and Hybrid Deep Learning Techniques鈥

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