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Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Graduates

Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.

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DistinctionsNameDegreeCeremony
Moiz Arif Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: An Intelligent Framework for Efficiently Utilizing Distributed Heterogeneous Resources to Improve HPC Application Performance
Advisor: M. Mustafa Rafique, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Lizhou Cao Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Hierarchical Parameterization in Spherical Domains for Deforming Feature Alignment
Advisor: Chao Peng, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Sergei Chuprov Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Robust Machine Learning Under Vulnerable Cyberinfrastructure and Varying Data Quality
Advisor: Leon Reznik, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Niranjana Deshpande Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Towards Algorithm Selection for Efficient Search-Based Software Engineering
Advisor: Naveen Sharma, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Saad Hassan Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Exploring Search-by-Video Technology for Searching Structured Human Movements: Insights From Sign Language Look-Up Systems
Advisor: Matt Huenerfauth, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Xiajun Jiang Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Improving Adaptation of Deep Learning with Inductive Bias
Advisor: Linwei Wang, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Robert Carl Jimerson Jr Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Exploring speech recognition for documenting Seneca, an acutely under resourced Native American language
Advisor: Christopher M. Homan, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Kishan K C Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Scalable Probabilistic Model Selection for Network Representation Learning in Biological Network Inference
Advisors: Rui Li, Ph.D., and Anne Haake, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Benjamin Scott Meyers Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Human Error Assessment in Software Engineering
Advisor: Andrew Meneely, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Sara Moshtari Zohreh Nama Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Characterizing and Detecting Software Attack Surface Components
Advisor: Mehdi Mirakhorli, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Krishna Prasad Neupane Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Learning to Learn from Sparse User Interactions
Advisor: Qi Yu, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Mohammad Saidur Rahman Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Continual Learning for an Ever Evolving and Intelligent Malware Classification System
Advisor: Matthew Wright, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Hitesh Sapkota Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Robust Weakly Supervised Learning for Real-World Anomaly Detection
Advisor: Qi Yu, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Ali Shokri Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Inter-procedural Program Synthesis for Automatic Architectural Tactic Implementation
Advisor: Mehdi Mirakhorli, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Nibesh Shrestha Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Efficient Synchronous Byzantine Consensus
Advisor: Pengcheng Shi, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Gaurav Shivaji Wagh Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: A Privacy Safeguarding Framework for the Smart Grid
Advisor: Sumita Mishra, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Learning from Disagreement in Human-Annotated Datasets
Advisor: Christopher M. Homan, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR
Ervine Zheng Computing and Information Sciences Ph.D.
Dissertation: Knowledge Integration for Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning
Advisor: Qi Yu, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 10, 1:30 p.m., POL

May 10, 5:30 p.m., GOR