GRADUATE NEWS

PhD students Bill Shelton and Nan Li won the best student paper award and the best presentation award on paper with Profs. Paul Ammann and Jeff Offutt.

PhD students Bill Shelton and Nan Li won the best student paper award and the best presentation award at the Testing: Academic & Industrial Conference Practice and Research Techniques (TAIC-Part), April 21, 2012, Montreal, for their paper co-authored with Profs. Paul Ammann and Jeff Offutt of the Computer Science Department.

Their paper is titled "Adding Criteria-Based Tests to Test Driven Development,"
by Bill Shelton, Nan Li, Paul Ammann, and Jeff Offutt. The presentation was given by Bill Shelton. Both awards came with a cash prize.

Posted on 4/22/2012.

Student Geetha Aluri and Prof. Rao Mulpuri receive Outstanding Invention Award from UMD.

Student Geetha Aluri, Prof. Rao Mulpuri, of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, along with co-inventors Abhishek Motayed, Albert Davydov, and Vladimir Oleshko from the University of Maryland and NIST received, from UMD's Office of Technology Commercialization, the outstanding invention award in the area of physical sciences for 2011 for their invention "Nanoengineered chemical sensors that offer superior detection of environmental pollutants, hydrogen, and other industrial chemicals"

Posted on 4/22/2012.

Ph.D. in Information Technology Final Defense for Juan (Judy) Luo

PhD in Information Technology Doctoral Dissertation
Candidate: Juan (Judy) Luo

Bachelor of Science, Wuhan University, 1997
Master of Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2003

REGRESSION LEARNING IN DECISION GUIDANCE SYSTEMS: MODELS, LANGUAGES AND ALGORITHMS

Monday, April 30, 2012

3:00PM -5:00PM
Nguyen Engineering Building, Room 2901
All are invited to attend.

Committee
Alexander Brodsky, Chair
Larry Kerschberg
Carlotta Domeniconi
Ruixin Yang

Ph.D. in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Defense for Arsalan (Alex) Faghri

Ph.D. in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Doctoral Dissertation
Candidate: Arsalan (Alex) Faghri

Bachelor of Science, York University, 1995
Master of Science, University of Delaware, 1997

Advanced Planning Methods for Transit Oriented Developments

Tuesday May 1, 2012

10:00AM -12:00PM
Nguyen Engineering Building, Room 1602
All are invited to attend.

Committee
Mohan Venigalla, Chair
Michael Casey
Laurie Schintler
Burak Tanyu

Ph.D. in Information Technology Final Defense for Serene Al-Momen

PhD in Information Technology Doctoral Dissertation
Candidate:Serene Al-Momen

Bachelor of Science, Oklahoma State University, 2003
Master of Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2008

A Self-managed Healthcare Emergency Department System

Friday, April 27, 2012

10:00AM -12:00PM
Nguyen Engineering Building, Room 4801
All are invited to attend.

Committee
Daniel Menasce, Chair
Alexander Brodsky
Larry Kerschberg
Peggy Maddox

Ph.D. in SEOR Final Defense for Francine N. Nelson

PhD in SEOR Doctoral Dissertation
Candidate: Francine N. Nelson

Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics and Economics, Boston University, 1993
Master of Science, Operations Research, Air Force Institute of Technology, 1999

Scheduling Optimization of Imagery Satellite Constellations Using Column Generation

Tuesday, April 24, 2012
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Engineering Bldg., 2901

All are invited to attend.

Committee
Ariela Sofer, Chair
Andrew Loerch
Karla Hoffman
Carlotta Domeniconi

Ph.D. in Statistical Science Final Defense for R. Bradley Patterson

PhD in Statistical Science Doctoral Dissertation
Candidate: R. Bradley Patterson
Bachelor of Science, Stanford University
Master of Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
12:15 – 2:15 pm
Nguyen Engineering Bldg, Room 1602

Goodness-of-fit Tests and Function Estimators for Receiver Operating
Characteristic (ROC) Curves: Inference from Perpendicular Distances

Dissertation Director: Prof. John Miller

Ph.D. in Information Technology Final Defense for Dongho (Don) Choi

PhD in Information Technology Doctoral Dissertation
Candidate:Dongho (Don) Choi

Bachelor of Science, Seoul National University, 1972
Master of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1985

Systems of Systems (SoS)/Families of Systems (Fos) Interoperability Assessment Framework

Thursday, 26 April, 2012

2:00 – 4:00 PM

Nguyen Engineering Building, Room 2901,
All are invited to attend.

Committee
Andrew P. Sage, Chair
David A. Schum
Peggy Brouse
J. Mark Pullen

Ph.D. in Information Technology Final Defense for William J. Bunting

PhD in Information Technology Doctoral Dissertation
Candidate: William J. Bunting

Bachelor of Science, Drexel University, 1973
Master of Business Administration, University of Pennsylvania, 1981

Enterprise Line of Sight Analysis Using Evidential Reasoning

Friday, April 13, 2012

10:00am-Noon

Engineering Bldg., Room 4801
All are invited to attend.

Committee
David A. Schum, Chair
Thomas Arciszewski
Larry Kerschberg
Kathyrn B. Laskey

Ph.D. in SEOR Final Defense for Thomas I. Saltysiak

PhD in SEOR Doctoral Dissertation
Candidate: Thomas I. Saltysiak
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, North George College, 1994
Master of Science, Systems Engineering, George Mason University, 2007

On Approaches for Integrated Course of Action Development

Thursday, April 26, 2012
11:00am – 1:00pm
Engineering Bldg., 3507

All are invited to attend.

Committee
Alexander Levis, Chair
Andrew Loerch
Thomas Speller
Stephen Nash

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