PhD Graduates
| Name | Major Prof | Dissertation Title | Employment |
| 2015 | |||
| Peter Gavin | Gary Tyson & David Whalley | Instruction Caching in Multithreading Processors Using Guarantees | |
| Jeremy Hatcher | Daniel Schwartz | A Reflective, 3-Dimensional Behavior Tree Approach to Vehicle Autonomy | Engineer, Littoral Warfare Research Facility – Panama City, FL |
| Jonathan W. Jenkins | Mike Burmester | Building Trusted Computer Systems via Unified Software Integrity Protection | Assistant Professor, Middle Georgia State University |
| Umit Karabiyik | Sudhir Aggarwal | Building an Intelligent Assistant for Digital Forensics | Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University – Huntsville, TX |
| Justin B. Marshall | Andy Wang | Systems Librarian/Associate Professor, Brigham Young University–Hawaii – Honolulu, HI | |
| Michael Mitchell | Andy Wang | Context and Bio-Aware Mobile Applications | Software Developer/Owner |
| Frank Anthony Sposaro | Gary Tyson | A Geriatric Suite of Medical Applications for Android Powered Devices | Software Developer, Microsoft |
| Mark Stanovich | Theodore Baker & Andy Wang | Throttling On-Disk Schedulers to Meet Soft-Real-Time Requirements | |
| Shiva Houshmand Yazdi | Sudhir Aggarwal | Analyzing Password Strength & Efficient Password Cracking | |
| Nan Zhao | Xiuwen Liu | Context-Sensitive Semantic Segmentation | China Industries |
| 2014 | |||
| James McClain | Piyush Kumar | On Exactitude in Geographic Information Science | |
| Wickus Nienaber | Xin Yuan | On Lid Allocation and Assignment in InfiniBand Networks | Captiveyes LLC |
| Guanyu Tian | Piyush Kumar | Enhancing Anonymity of Anonymous P2P Content Sharing Systems | Assistant Professor, Fontbone University – Clayton, MO |
| Jiangbo Yuan | Zhenghao Zhang | Indexing, Searching, and Mining Large-Scale Visualdata via Structured Vector Quantization | Scientist, Canon USA |
| Yu Zhang | Xiuwen Liu | Computational Models and Algorithms for Nucleosome Positioning | Seeking Employment (Industry) – San Jose, CA |
| Shuaiyuan Zhou | Zhenghao Zhang | Improving the Performance of Wireless Networks with Ubiquitously Compatible Solutions in the Medium Access Control Layer | Software Engineer, Homes.com |
| 2013 | |||
| Zheng Gu | Xin Yuan | Efficient and Robust Message Passing Schemes for RDMA-Enabled Clusters | Post-doctoral Fellow, Oak Rridge National Lab – Oak Ridge, TN |
| Santosh Mahapatra | Xin Yuan | Routing Algorithms for the Emerging Topologies in HPC and Data Center Network | Technical Staff, Riverbed Technology |
| Yue Qiu | Michael Mascagni | Parallel Random Number Generation | Software Engineer, SevOne, Inc. |
| Chi Zhang | Xin Yuan | Parallel Similarity Join | Software Engineer, Fuhu, Inc. |
| 2012 | |||
| Samidh Chatterjee | Piyush Kumar | Experimental Approaches to Computational Geometric and Statistical Machine Translation Problems | Senior Research Scientist, Airsage, Inc. |
| Sarah Diesburg | Andy Wang | Per-File Full-Data-Path Secure Deletion for Electronic Storage | Post-doctoral Fellow, Florida State University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Justin Fincher | Gary Tyson | Creation and Modification of Models of Nucleosome Occupancy and Their Applications Across Multiple Species | Post-doctoral Fellow, Florida State University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Ian Finlayson | David Whalley & Gary Tyson | Improving Processor Efficiency by Statically Pipelining Instructions | Visiting Instructor, University of Mary Washington – Fredericksburg, VA |
| Wei Hu | Zhenghao Zhang | Mixed-Effects Models for Count Data with Applications to Educational Research | Wireless Software Engineer, Aruba Networks |
| Yuval Peress | Gary Tyson | There and Back Again… a Datum’s Tale | |
| Matthew Small | Xin Yuan | iSCSI-based Storage Area Networks for Disaster Recovery Operations | Senior Software Engineer, West Health – San Diego, CA |
| Jin Xie | Zhenghao Zhang | Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of an Efficient Software Partial Packet Recovery System in 802.11 Wireless LANs | Senior Software Engineer, Aruba Networks – Sunnyvale, CA |
| Wei Zhang | Robert van Engelen | Efficient XML Stream Processing and Searching | Industry – China |
| 2011 | |||
| Michael Connor | Piyush Kumar | A Simple, Thread-Safe, Approximate Nearest Neighbor Algorithm | |
| Arturo Donate | Xiuwen Liu | Three-Dimensional Scene Estimation from Monocular Videos with Applications in Video Analysis | Booz Allen Hamilton Corp. – Washington, DC |
| Wayne Liu | Sudhir Aggarwal | Trust Management and Accountability for Internet Security | Thomas University – Thomasville, GA |
| Fernando Sanchez | Zhenhai Duan | A Sender-Centric Approach to Spam and Phishing Control | Faculty, Universidad San Francisco de Quito – Quito, Ecuador |
| Bin Yao | Feifei Li | Spatial Approximate String Search | Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University – Shanghai, China |
| Haohai Yu | Robert Van Engelen | Acceleration Methods For Bayesian Network Sampling | Software Design Engineer, Microsoft |
| 2010 | |||
| Huey L Toh | Lois Hawkes | Design of a Low‐Cost Adaptive Question Answering System for Closed Domain Factoid Queries | |
| Charles M Weir | Sudhir Aggarwal | Using Probabilistic Techniques to Aid in Password Cracking Attacks | The Mitre Corp. |
| Paul Edwin West | Gary Tyson | Next Generation Performance Monitoring | Assistant Professor, Charleston Southern University – North Charleston, SC |
| Yiming Wu | Xiuwen Liu | Efficient Learning of Optimal Linear Representations for Object Classification | Senior Software Developer, Abbott Laboratories – New York City, NY |
| Yanan Yu | Ashok Srinivasan | Time Parallelization Methods for the Solution of Initial Value Problems | Deloitte |
| Yuhua Zhu | Xiuwen Liu | Optimal Linear Features for Content Based Image Retrieval and Applications | Software Engineer, Google |
| 2009 | |||
| Subhajit Datta | Robert Van Engelen | A Mechanism for Tracking the Effects of Requirement Changes in Enterprise Software Systems | Senior Specialist Researcher, Accenture Technology Labs |
| Yixin Shou | Robert Van Engelen | A Unified Compiler Framework for Program Analysis, Optimization, and Automatic Vectorization with Chains of Recurrences | |
| 2008 | |||
| Stephen Hines | Gary Tyson & David Whalley | Using De-optimization to Re-optimize Code | |
| Stanislav Ustymenko | Daniel Schwartz | Multiagent Dynamic Reasoning About Belief and Trust | Apollo Group, University of Phoenix |
| 2007 | |||
| Todd Andel | Alec Yasinsac | Formal Security Evaluation of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols | Wright Patterson Air Force Base – Dayton, OH |
| Johnnie Birch, Jr. | Robert Van Engelen | Methods for Linear and Nonlinear Array Data Dependence Analysis with the Chains of Recurrences Algebra | University of Texas – San Antonio, TX |
| David Gaitros | Gregory Riccardi | The Representation of Association Semantics with Annotations in a Biodiversity Informatics System | Florida State University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Ha Hoang | Ladislav Kohout | Computational Transformation Between Different Symbolic Representations of BK Products of Fuzzy Relations | Assistant Professor, Tallahassee Community College – Tallahassee, FL |
| Jiangyi Hu | Michael Burmester | Trust Management in Mobile Wireless Networks: Security and Survivability | Florida State University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Prasad Kulkarni | David Whalley | Fast and Effective Solutions to the Phase Ordering Problem | University of Kansas – Lawrence, KS |
| 2006 | |||
| Warren Davis | Ladislav Kohout | Enhancing Pattern Classification with Relational Fuzzy Neural Networks and Square BK-Products | IBM Research Lab |
| Ahmad Faraj | Xin Yuan | Automatic Empirical Techniques for Developing Efficient MPI Collective Communication Routines | IBM |
| Keith Haynes | Xiuwen Liu | Object Recognition Using Rapid Classification Trees | US Military Academy – West Point, NY |
| Goce Jakimoski | Mike Burmester & Yvo Desmedt | Primitives and Schemes for Non-Atomic Information Authentication | Post-doctoral Fellow, Stevens Institute of Technology – Hoboken, NJ |
| Jidong Long | Dan Schwartz | A Case-based Framework for Meta Intrusion Detection | Optimi Corporation |
| Jeffrey Todd McDonald | Alec Yasinsac | Enhanced Security for Mobile Agent Systems | AFIT, Wright Patterson Air Force Base – Dayton, OH |
| 2005 | |||
| Jungkee Kim | Gordon Erlebacher | Hybrid Keyword Search Across Peer-to-Peer Federated Data | Post-doctoral Fellow, Indiana |
| William Kreahling | David Whalley | Reducing the Costs of Comparisons within Conditional Transfers of Control | Western Carolina University – Cullowhee, NC |
| Jean Muhammad | Ladislav Kohout | A Framework for Agency | Visiting Faculty, Florida State University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Wankang Zhao | David Whalley | Reducing the WCET of Low end Embedded Applications | Datamaxx – Tallahassee, FL |
| 2004 | |||
| Jason Black | Lois Hawkes | A System Architecture That Facilitates Collaboration via Handheld Devices (PDAS) | Florida A&M University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Hongmei Chi | Michael Mascagni | Scrambled Quasirandom Sequences and Their Applications | Post-doctoral Fellow, Florida State University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Tri Van Le | Yvo Desmedt | Information Hiding | Visiting Professor, Florida State University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Tavaris Thomas | Lois Hawkes | Fire Ant: An Algorithm Providing High-Performance Distributed Fault-Tolerant Communication for Internet-Scale Network Survivability | Lucent |
| Clint R. Whaley | David Whalley | Automated empirical optimization of high performance floating point kernels | University of Texas |
| 2003 | |||
| Han-ku Lee | Gordon Erlebacher | Towards Efficient Compilation Of The HPJAVA Language For High Performance Computing | Post-doctoral Fellow, Indiana State University – Terre Haute, IN |
| Sangmi Lee | Gordon Erlebacher | A Modular Data Pipelining Architecture (MDPA) for enabling Universal Accessibility in P2P Grids | Post-doctoral Fellow, Indiana State University – Terre Haute, IN |
| Yaohang Li | Michael Mascagni | A Grid Computing Infrastructure For Monte Carlo Applications | NC A&T State University |
| Sang Boem Lim | Gordon Erlebacher | Platforms For HPJAVA: Runtime Support For Scalable Programming In JAVA | Post-doctoral Fellow, Indiana State University – Terre Haute, IN |
| Ahmed Moussa | Ladislav Kohout | The Implementation of Intelligent QoS Networking by the Development and Utilization of Novel Cross-Disciplinary Soft Computing Theories and Techniques |
Post-doctoral Fellow, Florida State University Visiting Faculty, Florida A&M University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Andreas Strotmann | Ladislav Kohout | Content Markup Language Design Principles | University of Cologne – Köln, Germany |
| 2002 | |||
| Courtney Lamar Smith | Lois Hawkes | Browsable Repository for Elementary Educators and Students with a Zoomable Interface: A Computer Tool Prototype for Elementary Curriculum Integration | University of Central Florida – Orlando, FL |
| 2001 | |||
| Tiki Suarez | Lois Hawkes | Intelligent Wireless Management: Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Networks | Florida A&M University – Tallahassee, FL |
| 2000 | |||
| Samuel Eaves | Gregory Riccardi | Managing Scientific Computation with a Java-Based Schema Extension Facility | |
| 1999 | |||
| Christopher Healy | David Whalley | Automatic Utilization of Constraints for Timing Analysis | Assistant Professor, Furman University – Greenville, SC |
| Renee S. Renner | Christopher Lacher | Improving Generalization of Constructive Neural Networks Using Ensembles | Assistant Professor, California State University – Chico, CA |
| Huan-yu Tu | Lois Hawkes | Families of Optimal Fault-Tolerant Multiple-Bus Networks and their Related Networks | Assistant Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University – Willimantic, CT |
| Larry Weinstein | Christopher Lacher | The Image Node: An Image Processing Neural Network Component | |
| 1998 | |||
| Kristin Adair | Susan Bassett | Unsupervised Recurrent Neural Networks for Grammar Induction | |
| Bobby Granville | Ladislav Kohout | An Empirical Study of a Query-Language Front-End Processor Using BK-Products for Fuzzy Knowledge Based Systems | Assistant Professor, Florida A&M University – Tallahassee, FL |
| 1997 | |||
| Catherine LeBlanc | Susan Hruska | Utilization of State Information via Recurrent Connections in Expert Networks | |
| Seung-Jin Moon | Theodore Baker | Ada ’95 Tasking Performance Optimizations | |
| Chan-Sook Noe | Ladislav Kohout | Using BK-Products of Fuzzy Relations for Management of Granular Structures in Relational Architectures for knowledge-Based Systems | |
| Dong-Ik Oh | Theodore Baker | Ada ’95 Tasking Performance Optimizations | |
| Gang-Ryung Uh | David Whalley | Effectively Exploiting Indirect Jumps | |
| Randall Thomas White | David Whalley | Bounding Worst-Case Data Cache Performance | |
| Lili Yuan | Christopher Lacher | Aging in Artificial Neural Networks: Causes and Prevention of Repetition Induced Incompetence in Reinforced Learning | |
| 1996 | |||
| Dennis Devolder | Lois Hawkes | Radio Training System: Speech Recognition and Graphical Event Representation in a Scenario-based Authoring/Tutoring Shell | |
| Weiqi Huang | Gregory Riccardi | Multischema: Dynamic View Management for Object Database Systems | |
| Evelyn Stiller | Gregory Riccardi | A Heuristic Approach to RNA Secondary Structure Prediction Based on an Object-Oriented Representation | |
| 1995 | |||
| Charles Wesley Ford, Jr. | Gregory Riccardi | Modeling Experimental Data Analysis | Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas – Fayetteville, AR |
| Youngdo Joo | Willis Bandler | A Fuzzy Relational Approach to Cognitive Structures of an Urban Knowledge-based System | |
| Eunjin Kim | Ladislav Kohout | Analysis and Meta-analysis of Fuzzy Relational Structures by Means of Generalized Morphism and its Computer-aided Tool Support | Post-doctoral Fellow, Florida State University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Kok Meng Yew | Interval-Valued Approximate Inference Using Fuzzy Relational Techniques | ||
| 1994 | |||
| Hsing-Tai Chung | Daniel Schwartz | An Automated System for Symbolic Approximate Reasoning | Assistant Professor, Tamkang University – Taipei |
| Frank Wenzhen Fang | Christopher Lacher | Constructive Neural Network Learning for Autonomous Rule Acquisition | Software Engineer, Image Technology, Inc. |
| Frank Mueller | David Whalley | Static Cache Simulation and its Applications | Research Assistant, Humboldt University – Arcata, CA |
| Lillie D. Ward | Lois Hawkes | A Fault-Tolerant Multi-Bus Interconnection Network | Fort Valley State College – Fort Valley, GA |
| Byungjoo Yoon | Christopher Lacher | Rule Extraction using Destructive Learning in Artificial Neural Networks | Associate Professor, Myong-Ji University – Seoul, South Korea |
| 1993 | |||
| Bienvenido Jose Alvarez Juliano, Jr. | Wyllis Bandler | A Fuzzy Logic Approach for Cognitive Diagnosis | Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University – Conway, SC |
| James Lamm | Daniel Schwartz | Modified Election Methodology:A Methodology for Describing Human Beliefs | Research Assistant, Florida State University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Cathy C. Ncube | Wyllis Bandler | A Cognitive Hinting Structure for Deep Domain Knowledge | Assistant Professor, University of West Florida – Pensacola, FL |
| Jong Joon Park | Lois Hawkes | Neural Network Processing of Linguistic Symbols Using Multi-Level Grading Rule | |
| 1992 | |||
| Bryon K. Elmann | Gregory Riccardi | Applying an Object-Oriented Database Model to a Scientific Database Problem: Managing Experimental Data at CEBAF | Assistant Professor, Florida A&M University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Ilan Itzkovich | Lois Hawkes | A Conceptual Approach to Reusability in Object-Oriented Design | Assistant Professor, Florida International University – Miami, FL |
| William A. Mayne | Gregory Riccardi | An Investigation of Guarded Assignments as a Coordination of Language for Large Grain Parallel Programming | |
| Sujatha Nagarajan | Ladislav Kohout | Mimicking Human Language Processing Features Using Fuzzy Syntax-Semantics Analyzer and Semantic Interpreter | |
| Daihee Park | Abraham Kandel | Intelligent Fuzzy Reasoning Models with Application to Fuzzy Control | Assistant Professor, Korea |
| Don Poling | Lois Hawkes | The Application of Imprecise Decision Tables in Intelligent Tutoring Tables | Assistant Professor, Clemson University – Clemson, SC |
| Chlotia L. Posey | Lois Hawkes | Applications of Neural Networks to Intelligent Tutoring Systems | Chief, Development Division, Communications Computer Systems, Eglin Air Force Base – Florida |
| 1991 | |||
| Pratik K. Biswas | Abraham Kandel | Conceptualizing the Design of Knowledge Based Systems | Technical Staff, Lucent Bell Laboratories |
| Thomas Wilhelm Diefenbach | Lois Hawkes | The Effect of Verbal Messages on User Friendliness: An Empirical Investigation Using an Intelligent Tutoring System | Assistant Professor, United Arab Emirates University – Al Ain, UAE |
| Alan D. George | Lois Hawkes | A Fault-Tolerant Computer System for Digital Signal Processing | Associate Professor, Florida State University and Florida A&M University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Edward W. Giering | Theodore Baker | Compile Time Processing of Ada Task Constructs for Real-Time Programming | Software Engineer, Rational Corporation |
| Marion G. Harmon | Theodore Baker | Predicting Execution Time on Contemporary Computer Architectures | Associate Professor, Florida A&M University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Dawn Jay Holmes | Lois Hawkes | An Informal Reasoning Technique and Truth Maintenance Subsystem for Global Diagnosis in an Instructional System | Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology – Melbourne, FL |
| Yong-Gi Kim | Ladislav Kohout | Use of Fuzzy Relational Information Retrieval Technique for Generating Control Strategies in Resolution-Based Automated Reasoning | |
| David C. Kuncicky | Christopher Lacher | Isomorphism of Reasoning Systems with Applications to Autonomous Knowledge Acquisition | Computing Resources Manager, Florida State University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Pratit Santiprabhob | Ladislav Kohout | Fuzzy Connected Protection Structures | Dean, Assumption University – Bangkok, Thailand |
| Ahmad Sharieh | Gregory Riccardi | Exploiting Parallel Processing in Large Scientific Applications | Associate Professor, University of Jordan – Amman, Jordan |
| Uta M. Ziegler | Lois Hawkes | A Neural Network which Rapidly Learns to Perform a Multi-Step Task | Associate Professor, University of Western Kentucky – Bowling Green, KY |
| 1990 | |||
| Stephen Leach | Abraham Kandel | Grouper: A Knowledge-Based Expert System for Redistricting | Associate Chair, Florida State University – Tallahassee, FL |
| Keith D. McCroan | Christopher Lacher | Displaying Geographic Information: Efficient Methods for Raster Displays | Chief Software Engineer, Environmental Protection Agency NAREL Environmental Radiation Laboratory |
| Bernard Traversat | Gregory Riccardi | NEPTUNE: The Application of Coarse-Grain Data Flow Methods to Scientific Parallel Programming | Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Lab – Ames, IA |
| 1989 | |||
| John Cameron Glasgow II | Lois Hawkes | Emerging Systems and Machine Intelligence | President, Bayou Software Inc. – Fort Walton Beach, FL |
| Robert F. Hudson | Abraham Kandel | Real-Time Expert Systems’ Computer Architecture | |
| Dan E. Tamir | Abraham Kandel | A Schema for Knowledge Representation and Its Implementation in a Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing System | Associate Professor, Florida Institute of Technology – Melbourne, FL |
| 1988 | |||
| George Meghabghab | Abraham Kandel | Hierarchical Analysis of Visual Motion | Associate Professor, Valdosta State University – Valdosta, GA |
| Kyung Whan Oh | Abraham Kandel | New Methodologies in the Design of a General Purpose Fuzzy Expert System: Applications with AI Based Precipitation Retrieval Designed for Satellite Microwave Measurements | Head of Fuzzy Group, Korean Institute of Technology – Seoul, South Korea |
| 1987 | |||
| Alfred Marlow Henne | Abraham Kandel | Fuzzy Algorithm for Priority Estimation in Immediate Area Networks | Suerdurp Corporation |
| Mordechay Schneider | Abraham Kandel | COFESS: Cooperative Fuzzy Expert Systems for Intelligent Recognition | Associate Professor, Florida Institute of Technology – Melbourne, FL |
| 1986 | |||
| Lawrence O. Hall | Abraham Kandel | A Methodological Approach to a Re-usable Fuzzy Expert System | Associate Professor, University of South Florida – Tampa, FL |
| 1983 | |||
| Dusan Repovs | Christopher Lacher | Generalized Three-Manifolds with Zero-Dimensional Singular Set | Research Professor, University of Ljubljana – Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Marie Zemankova-Leech | Abraham Kandel | Fuzzy Relational Databases | National Science Foundation |
| 1981 | |||
| Joan Marie Francioni | Abraham Kandel | Decomposition of Fuzzy Switching Functions | Associate Professor, University of Southwest Louisiana |