Computer Science M.S. Degree Recipients

2009

  • Grissom, Alvin
    Advisor: Eugene Agichtein
  • Li, Kanwei
    Advisor: James J. Lu
    Dissertation: Cost Analysis of Joins in RDF Query Processing Using the TripleT Index
  • Liu, Yandong
    Advisor: Eugene Agichtein
  • Mudd, Joseph
    Advisor: James J. Lu

2008

  • Dougherty, Daniel
    Advisor: James J. Lu
  • Srivistava, Akanksha
    Advisor: Li Xiong
  • Wang, Lesi
    Advisor: James J. Lu
  • Zhou, Dongfang
    Advisor: James J. Lu

2007

  • Aycock, Matthew
    Advisor: Ken Mandelberg
  • Gardner, James
    Advisor: Li Xiong
  • Hawkins, Samuel
    Advisor: James Lu
  • Liu, Lin
    Advisor: James Lu
  • Lohfert, Robin
    Advisor: James Lu
    Dissertation: Using Dimensional Reduction to Improve the Effect of Propositional Reasoning Systems
  • Rangachari, Kumudhavalli
    Advisor: Li Xiong

2006

  • Dudek, Andrzej
    Advisor: Ronald Gould and Vojtech Rodl
    Dissertation: Planar Ramsey Numbers
  • Healey, Johnny
    Advisor: James Lu
    Dissertation: Yaccscript: a Platform for Intersecting High Level Languages
  • LaRosa, Christopher
    Advisor: Ken Mandelberg and Li Xiong
    Dissertation: MSKD: A Mining System for Kernel Trace Data
  • Morris, Christopher
    Advisor: Ken Mandelberg
    Dissertation: Using Java 3D as a Game Engine
  • Siva, Sebastien
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: Xcast: A Peer-to-Peer Network Communication Primitive
  • Zich, Jan
    Advisor: Vojtech Rodl
    Dissertation: -

2005

  • Franckle, Charles T. Jr.
    Advisor: James Lu
    Dissertation: A Data Management System for Data Without Structures
  • Gadi, Urvashi
    Advisor: Shun Yan Cheung
    Dissertation: Design an Extensible Franework for Providing Distributed Digital Library Services
  • Kim, Sungryong S.
    Advisor: James Lu
    Dissertation: Heuristic for SQL Extension of the XRDB Model
  • Pathak, Saurabh
    Advisor: James Lu
    Dissertation: A Complete Focused Crawling Stystem for Digital Libraries
  • Pirami, Ali
    Advisor: James Lu
    Dissertation: CV-Med Cluster Validation for Microarray Gene Expression Data
  • Scoggins, Matthew
    Advisor: James Lu and Shun Yan Cheung
    Dissertation: SICL: A System for Specifying and Solving Boolean Constraint Problems in Relational Databases
  • Sharma, Yogya
    Advisor: Michelangelo Grigni
    Dissertation: A Separator for Planar Graphs

2004

  • Renjen, Sonali
    Advisor: James Lu
    Dissertation: Normalizing XML Through Relational Databases
  • Sherwood, Adam
    Advisor: Michelangelo Grigni
    Dissertation: An Efficient Implementation of Suffix Trees Indexing the Human Genome
  • Xu, Shufu
    Advisor: Michelangelo Grigni
    Dissertation: An Improvement to the BitTorrent Peer-to-Peer Protocol
  • Zhu, Jian-Au
    Advisor: James Lu
    Dissertation: Dictionary-Based Mulitple Relational Databases (MRDB): A Meta-Driven Approach to Interoperability in Multiple Databases

2003

  • Bavetta, Bayard
    Advisor: Shun Yan Cheung
    Dissertation: TCP Bayard: Laying the Foundation for a Rate-Adaptive Transmission Control Protocol
  • Bryant, Garrett
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: Distrubuted Client-Side Error Recovery in Modern Multimedia Streaming Environments
  • Dunegan, Alexander
    Advisor: Ken Mandelberg
    Dissertation: A Metadata Approach to Managing XML in Relational Databases
  • Hwang, Peter S.
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: MPI Through Firewalls
  • Parikh, Tajus K.
    Advisor: James Lu
    Dissertation: IRIS:Artificially Intelligent Real-time Improvistional System
  • Shkolnik, Alexander
    Advisor: James Lu
    Dissertation: Neurally Controlled Simulated Robot: Applying Cultured Neuons to Handle an Approach/Avoidance Task in Real Time and a Framework for Studying Learning in Virtro
  • Yang, Bo
    Advisor: Shun Yan Cheung
    Dissertation: EGTAPI: Emory Graphical Tool for Assembler Programming Instruction

2002

  • Akhavein, Mehdi
    Advisor: James L. Lu & Shun Yan Cheung
    Dissertation: MetaSQLd: A Database System with SQL Mutable Structure
  • Demetiev, Daniel
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
  • He, Junjun
    Advisor: Shun Yan Cheung
    Dissertation: An Extensible Videoconference Tool for a Collaborative Computing Framework
  • Peck-Walden, Pearce Ian
    Advisor: Ken Madelberg
    Dissertation: Reducing Security Overhead in 802.11b Networks
  • Ruvinsky, Alicia
    Advisor: Shun Yan Cheung
    Dissertation: Monitoring Mobile Agent Hosts: Exploiting Agent Mobility to Optimize Performance of Distributed Computations
  • Tonev, Georgi
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: WLanMonitor: A Network Performance Classification Tool for 802.11b Local Area Wireless Networks
  • Xu, Tao
    Advisor: Michelangelo Grigni
    Dissertation: Data Structures for Extremal Optimization

2001

  • Chandramohan, Srividya
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: A Repository System with Secure Access Control for Computational Environments
  • Sankaran, Gopinath
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: PVM Emulation in the Harness Metacomputing System: A Plug-in Based Approach
  • Zhang, Yingzi
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam and Phil Hutto
    Dissertation: Design and Implementation of a Simple Totally-ordered Reliable Multicast Protocol in Java

1999

  • Malowinska, Malgorzata
    Advisor: Michelangelo Grigni
    Dissertation: An Implementation of a Multi-Round Algorithm for Synchronizing Files Over a Communication Link
  • Pan, Baiyu
    Advisor: Michelangelo Grigni
    Dissertation: Lossy Compression on X Protocols

1998

  • Bozocea, George
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: Agent-Based System for Distributed Processing
  • Karchmar, Adam
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: Java File Manager for the Collaborative Computing Framework Dataspace
  • Nallathambi, Balaguru
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: MTCP: A Scalable, Responsive Congestion Control Scheme for Reliable Multicast
  • Nandyal, Balasubramanian
    Advisor: Shun Yan Cheung
    Dissertation: MIPS - A Mobile IP Simulator
  • Solomon, Michael
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: A Performance Evaluation of Parallel I/O in a Database Environment
  • Tang, Yu
    Advisor: Shun Yan Cheung
    Dissertation: An Active Mulicast Network Testbed

1997

  • Breuker, Carla
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: IMNX: An Input Multiplexer
  • Rammohan, Radhika
    Advisor: Shun Yan Cheung
    Dissertation: Robust Videoconferencing in Best-Effort Networks Using a Hierarchichal Video Codec

1996

  • Liu, Yigong
    Advisor: Ken Mandelberg
    Dissertation: A Study of Parallel Rendering Algorithms

1995

  • Liu, Yan
    Advisor: Shun Yan Cheung
    Dissertation: Design and Implementation of a Parallel Process
  • Sedora, Nancy
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: Implementation and Analysis of the NHT-1 I/O Benchmarks on PIOUS for PVM

1994

  • Ferrari, Adam
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: An Object-Oriented System for Netowrk Concurrent Computing
  • Hartley III, Charles Lewie
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: Distributive Object Programming on General Purpose Networks
  • Jonas, David
    Advisor: Ken Mandelburg
    Dissertation: Enhancing NFS File Monitoring with Pathname Extraction

1993

  • Temko, Benjamin David
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
  • White, Scott
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: NAS Benchmarks on Virtual Parallel Machines

1992

  • Kelley, Melisa Ann
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: An Interactive Tool for Data Parallel Concurrent Processing
  • Miahnahri, Azita
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: Simulation of Attractor Neural Network
  • Schmidt, Brian
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: Empirical Analysis of Overheads in Cluster Environments

1991

  • Wang, Yang
    Advisor: Chang Bang
    Dissertation: Graphic User Interface Language

1989

  • Leung, Raymond Chung-chun
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: Graph Coloring Algorithms
  • Weathers, Donna Ginn
    Advisor: Ken Mandelberg
    Dissertation: Debugging In a Multi-Process, Multi-Window Environment

1988

  • Leon, Edgar
    Advisor: Ken Mandelburg
    Dissertation: MC68000 Simulator for the HOCA Operating System

1987

  • Boris Jerkunica
    Advisor: Chang Bang
    Dissertation: A Further Investigation into the Causes of Pathology in Game Trees
  • Kim, Hong Ryul
    Advisor: Vaidy Sunderam
    Dissertation: A System for Tool Based Solutions to Application Problems

1985

  • Torbert, Julia Burke
    Advisor: Ronald Gould
    Dissertation: The Bandwidth Recution Problem

1982

  • Mobley, Jr., Everett Cullen
    Advisor: Ken Mandelberg
    Dissertation: Software Tools on VS/9

1981

  • Coles, Patricia
    Advisor: John Kevin Doyle
    Dissertation: Parsing LR(K) Grammars

1980

  • Fowler, Joel
    Advisor: Henry Sharp, Jr.
    Dissertation: Hypergraphical Enumeration