Doctoral Alumni of the School of Computational Sciences

2006

123. Alexander Antunes - area of study: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Numerical Simulations of Ring Galaxies: First Rings Events, Star Formation, and AMO644-741," advisor: Dr. John Wallin, date of defense: July 25, 2005.

122. Susan Bates - area of study: Climate Dynamics, dissertation title: "The Role of the Annual Cycle in Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Variability in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean," advisor: Dr. Jagadish Shukla, date of defense: April 13, 2006.

121. Robert Burgman - area of study: Climate Dynamics, dissertation title: "ENSO Decadal Variability advisor: Dr. Paul Schopf, date of defense: March 10, 2006.

120. David Andrew Carr - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Site Identification in Proteins Using a Computational Geometry Approach and Multi-body Statistical Potentials," advisor: Dr. Iosif Vaisman, date of defense: April 17, 2006.

119. Kyle A. Caudle - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Non-Parametric Density Estimation of Streaming Data Using Orthogonal Series," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: October 11, 2005.

118. Hrishikesh Deshmukh - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Modeling the Physical Parameters Affecting Measurements from Microarrays," advisor: Dr. Jennifer Weller, date of defense: April 26, 2006.

117. Davide Donato - area of study: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "The X-Ray View of Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei: The Central Engine and its Environment," advisor: Dr. Rita M. Sambruna, date of defense: December 9, 2005.

116. Xiao Dong - area of study: Computational Physics, dissertation title: "Quantum and Classical Simulations of Molecular Clusters," advisor: Dr. Estela Blaisten-Barojas, date of defense: April 24, 2006.

115. Laura Feudale - area of study: Climate Dynamics, dissertation title: "Large Scale Extreme Events in Surface Temperature During 1950-2003: An Observational and Modeling Study," advisor: Dr. Jagadish Shukla, date of defense: April 19, 2006.

114. Xianjun Hao - area of study: Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Estimation of Live Fuel Moisture and Soil Moisture Using Satellite Remote Sensing," advisor: Dr. John J. Qu, date of defense: April 20, 2006.

113. Thomas Heiman - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "An Empirical Assessment of Aggregation and Asynchrony on the Inference of Gene Networks from Gene Expression Data," advisor: Dr. John Grefenstette, date of defense: November 15, 2005.

112. Brandon Higgs - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Deriving Meaningful Structure from Spectral Embedding," advisor: Dr. Jennifer Weller, date of defense September 30, 2005.

111. Arndt Laemmerzahl - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Contributions to the Analysis of Animal Movement Models and Simulation Methodology," advisor: Dr. James Gentle, date of defense: May 26, 2005.

110. Majid Masso - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Application of Statistical Geometry to the Functional Analysis of Protein Mutants," advisor: Dr. Iosif Vaisman, date of defense: February 15, 2006.

109. Ewy Mathe - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Computational Approaches to Study Structural and Functional Effects of Single Point Mutants," advisor: Dr. Iosif Vaisman, date of defense: October 17, 2005.

108. Domenico Napoletani - area of study: Computational Mathematics, dissertation title: "Blind Methods in Data Analysis, Denoising, Signal Separation and Classification," advisor: Dr. Daniele C. Struppa, date of defense: June 8, 2005.

107. My-Hanh Thi Nguyen - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "A Computational Model of the Regulation of Mitochondrial Respiration in Cardiac Ventricular Myocytes," advisor: Dr. M. Saleet Jafri, date of defense: November 30, 2005.

106. Elena Novakovskaia - area of study: Atmospheric Modeling, dissertation title: "Development of a Methodology to Reduce a Near-Surface Prediction Error in Mesoscale Atmospheric Models," advisor: Dr. Zafer Boybeyi, date of defense: May 3, 2006.

105. John G. Pierce - area of study: Bioinformatics, Dissertation Title: Two Studies of Anthrax. I. Altered Gene Expression in Anthrax-Infected Mice II. Mathematical Modeling of the Anthrax Infection Process," advisor: Dr. D. Curtis Jamison, date of defense: April 10, 2006.

104. Vadim L. Ravich - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Computational Studies of Structure and Function of Viral Reverse Transcriptase," advisor: Dr. Iosif Vaisman, date of defense: November 18, 2005.

103. John Tan - area of study: Image Processing, dissertation title: "Applications of Kernel PCA Methods to Geophysical Data," advisor: Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: December 1, 2005.

102. Todd Taylor - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Prediction of Variations in Alpha Helix Geometry with Delaunay Simplex Stacking," advisor: Dr. Iosif Vaisman, date of defense: April 24, 2006.

101. Yury Vikhliaev - area of study: Climate Dynamics, dissertation title: "Decadal Extra-Tropical Pacific Variability," advisor: Dr. Paul Schopf, date of defense: November 29, 2005.

100. Yukun Xing - area of study: Global Change, dissertation title: "Recent Changes in Global Oceanic Latent Heat Flux/Evaporation From Remote Sensing," advisor: Drs. Long Chiu and Ruixin Yang, date of defense: April 25, 2005.

99. Eun Young Noh - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Multivariate Recursive Kernel Density Estimator with Adjustable Discounting of Old Data," advisor: Dr. Edward J. Wegman, date of defense: November 14, 2005.

2005

98. Maxim Barenboim - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Non-synonymous SNPs: Building Neuro-Fuzzy Classifiers Around Computational Geometry," advisor: Dr. D. Curtis Jamison, date of defense: May 2, 2005.

97. Edward Bosch - area of study: Computational Mathematics, dissertation title: "Perturbed Neural Network Backpropagation: Learning and Adaptive Wavelets for Improved Classification of High-Dimensional Datasets," advisor: Dr. Jeng-Eng Lin, date of defense: February 17, 2005.

96. Robert DeMajistre - area of study: Earth Observing and Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Inverse Methods Applied to Space Based Remote Sensing Data: Methods and Case Studies," advisors: Dr. James H. Beall and Dr. Jeng-Hwa Yee, date of defense: February 4, 2005.

95. Aamer Haque - area of study: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Calibration of Equations of State and Design of High-Pressure Shock Wave Experiments Using Numerical Simulation," advisor: Dr. John Wallin, date of defense: May 2, 2005.

94. Yasmin Said - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Agent-Based Simulation of Ecological Alcohol Systems," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: May 4, 2005.

93. Lei Shi  - area of study: Computer Design of Materials, dissertation title: "Electronic Structure Calculations of Materials: Methods and Applications,"  advisor: Dr. Dimitrios A. Papaconstantopoulos, date of defense: April 22, 2005.

92. Jonathon Schuler - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Statistical Investigations in Multi-Frame Image Restoration Techniques," advisor: Dr. James Gentle, date of defense: January 15, 2005.

91. Steven Zalesak - area of study: Computational Fluid Dynamics, dissertation title: "The Design of Flux-Corrected Transport (FCT) Algorithms on Structured Grids," advisor: Dr. Rainald Lohner, date of defense: April 22, 2005.

2004

90. Ali Al-Timimi - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Chaos and Complexity in Cancer," advisor: Dr. D. Curtis Jamison, date of defense: December 1, 2004.

89. Whit Anderson - area of study: Climate Dynamics, dissertation title: "Oceanic Sill - Overflow Systems: Investigation and Simulation with the Poseidon Ocean General Circulation Model," advisor: Dr. Paul Schopf, date of defense: December 1, 2004.

88. Nilanjana Banerjee - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Computational Analysis of Transcription Regulation," advisor: Dr. Michael Zhang, date of defense: April 26, 2004.

87. Nai-Hua Chen - area of study: Computational Fluid Dynamics, dissertation title: "Multigrid Methods for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Problem of Unstructured Meshes," advisor: Dr. Rainald Lohner, date of defense: March 26, 2004.

86. Guido Cervone - area of study: Earth Observing and Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Data Mining of Atmospheric Parameters Associated with Coastal Earthquakes," advisor: Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: November 3, 2004.

85. Deborah Duong - area of study: Computational Social Science, dissertation title: "SISTER: A Symbolic Interactionist Simulation of Trade and Emergent Roles," advisor: Dr. John Grefenstette, date of defense: April 22, 2004.

84. Nash'at Ahmad - area of study: Atmospheric Dispersion, dissertation title: "Navier-Stokes Solver on Unstructured Meshes," advisor: Dr. Zafer Boybeyi, date of defense: March 5, 2004.

83. Nadim Alkharouf - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Functional Genomics of the Soybean-Cyst Nematode Interaction," advisor: Dr. Benjamin Matthews, date of defense: April 14, 2004.

82. Hesham El-Askary - area of study: Earth Observing and Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Regional Monitoring of Environmental Physics Climate Related Anomalies," advisor: Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: March 22, 2004.

81. Yongjian Guo - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "The Distribution of Human SNPs in Gene Promoter and Coding Regions," advisor: Dr. D. Curtis Jamison, date of defense: November 11, 2004.

80. Sohyoung Kim - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Mechanisms and Models of Gene Regulation," advisor: Dr. John Grefenstette, date of defense: May 24, 2004.

79. Truong Le - area of study: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Formation of Relativistic Outflows in Advection-Dominated Accretion Disks with Shocks," advisor: Dr. Peter A. Becker, date of defense: August 27, 2004, currently employed at: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.

78. Mark Lukens - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Examination of Statistical Outlier Structure in High Dimension Using Interpoint Distance Densities and Multivariate Rankings," advisor: Dr. James Gentle, date of defense: August 3, 2004.

77. Julia Manganello - area of study: Climate Dynamics, dissertation title: "The Influence of Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies on Low-Frequency Variability of the North Atlantic Oscillation," advisor: Dr. Jagadish Shukla, date of defense: April 8, 2004.

76. Lakshmi Kumar Matukumalli - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Development of Bioinformatics Applications for Prediction and Validation of Polymorphisms in Soybean (Glycine Max) Genome Using EST Data," advisor: Dr. John Grefenstette, date of defense: July 12, 2004.

75. Daniel Owunwanne - area of study: Earth Observing and Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Using UML Approach to Model Data Interoperability in Federated Distributed Databases with Earth Science Data Applications," advisor: Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: November 14, 2004.

74. Sudipta Sarkar - area of study: Earth Observing and Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Land Cover Variability and Its Effect on Monsoon Rainfall Over South East Asia," advisor: Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: October 29, 2004.

73. Nickolai Shaposhnikov - area of study: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Theory of Type I X-Ray Bursts. Application to Observational Data Analysis: Masses and Radii of Neutron Stars," advisor: Dr. Lev Titarchuk, date of defense: May 4, 2004, currently employed at: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.

72. Yuguang Zhang - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Innovations in Visual Analytic Software for Geospatially-Indexed Statistics," advisors: Dr. Daniel Carr and Dr. Jim Chen, date of defense: June 18, 2004.

2003

71. Stephen Glanowski - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Computational Analysis of Mitochondrial Sequence Diversity in Shotgun Sequence Data," advisor: Dr. Keith McKenney, date of defense: November 12, 2003.

70. Owen Keefer - area of study: Earth Observing and Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Analysis of U.S. Tornadoes Spawned by Atlantic Hurricanes and Influenced by Enso Phases," advisor: Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: April 28, 2003.

69. Beatrice Kilel - area of study: Computational Genomics, dissertation title: "Analysis of Chloroplast Genomes Databases and Relationships using Whole Genome Information Tools," advisor: Dr. Thomas Sitz, date of defense: November 7, 2003.

68. Stepan Kruglikov - area of study: Computational Neuroscience, dissertation title: "Methods of Acquisition and Analysis of Auditory Evoked Potentials," advisor: Dr. Steven J. Schiff, date of defense: November 24, 2003.

67. Chai Lim - area of study: Earth Observing and Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Vegetation Dynamics using AVHRR/NDVI: Regional Climate, CO2 Fertilization and Crop Yield Relations," advisor: Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: August 21, 2003, currently employed at: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.

66. Duncan MacPherson - area of study: Earth Observing and Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Detecting, Extracting, and Visualizing Weak Signatures in Hyperspectral Data," advisor: Dr. Jim Chen, date of defense: April 30, 2003.

65. Foudan Salem - area of study: Earth Observing and Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Hyperspectral Remote Sensing as a New Approach for Oil Spill Detection and Analysis," advisor: Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: April 10, 2003.

64. Ruggero Scorcioni - area of study: Computational Neuroscience, dissertation title: "Software Tools for the Analysis, Comparison, and Generation of Neuronal 3D Structure," advisor: Dr. Giorgio Ascoli, date of defense: November 21, 2003.

63. James Shine - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Improving Spatial Classification Methods by using Concomitant Information," advisor: Dr. Daniel Carr, date of defense: May 1, 2003.

62. Lorraine Tanabe - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Text Mining the Biomedical Literature for Genetic Knowledge," advisor: Dr. Lawrence Hunter, date of defense: April 2, 2003.

61. Ronald Taylor - area of study: Bioinformatics, dissertation title: "Reconstruction of Metabolic and Genetic Networks from Gene Expression Perturbation Data using a Boolean Model," advisor: Dr. Lawrence Hunter, date of defense: April 18, 2003.

2002

60. Fernando Camelli - area of study: Computational Fluid Dynamics, dissertation title: "Study of Atmospheric Dispersion at Building and Street Scales," advisor: Dr. Rainald Lohner, date of defense: June 4, 2002, currently employed at: George Mason University.

59. Joseph Chang - area of study: Atmospheric Dispersion, dissertation title: "Methodologies for Evaluating Performance and Assessing Uncertainty of Atmospheric Dispersion Models," advisor: Dr. Steven Hanna, date of defense: November 5, 2002, currently employed at: George Mason University.

58. Sinthop Kaewpijit - area of study: High Performance Computing, dissertation title: "High-Performance Dimension Reduction of Hyperspectral Data," advisor: Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi, date of defense: August 30, 2002.

57. Angel R. Martinez - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "A Framework for the Representation of Semantics," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: November 18, 2002, currently employed at: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA.

56. Jeffrey Mirick - area of study: Computational Chemistry, dissertation title: "A Study of Molecular Processes in Calcium Clusters, Sarin, and Calcium Carbonate Clusters," advisor: Dr. Estela Blaisten-Barojas, date of defense: April 26, 2002, currently employed at: National Imagery and Mapping Agency.

55. Thomas Sullivan - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Classification Methods for Augmented Arc-Weighted Graphs," advisor: Dr. James Gentle, date of defense: April 12, 2002.

54. Jearanai Vongsaard - area of study: Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Automatic Morphing Using Image Registration: Application to Continuous Tracking of Radar Rain Reflectivity Fields," advisors: Dr. Long Chiu and Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi, date of defense: April 30, 2002.

53. Guanming Wang - area of study: Computer Design of Materials, dissertation title: "Electronic and Thermodynamic Properties of Alkaline Earths," advisor: Dr. Estela Blaisten-Barojas, date of defense: December 6, 2002, currently employed at: Naval Research Laboratory.

52. Edward J. Wright - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Understanding and Managing Uncertainty in Geospatial Data for Tactical Decision Aids," advisors: Dr. Dan Carr and Dr. Kathy Laskey, date of defense: August 6, 2002, currently employed at: U.S. Army.

2001

51. Amrut Champaneri - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Multivariate Density Estimation: Some Statistical Properties," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: January 8, 2001, currently employed at: U.S. Government.

50. Karsten Engelmann - area of study: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Risk Assessment Informatics and Analysis for Toxic Chemical Release," advisor: Dr. Dan Carr, date of defense: March 21, 2001, currently employed at: U.S. Army Concepts Analysis Agency.

49. Robert Fischer - area of study: Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Modeling Radiometric Effects on Airborne Multispectral Videography," advisor: Dr. Barry Haack, date of defense: November 14, 2001.

48. Rida Moustafa - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Fast Conceptual Clustering Algorithms for Data Mining and Visualization," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: June 18, 2001, currently employed at: George Mason University.

2000

47. Charles Bradshaw - area of study: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Very High Resolution Trigonometric Parallax and Structure Measurements of Scorpius X-1," advisors: Dr. John Wallin and Dr. Bernard Geldzahler, date of defense: August 7, 2000, currently employed at: Mitre Corporation.

46. Rolando Castro - area of study: Computational Mathematics, dissertation title: "System Reconstruction from Spike Trains," advisor: Dr. Timothy Sauer, date of defense: March 9, 2000.

45. Chang-Hong Chien - area of study: Computer Design of Materials, dissertation title: "Dynamics and Electronic Structure of Neutral and Multiply Charged Clusters using Density Functional Theory," advisor: Dr. Estela Blaisten-Barojas, date of defense: April 13, 2000. currently employed at: Department of Physics, National Taiwan University.

44. Glenn Easley - area of study: Computational Mathematics, dissertation title: "Computational Solutions to the Multi-Channel Deconvolution Problem via the Analytic Bezout Equation," advisor: Dr. David Walnut, date of defense: May 31, 2000.

43. Robert Garian - area of study: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Prediction of Dimeric Structure of Proteins from Amino Acid Sequences," advisor: Dr. Patrick Gillevet, date of defense: January 15, 2000, currently employed at: Library of Congress.

42. Anil Khatri - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Validation of Patient Headache Care Education Systems Developed from a Software Resue Reference Model," advisor: Dr. David Rine, date of defense: January 10, 2000, currently employed at: Department of Commerce, Johns Hopkins University.

41. Connor McGrath - area of study: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Homology Modeling of Retroviral Zinc Fingers," advisor: Dr. George Michaels, date of defense: April 6, 2000.

40. Jacob Waltz - area of study: Computational Fluid Dynamics, dissertation title: "Unstructured Multigrid for Time Dependent Incompressible Fluid Flow," advisor: Dr. Rainald Lohner, date of defense: March 3, 2000.

39. Keun-Hang Yang - area of study: Computational Neuroscience, dissertation title: "Potassium Channels and PKC Activation Underlying Temporal Specificity of Classical Conditioning," advisor: Dr. Kim L. Blackwell, date of defense: July 7, 2000, currently employed at: The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (a division of the National Institutes of Health).

38. Le Yi Yang - area of study: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Viscous Accretion Flows in General Relativistic Metrics," advisor: Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: July 17, 2000.

1999

37. Brahim Akdim  - area of study: Computer Design of Materials, dissertation title: "Application of the NRL Tight-Binding Total Energy Method to sp Metals and Compounds,"  advisor: Dr. Dimitrios A. Papaconstantopoulos, date of defense: December 8, 1999, currently employed at: Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory.

36. Prachya Chalermwat - area of study: High-Performance Computing, dissertation title: "High Performance Automatic Image Registration," advisor: Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi, date of defense: November 12, 1999.

35. Robert Erb - area of study: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Analysis and Modeling of Gene Expression Circuits," advisor: Dr. George Michaels, date of defense: March 24, 1999, currently employed at: George Mason University.

34. Harry Erwin - area of study: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "A Computational Sensormotor Model of Bat Biosonar," advisor: Dr. Cynthia Moss, date of defense: November 5, 1999, currently employed at: Senior Lecturer, University of Sunderland, England.

33. Julia Faultleroy - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "The Effect of Alternative Measures of Distance in Distance-Weighted Smoothing Techniques for Spatial Data," advisor: Dr. Daniel Carr, date of defense: March 23, 1999, currently employed at: Center for Naval Analysis.

32. Sharon Moulden - area of study: Computational Mathematics, dissertation title: "Computational Methods for the Exact Linearization and Observer Linearization Problems for Nonlinear Systems," advisor: Dr. Andre Manitius, date of defense: February 2, 1999, currently employed at: GTE Internetworking.

31. Paul Salamonowicz - area of study: Computational Mathematics, dissertation title: "A Wavelet Based Gravity Model with an Application to the Evaluation of Stokes Integral," advisor: Dr. David Walnut, date of defense: June 7, 1999.

30. Patrick Vandersluis - area of study: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Detecting Silent Ischemia: Enhanced Visualization of Cardiac Electrophysiology Using Virtual Leads," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: April 7, 1999, currently employed at: Source Data Corporation.

29. Timothy Yoder - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Time-Frequency-Aspect Analysis and Visualization of Acoustic Scattering from Elastic Shells Submerged in Water," advisor: Dr. Charles Gaumond, date of defense: October 29, 1999.

28. Barry Zeeberg - area of study: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Whole Genome Information Analysis and Processing, " advisor: Dr. Lawrence Hunter, date of defense: June 22, 1999.

1998

27. Michael Bear - area of study: Computational Physics, dissertation title: "Coupled Plasma/Solid-Surface Modeling Tool," advisor: Dr. John Guillory, date of defense: April 17, 1998, currently employed at: Lockheed Martin.

26. Thomas Forbang - area of study: Computer Design of Materials, dissertation title: "Electron-Phonon Scattering Rates and Mobilities in GaAs/AlAs and GaN/AlN Quantum Wells," advisor: Dr. Cynthia McIntyre, date of defense: October 19, 1998, currently employed at: Synapsys, Inc.

25. Bradley Graham - area of study: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Modeled Performance of a Compton Telescope Based on Planar Germanium Detectors," advisor: Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: July 8, 1998, currently employed at: Systems Engineering Group.

24. Michael Keegan - area of study: Computer Design of Materials, dissertation title: "New Methodology for Computationally Efficient Band Structure and Calculations and Database of Electronic Structure," advisor: Dr. Dimitrios A. Papaconstantopoulos, date of defense: December 17, 1998, currently employed at: Naval Research Lab.

23. Mohammed Lach-Hab - area of study: Computer Design of Materials, dissertation title: "Simulation of Aggregation Processes in Colloids," advisor: Dr. Estela Blaisten-Barojas, date of defense: May 4, 1998, currently employed at: Naval Research Laboratory.

22. Jeongin Lee - area of study: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "The Cosmic Ray All-Particle Energy Spectrum," advisor: Dr. Robert Ellsworth, date of defense: March 27, 1998.

21. Jonathan Levine - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Analysis of Variance When Interaction May Be Present: A Problem in Analyzing Multicenter Clinical Trials," advisor: Dr. John Miller, date of defense: May 6, 1998, currently employed at: Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration.

20. Zuotao Li - area of study: Earth Observing and Remote Sensing, dissertation title: "Data Management and Knowledge Discovery Approaches in On-Line Earth Science Data Information System Design," advisor: Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: April 16, 1998, currently employed at: George Mason University.

19. Gabriela Marani - area of study: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Statistical and Time Analyses of Gamma-Ray Bursts," advisor: Dr. Robert Nemiroff, date of defense: May 15, 1998, currently employed at: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.

18. Imran Shah - area of study: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Predicting Enzyme Function From Sequence," advisor: Dr. Lawrence Hunter, date of defense: November 11, 1998, currently employed at: School of Medicine, University of Colorado.

17. Jaroslaw Tuszynski - area of study: Computational Fluid Dynamics, dissertation title: "Control of a Karman Vortex Flow By Rotational Oscillations of a Cylinder," advisor: Dr. Rainald Lohner, date of defense: May 12, 1998.

16. Jingfang Wang - area of study: Computational Fluid Dynamics, dissertation title: "Modeling and Simulation of Dust Behaviors Behind a Moving Vehicle," advisor: Dr. Jim Chen, date of defense: November 6, 1998, currently employed at: George Mason University.

15. Kwang-Su Yang - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Toward Refinements of Spatial Smoothers: Attending to Details in Computationally Intensive Settings," advisor: Dr. Daniel Carr, date of defense: December 15, 1998, currently employed at: George Mason University.

1997

14. Anjuli Bamzai - area of study: Climate Dynamics and Global Change, dissertation title: "Observational and Modeling Study of Snow and Its Relation to the Indian Summer Monsoon," advisor: Dr. Jagadish Shukla, date of defense: March 27, 1997, currently employed at: National Science Foundation.

13. Jeffrey Krichmar - area of study: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "A Computational Model of Cerebellar Saccadic Control," advisor: Dr. Lawrence Hunter, date of defense: May 1, 1997, currently employed at: Krasnow Institute, George Mason University.

12. Shan-Chuan Li - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Nonparemetric Density Estimation With Wavelets and the Method of Sieves," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: January 17, 1997.

11. Yibing Li - area of study: Computer Design of Materials, dissertation title: "Molecular Dynamics and Electron Structure of Metals: The Coloumb Fission of Highly Charged Metal Clusters," advisor: Dr. Estela Blaisten Barojas, date of defense: July 11, 1997, currently employed at: GlobalNetXchange, Inc.

10. Elio Ramos-Colon - area of study: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "High-Energy Multifrequency Observations and Analysis of Blazars," advisor, Dr. Menas Kafatos, date of defense: July 15, 1997, currently employed at: University of Puerto Rico.

9. David Rose - area of study: Computational Physics, dissertation title: "Particle-In-Cell Simulations of Intense Charged Particle Beam Transport," advisor: Dr. John Guillory, date of defense: June 30, 1997, currently employed at: Naval Research Laboratory.

8. Prasad Subramanian - area of study: Space Sciences, dissertation title: "Tangled Magnetic Fields in Black Hole Accretion Disks: Implications for Viscosity and Particle Acceleration," advisor: Dr. Peter A. Becker, date of defense: August 4, 1997, currently employed at: Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India.

7. Navachat Tongvichit - area of study: Computational Biology, dissertation title: "Web-Based Genographics Used in Federated Information Manager for Genome Analysis," advisor: Dr. George Michaels, date of defense: August 16, 1997.

1996

6. Juan Cebral - area of study: Computational Fluid Dynamics, dissertation title: "Loose Coupling Algorithms for Fluid-Structure Interaction," advisor: Dr. Rainald Lohner, date of defense: June 11, 1996, currently employed at: George Mason University.

5. Juan Carlos Chaves - area of study: Computational Physics, dissertation title: "Transport Properties and Phase Diagrams for Aperiodic Fermion Systems," advisor: Dr. Indubala Satija, date of defense: October 16, 1996, currently employed at: Army Research Laboratory, MSRC.

4. David Marchette - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "The Filtered Kernel Density Estimator," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: July 15, 1996,

3. Barnabas Takacs - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Perception and Recognition of Human Faces," advisor: Dr. Harry Wechsler, date of defense: September 3, 1996, currently employed at: Virtual Celebrity Productions; Director, Image/Vision Analysis, Los Angeles, CA.

1995

2. Wendy Poston - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Optimal Subset Selection Methods," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: March 21, 1995, currently employed at: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA.

1. Jeffrey Solka - area of study: Computational Statistics, dissertation title: "Matching Model Information Content to Data Information," advisor: Dr. Edward Wegman, date of defense: March 21, 1995, currently employed at: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA.

 

 

 

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