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Recent PhDs

This is the list of graduate student's Ph.D. dissertations in Mathematical and Computational Sciences with all three options included.

Year Name Dissertation Title Electronic Dissertation Link Committee (*chair, **co-chair) Last known place
August 2023 Eliot Courtois Topological Data Analysis of Convolutional Neural Networks Using Depthwise Separable Convolutions Dissertation Adrian Clingher*
Haiyan Cai
David Covert
Qingtang Jiang
May 2023 Adam Wagenkencht Topological Data Analysis of Weight Spaces in Convolutional Neural Networks Dissertation Adrian Clingher*
Haiyan Cai
David Covert
Prabhakar Rao
May 2023 Nora Alosily Loss Scaling and Step Size in Deep Learning Optimizatio Dissertation Sanjiv Bhatia*
Badri Adhikari
Sharlee Climer
Henry Kang
May 2022 Naresh Kshetri The Global Rise of Online Devices, Cyber Crime and Cyber Defense: Enhancing Ethical Actions, Counter Measures, Cyber Strategy, and Approaches Dissertation Keith W. Miller*
Sharelee Climer
Wenjie He
Shaji A. Khan
May 2021 Johara Albaliwi Construct Linear Quasi-Interpolants on Infinite Intervals Dissertation Wenjie He*
Haiyan Cai
Adrian Clingher
Qingtang Jiang
May 2021 Perian Perdhiku Matrix Product Structure of a Permuted Quasi Cyclic Code and Its dual Dissertation Ravindra Girivaru*
Adrian Clingher
David Covert
Prabhakar Rao
May 2021 Abdelbaset Zeyani Instantaneous Frequency Estimation and Signal Separation Using Fractional Continuous Wavelet Transform Dissertation Qingtang Jiang*
Haiyan Cai
Adrian Clingher
Wenjie He
August 2020 Abeer Alzahrani Construct Local Quasi-Interpolation Operators Using Linear B-Splines Dissertation Wenjie He*
Haiyan Cai
Qingtang Jiang
Yuefeng Wu
May 2020 Jawaher Alzahrani High-Order Adaptive Synchrosqueezing Transform Dissertation Qingtang Jiang*
Haiyan Cai
Wenjie He
Yuefeng Wu
December 2019 Abdulmtalb Hussen Recover Data in Sparse Expansion Forms Modeled by Special Basis Functions Dissertation Wenjie He*
Adrian Clingher
Qingtang Jiang
Yuefeng Wu
August 2019 William Brummond Kirkman Triple Systems of Order n with Minimum BlockSum equal to n, for Access Balancing in DistributedStorage. Dissertation Ravindra Girivaru*
David Covert
Ronald Dotzel
Prabhakar Rao
Yuefeng Wu
August 2019 George Gerules Enhancing Scalability in Genetic Programming with Adaptable Constraints, Type Constraints andAutomatically Defined Functions Dissertation Cezary Z. Janikow*
Uday Chakraborty**
John Aleshunas
Mark Hauschild		 Visiting Professor at Webster University
December 2018 Salahddeen Khalifa Divisibility in the Stone-Cech Compactification of N Dissertation Ronald Dotzel*
Adrian Clingher
Ravindra Girivaru
Prabhakar Rao
May  2018 Khulud Ziadi Highly Symmetric Multiple Bi-Frames for Curve andSurface Multiresolution Processing Dissertation Qingtang Jiang*
Haiyan Cai
Wenjie He
Yuefeng Wu
May  2017 Hanan Alkhidhr Correspondence between MultiwaveletShrinkage/Multiple Wavelet Frame Shrinkage andNonlinear Diffusion Dissertation Qingtang Jiang*
Haiyan Cai
Wenjie He
Yuefeng Wu
May  2017 Sumudu S. Kalubowila Mathematical Approaches to Digital Image Inpainting Dissertation Qingtang Jiang*
Haiyan Cai
Wenjie He
Yuefeng Wu
May  2015 Maria Van der Walt Wavelet Analysis of Non-Stationary Signals withApplications Dissertation Charles Chui*
Haiyan Cai**
Qingtang Jiang
Wenjie He
Yuefeng Wu
May  2014 Lihua (Tom) Li Basis Function Approaches for Two DimensionalCochlear Models Dissertation Charles Chui*
Uday Chakraborty
Wenjie He
Henry Kang
December 2013 Mark W. Hauschild Using Prior Knowledge and Learning from Experience inEstimation of Distribution Algorithms Dissertation Cezary Janikow*
Sanjiv Bhatia
Uday Chakraborty
Henry Kang		 Assistant Teaching Professor
May  2013 John J. Aleshunas GP Representation Space Reduction Using a TieredSearch Scheme Dissertation Cezary Janikow*
Sanjiv Bhatia
Uday Chakraborty
Wenjie He		 Professor at Webster University
May  2012 Rosalie Wheeler Function estimation of irregularly spaced data with longmemory dependence Dissertation Haiyan Cai*
Ron Dotzel
Wenjie He
Qingtang Jiang
December 2011 Robert Murphy Partial Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks Dissertation Haiyan Cai*Adrian ClingherWenjie HeNevena Maric
December 2011 James J. Smith Geometric Structures on Matrix-valued SubdivisionSchemes Dissertation Qingtang Jiang*
Charles Chui
Wenjie He
Henry Kang
August 2009 Weiwei Zhu The Multilevel Structures of NURBs and NURBlets Dissertation Wenjie He*
Charles Chui
Haiyan Cai
Qingtang Jiang
August 2006 David Stamps Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for RegressionSplines with a Penalized Acceptance Ratio Dissertation Haiyan Cai*
Charles Chui
Ron Dotzel
Qingtang Jiang
August 2006 Eric Mason Image Segmentation by Energy and Related FunctionalMinimization Methods Dissertation Charles Chui*
Haiyan Cai
Wenjie He
Henry Kang
May  2006 Rokhaya Daba Ndao Subdivision Schemes for the Design and Rendering of 3-D Surfaces Charles Chui*
Sheilah Clarke Ekong
Wenjie He
Qingtang Jiang**
December 2005 Karen Wurdack Hierarchical Kalman Filtering Charles Chui*
Haiyan Cai**
Qingtang Jiang
Ta-Pei Cheng