1. Multiple Object Tracking Open Access Author: Cui, Aiyu Title: Multiple Object Tracking Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Computer VisionTrackingMotion CaptureTaiji File: Download honorThesisFinal.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Dr. Robert Collins, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
2. BAYESIAN REASONING FOR AUTOMATIC SECURITY MEDIATION PLACEMENT Open Access Author: Zhang, Zichao Title: BAYESIAN REASONING FOR AUTOMATIC SECURITY MEDIATION PLACEMENT Area of Honors: Computer Engineering Keywords: Error diagnosisstatic program analysisinformation flow File: Download Honor_Thesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Danfeng Zhang, Thesis SupervisorJohn Morgan Sampson, Thesis Honors Advisor
3. Utilizing Friendship Networks to Predict User Susceptibility to Fake News Open Access Author: Cowell, Robert Henry Title: Utilizing Friendship Networks to Predict User Susceptibility to Fake News Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: machine learningfake newssocial mediaTwitteruser susceptibilityschool shootings File: Download RobertCowell_Thesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Dongwon Lee, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
4. Performant Binary Fuzzing without Source Code using Static Instrumentation Open Access Author: Pauley, Eric Title: Performant Binary Fuzzing without Source Code using Static Instrumentation Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: FuzzingFuzz TestingBinary AnalysisSecurity File: Download Eric_Pauley_Honors_Thesis_Final.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
5. Towards Applying Machine Learning Technique For Fault Localization Open Access Author: Mao, Jianyu Title: Towards Applying Machine Learning Technique For Fault Localization Area of Honors: Computer Engineering Keywords: Fault LocalizationMachine Learning File: Download JmThesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Danfeng Zhang, Thesis SupervisorJohn Morgan Sampson, Thesis Honors Advisor
6. Data Analysis on Raman Spectroscopy of Alzheimer's Disease Using Machine Learning methods Open Access Author: Wang, Ziyang Title: Data Analysis on Raman Spectroscopy of Alzheimer's Disease Using Machine Learning methods Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Raman SpectroscopyAlzheimer's diseaseMachine learningk - nearest neighbors File: Download thesis_ziyang_wang.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Shengxi Huang, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
7. An Tail Latency guaranteed method based on the distributed system Open Access Author: Wei, Yiyan Title: An Tail Latency guaranteed method based on the distributed system Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: tail latencyRAID0admission control File: Download Yiyan_Wei_HonorThesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Timothy Zhu, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
8. TESTING THE USABILITY AND CONDUCTING THE PROOF OF CONCEPTS OF THE DECENTRALIZED IDENTITY THROUGH THE USE OF DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY WITH REAL CASE ANALYSIS WITHIN UNIVERSITIES Open Access Author: Ma, Tommy Title: TESTING THE USABILITY AND CONDUCTING THE PROOF OF CONCEPTS OF THE DECENTRALIZED IDENTITY THROUGH THE USE OF DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY WITH REAL CASE ANALYSIS WITHIN UNIVERSITIES Area of Honors: Information Sciences and Technology Keywords: DID File: Download Final_Thesis_PDF.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Jack Carroll, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
9. Experiments with Manual and Automated Content Analysis of Student Writing Open Access Author: Rubin, Noah Title: Experiments with Manual and Automated Content Analysis of Student Writing Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: summaryannotationnlp File: Download Rubin_Noah_Experiments_with_Manual_and_Automated_Content_Analysis_of_Student_Writing.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
10. Syntax Hightlighting For Unsafe C API Usage Open Access Author: Dukewich, John Title: Syntax Hightlighting For Unsafe C API Usage Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: syntax highlightingstatic analysis toolsecure C programming File: Download dukewich_thesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
11. Automated Analysis of Information Flow Enforcement in PHP Program Open Access Author: Scott, Paul Title: Automated Analysis of Information Flow Enforcement in PHP Program Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: HotCRPTaint AnalysisInformation Flow File: Download pscott_thesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Danfeng Zhang, Thesis SupervisorRebecca Jane Passonneau, Thesis Honors Advisor
12. Performance Analysis of WebAssembly and JavaScript Engines for Common Geospatial Algorithms Open Access Author: Bullington, Michael Title: Performance Analysis of WebAssembly and JavaScript Engines for Common Geospatial Algorithms Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: geospatialwebassemblyjavascriptcompilersllvmweb File: Download GeospatialWASM.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Danfeng Zhang, Thesis SupervisorJesse Louis Barlow, Thesis Honors Advisor
13. Exploring Timing Channels in Differentially Private Libraries Open Access Author: Yang, Andrew Title: Exploring Timing Channels in Differentially Private Libraries Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: differential privacytiming channelscybersecuritycomputer science File: Download Honors_Thesis_Final.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Danfeng Zhang, Thesis SupervisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Thesis Honors Advisor
14. Improving Meta-Learning Performance Through Task Sampling Techniques Open Access Author: Smith, Jacob C Title: Improving Meta-Learning Performance Through Task Sampling Techniques Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Machine LearningMeta-Learning File: Download JacobSmithHonorsThesisFinal.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Mehrdad Mahdavi, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
15. Indoor Scene Category Merging Using a Modified Davies-Bouldin Index Open Access Author: Coelho, Anthony Title: Indoor Scene Category Merging Using a Modified Davies-Bouldin Index Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Machine LearningSilhouette IndexDavies-Bouldin IndexCentroid Based Concept LearningCategory Merging File: Download AnthonyCoelhoSchreyerHonorsThesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Alan Richard Wagner, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
16. A Comprehensive Analysis of Unresolved Issues and Resource Management in Serverless Computing Environments Open Access Author: Arora, Saksham Title: A Comprehensive Analysis of Unresolved Issues and Resource Management in Serverless Computing Environments Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: ServerlessResource ManagementServerless ComputingCloud ComputingFaaSAWS LambdasContainersVirtual Machines File: Download TheFutureOfServerlessComputingHonorsThesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Bhuvan Narendra Urgaonkar, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
17. Three commercial-relevant application of NLP to Chinese Open Access Author: Chen, Jiawei Title: Three commercial-relevant application of NLP to Chinese Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: natural language processing File: Download JiaweiChen_SchreyerThesis_2021.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
18. Generative Adversarial Networks and Data Starvation Open Access Author: Jugan, Brendan Title: Generative Adversarial Networks and Data Starvation Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: generative adversarial networksdata starvationdeep learninggenerative modeling File: Download Jugan_Brendan_GANs_and_Data_Starvation.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
19. L2-UniFrac Open Access Author: Millward, Andrew Title: L2-UniFrac Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: UniFracBioinformaticsComparative MetagenomicsRepresentative MicrobiomeDistance MetricDifferential Abundance File: Download L2_Unifrac-Andrew_Millward-Schreyer.pdf Thesis Supervisors: David Koslicki, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors AdvisorPaul Medvedev, Faculty Reader
20. improving evidence retrieval for open domain question answering on tables and text Open Access Author: Chen, Qiyu Title: improving evidence retrieval for open domain question answering on tables and text Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Open Domain Question AnsweringOTT-QA File: Download Improving_Evidence_Retrieval_for_Open_Domain_Question_Answering_on_Tables_and_Text.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Rui Zhang, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
21. Robust Image Classification based on Pixel Importance Open Access Author: Chun, Chaewan Title: Robust Image Classification based on Pixel Importance Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: adversarial attackimage analysismachine learningCNNheatmap-based blurringrobustness File: Download Schreyer_Honors_Thesis_Chun.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Jia Li, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
22. Performance Study of General-Purpose GPU Computations Using Kernel Fusion Open Access Author: Paluda, Michael Title: Performance Study of General-Purpose GPU Computations Using Kernel Fusion Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: GPUCUDAKERNELDYNAMIC PARALLELISM File: Download thesis_final_draft.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Anand Sivasubramaniam, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
23. Mobility Management in Wireless Software Defined Networks Open Access Author: Hertzog, Kenton Title: Mobility Management in Wireless Software Defined Networks Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Multilevel securitySoftware-defined networksWireless networksUser Mobility File: Download Hertzog_Kenton_Mobility_Management_in_Software_Defined_Networks.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Thomas F La Porta, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
24. FairLay-ML: Intuitive Remedies for Unfairness in Data-Driven Social-Critical Algorithms Open Access Author: Yu, Normen Title: FairLay-ML: Intuitive Remedies for Unfairness in Data-Driven Social-Critical Algorithms Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: machine learningfairness in AIhuman machine interface File: Download Thesis-final.pdf Thesis Supervisors: G. Gary Tan, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
25. ReLax: A Recourse Explanation Library in Jax Open Access Author: Xiong, Xinchang Title: ReLax: A Recourse Explanation Library in Jax Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Algorithmic RecourseExplainableArtificial IntelligenceInterpretabilityCounterfactual ExplanationAlgorithmic RecourseExplainable Artificial Intelligence File: Download Thesis__5_.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Amulya Yadav, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors AdvisorC Lee Giles, Thesis Supervisor
26. Applying Geneva Censorship Evasion Tool Against Private-Access WiFi Networks Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Haffner, Jill Title: Applying Geneva Censorship Evasion Tool Against Private-Access WiFi Networks Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: censorship evasionTCP/IP protocolsnetwork securityWiFi securitygenetic algorithms File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Syed Rafiul Hussain, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
27. Enhancing Video Streaming Performance on Mobile Devices with Super Resolution Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Gao, Allen Title: Enhancing Video Streaming Performance on Mobile Devices with Super Resolution Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: machine learningmobile computationvideo streamingsuper resolution File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Guohong Cao, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
28. Dragon Defender: Runtime Threat Detection for Cellular Devices Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Ye, Ziping Title: Dragon Defender: Runtime Threat Detection for Cellular Devices Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Machine LearningIntrusion DetectionCellular Network File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Syed Rafiul Hussain, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor
29. Formal verification of approximate differential privacy via the characteristic function Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Patel, Aaryan Title: Formal verification of approximate differential privacy via the characteristic function Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Differential PrivacyFormal VerificationProgramming Languages File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Danfeng Zhang, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors AdvisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Faculty Reader
30. Haptic Feedback System for Percussive Elements in Music Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Vatsal, Shivank Title: Haptic Feedback System for Percussive Elements in Music Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: MusicAudio ProcessingSource SeparationTransformersNonnegative Matrix FactorizationHapticsDecision TreesSpectrogramsOnset Detection File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors Advisor