MASTER'S THESES AND PROJECTS

M.S. Theses completed

Academic Advising at UIC:

• 1. Howard Jiang, "An Approach to Program Slicing for Programming Language C", March 1986.
• 2. Huiyu Wang, "An Approach to Distributed Software Systems Testing", April 1986. [Motorola]
• 3. Daniel Yao, "An Efficient Parallelizing Allocation Algorithm for Distributed Computing System", March 1987. [Motorola]
• 4. Jeffrey Yang, "A New Approach to Software Reliability Modeling", March 1987. [Unisys]
• 5. Dejan Srdjevic, "An Approach to Distributed Software System Debugging", July 1987.
• 6. Rong-Lin Shen, "High-Level Petri-Net Models for Scene Analysis", Nov. 1987. [Taiwan Institute of Technology]
• 7. Mu-Fen Chin, "A Petri Net to Great SPN Translator for Performance Analysis of Distributed Computing Systems", Jan. 1988. [Bell Labs]
• 8. Naray Gopal, "A Knowledge-Based System Approach to the Development of A System Functional Requirement Specification Processor", Jan. 1988. [Bell Labs]
• 9. Khalil Dajani, "Distributed Debugging", Jan. 1991. [Motorola]
• 10. Harry Kougias, "Modeling of X.25 in Petri Net using GSPN", March 1991. [Rockwell International]
• 11. Kevin G. Andersen, "Fundamental Metrics for Object-Oriented Software Development", Dec. 1995. {Motorola}
• 12. Edwin Sinio Gonzales, "A Theory and Evaluation of Class-Based Complexity Metrics", March 1996. [Motorola]
• 13. Yi Ming Zhou, "A Better Usage of the Cluster Placement Scheme for a Large-scale Video-On-Demand (VOD) Server", May 1996.
• 14. Lie Cai, "Formalizing Robert's Rules of Order in Petri Nets", Aug. 1997. [Motorola]
• 15. Yu Di, “Timeline Based Model for Project Scheduling with Genetic Algorithms”, March 2001. [[The Hull Group]
• 16. Yu Zhu, “Goal-Oriented Impact Estimation of Requirements Changes”, October 2001. [3Com]
• 17. Jeffrey Wise, “Using UML for Performance Specification and Analysis of Distributed Software Systems,” October 2002. [3Com]

Academic Advising at ISU:

• 18. Shamshul Shaikh, “Autoforms: a tool to enable rapid application development”, Fall 2003. (with Simanta Mitra)
• 19. Yujia Ge, “Capability based Software Project Scheduling with System Dynamics and Heuristic Search,” November 2004. [Zhejiang Gongshang University]
• 20. Dmitry Kirilov, “PANORAMA - a tool to deal with multiple decompositions of a software system,” Spring 2008. (with Simanta Mitra)
• 21. Renish Palapetty, “An Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of PANORAMA as a Maintenance Tool”, December 2009. [Cerner Corp] (with Simanta Mitra)
• 22. Liyuan Xiao, “Automated Web Service Composition Using Genetic Programming”, December 2009. [moved on to PhD]
• 23. Naga Bhagvanth Ram Vattumalli, “Panorama – a software maintenance tool”, December, 2010. (with Simanta Mitra)
• 24. Heyong Wang, “Learning Node Relationship in Social Networks”, May, 2012.
• 25. Archit Saraf, “Design and development of a tool to analyze and extract useful parts of code from open source projects”, May 2012. (with Simanta Mitra)
• 26. Jasmeet Singh, “Extract Class Refactoring by analyzing class variables”, July 2013. (with Simanta Mitra)
• 27. Arvind Madhaven, “Semi Automated User Acceptance Testing using Natural Language Techniques”, May 2014. (with Simanta Mitra)
• 28. Tim Garrett, “An initial matching and mapping for dense 3D object tracking in augmented reality applications”, (with James Oliver as co-major advisor), May 2015.
• 29. Kishore-Kumar Kailainathan, “Integrated Release Planning with Agile Project Management – using Agilefant”, May 2016.
• 30. Greeshma Padiri, “Differentiating Problem Solving Approaches for Contest Teams – a Brainwave Approach”, May 2018.
• 31. Han-Shu Chang, “Automatic threshold computation for traffic incident detection using INRIX”, December 2019.
• 32. Mohammad (Shaiqur) Rahman, “ADL**2 – A Description Language for Activities of Daily Living”, December 2020.
• 33. Wei Dong, “Using a system dynamics simulation model to explore the validity of dynamics of Agile software development”, May 2021.

M.S. Projects completed and in progress

At UIC I advised more than 200 MS projects. At ISU I graduated the following MS students (Creative Component) , and am advising a few more MS projects.

• Hajeong (Lisa) Lim, “Tracking Of Parents (TOP) Project by Location Based Service”, May 2014.
• Yi Liang, “A Data Capture System for the Correlation between Emotion and Gesture”, December 2015.
• Yi Zhai, “Empower Agilefant”, May 2017.
• Tianxiang Gao, “Design and Construction of an EEG Data Collection and Analysis Platform”, May 2017.
• Renchang (Richard) Miao, “ADL Data Collector Implementation and Experimental Validation on iOS Platform”, May 2017.
• Minxian Li, “Activity Classification for User’s Activities of Daily Living”, May 2017.
• Greeshma Padiri, “Differentiating Problem Solving Approaches for Contest Teams – a Brainwave Approach”, May 2018.
• Yongan Liao, “Immersive Intervention of Activities of Daily Living”. December 2018.
• Xinxin Yang, “A Scrum Decision Making Model”, December 2018.
• Yan Deng, “Development of Emotion-Based Education Software”, December 2018.
• Weijia Zhao,, “Real-Time Indoor Movement Animation System In 3D Environment”, May 2019.
• Vikas Jyoty, “HirePro: Aiding “Aging in Place” via Connecting Caregiver to Older Adults through Web Application”, May 2019.
• Junteng Li, “ADL Data Capturing System: A Big Data Approach”, July 2019.
• Meifang Chen, “Implementation and Usability Testing of a Cross-platform Mood-based Video Recommender System for Older Adults”, May 2020.
• Umesh Maharshi Chinalachi, “Wireless Automatic Fall Detection System”, May 2020.
• Yilin Wu, “An Indoor Bluetooth-Centric Proximity Based Positioning System”, May 2020.
• Krishnan Subramanian, “Severe Weather Analysis Tool”, May 2020.

M.S. Theses in progress

• Mingdian Liu, "Deep Learning”, Expected: May 2023.