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# Master’s Theses
# 2024
Ali Bakhshi, Securing Smart Contracts: Strategies for Identifying and Mitigating Vulnerabilities in Blockchain Applications (Supervisor: )
# 2023
Aaron Moody, Summarizing Crowd Sourced Reviews with Natural Language Processing (Supervisor: )
Sampurna Shrestha, Comparing Document Relationships Between Distributional Semantic Models (Supervisor: )
# 2022
Amber D. Abernathy,  (Supervisor: )
Furkan Dinc, A New Set of Real-Time Performance Aware Algorithms for Virtual Reality Based Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Surgery Simulation (Supervisor: Dr. Kockara)
Makenzie Spurling,  (Supervisor: )
Qiuyun Tian,  (Supervisor: )
# 2021
Falla Z. Coulibaly, Software Obfuscation for Security of COTS-Based Embedded Systems (Supervisor: Dr. Patooghy)
Jared McCune,  (Supervisor: Dr. Kursun)
Hoa Nguyen,  (Supervisors: Dr. Kursun and Dr. Alsharif)
Khalil Oumimoun, Virtual Rotator Cuff Arthroscopic Skill Trainer (Supervisor: Dr. Halic)
Sydnee Phillips, The Effects of Gaze Angle and Iris Size on Off-Angle Iris Recognition Using Deep Learning (Supervisor: )
Beiimbet Sarsekeyev,  (Supervisor: Dr. Kursun)
# 2020
Mehmet Alpaydin, Skin Lesion Detection and Tracking Platform for Total Body Photography (Supervisor: Dr. Kockara)
Garrett Brown,  (Supervisor: )
Reese Childers,  (Supervisor: )
Zeqing Dong,  (Supervisor: )
Seema Shedage, Development of Virtual Skill Trainers and Their Validation Study Analysis Using Machine Learning (Supervisor: Dr. Halic)
Skyler Thompson,  (Supervisor: )
# 2019
Recep Hacisoftaoglu,  (Supervisor: Dr. Karakaya)
# 2018
Recep Erol,  (Supervisor: Dr. Kockara)
Jake Farmer, Content and Construct Validation of Virtual-Reality Based Surgery Simulators (Supervisor: Dr. Halic)
James Palmer,  (Supervisor: )
Mustafa Tunc, Virtual Arthroscopy Training Platform (Supervisor: Dr. Halic)
# 2017
German Valenzuela,  (Supervisor: )
Valentin Velchev,  (Supervisor: )
# 2016
Sertan Kaya,  (Supervisor: Dr. Kockara)
# 2015
Doga Demirel, Virtual Airway Skills Trainer (VAST) (Supervisor: Dr. Halic)
Hai Le,  (Supervisor: )
Christopher Rhodes,  (Supervisor: )
# 2014
# 2013
Recep Avci,  (Supervisor: Dr. Kockara)
Cody Hudson,  (Supervisor: )
Christopher Mitchell, A Computational Study of Interval Matrix Games (Supervisor: )
# 2012
# 2011
Pavan Marupally, Forecasting Network Bandwidth Using Interval Computing and Privacy Preserving Portable Health Records Based on Smart Cards (Supervisor: )
Sait Suer, An Improved Border Detection in Dermoscopy Images for Density Based Clustering (Supervisor: Dr. Kockara)
# 2010
Vincent Yip, Concept Discovery for Pathology Reports Using an N-Gram Model (Supervisor: Dr. Kockara)
# 2009
Guanchen Chen, Volatile Data Predictive Analysis with Interval Methods (Supervisor: )
Xin Yin, New Rate-Complexity Modeling and Rate Control for H.264/AVC Video Compression (Supervisor: )
# 2008
Ping Hu, On Interval Weighted Graphs (Supervisor: )
# 2007
# 2006
Michael Nooner, IntBLAS : An Interval Linear Algebra Library in C++ (Supervisor: )
Vineet Saini, Security Evaluation of MyProxy Credential Repository for Grid Computing Systems (Supervisor: )
# 2005
Dwayne Collins, On Interval Valued Nash Games (Supervisor: )
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# Publications (2024)
Below is a list of CSE@UCA faculty/student publications in 2024. The names of faculty members and students are displayed in **bold** and *italics*, respectively. For 2023 publications, please visit .
#### Articles in Conference Proceedings
* *T. Menard* and **M. Abouyoussef**, “Towards Privacy-Preserving Vehicle Digital Forensics: A Blockchain Approach,” Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security,” pp. 1–6, 2024.
* **C. Hu**, “An Extended One-Way ANOVA Algorithm for Analyzing Interval-Valued Experiments,” Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, pp. 1–7, 2024.
#### Articles in Journals
* S. Poudel, **M. Abouyoussef**, J. E. Baugh, and M. Ismail, “Attack Design for Maximum Malware Spread Through EVs Commute and Charge in Power-Transportation Systems,” IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 1809–1820, 2024.
* M.-L. Perez-Delgado and **M. E. Celebi**, “A Comparative Study of Color Quantization Methods Using Various Image Quality Assessment Indices,” Multimedia Systems, vol. 30, article no. 40, 2024.
* *H. Bounds*, **M. E. Celebi**, and *J. Maxwell*, “Color Quantization Using an Accelerated Jancey k-Means Clustering Algorithm,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 33, no. 5, 053052, 2024.
* Y. Zhu, A. Bouridane, **M. E. Celebi**, D. Konar, P. Angelov, Q. Ni, and R. Jiang, “Quantum Face Recognition with Multi-Gate Quantum Convolutional Neural Network,” IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5, no. 12, pp. 6330–6341, 2024.
* *Y. Nagayoshi* and **B. Chen**, “Wineinformatics: Wine Score Prediction with Wine Price and Reviews,” Fermentation, vol. 10, no. 12, p. 598, 2024.
* A. Kurt, K. Akkaya, S. Yilmaz, S. Mercan, O. Shlomovits, and **E. Erdin**, “LNGate²: Secure Bidirectional IoT Micro-Payments Using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network and Threshold Cryptography,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 6027–6044, 2024.
* A. Kurt, **E. Erdin**, K. Akkaya, S. Uluagac, and M. Cebe, “D-LNBot: A Scalable, Cost-Free and Covert Hybrid Botnet on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 2162–2180, 2024.