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PhD Graduates

1994-1995 : Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Staller, John Edward DEC 1994 "Late Valdivia Occupation in Southern Coastal El Oro Province, Ecuador" Anthropology Dr. David A. Freidel
Monaco, Barbara Lo MAY 1995 "Empty Nests and Anxious Lives: Migration, Gender, and the Cultural Construction of Distress in a Greek Island Community" Anthropology Dr. Caroline Brettell
Wallsmith, Deborah AUG 1994 "Lithic Management Strategies of Late Middle Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers in the Upper Karoo Region of South Africa" Anthropology Dr. Garth Sampson
Chambliss, Kenny AUG 1994 "Purification of Mammalian Succinic Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase and Modecular Cloning of its Gene" Biological Sciences Dr. K. Michael Gibson
Gunther, Jeff MAY 1995 "Financial Crises and Liberalizations: The Breakdown of Geographic Restrictions of U.S. Banking" Economics Dr. Thomas Fomby
Rozzolini, Laura AUG 1994 "Essays in Public Economics: A Game Theoretic Approach" Economics Dr. Rajat Deb
Ross, Leola AUG 1994 "An Analysis of price wars in U.S. Airline Industry: Theory and Evidence" Economics Dr. Kathy Hays
Blanke, Leslie MAY 1995 "Poverty Spells and a New Approach to Poverty Measurement" Economics Dr. Daniel Slottje
Lee, Yuong-Nam MAY 1995 "Mid-Cretaceous Archosaurs from the Paw Paw Andwoodbine Formations, Texas" Geological Sciences Dr. Louis Jacobs
Xu, Xiaofeng MAY 1995 "Phylogeny of Beavers (Family Castoridae): Applications to Faunal Dynamics and Biochronology Since the Eocene" Geological Sciences Dr. Louis Jacobs
Min, Gyungsik AUG 1994 "Resolution of Explosion Source Model Parameters of Near-Source Data by the Non-Linear Inversion" Geological Sciences Dr. Eugene Herrin
Balsley, Steven D. DEC 1994 "A Combined Stratigraphic, Chronologic, and Petrologic Study of an Oligocene-age Postcaldera Pyroclastic Sequence, Southeast San Juan Mountains, CO" Geological Sciences Dr. Robert Gregory
Sheilds, Michael J. DEC 1994 "Constraints on the Origin of Regionally Pervasive Replacement Dolomite, Late Devonian, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin" Geological Sciences Dr. Robert Gregory
Woodson, Jr., Kenneth MAY 1995 "Projected Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods for Solving Differential-Algebraic Equations" Mathematics Dr. Ian Gladwell
Cole, Vanessa MAY 1995 "Towards a Prediction Model for Violence in Juvenile Delinquents" Psychology Dr. Curtis Mc Intyre
Soutter, Cathey MAY 1995 "The Structure of Mood: A Within and Between Subjects Comparison" Psychology Dr. Curtis Mc Intyre
Slack, Ann Keltner AUG 1994 "Personality and substance Use in college Populations" Psychology Dr. Curtis Mc Intyre
Wang, Eugene MAY 1995 "Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimators of Generalized Gamma Distribution" Statistical Science Dr. C.H. Kapadia
Fei, Huchen DEC 1994 "Nonparametric Regression with Censored Data: A Local Linear Approach" Statistical Science Dr. Yuly Koshevnik
Fu, Lei MAY 1995 "On the Long-Memory Time Series Models" Statistical Science Dr. Wayne Woodward
Li, Ping AUG 1994 "Estimation of Semivariogram Model Parameters" Statistical Science Dr. Dick Gunst
Miller, James AUG 1994 "Forecasting with Fractionally Differenced Time Series Models" Statistical Science Dr. Buddy Gray

1994-1995 : School of Engineering & Applied Science

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Sarma, Debjit Das MAY 1995 "Highly Accurate Initial Reciprocal Approximations for High Performance Division Algorithms" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. David Matula
Cai, Weiqing MAY 1995 "Fast Algorithms to Compute Edge Connectivity of Undirected Graphs" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. David Matula
Shurm, Todd DEC 1994 "A Pure Auction Algorithm for the Linear Semi-Assignment Problem" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Jose Dula
Mohammadi, Farin DEC 1994 "The Constrained Assignment Problem: New Algorithms and Empirical Analysis" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Jeff Kennington
Delcambre, Suzanne DEC 1994 "A Software Process Modeling Framework as a Basic for Process Analysis and Improvement" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Murat Tanik
Erbas, Cengiz DEC 1994 "A Precedence Graph Based Approach for Modeling and Verification of Real-Time Systems" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Murat Tanik
Chen, Fa-Chung DEC 1994 "Multiple-Query Processing in Main Memory Databases" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Margaret Eich
Kapoor, Bhanu DEC 1994 "Synthesis and Analysis of Delay Fault Testable Digital Circuits" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Sukumaran Nair
Wang, Chung-Ching AUG 1994 "A Dataflow-Based Neural Net Engine" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Sukumaran Nair
Ortynski, Augustyn Jan DEC 1994 "Implementation and Analysis of Parallel Backtrack Search" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Yanjun Zhang
Venugopal, Nandagopal MAY 1995 "Determining the Frame of a Pointed, Polyhedral Cone" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Jose Dula & Dr. Richard Helgason
Thomas, Patrick L. MAY 1995 "Development and Implementation of Flexible Manufacturing Concepts for a Low Volume, Multi-Product, Agile Enterprise" Computer Science & Engineering Dr. E. Douglas Harris
Azmoodeh, Masoud MAY 1995 "Adaptive Subspace Algorithms and Applications" Electrical Engineering Dr. Carlos Davila
Chiang, Hsia-Ling DEC 1994 "The Total Least Squares Problems: A Model Order Estimation for Pole-Zero System and Probability Analysis for Parameter Estimation" Electrical Engineering Dr. Carlos Davila
Herschaft, Richard DEC 1994 "A Common Approach to Extending Computer Security Concepts to the Universal Distributed Non-Trusted Environment" Electrical Engineering Dr. James Dunham
Lin, Phen-Lan DEC 1994 "Secret Sharing Systems" Electrical Engineering Dr. James Dunham
Judd, Mano D. MAY 1995 "Passive Synthetic Aperture for Radio Direction Finding" Electrical Engineering Dr. Choon Sae Lee
Wang, Shyh-Jye AUG 1994 "A Negative Branch Penalty Architecture for Pipelined Reduced Instruction Set Computer" Electrical Engineering Dr. John Provence
Stollon, Neal S. DEC 1994 "Information Content and Measurement for VLSI Functions" Electrical Engineering Dr. John Provence
Chern, Shyh-Ming MAY 1995 "Automated VLSI Circuit Layout: An Approach to the Integratioin of Placement and Routing" Electrical Engineering Dr. John Provence
Kocaturk, Mustafa DEC 1994 "Bit Error Rate of TDMA Links under Cochannel Interference in overlaid cellular networks" Electrical Engineering Dr. Someshwar Gupta
Agustianwan, Herman DEC 1994 "Shape Recognition using Artificial Neural Networks" Electrical Engineering Dr. Mandyam Srinath
Chapados, Jr., Phillip DEC 1994 "The Measurement of Sub-Micrometer Structures using Diffraction" Electrical Engineering Dr. Donald Butler
Manne, Subbarao DEC 1994 "Design of a VLSI Analog and Digital Circuit and a System for Sending and Stimulating Action Potentials of Cultured Neurons" Electrical Engineering Dr. Milton Gosney
Abaye, Alireza MAY 1995 "Power System Load Forecasting By Neural Networks" Electrical Engineering Dr. Alireza Khotanzad
Bienn, Marvin MAY 1995 "Symbol Synchronization over Frequency Nonselective Fading Channels" Electrical Engineering Dr. Eric Hall
Joudeh, Ihab Abdelkader MAY 1995 "Modeling and Performance Analysis for a Packet Train Protocol in Comuter Communications Networks" Electrical Engineering Dr. Eric Hall
Guu, Yuh-Fwu MAY 1995 "Recognition of Handwritten Numerals via Neural Networks and Structural Parameter Clustering" Electrical Engineering Dr. Behrouz Peikari
Ahmad, Maqsood MAY 1995 "The Development of a Design Methodology for the Mechanical Behavior of A1203 Substrates in Electronic Applications" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Paul F. Packman
Matthew Kendall DEC 1994 "Spray-Cooling Heat Transfer with Subcooled Trichlorotrisluoroethane (Freon-113) for vertical constant heat flux surfaces" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Jack Holman
Manole, Dan-Mlhai MAY 1995 "Theoretical and numerical analysis of mono and double diffusive convection in porous media" Mechanical Engineering Dr.Jose L. Lage
Basdogan, Cagatay AUG 1994 "Experimental and Theoretical Analyses of Nonlinear Dynamics of Human Gait" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Yildirim Hurmuzlu
Marghitu, Dan AUG 1994 "Dynamics of Frictional Impact in Rigid Multibody Systems" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Yildirim Hurmuzlu
DeBruin, James MAY 1995 "A Unified Algorithmic Methodology for the Analysis of Kinematic Behavior in Imaging Optical Systems" Mechanical Engineering Dr. David Johnson