Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Old Dominion University since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
In late Fall 2025, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Thesis: Band Gap Engineering of Two Dimensional Silicon Photonic Crystals by Oxidation and Oxide Etching, Makhin Thitsa
Thesis: Long-Range Target Classification in a Cluttered Environment Using Multi-Sensor Image Sequences, Cenk Yaman
Dissertation: Modeling and Simulations of Electrical Breakdown and Thermal Failure in Zinc Oxide and Titanium Dioxide for High-Voltage Dielectric Applications, Guogang Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Thesis: Excimer UV Radiation from a Cylindrical Dielectric Barrier Discharge, Sudhakar Reddy Alla
Thesis: Fault Arrangements and Their Effect on the Performance of Wireless Sensor Networks, Dwayne Sayone Blai
Thesis: Gaussian Mixture Models and Neural Networks for Automatic Speaker Identification, Usha Gayatri Chalkapally
Dissertation: Femtosecond Laser Ablation with Single and Two-Photon Excitation for MEMS, Mohamed Abdelfattah Kottb Ahmad Elbandrawy
Thesis: Fault Modeling in Wireless Sensor Networks, Ahmed A. Elmiligui
Thesis: Characterization and Quantum Efficiency Validation of Ingaas Linear Focal Plane Array, Christopher Salenga Garcia
Dissertation: Automatic Speech Recognition Using LP-DCTC/DCS Analysis Followed by Morphological Filtering, Penny Hix
Dissertation: An Adaptive Algorithm to Identify Ambiguous Prostate Capsule Boundary Lines for Three-Dimensional Reconstruction and Quantitation, Rania Yousry Hussein
Thesis: An Operational Model for Mobile Sensor Cloud Management, Indrajeet Kalyankar
Thesis: A Markovian Statistical Analysis of Single-Event Upsets on Closed-Loop Flight Control Systems, Anushka Vishnukumar Lakdawaia
Thesis: A Multilane Pipelined Architecture for Real Time Enhancement of Color Video Streams, Adam Redd Livingston
Dissertation: Whole Word Phonetic Displays for Speech Articulation Training, Fansheng Meng
Thesis: Mobius: An Omnidirectional Robotic Platform and Software Architecture for Network Teleoperation, Samuel Aaron Miller
Thesis: A Non-Linear Technique for the Enhancement of Extremely Non-Uniform Lighting Images, Ender Oguslu
Dissertation: Stability Analysis of Hybrid Jump Linear Systems With Markov Inputs, Arturo Tejada Ruiz
Thesis: Temporal Calcium Response of Jurkat Cells to Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Fields, Shaka Shakar Scarlett
Dissertation: Learning as a Nonlinear Line of Attraction for Pattern Association, Classification and Recognition, Ming-Jung Seow
Thesis: The Effects of Ultrashort Pulsed Electric Fields on the Fluorescent Molecule Bodipy FL C5 Ceramide, Rachael Sara Shevin
Thesis: Dimensionality Reduction Using Non-Linear Principal Components Analysis, Tara Singh
Dissertation: Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma Sources for Polymer Surface Modification, Shujun Yang
Thesis: The Reliability of the Computer Communication Networks Including Mobile Nodes, Sahin Yasar
Thesis: Reversing Ticket Based Probing (RTBP) Routing for MANET, Turgut Yucel
Thesis: TUQR: A Topology Unaware QOS Routing Protocol for Manets, Ibrahim Zagli
Dissertation: Performance Analysis of Recoverable Flight Control Systems Subject to Neutron-Induced Upsets Using Hybrid Dynamical Models, Hong Zhang
Dissertation: High Performance Queueing and Scheduling in Support of Multicasting in Input-Queued Switches, Weiying Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Thesis: Design and Implementation of One and Two-Degree-of-Freedom Magnetic Suspension and Balance Systems, Mark W. Adams
Thesis: Applying a Simulation-Based Real-Time Decision Making Method to Mass Casualty Scenarios in Hospital Emergency Departments, Fatemah Al-Douli
Thesis: Modeling and Simulation of Silicon Photonic Crystals Effect of Oxidation and Etching, G. M. Haider Ali
Thesis: Mobility-Pattern Based Localization Update Algorithm for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks, Mohammad Yacoub Al-laho
Thesis: Monte Carlo Simulation Analysis of Electron Bombardment of Gallium Nitride for Particle Detector Applications, James Gibson Bolitho
Thesis: Image Compression by Vector Quantization of DCT Coefficients Using a Self-Organizing Neural Network, Kirankumar Boyapati
Thesis: Support for A Delivery Train Based Material Handling Mechanism, Sai P. Boyedapu
Thesis: Programmable Process Flow Networks, Filip D. Cuckov
Thesis: Electromagnetic Propagation Prediction Inside Aircraft Cabins, Genevieve Hankins
Thesis: Electromagnetic Propagation Prediction Inside Aircraft Cabins, Genevieve Hankins
Thesis: Creating Software [Sic] Environments on an M-Node Beowulf Cluster to Execute Discrete-Event Simulations, Jermaine Fitz-Gerald Headley
Thesis: Implementation of Problem-Based Learning in Senior Engineering Design-I (ECE 485W), Fawaz Muzaffer Hussain
Thesis: Rapid Prototyping for the Design of Virtual Worlds, Prabhu V. Krishnan
Thesis: Fourier Transform Analysis of Terahertz Radiation, Chikaodira N. Okpo
Thesis: Non-Linear and Linear Transformations of Features for Robust Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification, Saurabh Prasad
Dissertation: Modeling and Simulation of \Sub-Microsecond Electrical Breakdown in Liquids with Application to Water, Jun Qian
Thesis: A Novel Approach for Reducing the Asymptotic Computational Complexity of Maximum Likelihood Multiuser Receivers in DS-CDMA Systems, Syed Rizvi
Thesis: Generalization Issues in Pattern Classification Applied to Speaker Identification, Mame C. Sall
Thesis: A Feature Specific Modular Approach for Pose and Illumination Invariant Face Recognition, Praveen Sankaran
Thesis: Strategies for Analysis of Unimodal and Multimodal Data for Simulation, Anshul Rai Sharma
Thesis: Ozone Concentration in an Atmospheric Pressure Air Plasma Jet, Srinivas Reddy Suddala
Dissertation: Multi-Modal Enhancement Techniques for Visibility Improvement of Digital Images, Li Tao
Dissertation: Modeling and Simulation of Photonic Crystal Fibers and Distributed Feedback Photonic Crystal Fiber Lasers, Feng Wu
Dissertation: Carbon Nanotubes and Tungsten Oxide Nanorods: Synthesis and Applications, Bing Xiao
Dissertation: High Power 121.6 NM Radiation Source for Advanced Lithography, Jianxun Yan
Thesis: Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Prediction for Wireless Networks Inside Boeing Fuselages, Mennatoallah Youssef
Dissertation: Melting and Solidification Study of Indium and Bismuth Nanocrystals Using Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction, Mohamed K. Zayed
Thesis: A Multiplier-Less Architecture for High Speed Computation of Multi-Dimensional Convolution, Ming Zhu Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Thesis: Real-Time Measurements on the Effects of Ultra-Short High Voltage Pulses on HL-60 Cells, Michalis C. Artemiou
Thesis: Modeling Nerve Electro-Stimulation in the Nanosecond Regime, Feng Chen
Thesis: Interactive Land Use VRML Application Using Servlet Assist, Suresh Chitithoti
Thesis: Vector Operations in Superscalar Architectures, Nathan Daniel Flinn
Dissertation: Dynamical Studies of Model Membrane and Cellular Response to Nanosecond, High-Intensity Pulsed Electric Fields, Qin Hu
Thesis: Modeling and Simulation of Photonic Crystal Fibers Using Finite Difference Frequency Domain Method, Md. Khalid Ikram
Thesis: Fuzzy Modeling of Electromagnetic Emissions from Portable Electronic Devices Onboard Commercial Aircraft, Madiha Jamil Jafri
Thesis: Bottleneck Analysis of CPortS, SreeKalyana Chakravarthy Kajuluri
Dissertation: Generating Series for Interconnected Nonlinear Systems and the Formal Laplace-Borel Transform, Yaqin Li
Thesis: Hierarchical Hybrid Multicast An End System Multicast Algorithm Approach, Guillermo Loaisiga
Thesis: Generic Performance Evaluation Tool Implementation for an Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer, James M. Mengert
Dissertation: Scaling and Characterization of Direct Current Glow Discharge Plasma in Atmospheric Air, Abdel-Aleam Hefney Mohamed
Dissertation: Stability Analysis of Jump-Linear Systems Driven by Finite-State Machines with Markovian Inputs, Sudarshan S. Patilkulkarni
Dissertation: Microdischarge Arrays, Wenhui Shi
Thesis: Huffman Approach to Opcode Compression, Jason B. Shreve
Thesis: Speaker Normalization for Improved Automatic Speech Recognition for Digital Libraries, Wei Wang
Dissertation: Electrical Breakdown in Polar Liquids, Shu Xiao
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Thesis: A Computer-Based Articulation Training Aid for Short Words (CATA), Mukund Devarajan
Thesis: Time Domain Dielectric Spectroscopy Analysis of HL-60 Cell Suspensions After Microsecond and Submicrosecond Pulsed Electric Fields, Allen Laurence Garner
Thesis: Brownian Dynamics Simulation Studies of Ion Throughput During Cellular Electroporation, Juan A. Gonzalez-Cuevas
Thesis: Parallel Implementation of a Face Recognition [Sic] System Based on Modular PCA Approach, Rajkiran Gottumukkal
Dissertation: Photonic Crystals: Modeling and Simulation, Shangping Guo
Thesis: A Combinatorial Technique for Face Detection Based on Color and Statistical Analysis, Harishwaran Hariharan
Thesis: Output Analysis of Configurable Port Simulation, Ravikiran Jogu
Thesis: Creating Enterprise Simulations Using High Level Architecture, Anton R. Lidums
Dissertation: Dynamics of Phase Transitions on Low-Index Metal Surfaces, Bo Lin
Thesis: Automatic Speaker Identification Using Reusable and Retrainable Binary-Pair Partitioned Neural Networks, Ashutosh Mishra
Thesis: A Pipelined Architecture for Real Time Correction of Barrel Distortion in Wide-Angle Camera Images, Hau Trung Ngo
Thesis: Analysis of InGaAsSb/AIGaAsSb Photodetectors for Applications at the 2.0 Micron Wavelengths, Phani Pendyala
Thesis: Unidirectional CORDIC for Efficient Computation of Trigonometric and Hyperbolic Functions, Satish Ravichandran
Thesis: Atmospheric Water Vapor Lidar Measurements Using Analog and Photon Counting Techniques, Anuj Maheshkumar Shah
Dissertation: Fuzzy System Identification Based Upon a Novel Approach to Nonlinear Optimization, Raymond Scott Starsman
Thesis: Adaptive Segmentation Techniques for Object Region Extraction from Images with Complex Lighting Environment, Deepthi P. Valaparla
Thesis: Monte Carlo Analysis of Millimeter-Wave GaN Based Gunn Effect Oscillators, Sridhara Viswanadham
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Thesis: Improvements in Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy Using Ratios of Higher Harmonics, James Michael Barrington
Thesis: A Study of Radiofrequency Effects on Gene Expression, Elizabeth A. Coln
Thesis: Evaluation of Distributed Effects in Field Effect Transistors for High Frequency Applications, Srinivas Rowjee Cuddapah
Dissertation: Development of an Efficient Ti:Sapphire Laser Transmitter for Atmospheric Ozone Lidar Measurements, Khaled A. Elsayed
Thesis: Study of Transport Properties of InAs Using Monte Carlo Simulation, Satyanadh Gundimada
Thesis: Reflection-High Energy Electron Diffraction Study of Si(100) Homoepitaxy by Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Deposition, Mohammed S. Hegazy
Thesis: Embedded Software Programming to Develop a Command Line User Interface for Monitoring and Debugging a Manually Driven Gas Regulator Control System, Syed N. Hyder
Dissertation: Study of Non-Equilibrium Electron Dynamics in Metals, Wael Mohamed Gomaa Ibrahim
Dissertation: Robust Face Representation and Recognition Under Low Resolution and Difficult Lighting Conditions, Mohammad Moinul Islam
Thesis: Yet Another Algorithm for Pitch Tracking (YAAPT), Kavita Kasi