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Thesis Supervision

Current Advised and Co-advised Students,
as well PhD Dissertation Committee Member service:

  1. CDR. Paolo Singh  -- PhD in math; advisor
  2. Chris Cirullo  -- PhD in Information Science; PhD dissertation committee member
  3. Tawana Davis -- Masters in Systems Engineering; advisor
  4. Brad Dinkel -- Masters of Science in Mathematics; advisor
  5. Gordon Herrero  -- Masters of Science in Mathematics; advisor
  6. 2d Lt Ben Pederson, United States Space Force -- Masters in CS @AFIT; 2nd reader

Advised PhD Students:

  1. LTC Jon Roginski -- PhD in Mathematics (Network Science), Title:  The Distance Centrality: Measuring Structural Disruption of a Network.  March 2018.
  2. Ben Pimentel – PhD in Information Science, co-advised wit Alex Bordeski, Title: Temporal Connectivity as a Measure of Robustness in Nonorthogonal Multiple Access Wireless Networks.  June 2022

Advised Masters Students:

  1. Daryl Hsu Lee, Singapore -- Master of Science in Mathematics (Summer 2013) Graduating with Distinction, also Outstanding Academic Achievement Award for International Students , as well as Outstanding Thesis. Thesis Title: Toward Large-Graph Comparison Measures To Understand Internet Topology Dynamics
  2. CPT Jamar Wright, US Army -- Master of Science in Mathematics (Network Science). Thesis title: Temporal comparison of Internet topology
  3. CPT Britton Landry, US Army -- Master of Science in Mathematics (Network Science).  Thesis title: Comparing internet probing methodologies through an analysis of large dynamic graphs
  4. Ryan Miller US Army -- Masters in Mathematics (Network Science), winner of the Church Award. Winner of General Joseph W. Stillwell Chapter, Award for Outstanding Army Student. Thesis Title (outstanding thesis award): Purpose-Driven Communities in Multiplex Networks: Thresholding User-Engaged Layer Aggregation.
  5. Scott Warnke , US Army -- Masters in Mathematics (Network Science) Thesis Title:  Partial Information Community Detection in a Multilayered Network
  6. ENS Mitchell Heaton, US Navy -- Master of Science in Mathematics (Network Science). Classified, June 2017. 
  7. Daniel Meadows, US Army -- Master of Science in Mathematics (Network Science). Classified, June 2017.
  8. Marcelo Presa, US Navy -- Master of Science in Mathematics (Network Science).  Analysis of Malicious Activity on U.S. Army Networks (restricted distribution).  September 2017. 
  9. Matt Critchley, US Navy -- Masters in Math (Network Science), A Recommender Model Using Social Tie Strength for the CHUNK Learning System. June 2021.
  10. Andrew Dietz, US Army -- Masters in Math (Network Science), Personalizing Talent Development Utilizing a Network Framework.  June 2021.
  11. Tommy Reeder, US Navy -- Masters in Math (Network Science), Analysis of a Similarity-based Approach to Positively Affect Mentor-Mentee Relationships Among Service Members.  June 2021.
  12. James Sherrell, US Army -- Masters in Math (Network Science), Classified, June 2022.

 

  1. Co-Advised Students

  2. Captain Douglas Fletcher, US Army -- Master of Science in Mathematics. (June 2007) Thesis Title: Realizable triples in dominator colorings
  3. Major Norberth Karczewski, US Marine Corps -- Master of Science in Operations Research and Master of Science in Mathematics. (September 2007) Thesis Title: Optimal aircraft routing in a constrained path-dependent environment
  4. Spyros Pullatos, Hellenic Navy -- Master of Science in Operations Research and Master of Science in Mathematics. (June 2008) Thesis Title: Solving the maximum clique problems on a class of network graphs, with applications to social networks
  5. LT Randy Honaker, US Navy -- Masters in Computer Science and Master of Science in Mathematics. (March 2011) Thesis Title: Novel topic authorship attribution
  6. Major James McShea, US Marine Corps -- Masters in Computer Science and Master of Science in Mathematics. (Summer 2010) Thesis Title: File Similarities in Bulk Forensics
  7. Major James Browne, US Army -- Masters in Computer Science and Master of Science in Mathematics. (September 2012) Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper Award. Thesis title: Masterless Distributed Computing Over Mobile Devices
  8. CPT Jonathan Judy, US Army -- MBA. (December 2012). Thesis title: An Empirical Study of the Social Network of the Contracting Officer's Representative.
  9. Patrick Hamilton, DoD -- MBA (September 2013) Thesis Title: An Empirical Study of the Contracting Officer Representative's Social Network
  10. Virginia Bobcock, DoD --MBA (September 2013) Graduating with Outstanding Academic Achievement Award for Department of Defense Students Thesis Title: An Empirical Study of the Contracting Officer Representative's Social Network
  11. Derrick Torgerson, DoD -- MBA (September 2013) Thesis Title: An Empirical Study of the Contracting Officer Representative's Social Network
  12. Erick Nelson, DoA -- MBA (September 2013) Thesis Title: Price Analysis On Commercial Item Purchases Within The Department Of Defense
  13. Matthew White, DoN -- MBA (September 2013) Thesis Title: Price Analysis On Commercial Item Purchases Within The Department Of Defense
  14. Andrew Redfern, DoA -- MBA (December 2013) Thesis Title: Price Analysis On Commercial Item Purchases Within The Department Of Defense
  15. LCDR Paul Fox, US Navy -- MBA (June 2014) Thesis Title: Price Analysis On Commercial Item Purchases Within The Department Of the Navy
  16. Capt. Erick Rye, US Marine Corps -- Masters in Computer Science and Master of Science in Mathematics (Network Science) June 2015.  Recipient of the Church Award.  Thesis Title: Evaluating the Limits of Network Topology Inference via Virtualized Network Emulation
  17. Janina Green, DoD -- Masters in CS, co-advised with Michael McCarrin. Thesis Title (outstanding thesis award):  Constructing Social Networks from Secondary Storage with Bulk Analysis Tools
  18. Greg Allen, US Navy -- Masters in CS (Network Science), co-advised with Michael McCarrin. Thesis title: Locality Based Email Clustering.  Here is a list of the attribute data he used, and a link to the code.
  19. Daniel Funk, German Navy --  Master of Science in Operations Research and Mathematics (Network Science), co-advised with Dave Alderson. Thesis title: Analysis of the Global Maritime Transportation System and its Resilience. June 2017.
  20. Brian Weaver, US Marine Corps -- Master of Science in Mathematics (Network Science).  Analyzing U,S. Army Internetwork Anomalies with Split-protocol Graphs (restricted thesis). September 2017. 
  21. Rachel Cline, US Navy --  Master of Science in Operations Research and Mathematics (Network Science), Understanding Automatic Identification System Data as Applied to Social Network Relationships and Activities. co-advised with Dave Alderson. June 2018.
  22. Erin Ward, US Navy -- Masters in CS (Network Science), Constructing Social Networks and Classifying Email Addresses from Raw Forensic Images. co-advised with Marcus Stefanou, Michael McCarrin. June 2018.
  23. Justin Goodwin -- Masters in CS, Constructing Social Networks and Classifying Email Addresses from Raw Forensic Images. co-advised with Marcus Stefanou, Michael McCarrin. June 2018.
  24. Kenny Hicks, US Navy -- Masters in Math (Network Science), A Network Theoretic Investigation into the Topological Characteristics of US Airline Route Network Growth co-advised with Michelle Isenhour, June 2018.
  25. Ee Hong Aw, Singapore -- Masters in Math (Network Science),  Terrorism from a Global Perspective: Influence an Network Structure Analysis. co-advised with Michelle Isenhour, September 2018.
  26. Daniel Cleven, German Navy -- Masters in OR and Math (Network Science), A Multilayer Network Approach for Real-time Adaptive Personalized Learning, co-advised with Michelle Isenhour, December 2018.
  27. ENS Christian Sorenson, US Navy -- Masters in Math (Network Science), Logistics in a Contested Environment: Network Analysis and Flow Optimization. co-advised with Michael Atkinson, June 2020.
  28. John Lucero, US Navy -- Masters in Math (Network Science), Optimizing Adaptive Learning Using Statistical and Network Analysis within the CHUNK Learning System, co-advised with Michelle Isenhour, June 2020.
  29. Zachary Klein, US Navy -- Masters in Math (Network Science), Structural Properties of I-Graphs: Their Independence Number and Cayley Graphs,, co-advised with Thor Martinsen and Pante Stanica, Jun 2020.
  30. Matthew Dods, US Navy -- Masters in Math (Network Science), Independence Number of Specified I-graphs, co-advised with Thor Martinsen and Pante Stanica, Jun 2020.
  31. Lewis Flinn (Higgins), US Navy -- Masters in OR and Math (Network Science), Boundary Search and Traverse: Determining the Threshold Boundary for Infrastructure Network Resilience Problems, co-advised with Dave Alderson, December 2020.
  32.  Maj David Wren, US Marine Corps -- Masters in OR (Network Science).  SARS-COV-2 Dissemination Using United States County Adjacencies,  Also recipient of the United States Army, General Joseph W. Stilwell Chapter, Award for Outstanding Army Student. co-advised with Rudy Yoshida, 2021

PhD Dissertation Committee Member

  1. Anjum Gupta, civilian Spawar System Center -- PhD in Computer Science. (March 2011) Dissertation Title: New framework for cross-domain document classification.
  2. Terence Tan, civilian DoD -- PhD in MOVES. (March 2013) Dissertation Title: Learning and prediction of relational time series.
  3. Major Jong Chung, US Army -- PhD in Mathematics (September 2013) Title: An Affine Equivalence and Constructions of Cryptographically Strong Boolean Functions.
  4. Major Alan Bairley, US Army -- PhD in Computer Science (December 2016)  Title: Efficient Orchestration of Data Centers via Comprehensive and Application-aware Trade-off Exploration.
  5. Jamie Safar, DoD –  PhD in Electrical Engineering (December 2020)  Title: "Spectral Graph-Based Cyber Detection and Classification System with Phantom Concepts"
  6. Aaron Geary, US Navy – PhD in Mathematics, PhD (June 2022): "C-differential bent functions and perfect nonlinearity"
  7. Dave Barnhill, US Navy -- PhD in Operations Research: "Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling of Tropically Convex Sets" (March 2024) 
  8. Kasey Miller, DoD  -- PhD in Information Science: "Advanced Technologies to Enable Optimized Maintenance Process in Extreme Conditions: Machine Learning, Additive Manufacturing and Could Technology" (March 2024)

Second Reader

  1. Major Stanley Florkowski, US Army -- Master of Science in Mathematics. (Fall 2009)  Thesis title: Spectral Graph Theory of the Hypercube
  2. Major Christian Klaus, German Army -- Masters in Operations Research and Master of Science in Mathematics. (Summer 2011) Thesis title: Probabilistic search on optimized graph topologies
  3. MAJ David Wren, US Army -- Master of Science in Mathematics. (Spring 2021)  Thesis title:  SARS-COV-2 Dissemination Using United States County Adjacencies
  4. Captain Nathan Fisher, US Army -- Masters of Science in Mathematics. (Summer 2024).  Thesis Title: Artificial Sensor for Electric Power System Using Machine Learning

Served on Other Relevant Thesis

 

Complete list and links of thesis from Calhoun at NPS