This calendar lists graduate thesis and dissertation events. Send all notices to the College of Graduate Studies at editor@ucf.edu

Monday, November 06, 2023

  • Dissertation Defense: DATA DRIVEN METHODS TO IMPROVE TRAFFIC FLOW AND SAFETY USING DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION, REINFORCEMENT LEARNING, AND DISCRETE OUTCOME MODELS

    ENG2: 202-A

    Announcing the Final Examination of Kazi Redwan Shabab for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Data-driven intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are increasingly playing a critical role in improving the efficiency of the existing transportation network and addressing traffic challenges in large cities such as safety and road congestion. In this dissertation, we employ data dimensionality reduction, reinforcement learning, and discrete …

    Graduate Thesis and Dissertation
  • Dissertation Defense: Drones, Peacekeeping, and Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict

    HPH 305G & Via Teams and Virtual

    Announcing the Final Examination of Michael Yekple for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Security Studies Under what conditions are drones effective in protecting civilians in armed conflict? And what factors shape support for their use for civilian protection in armed conflict?  Drones have been adopted into international peacekeeping operations for protection of civilians in armed conflict based on …

    Graduate Thesis and Dissertation
  • Dissertation Defense: Coalition Formation and Beamsteering Optimization for Directional Software Defined Radios

    L3Harris Engineering Center: HEC 450

    Announcing the Final Examination of Sayanta Seth for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA), also known as Dynamic Spectrum Management, is the method of utilizing a set of spectrum techniques in real time to provide the ability to share wireless channels between Primary (or licensed) users (PUs) and Secondary (or unlicensed) users (SUs). The system is …

    Graduate Thesis and Dissertation