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

Thursday, March 09, 2023

  • Thesis Defense: “Transforming Costuming Design: Costuming for the Actor’s Comfort”

    Virtual

    The thesis covers an analysis of the importance to incorporate the actor’s comfort when creating costume concepts and designs for a theatrical performance. It shows that it is possible to both make the actor’s comfort achievable while maintaining the integrity of a character. The paper discusses historical successes and failures of costuming designs and the impact it had on the actors.  The …

    Graduate Thesis and Dissertation
  • Dissertation Defense: BIDIRECTIONAL SYNTHESIS ON NEURAL NETWORKS WITH APPLICATIONS TO ADVERSARIAL ATTACKS AND COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION

    Virtual

    Neural networks (NN) have become a central component in many, if not most of, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence systems. However, studies have shown that these models are easily fooled and not robust against adversarial attacks. In this dissertation, we study the robustness of such models by exploring three directions. Then, we extend the synthesis problem of NNs to propose …

    Graduate Thesis and Dissertation