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Ph.D. Graduates (chronological)

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  • Joan Marie Francioni
    • PhD, Summer 1981
    • Major Professor: Abraham Kandel
    • Dissertation: "Decomposition of Fuzzy Switching Functions"
    • Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Southwest Louisiana
  • Dusan Repovs
    • PhD, Mathematics, April 1983
    • Major professor: R.C. Lacher
    • Dissertation: "Generalized Three-Manifolds with Zero-Dimensional Singular Set", 113 pp.
    • Currently Research Professor of Mathematics, Institute of Mathematics, Physics, and Mechanics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.; previous positions include Associate Dean for Research, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Ljubliana.
  • Marie Zemankova-Leech
    • PhD, December 1983
    • Major Professor: Abraham Kandel
    • Dissertation: "Fuzzy Relational Data Bases"
    • Currently employed with the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.
  • Lawrence O. Hall
    • PhD, April 1986
    • Major Professor: Abraham Kandel
    • Dissertation: "A Methodological Approach to a Re-Usable Fuzzy Expert System"
    • Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of South Florida
  • Alfred Marlow Henne
    • PhD, August 1987
    • Major Professor: Abraham Kandel
    • Dissertation: "Fuzzy Algorithm for Priority Estimation in Immediate Area Networks"
    • Currently employed by Suerdrup Corporation as a contractor for Eglin, AFB, Florida
  • Mordechay Schneider
    • PhD, December 1987
    • Major Professor: Abraham Kandel
    • Dissertation: "COFESS - Cooperative Expert Systems for Intelligent Recognition"
    • Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Florida Institute of Technology
  • George Meghabghab
    • PhD, August 1988
    • Major Professor: Abraham Kandel
    • Dissertation: "Hierarchical Analysis of Visual Motion"
    • Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Valdosta State University
  • Kyung Whan Oh
    • PhD, December 1988
    • Major Professor: Abraham Kandel
    • Dissertation: "New Methodologies in the Design of a General Purpose Fuzzy Expert System: Applications with AI Based Precipitation Retrieval Designed for Satellite Microwave Measurements"
    • Currently Head of Fuzzy Group at the Korean Institute of Technology, Seoul, South Korea
  • Dan E. Tamir
    • PhD, August 1989
    • Major Professor: Abraham Kandel
    • Dissertation: "A Schema for Knowledge Representation and its Implementation in a Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing System"
    • Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Florida Institute of Technology
  • John Cameron Glasgow II
    • PhD, December 1989
    • Major Professor: Lois Hawkes
    • Dissertation: "Emerging Systems and Machine Intelligence"
    • Currently President of Bayou Software Inc.
  • Robert F. Hodson
    • PhD, December 1989
    • Major Professor: Abraham Kandel
    • Dissertation: "Real Time Expert Systems' Computer Architecture"
    • Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Christopher Newport College, Virginia
  • Keith D. McCroan
    • PhD, August 1990
    • Major professor: R.C. Lacher
    • Dissertation: "Displaying Geographic Information: Efficient Methods for Raster Displays", 172 pp.
    • Currently Chief Software Engineer, Environmental Protection Agency NAREL Environmental Radiation Laboratory, Montgemery, AL.
  • Stephen P. Leach
    • PhD, December 1990
    • Major Professor: Abraham Kandel
    • Dissertation: "Grouper: A Knowledge-Based Expert System for Redistricting"
    • Currently Associate Chair for Department of Computer Science, Florida State University.
  • Bernard Traversat
    • PhD, December 1990
    • Major Professor: Gregory Riccardi
    • Dissertation: "NEPTUNE: The Application of Coarse-Grain Data Flow Methods to Scientific Parallel Programming"
    • Currently a reserach scientist, NASA Ames Research Lab
  • Edward W. Giering, III
    • PhD, April 1991
    • Major Professor: T. P. Baker
    • Dissertation: "Compile Time Processing of Ada Task Constructs for Real-Time Programming", 140 pp.
    • Currently Software Engineer for Rational Corporation in Aloha, Oregon
  • Marion G. Harmon
    • PhD, April 1991
    • Major professor: T.P. Baker
    • Dissertation: "Predicting Execution Time on Contemporary Computer Architectures", 116 pp.
    • Currently Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Computer Information Systems, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL.
  • David C. Kuncicky
    • PhD, April 1991
    • Major professor: R.C. Lacher
    • Dissertation: "Isomorphism of Reasoning Systems with Applications to Autonomous Knowledge Acquisition", 89 pp.
    • Currently a faculty member and Computing Resources Manager for Department of Computer Science, Florida State University.
  • Uta M. Ziegler
    • PhD, April 1991
    • Major Professor: Lois Hawkes
    • Dissertation: "A Neural Network which Rapidly Learns to Perform a Multi-Step Task"
    • Currently Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Western Kentucky
  • Pratik K. Biswas
    • PhD, August 1991
    • Major Professor: Abraham Kandel
    • Dissertation: "Conceptualizing the Design of Knowledge Based Systems"
    • Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Bell Laboratories.
  • Alan D. George
    • PhD, August 1991
    • Major Professor: Lois Hawkes
    • Dissertation: "A Fault-Tolerant Computer System for Digital Signal Processing"
    • Currently Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Florida State University and Florida A & M University
  • Dawn Jay Holmes
    • PhD, August 1991
    • Major Professor: Lois Hawkes
    • Dissertation: "An Informal Reasoning Technique and Truth Maintenance Subsystem for Global Diagnosis in an Instructional System"
    • Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Florida Institute of Technology
  • Ahmad Sharieh
    • PhD, August 1991
    • Major Professor: Gregory Riccardi
    • Dissertation: "Exploiting Parallel Processing in Large Scientific Applications"
    • Currently Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
  • Thomas Wilhelm Diefenbach
    • PhD, December 1991
    • Major Professor: Lois Hawkes
    • Dissertation: "The Effect of Verbal Messages on User Friendliness: An Empirical Investigation Using an Intelligent Tutoring System"
    • Currently Assistant Professor, Math & Comp Unit, UAE University, United Arab Emirates
  • Yong-Gi Kim
    • PhD, December 1991
    • Major Professor: Ladislav Kohout
    • Dissertation: "Use of Fuzzy Relational Information Retrieval Technique for Generating Control Strategies in Resolution-Based Automated Reasoning"
  • Pratit Santiprabhob
    • PhD, December 1991
    • Major Professor: Ladislav Kohout
    • Dissertation: "Fuzzy Connected Protection Structures"
    • Currently Dean of Computer Science, Assumption University, Cambodia
  • Bryon K. Ehlmann
    • PhD, April 1992
    • Major Professor: Gregory Riccardi
    • Dissertation: "Applying an Object-Oriented Database Model to a Scientific Database Problem: Managing Experimental Data at CEBAF"
    • Currently Assistant Professor, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida
  • Daihee Park
    • PhD, April 1992
    • Major Professor: Abraham Kandel
    • Dissertation: "Intelligent Fuzzy Reasoning Models with Application to Fuzzy Control"
    • Currently Assistant Professor in Korea
  • Don Poling
    • PhD, Summer 1992
    • Major Professor: Lois Hawkes
    • Dissertation: "The Application of Imprecise Decision Tables in Intelligent Tutoring Tables"
    • Currently Assitant Professor, Clemson University
  • Sujatha Nagarajan
    • PhD, August 1992
    • Major Professor: Ladislav Kohout
    • Dissertation: "Mimicking Human Language Processing Features Using Fuzzy Syntax-Semantics Analyzer and Semantic Interpreter"
  • Ilan Itzkovich
    • PhD, Fall 1992
    • Major Professor: Lois Hawkes
    • Dissertation: "A Conceptual Approach to Reusability in Object-Oriented Design"
    • Currently: Assitant Professor, Florida International University
  • William A. Mayne
    • PhD, Fall 1992
    • Major Professor: Gregory Riccardi
    • Dissertation: "An Investigation of Guarded Assignments as a Coordination Language for Large Grain Parallel Programming"
  • Chlotia L. Posey
    • PhD, December 1992
    • Major Professor: Lois Hawkes
    • Dissertation: "Applications of Neural Networks to Intelligent Tutoring Systems"
    • Curently employed as Chief, Development Division, Communications Computer Systems, Eglin Air Force Base
  •   Bienvenido Jose Alvarez Juliano, Jr.
    • PhD, April 1993
    • Major Professor: Wyllis Bandler
    • Title: Dissertation, "A Fuzzy Logic Approach for Cognitive Diagnosis"
    • Currently an Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina
  • James Lamm
    • PhD, April 1993
    • Major Professor: Daniel Schwartz
    • Dissertation: "Modified Election Methodology: A Methodology for Describing Human Beliefs"
    • Currently an Assistant in Research, Department of Meterology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
  • Cathy C. Ncube
    • PhD, April 1993
    • Major Professor: Wyllis Bandler
    • Dissertation: "A Cognitive Hinting Structure for Deep Domain Knowledge"
    • Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of West Florida
  • Jong Joon Park
    • PhD, December 1993
    • Major Professor: Lois Hawkes
    • Dissertation: "Neural Network Processing of Linguistic Symbols Using Multi-Level Grading Rule"
    • Currently an Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Statistics, Seo Kyeong University, Seoul, South Korea
  • Byungjoo Yoon
    • PhD, April 1994
    • Major professor: R.C. Lacher
    • Dissertation: "Rule Extraction using Destructive Learning in Artificial Neural Networks", 140 pp.
    • Currently Associate Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Myong-Ji University, Seoul, Korea.
  • Hsing-Tai Chung
    • PhD, August 1994
    • Major Professor: Daniel Schwartz
    • Dissertation: "An Automated System for Symbolic Approximate Reasoning"
    • Currently an Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
  • Frank Wenzhen Fang
    • PhD, August 1994
    • Major professor: R.C. Lacher
    • Dissertation: "Constructive Neural Network Learning for Autonomous Rule Acquisition", 124 pp.
    • Currently Software Engineer, Image Technology Inc., Greensboro, NC.
  • Frank Mueller
    • PhD, August 1994
    • Major professor: David Whalley
    • Dissertation: "Static Cache Simulation and its Applications"
    • Currently wissenschaftlicher Assistent in the Informations Department, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
  • Lillie D. Ward
    • PhD, Fall 1994
    • Major Professor: Lois Hawkes
    • Dissertation: "A Fault-Tolerant Multi-Bus Interconnection Network"
    • Curently Chair, Department of Computer Tech., Fort Valley State College, Fort Valley, Georgia
  • Charles Wesley Ford, Jr.
    • PhD, Spring 1995
    • Major Professor: Gregory Riccardi
    • Dissertation: "Modelling Experimental Data Analysis"
    • Currently Chair and Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas
  • Eunjin Kim
    • PhD, Spring 1995
    • Major Professor: Ladislav Kohout
    • Dissertation: "Analysis and Meta-analysis of Fuzzy Relational Structures by Means of Generalized Morphism and its Computer-aided Tool Support"
    • Currently doing Post-doctoral work in the Department of Computer Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
  • Youngdo Joo
    • PhD, Summer 1995
    • Major Professor: Wyllis Bandler
    • Dissertation: "A Fuzzy Relational Approach to Cognitive Structures of an Urban Knowledge-based System"
  • Kok Meng Yew
    • PhD, Fall 1995
  • Mr. Weiqi Huang
    • PhD, Spring 1996
    • Major Professor: Gregory Riccardi
    • Dissertation: "Multischema: Dynamic View Management for Object Database Systems"
  • Dennis Devolder
    • PhD, Summer 1996
    • Major Professor: Lois Hawkes
    • Dissertation: "Radio Training System: Speech Recognition abd Graphocal Event Representation in a Scenario-based Authoring/Tutoring Shell"
  • Evelyn Stiller
    • PhD, Fall 1996
    • Major Professor: Gregory Riccardi
    • Dissertation: "A Heuristic Approach to RNA Secondary Structure Prediction Based on an Object-Oriented Representation"
  • Randall Thomas White
    • PhD, Spring 1997
    • Major Professor: David Whalley
    • Dissertation: "Bounding Worst-Case Data Cache Performance"
  • Lili Yuan
    • PhD, Spring 1997
    • Major Professor: Chris Lacher
    • Dissertation: "Aging in Artificial Neural Networks: Causes and Prevention of Repetition Induced Incompetence in Reinforced Learning"
  • Catherine LeBlanc
    • PhD, Summer 1997
    • Major Professor: Susan Hruska
    • Dissertation: "Utilization of State Information Via Recurrent Connections in Expert Networks"
  • Seung-Jin Moon
    • PhD, Summer 1997
    • Major Professor: T.P. Baker
    • Dissertation: "Synchronization and Scheduling Issues for Real-Time Nested Transactions"
  • Mr. Chan-Sook Noe
    • PhD, Summer 1997
    • Major Professor: Ladislav Kohout
    • Dissertation: "Using BK-Products of Fuzzy Relations for Management of Granular Structures in Relational Architectures for knowledge-Based Systems"
  • Mr. Dong-Ik Oh
    • PhD, Summer 1997
    • Major Professor: T.P. Baker
    • Dissertation: "Ada '95 Tasking Performance Optimizations"
  • Gang-Ryung Uh
    • PhD, 1997
    • Major Professor: David Whalley
    • Dissertation: "Effectively Exploiting Indirect Jumps"
  • K.Adair
    • PhD, 1998
    • Major Professor: Dr. Bassett
    • Dissertation: "Underpervised Recurrent Neural Networks for Grammar Induction"
  • Bobby Granville
    • PhD, 1998
    • Major Professor: Ladislav Kohout
    • Dissertation: "An Empirical Study of a Query-Language Front-End Processor Using BK-Products for Fuzzy Knowledge Based Systems"
    • Currently Assistant Professor, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL.
  • Chris Healy
    • PhD, 1999
    • Major Professor: David Whalley
    • Dissertation: "Automatic Utilization of Constraints for Timing Analysis"
    • Currently Assistant Professor, Furman University.
  • R.S. Renner
    • PhD, 1999
    • Major Professor: R. Christopher Lacher
    • Dissertation: "Automatic Utilization of Constraints for Timing Analysis"
    • Currently Assistant Professor, California State University, Chico.
  • Huan-yu Tu
    • PhD, 1999
    • Major Professor: Lois Wright Hawkes
    • Dissertation: "Families of Optimal Fault-Tolerant Multiple-Bus Networks and their Related Networks"
    • Currently Assistant Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University.
  • L. Weinstein
    • PhD, 1999
    • Major Professor: R. Christopher Lacher
    • Dissertation: "The Image Node and Image Processing Neural Network Component"

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