Main Events

Tuesday, Apr 7, 11:00 am Mr. Graham will be presenting on Identity Leadership on April 7th at 11:00 am in the Don Clark (Juvenile Justice) Auditorium. This event is a collaborative effort led by Student Affairs, in partnership with the Development Office, the Graduate School, and the President's Office. Event Link https://www.pvamu.edu/event/identity-leadership-with-mr-stedman-graham/

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Ali Fares CO-COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Ripendra Awal TITLE: ASSESSING THE FUTURE IMPACTS OF DROUGHT ON COTTON YIELD IN TEXAS USING MACHINE LEARNING AND CLIMATE INDICES ABSTRACT: Climate change and increasing drought frequency pose significant challenges to agricultural sustainability in Texas. It particularly impacts cotton production, which is highly sensitive to temperature variability [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Sharisse Hebert TITLE: IMPROVING HOT DEBRIEF COMPLETION RATES AFTER RAPID RESPONSE TEAM EVENTS THROUGH QR CODE ACCESS AND DIGITAL REMINDERS: A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT ABSTRACT: Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) are critical for stabilizing acutely deteriorating patients. However, structured hot debriefs, which are brief reflections held immediately after emergencies, are inconsistently documented, despite [...]

Good morning. Please join us on Tuesday, April 14th, at 6:30 pm, for our virtual informational series. Ms. Destiny Anderson from the Student Counseling Services Department will cover counseling for students at PVAMU. To join the Zoom, please click on "Join Zoom Meeting" on the flyer. The Zoom will be active on the day of [...]

Good morning. Please join us tomorrow, April 14th, at 6:30 pm, for our virtual informational series. Ms. Destiny Anderson from the Student Counseling Services Department will cover counseling for students at PVAMU. To join the Zoom, please click on "Join Zoom Meeting" on the flyer. The Zoom will be active tomorrow. Register using the link [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Fred Bonner TITLE: THE BRIDGE TO BECOMING AN EDUCATOR: AN ANALYSIS OF EDUCATOR PREPARATION PROGRAMS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON STAKEHOLDERS ABSTRACT: This qualitative study examines how national, state, and institutional policies impact teacher certification processes and influence the experiences of stakeholders in educator preparation programs (EPPs), including administrators, professors, and teacher candidates. [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Md. Jobair Bin Alam TITLE: HYDROLOGIC PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF GEOGRID-GEOTEXTILES INTEGRATED EXPANSIVE CLAYEY SLOPES ABSTRACT: Expansive clay embankment slopes are highly vulnerable to climate-driven wetting-drying cycles, which reduce matric suction and shear strength, leading to surficial failures. While conventional stabilization often focuses on mechanical reinforcement, a significant research gap exists regarding the [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Matthew Minus TITLE: THE TWO TALES OF ONE STUDENT: BORON-SILICON-FLUORINE EXCHANGE, AND THE QUEST FOR RECYCLABLE VITIRIMERS ABSTRACT: Vitrimers are a class of dynamic covalent polymer networks that combine the mechanical robustness of thermosets with the reprocessability, and self-healing capabilities enabled by associative bond exchange. Here, we report a new vitrimer system [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Xishuang Dong TITLE: LLMS-BASED TEXT-TO-SQL FOR GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL ABSTRACT: Text-to-SQL aims to translate natural language questions into SQL queries that can be executed on databases, enabling non-expert users to retrieve information without learning formal query languages. Early Text-to-SQL systems relied on rule-based methods and semantic parsers, while recent advances in deep [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Suxia Cui CO-COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Lujun Zhai TITLE: EFFECTIVE DATA AUGMENTATION STRATEGIES FOR SMALL OBJECT DETECTION ABSTRACT: Data augmentation remains the most effective method of improving object detection, particularly in scenes where small objects dominate and the annotated datasets are small. While geometric augmentation techniques such as flipping, cropping, and photometric augmentations [...]

Please join us next Tuesday, April 21st, at 6:30 pm, for our virtual informational series. Dr. Hebert Thomas, Assistant Director, from the Careers & Professional Development Department, will inform us of the career services available for students at PVAMU. To join the Zoom, please click on "Join Zoom Meeting" on the flyer day of the [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Yonghui Wang TITLE: STRUCTURED REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR GENERALIZABLE DEEPFAKE VIDEO DETECTION ABSTRACT Deepfake video detection has become an important problem in multimedia forensics as modern generative models produce increasingly realistic facial manipulations. Although many existing detectors achieve strong performance on the datasets on which they are trained, their performance often degrades substantially [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Patricia Miller TITLE: WHITE PRINCIPALS AS ANTI-RACIST ALLIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOOLS ABSTRACT: Racism and education in American schools are more complex and misunderstood now more than ever. Even as Black and Brown populations expand, their educational conditions are rapidly deteriorating due to societal racial injustices. A large majority of African American [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Suxia Cui TITLE: CNN-BASED IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING SPARSITY-AWARE OPTIMIZATION ABSTRACT: The deployment of convolutional neural network (CNN)-based image enhancement in edge computing environments is constrained by limited hardware resources and strict power budgets. Although CNN architectures provide superior visual restoration performance compared to traditional filtering techniques, convolution operations exhibit high multiply–accumulate (MAC) [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Pamela Freeman TITLE: FEAR OF FACING OUR WORST SELF: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY ON TEACHERS’ IDENTITIES, IDEOLOGIES, AND RESPONSE TO INCREASED DIVERSITY IN A MAJOR ABSTRACT: Purpose: Suburban school districts have experienced apparent demographic changes over the past 10 years. However, there is limited research exploring how suburban teachers are responding to such [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Pamela Freeman TITLE: HOW FAR HAVE WE COME? ANALYZING THE SOCIAL JUSTICE ORIENTATION OF HBCU DOCTORAL CANDIDATES & GRADUATES POST-TRUMP AND GEORGE FLOYD ABSTRACT: The George Floyd murder and the ongoing saga of Trump presidencies have cemented social and ideological divisions within American culture, creating reverberations throughout the realms of academic discourse [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Lijun Qian TITLE: UNIFIED DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR SPATIAL DETECTION AND TEMPORAL FORECASTING ACROSS VISUAL DOMAINS ABSTRACT: This dissertation proposes a unified deep learning framework for spatial detection and temporal forecasting across visual domains, designed to address limited supervision, class imbalance, and scale variability. The framework is structured around four complementary principles: [...]

Please join us tomorrow at 6:30 pm for our virtual informational series. Dr. Zakiya T. Brown, will inform us of the care and services, from the Office of Title IX Compliance, available for students at PVAMU. To join the Zoom, please click on "Join Zoom Meeting" on the flyer day of the event. Register using [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Ahmed Ahmed CO-COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Md. Jobair Bin Alam TITLE: MULTI-TASK GROWING INTERPRETABLE NEURAL NETWORK FOR MULTI-TARGET SYMBOLIC REGRESSION ABSTRACT: This research presents a comprehensive, three-phase hierarchical data collection framework integrating Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, aerial RGB imagery, and Electrical Resistivity Imaging (ERI) to correlate multi-scale hydro-geophysical soil parameters for comprehensive [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Md Hossain Shuvo TITLE: INTELLITRADEAI: AN AI-POWERED MULTI-ASSET TRADING PLATFORM USING ENSEMBLE MACHINE LEARNING, CHART PATTERN RECOGNITION AND TRI-SIGNAL FUSION ABSTRACT: IntelliTradeAI is an AI-powered algorithmic trading platform covering 259 assets across equities, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and forex. The system fuses three independent signal sources — an ensemble of Random Forest and XGBoost [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Harshica Fernando COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR: Dr. Kevin Storr TITLE: IONIZATION EFFECTS ON FERRITES FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS: A RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY STUDY ABSTRACT: To explore space safely, multifunctional materials are needed. They need to be readily accessible, as rare earth metals are difficult to source. Rare-earth-free magnetic materials continue to attract attention in energy, electronics, [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Kazeem Olanrewaju TITLE: DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPARTMENTAL METABOLISM RATE MODEL FOR DIGESTIVE OLIGOSACCHARIDES TRANSFORMATION TO GLUCOSE IN THE HUMAN PROXIMAL SMALL INTESTINE (PSI) ABSTRACT: Excess postprandial glucose remains a significant metabolic concern, particularly for individuals with impaired glucose regulation. In the proximal small intestine (PSI), dietary oligosaccharides are enzymatically hydrolyzed to glucose, [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Lijun Qian TITLE: A GAME THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF MULTI TIERED SEMANTIC COMMUNICATIONS ABSTRACT: Semantic communication shifts the 6G paradigm from transmitting bits to delivering meaning. However, the economic feasibility of deploying such compute-intensive systems remains a critical open challenge. This thesis presents a game-theoretic framework for pricing and service differentiation in a [...]