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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 [...]

Good afternoon  Please join us on Thursday, April 23, 2026, from 6:00 pm-8:00 pm for another great art exhibit here at the Northwest. The Northwest Houston Center Library would like to invite you to the Nature's Intelligence, A Photography Exhibit opening night reception. Click the link on the flyer or click the link below to [...]

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: [...]

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. 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 [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Yunxiang Gao TITLE: OPTIMIZATION AND SCALE-UP SYNTHESIS OF INDUSTRIAL GRADE CARBON NANOTUBE/ MICROGEL COMPOSITES ABSTRACT: The development of nanocomposite microgels using multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) presents significant opportunities in controlled release systems and soil enhancement technologies. However, limitations in nanotube dispersion, cost, process reproducibility, and large-scale synthesis of PAAm microgel and [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Daniel Doe TITLE: OPTIMIZING ETHEREUM BLOCK PROPAGATION: A STACKELBERG GAME-THEORETIC APPROACH IN MIXED REALITY ENVIRONMENTS ABSTRACT: Scalability is a persistent bottleneck in Ethereum-based blockchain networks, particularly for mixed reality applications like augmented and virtual reality that require low latency and consistent real-time performance. Peer-to-peer gossip protocols, the standard mechanism for block propagation, [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Lijun Qian TITLE: DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF DETECTORS FOR AI-GENERATED IMAGES ABSTRACT: The rapid improvement of generative image models has made synthetic images increasingly difficult to distinguish from authentic photographs, creating new challenges for media authentication and forensic analysis. Detectors that perform well on a single benchmark routinely fail when the [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Lijun Qian TITLE: LLM-ASSISTED TASK-ADAPTIVE SEMANTIC COMMUNICATIONS OVER NON-IDEAL CHANNELS FOR VISION-LANGUAGE SYSTEMS ABSTRACT: The growth of intelligent wireless systems and bandwidth-limited edge devices has created a need for communication methods that move beyond bit-level data transmission. Semantic communication addresses this by transmitting task-relevant meaning, which reduces bandwidth usage while preserving [...]