MS THESES & PhD DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED
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		 Total PHD Dissertations supervised  | 
		08 | 
| MS Theses supervised as Advisor / Chairman | 28 | 
| MS Theses supervised as Co-Advisor / Member | 55 | 
| Total MS Theses supervised | 83 | 
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		 PHD THESIS  | 
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		 No.  | 
		
		 Candidate's NAME  | 
		
		 THESIS Title  | 
		
		 DEPT  | 
		
		 COMMITTEE  | 
		
		 END DATE  | 
	
| 01 | Al-Somani, Turki Faisal | 
		Design and analysis of efficient and 
		secure elliptic curve cryptoprocessors.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
		
		 CSE  | 
		
		 Co-Advisor  | 
		May 2006 | 
| 02 | Al-Ghonaim, Esa | 
		Parallel computing simulation platform for 
		evaluating  LDPC codes performance (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
		
		 CSE  | 
		
		 Co-Advisor  | 
		Dec 2008 | 
| 03 | Al-Shaikh, Raed Abdullah | 
		Adopting QoS Real-Time DCPS Models and 
		Other Reliability Measures on High Performance and Grid Computing (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
		
		 CSE  | 
		
		 Chairman  | 
		Feb 2012 | 
| 04 | Sheikh, Ahmad Tariq | 
		An Integrated Approach for Soft Error 
		Tolerance of Combinational Circuits (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
		
		 CSE  | 
		
		 Co-Advisor  | 
		Jan 2016 | 
| 05 | Alhashim, Ghalib A. | 
		Design and Analysis of Evergreen Virtually 
		Clustered Automation Platform (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
		
		 CSE  | 
		
		 Chairman  | 
		May 2016 | 
| 06 | Al-Utaibi, Khalid | 
		Test Pattern Relaxation for Synchronous 
		Sequential Circuits Based on Critical Path Tracing (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
		
		 COE  | 
		
		 Chairman  | 
		In-Progress | 
| 07 | Al-Asali, Mohammed | 
		Hardware-Based Solutions for Securing 
		users' Data in Public Clouds (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
		
		 CSE  | 
		Member | January 2018 | 
| 08 | Abudalfa, Shadi I. | 
		Open Domain Targeted Sentiment Polarity 
		Detection for MicroBlogs in Social Media (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
		
		 ICS  | 
		
		 Member  | 
		August 2018 | 
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			 MS THESIS  | 
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			 No.  | 
			
			 Candidate's NAME  | 
			
			 THESIS Title  | 
			
			 DEPT  | 
			
			 COMMITTEE  | 
			
			 DATE  | 
		
| 01 | Hasan, Masudul | 
			Back-end design of a formal high level 
			synthesis system.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Jun 1993 | 
| 02 | Al-Mulhem, Abdulaziz Sultan | Hardware specific optimization on RTL description. (Abstract/Full Text PDF) | 
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Jun 1994 | 
| 03 | Nassar, Khaled Muhammad Walid | 
			Timing driven placement algorithm for 
			standard-cell design.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Jun 1994 | 
| 04 | Khalid, Mohammed Abdul Aziz | 
			A framework for the VLSI 
			implementation of systolic tree based data structures.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Sep 1994 | 
| 05 | Hubbi, Essam Mohammad Khair | 
			Intermediate forms in high-level 
			synthesis.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Nov 1994 | 
| 06 | Khan, Mohammed Shahid Tanvir | 
			Genetic algorithm for timing 
			influenced floorplanning of VLSI designs.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Dec 1994 | 
| 07 | Abu-Saleh, Hazem Muhebbadin Ahmad Naji | 
			AutoVLSI system: a layout system for 
			general-cell VLSI design.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Feb 1995 | 
| 08 | Soleja, Faisal Mohammad Zafar | 
			Automated VHDL composition from AHPL.
			 (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Aug 1996 | 
| 09 | Zahra, Mounir M. | 
			Optimization of mixed CMOS/BiCMOS 
			circuits using tabu search.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Jul 1998 | 
| 10 | Hussain, Ali Syed | 
			Fuzzy simulated evolution algorithm 
			for VLSI cell placement.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Dec 1998 | 
| 11 | Al-Yamani, Ahmad Abdul-Jabbar | 
			A Parallel Tabu search algorithm for 
			VLSI standard cell placement.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			May 1999 | 
| 12 | Siddiqui, Mohammed Ahsan | 
			Data flow graph allocation to array 
			processors using iterative heuristics.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Aug 2000 | 
| 13 | Minhas, Mahmood-ur-Rehman | 
			Iterative algorithms for timing and 
			low power driven VLSI standard-cell placement.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Jun 2001 | 
| 14 | Al-Abaji, Raslan Hashim | 
			Evolutionary techniques for 
			multi-objective VLSI netlist partitioning.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Aug 2002 | 
| 15 | Al-Saiari, Uthman Salem | Digital circuit design through simulated evolution. (Abstract/Full Text PDF) | 
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Nov 2003 | 
| 16 | Sanaullah, Syed | 
			Parallelization of Iterative 
			Heuristics for Performance Driven Low Power VLSI Standard Cell 
			Placement using Tabu search.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | Advisor/ Chairman | Nov 2003 | 
| 17 | Khan, Khawar Saeed | 
			Parallelization of stochastic 
			evolution.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			May 2006 | 
| 18 | Siddiqi, Umair Farooq | 
			Parallel algorithms for look-up table 
			(LUT) inverse halftoning.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Sep 2007 | 
| 19 | Asadullah, Syed | 
			Optimization of metrics in OSPF/IS-IS 
			routing using accelerated iterative heuristics.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Dec 2007 | 
| 20 | Khan, Ahmed Saad | 
			Network Intrusion Detection with 
			Iterative Heuristics (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			May 2013 | 
| 21 | Arafeh, Abdalrahman M. | 
			Iterative Heuristics for CMOL Cell 
			Mapping  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Jan 2014 | 
| 22 | Anwar, Jamil Taha | 
			Optimization of OSPF Weight Setting 
			Problem for Multiple Traffic Demands Scenarios using Tabu Search (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			IP | 
| 23 | Bala, AbuBakar | 
			Iterative Algorithms for Virtual 
			Machine Placement in Cloud Environments (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			May 2014 | 
| 24 | Ahmad, Khalil M. | 
			Optimization of 3-D VLSI Cell 
			Placement for Reduction in TSVs and Area (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			May 2014 | 
| 25 | Shahid, Kh. Shahzada | 
			Energy aware fast Optimization in 
			Cloud Computing Resource Provisioning (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Jan 2015 | 
| 26 | Amoudy, Abdul-Raoof | 
			Modeling and Detection of Meter 
			Compromise Attacks Against the Smart Grid Communication 
			Infrastructure (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Feb 2015 | 
| 27 | Raza, Ali | 
			Energy-aware resource allocation for 
			efficient management of data centers for cloud computing (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			May 2015 | 
| 28 | Abdelsatir, Ahmed Elbadawi | 
			A Novel Iterative Nondeterministic 
			Algorithm for the Clustering Problem in Gene Expression Data Analysis(Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			
			 COE  | 
			
			 Advisor/ Chairman  | 
			Aug 2018 | 
| 01 | Yazdani, Jaweed | A software tool to generate PCB layout from RTL specifications using SSI/MSI components. (Abstract/Full Text PDF) | ICS | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			May 1988 | 
| 02 | Damati, Ali Fiqhi | 
			A Systolic algorithm for VLSI design 
			of a viterbi decoder.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			EE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jun 1988 | 
| 03 | Al-Hamed, Abdulaziz Hamed | 
			Data protection in a distributed 
			computer environment.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			ICS | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jul 1989 | 
| 04 | El-Nafaty, Usman Aliyu | 
			Methanol conversion to light olefins 
			over commercial zeolites.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			CHE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Oct 1990 | 
| 05 | Al-Massarani, Adel Mohammed Adel | 
			Priority-based scheduling and 
			evaluation of precedence graphs with communication times. (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Aug 1993 | 
| 06 | Al-Sukhni, Hassan Fakhri | 
			A C-Based high level synthesis system.
			 (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jan 1994 | 
| 07 | Ali, Syed Asaf Maruf | 
			Design and modeling of a real-time 
			RISC processor in VHDL.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jun 1994 | 
| 08 | Abdulla, Abdul Hai Mohammed | 
			Reliability of modular fault-tolerant 
			hypercube networks.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jan 1995 | 
| 09 | Abu-Mutlaq, Maher Hamdan Khalil | 
			Dataflow processor for back 
			propagation neural networks: architecture and performance 
			evaluation.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Feb 1995 | 
| 10 | Farooqui, Aamir Alam | 
			Design, modeling, and VLSI 
			implementation of a RISC dataflow array processor.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			EE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			May 1995 | 
| 11 | Al-Farra, Khalid Jawdat Kamel | 
			Timing driven floorplanning.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jun 1995 | 
| 12 | Hasan, Muhammad Nayyar | 
			On the synthesis and optimization of 
			MVL functions. (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jun 1995 | 
| 13 | Farook, Mohammad | 
			Component selection and pipelining 
			using stochastic evolution.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			ICS | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jun 1996 | 
| 14 | Alsayed, Sabih Masarrat | 
			A new traffic control scheme for ATM 
			networks.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jul 1996 | 
| 15 | Khan, Adnan Ahmed | 
			Development of a congestion control 
			scheme for ATM networks.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Oct 1996 | 
| 16 | Nadeem, Mohammad Mohsin | 
			Evolution based scheduling of 
			precedence computations with communication costs.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Dec 1996 | 
| 17 | Adiche, Hakim Salah | 
			Fuzzy genetic algorithm for VLSI 
			floorplan design. (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Nov 1997 | 
| 18 | Al-Kharobi, Talal Mousa Mohammed. | 
			Fuzzy logic based FPGA routing.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jun 1998 | 
| 19 | Al-Marhoun, Taisir I. | 
			Testing and evaluation methodology of 
			ATM systems.   (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Aug 1998 | 
| 20 | Baig, Mirza Naved Ali | 
			Task matching and scheduling in 
			heterogeneous computing environments using iterative heuristics. 
			 (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			May 1999 | 
| 21 | Khan, Salman Ahmad | 
			Topology design of enterprise 
			networks.   (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Dec 1999 | 
| 22 | Barnawi, Abdulaziz Yagoub | 
			Multicast routing protocol with 
			partial flooding for ad hoc wireless networks.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jun 2001 | 
| 23 | Shazli, Syed Zafar | 
			Experimenting with evolutionary 
			meta-heuristics for state justification in sequential ATPG.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jun 2001 | 
| 24 | Tahir, Muhammad Atif | 
			QoS-driven multicast routing 
			algorithms.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jul 2001 | 
| 25 | Mohammed, Yassir Obeid | 
			Quality of service routing.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Aug 2001 | 
| 26 | Zakir, Ahmer | 
			Topological optimization of computer 
			networks subject to reliability and fault tolerance.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Aug 2002 | 
| 27 | Al-Suwaiyan, Ali Saleh Mohammed | 
			Efficient test relaxation techniques 
			for combinational logic circuits.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Oct 2002 | 
| 28 | Ya'u Isa, Garba | 
			Memory performance evaluation of high 
			throughput servers.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jun 2003 | 
| 29 | Osais, Yahya Esmail | 
			Efficient static test compaction 
			algorithms for combinational circuits based on test relaxation.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Oct 2003 | 
| 30 | Faheemuddin, Mohammed | 
			
			Parallelization 
			of Evolutionary Algorithms applied to Multi-Objective VLSI Standard 
			Cell Placement.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Nov 2003 | 
| 31 | Sarif, Bambang Ali Basyah | 
			Modified ANT colony algorithm for 
			combinational logic circuits design.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Nov 2003 | 
| 32 | Khursheed, Syed Saqib | 
			Test set compaction for sequential 
			circuits based on test relaxation.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Dec 2004 | 
| 33 | Sami, Muhammad Rehan | 
			Content-aware congestion control over 
			MPLS networks for multimedia transmission.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jan 2005 | 
| 34 | Khan, Faisal Nawaz | 
			FSM state-assignment for area, power 
			and testability using non-deterministic evolutionary heuristics.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			May 2005 | 
| 35 | Abdul Subhan, Abdul-Majid | 
			Designing of cellular mobile networks 
			using modern heuristics.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jun 2005 | 
| 36 | Ba-Abbad, Emran A. | 
			Ant colony multi-optimization 
			algorithm for circuit bi-partitioning.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jun 2005 | 
| 37 | Mohiuddin, Mohammed Aijaz | 
			Optimizing weights for OSPF to improve 
			utilization using modern heuristics.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Sep 2005 | 
| 38 | Baig, Meerja Humayun | 
			Evolutionary heuristic optimization 
			for digital curves and surfaces.  (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			ICS | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Oct 2005 | 
| 39 | Mohiuddin, Khaja Mohammed | 
			Simulation Study Using OPNET for a New 
			Class of Network for Real Time Applications. (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Mar 2006 | 
| 40 | Ali, Mustafa Imran | 
			An efficient relaxation-based test 
			width compression technique for multiple scan chain testing. 
			 
			 (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Dec 2006 | 
| 41 | Zaidi, Ali Mustafa | 
			A modular reconfigurable architecture 
			for assymmetric and symmetric-key cryptography. (Abstract/Full Text PDF)  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jan 2007 | 
| 42 | Ali, Mansoor | MultiObjective Optimization for FSM Synthesis Using Modern Evolutionary Techniques | COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			IP | 
| 43 | Khan, Farhan | Transistor-Level Defect-Tolerant Techniques for Reliable Design at the Nanoscale | COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jul 2009 | 
| 44 | Anwar, Taha | 
			Optimization of OSPF Weight Settings 
			by using Iterative  Heuristics for Day to Day Traffic Demand Patterns  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jul 2009 | 
| 45 | Al-Masri, Ahmed | 
			Design for Defect Tolerant Reliable 
			Digital System at the  NanoScale  | 
			COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jun 2009 | 
| 46 | Farooqi, Mohammed Moinuddin Rizwan | Adapting Tabu search to accommodate online demand variations in a data network | COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			May2010 | 
| 47 | Al-Qahtani, Ayed | Faculty tolerance techniques for sequential circuits: a design level approach | COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jul 2010 | 
| 48 | Shaheen, Abdul-Rahman Salah Mohammed | A Comparative analysis of intelligent techniques for detecting anomalous Internet traffic | COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Oct 2010 | 
| 49 | Khalaf, Mohammad Shokri | Resource Management for OFDMA systems using Ant Colony-based optimization technique | COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jan 2012 | 
| 50 | Daud, Khaled Abdel-Karim | Synthesis of soft error tolerant combinational circuits | COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jan 2012 | 
| 51 | Adeniye, Suli Charles | Authentication for stateless address allocation in IPv6 networks | COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Feb 2012 | 
| 52 | Chikh Oughali, Feras M. Moetaz | A Generalized Modular Redundancy Scheme for Enhancing Fault Tolerance of Combinational Circuits | COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			May 2013 | 
| 53 | Zuraigat, Zaid S. | Data Process and Pattern Recognition for Face – Gait-based Multimode Biometric Authentication | COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			IP | 
| 54 | Saif, Ahmed | Anomaly modeling and detection for smart grid communication infrastructures | COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			Jan 2013 | 
| 55 | Bin-Beshr, Farid | EDoS Attack Modeling and Detection in the Cloud Infrastructure | COE | 
			 Co-Advisor/ Member  | 
			IP | 
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