Below are dissertations and theses advised or co-advised by Dr. Kurt Luther at Virginia Tech.
Ph.D. Dissertations
Designing Human-AI Collaborative Systems for Historical Photo Identification
Vikram Mohanty
Virginia Tech Computer Science Ph.D. Dissertation, 2023
Supporting and Transforming High-Stakes Investigations with Expert-Led Crowdsourcing
Sukrit Venkatagiri
Virginia Tech Computer Science Ph.D. Dissertation, 2022
Mixed-initiative methods for following design guidelines in creative tasks
Aditya Bharadwaj
Virginia Tech Computer Science Ph.D. Dissertation, 2020
Solving mysteries with crowds: Supporting crowdsourced sensemaking with a modularized pipeline and context slices
Tianyi Li
Virginia Tech Computer Science Ph.D. Dissertation, 2020
Supporting Historical Research and Education with Crowdsourced Analysis of Primary Sources
Nai-Ching Wang
Virginia Tech Computer Science Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019
Master’s Theses
Crowd Compositions for Bias Detection and Mitigation in Predicting Recidivism
Sakshi Mhatre
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis, 2024
Backdrop Explorer: A Human-AI Collaborative Approach for Exploring Studio Backdrops in Civil War Portraits
Jude Lim
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis, 2023
Behind the Scenes: Evaluating Computer Vision Embedding Techniques for Discovering Similar Photo Backgrounds
Terryl Dodson
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis, 2023
Civil War Twin: Exploring ethical challenges in designing an educational face recognition application
Manisha Kusuma
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis, 2021
The social structures of OSINT: Examining collaboration and competition in open source intelligence investigations
Yasmine Belghith
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis, 2021
SleuthTalk: Addressing the last-mile problem in historical person identification with privacy, collaboration, and structured feedback
Liling Yuan
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis, 2021
Supporting Open Source Investigative Journalism with Crowdsourced Image Geolocation
Rachel Kohler
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis, 2017 William Preston Society Master’s Thesis Award
GraphCrowd: Harnessing the Crowd to Lay Out Graphs with Applications to Cellular Signaling Pathways
Divit P. Singh
Virginia Tech Computer Science M.S. Thesis, 2016