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Author:

Ayub, Ali

Title:

Few-Shot Continual Learning of Visual Concepts

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Continual Learning
Catastrophic Forgetting
Human-Robot Interaction
Self-Supervised Learning
Curiosity-Driven Learning
Cognitively-Inspired Learning
Robotics
Machine Learning
Computer Vision

File:

Download PhD_Thesis___Ali_Ayub.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Elisabeth Karuza, Outside Member
Alan R. Wagner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Richard Wagner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hall, Donald L

Title:

Exploitation of space-time wireless channel characteristics for indoor source localization

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Indoor Source Localization
Direction of Arrival Estimation
Machine Learning
Multipath
Polarization Diversity
Spatial Scattering
Wireless Channel

File:

Download dlh_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John F Doherty, Committee Member
David Marion Jenkins, Jr., Committee Member
Michelle Celine Vigeant, Outside Member
Erik Henry Lenzing, Special Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Haddadpour, Farzin

Title:

COMMUNICATION-EFFICIENT AND FAULT-TOLERANT ALGORITHMS FOR DISTRIBUTED MACHINE LEARNING

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Distributed - Communication - straggler

File:

Download My_PhD_Dissertation__1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Necdet S Aybat, Outside Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bettapalli Nagaraj, Suhas

Title:

Privacy-preserving assessment of depression using Speech signal processing

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Speech Classification
Data Privacy
Depression Detection
Paralinguistics

File:

Download Suhas_MSEE_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Saeed M Abdullah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Jing Yang, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tholl, Michael

Title:

Spectral Feature Extraction and Target Classification for Surface Penetrating Radar Sensing

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Ground Penetrating Radar
Automatic Target Recognition
FDTD

File:

Download Spectral_Feature_Extraction_and_Target_Classification_for_Surface_Penetrating_Radar_Sensing__CaptMichaelTholl__MSThesis_Approved.pdf

Committee Members:

Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Anthony Faust, Special Signatory

Author:

Washington, Richard

Title:

the use of machine learning and genetic algorithms for clutter classification and radarcom signal design

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Radar
wireless communications
clutter
lpi
radarcom
machine learning

File:

Download FinalThesis_RichardWashington.pdf

Committee Members:

Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Dmitriy Garmatyuk, Special Signatory
Saba Mudaliar, Special Signatory

Author:

Saki, Abdullah Ash

Title:

Noise Resilient and Secure Quantum Computing

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Quantum Computing
Qubit
Security
Privacy
Attack
Trapped-ion
superconducting
Crosstalk
Simultaneous Randomized Becnhmarking
Idle Tomography
Tomography
gate error
quantum gate
readout error
randomized benchmarking
compilation
transpilation
compiler
noise-aware
mapping

File:

Download phd_dissertation_saki.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
Swaroop Ghosh, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Daneshpajooh, Hossein

Title:

Comprehensive study of external field and stress bias effect on piezoelectric properties and loss factors

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Piezoelectric Materials
Loss Mechanism
DC electric Field
Compressive Stress
Piezoelectric Loss
Phenomenology
Dielectric Loss
Langevin Transducer
Ultrasonic Transducer

File:

Download Hossein-Daneshpajooh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Wenwu Cao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Kenji Uchino, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Janalizadeh Choobbasti, Reza

Title:

PHOTOIONIZATION AND PHOTODETACHMENT EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING DISCHARGES IN THE D REGION OF THE EARTH’S IONOSPHERE

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

sprite
streamers
nonthermal gas discharges
extreme ultraviolet
photoionization
photodetachment
meteoroid
ionosphere
transient luminous events
plasma inhomogeneities
molecular nitrogen
molecular oxygen

File:

Download Reza-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eugene Clothiaux, Outside Unit & Field Member
Julio Urbina, Major Field Member
Victor Pasko, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tim Kane, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schuessler, Joseph

Title:

Adversarial Attacks and Defense in Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Adversarial Attacks
Data Poisoning
Recurrent Neural Networks
LSTM
Deep Learning
Machine Learning

File:

Download SchuesslerThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
David Jonathan Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Carina Pamela Curto, Committee Member

Author:

Ridder, Tyler Daniel

Title:

Characterization of Radar System Performability using Application-Specific Operational Reliability Metrics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Radar Perfomability
Operational Reliability
Radar Performance Metric
Radar Reliability

File:

Download Ridder_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Breakall, Major Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Enrique Del Castillo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tim Kane, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

O'Donnell, Joseph

Title:

Modeling and Analysis of Performance Degradation in Unidirectional Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Circuit Analog Absorbers from Environmental Damage

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Carbon Fiber
Radar Absorbing Material
Impact Damage
Salt Water Exposure

File:

Download JCODissertation1.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gregory Huff, Major Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tim Kane, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Xi

Title:

Design and Photonic Integration of Metasurface Lenses

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Metasurfaces
Metalens
Waveguide
Integrated Metasurfaces
Silicon Nitride Integrated metasurfaces

File:

Download Dissertation_xxc136_Xi_Chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Major Field Member
Shengxi Huang, Major Field Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xingjie Ni, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Duan, Yao

Title:

Design and Nanofabrication of Active and Multilayer Metaphotonic Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Metaphotonics
Anti-Parity-Time Symmetry
Moiré Metasurfaces
Achromatic Metalens
Neural Networks
Integrated Metasurfaces

File:

Download Dissertation_Yao_Final_corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Major Field Member
Mikael Rechtsman, Minor Field Member
Xin Ning, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xingjie Ni, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Noel Giebink, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Meng, Xinxing

Title:

Improving the Performance of Magnetic Resonance Systems using Feedback Control

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

QR Detection
Reducing AM RFI
RF Pulse Sequence Manipulation
Feedback Control
Magnetic Field Fluctuations
Flux Regulation
Powered Magnet
35.2-T Series-Connected Hybrid Magnet
MRI

File:

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Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Major Field Member
Constantino Lagoa, Major Field Member
Patrick Lenahan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Thomas Neuberger, Outside Field Member
Jeffrey Schiano, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bardakci, Ibrahim Ekrem

Title:

Convex Formulations of Probability Maximization Problems: Stochastic Approximation Frameworks and Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Probability maximization
Optimization
Stochastic Approximation
Risk Minimization
Controller Design

File:

Download ieb_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Outside Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Jing Yang, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Jianan

Title:

Optical wireless communication and positioning systems applying imaging techniques

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Optical wireless communication
Image recognition
Visible light positioning
Sensor fusion

File:

Download Jianan_Zhang_PSU_Thesis__3_.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Joseph Kane, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jing Yang, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Outside Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kirk, Benjamin

Title:

Implementation of Cognitive Software-Defined Radar with Range-Doppler Processing and Pulse-Agility for Spectrum Sharing

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

cognitive radar
software defined radar
spectrum sharing
dynamic spectrum access
pulse-agility
deconvolution
hardware accelerated
real time
moving target indication

File:

Download Dissertation_BHK_Rev5.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Outside Member
Anthony F. Martone, Special Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kovarskiy, Jacob

Title:

Real-time Spectral Prediction and Metacognition for Spectrum Sharing Radar

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

cognitive radar
spectrum sharing
spectrum prediction
software defined radio
radio frequency interference
metacognition
reinforcement learning
multi-armed bandits

File:

Download Kovarskiy_thesis_v5_wVita.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Outside Member
Anthony F. Martone, Special Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Goodnight, Lindsey

Title:

Development and Characterization of Electrochemical Biosensors using Cu-Ni and Laser Written Platinum

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

electrochemical biosensors
non-enzymatic
glucose sensing
hydrogen peroxide sensing

File:

Download Development_and_Characterization_of_Electrochemical_Biosensors_Based_On_Electrodeposited_Copper_Nickel_and_Laser_Written_Platinum_Electrodes.pdf

Committee Members:

Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair