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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:

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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:

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:

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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:

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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:

Wang, Cheng Yu

Title:

Light scattering for optical and photonic applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

scattering
ultrafast imaging
random laser
lensless imaging
metasurface
droplet laser

File:

Download thesisV6_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xingjie Ni, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Outside Unit & Field Member
Noel Giebink, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hu, Hanxiong

Title:

Multiple Electromagnetic Scattering within and Electrical Characterization of 3D-Printed Dielectrics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

electromagnetic scattering
additive manufacturing
microwave components
dielectric characterization

File:

Download Multiple_Electromagnetic_Scattering_within_and_Electrical_Characterization_of_3D_Printed_Dielectrics.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas Meisel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Timothy Simpson, Outside Field Member
Sven Bilén, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julio Urbina, Major Field Member
Xingjie Ni, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sessions, Deanna

Title:

Leveraging Data-Science and Convolutional Neural Networks for Active Feedback in Additive Manufacturing Processes for Electromagnetic Component Fabrication

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Additive manufacturing
origami
Machine learning
cross-domain analysis
manifold learning
Convolutional Neural Network

File:

Download SessionsDissertation2021.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Park, Yoonsang

Title:

Partial Electrode Configuration for Loss and Physical Parameter Determination of Piezoelectric Ceramics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

loss
mechanical quality factor
piezoelectric device
piezoelectric ceramics
high-power piezoelectrics

File:

Download Final_Ph.D_Thesis_Yoonsang_Park.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Binion, John

Title:

Optimization of Metamaterial-enabled Antennas

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Metamaterials
Metasurface
Antenna
Global Optimization

File:

Download Binion_dissertation_vsubmit4.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Douglas Werner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julio Urbina, Major Field Member
Victor Pasko, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jao, Nicholas

Title:

Non-Volatile Memory Design Based On Crossbar Architecture Towards Low Power Systems and Processing In-Memory

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Emerging Non-Volatile Memory
Computing In-Memory
Modelling
in-situ computing
ferroelectric tunnel junction
magnetic tunnel junction
device-circuit codesign
circuit-architecture codesign
phase change memory

File:

Download Dissertation_Jao_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Swaroop Ghosh, Major Field Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Outside Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Idriss, Zacharie

Title:

Statistical and Computational Electromagnetic Approaches for the Feature Extraction of Buried Targets in Ground Penetrating Radar Imaging

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Radar
Radar Imaging
Ground Penetrating Radar
Computational Electromagnetics
Feature Extraction
Waveform Design
Mutual Information
Matched Illumination
Compound Gaussian

File:

Download PhD_Disseration_Rev.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tim Kane, Major Field Member
Raghu Raj, Special Member
Jesse Barlow, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Noor Elahi, Asim

Title:

ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL STUDIES ON MODELING AND FABRICATION OF GALLIUM NITRIDE (GaN) BASED OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

GaN Optoelectronic devices
GaN microLED
Colorful microLED
GaN based Schottky Diode
GaN based MESFFET
Colloidal Quantum Dots
Nanoporous
Vertical GaN based MESFET
MESFET on LEDs
Schottky diodes on LEDs

File:

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Committee Members:

Jerzy Ruzyllo, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jian hsu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Osama Awadelkarim, Major Field Member
Wenwu Cao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tim Kane, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Xuelu

Title:

Regularized Learning for Discriminative Problems in Image Recognition

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Histopathological Image Classification
Fine-grained Image Classification
3-D Vessel Segmentation
Sparse Representation based Classification
Deep Learning
Shared Feature Learning

File:

Download xuelu_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Puneet Singla, Outside Unit & Field Member
William Higgins, Major Field Member
Vishal Monga, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Jing Yang, Major Field Member

Author:

Taher, Abdullah

Title:

Enhanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imaging of Moving Targets Using the Deterministic Annealing Probabilistic Multi-Hypothesis Tracker (DAPMHT) Approach

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
Moving target imaging
Tracking
Extended targets imaging
Point targets imaging
Maneuvering target
DAPMHT/RDA algorithm
Motion parameters estimation
Focus image

File:

Download Abdullah_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julio Urbina, Major Field Member
Vishal Monga, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Saab, Samer

Title:

Investigation of Deep Neural Networks From Control and Optimization Perspectives

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Neural Networks
Optimization
Control Theory
First-order Gradient Descent
Heavy-ball Optimizer
Recurrent Neural Networks
State-space Representations

File:

Download SamerSaabJr_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shashi Phoha, Co-Chair of Committee
Puneet Singla, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Major Field Member
Asok Ray, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair