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Author:

Reyes, Alexia

Title:

Dynamic Modeling of a Power Profile for SmallSat Cognitive Agents

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Small Satellite
Cognitive Agents
Power Profile

File:

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Committee Members:

Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Sven G Bilén, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Committee Member

Author:

Tsang, Bryan

Title:

Classification and Discrimination of Drones and Birds Using micro-Doppler Images

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

micro-Doppler
UAV
Drone
Bird
Classification
SVM
Radar

File:

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Committee Members:

Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tim Kane, Committee Member
Ramesh Bharadwaj, Special Signatory

Author:

Yuan, Alex

Title:

Antenna Radiation Pattern Mapping with an Unmanned Aerial System

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

UAS
UAV
SDR
drone
quadcopter
antenna
radiation pattern
RF
HackRF
Pixhawk
Ardupilot
Mission Planner
GRC
GNU Radio
Python
MATLAB

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Committee Members:

Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
James Kenneth Breakall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory Huff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erik H. Lenzing, Special Signatory

Author:

Hojjatinia, Sarah

Title:

System Identification Algorithms for Noisy Data with Application to Behavior Modeling

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

System identification
data analysis
modeling
physical activity
behavior
machine learning
algorithm
noisy data
social network
switched systems
markov
design
SARMAX
SARX
Markov jump
hybrid
health
Real Data

File:

Download Sarah-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
David E Conroy, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Zhiran

Title:

Minimizing the Cost for Charging Plug-in Electric Vehicles Using BFGS Quasi-Newton Method

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Minimizing the cost of charging
Optimization methods
Quasi- Newton method
Newton’s method
Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (BFGS)
Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs).
Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs)

File:

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Committee Members:

Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Yan Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donald E Ebeigbe, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Chang Jiang

Title:

Advanced High-Speed Solid-State Optical-Beam Control Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Electro-Optics
Ferroeletrics
Potassium Tantalate Niobate
Optical Deflector
Vari-focal Lens
Light Emitting Diode
Light Extraction Efficiency

File:

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Committee Members:

Shizhuo Yin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victor P Pasko, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Jian Hsu, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ashour, Mahmoud

Title:

Distributed Optimization Approaches to Nonconvex Problems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Distributed Optimization
Nonconvex Problems
Network Flow Control
Sparsity

File:

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Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Necdet S Aybat, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chatterjee, Kaustav

Title:

Data Anomaly Resilience in Wide-area Oscillation Monitoring and Assessment of Damping Contribution from Power System Components

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Power Systems
Oscillation Monitoring
Control Systems
Damping
Robust PCA
Data Recovery

File:

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Committee Members:

Yan Li, Major Field Member
Greg Pavlak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jing Yang, Major Field Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fadden, Christopher

Title:

Numerical Simulations of Thermoacoustic Combined Tomography

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Thermoacoustic tomography
Backprojection
Lie Analysis
Thermal Ablation
Autism

File:

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Committee Members:

Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Co-Chair of Committee
Xiao Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tim Kane, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nanyin Zhang, Major Field Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Feng, Songtao

Title:

Information Freshness: Fundamental Limits and Optimization Methodologies

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Age of Information (AoI)
Scheduling
Wireless networks

File:

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Committee Members:

Constantino Lagoa, Major Field Member
Viveck Cadambe, Major Field Member
Jing Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Guodong Pang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Graybill, Philip

Title:

Embedded biomedical systems for assistive technology and state-of-vigilance forecasting

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

embedded systems
biomedical
microcontroller
FPGA
assistive technology
unscented Kalman filter
state of vigilance
sleep
forecasting
eyelid
optimization
wearable
epilepsy

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Major Field Member
Minghui Zhu, Major Field Member
Bruce Gluckman, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew Geronimo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Parker, Terele

Title:

A Dynamic Link Budget for Satellite Communication Based on the Cyclic Nature of Galactic Noise

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Galactic Noise
Link Budget Dynamic
Satellite Communication
location
time
galactic center
UHF (Ultra-High Frequency)
naval communication
curve fitting

File:

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Committee Members:

Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erik Henry Lenzing, Committee Member
James Kenneth Breakall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wood, Noah

Title:

Fusion of SAR and Electrooptical Imagery for Vehicle Classification Using Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

machine learning
data fusion
sar
variability

File:

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Committee Members:

Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Marion Jenkins, Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Zifan

Title:

Solid-state nanopore fabrication and sensing towards integrated nucleic acid testing

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Nanopore
Nucleic acid testing
Point of care
SARS-CoV-2
Dielectric breakdown
Microfluidics

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Committee Members:

Tom Jackson, Major Field Member
Pak Kin Wong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Major Field Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Weihua Guan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xiang, Zhen

Title:

Defense of Backdoor Attacks against Deep Neural Network Classifiers

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

adversarial machine learning
backdoor attack
Trojan
backdoor defense
anomaly detection
point cloud
reverse-engineering

File:

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Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Major Field Member
Constantino Lagoa, Major Field Member
David Miller, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anna Squicciarini, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Singerman, Paul

Title:

Application of Language and Symbolic Dynamics for Radar Functionality Optimization

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

radar
maneuver detection
target tracking
language
optimization
symbolic dynamics
information overload
information elasticity
fully adaptive radar
cognitive radar

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory Huff, Major Field Member
Yan Li, Major Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Muralidhar Rangaswamy, Special Member
Asok Ray, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tendulkar, Mohit Milind

Title:

Zinc Oxide Thin-Film Devices for Space Exploration

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

ZnO
Zinc oxide
TFT
thin film transistor
curved substrate lithography
trilateral liftoff
trilateral tfts
adjustable x-ray optics
lynx mission
zno strain sensor
zno temperature sensor

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tom Jackson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rongming Chu, Major Field Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Handel, Clark

Title:

target size estimation using forward scattering in a passive bistatic radar system

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Passive radar
FM radio
Bistatic radar
Long-Term Evolution
target detection

File:

Download ClarkHandel-Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Erik Henry Lenzing, Special Signatory
Muralidhar Rangaswamy, Special Signatory

Author:

Kemmerling, Jesse

Title:

Effects of Low-Mobility Holes in TCAD Simulated GaN/AlGaN/GaN Super-Heterojunction HEMT for RF and High-Power Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

gallium nitride
HEMT
super-heterojunction
field plate
RF amplifier
hole mobility
TCAD
microwave amplifier

File:

Download Thesis_MS_Final_Draft_Kemmerling_Jesse.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongming Chu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tom Jackson, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Suresh, Aakarshitha

Title:

LOGIC OBFUSCATION OF QUANTUM CIRCUITS FOR SECURITY

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Quantum Computing
Obfuscation
Dummy gates
Hardware security
quantum circuit

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_EE_PSU_Aakarshitha_Suresh.pdf

Committee Members:

Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Swaroop Ghosh, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Morteza Kayyalha, Committee Member