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Author:

Karnawat, Darshan Nitin

Title:

Power Optimization in Bluetooth Low Energy implemented through a System on Chip NRF51 and Apple Notification Center Services

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

BLE
Wireless Communication
Power Optimization

File:

Download Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sedig Salem Agili, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mohammadzadeh Jasour, Ashkan

Title:

Convex Approximation of Chance Constrained Optimization Problems: Application in System and Control

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Chance Constrained
Convex Optimization
Semidefinite Programming
Measure and Moments
Polynomials
Sum of Squares Optimization
Duality

File:

Download Ashkan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Outside Member
Alexei Novikov, Committee Member

Author:

Jiang, Runkun

Title:

Design Strategies and Experimental Validation of High-Performance Logging-While-Drilling Piezocomposite Transducers

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

LWD acoustic transducer
COMSOL design and optimization
extreme-environment fabrication
transducer testing protocol

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Runkun_Jiang_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Bernhard R. Tittmann, Outside Member

Author:

Pooler, Rick Kevin

Title:

AN ANALYSIS OF SPECTRUM SHARING FOR RADAR APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Spectrum Sensing
Cognitive Radar
Spectrum Sharing
Optimal Sub-band

File:

Download Rick_Pooler_-_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Kane, Committee Member
Anthony Martone, Committee Member

Author:

Yan, Yixin

Title:

Sub-wavelength Modulation of Complex Refractive Index and X(2) Optical Nonlinearity in Organic Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

organic semiconductors
photonic materials and devices
nanotechnology
nonlinear optics
parity-time symmetry

File:

Download YY-Dissertation_0103.pdf

Committee Members:

Noel C. Giebink, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel C. Giebink, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas N. Jackson, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Brandsema, Matthew J

Title:

Formulation and Analysis of the Quantum Radar Cross Section

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Quantum Radar
QRCS
Radar Cross Section
Photon Scattering

File:

Download Matthew_Brandsema_-_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Iam Choon Khoo, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Marcos Rigol, Outside Member
Marco Lanzagorta, Special Member

Author:

Poore, Ryan James

Title:

EXTENDING A BIOLOGICAL CELL TRACKING SYSTEM TO TRACK RANGE DATA OF PEDESTRIANS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

LIDAR range data
topological constraints
geometric active contour
Interacting Multiple Model

File:

Download ThesisMastersRyanPoore.pdf

Committee Members:

William Higgins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Tutwiler, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member

Author:

Gebhardt, Evan Thomas

Title:

Mimo Radar Through the Wall Imaging Techniques

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radar
Through-Wall-Radar
Wall Mitigation
Target Detection
SAR
MIMO
Virtual Array

File:

Download Gebhardt_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram M Naraynan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James K Breakall, Committee Member
Ram M Naraynan, Committee Member

Author:

Ayub, Ali

Title:

An Adaptive Markov Process for Deceptive Robotics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Deception
Robotics
Probability Theory
HRI
Markov Process
Entropy

File:

Download PS-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Aldo Morales, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Wolpert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amit Banerjee, Committee Member

Author:

Patki, Mayuresh Premanand

Title:

A Low Power and Area Efficient CMOS Implementation of Multilayer Feedforward Artificial Neural Network

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Neural Networks
Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service
Integrated Circuit
CMOS
Very Large Scale Integration
McCulloch and Pitts neuron
Perceptron
Backpropagation Algorithm
Synapses
Gilbert Multiplier Cell
Activation Function Circuit
Floating Gate
Single Transistor Learning Synapse
Post-Synaptic Current
Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity
Long Term Potentiation
Long Term Depression
Static Random Access Memory
Memristor
Mean Square Error
Cadence OrCAD Capture
Cadence PSpice A/D
Electric VLSI Design System
Network Consistency Check
Layout Vs Schematic Check
XOR Classification Problem
MATLAB
Time Domain
Instantaneous Power Dissipation
Loading
Learning Rate
Mixed Signal
System on Chip
Field Programmable Gate Arrays

File:

Download Mayuresh_Patki_Thesis_Final_Report.pdf

Committee Members:

Seth Wolpert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Von Tonningen, Committee Member
Wolfram Bettermann, Committee Member

Author:

Kotobi, Khashayar

Title:

INFORMED COGNITIVE RADIOS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Cognitive Radio
Wireless Communication
Machine Learning
Data Science
Data Mining
Blockchain
Security
Spectrum Sharing

File:

Download Kotobi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Bilen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Jeffrey Mayer, Committee Member
Conrad Tucker, Outside Member

Author:

Mushrif, Shreyas

Title:

INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY ROUGH SET BASED ALGORITHMS FOR MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set
Rough Sets
Intensity Inhomogeneity
Restricted Equivalence Functions
Histon

File:

Download Shreyas_Mushrif_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Aldo Morales, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Eskin, Committee Member
Christopher Sica, Committee Member

Author:

Arslan, Cihan Hakan

Title:

DETECTION AND ESTIMATION OF RAINFALL THROUGH DATA ANALYSIS OF GEOSTATIONARY Ku-BAND SATELLITE SIGNALS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

rainfall estimation
Ku-band
geostationary satellite-link attenuation
bit-error-ratio

File:

Download CHA-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Julio Urbina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Julio Urbina, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Dr. Tim Kane, Committee Member
Dr. David B. Spencer, Outside Member

Author:

Ellison, Jason J

Title:

IN SITU STRIPLINE LAMINATE PROPERTY EXTRACTION ACCOUNTING FOR EFFECTIVE SURFACE ROUGHNESS LOSSES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Surface Roughness
Calibration
Propagation Constant
TRL
AFR
2x Thru
permittivity
tangent delta
dielectric
stripline

File:

Download Composite_Draft_20171208.pdf

Committee Members:

Sedig Agili, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

ZHOU, HAONAN

Title:

RAPID SILICON CARBIDE CRYSTAL GROWTH WITH HIGH POWER LASER HEATING METHOD

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

High power laser
silicon carbide

File:

Download Haonan_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Shizhuo Yin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Weihua Guan, Committee Member

Author:

Varan, Burak

Title:

Energy and Signal Cooperation in Competitive Wireless Networks with Energy Harvesting

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Wireless networks
Energy harvesting
Cooperation
Game theory
Optimization
Resource allocation

File:

Download Varan_dissertation_v2_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Aylin Yener, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aylin Yener, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Viveck Cadambe, Committee Member
Chris Giebink, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Outside Member

Author:

Tang, Rong

Title:

RANDOM LASER IN DISORDERED SOLUTIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Random Laser
Disordered Solutions
Scattering
Incoherent Random Laser
Coherent Random Laser

File:

Download Master_Thesis_Rong_Tang.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Aldayel, Omar Saad

Title:

Tractable Radar Waveform Design Under Practical Constraints

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radar
waveform design
convex optimization
Ambiguity Function Shaping
SQR
SCF
BIC
ASR
beampattern design
constant modulus constraint
similarity constraint
spectral constraint

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Necdet Serhat Aybat, Outside Member

Author:

Kaiser, Sean A

Title:

Multistatic Passive Coherent Location using the Global Positioning System

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Passive Radar
Passive Coherent Location
Global Positioning System
Multistatic PCL

File:

Download Kaiser-Dissertation-sub06102017.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Randy Keith Young, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Outside Member
Andrew Christianson, Special Member

Author:

Thakur, Yash

Title:

NANOSTRUCTURED DIELECTRIC FILMS FOR NEXT GENERATION OF ENERGY STORAGE CAPACITORS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

dielectrics
capacitors
nanoparticles
energy storage
polymers

File:

Download Dissertation_Yash_Thakur_June_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Noel Chris Giebink, Committee Member
James Runt, Outside Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member