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Author:

Geer, Connor

Title:

Anomaly Detection of Test-Time Evasion Attacks in the Audio Domain

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Adversarial Machine Learning
Neural Networks
Audio
Anomaly Detection

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
George Kesidis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Committee Member

Author:

Ma, Cong

Title:

Quantifying and Mitigating Cache Side Channel Leakage with Differential Set

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

cache side-channel
cybersecurity
language-based security
program analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Danfeng Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gang Tan, Committee Member

Author:

Nagarajan, Karthikeyan

Title:

Exploring Security Challenges and Opportunities in Emerging Memory and Computing Technologies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Non Volatile Memory
Artificial Intelligence
In-Memory Computing
Spiking Neural Networks
Fault Injection
Information Leakage
Denial of Service
Hardware Trojan
Side Channel Attack

File:

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Committee Members:

Swaroop Ghosh, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Felemban, Noor

Title:

Information Retrieval From Images and Videos in Mobile Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

mobile networks
deep learning
neural networks
image retrieval
video retrieval
cloud computing
distributed systems

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Major Field Member
Vishal Monga, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Yuxin

Title:

Automated Programming Frameworks for Analyzing Differential Privacy

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

differential privacy
program analysis
programming languages

File:

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Committee Members:

G. Tan, Major Field Member
Danfeng Zhang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Saghaian Nejad Esfahani, Sayed

Title:

Service Management: Resource Allocation and Security

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Resource Allocation
Security
Mission-oriented Security Model
Service Placement
Clustering Algorithm
Wireless Networks

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Thomas La Porta, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Mcdaniel, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Kifer, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Farhadi, Vaji

Title:

Resource allocation for edge cloud and smart grid

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

DC-QSS
cascading failure
blackouts
preventive control
SCADA
PLCC
Mobile edge computing
workload scheduling
service placement
complexity analysis
algorithm design
Resource Allocation

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mort Webster, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Belbasi, Mahdi

Title:

FPT Aglorithms for NP-complete Graph Problems Parameterized by Treewidth and Tree-depth

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Computer Science
Graph Theory
Tree Decomposition
Algorithm Design
Approximation Algorithms
Hamiltonian Cycle
Dominating Set
Algebraization

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Martin Fürer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Antonio Blanca, Major Field Member
Jan Reimann, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paul Medvedev, Major Field Member

Author:

Millward, Andrew

Title:

L2-UniFrac

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

UniFrac
Bioinformatics
Comparative Metagenomics
Representative Microbiome
Distance Metric
Differential Abundance

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
David Koslicki, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member

Author:

Troncoso Aldas, Nelson Daniel

Title:

AIGuide: An Augmented Reality Hand Guidance Application for People with Visual Impairments

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

assistive technology augmented reality
mixed reality
mobile computing
assistive technology
augmented reality

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Patel, Aditya

Title:

Software Support For Offloading off-the-shelf applications to PIM Cores

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

PIM
BLIMP
Compiler
LLVM

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member

Author:

Yu, Tongguang

Title:

Hardware Functional Obfuscation With Ferroelectric Active Interconnects

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

FeFET
Hardware Security
Reverse Engineering
Ferroelectric

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Sumitha George, Committee Member
Kai Ni, Committee Member

Author:

Pham, Viet

Title:

An Analysis and Framework for Multi-label Image Classification of Insect Taxonomy with Convolutional Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

multi-label image classification
image classification
computer vision
machine learning
insect taxonomy
convolutional neural networks

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member

Author:

Challapalle, Nagadastagiri Reddy

Title:

DESIGN OF PROCESSING-IN-MEMORY ARCHITECTURES FOR DEEP LEARNING AND GRAPH APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Hardware Accelerator
Deep Learning Architecture
Deep Learning Hardware
Processing in Memory
Memory Augmented Neural Networks
Graph Convolution Neural Networks

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Zhao, Shulin

Title:

Optimizing Energy and Performance for Next-Generation Extended Reality Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Extended Reality
Virtual Reality
Augmented Reality
Energy-effiency
Performance

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Xianda

Title:

Energy and Quality Aware Video Streaming on Mobile Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Video Streaming
Mobile Device
Energy Efficiency
Quality of Experience (QoE)

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Committee Members:

Suhang Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Major Field Member
Guohong Cao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mohammad, Umar Farooq

Title:

Ultrasound image classification and segmentation using deep learning applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Medical Image Segmentation
Medical Image Classification

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Purushartha

Title:

Extending an Automated Content Assessment Method and Improving its Robustness for Classroom Use

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

natural language processing
automated summary content assessment
automated feedback generation
content assessment
educational use of artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rui Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Kuhlengel, Trevor Keith

Title:

Planning and Guidance of Bronchoscopy for Comprehensive Lymph Node Staging

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

lung cancer
lymph node staging
multi-destination procedures
image-guided procedures
bronchoscopy
optimal procedure planning
computer-assisted procedure planning

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Committee Members:

Ali Borhan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Collins, Major Field Member
William Higgins, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vishal Monga, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Abrams, Samuel

Title:

Extending Video Action Recognition in the Compressed Domain

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Action Recognition
Neural Networks
Video Compression

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chai, Jiaming

Title:

Graph-based Methods For Zero-shot Learning In Image Classifications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Zero-shot Learning
Image Classification

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Committee Members:

Wang-Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jose, Sethu

Title:

A Scheduling Framework for Decomposable Kernels on Energy Harvesting IoT Edge Nodes

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Internet of Things
Non-Volatile Processors
Energy Harvesting
Approximate Computing
Scheduling.
Internet Of Things
Scheduling

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Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Abhijeet

Title:

Deepfake Video Detection in the compressed domain

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

compressed domain
i frames
deepfake videos detection
convolutional networks

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rui Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Abhishek

Title:

ARCHITECTURAL SUPPORT FOR IN-CACHE DATA MOVEMENTS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

cache
data movements
memory system
zsim
computer architecture

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member

Author:

Lakshmidevi, Harieasswar

Title:

Accelerating Sparse LU Factorization

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

LU Factorization
GPU Acceleration
Sparse linear algebra
Symbolic factorization
Sparse linear solvers

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Tianyang

Title:

Dialogue State Tracking with Universal Adversarial Triggers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Dialogue State Tracking

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rui Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonio Blanca, Committee Member

Author:

Murali, Mayank

Title:

Analyzing the performance of de novo metagenome assemblers for long-read HiFi data

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Metagenome
assembly
long-reads

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mingfu Shao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Koslicki, Committee Member

Author:

Sarma, Anup

Title:

Optimizing Deep Learning for Memory and Compute : A joint Algorithm-Architecture Exploration

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Computer Architecture
Main Memory
CNN and RNN-LSTM
Inference and Training
Sparsity
Performance and Energy Efficiency

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Asit K Mishra, Special Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mahmut Kandemir, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr

Author:

Kumar, Adithya

Title:

Leveraging Heterogeneity in Designing Systems For Emerging Datacenter Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Heterogeneity
Tail Latency
Deep Learning
SmartNIC
GPU

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Timothy Zhu, Co-Chair of Committee
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Qian Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Scott, Jesse

Title:

Dynamic Stability Monitoring of Complex Human Motion Sequences via Precision Computer Vision

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

image-based stability
deep learning
machine learning
Center of Mass
Base of Support
Center of Pressure
stability
balance
motion capture
foot pressure
video
human pose
Taiji
biomechanics
stability metrics
falls
computer vision

File:

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Committee Members:

Yanxi Liu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Challis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Collins, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Guohong Cao, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

King, Rachel

Title:

Evaluating Realistic Deployments of Trusted Execution Environments in the Tor Network

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

trusted execution environments
security
tor network

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Heon, Alban Philippe

Title:

Systematic Evaluation of Geo-Location Privacy Mechanisms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

privacy
obfuscation mechanism
location privacy

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Shahidi, Narges

Title:

Design Trade-off for Cloud Storage

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Cloud
Cloud Storage
Storage Design
Cloud Storage Design
Serverless
SSD
NAND Flash Memories
Serverless Computing
Cloud Computing
Solid State Drives

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Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Junde

Title:

Machine Learning and Optimization Applications on Near-term Quantum Computers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Quantum Computing
Computer Vision
Optimization
Variational Quantum Algorithms
Generative Models
Quantum Computation Advantages

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Swaroop Ghosh, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Major Field Member
Nikolay Dokholyan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chunhao Wang, Major Field Member

Author:

Ding, Ding

Title:

Violation Detection, Extra Information Release and Secure Implementation for Differentially Private Mechanisms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

differential privacy
counterexample detection
privacy mechanism
floating-point vulnerability

File:

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Committee Members:

G. Tan, Major Field Member
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Outside Unit & Field Member
Danfeng Zhang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Kifer, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liao, Minli

Title:

Efficiently supporting and exploiting multiple concurrent views of data in the memory hierarchy

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Cache design
Symmetric memories
Crosspoint memory
2D memory access
Multi-view memory systems
Orientation prediction
Layout transformation
Cache design
Symmetric memories
Crosspoint memory
2D memory access
Multi-view memory systems
Orientation prediction
Layout transformation

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Major Field Member
Linhai Song, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Lin, Yilei

Title:

Topology Inference in Modern Communication Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

computer networks
topology inference
NFV
queuing networks

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Major Field Member
Ting He, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mingfu Shao, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Balaji, Laxmaan

Title:

A Differentiable Synthetic Prediction Market

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Prediction Market
Synthetic Prediction Market
Supervised Learning
Classification

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
C Lee Giles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah Michele Rajtmajer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher H Griffin, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, William

Title:

Semantic Image Retrieval via Graph Representation and Metric Learning

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Semantic image retrieval
Image-to-image retrieval
Scene graph
Graph convolutional network
Metric learning
Deep learning

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Wang-Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Homan, Eric

Title:

Context-Aware Perception for Edge and Embedded Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Neural Network
Context Awareness
Reinforcement Learning
Autonomy

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
Bradley Wyble, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member

Author:

Jiang, Huaipan

Title:

Exploration of Machine Learning Based Acceleration Methodologies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine learning
Acceleration
Approximation

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Committee Members:

Mahmut Kandemir, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Sampson, Major Field Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Major Field Member
Nikolay Dokholyan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tan, Tianxiang

Title:

Deep learning on Mobile Devices with Neural Processing Units

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Mobile computing
Edge computing
Deep Learning

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Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member
Guohong Cao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Beyda, Sophia

Title:

The Impact of the Organizational Structure of Android Third Party Libraries

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Smartphone Privacy

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Committee Member

Author:

Ramezani, Morteza

Title:

Systems Optimizations for Learning and Processing on Large Scale Graphs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Graphs
Graph Processing
Graph Neural Networks

File:

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Committee Members:

Mahmut Kandemir, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair