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2. Resilient Quantum Computing and Machine Learning

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Author:
Alam, Md Mahabubul
Title:
Resilient Quantum Computing and Machine Learning
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
Quantum Computing
QAOA
Quantum Machine Learning
QML
QNN
Quantum Neural Network
Variational Quantum Algorithm
VQA
File:
Download mahabubul_alam_phd_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
Swaroop Ghosh, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Morteza Kayyalha, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

3. Security and Resilience of Non-Volatile Memories Based on In-Memory Computing

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Author:
Sayyah Ensan, Sina
Title:
Security and Resilience of Non-Volatile Memories Based on In-Memory Computing
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
In-Memory Computing
Resiliency
Security
RRAM
Floating Point
File:
Download Sina_Sayyah_Ensan_-_PhD_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Swaroop Ghosh, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joseph Najem, Outside Unit & Field Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
Morteza Kayyalha, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

4. Microscale Concentrated Photovoltaics and Soft Matter Lasers

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Author:
Grede, Alex
Title:
Microscale Concentrated Photovoltaics and Soft Matter Lasers
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
photovoltaics
non-imaging optics
organic semiconductors
organic laser diodes
File:
Download Grede-Dissertation-Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Tom Jackson, Major Field Member
Xingjie Ni, Major Field Member
Noel Giebink, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vincent Crespi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

5. INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF OCEANIC WAVES ON LASER PROPAGATION

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Author:
Alharbi, Omar
Title:
INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF OCEANIC WAVES ON LASER PROPAGATION
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
Optical Propagation
FSO
Ocean Waves
Underwater Wireless Optical Communication
IoT
IoUT
Air-Water-Interface
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Committee Members:
Tim Kane, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Noel Giebink, Major Field Member
John Doherty, Major Field Member
Diane Henderson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

6. Three-dimensional Light Field Control With Metasurface Holograms

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Author:
Ding, Yimin
Title:
Three-dimensional Light Field Control With Metasurface Holograms
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
Hologram
Optical Metasurfaces
Integrated Photonics
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Committee Members:
Zhiwen Liu, Major Field Member
Xingjie Ni, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Noel Giebink, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member

7. Planning and Guidance Methods for Peripheral Bronchoscopy

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Author:
Zhao, Wennan
Title:
Planning and Guidance Methods for Peripheral Bronchoscopy
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
lung cancer
virtual bronchoscopy
image-guided bronchoscopy
bronchoscopy
radial probe endobronchial ultrasound
peripheral pulmonary lesion
endobronchial ultrasound
endobronchial ultrasound registration
endobronchial ultrasound simulation
biopsy
navigational bronchoscopy
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Committee Members:
Robert Collins, Major Field Member
William Higgins, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nanyin Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vishal Monga, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

8. Defect Identification in Dielectric and Composite Materials Using Noise-Based Microwave Nondestructive Testing Techniques

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Open Access
Author:
Navagato, Marc Dominic
Title:
Defect Identification in Dielectric and Composite Materials Using Noise-Based Microwave Nondestructive Testing Techniques
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
Nondestructive Testing
Microwave Testing
Neural Networks
Dimensionality Reduction
Noise Radar
Noise Waveforms
Microwave Nondestructive Testing
Stacked Autoencoders
Anomaly Detection
File:
Download PhD_Dissertation_Navagato.pdf
Committee Members:
Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julio Urbina, Major Field Member
David Jenkins, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

9. Stacked-3D and Processing-in-memory Solutions for Data-intensive and Persistent Applications

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Author:
Ramanathan, Akshay Krishna
Title:
Stacked-3D and Processing-in-memory Solutions for Data-intensive and Persistent Applications
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
Processing-in-memory
Computer Architecture
Persistent Applications
SRAM
Neural Network Acceleration
Non-volatile memory
VLSI
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Committee Members:
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Swaroop Ghosh, Major Field Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Ying Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

10. Data analysis and system identification algorithms for behavioral dynamical modeling

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Open Access
Author:
Hojjatinia, Sahar
Title:
Data analysis and system identification algorithms for behavioral dynamical modeling
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
System Identification
Sparsity
Behavioral Modeling
File:
Download Sahar-Dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Minghui Zhu, Major Field Member
Constantino Lagoa, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vishal Monga, Major Field Member
David Conroy, Outside Unit & Field Member
Thomas La Porta, Program Head/Chair

11. New Multi-Objective Inverse-Design Techniques for Functionalized Metasurfaces

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Author:
Jenkins, Ronald
Title:
New Multi-Objective Inverse-Design Techniques for Functionalized Metasurfaces
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
metasurface
multi-objective
optimization
nanophotonics
topology optimization
optics
nanofabrication
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Committee Members:
Thomas La Porta, Program Head/Chair
Douglas Werner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xingjie Ni, Major Field Member
Sawyer Campbell, Major Field Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member

12. Advanced Electromagnetic Metamaterial Design

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Author:
Whiting, Eric Ben
Title:
Advanced Electromagnetic Metamaterial Design
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
metasurface
optimization
gradient index
lens
dielectric resonator antenna
adjoint sensitivity
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Committee Members:
Douglas Werner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gregory Huff, Major Field Member
Julio Urbina, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Thomas La Porta, Program Head/Chair

13. Optimal Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks for Multimedia Applications

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Author:
Wheatman, Kristina
Title:
Optimal Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks for Multimedia Applications
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
mobile networks
convex optimization
QoE
energy efficiency
video streaming
crowdsourcing
image processing
NUM
MINLP
objective function optimization
multimedia
utility
5G
LTE
base station
GPU
dual
primal
wireless
communications
markov chain
resource allocation
multi-path routing
mobile devices
cellular
network resource blocks
signal estimation
user experience
data download
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Committee Members:
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Unit & Field Member
Guohong Cao, Major Field Member
Vishal Monga, Major Field Member
Mark Mahon, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Thomas La Porta, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Thomas F La Porta, Program Head/Chair

14. Domain Enriched Machine Learning for Synthetic Aperture Sonar

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Author:
Gerg, Isaac
Title:
Domain Enriched Machine Learning for Synthetic Aperture Sonar
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
machine learning
deep learning
sonar
autofocus
semantic segmentation
automatic target recogition
classification
File:
Download 2022_PhD_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Alan Wagner, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Doherty, Major Field Member
Jing Yang, Major Field Member
Vishal Monga, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Thomas F La Porta, Program Head/Chair

15. Understanding Light-Matter Interactions in Low-Dimensional and Quantum Materials

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Author:
Zhang, Kunyan
Title:
Understanding Light-Matter Interactions in Low-Dimensional and Quantum Materials
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
2D materials
Optical spectroscopy
Light-matter interaction
Sensing
Weyl semimetals
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Committee Members:
Zhiwen Liu, Major Field Member
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shengxi Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Noel Giebink, Major Field Member
Thomas La Porta, Program Head/Chair

16. Explainable, Informed Deep Learning For Signal And Image Estimation

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Author:
Metwaly, Kareem
Title:
Explainable, Informed Deep Learning For Signal And Image Estimation
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
Deep Learning
Neural Network
Image Processing
Signal Processing
Algorithm Unrolling
Dehazing
Beampattern Design
Classification
Computer Vision
Attribute Prediction
Prior Guided
Informed Learning
Estimation
File:
Download KareemMetwaly.pdf
Committee Members:
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
William Higgins, Major Field Member
Vikash Gayah, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vishal Monga, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Thomas La Porta, Program Head/Chair

17. Design, Development, and Characterization of Electroanalytical Biosensing Devices Based on Two- and Three-Dimensional Material Systems

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Author:
Butler, Derrick
Title:
Design, Development, and Characterization of Electroanalytical Biosensing Devices Based on Two- and Three-Dimensional Material Systems
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
Biosensor
Electrochemical
Electrical
Point-of-care
2D Material
3D Material
Bacteria
Dopamine
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Committee Members:
Noel Giebink, Major Field Member
Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Weihua Guan, Major Field Member
Thomas F La Porta, Program Head/Chair
Morteza Kayyalha, Major Field Member

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

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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:
Download Ph_D__Thesis_Final.pdf
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

19. Numerical Simulations of Thermoacoustic Combined Tomography

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Open Access
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:
Download Fadden_Thesis.pdf
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

20. Information Freshness: Fundamental Limits and Optimization Methodologies

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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

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

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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:
Download Philip_P_Graybill_-_Dissertation_220610.pdf
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

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

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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

23. Defense of Backdoor Attacks against Deep Neural Network Classifiers

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Open Access
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

24. Application of Language and Symbolic Dynamics for Radar Functionality Optimization

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Open Access
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

25. Zinc Oxide Thin-Film Devices for Space Exploration

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Open Access
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:
Download ZnO_thin-film_devices_for_space_exploration_-_Mohit_Tendulkar.pdf
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

26. Alternative Ways To Feed The Arecibo Spherical Reflector

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Author:
Alkhatib, Mohamed Redha
Title:
Alternative Ways To Feed The Arecibo Spherical Reflector
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:
Gregorian Sub-Reflector
Gain
Method of Moments
Optimization
Numerical Methods
Linefeed
FEKO
Electric Field
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Committee Members:
Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Breakall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julio Urbina, Major Field Member
Shizhuo Yin, Major Field Member
Thomas La Porta, Program Head/Chair