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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

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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:

Andrade Salazar, Alejandro

Title:

PHYSICS BASED DETECTION SYSTEM FOR MISREPORTING ATTACKS IN V2X CORE DATA FIELDS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Misbehavior Reporting
Data Centric Anomaly Detection
BSM
C-V2x
V2x
V2V
DSRC

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Committee Members:

Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mark P Mahon, 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

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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

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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:

George, Sumitha

Title:

Technology Driven Architecture Support for Memory Hierarchies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cache
Memory
FEFET
FeFET
NCFET
MDA
symmetric memory
2Dimensional Memory
2D Memory
Tag-less cache
Tagless
CAM
non-volatile
flip-flop
flipflop
Content Addressable Memory
Approximate CAM
Non volatility

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Special Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside 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

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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:

Thinakaran, Prashanth

Title:

Embracing Heterogeneity in Cloud Platforms through Adaptable Resource Management Framework

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

datacenters
cloud
accelerators
resource-management

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Clyde Lee Giles, Outside Member
Bikash Sharma, Special Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bhasi, Vivek

Title:

Adapting the Serverless Platform for Emerging Application Patterns

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Serverless Computing
Cloud Computing
Resource Management
Cost
SLO Compliance
QoS

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mahmut Kandemir, Dissertation Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jashwant Raj Gunasekaran, Special Member
John Sampson, 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

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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:

Zolbayar, Bolor Erdene

Title:

Generating Adversarial Network Traffic Flows with GANs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Network Intrusion Detection Systems
Generative Adversarial Networks
Adversarial Network Traffic Flows
Adversarial Examples
Generating Adversarial Network Flows

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Lee, Yunju

Title:

VAR: Vulkan API Remoting for GPU-accelerated Rendering and Computation in Virtual Machines

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Virtualization
GPU
Vulkan
API Remoting

File:

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Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee 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

Author:

Singh, Sonali

Title:

Co-Architecting Brain-inspired Algorithms and Hardware for Performance and Energy Efficiency

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Spiking Neural Networks
Neuromorphic Computing
Gradient descent
Low-power architectures
bio-inspired sensors

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Mishra, Ankush

Title:

mmCaliper: High resolution sensing of distances using mmWave Radars

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

wireless sensing
radars
high-resolution
waves
chirps

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Committee Members:

Mahanth Gowda, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abutalib Aghayev, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kannan, Adithya Krishnan

Title:

OPTIMIZING PRIVACY PRESERVING NEURAL NETWORKS EMPLOYING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Privacy Preserving Machine Learning
Homomorphic 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:

Alkhadhr, Shaikhah

Title:

Modeling a Clinical Acoustic Information System Using Physics-Informed Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

physics-informed neural networks
wave equation
ultrasound therapeutics
numerical modeling
information systems

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mohamed Almekkawy, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Major Field Member
David Koslicki, Major Field Member
Yun Jing, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Ryoo, Jihyun

Title:

Architecture-Centric Bottleneck Analysis for Machine Learning and Deep Learning Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Computer architecture
Architecture profiling
Machine learning
Deep learning
Analysis model
High performance computing
Manycore systems
Parallel computing

File:

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Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Sampson, Major Field Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kim, Sun Hyoung

Title:

Practical Static Binary Analysis with Block Memory Model

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Static Analysis
Binary Analysis
Control Flow Graph
Pointer Analysis
Type Inference

File:

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Committee Members:

G. Tan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Major Field Member
Danfeng Zhang, Major Field Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair