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Author:: Choi, Gihoon
Title:: MICROFLUIDIC MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR DETECTION OF MALARIA TOWARDS ELIMINATION
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Point-of-care
Malaria
Resistive pulse sensor
time-division multiple access
multiplexed
Nucleic acid tests
Lab-on-a-disc
Microfluidics
cell deformability
parasitemia quantification
Deformability-activated sorting
time-division multiple access
File:: Download Dissertation_Gihoon_Choi.pdf
Committee Members:: Weihua Guan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Weihua Guan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aida Ebrahimi, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Pak Kin Wong, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Liu, Tianning
Title:: Thin-film PZT on polymer and glass substrates: breaking the rules
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: flexible devices
flexible electronics
piezoelectrics
ultrasonic transducers
PZT
PZT thin films
microfabrication
anisotropic conductive film
File:: Download final_dissertation_Tianning_Liu.pdf
Committee Members:: Tom Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tom Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Lu, Yang
Title:: Privacy preserving control and optimization for cyber-physical systems
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Privacy
Cyber-physical systems
Control and optimization
File:: Download dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Minghui Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Committee Member
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Hu, Xinyi
Title:: Economic Models for Access Networks Informing Regulatory Policy
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Access networks
Regulation
Roaming charge
Side-payment
Game theory
Nash equilibrium
File:: Download Xinyi-Dissertation-final.pdf
Committee Members:: George Kesidis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John F Doherty, Committee Member
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Noble, Joshua
Title:: Applied Numerical Methods in Characterizing Optical Nanomaterials and Nanostructures
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: holography
optics
pulse reconstruction
ultrafast
near field
numerical methods
machine learning
nonlinear
nanostructures
2d materials
File:: Download Noble_Dissertation_2020_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Zhiwen Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Xingjie Ni, Committee Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Outside Member
Hans Hallen, Special Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Murray, William
Title:: Nonlinear Optical Characterization with Instrumentation Development
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Ultrafast
Nonlinear Optics
Two-Dimensional Materials
NSOM
Near-field
Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy
Spectroscopy
Microscopy
Instrumentation
Autocorrelation
Nanotechnology
Wearables
File:: Download William_Murray_Dissertation_2020_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Zhiwen Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Xingjie Ni, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Member
Hans Hallen, Special Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Ayub, Ali
Title:: Few-Shot Continual Learning of Visual Concepts
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Continual Learning
Catastrophic Forgetting
Human-Robot Interaction
Self-Supervised Learning
Curiosity-Driven Learning
Cognitively-Inspired Learning
Robotics
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
File:: Download PhD_Thesis___Ali_Ayub.pdf
Committee Members:: Sven G Bilen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Elisabeth Karuza, Outside Member
Alan R. Wagner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Richard Wagner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Hall, Donald L
Title:: Exploitation of space-time wireless channel characteristics for indoor source localization
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Indoor Source Localization
Direction of Arrival Estimation
Machine Learning
Multipath
Polarization Diversity
Spatial Scattering
Wireless Channel
File:: Download dlh_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John F Doherty, Committee Member
David Marion Jenkins, Jr., Committee Member
Michelle Celine Vigeant, Outside Member
Erik Henry Lenzing, Special Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Haddadpour, Farzin
Title:: COMMUNICATION-EFFICIENT AND FAULT-TOLERANT ALGORITHMS FOR DISTRIBUTED MACHINE LEARNING
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Distributed - Communication - straggler
File:: Download My_PhD_Dissertation__1_.pdf
Committee Members:: Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Necdet S Aybat, Outside Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Bardakci, Ibrahim Ekrem
Title:: Convex Formulations of Probability Maximization Problems: Stochastic Approximation Frameworks and Applications
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Probability maximization
Optimization
Stochastic Approximation
Risk Minimization
Controller Design
File:: Download ieb_Dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Outside Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Jing Yang, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

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