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Author:

Guo, Tiantong

Title:

Regularized Deep Networks For Inverse Problems In Image Processing And Vision

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Regularized Deep Networks
Inverse Problems
Image Processing
Computer Vision

File:

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Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Necdet S Aybat, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hu, Zhisheng

Title:

Reinforcement learning for adaptive cyber defense: Algorithms, analysis and experiments

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Reinforcement learning
Adaptive cyber defense

File:

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Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shah, Rajvi

Title:

Automated Reverse Docking of Tractor-Trailer using Infrastructure-based Sensing Experimentally Tested with a Full-scale Tractor-Trailer

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

reverse path tracking
docking
tractor-trailer
automation
infrastructure-based sensing
advanced driver assistance system
autonomous trucks

File:

Download Rajvi_Shah_MS_Thesis_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mahapatra, Kaveri

Title:

Data Anomaly Detection and Correction in PMU Measurements for Wide-Area Monitoring Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Synchrophasor
PMU
Wide Area Monitoring
Cyberphysical Security
Oscillation Monitoring
Event Detection
Disturbance Detection
Disturbance Classification
Wide area control
Damping Control
Neuromorphic Computing
Spiking Neural Network
Anomaly Detection
Corruption Detection
Event Classification
Data Anomaly

File:

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Committee Members:

Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Iyer, Venkatakrishnan

Title:

Nonlinear Yaw Control of a Compound Helicopter

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Dynamic Inversion
Helicopter Modeling
Automatic Flight Control System
Adaptive Control
Vectored Thrust Ducted propeller
Compound Helicopter
Pseudo Control Hedging
Feedback Linearization Using Neural Networks
Neural Networks
Feedback Linearization

File:

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Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Eric Norman Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dempsey, Michael

Title:

Crane Hoist Motion Control: Adaptive PI Control using State Machine Logic

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Hoist
PI
Control

File:

Download Dempsey_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

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

Author:

Dillinger, Cody

Title:

Game-Theoretic Controller Simulation for Sampling-Based Multi-Robot Motion Planning Algorithms

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Robotics
Motion Planning
Game Theory
Algorithms
Control Theory
Optimization
Nash Equilibrium
Simulation
Multi-Robot Systems

File:

Download Dillinger_Thesis_MastersFormat_Final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

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:

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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

Author:

Zhao, Guoxiang

Title:

Multi-robot optimal motion planning

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

multi-robot systems
motion planning
optimal control
distributed control

File:

Download Dissertation-ver0221.pdf

Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Constantino Lagoa, Major Field Member
Asok Ray, Major Field Member
Sean Brennan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Meng, Xinxing

Title:

Improving the Performance of Magnetic Resonance Systems using Feedback Control

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

QR Detection
Reducing AM RFI
RF Pulse Sequence Manipulation
Feedback Control
Magnetic Field Fluctuations
Flux Regulation
Powered Magnet
35.2-T Series-Connected Hybrid Magnet
MRI

File:

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Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Major Field Member
Constantino Lagoa, Major Field Member
Patrick Lenahan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Thomas Neuberger, Outside Field Member
Jeffrey Schiano, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

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

Author:

Gan, Chao

Title:

ONLINE LEARNING FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Online Learning
Multi-armed Bandits
Resource Allocation

File:

Download dissertation1.pdf

Committee Members:

Jing Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jing Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Uday V. Shanbhag, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hojjatinia, Sarah

Title:

System Identification Algorithms for Noisy Data with Application to Behavior Modeling

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

System identification
data analysis
modeling
physical activity
behavior
machine learning
algorithm
noisy data
social network
switched systems
markov
design
SARMAX
SARX
Markov jump
hybrid
health
Real Data

File:

Download Sarah-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
David E Conroy, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ashour, Mahmoud

Title:

Distributed Optimization Approaches to Nonconvex Problems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Distributed Optimization
Nonconvex Problems
Network Flow Control
Sparsity

File:

Download Ashour-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Necdet S Aybat, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

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

Author:

Saab, Samer

Title:

Investigation of Deep Neural Networks From Control and Optimization Perspectives

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Neural Networks
Optimization
Control Theory
First-order Gradient Descent
Heavy-ball Optimizer
Recurrent Neural Networks
State-space Representations

File:

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Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shashi Phoha, Co-Chair of Committee
Puneet Singla, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Major Field Member
Asok Ray, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair