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Author:

Mishra, Asit Kumar

Title:

Design and Analysis of Heterogeneous Networks for Chip-Multiprocessors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

NoC
network-on-chip
router
heterogeneous NoC
heterogeneous networks
multicore
CMP
STT-RAM

File:

Download AsitMishra-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Onur Mutlu, Committee Member

Author:

Parashar, Angshuman

Title:

Redundancy and Parallelism Tradeoffs for Reliable, High-Performance Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Transient Faults
Reliability
Microarchitecture
Redundant Threading

File:

Download AngshumanParashar-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Committee Member

Author:

Nicopoulos, Chrysostomos A.

Title:

Network-on-Chip Architectures: A Holistic Design Exploration

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Networks-on-Chip
On-Chip Interconnects

File:

Download Nicopoulos_PhD_Thesis__12-2007_.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Member
Paul S Weiss, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Dongkook

Title:

Design of High-Performance, Energy-Efficient, and Reliable Network-on-Chip (NoC) Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Network-on-Chip
on-chip interconnection
low-power
reliability
router architecture

File:

Download Microsoft_Word_-_Thesis-Final-Submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Ersoz, Deniz

Title:

EXPLORING USER-LEVEL COMMUNICATION IN DESIGNING CLUSTER-BASED DATA CENTERS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

data centers
infiniband
cluster networks

File:

Download ersoz_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Tracy Mullen, Committee Member

Author:

Link, Greg

Title:

Temperature-Aware Computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

design automation
architecture
thermal
Temperature
hotspot
hot spot

File:

Download Link-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Choi, Gyu Sang

Title:

Communication-Driven Coscheduling in Clusters

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Clusters
Scheduling

File:

Download main.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Andy B Yoo, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Hao

Title:

POWER-AWARE AND QOS-AWARE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Wireless Networks
Power-aware
QoS
Scheduling
MAC

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member

Author:

Hamadeh, Ihab

Title:

Attack Attribution for Distributed Denial-of-Service and Worm Attacks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

attribution
packet marking
ddos
worm
network security
forensics

File:

Download Ihab_Hamadeh_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
John Metzner, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Jing

Title:

Data Dissemination in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

VANET
ad hoc network
wireless network
data dissemination

File:

Download JingZhao-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Jin-ha

Title:

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF CLUSTER-BASED WEB SERVERS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

NIC memory
SSL
cluster-based Web server
User-level communication
multi-tier datacenters

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Jongman

Title:

A Comprehensive Approach to Design Network-on-Chip Architectures for SoC/Multicore Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Routing Mechanism
Computer Architecture
Network-on-Chip
System-on-Chip

File:

Download mythesis2.pdfDownload mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Yum, Ki Hwan

Title:

Quality of Service Provisioning in Clusters

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

VirtualClock
Quality of Service
Cluster Network
Network Interface
Network Interface
Router Architecture
Wormhole Router

File:

Download main.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Natarajan Gautam, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member

Author:

Yin, Liangzhong

Title:

Efficient Power-Aware Data Access in Mobile Environments

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Data Access
Mobile Environments

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member

Author:

Patankar, Pushkar Deepak

Title:

Adaptive Social Networking With Applications To Security

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Social Networks
Peer-to-Peer Systems
Unstructured Networks
Botnets

File:

Download Pushkar-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Das, Reetuparna

Title:

Application-Aware On-Chip Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

On-chip networks
multi-core
arbitration
prioritization
memory systems
packet scheduling
slack
criticality
topology
compression
hierarchical

File:

Download Reetu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Ravishankar Iyer, Committee Member
Onur Mutlu, Committee Member

Author:

Surender, Shrawan Chittoor

Title:

Design and Analysis of Ultra-wideband Ad Hoc Covert Wireless Radar-Comm Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ultra-wideband noise radar
communications embedded radar
situational awareness
multi-functional ad hoc radar network
fully-distributed resource allocation
secure ad hoc networks

File:

Download HK-ShrawanChittoorSurender-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Randy Young, Committee Member

Author:

Eachempati, Soumya Siva

Title:

Influence of Emerging Technologies on Interconnect Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

carbon nanotube
radio frequency
FPGA
network on chip

File:

Download soumya-proposal.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Heng Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Srikantaiah, Shekhar Shashi

Title:

Dynamic Shared Resource Management for Providing Predictable Performance in Multicore Processors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multicore
Shared cache
predictable performance

File:

Download ShekharSrikantaiah-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Mahmut Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Dr Mahmut Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Qian Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Lim, Sunho

Title:

Design and Analysis of Wireless and Mobile Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

wireless network
mobile network
ad hoc network
cellular network
mobile data management
network protocol

File:

Download phd_thesis_slim.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Carleen Frances Maitland, Committee Member

Author:

Nagar, Shailabh

Title:

Communication and Scheduling in Clusters : A User-Level Perspective

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

user-level network
cluster
VIA
scheduling
communication

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Natarajan Gautam, Committee Member
Dr Matthias A Blumrich, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Yi, Sungwon

Title:

QUALITY OF SERVICE (QoS) PROVISIONING IN THE INTERNET USING FLOW ESTIMATION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Active Queue Management
Congestion Control
Denial of Service
Quality of Service
worm

File:

Download sxy143.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member

Author:

Lim, Seung-Hwan

Title:

Managing Performance And Energy In Large Scale data Centers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Data Center
Performance
Energy
Cloud Computing

File:

Download SeungHwan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Ji Woong Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Wensheng

Title:

A DATA CENTRIC FRAMEWORK FOR MOBILE TARGET TRACKING AND DATA DISSEMINATION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Wireless sensor networks
Mobile target tracking
Data dissemination
Key management

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Tom F. La Porta, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member

Author:

Deng, Xidong

Title:

NETWORK QUEUE MANAGEMENT AND CONGESTION CONTROL IN INTERNET AND WIRELESS NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Congestion control
Active Queue Management
Adaptive PID Controller
Stability
Quality-of-Service
Fairness
Service Differentiation
Wirelss LAN
Ad-hoc Networks
Sensor Networks

File:

Download deng-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Yingqi

Title:

Spatial Network Services in Location-Aware Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

wireless sensor networks
spaital network services
energy optimization
networking protocols
data management

File:

Download main.pdf

Committee Members:

Wang Chien Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tom La Porta, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Chao Hsien Chu, Committee Member
Gail Mitchell, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yang

Title:

Information Sharing in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
Information sharing

File:

Download Yang_vanet.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Carleen Frances Maitland, Committee Member
Secun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Sharma, Bikash

Title:

Towards Improving Performance and Reliability of Cloud Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

cloud computing
workload characterization
scheduling
resource management
fault diagnosis
virtualization
mapreduce

File:

Download Final_Bikash_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Joseph Hellerstein, Special Member
Raj Acharya, Special Member

Author:

Jung, Myoungsoo

Title:

Design of a Smart Non-volatile Memory Controller: Architecture Modeling, Systems Analysis, Parallel I/o Processing and Scheduling Algorithms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Solid State Disks
Non-Volatile Memory
Memory Systems
Embedded Systems
Storage Systems
Parallelism
Scheduling Algorithms

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member

Author:

Sharifi, Akbar

Title:

Addressing Power, Performance and End-to-end Qos in Emerging Multicores through system-wide Resource Management

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multicore Systems
Resource Management
Power
Performance
End-to-End QoS

File:

Download Akbar_Sharifi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Sungho

Title:

system-on-chip integration of heterogeneous accelerators for perceptual computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

perceptual computing
system-on-chip
heterogeneous accelerator
stream processing

File:

Download Sungho_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Kevin M Irick, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Di

Title:

Provisioning and Harnessing Energy Storage in Datacenters

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Datacenters
Power Management
Energy Storage
Batteries

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Aman Kansal, Special Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member

Author:

Yedlapalli, Praveen

Title:

A Study of Parallelism-locality Tradeoffs across Memory Hierarchy

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Memory
SOC
parallelism
locality

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Jog, Adwait

Title:

Design and Analysis of Scheduling Techniques for Throughput Processors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPUs
Bandwidth
Latency
Parallelism
Memory-Systems
Scheduling
Prefetching

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Ravishankar Iyer, Special Member
Onur Mutlu, Special Member

Author:

Kayiran, Onur

Title:

Parallelism-aware Resource Management Techniques for Many-core Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPU
GPGPU
architecture
many-core
throughput
warp
wavefront
scheduling
TLP
thread
parallelism
CTA
heterogeneous

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Onur Mutlu, Special Member

Author:

Chidambaram Nachiappan, Nachiappan

Title:

Pushing the power and performance envelope of Next-generation Handheld platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

SoC platforms
mobile
handheld
performance
energy
power
architecture
system design
virtualization
IP chaining

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Mahmut Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Chandramoorthy, Nandhini

Title:

Design and Exploration of Accelerator-rich Multi-core Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

heterogeneous architectures
processor modeling
accelerator-rich architectures

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Kevin Irick, Outside Member
Luca Benini, Special Member

Author:

Jadidi, Amin

Title:

ARCHITECTURAL TECHNIQUES TO ENABLE RELIABLE AND HIGH PERFORMANCE MEMORY HIERARCHY IN CHIP MULTI-PROCESSORS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Memory Hierarchy
Non-volatile Memory Technologies
Hybrid Memory Hierarchy
Reliability
High Performance
Chip Multi-Processors

File:

Download Final_Thesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Outside Member

Author:

Elyasi, Nima

Title:

EXTRACTING BETTER PERFORMANCE FROM THE PARALLELISM OFFERED BY SSDS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Solid State Drive (SSD)
Scheduling
Data Replication
Tail Latency
Parallelism
Performance

File:

Download Nima_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Outside Member
Changho Choi, Special Member

Author:

Rengasamy, Prasanna Venkatesh

Title:

Tackling the computation and memory needs of interactive workloads on next generation platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CPU
Memory
Mobile
SoCs
GPGPU
ML
Feature Importance
Criticality
User Interactive
LOST
Load-to-Store
Accelerators
Energy

File:

Download PrasannaThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pattnaik, Ashutosh

Title:

Be(-A)ware of Data Movement: Optimizing Throughput Processors For Efficient Computations

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPUs
Throughput Processors
Compute Scheduling
Near Data Computing
Processing In Memory

File:

Download AshutoshPattnaik-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Outside Member
Aniruddha Vaidya, Special Member
Asit Mishra, Special Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Choi, Jinhang

Title:

Context-Aware Design and Optimization of Embedded Deep Neural Network Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Deep Neural Networks
Design Automation
Parallel Architectures
Edge Computing

File:

Download JChoi-PhDDissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Narayanan, Iyswarya

Title:

Towards maximizing the efficiency of datacenter power and server infrastructure

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

datacenter
power management
resource management
capacity planning
energy storage in a datacenter
datacenters

File:

Download FinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Hosam K. Fathy, Outside Member
Timothy Zhu, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yoon, Eunjung

Title:

Ensuring Service Integrity in Cloud Computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Security
Cloud Computing
Big Data
Intrusion Recovery
Computation Integrity
MapReduce

File:

Download EunjungYoon-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gang Tan, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Jia Li, Outside Member
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Haibo

Title:

Optimizing Video Processing for Next-Generation Mobile Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mobile Platform
Video Processing
Memory
Caching

File:

Download HaiboZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Shen

Title:

Quantitative Privilege Separation with Pointer Supports

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Privilege Separation
Program Analysis
Software Security

File:

Download Quantitative_Privilege_Separation_with_Pointer_Supports.pdf

Committee Members:

Gang Tan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gang Tan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alrizah, Mshabab

Title:

Enhancing Ad-blocking Systems for Better Web Browsing Security and Privacy

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ad-blocking systems
privacy
security
Internet Security
crowdsourcing
Advertisement

File:

Download Mshabab_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Jia Li, Outside Member
Xinyu Xing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xinyu Xing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Minkin, Ilia

Title:

Applications of the compacted de bruijn graph in Comparative genomics

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

De Bruijn graph
Comparative genomics
Sequence alignment
Sequence analysis

File:

Download Minkin-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Medvedev, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Mingfu Shao, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Abumurad, Abdulrahman

Title:

An Automated Framework for Flash ADC Design and Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

TIQ Comparators
Flash ADC
ADC Design Automation
Low-noise ADCs
Quality Flash ADCs
Circuit Layout Generation
Comparator Thresholds selection
Flash ADC and Process-Temperature-Voltage Variation
High-Precision Flash ADCs
Signal Switching Noise in Flash ADCs
Circuit Design Automation

File:

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Committee Members:

Kyusun Choi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyusun Choi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Committee Member
Bruce Gluckman, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fu, Tao Yang

Title:

GRAPH AND TRAJECTORY MINING: FRAMEWORKS,ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

machine learning
representation learning
neural network
network data
trajectory data
spatio-temporal data
node classification
link prediction
travel time estmiation
route planning

File:

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Committee Members:

Wang-Chien Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Jia Li, Outside Member
Zhen Lei, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Zhen Lei, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Ozdemir, Ali

Title:

SELECTION ALGORITHMS FOR TRANSISTOR QUANTIZATION ADC’S BASED ON DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

TIQ
Flash ADC
Dynamic Programming
DNL
INL

File:

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Committee Members:

Kyusun Choi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyusun Choi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Jackson, Committee Member
Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tehranchi, Farnaz

Title:

An Eyes and Hands Model: Extending Visual and Motor Modules for Cognitive Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

User modeling
Visual attention
Motor skills
Cognitive architectures
Cognitive computing
Human-computer interaction
Artificial intelligence
Error detection
Error correction
human errors
Eyes and Hands model

File:

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Committee Members:

Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reginald Adams, Jr., Outside Member
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Committee Member
Frank Edward Ritter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Frank Edward Ritter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Yuan, Lun Pin

Title:

Towards Designing Accurate Detection Methods for Emerging Cyber Threats

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Anomaly Detection
Cybersecurity
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Cyberthreats
Malware

File:

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Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Co-Chair of Committee
G. Tan, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anna Squicciarini, Outside Unit & Field Member
Guohong Cao, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Peixuan

Title:

Towards Practical Information Flow Security

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Information Flow
Dependent Label Inference
Dynamic Policy

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Liu, Chun Yi

Title:

Performance and Lifetime Management Strategies for High-density 3D NAND Flash Storage

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

3D NAND flash
3D NAND SSD
Garbage Collection
SSD characterization
SSD management
Write amplification

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

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:

Zeng, Dongrui

Title:

Evaluating the Attack Surface of Control Flow Integrity

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Control Flow Integrity
Security Evaluation
Binary Analysis
Control Flow Graph
Type Inference
Attack Surface

File:

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Committee Members:

Trent Jaeger, Major Field Member
Peng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
G. Tan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Major Field Member
Ben Niu, Special Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sun, Yuanyi

Title:

Security and privacy solutions for camera and camera based authentication

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Two factor authentication
Mobile cameras
Privacy protection
Privacy-Preserving Publishing

File:

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Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Major Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zhen Lei, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gunasekaran, Jashwant Raj

Title:

Maximizing Resource Efficiency for Next Generation Cloud Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

cloud
datacenter
performance
cost

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
George Kesidis, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Anton Nekrutenko, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bikash Sharma, Special 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:

Gao, Yanjun

Title:

Analysis of Text to Identify, Represent and Group Distinct Propositions

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

natural language processing
text analysis
deep learning
computational linguistics
artificial intelligence

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul Medvedev, Major Field Member
Rebecca Passonneau, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Outside Unit & Field Member

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:

Zare, Maryam

Title:

An Agent Learning Dialogue Policies for Sensing, Perceiving and Learning through Multi-modal Communication

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
Dialogue Systems
Learning through Communication

File:

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Committee Members:

Alan Wagner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Collins, Major Field Member
Rebecca Passonneau, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member

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:

Hsieh, Tsung Yu

Title:

Explainable Predictive Modeling and Causal Effect Estimation from Complex Time-varying Data

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Explainable Machine Learning
Time Series Learning
Deep Neural Networks
Attention Networks
Functional Data Analysis
Causal Inference

File:

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Committee Members:

David Miller, Major Field Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Major Field Member
Vasant Honavar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matthew Reimherr, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lu, Hanlin

Title:

Data Reduction for Communication-efficient Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

distributed machine learning
coreset
distributed k-means
quantization
dimensionality reduction
edge-based machine learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Major Field Member
Lingzhou Xue, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sefid, Athar

Title:

Automatic Summarization and Slide Generation for Scientific Papers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Automatic Summarization
Automatic Slide Generation
Text Mining
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing

File:

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Committee Members:

Chris McComb, Outside Unit & Field Member
C Lee Giles, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jesse Barlow, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member

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:

De, Asmit

Title:

An Exploration into the Security Viability of RISC-V Systems and Supply Chain

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

RISC-V
Hardware Security
Systems Security
Supply Chain Vulnerability
Memory Corruption Vulnerabillity
Hardware Trojan
System-on-chip

File:

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Committee Members:

Trent Jaeger, Major Field Member
Peng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Swaroop Ghosh, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Sampson, Major Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fan, Jingyao

Title:

Security and Privacy Support For Smart Grid

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

smart grid
security
privacy
power system

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Yan Li, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Major Field Member
Anna Squicciarini, Outside Unit & Field Member
Guohong Cao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Zientara, Peter

Title:

Design of a Vision Based Assistive System for Visually Impaired Persons

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

FPGA
Visually Impaired
Assistive System
Distributed
Heterogenous
Computer Vision
Grocery
CNN
DCNN

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jack Carroll, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fatahi Baarzi, Ataollah

Title:

Efficient Service Deployment on Public Cloud: A Cost, Performance, and Security Perspective

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Cloud Computing
Resource Management
Service Deployment

File:

Download AtaFatahiThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Zhu, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Farhat, Farshid

Title:

Comprehensive Photographic Composition Assistance through Meaningful Exemplars

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

image aesthetics
deep learning
image retrieval
recommender system

File:

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Committee Members:

James Wang, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
Robert Collins, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
Wang-Chien Lee, Member Added & Major Field Represnt
Jia Li, Committee Member & Related Areas Repres
Jesse Barlow, Chair & Major Field Represnt
Zihan Zhou, Member Added & Related Areas Represent
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

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:

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:

Choi, Wonil

Title:

Case-Specific Lifetime Management Strategies for Long-Lasting Flash Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

NAND Flash
Device Lifetime
Memory Coding

File:

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Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Brotzman-Smith, Robert

Title:

Detecting and Mitigating Cache-Based Side-Channels

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

side-channel
cache
static analysis
mitigation

File:

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Committee Members:

Gang Tan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gang Tan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Danfeng Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sun, Yiwei

Title:

Adversarial Attacks and Representation Learning for Graph-structured Data

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Adversarial Attacks
Graph Mining
Graph Representation Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suhang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Zheng, Yi

Title:

Video Analytics with In-SSD Processing Approaches

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

In-Storage-Processing
SSD
Firmware
FTL
Wear-Leveling
ORAM
Non-Volatile Memory

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Huijuan Xu, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member
John Messner, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

He, Fang

Title:

Applications of Deep Learning on Temporal and Graph Data Mining

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Temporal Data Mining
Graph Data Mining
Representation Learning
Deep Learning

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Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Major Field Member
Ting He, Major Field Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zhen Lei, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rahman, Amatur

Title:

Compression Algorithms for de Bruijn Graphs and Uncovering Hidden Assembly Artifacts

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

de Bruijn graph
compression
k-mer set
colored de Bruijn graph
assembly
unitig
unitig algorithm
assembly artifact
bidirected de Bruijn graph
palindromic unitig

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
David Koslicki, Major Field Member
Paul Medvedev, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mingfu Shao, Major Field Member

Author:

Hakimi, Zeinab

Title:

Efficient Deep Neural Networks Architectures for Video Analytics Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Neural Networks
Object Recognition
Convolutional Neural Networks
Edge Computing
Distributed Camera Intelligence System

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jack Carroll, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member

Author:

Liu, Heting

Title:

Machine Learning in Mobile Edge Computing: Enhancing Efficiency in Inference and Training

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Edge Computing
Resource Allocation
Machine Learning
Federated Learning

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Committee Members:

Fenglong Ma, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Major Field Member
Jing Yang, Major Field Member
Guohong Cao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

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:

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:

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

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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

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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:

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