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Author:

Ricketts, Andrew Jonathan Sylvester

Title:

Towards Minimizing the Adverse Effects of Temperature on High Performance Digital Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

High temperature relaibility
NBTI
temperature induced clock skew

File:

Download RickettsFinalDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

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:

Yanamandra, Aditya

Title:

Exploring Power Reliability Tradeoffs in On-Chip Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Electromigration
Soft Errors
Reliability
Network on chip
Router Cache
Iso-reliable

File:

Download AdityaYanamandra-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, 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:

Gayasen, Aman

Title:

Implications of Future Technologies on the Design of FPGAs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

field programmable gate array
power
thermal
three-dimensional stacking
three-dimensional integration
nanotechnology
interconnect

File:

Download gayasen-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member

Author:

Vaidyanathan, Balaji

Title:

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION FOR NANOSCALE SYSTEM-ON-CHIP DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

circuit reliability
system-on-chip

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Heng Xu, Committee Member
Anthony S Oates, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Kang, Byung-Tae

Title:

Issues in low-power and reliable wireless commuication system design

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

low power
substrate noise
wireless communication
mixed signal IC

File:

Download Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aylin Yener, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, 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:

Celik, Cihangir

Title:

SOFT ERROR RATE SIMULATION AND INITIAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS OF NEUTRON INTERCEPTING SILICON CHIP (NISC)

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Boron
Geant4
Simulation and Modeling
Memory
Soft Error
BPSG

File:

Download Cihangir_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Tim Z Hossain, Committee Member

Author:

Radhakrishnan, Chandrasekhar

Title:

FAULT TOLERANT SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR VLSI CIRCUITS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Discrete-time correlation
discrete-time convolution
Fermat Number Transforms
Discrete Fourier Transforms
Transient errors
Soft errors
Hardware faults
Fault tolerant signal processing
Fault tolerant transform adaptive filtering
adaptive filtering
Residue Number Systems (RNS)
Modulus Replication Residue Number System (MRRNS)
Arithmetic Fault Tolerance

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

William Kenneth Jenkins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John F Doherty, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Dr Y Xie, Committee Member

Author:

Duarte, David Enrique

Title:

Clock Network and Phase-Locked Loop Power Estimation and Experimentation

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

CPU clock energy modeling
power estimation
PLL design
low power VLSI design

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, 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:

Jean, Evens

Title:

Sensor Network Interoperability and Reconfiguration through Mobile Agents

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

mobile agents
sensor network
FPGA

File:

Download SubmittedThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Ali Hurson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Ali Hurson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Robert T Collins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Dr Yu (Cathy) Jiao, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Feng

Title:

DEEP SUBMICRON (DSM) DESIGN AUTOMATION TECHNIQUES TO MITIGATE PROCESS VARIATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

high level synthesis
design automation
process variations

File:

Download FWthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, 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:

Chen, Guangyu

Title:

Java Virtual Machine for Resource Constrained Environments

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Java Virtual Machine
Embedded Systems

File:

Download thesis-chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Soundar R Kumara, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Guangyu

Title:

EXPLORING THE MEMORY HIERARCHY DESIGN WITH EMERGING MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

memory hierarchy
emerging memory
STT-RAM
PCM
performance
power
reliability

File:

Download Guangyu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Hyun Suk

Title:

Energy-aware hardware and software optimizations for embedded systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

compiler optimizations
embedded systems
dynamic power
leakage power
power optimiations
VLIW architectures
Presburger arithmetic
Polyhedran modeling
loop tiling
instruction level parallelism
Trimaran

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Richard Brooks, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Ing-Chao

Title:

System Level Power and Reliability Modeling

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

System-on-Chip
SoC
TLM
Device Degradation Modeling
Power Modeling
Negative Bias Temperature Instability
Hot Carrier Effect
NBTI
Reliability Modeling
HCE
Transaction level modeling
Bus-based
PCI Express

File:

Download ingchao_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
W Kenneth Jerkins, Committee Member
Nagu Dhanwada, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Jung Sub

Title:

HIGH-PERFORMANCE SIGNAL PROCESSING ON RECONFIGURABLE PLATFORMS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Two Dimensional Decomposition
Field Programmable Gate Array
Fast Fourier Transform
Numerical algorithms
System Generator
Hierarchical Memory Controller

File:

Download JungSubKim-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, 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:

Yoo, Jincheol

Title:

A TIQ Based CMOS Flash A/D Converter for System-on-Chip Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Threshold Inverter Quantization (TIQ)
Flash ADC
Analog-to-Digital Converter
System-on-Chip (SoC)

File:

Download yoo_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Lee Croskey, Committee Member

Author:

Hu, Jie

Title:

ORCHESTRATING THE COMPILER AND MICROARCHITECTURE FOR REDUCING CACHE ENERGY

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Power-Aware Systems Design
Energy-Efficient Cache Architectures
Computer Architecture
Compiler Optimization
Characterization
Algorithm
Performance

File:

Download huthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Richard R Brooks, Committee Member

Author:

Bekar, Kursat Burak

Title:

Modular Optimization Code Package:MOZAIK

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

shape optimization
modularity
TORT
beam port design
parallel computation
streaming operator

File:

Download Kursat_B_Bekar_thesis-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Yousry Y Azmy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member

Author:

Irick, Kevin Maurice

Title:

A Configurable Platform for Sensor and Image Processing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Image Processing
Hardware Acceleration
FPGA

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, 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:

Li, Lin

Title:

DESIGNING ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND RELIABLE CACHES AND INTERCONNECTS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Energy-Efficiency
Reliability
Cache
Interconnect

File:

Download lin-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Pirretti, Matthew Gregory

Title:

Secure Communications in Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Sensor networks
security
secure localization
secure clusterhead election
energy attacks

File:

Download Pirretti_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member

Author:

Cetiner, Mustafa Sacit

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ION TIME-OF-FLIGHT SPECTROMETER FOR NEUTRON DEPTH PROFILING

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

time-of-flight
ion time-of-flight spectrometry
neutron depth profiling
coincidence spectrometry

File:

Download Sacit-Dissertation_-_080423-FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
R Gregory Downing, Committee Member
Tim Z Hossain, Committee Member
Michael S Gordon, Committee Member

Author:

DeBole, Michael Vincent

Title:

CONFIGURABLE ACCELERATORS FOR VIDEO ANALYTICS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

FPGA
Hardware Acceleration
Image Processing
3D IC
FPGA Framework

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Committee Member

Author:

Soundararajan, Niranjan Kumar

Title:

Addressing Reliability Issues in Performance-Critical Processor Structures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Microprocessor
Reliability
Soft Errors
Process Variations
Wearout
Fault Tolerance

File:

Download Niranjan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

Author:

An, Ning

Title:

Accessing Spatial Information in Resource-constrained and Resource-rich Environments

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Geo-spatially Crawling
Cluster Computing
Energy Profile
Selectivity Estimation
Spatial Information

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Donna Jean Peuquet, Committee Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Mangalagiri, Prasanth

Title:

A Reliable Design Flow for Platform FPGAs.

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

FPGA
TDDB
HCI
NBTI
CMOS
Dual Vdd
Thermal Estimation
Electromigration

File:

Download Prasanth-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, 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:

Krishnan, Ramakrishnan

Title:

Analysis of Failures in Nanoscale Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Reliability

File:

Download Ramakrishnan_Krishnan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Ramanarayanan, Rajaraman

Title:

SOFT ERRORS IN LOGIC CIRCUITS: ANALYSIS AND MODELING

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

modeling
reliability
logic circuits
soft errors
analysis

File:

Download Thesis_RRSE.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Charles Lee Croskey, Committee Member
Yuan X Ie, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, 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:

Srinivasan, Suresh

Title:

Toward Low Power and Reliable FPGA Design

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Soft Errors
Leakage Power
Permanent Failures
FPGAs
Process Variations

File:

Download Suresh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Soontae

Title:

ENERGY-EFFICIENT HIGH PERFORMANCE CACHE ARCHITECTURES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

energy
performance
caches

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Richard Brooks, Committee Member

Author:

Gurumurthi, Sudhanva

Title:

Power Management of Enterprise Storage Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

disk
power
thermal
server
storage

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Natarajan Gautam, Committee Member

Author:

Bae, Sungmin

Title:

CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN FPGAs AND ASICs: THE APPLICATIONS OF CLOCK SKEW SCHEDULING ON FPGAs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

FPGA
clock skew scheduling
low power FPGA
thermal gradient
thermal gradient estimation

File:

Download Sungmin-PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Theocharides, Theocharis

Title:

EMBEDDED HARDWARE FACE DETECTION FOR DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

face detection
embedded systems
hardware implementations

File:

Download theocharides_phd_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Wayne Wolf, Committee Member

Author:

Degalahal, Vijay Sai

Title:

Soft Errors: Modeling And Interactions with Power Optimizations

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

reliability in DSM
Soft errors
Single event upsets
low power VLSI

File:

Download MYTHESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member

Author:

Saripalli, Vinay

Title:

DEVICE AND ARCHITECTURE CO-DESIGN FOR ULTRA-LOW POWER LOGIC USING EMERGING TUNNELING-BASED DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Tunnel FET
Single Electron Transistor
Low Power Electronics
Heterogeneous Architecture
Variation-Aware SRAM

File:

Download VinaySaripalli-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Wei

Title:

LEAKAGE ENERGY OPTIMIZATIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Reliability
Dcache
Compiler
Low Power
Icache

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Richard R Brooks, Committee Member

Author:

Ye, Wu

Title:

ARCHITECTURAL LEVEL POWER ESTIMATION AND EXPERIMENTATION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

SimplePower
Power Estimation
RTL
Architectural Level Power Estimation/Optimization
Partitioning Power Modeling Technique
Transition-Sensitive Energy Model

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Ali R Hurson, Committee Member
John Joseph Hannan, Committee Member
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Member

Author:

Hung, Wei-Lun

Title:

Designing Cool Chips: Low Power and Thermal-Aware Design Methodologies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

placement
algorithm
VLSI
CAD
thermal
EDA
floorplanning

File:

Download whung.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Xiaoxia

Title:

Design Exploration for Three-dimensional Integrated Circuits (3DICs)

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

3D ICs
hybrid cache
3D testing
3D EDA

File:

Download XiaoxiaWu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Heng Xu, Committee Member
Sidney Kung, Committee Member
Jian Li, Committee Member

Author:

Dong, Xiangyu

Title:

Modeling and Leveraging Emerging Non-Volatile Memories for Future Computer Designs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

application
architecture
circuit
non-volatile memory
STTRAM
PCRAM
ReRAM

File:

Download main.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Norman P Jouppi, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Yibo

Title:

VARIATION-AWARE BEHAVIORAL SYNTHESIS FOR NANOMETER VLSI CHIPS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

High-Level Synthesis
Behavioral Synthesis
ESL

File:

Download Yibo-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

Author:

Jiao, Yu

Title:

Mobile Agent-Based Energy-Efficient and Secure Global Information Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

power management
information retrieval
mobile agents
mobile computing
security

File:

Download ThesisMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali R Hurson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
John Joseph Hannan, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member

Author:

Tsai, Yuh-Fang

Title:

Tools and Techniques for Leakage Power Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

VLSI design
Leakage power
Power simulator
Low power techniques

File:

Download ytsai-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
David Duarte, Committee Member

Author:

Kestur Vyasa Prasanna, Srinidhi

Title:

Domain-specific Accelerators on Reconfigurable Platforms

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

accelerators
NuFFT
FPGA
N-body problem
matrix vector
sparse
saliency
HMAX
attention
recognition
neuromorphic
vision

File:

Download 1-SrinidhiKestur-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
John D Davis, Special Member

Author:

Ouyang, Jin

Title:

Architecting On-Chip Interconnection Network for Future Many-Core Chip-Multiprocessors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Chip-Multiprocessors
Network-on-Chip
Computer Architecture

File:

Download 1-Jin_Ouyang-Disseration.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Aliyaru Kunju, Ashkar Ali

Title:

Design Fabrication and Characterization of Antimonide MOS Transistors

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

MOS
Low Power
Antimonide
MOSFET
High-k Dielectric
Quantum Well
CV

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_AshkarAli.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member

Author:

Cho, Yong

Title:

Accelerating Cortical Processing for Real Time Neuromorphic Vision Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Gabor
feature extraction
primary visual cortex
multi-resolution
bio-inspired vision

File:

Download Cho_final_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member

Author:

Al Maashri, Ahmed

Title:

Accelerating Design and Implementation of Embedded Vision Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Embedded Vision Systems
Domain-Specific Computing
Reconfigurable Computing
Power Efficiency
Neuromophic Accelerators

File:

Download maashri_accelerated_embedded_vision_systems_v4.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Richard A Behr, Special Member

Author:

Sahin, Dagistan

Title:

Tracing footprints of Environmental events in tree ring chemistry using Neutron Activation Analysis

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

neutron activation analysis
NAA
kzero
k0
Westcott formalism
Geant4
MCNP
Monte Carlo
tree ring
Dendrochemistry
climate

File:

Download DagistanSahinPhD.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Igor Jovanovic, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Peter Ian Kuniholm, Special Member
Charlotte Pearson, Special Member

Author:

Mohata, Dheeraj Kumar

Title:

Arsendie-Antmonide Tunnel Transistors for Low Power Logic Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Transistor
TFET
Arsenide
Antimonide
Hetero-junction
Fabrication
low power
steep switching
supply voltage

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_DheerajMohata_May_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Eze, Melvin

Title:

Sub-50 nm Multi-Segment Interconnect Design: A treatise on Speed, Reliability and Signal Integrity

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Interconnect
Signal Integrity
Offset Switching
Variable Cycle Timing with Temporal Redundancy
NBTI

File:

Download MelvinEze-Dissertation-Final-eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Special Member

Author:

Niu, Dimin

Title:

Modeling and Architecting Emerging Non-volatile Resistive Random Access Memory for Future Computer System

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Memory System
Non-Volatile Memory
Resistive Memory

File:

Download Dimin-Dissertation-final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Donghai 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:

Liu, Lu

Title:

Classical And Coulomb Blockade Iii-v Multi-gate Quantum Well Field Effect Transistors For Ultra Low Power Logic Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

multi-gate
quantum well FET
single electron
Coulomb blockade
non-volatile
low power

File:

Download Dissertation_Lu_Dec22013.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Tao

Title:

A Study of DRAM Optimization to Break the Memory Wall

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

DRAM
Memory Wall
3D-stacked DRAM
Wide IO
Activation
Precharge
Refresh
Sub-array Level Parallelism

File:

Download TaoZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Jishen

Title:

Rethinking the memory hierarchy design with nonvolatile memory technologies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Memory hierarchy
Nonvolatile memory
Persistence
Memory/storage stack
Energy efficiency
Graphics memory
CMP
GPU

File:

Download jishen-zhao-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Onur Mutlu, Special Member

Author:

Park, Mi Sun

Title:

Configurable Accelerators for Visual and Text Analytics

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Accelerators
Recognition
Vision
Text Processing
Personal Analytics

File:

Download mspark_dissertation_final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Bradley Paul Wyble, Committee Member
Omesh Tickoo, Special Member

Author:

Xiao, Yang

Title:

using attention to enhance efficiency in video-based computer systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

FPGA; neuromorphic algorithm; video-based; embedded system

File:

Download Yang_thesis_8.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Bradley Paul Wyble, Committee Member
Jack Sampson, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member
Kevin M Irick, Special Member

Author:

Swaminathan, Karthik Venkataraman

Title:

An examination of Post-CMOS computing techniques using steep-slope device-based architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Beyond-CMOS computing
Heterojunction Tunnel FET (TFET)
device-to-architecture abstraction
heterogeneous architectures

File:

Download thesis_karthik_swaminathan.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member
Jack Sampson, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Cong

Title:

Modeling, Circuit Design, and Microarchitectural Optimization of Emerging Resistive Memory

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Non-Volatile Memory
ReRAM
Computer Architecture
Memory System

File:

Download CongXu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie And Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Huichu

Title:

Device Circuit Interactions for Steep Switching Slope Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Tunneling-field-effect-transistor
device-circuit interaction
steep subthreshold slope
energy efficiency
soft error reliability

File:

Download Ph.D_Thesis_Huichu_Liu-Final_1-12_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member

Author:

Zou, Qiaosha

Title:

design methodologies of three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D ICs)

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Integrated circuits
design methodologies
three-dimensional circuits
cost-aware designs
reliability-aware designs

File:

Download Dissertation_Qiaosha.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Cotter, Matthew Joseph

Title:

Enabling Intelligent Vision Systems in a Configurable Multi-algorithm Pipeline

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Configurable Systems
Vision Algorithms
Intelligent Vision
Hardware Accelerators

File:

Download Cotter_Dissertation_PSU_CSE_2015_FinalDraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
John Phillip Sustersic Jr., Special Member
Dr Steven P Levitan, Special Member

Author:

Poremba, Matthew Raymond

Title:

Architecting Byte-addressable Non-volatile Memories for Main Memory

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Computer Memory
Non-Volatile Memory
DRAM
Memory Scheduling
Memory Modeling
Memory Simulation

File:

Download Poremba-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Morgan Sampson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Xie, Jing

Title:

Three Dimensional Integrated Circuit Design and Test

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

VLSI
Three Dimensional Integrated Circuit
Testing
Circuit Design
Low Power
High Performance

File:

Download JingXie-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member

Author:

Agrawal, Nidhi

Title:

Variation Study on Advanced Cmos Systems for Low Voltage Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

FinFET
TFET
Line Edge Roughness (LER)
Line Width Roughness (LWR)
SRAM
Rean Static Noise Margin (RSNM)
NBTI
PBTI

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Nidhi_Agrawal.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Roman Engel Herbert, Special Member

Author:

Advani, Siddharth Kishin

Title:

Large-Scale Object Recognition for Embedded Wearable Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Embedded vision systems
Real-time systems

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack Sampson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee Giles, Committee Member
Kevin Irick, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Outside Member

Author:

Pandey, Rahul

Title:

COMPLIMENTARY III-V HETERO-JUNCTION TUNNEL TRANSISTORS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT NANOELECTRONICS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Tunnel
Tunnel Transistor
Energy
Power
Efficient
Low-power
Energy efficient
low voltage
TFET
MOSFET
CMOS
Moore's law
Transistor
on-current
steep
subthreshold
switching
sub-thermal
logic
circuits
systems
memory
semiconductors
TunnelFET
complimentary
III-V
compound semiconductors
Germanium
GeSn
Hetero-junctions
tunnel barrier engineering
quantum mechanical tunneling

File:

Download Energy_Efficient_Tunnel_Transistors_by_Rahul_Pandey.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Sumeet Gupta, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Cheng, Hsiang-Yun

Title:

EXPLOITING AND ACCOMMODATING ASYMMETRIES IN MEMORY TO ENABLE EFFICIENT MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Memory systems
Asymmetric access
Energy efficiency
Cache
Memory request scheduling
Power management
Non-volatile memory

File:

Download Dissertation_HsiangYunCheng_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Outside Member

Author:

Kim, Moon Seok

Title:

DIGITAL/MIXED-SIGNAL CIRCUIT DESIGNS WITH STEEP SLOPE III-V TUNNEL TRANSISTORS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Steep Slope Transistor
Heterojunction Tunnel FETs
TFETs
HTFETs
Digital/Mixed-Signal Circuit Designs
Energy Efficiency

File:

Download Moon_PhD_Dissertation_Final_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Chris Songjin

Title:

DATA DEPENDENT OPTIMIZATION VISION ARCHITECTURE

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Image processing
Region of interest
Object detection
Computer architecture
Vision pipeline
Accelerator

File:

Download Chris_Dissertation_13.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Outside Member
Kevin Irick, Special 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:

Tsai, Wei Yu

Title:

Enabling New Computation Paradigms with Emerging Technologies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Non-Boolean Computation
Neural Networks
Coupled Scillators
Low-power Computation
Image Processing
Audio Processing

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Bruce Gluckman, Outside Member

Author:

Ma, Kaisheng

Title:

Self-powered Internet-of-Things Nonvolatile Processor and System Exploration and Optimization

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Nonvolatile Processor
Self-powered
Internet-of-Things
Architecture Exploration
Energy Harvesting
Fog Computing

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John (Jack) Sampson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Outside Member

Author:

Iyengar, Anirudh Srikant

Title:

ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND SECURE DESIGNS OF SPINTRONIC MEMORY: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Spintronics
Security
Camouflaging
PUF
NVFF
Secrecy and Privacy
Modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Swaroop Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Swaroop Ghosh, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member

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:

Cherukuri, Venkateswara Rao

Title:

Domain Enriched Learning for Brain Image Analysis

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Brain Imaging
MRI
CT
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Priors

File:

Download venkat_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Nanyin Zhang, Committee Member
Jesse Louis Barlow, Outside Member
Steven Schiff, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Schiff, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rangachar Srinivasa, Srivatsa

Title:

MONOLITHIC-3D (M3D) INTEGRATION BASED ROBUST IN-MEMORY COMPUTING SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

SRAM
Monolithic 3D integration
in-memory computing
memory design

File:

Download Thesis_draft_18.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swaroop Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kultegin Aydin, 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:

Download Hanlin_Lu_dissertation.pdf

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

Lee, Sooyeon

Title:

Effective and Pleasant Interactive Dialog System Design for Guiding People with Visual Impairments

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

People with visual impairments
Non-visual directional guidance
Assistive Technology
Remote Sighted Assistance
Non-visual hand navigation
Blind grocery shopping
Meaning of Independence
Multimodal guidance interface
Haptic guidance

File:

Download Sooyeon_Lee_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jack Carroll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack Carroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Steven R. Haynes, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

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

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:

Download Dissertation_copy_Final2.pdf

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:

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:

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

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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:

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:

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:

Tavares, Leonardo Estevao

Title:

Automatic Recognition of Birdsong Syllables Using Ultra-Sparse Spike Sequence Representations

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

birdsong
songbird
speech
speech recognition
syllable recognition
spike code
sparse representation
neuronal reconstruction
soma

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Collins, Major Field Member
Chad Hanna, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair
Dezhe Jin, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor