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Author:

Ibrahim, Abdelrahman

Title:

Data Storage and Energy Management in Emerging Networks

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Data storage
Caching systems
Energy harvesting

File:

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Committee Members:

Aylin Yener, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aylin Yener, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Jing Yang, Committee Member
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Outside Member

Author:

Hu, Zhisheng

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Reinforcement learning
Adaptive cyber defense

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Iyer, Venkatakrishnan

Title:

Nonlinear Yaw Control of a Compound Helicopter

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

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

File:

Download Nonlinear_Yaw_Control_of_a_Compound_Helicopter.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Lu, Yang

Title:

Privacy preserving control and optimization for cyber-physical systems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Privacy
Cyber-physical systems
Control and optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Committee Member
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bardakci, Ibrahim Ekrem

Title:

Convex Formulations of Probability Maximization Problems: Stochastic Approximation Frameworks and Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Probability maximization
Optimization
Stochastic Approximation
Risk Minimization
Controller Design

File:

Download ieb_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Outside Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Jing Yang, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Jianan

Title:

Optical wireless communication and positioning systems applying imaging techniques

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Optical wireless communication
Image recognition
Visible light positioning
Sensor fusion

File:

Download Jianan_Zhang_PSU_Thesis__3_.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Joseph Kane, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jing Yang, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Outside Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vennelaganti, Sai Gopal

Title:

Frequency support through multiterminal direct current grids to asynchronous AC systems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Frequency support
Inertial support
MTDC
HVDC
Wind farm
Stability
ratio-based
droop control
MPPT

File:

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Committee Members:

Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Victor P Pasko, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hojjatinia, Sarah

Title:

System Identification Algorithms for Noisy Data with Application to Behavior Modeling

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

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

File:

Download Sarah-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Ashour, Mahmoud

Title:

Distributed Optimization Approaches to Nonconvex Problems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Distributed Optimization
Nonconvex Problems
Network Flow Control
Sparsity

File:

Download Ashour-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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