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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:

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:

Mohapatra, Jagruti

Title:

PREDICTION AND ASSESSMENT OF AMBIENT ENERGY SIGNALS FOR ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Prediction
energy harvesting
Non-volatile processors
backup

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee 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:

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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:

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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:

Parija, Tulika

Title:

SAVING COMPUTATIONS BY EARLY INFERENCE TERMINATION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Deep Neural Network
Convolutional Neural Network

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Tulika_Parija_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member

Author:

Hakimi, Zeinab

Title:

Collaborative Inference for Distributed Camera System

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multi View Convolutional Neural Network
Distributed System
Context Awareness
DNN
Object Recognition

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shin, Philip

Title:

CONTEXT-AWARE COLLABORATIVE OBJECT RECOGNITION FOR MULTI CAMERA TIME SERIES DATA

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Context-Aware
Object Detection
Deep Learning
Convolutional Neural Network
MVCNN-Wavg
Multi Camera
Distributed System

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kim, Dong

Title:

Sensor Aware Machine Learning For Edge Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

convolutional neural network
machine learning
synthetic dataset

File:

Download Chris_Dong_Hyun_Kim_Master_s_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member
John Morgan Sampson, Committee 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:

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:

Govindaraj, Vineetha

Title:

PowerPrep : A power management technique for user-facing datacenter workloads

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Datacenter workloads
computer architecture

File:

Download POWERPREP__A_POWER_MANAGEMENT_PROPOSAL_FOR_USER_FACING_DATACENTER_WORKLOAD__2_.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rampalli, Sahithi

Title:

A Processing-in-Memory Accelerator Architecture for Graph Analytics

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

processing-in-memory
PIM
graphs
graph analytics
accelerator
SpMV
sparse

File:

Download Thesis_Sahithi_Rampalli.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member

Author:

Chandran, Makesh Tarun

Title:

Processing In-Memory Architecture Incorporating Systolic Dataflow for Deep Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Neural Networks
ReRAM
Processing-in-memory
Transformer
BERT
LSTM
CNN
Systolic

File:

Download Makesh_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Thirucherai Govindarajan, Hariram

Title:

Optimization of Inter-Cache Traffic Entanglement in Tagless Caches with Tiling Opportunities

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Tagless cache

File:

Download Hariram_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Eden, Grant

Title:

Using a UAV and Edge Computing to Identify and Throw Away Trash

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

UAV
Edge Computing
Drone
TPU
Machine Learning

File:

Download ThesisGrantEden.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Troncoso Aldas, Nelson Daniel

Title:

AIGuide: An Augmented Reality Hand Guidance Application for People with Visual Impairments

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

assistive technology augmented reality
mixed reality
mobile computing
assistive technology
augmented reality

File:

Download Thesis_Revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yu, Tongguang

Title:

Hardware Functional Obfuscation With Ferroelectric Active Interconnects

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

FeFET
Hardware Security
Reverse Engineering
Ferroelectric

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Sumitha George, Committee Member
Kai Ni, Committee Member

Author:

Pham, Viet

Title:

An Analysis and Framework for Multi-label Image Classification of Insect Taxonomy with Convolutional Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

multi-label image classification
image classification
computer vision
machine learning
insect taxonomy
convolutional neural networks

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member

Author:

Abrams, Samuel

Title:

Extending Video Action Recognition in the Compressed Domain

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Action Recognition
Neural Networks
Video Compression

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jose, Sethu

Title:

A Scheduling Framework for Decomposable Kernels on Energy Harvesting IoT Edge Nodes

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Internet of Things
Non-Volatile Processors
Energy Harvesting
Approximate Computing
Scheduling.
Internet Of Things
Scheduling

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Kumar, Abhishek

Title:

ARCHITECTURAL SUPPORT FOR IN-CACHE DATA MOVEMENTS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

cache
data movements
memory system
zsim
computer architecture

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member

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

File:

Download Uploaded_Thesis_Sumitha_George.pdf

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:

Kannan, Adithya Krishnan

Title:

OPTIMIZING PRIVACY PRESERVING NEURAL NETWORKS EMPLOYING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Privacy Preserving Machine Learning
Homomorphic Neural Networks

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member