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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:

Gomatam, Priyanka

Title:

Object Recognition Using Structured Feature Extraction With A Reconfigurable, Neurosynaptic Processor

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Truenorth
neuromorphic hardware
object detection
histogram of oriented gradients
neural network hardware

File:

Download PSUThesisP-2.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack Sampson, Committee Member

Author:

Okafor, Ikenna J

Title:

Hardware Acceleration of Visual Object Search

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Computer Vision
Sliding Window
ROI
Hardware Acceleration
FPGA

File:

Download Hardware_Acceleration_of_Visual_Object_Search_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Park, Jun Hyuk

Title:

IMPROVED TIQ FLASH ADC TRANSISTOR SIZING ALGORITHMS TO REDUCE LINEARITY ERRORS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

TIQ Flash ADC
TIQ Voltage Comparator
Nonlinearity
DNL
INL
Process Variation

File:

Download Thesis_MS_JunhyukPark_Aug2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Kyusun Choi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee 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:

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:

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:

Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf

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:

Eden, Jake T

Title:

Location Extraction from Text Features in Practical Environments

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Text
text extraction
localization
classification
text features

File:

Download Eden_Jake_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Krishna, Vinayaka N

Title:

Dense Convolutional Object Detectors for Visual Assistive Systems On Mobile Platform

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Convolutional Neural Network
DenseNets
ResNet
Deep Learning
Visual Assistance System
Mobile Deep Learning

File:

Download VinayakaKrishna-DissertationFinal4.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Sampson, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Henry Francis

Title:

Designing Processing in Memory Architectures via Static Analysis of Real Programs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

computer architecture
processing in memory
static analysis

File:

Download master-gradschool.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Download Anirudh_dissertation_final.pdf

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:

Davis, Steven

Title:

Maritime Navigation and Contact Avoidance through Reinforcement Learning

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

reinforcement learning
machine learning
maritime
unmanned underwater vehicle
autonomous underwater vehicle
q learning
navigation
autonomous

File:

Download Davis_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Phillip Sustersic, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Download Thesis_Hakimi.pdf

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:

Download Shin_Philip_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Anderson, Skyler

Title:

Adaptive Neural Network Architectures for Power Aware Inference

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Neural Networks
Power aware inference
convolutional neural networks
semantic segmentation

File:

Download Thesis_Skyler_Anderson.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, 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:

Wong, Joseph

Title:

Smart Home Surveillance System Through Edge Computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

smart home
edge computing
security
machine learning
deep learning
motion detection
facial recognition
fog computing

File:

Download thesis_grad.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, 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:

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:

Mahdizadeh Shahri, Sara

Title:

(Almost) Fence-less Persist Ordering

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Persistent memory
Memory persistency model

File:

Download SaraMahdizadehShahri_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Aasheesh Kolli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member

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:

Download peter_z_thesis.pdf

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:

Gulati, Rishab

Title:

A Toolchain for On-Chip Thermal Management of FPGA Designs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

FPGA
Thermal Management
Hardware Architecture

File:

Download Rishab-Thesis-Fa21-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swaroop Ghosh, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, 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:

Patel, Aditya

Title:

Software Support For Offloading off-the-shelf applications to PIM Cores

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

PIM
BLIMP
Compiler
LLVM

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member

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

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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

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Committee Members:

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

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:

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

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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:

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:

Swaminathan, Ashwath Raghav

Title:

Optimizing Existing NLP Tasks by Leveraging Knowledge Graphs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Natural Language Processing
Knowledge Graphs
Knowledge Graph Embeddings
Transformers
Computational Complexity
Memory Usage Optimization
Reducing FLOPs
Token Pruning

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rui Zhang, Committee Member
Abhinav Verma, Committee 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:

Kumar, Abhijeet

Title:

Deepfake Video Detection in the compressed domain

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

compressed domain
i frames
deepfake videos detection
convolutional networks

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rui Zhang, 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:

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:

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:

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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

File:

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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

File:

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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

File:

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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

Author:

Singh, Sonali

Title:

Co-Architecting Brain-inspired Algorithms and Hardware for Performance and Energy Efficiency

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Spiking Neural Networks
Neuromorphic Computing
Gradient descent
Low-power architectures
bio-inspired sensors

File:

Download NeuroCompDissertationDraftFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field 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

Author:

Li, Zheyu

Title:

Accelerating Data-intensive Bioinformatic Workloads

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Bioinformatic
Genome sequencing
FPGA
In-memory computing
Whole Silde Imaging
Max Cut
Nanopore Sequencing
Sorting

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Jao, Nicholas

Title:

Non-Volatile Memory Design Based On Crossbar Architecture Towards Low Power Systems and Processing In-Memory

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Emerging Non-Volatile Memory
Computing In-Memory
Modelling
in-situ computing
ferroelectric tunnel junction
magnetic tunnel junction
device-circuit codesign
circuit-architecture codesign
phase change memory

File:

Download Dissertation_Jao_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Swaroop Ghosh, Major Field Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Outside Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khan, Md Fahim

Title:

Constraint Driven Multimodal Edge Intelligence

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Quantization
Mixed Precision
Deep Learning
Online Learning
Quantization
Mixed Precision
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Online Learning
ReRAM
Crossbar
Energy Harvesting
Power Predictor
Depth Completion
Generative Adversarial Networks
GAN
Image Compression
Sensor Sampling
Sparse Depth
Multimodal Sensing
Sensor Fusion
Sensor Failure
Robustness

File:

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Major Field Member
Hadi Hosseini, Outside Unit & Field Member
Siddharth Advani, Special Member