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Author:

Tiu, Alwen Fernanto

Title:

A Logical Framework for Reasoning about Logical Specifications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

proof theory
operational semantics
co-induction
induction
logical framework
cut-elimination

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

John Joseph Hannan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Stephen George Simpson, Committee Member
Frank Pfenning, 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:

Chatterjee, Anirban

Title:

Exploiting Sparsity, Structure, and Geometry for Knowledge Discovery

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

sparse graph embedding
sparse graph partitioning
data mining
sparse linear solvers

File:

Download AnirbanChatterjeeDoctoralThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Padma Raghavan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Suzanne Michelle Shontz, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, 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:

Patrick, Christina M

Title:

Minimizing End-To-End Interference in I/O Stacks Spanning Shared Multi-Level Buffer Caches

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

storage cache
interference
Multi-level buffer caches
performance
I/O
disk
cache

File:

Download Christina-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Brian Cameron, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Chun

Title:

EXPLOITING MULTI-THREADED APPLICATION CHARACTERISTICS TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE AND POWER OF CHIP-MULTIPROCESSORS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

multi-threaded characteristics performance power c

File:

Download thesis_chliu.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Li, Feihui

Title:

SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE OPTIMIZATIONS FOR NOC-BASED CHIP MULTIPROCESSORS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Network-on-Chip
Chip Multiprocessor
cache
optimization
power
performance

File:

Download feli-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Kandiraju, Gokul B

Title:

Towards Self-Optimizing Memory Management

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Memory Management
Computer Architecture
Operating Systems
TLB

File:

Download mymain.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Giger, Gary Fred

Title:

An Operator-Centric Mission Planning Environment to Reduce Mission Complexity for heterogeneous Unmanned Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Genetic Algorithms
Multi-Objective
unmanned vehicles
UUV
mission planning

File:

Download GaryGigerDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
David J Cannon, 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:

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:

Lee, Ingyu

Title:

Sparse Scientific Applications: Improving Performance and Energy Characteristics on Advanced Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Performance
Scientific Application
Sparse
Energy

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Fischbach, Joseph Adam

Title:

Reasoning About Higher-Order Functions and Parameters

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

programming languages
functional programming
program transformation
type-based analysis

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John Joseph Hannan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Hurson, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Stephen George Simpson, Committee Member

Author:

Sustersic, John Phillip

Title:

The Control, Communication, and Computation Language (C3L): Completing the Design Cycle in Complex Distributed System Development

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Parallelizing Compiler
Distributed Systems Programming
Formal Semantics
Embedded Systems
Computer Languages
Mine Counter Measures

File:

Download sustersic_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Robert Nickel, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Jianyong

Title:

SELF-TUNING STORAGE SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMANCE VIRTUALIZATION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

storage systems
self-managing and self-tuning
I/O scheduling
quality of service
data migration
feedback control

File:

Download jzhang_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Hubertus Franke, 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:

Teranishi, Keita

Title:

SCLABLE HYBRID SPARSE LINEAR SOLVERS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

parallel computing
numerical linear algebra
scientific computing
sparse matrix computation

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Paul Plassmann, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Malkowski, Konrad

Title:

CO-ADAPTING SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS AND ARCHITECTURES TOWARD ENERGY-EFFICIENT HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

scientific applications
power
adaptivity
optimization
energy-efficient
architecture
performance

File:

Download malkowski_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Padma Raghavan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Michael Perrone Iii, Committee Member
Jia Li, 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:

Vilayannur, Murali Natarajan

Title:

RUNTIME SUPPORT FOR EFFECTIVE MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Memory management
parallel file-systems
I/O
scheduling
caching
virtual memory

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Natarajan Gautam, Committee Member
Rajeev Thakur, Committee Member
Robert Craig Ross, Committee Member

Author:

Herescu, Oltea Mihaela

Title:

THE PROBABILISTIC ASYNCHRONOUS PI-CALCULUS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

pi-calculus
theory of concurrency

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John Joseph Hannan, Committee Member
Stephen George Simpson, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Catuscia Palamidessi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Ozturk, Ozcan

Title:

COMPILER DIRECTED MEMORY HIERARCHY DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT IN CHIP MULTIPROCESSORS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

memory
compiler
management
chip
multiprocessor
computer
hierarchy
design

File:

Download ozcanthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member

Author:

Bhowmick, Sanjukta

Title:

Multimethod Solvers: Algorithms, Application And Software

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Iterative Linear Solvers
High Reliability
Composite Solvers
Adaptive Solvers

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Lois Curfman Mc Innes, Committee Member
Paul Plassmann, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Narayanan, Sri Hari Krishna

Title:

Software Based Techniques for Robust Computing on Chip Multiprocessors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Temperature
Robustness
Reliability
Chip Multi Processors
compilers
Soft Errors

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Mahmut Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Tracy Mullen, Committee Member
Boyana Norris, 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:

Muralidhara, Sai Prashanth

Title:

Reducing Interference in Memory Hierarchy Resources Using Application Aware Management

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multicores
memory hierarchy
caches
DRAM

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Qian Wang, 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:

Lim, Seung-Hwan

Title:

Managing Performance And Energy In Large Scale data Centers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Data Center
Performance
Energy
Cloud Computing

File:

Download SeungHwan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Son, Seung Woo

Title:

Software-Based Disk Power Management for Scientific Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Low power
compiler
disk subsystem
parallel file system
runtime

File:

Download SeungWooSon-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, 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:

Ding, Yang

Title:

Dynamic Resource Management for Energy-efficiency and Quality-of-Service in Chip Multiprocessors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

dynamic resource management
runtime system
Chip Multiprocessors
energy-efficiency
QoS

File:

Download YangDing-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yuanrui

Title:

CACHE-AWARE APPLICATION PARALLELIZATION AND OPTIMIZATION FOR MULTICORES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

computation mapping and scheduling
data transformation
NuFFT data translation
NUCA based multicore
cache topology-aware
parallelization

File:

Download Yuanrui_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee 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:

Lublinerman, Roberto Elias

Title:

Concurrent Assemblies: A Model for Concurrent Program Execution

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Parallel programming
Programming abstractions
Irregular parallelism
Data-parallelism
Ownership

File:

Download thesis.pdfDownload CERTIF-survey.pdfDownload UMI.pdf

Committee Members:

Swarat Chaudhuri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swarat Chaudhuri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
John Joseph Hannan, Committee Member
Patrick M Reed, Committee Member

Author:

Frasca, Michael Robert

Title:

Model-driven Memory Optimizations for High Performance Computing: From Caches to I/o

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

High Performance Computing
Performance Optimization

File:

Download Frasca-Dissertation_-_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member

Author:

Sastry, Shankar Prasad

Title:

Dynamic Meshing Techniques for Quality Improvement, Untangling, and Warping

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

mesh quality improvement
mesh untangling
mesh warping

File:

Download sastry_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Suzanne Michelle Shontz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Keefe B Manning, Committee Member

Author:

Shantharam, Manu

Title:

Algorithmic Approaches for Enhancing Speedup, Energy and Resiliency Measures of Sparse Scientific Computations

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Sparse scientific computing
high performance computing
performance analysis and modeling

File:

Download Shantharam-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Jia Li, Committee Member

Author:

Sharma, Bikash

Title:

Towards Improving Performance and Reliability of Cloud Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

cloud computing
workload characterization
scheduling
resource management
fault diagnosis
virtualization
mapreduce

File:

Download Final_Bikash_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Jung, Myoungsoo

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

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

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Sharifi, Akbar

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

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

File:

Download Akbar_Sharifi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Kultursay, Emre

Title:

Compiler-based Memory Optimizations for High Performance Computing Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Compilers
memory optimizations
high performance computing
application-specific hardware accelerators
many-core processors

File:

Download EmreKultursay-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Kemal Ebcioglu, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Jun

Title:

Compiler Optimizations for SIMD/GPU/Multicore Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Compiler Optimization
SIMD
GPGPU
Multicore
Scheduling
Data Layout Transformation
Tiling

File:

Download JUN-LIU-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Seong Jo

Title:

Parallel I/o Profiling and Optimization in Hpc Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MPI-IO
PnetCDF
HDF5
PVFS
I/O Software Stack
Code Instrumentation
Code Generation

File:

Download phd14.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member
Rajeev Thakur, Special Member

Author:

Ding, Wei

Title:

A Fresh Look At Data Locality On Emerging Multicores And Manycores

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Data Locality
Multicore
Manycore
Compiler
Loop

File:

Download Wei-Ding-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Wilson, Ellis H

Title:

A Protean Attack on the Compute-storage Gap in High-performance Computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Distributed Storage
High-Performance Computing
Hadoop
Filesystems
Compression
Deduplication
NAND Flash
Solid State Disks

File:

Download elliswilson_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee 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:

Wang, Jue

Title:

Architecture-level Designs using Emerging Non-volatile Memories

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

architecture design
main memory
on-chip cache
non-volatile memory
low power
high performance

File:

Download 1-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Booth, Joshua Dennis

Title:

Improving Performance and Energy of Parallel Sparse Computations through Hybrid Linear Solvers and Model-driven Optimization

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Numerical
Sparse
Linear Solvers
High Performance Computing
Model-Driven
Energy Aware
Hybrid Solvers
Irregular Problems

File:

Download Booth-ThesisMain-V3.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Special Member

Author:

Kirmani, Shad

Title:

EXPLOITING GRAPH EMBEDDING FOR PARALLELISM AND PERFORMANCE

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Parallel computing
graph partitioning
topology
graphs

File:

Download ShadKirmani-Dissertation-2.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Padma Raghavan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member

Author:

Yedlapalli, Praveen

Title:

A Study of Parallelism-locality Tradeoffs across Memory Hierarchy

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Memory
SOC
parallelism
locality

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Jog, Adwait

Title:

Design and Analysis of Scheduling Techniques for Throughput Processors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPUs
Bandwidth
Latency
Parallelism
Memory-Systems
Scheduling
Prefetching

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Kayiran, Onur

Title:

Parallelism-aware Resource Management Techniques for Many-core Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

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

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Park, Jeonghyung

Title:

Reuse distance models for accelerating scientific computing workloads on multicore processors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

high performance computing
scientific computing
parallel computing
performance optimization

File:

Download Jeong-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Padma Raghavan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member

Author:

Slota, George Michael

Title:

Irregular Graph Algorithms on Modern Multicore, Manycore, and Distributed Processing Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

graph mining
high performance computing
graph partitioning
subgraph isomorphism

File:

Download slota-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Sivasankaran Rajamanickam, Special Member

Author:

Hu, Wenjie

Title:

Energy Optimization for Smartphones in Wireless Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Energy
Smartphones
Wireless Networks

File:

Download Dissertation-WenjieHu-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Special Member

Author:

Kotra, Jagadish Babu

Title:

HARDWARE SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN FOR OPTIMIZING MEMORY HIERARCHY IN MANY-CORE AND MULTI-SOCKET SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Hardware-software co-design
memory hierarchy
manycore processors
memory
caches

File:

Download Jagadish-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member

Author:

Kislal, Orhan Memduh

Title:

Hardware-Aware Computation Reorganization for Memory Intensive Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

memory
performance
compiler
approximate computing

File:

Download omk_diss_submit.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, 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:

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:

Rengasamy, Vasudevan

Title:

Engineering high performance workflows for end-to-end acceleration of genomic applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Variant detection
Metagenome assembly
Word2Vec
High performance computing

File:

Download vasudevan-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Outside Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Motaman, Seyedhamidreza

Title:

LOW POWER, SECURE AND ROBUST DESIGNS OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORIES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

STTRAM
Sense Margin
MTJ
Slope Sensing
Process Variation
Voltage Boosting
Voltage Feedback
Self-Reference
Destructive Sensing
Domain wall memory
shift power
cache segregation
dynamic shift current modulation
dynamic write current modulation
cross-layer design
synergistic systems
Dynamic shift current modulation
Dynamic write current modulation
Variation tolerant design
Resistive RAM
computing in memory
Crossbar Array.
Data security
magnetic attack
cache bypass
checkpointing.

File:

Download Dissertation_v13_f1.pdf

Committee Members:

Swaroop Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Swaroop Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member

Author:

Elyasi, Nima

Title:

EXTRACTING BETTER PERFORMANCE FROM THE PARALLELISM OFFERED BY SSDS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

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

File:

Download Nima_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Tang, Xulong

Title:

Irregularity-aware Computation and Data Management in Manycore Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPGPUs
Manycore architecture
Data locality
Irregular applications

File:

Download PHD_thesis_Xulong.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chita R. Das, Committee Member
John (Jack) Sampson, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member

Author:

Rengasamy, Prasanna Venkatesh

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

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

File:

Download PrasannaThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Pattnaik, Ashutosh

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPUs
Throughput Processors
Compute Scheduling
Near Data Computing
Processing In Memory

File:

Download AshutoshPattnaik-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Choi, Jinhang

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Deep Neural Networks
Design Automation
Parallel Architectures
Edge Computing

File:

Download JChoi-PhDDissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Zhang, Haibo

Title:

Optimizing Video Processing for Next-Generation Mobile Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mobile Platform
Video Processing
Memory
Caching

File:

Download HaiboZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Choi, Wonil

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

NAND Flash
Device Lifetime
Memory Coding

File:

Download Wonil_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Brotzman-Smith, Robert

Title:

Detecting and Mitigating Cache-Based Side-Channels

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

side-channel
cache
static analysis
mitigation

File:

Download Robert_Brotzman_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

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:

Thinakaran, Prashanth

Title:

Embracing Heterogeneity in Cloud Platforms through Adaptable Resource Management Framework

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

datacenters
cloud
accelerators
resource-management

File:

Download PrashanthThinakaran_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Clyde Lee Giles, Outside Member
Bikash Sharma, Special Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor