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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:

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:

Scott, Jesse

Title:

ANALYSIS OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL MEDIAN FILTER HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR REAL-TIME VIDEO DENOISING

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Weavesort
HDL
systolic
Batcher
insertion
median

File:

Download Jesse_Scott_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Kilroy, Katherine

Title:

A Signal-Based Approach To an Instrument Driver System

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

instrument drivers
IVI drivers
IVI-MSS
VXIplug&play

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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:

Mukundrajan, Ravindhiran

Title:

Tunnel FET based Field Programmable Gate Arrays

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Emerging nanotech
Tunnel FET
FPGA
Low Power

File:

Download Ravindhiran_MS-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Sridharan, Srinath

Title:

Performance-reliability trade-offs in designing Re-Order Buffers

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ROB
Late Binding
vulberability

File:

Download Srinath_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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:

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:

Wray, Kyle Hollins

Title:

A Game Theoretic Approach to Multi-agent Systems in Highly Dynamic, Information-sparse, Role Assignment Scenarios

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multiagent Systems
Game Theory
Fictitious Play
Anti-Coordination Games
Predator Prey
Uncertainty
Robotics
Cooperation

File:

Download KyleWray-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Berry Thompson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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:

Gala, Charles Joseph

Title:

Utilizing Graphics Processing Units for Rapid Facial Recognition using Video Input

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

facial recognition
graphics processing unit
GPU
CUDA
detection
tracking
recognition
live streaming data

File:

Download CharlesGala_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Raj Acharya, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce Einfalt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Collins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Chandrashekhar, Anusha

Title:

Acceleration of monocular depth extraction for images

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Monocular depth extraction
GPU
CUDA
Hardware acceleration
non-parametric depth
fast depth estimator
computer vision

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Zheng, Yang

Title:

Modeling And Design Analysis Of Emerging Non-volatile Memories For Future Computer Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

STT-RAM
ReRAM
Non-volatile Memory

File:

Download YangZhengThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Smith, Brigid Louise

Title:

improving object recognition performance through semantic context extraction

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

computer vision
machine vision
vision
image processing
context

File:

Download THESIS-grad.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Davis, Kameran J

Title:

Real Time Object Tracking On Active Pan Tilt Zoom Camera Using Cmt

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CMT
Keypoints
Tracking
Real-time
Pan-Tilt-Zoom
Camera
Consensus-Based
Matching
Software
Canon
VB-C300

File:

Download KJDThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Heo, Unsuk

Title:

A High-efficiency Switched-capacitance Htfet Charge Pump For Low-input-voltage Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Charge pump
DC-DC converter
power-conversion-efficiency (PCE)
switched-capacitance
tunnel FET (TFET)

File:

Download UnsukHeo_Master_Thesis0403_1.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Snyder, Joshua Scott

Title:

Optimization and Hardware Acceleration of Consensus-based Matching and Tracking

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

hardware acceleration
object tracking
FPGA
CMT
hardware architecture
vision system
computer vision

File:

Download 1-Snyder_Joshua_OptimizationandAccelerationofCMT.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Sabarad, Jagdish Shivaji

Title:

A Reconfigurable Accelerator For Neuromorphic Object Recognition

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Hardware Accelerator
HMAX
FPGA
Machine Vision
Computer Vision
Hardware Architecture
High Performance Computing
Bio-Vision

File:

Download JagdishSabarad.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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:

Download jagrutimohapatra_thesis_final.pdf

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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