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Author:

Hu, Xinyi

Title:

Economic Models for Access Networks Informing Regulatory Policy

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Access networks
Regulation
Roaming charge
Side-payment
Game theory
Nash equilibrium

File:

Download Xinyi-Dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

George Kesidis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John F Doherty, Committee Member
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Noble, Joshua

Title:

Applied Numerical Methods in Characterizing Optical Nanomaterials and Nanostructures

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

holography
optics
pulse reconstruction
ultrafast
near field
numerical methods
machine learning
nonlinear
nanostructures
2d materials

File:

Download Noble_Dissertation_2020_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Xingjie Ni, Committee Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Outside Member
Hans Hallen, Special Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Murray, William

Title:

Nonlinear Optical Characterization with Instrumentation Development

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Ultrafast
Nonlinear Optics
Two-Dimensional Materials
NSOM
Near-field
Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy
Spectroscopy
Microscopy
Instrumentation
Autocorrelation
Nanotechnology
Wearables

File:

Download William_Murray_Dissertation_2020_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Xingjie Ni, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Member
Hans Hallen, Special Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dillinger, Cody

Title:

Game-Theoretic Controller Simulation for Sampling-Based Multi-Robot Motion Planning Algorithms

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Robotics
Motion Planning
Game Theory
Algorithms
Control Theory
Optimization
Nash Equilibrium
Simulation
Multi-Robot Systems

File:

Download Dillinger_Thesis_MastersFormat_Final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ekinci, Berkay

Title:

On the Effects of Non-Thermal Plasma Discharge in Solid Fuel Pyrolysis

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

plasma assisted combustion
plasma
combustion
pyrolysis
wire-mesh
high voltage
high current
coal

File:

Download On_the_Effects_of_Non_Thermal_Plasma_Discharge_in_Solid_Fuel_Pyrolysis__25_.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean David Knecht, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schwartz, Lindsey

Title:

A Classical Method for Vehicle Detection and Attribution from a Multi-Sensor Dataset

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

LiDAR
Fusion
Imagery
Object detection

File:

Download Thesis_LSchwartz_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Eliza S Bradley, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ayub, Ali

Title:

Few-Shot Continual Learning of Visual Concepts

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Continual Learning
Catastrophic Forgetting
Human-Robot Interaction
Self-Supervised Learning
Curiosity-Driven Learning
Cognitively-Inspired Learning
Robotics
Machine Learning
Computer Vision

File:

Download PhD_Thesis___Ali_Ayub.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Elisabeth Karuza, Outside Member
Alan R. Wagner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Richard Wagner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hall, Donald L

Title:

Exploitation of space-time wireless channel characteristics for indoor source localization

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Indoor Source Localization
Direction of Arrival Estimation
Machine Learning
Multipath
Polarization Diversity
Spatial Scattering
Wireless Channel

File:

Download dlh_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John F Doherty, Committee Member
David Marion Jenkins, Jr., Committee Member
Michelle Celine Vigeant, Outside Member
Erik Henry Lenzing, Special Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mills, Connor

Title:

The Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost High-Precision 3D-Printed Translation Stage Using an Optimized PID Controller for Optical Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

electrical engineering
optics
translation stage
pid controller
interferometry

File:

Download Mills_MastersThesis_Fall2021.pdf

Committee Members:

Sedig Salem Agili, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rafic A Bachnak, Committee Member
Aldo W Morales, Committee Member
Nashwa Nabil Elaraby, Committee Member
George Michael Gehring, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Haddadpour, Farzin

Title:

COMMUNICATION-EFFICIENT AND FAULT-TOLERANT ALGORITHMS FOR DISTRIBUTED MACHINE LEARNING

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Distributed - Communication - straggler

File:

Download My_PhD_Dissertation__1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Necdet S Aybat, Outside Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Huynh, Thien Nhien

Title:

Stability Analysis of Grid Connected Interleaved Flyback Inverter

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Flyback Inverter
CCM
Photovoltaic
Small-signal Model
Grid-connected

File:

Download Stability_Analysis_of_Grid-Connected_Interleaved_Flyback_Inverter.pdf

Committee Members:

Javad Khazaei, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Wolpert, Committee Member
Peter Idowu, Committee Member
Rafic A Bachnak, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bettapalli Nagaraj, Suhas

Title:

Privacy-preserving assessment of depression using Speech signal processing

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Speech Classification
Data Privacy
Depression Detection
Paralinguistics

File:

Download Suhas_MSEE_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Saeed M Abdullah, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Jing Yang, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bryan, Christopher

Title:

Data Acquisition for Water Quality Control

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

data acquisition
water quality
water quality monitoring
wastewater treatment
wastewater treatment plant
WWTP
predictive control
LabVIEW

File:

Download Christopher_Bryan_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Xinwei Niu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Meng Wang, Committee Member
Seth Wolpert, Committee Member
Rafic A Bachnak, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Suryadevara, Raja

Title:

Intelligent Operation and Control of Microgrids Using Multiple Reinforcement Learning Agents

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Reinforcement Learning
DDPG
DQN
Microgrids
Frequency Control
Excitation Control

File:

Download Raja_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Idowu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rafic A Bachnak, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Wolfram Bettermann, Committee Member

Author:

Brubaker, Timothy Ryan

Title:

Multiphase plasmas in medicine: Plasma jet--liquid interaction and the direct generation of plasma in conductive liquids

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

plasma medicine
atmospheric pressure plasma jet
plasma-liquid interaction
reactive oxygen species
blood
inactivation of bacteria

File:

No files available due to restrictions.

Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Committee Member
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Outside Member
Sean David Knecht, Committee Member

Author:

Bardakci, Ibrahim Ekrem

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Probability maximization
Optimization
Stochastic Approximation
Risk Minimization
Controller Design

File:

Download ieb_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Zhang, Jianan

Title:

Optical wireless communication and positioning systems applying imaging techniques

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Optical wireless communication
Image recognition
Visible light positioning
Sensor fusion

File:

Download Jianan_Zhang_PSU_Thesis__3_.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Kirk, Benjamin

Title:

Implementation of Cognitive Software-Defined Radar with Range-Doppler Processing and Pulse-Agility for Spectrum Sharing

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

cognitive radar
software defined radar
spectrum sharing
dynamic spectrum access
pulse-agility
deconvolution
hardware accelerated
real time
moving target indication

File:

Download Dissertation_BHK_Rev5.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Outside Member
Anthony F. Martone, Special Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kovarskiy, Jacob

Title:

Real-time Spectral Prediction and Metacognition for Spectrum Sharing Radar

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

cognitive radar
spectrum sharing
spectrum prediction
software defined radio
radio frequency interference
metacognition
reinforcement learning
multi-armed bandits

File:

Download Kovarskiy_thesis_v5_wVita.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Outside Member
Anthony F. Martone, Special Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Goodnight, Lindsey

Title:

Development and Characterization of Electrochemical Biosensors using Cu-Ni and Laser Written Platinum

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

electrochemical biosensors
non-enzymatic
glucose sensing
hydrogen peroxide sensing

File:

Download Development_and_Characterization_of_Electrochemical_Biosensors_Based_On_Electrodeposited_Copper_Nickel_and_Laser_Written_Platinum_Electrodes.pdf

Committee Members:

Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vennelaganti, Sai Gopal

Title:

Frequency support through multiterminal direct current grids to asynchronous AC systems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

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

File:

Download Dissertation_of_Sai_Gopal_Vennelaganti.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Gan, Chao

Title:

ONLINE LEARNING FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Online Learning
Multi-armed Bandits
Resource Allocation

File:

Download dissertation1.pdf

Committee Members:

Jing Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jing Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Uday V. Shanbhag, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Chun Wei

Title:

Chiral Liquid-Crystalline Photonic Crystals for Advanced Photonic Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

liquid crystal
photonic crystal
chiral optics
nonlinear optics
ultrafast optics

File:

Download Dissertation__Chun_Wei_Chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Iam-Choon Khoo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Iam-Choon Khoo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ghosh, Atriya

Title:

Applied Optical Imaging Techniques with Nonlinear Optical Source Development

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

fiber laser
holography
digital holography
optical imaging
nonlinear optics
second harmonic generation
TMD
2D materials
ultrafast lasers
Spectroscopy
autocorrelation
autocorrelator

File:

Download Atriya_Ghosh_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Iam-Choon Khoo, Committee Member
Xingjie Ni, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Lakhera, Ketan

Title:

High-Power Density Three-Phase Two-Level Inverter Using Gan Devices and Aluminum PCB Board

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

GaN Devices
Aluminum PCB(Al PCB)
Three-Phase Two-Level Inverter
High Power Density

File:

Download Thesis_Masters_Ketan.pdf

Committee Members:

Arash Khoshkbar-Sadigh, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arash Khoshkbar-Sadigh, Committee Member
Yan Li, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chatterjee, Jit

Title:

Distributed High Impedance Fault Detection using Multi-Agent Protection Scheme

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Multi Agent System
High Impedance Fault
Distributed Generatioin

File:

Download Chatterjee_Jit_Masterthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Idowu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Van Tonningen, Committee Member
Javad Khazaei, Committee Member
Scott Van Tonningen, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Saki, Abdullah Ash

Title:

Reconfigurable and dense analog circuit design with two terminal Resistive RAM

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Resistive RAM
Analog Circuit Design
Memristor
Amplifier
Low pass filter
hyperbolic sine
Gain
bandwidth
linearity
cut-off frequency

File:

Download MS_thesis_final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Swaroop Ghosh, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Iepure, Bogdan

Title:

A Novel Tracking Algorithm Using Thermal, mmWave Radar and Optical Sensors Fusion Imaging

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

image fusion
sensor fusion
mmWave radar sensor fusion
thermal and optical image fusion
multi spetrum sensor fusion
radiometric thermal and optical sensor fusion
object tracking
moving object tracking
object detection
object classification
thermal object detection
thermal region of interest detection
radiometric reading region of interest
mmWave radar occlusion
mmWave radar range measurement
mmWave radar velocity measurement
mmWave radar angle of arrival measurement
tracking algorithm

File:

Download Bogdan_Iepure_Master_Thesis_EE_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Aldo W Morales, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nashwa Nabil Elaraby, Committee Member
Sedig Salem Agili, Committee Member
Scott Van Tonningen, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hojjatinia, Sarah

Title:

System Identification Algorithms for Noisy Data with Application to Behavior Modeling

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

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

File:

Download Sarah-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Chen, Chang Jiang

Title:

Advanced High-Speed Solid-State Optical-Beam Control Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Electro-Optics
Ferroeletrics
Potassium Tantalate Niobate
Optical Deflector
Vari-focal Lens
Light Emitting Diode
Light Extraction Efficiency

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Shizhuo Yin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victor P Pasko, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Jian Hsu, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ashour, Mahmoud

Title:

Distributed Optimization Approaches to Nonconvex Problems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Distributed Optimization
Nonconvex Problems
Network Flow Control
Sparsity

File:

Download Ashour-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Mc Neill, Douglas Hall

Title:

Oversampled Drive Response Using Rolling Targets Technique

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Hard Disk Drives
HDD
Oversampling
Rolling Targets

File:

Download Douglas_McNeill_Thesis_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Sedig S. Agili, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldo W. Morales, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert A. Gray, Committee Member
Rafic A Bachnak, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vo, Dat Tien

Title:

Opioid Overdose Real-Time Wearable Monitor with Fuzzy Inference System

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Opioid
overdose
fuzzy
inference
system
embedded
wearable

File:

Download Thesis_finaldraft_r2.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Anthony Gray, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sedig Salem Agili, Committee Member
Seth Wolpert, Committee Member

Author:

Handel, Clark

Title:

target size estimation using forward scattering in a passive bistatic radar system

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Passive radar
FM radio
Bistatic radar
Long-Term Evolution
target detection

File:

Download ClarkHandel-Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Erik Henry Lenzing, Special Signatory
Muralidhar Rangaswamy, Special Signatory

Author:

Kemmerling, Jesse

Title:

Effects of Low-Mobility Holes in TCAD Simulated GaN/AlGaN/GaN Super-Heterojunction HEMT for RF and High-Power Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

gallium nitride
HEMT
super-heterojunction
field plate
RF amplifier
hole mobility
TCAD
microwave amplifier

File:

Download Thesis_MS_Final_Draft_Kemmerling_Jesse.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongming Chu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tom Jackson, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bujala, Bhanu Prakash

Title:

COMPRESSED-SENSING BASED MIMO-NOMA

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

SCMA
MIMO
Grant-free communications
Massive connectivity
Compressed-sensing

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark P Mahon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jing Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Viveck Ramesh Cadambe, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair