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Author:

Laftchiev, Emil Ivanov

Title:

Robust Dynamical Model-based Data Representations and Structuring of Time Series Data for In-sequence Localization

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Data Dimension Reduction
Stochastic Programming
Multi-dimensional Data Representation
In-Sequence Localization

File:

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Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
John F Doherty, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Bekiroglu, Korkut

Title:

From Data to Interventions: Using System Identification and Robust Control Algorithms to Design Effective Treatments

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Adaptive Intervention
Robust Treatment Design
System Identification
Atomic Norm
min-max Structured Robust Optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member
Necdet S Aybat, Special Member

Author:

He, Mu

Title:

Enhancements to the Floquet Method for Analysis and Design of Power Converter Systems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Floquet Method
Power Converter Systems
Design Optimization
Genetic Algorithms

File:

Download Dissertation_Mu_He.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Outside Member

Author:

Mohammadzadeh Jasour, Ashkan

Title:

Convex Approximation of Chance Constrained Optimization Problems: Application in System and Control

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Chance Constrained
Convex Optimization
Semidefinite Programming
Measure and Moments
Polynomials
Sum of Squares Optimization
Duality

File:

Download Ashkan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Outside Member
Alexei Novikov, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Hunmin

Title:

Distributed Control of Cyber-physical Systems: Security, Economics, and Smart grid

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Cyber-physical systems
Distributed control

File:

Download Thesis_Hunmin_Kim.pdf

Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Outside Member

Author:

Hu, Zhisheng

Title:

Reinforcement learning for adaptive cyber defense: Algorithms, analysis and experiments

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Reinforcement learning
Adaptive cyber defense

File:

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Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Iyer, Venkatakrishnan

Title:

Nonlinear Yaw Control of a Compound Helicopter

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Dynamic Inversion
Helicopter Modeling
Automatic Flight Control System
Adaptive Control
Vectored Thrust Ducted propeller
Compound Helicopter
Pseudo Control Hedging
Feedback Linearization Using Neural Networks
Neural Networks
Feedback Linearization

File:

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Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Eric Norman Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lu, Yang

Title:

Privacy preserving control and optimization for cyber-physical systems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Privacy
Cyber-physical systems
Control and optimization

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

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:

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:

Ashour, Mahmoud

Title:

Distributed Optimization Approaches to Nonconvex Problems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Distributed Optimization
Nonconvex Problems
Network Flow Control
Sparsity

File:

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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