PhD Defenses

Circuits & Techniques for Cell-based Analog Design Automation of Low Dropout Regulators

Compute- and Process-in-Memory Modules for Machine Learning and Neuromorphic Computing

Coding Theory and Sketching for Distributed Optimization

Circuits and Techniques for Digital Frequency Synthesizers and Design Automation.

Next Generation Terahertz Systems using Nonlinear Phenomena

Cavity Optics in Organic Semiconductors: From Light-Extraction of OLEDs to Exciton-Polaritons

Chemical vapor sensing, physisorption, and separation on graphene

Stimulation-artifact-free, High-channel-count MicroLED Optoelectrodes

Lake Icepack and Dry Snowpack Thickness Measurement Using Coherent Multipath Interference of Wideband Planck Radiation

Hybrid Memristor-CMOS computer for AI: From device to system

Electromagnetic Scattering in Microwave Remote Sensing and Fluctuation Electrodynamics

Incentive Mechanisms for Managing and Controlling Cyber Risks: The Role of Cyber Insurance and Resource Pooling

Stability of Nonlinear Systems with Parameter Uncertainty

Interconnect and Memory Design for Intelligent Mobile System

Semantic Robot Programming for Taskable Goal-Directed Manipulation

Control of Electric Load Aggregations for Power System Services

Correct-by-construction fault-tolerant control

Data-Driven Methods to Build Robust Legged Robots

System Level Challenges for Microfabricated Magnetoelastic Transducers in Implantable Biomedical Applications

Wireless Data Transmission Systems for High Channel Count Neural Recording/ Stimulation Microsystems

Eliciting and Leveraging Input Diversity in Crowd-Powered Intelligent Systems

Microsystem-Compatible Heterogeneous Micro-Hydrophone for Use at High Static Pressure

Optical System Identification for Passive Electro-optical Imaging

Vegetation/Forest Effects in Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture

High-Energy-Density Physics Experiments of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Growth at Low-Density Contrast

Exploiting Sparsity, Compression and In-Memory Compute in Designing Data-Intensive Accelerators

High Resolution Through-the-Wall and Subsurface Imaging Using Small Number of Transceivers on Moving Robotic Platforms

Reconfigurable Optical Devices Utilizing Chalcogenide Phase Change Materials

PhD Defense: Xiao Wu

Miniaturized Low-Power and Energy-Efficient RF Wireless Communication and Sensing Systems

Models and Inference with Network Structure

Energy-Efficient Mobile Computer Vision and Machine Learning Processors

Modeling of Downstream and Direct Plasma Systems for Highly Selective and Anisotropic Etching

Oven-Controlled Inertial Sensors

Energy Efficient Mixed Signal Circuit Techniques for Machine Learning and Security Applications

Problems in Pure Exploration Multi-Armed Bandits with Multi-Dimensional Feedback and Criteria

Extracting compact knowledge from massive data

Resistive Switching Devices and Their Applications for Computing Beyond von Neumann Architecture

Charge and Exciton Dynamics in Organic Optoelectronic Devices

Unconventional Control of Electromagnetic Waves with Applications in Electrically Small Antennas, Nondiffracting Waves, and Metasurfaces

From Security Enforcement to Supervisory Control in Discrete Event Systems: Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses

Learning Low-Dimensional Models for Heterogeneous Data

Vertical Self-Defined Thermoelectric Legs for Use in Thin-Film μTEGs

Solution-processed Amorphous Oxide Semiconductors for Thin-film Power Management Circuitry

Kernel Methods for Learning with Limited Labeled Data

Energy-Efficient Integrated Circuits and Systems to Bridge the Gap between Power and Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks

Coherent Nonlinear Phenomena in Subwavelength-Grating Based Microcavities

Manipulating light at micro- and nano-scale: enable photonic structures toward real-world applications