PhD Defenses

Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Domain-Specific Accelerators

Design Techniques for Energy-Efficient and Scalable Machine Learning Accelerators

Energy-Efficient and Robust Wireless Connectivity and Sensing Solutions for the Internet of Things

Learning to Optimize: Applications in Physical Designs and Manufacturing

Towards Improving Deep Vision and Language Navigation

Key Generation and Secure Coding in Communications and Private Learning

High-Efficiency Al(Ga)N Ultraviolet Optoelectronics and Integrated Photonics

Efficient Deep Learning Accelerator Architectures by Model Compression and Data Orchestration

Design and Applications of Super-Continuum Lasers and Time-of-Flight Camera in Spectroscopy and Healthcare

Neural Network Implementations on Analog In-Memory-Computing Fabric

High Resolution ADCs for Acoustic Processing and Other Applications

Analog Coding: Theory and Applications

Novel Models for High-Dimensional Imaging: High-Resolution fMRI Acceleration and Quantification

Scalable Architectures for High Frequency and Very High Frequency Wireless Power Transfer

Design of High-Performance Antennas and Novel Electromagnetic Radiation Measurement Techniques for Biological Cells

Cylindrical Vector Beam Generation Using Spatially-Dispersive, Mode-Converting Metasurfaces

Control, Modeling, and Design Towards Higher Performance Energy Systems

In Silico Tools for Investigating the Performance of Breast Cancer Imaging Technologies

How Students and Algorithms Learn to Filter: Investigating Students’ Understanding of Signal Processing Concepts and Bilevel Methods for Learning Filters for Image Reconstruction

Coding and Multi-User Schemes for Future Wireless Networks

Ga2O3-Based Devices for High Power Switching Applications

Spatially-Discrete Traveling-Wave Modulated Electromagnetic Structures

Adaptive Regularization for Inverse Problems in Imaging

Classification via Multiple Hyperplanes: Loss functions, Overparametrization, and Interpolation

Engineering Excitonic Properties in van der Waals Solids Using Strain

Compression and Curriculum Strategies for Efficient Learning in Deep Neural Networks

Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Myelin Water Imaging and Model-Based Image Reconstruction

Energy Efficient Integrated Circuits and Systems for Communication and Sensing: RF to Optical

3D Scene Understanding with Deep Learning

Correct-by-Construction Control Adaptation against Sensing, Model, and Information Uncertainty

High Energy Pulse Amplification in Mid-IR Range Using Er:ZBLAN Fibers

Phenomenological Study of Radar Scattering at High Millimeter-Wave Frequencies in Support of Autonomous Vehicles

Low-Power Low-Error Wireless Sensor Network for Health and Usage Monitoring Systems

Safe End-to-end Learning-based Robot Autonomy via Integrated Perception, Planning, and Control

Er:ZBLAN Fiber-based Ultra-short Pulse Generation, Amplification and Wavelength Tuning in Mid-IR and LWIR

Common-Aperture Dual-Polarized Transceiver Antenna Systems for Millimeter-Wave Polarimetric Radar

Pressure Sensing Microsystems for Energy Industry Applications

Fast Algorithms for Long-Range Wave Propagation over Complex Terrain

Optical Refrigeration of Crystals Doped with Yb3+ and Ti3+ Ions

Hybrid Method for Full-wave Simulations of Vegetation

Magnetic Field Dynamics and Shock Physics at the High Intensity Frontier of Laser Plasma Interactions

Energy-Efficient Circuits and Systems for Powering, Sensing and Actuating the Motions in Internet of Things.

Energy-efficient Circuits and Systems for Intelligent Edge Devices

A Novel Multistatic SAR for Subsurface Imaging: Detection and Localization of Buried Pipelines and Leaks

Scalable Algorithms Using Optimization on Orthogonal Matrix Manifolds

Energy-Efficient Low-Power Mm-Scale Wireless Communication System

Energy-Efficient Mixed-Signal Circuits and Systems for Communication and Signal Processing

Exploiting Reconfiguration and Co-Design for Domain-Agnostic Hardware Acceleration

Monolithic Microscale Gas Chromatographs with Integrated Gas Pumps

Learning, Control, and Reduction for Markov Jump Systems

Robust Wireless Communications for Low Power Short Message Internet-of-Things Applications

Investigation of p-type Oxide Semiconductor Thin Film Transistors for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Technologies

Exciton transport properties and devices

Advanced Techniques for Spectral & Temporal Ultrashort Pulse Synthesis in Coherent Pulse Stacking Amplification

Novel flexible neural interfaces: intracortical reconfigurable multimodal origami probe and intrafascicular microneedle electrode array