Ph.D. Dissertations - 2001
A Design Methodology for Highly-Integrated Low-Power Receivers for Wireless Communications
Dennis G.-W. Yee [advisor: Robert W. Brodersen]
A Design Methodology for Low-Power Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Digital Signal Processors
Marlene Wan [advisor: Jan M. Rabaey]
A Scalable Framework for IP-Network Resource Provisioning Through Aggregation and Hierarchical Control
Chen-Nee Chuah [advisor: Randy H. Katz]
A Tricolor-Pixel Digital-Micromirror Video Chip
Roger W. Doering [advisor: Richard M. White]
Agent-Augmented Network Signaling for Call Setup
Wei-Yi William Li [advisor: David G. Messerschmitt]
Algorithm/Architecture Co-Design for Wireless Communications Systems
Ning Zhang [advisor: Robert W. Brodersen]
An Assessment of Genome Annotation Tools and an Approach to Solving a Set of Problems from a Genome Sequencing Project
George W. Hartzell III [advisor: Richard M. Karp and Yoram Rubin]
An Empirical Foundation for Automated Web Interface Evaluation
Melody Y. Ivory [advisor: Marti Hearst]
Analysis and Design of Current-Commutating CMOS Mixers
Emmanouil T. Terrovitis [advisor: Robert G. Meyer]
Articulated Mechanisms and Electrostatic Actuators for Autonomous Microrobots
Richard Yeh [advisor: Kristofer S. J. Pister]
CMOS RF Device Modeling and Low-Noise Amplifier Circuit Design
Jeffrey J. Ou [advisor: Paul R. Gray]
Complementary Silicide Thin-Body Silicon-on-Insulator CMOS Devices
Jakub T. Kedzierski [advisor: Jeffrey Bokor]
Distributed Source Coding Using Syndromes (DISCUS)
Sandeep Pradhan Sadanandarao [advisor: Kannan Ramchandran]
Domain Decomposition Methods for the Electromagnetic Simulation of Scattering from Three-Dimensional Structures with Applications in Lithography
Konstantinos Adam [advisor: Andrew R. Neureuther]
Dynamic Threshold MOSFETs for Future Integrated Circuits
Stephen H. S. Tang [advisor: Chenming Hu]
Efficient Conformational Analysis of Small Molecules
Ken D. Yamaguchi [advisor: Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli]
Electromagnetic Simulation and Modeling with Applications in Lithography
Thomas V. Pistor [advisor: Andrew R. Neureuther]
Electron Series Resonance Plasma Discharges: Unmagnetized and Magnetized
Weiguang Qiu [advisor: Charles K. Birdsall]
End-to-End Confidentiality for Continuous-Media Applications in Wireless Systems
Johnathan M. Reason [advisor: David G. Messerschmitt]
Energy-Efficient Processor System Design
Thomas D. Burd [advisor: Robert W. Brodersen]
Excitons in Coupled Double Quantum Wells
Sang Yup Kim [advisor: T. Kenneth Gustafson]
High-Frequency Electron Resonances and Surface Waves in Unmagnetized Bounded Plasmas
Kevin J. Bowers [advisor: Charles K. Birdsall]
High-Frequency MOSFET Modeling for RF Applications
Xiaodong Jin [advisor: Chenming Hu]
Hybrid Surface/Bulk-Micromachining Processes for Scanning Micro-Optical Components
Jocelyn T. Nee [advisor: Kam Y. Lau]
Interactive Query Processing
Vijayshankar Raman [advisor: Joseph M. Hellerstein]
Interactive Walkthrough Environments for Simulation
Richard William Bukowski [advisor: Carlo H. Séquin]
Internet Demand Experiment: Technology and Market Trial
Richard J. Edell [advisor: Pravin P. Varaiya]
Long-Term File System Characterization
Drew S. Roselli [advisor: Thomas E. Anderson and David Culler]
Low-Power Domain Specific Processors for Digital Signal Processing
Arthur Abnous [advisor: Jan M. Rabaey]
Managing Correspondence Search for Object Recognition
Sergey Ioffe [advisor: David A. Forsyth]
Market-Based Cluster Resource Management
Brent N. Chun [advisor: David E. Culler]
Memory Management with Explicit Regions
David E. Gay [advisor: Alexander S. Aiken]
Micromachined Resonators
Dubravka Bilic [advisor: Roger T. Howe]
Nanofabrication Technologies and Novel Device Structures for Nanoscale CMOS
Yang Kyu Choi [advisor: Chenming Hu]
Online Ensemble Learning
Nikunj C. Oza [advisor: Stuart J. Russell]
Operating Systems Techniques for Reducing Processor Energy Consumption
Jacob R. Lorch [advisor: Alan J. Smith]
Perceptual Scheduling in Real-Time Music and Audio Applications
Amar S. Chaudhary [advisor: Lawrence A. Rowe and David L. Wessel]
Personal Tele-Embodiment
Eric J. Paulos [advisor: John F. Canny]
PIC Code Charge Conservation, Numerical Heating, and Parallelization: Application of XOOPIC to Laser Amplification via Raman Backscatter
Peter J. Mardahl [advisor: Charles K. Birdsall]
Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-Film Transistor Technology for Flexible Large-Area Electronics
Yeh-Jiun Tung [advisor: Tsu-Jae King Liu]
Preconditioning Sparse Matrices for Computing Eigenvalues and Solving Linear Systems of Equations
Tzu-Yi Chen [advisor: James W. Demmel]
Process Development and Device Design for Continued MOSFET Scaling
Nick Lindert [advisor: Chenming Hu]
Propositional Satisfiability Algorithms in EDA Applications
Mukul Ranjan Prasad [advisor: Robert K. Brayton]
Quantum Entanglement, Quantum Communication and the Limits of Quantum Computing
Andris Ambainis [advisor: Umesh V. Vazirani]
Quill: A Gesture Design Tool for Pen-Based User Interfaces
Allan C. Long, Jr. [advisor: James A. Landay]
Responsible Frameworks for Heterogeneous Modeling and Design of Embedded Systems
Jie Liu [advisor: Edward A. Lee]
Retiming and Resynthesis Approach for Soft Intellectual Property Integration in System-on-Chip Design
Abdallah Tabbara [advisor: A. Richard Newton]
RF CMOS Class C Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications
Ramakrishna S. Narayanaswami [advisor: Paul R. Gray]
Scalable Robust Wide-area Architecture for Unified Communications
Jiahe Helen Wang [advisor: Randy H. Katz]
Statistical Language Understanding Using Frame Semantics
Daniel J. Gildea [advisor: Nelson Morgan]
Statistical Models, Methods, and Algorithms for Computer-Aided Design for Manufacturing
Michael E. Orshansky [advisor: Chenming Hu]
Tapestry: An Efficient Mesh-based Display Representation for Interactive Rendering
Maryann Simmons [advisor: Carlo H. Séquin]
Turbo Recognition: An Approach to Decoding Page Layout
Taku Andrew Tokuyasu [advisor: Richard A. Fateman]
Wafer-Mounted Sensor Arrays for Plasma Etch Processes
Mason L. Freed [advisor: Costas J. Spanos and Kameshwar Poolla]