Ph.D. Dissertations - 2011
A Game Theoretical Approach to Communication Security
Assane Gueye [advisor: Jean Walrand]
A Methodology and Tool Support for the Design and Evaluation of Fault Tolerant, Distributed Embedded Systems
Mark Lee McKelvin Jr [advisor: Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli]
Advanced MOSFET Designs and Implications for SRAM Scaling
Changhwan Shin [advisor: Tsu-Jae King Liu]
Advanced Relay Design and Technology for Energy-Efficient Electronics
Jaeseok Jeon [advisor: Tsu-Jae King Liu]
Algorithms and Representations for Visual Recognition
Subhransu Maji [advisor: Jitendra Malik]
Algorithms for Human Genetics
Bonnie Kirkpatrick [advisor: Richard M. Karp]
Algorithms for Next-Generation High-Throughput Sequencing Technologies
Wei-Chun Kao [advisor: Yun S. Song]
Animating Viscoelastic Fluids
Tolga Gokce Goktekin [advisor: S. Shankar Sastry and James O'Brien]
Architectural Principles of Phosphorelay Signaling Networks
Josh Hug [advisor: Laurent El Ghaoui]
Automatic Design of Prosodic Features for Sentence Segmentation
James G Fung [advisor: Nelson Morgan]
Automatic Term-Level Abstraction
Bryan Brady [advisor: Sanjit A. Seshia]
Autonomous Ornithopter Flight with Sensor-Based Behavior
Stanley Seunghoon Baek [advisor: Ronald S. Fearing]
Bayesian Nonparametric Latent Feature Models
Kurt Miller [advisor: Michael Jordan]
Circuit Analysis in Metal-Optics, Theory and Applications
Matteo Staffaroni [advisor: Eli Yablonovitch]
Compensation for Lithography Induced Process Variations during Physical Design
Eric Chin [advisor: Andrew R. Neureuther]
Compilation Techniques for Embedded Data Parallel Languages
Bryan Catanzaro [advisor: Kurt Keutzer]
Compositional Design of Analog Systems Using Contracts
Xuening Sun [advisor: Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli]
Cooperative Interference Management in Wireless Networks
I-Hsiang Wang [advisor: David Tse]
Cryptographic Techniques for Privacy Preserving Identity
John Bethencourt [advisor: Dawn Song]
Data-driven Techniques for Improving Data Collection in Low-resource Environments
Kuang Chen [advisor: Joseph M. Hellerstein]
Data-Parallel Language for Correct and Efficient Sparse Matrix Codes
Gilad Arnold [advisor: Ras Bodik]
Declarative Systems
Tyson Condie [advisor: Joseph M. Hellerstein]
Design and Implementation of a Hypervisor-Based Platform for Dynamic Information Flow Tracking in a Distributed Environment
Andrey Ermolinskiy [advisor: Scott Shenker and Ion Stoica]
Design, Fabrication and Testing of Angled Fiber Suspension for Electrostatic Actuators
Bryan Edward Schubert [advisor: Ronald S. Fearing]
Electrical Detection of Spin-Dependent Transport in Silicon
Cheuk Chi Lo [advisor: Jeffrey Bokor]
Engineering Scalable Combinational Logic in Escherichia coli Using Zinc Finger Proteins
William J. Holtz [advisor: Jay D. Keasling and Michel Maharbiz]
Extracting and Querying Probabilistic Information in BayesStore
Daisy Zhe Wang [advisor: Joseph M. Hellerstein and Michael Franklin]
Fast Approximation Algorithms for Graph Partitioning using Spectral and Semidefinite-Programming Techniques
Lorenzo Orecchia [advisor: Satish Rao]
Feedback and Interference Alignment in Networks
Changho Suh [advisor: David Tse]
Finding Difficult Speakers in Automatic Speaker Recognition
Lara Lynn Stoll [advisor: Nelson Morgan]
From Ptides to PtidyOS, Designing Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems
Jia Zou [advisor: Edward A. Lee]
Hierarchical Methods for Optimal Long-Term Planning
Jason Wolfe [advisor: Stuart J. Russell]
High Contrast Grating VCSELs: Properties and Implementation on InP-based VCSELs
Christopher Chase [advisor: Constance Chang-Hasnain]
High-dimensional Principal Component Analysis
Arash Ali Amini [advisor: Martin Wainwright]
High-Q Low-Impedance MEMS Resonators
Li-Wen Hung [advisor: Clark Nguyen]
Improving CMOS Speed and Switching Power with Air-gap Structures
Jemin Park [advisor: Chenming Hu]
Incorporating Supervision for Visual Recognition and Segmentation
Alex Yu Jen Shyr [advisor: Michael Jordan]
Interdomain Multipath Routing
Igor Anatolyevich Ganichev [advisor: Scott Shenker]
Learned Factorization Models to Explain Variability in Natural Image Sequences
Benjamin Jackson Culpepper [advisor: Jitendra Malik and Bruno Olshausen]
Learning Dependency-Based Compositional Semantics
Percy Shuo Liang [advisor: Michael Jordan and Daniel Klein]
Light-induced Electrokinetics: A path to a versatile micro total analysis system
Justin K Valley [advisor: Ming C. Wu]
LO Generation and Distribution for 60GHz Phased Array Transceivers
Cristian Marcu [advisor: Ali Niknejad]
Mask Roughness Induced LER in EUV Lithography
Brittany Marie McClinton [advisor: David T. Attwood]
MEMS Lens Scanners for Free-Space Optical Interconnects
Jeffrey Chou [advisor: Ming C. Wu]
Model Order Reduction of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Chenjie Gu [advisor: Jaijeet Roychowdhury]
Nanoscale SRAM Variability and Optimization
Seng Oon Toh [advisor: Borivoje Nikolic]
Non-Local Correlations and Interactive Games
Daniel Ciprian Preda [advisor: Umesh Vazirani]
Nonparametric Hierarchical Bayesian Models of Categorization
Kevin Canini [advisor: Stuart J. Russell]
On Quantum Search, Experts and Geometry
Milosh Drezgich [advisor: S. Shankar Sastry]
Parallelism, Patterns, and Performance in Iterative MRI Reconstruction
Mark Murphy [advisor: Kurt Keutzer and Michael Lustig]
Perceptually Based Tone Mapping for Low-Light Conditions
Adam Garnet Kirk [advisor: James O'Brien]
PhD Dissertation: Compact Models for Future Generation CMOS
Darsen Lu [advisor: Chenming Hu]
Photopatterned polyacrylamide gels enable efficient microfluidic protein assays
Chenlu Hou [advisor: Ming C. Wu and Amy E. Herr]
Poselets and Their Applications in High-Level Computer Vision
Lubomir Bourdev [advisor: Jitendra Malik]
Power-efficient Design of Multi-Gpbs Wireless Baseband
Ji-Hoon Park [advisor: Borivoje Nikolic]
Powering mm-Size Wireless Implants for Brain-Machine Interfaces
Michael Mark [advisor: Jan M. Rabaey]
Replay Debugging for the Datacenter
Gautam Altekar [advisor: Ion Stoica]
Routing Along DAGs
Junda Liu [advisor: Scott Shenker]
Scaling of Inkjet-Printed Transistors using Novel Printing Techniques
Huai-Yuan Tseng [advisor: Vivek Subramanian]
Sequential Decision Making in Non-stochastic Environments
Jacob Abernethy [advisor: Peter Bartlett]
Solution-Processed Inorganic Electronics
Teymur T Bakhishev [advisor: Vivek Subramanian]
Sparse Principal Component Analysis: Algorithms and Applications
Youwei Zhang [advisor: Laurent El Ghaoui]
Sparsity Pattern Recovery in Compressed Sensing
Galen Reeves [advisor: Michael Gastpar]
Statistical Verification and Optimization of Integrated Circuits
Yu Ben [advisor: Costas J. Spanos]
Structural and Algorithmic Properties of Static and Mobile Random Geometric Graphs
Alexandre Stauffer [advisor: Alistair Sinclair]
Superposition and Synthetic Genetic Devices: Framework and Model System to Investigate Linearity in Escherichia coli
Meghdad Hajimorad [advisor: Paul R. Gray and Jay D. Keasling]
Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converter: Superior where the Buck Converter has Dominated
Vincent Wai-Shan Ng [advisor: Seth R. Sanders]
The Complexity of Entangled Games
Thomas Vidick [advisor: Umesh Vazirani]
The Elements of Automatic Summarization
Daniel Jacob Gillick [advisor: Nelson Morgan]
The impact of causality on information-theoretic source and channel coding problems
Harikrishna R Palaiyanur [advisor: Anant Sahai]
The Path of the Blind Watchmaker: A Model of Evolution
Andrew Anthony Poggio [advisor: David A. Patterson]
Time-Domain Ultra-Wideband Synthetic Imager in Silicon
Amin Arbabian [advisor: Ali Niknejad]
Towards a Synthesizable Standard-Cell Radio
Richard Yu-Kuwan Su [advisor: Kristofer Pister]
Towards Automated System Synthesis Using SCIDUCTION
Susmit Kumar Jha [advisor: Sanjit A. Seshia]
Transistor-Based Ge/SOI Photodetector for Integrated Silicon Photonics
Xi Luo [advisor: Eli Yablonovitch]
Uncertainty Propagation in Transistor-level Statistical Circuit Analysis
Qian Ying Tang [advisor: Costas J. Spanos]
Understanding Inkjet Printed Pattern Generation
Daniel Benjamin Soltman [advisor: Vivek Subramanian and Stephen J. Morris]