Browsing Division of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Science (EECS) by thesis submitted date"2024"
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Advancing the Communication Complexity Landscape of Perfectly Secure Multiparty Computation
Secure multiparty computation (MPC) allows n distrustful parties to jointly compute a function on their inputs while keeping their inputs private. The distrust is modelled as an adversary that controls up to t parties and ... -
Analysis, Design, and Acceleration of DNN Training Preprocessing Pipelines
The performance of deep neural network (DNN) training is a function of both the training compute latency and the latency to fetch and preprocess the input data needed to train the model. With advance- ments in GPUs and ... -
Ankora: Notions of Multi-party Computation and Zero-knowledge Beyond Conventional Models
In the era of digitalization, data privacy and integrity are of utmost importance. Secure multiparty computation (MPC) and zero-knowledge (ZK) facilitate data privacy and integrity. MPC enables privacy-preserving collaborative ... -
Automatic Speech Recognition Solutions For Resource Constrained Devices
The current realm of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, pivotal in applications ranging from voice assistants to transcription services and assistive technologies, requires an improvement when confronted with ... -
Bandit Algorithms: Fairness, Welfare, and Applications in Causal Inference
We study regret in online learning from a welfarist perspective and explore an application of bandit algorithms in causal inference. We introduce Nash regret, which measures the difference between the optimal action ... -
Barrier Function Inspired Reward Shaping in Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has progressed from simple control tasks to complex real-world challenges with large state spaces. During initial iterations of training in most Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms, agents ... -
Coding Schemes and Converse Bounds for Secure, Multi-Access, and Multi-Antenna Coded Caching Problems
With rapid advancements in technology, there is an increase in the adoption of data-hungry applications, especially entertainment services like on-demand music and video streaming and download. The high temporal variability ... -
Decentralized information flow control for the robot operating system
The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a popular open-source middleware widely used in the robotics community. While ROS provides extensive support for robotic application develop- ment, it lacks certain fundamental security ... -
Delivery Strategies for Dynamic Contents in Edge Caching Systems
In today's digital age, multimedia consumption is pervasive, driven by video-on-demand platforms, online social networks, and sensor networks. Whether it is the latest blockbuster movie on a streaming service or real-time ... -
Design and Development of Optical Modality-based Probe for Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Breast Cancer is the leading cause of mortality among women worldwide. The key to efficiently controlling cancer on a larger scale is effective diagnosis at an early stage by distinguishing the vital signatures of the ... -
Design and Optimization of Cell-Free Systems: Channel Estimation, Duplexing Scheme, and Synchronization
Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems, where multiple access points (APs) jointly and coherently serve a large number of user-equipments (UEs) in a geographical area, offer multi-fold improvement ... -
Design of Placement Delivery Arrays for Shared Cache and Multi-antenna Coded Caching Problems
Caching has been considered as a promising technique to handle the exponential growth of wireless data traffic. The caches distributed across the network are utilized to shift some of the peak-hour traffic to off-peak ... -
Developing Experimental Approaches to Gain Physical Insights into High Electric Field and Hot Electron Reliability of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
Next-generation power conversion systems, designed to achieve environmental and economic sustainability, are required to be efficient and smaller in size. Advances in silicon-based power devices, which are the major driving ... -
Development of an Intraoperative Probe for Brain Tumour Delineation Combining Multimodal Tissue Characterization and Soft-Robotics
Accurate identification of surgical margins in brain tumors is of significant prognostic importance. Despite the availability of 5-ALA and image guidance methods, recognizing tumor boundaries is highly subjective, dependent ... -
Development of High Throughput Intelligent Indoor Optical Wireless Communication Systems
The proliferation of mobile devices in indoor environments has led to insatiable demand for high-speed, high-bandwidth data connectivity. Optical wireless communication (OWC) is seen as a promising technology capable of ... -
Development of Pulsed Power Systems and Tooling Coils for Electromagnetic Manufacturing Applications
Electromagnetic pulse manufacturing is an emerging non-conventional manufacturing technique used for the forming of workpieces at very high strain rates. The manufacturing assembly consists of the tooling coil (or actuator), ... -
Dictionary Based Channel Estimation and Precoding Techniques for Massive MIMO Wireless Communication Systems
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems constitute a promising enabling technique for 5G/6G cellular networks as a benefit of their substantial spatial multiplexing gain in both time division duplex (TDD) and ... -
Dual-Polarized Multi-Frequency Phased Antenna Array with Suppressed Higher Order Modes
5G base stations operating in sub-6 GHz frequencies typically utilize full-dimensional or 3D beamforming with precise steering, using electronically scanned phased array antennas (PAA). Additionally, Radar systems for ... -
Electronic Devices using Low-Dimensional van der Waals Materials and Their Heterojunctions
As the state of the art in computation, communication and sensing advances, there is an ever-increasing search for novel materials and device architectures to satisfy the growing demands for more functionality, performance, ... -
Estimation of flashovers in the EHV/UHV lines on the east coast due to lightning produced by the Bay of Bengal cyclones
Electric Power is imperative for the modern world. The quality and reliability of the power supply can be impaired by several factors. Lightning is one such natural threat that disrupts the continuity of supply and can ...