Division of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Science (EECS): Recent submissions
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Information Rates over Point-to-Point and Multi-user Wireless Channels with Energy and Delay Constraints
In this thesis, we consider communication systems having energy, delay and reliability constraints. We characterize optimal communication rates achievable over these systems. First we consider point-to-point communication ... -
A Context-Aware Neural Approach for Explainable Citation Link Prediction
Citations have become an integral part of scientific publications. They play a crucial role in supporting authors’ claims throughout a scientific paper. However, citing related work is a challenging and laborious task, ... -
Device-Circuit Reliability Co-Design in High voltage and Power devices
For the last four decades, silicon CMOS technology has captured a significant share in IC, smart power IC, SoC, and the power device market. But there is aggressive research on other materials such as graphene & similar ... -
A Novel Passive Regenerative Snubber for the Phase-Shifted Full-Bridge Converter: Analysis, Design and Experimental Verification
The development of Wide Bandgap (WBG) devices has enabled power electronic converters to operate at much higher frequencies, voltages and high power. Working at a higher switching frequency minimises the size of magnetics ... -
Atomic-level Investigation and Proposals to Address Technological Roadblocks and Reliability Challenges in 2D Material Based Nanoelectronic Devices
The transistor scaling is witness to many extraordinary inventions during its consecutive miniaturization. The journey began from Dennard’s classical constant field scaling, crossing through the milestones like strain ... -
Scheduling Algorithms for Wireless Networks and Cloud Computing Platforms
This thesis focuses on designing scheduling algorithms for wireless communication networks, FMCW radar networks, and cloud computing platforms. In each case, the algorithms aim at efficient utilization of resources, e.g., ... -
Generalizing Cross-domain Retrieval Algorithms
Cross-domain retrieval is an important research topic due to its wide range of applications in e-commerce, forensics etc. It addresses the data retrieval problem from a search set, when the query belongs to one domain, and ... -
Achieving practical secure non-volatile memory system with in-Memory Integrity Verification (iMIV)
Recent commercialization of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technology in the form of Intel Optane enables programmers to write recoverable programs. However, the data on NVM is susceptible to a plethora of data remanence attacks, ... -
Opportunistic Beamforming and Asymptotic Throughput Analysis of Hybrid Analog-Digital mmWave Multi-User MIMO Systems
In this thesis, we address the problem of large training/feedback overhead and the requirement of computationally intensive algorithms to determine the phase angles of the analog precoder for downlink data transmission ... -
Efficient Resource Allocation for Underlay Device-to-device Communication Networks with Limited Channel State Information
Device-to-device (D2D) communication is finding applications in future wireless networks such as vehicular networks and internet-of-things. It offloads traffic from the base station (BS), improves energy efficiency, and ... -
An Evaluation of Basic Protection Mechanisms in Financial Apps on Mobile Devices
This thesis concerns the robustness of security checks in financial mobile applications (or simply financial apps). The best practices recommended by OWASP for developing such apps demand that developers include several ... -
Physics-based Approach For Efficient & Reliable Enhancement-mode AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) Technology
Power semiconductor devices have been the key to growth of power electronics market, and cover application areas ranging from mobile stations (commercial) to missile seekers (military). Continuously increasing demand for ... -
High-Throughput Computational Techniques for Discovery of Application-Specific Two-Dimensional Materials
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have revolutionized the field of materials science since the successful exfoliation of graphene in 2004. Consequently, the advances in computational science have resulted in massive generic ... -
Charge Density Wave-driven Carrier Transport in Layered Heterostructures
Metal-based electronics remain one of the longstanding goals of researchers to achieve ultra-fast and radiation-hard electronic circuits. Generally, metals are primarily used as passive conductors in modern electronics and ... -
Model-based Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning and Empirical Analysis of Safety via Attribution
During initial iterations of training in most Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms, agents perform a significant number of random exploratory steps, which in the real-world limit the practicality of these algorithms ... -
On symmetries of and equivalence tests for two polynomial families and a circuit class
Two polynomials f, g ∈ F[x1, . . . , xn] over a field F are said to be equivalent if there exists an n×n invertible matrix A over F such that g = f(Ax), where x = (x1 · · · xn)T . The equivalence test (in short, ET) for ... -
Neural Approaches for Natural Language Query Answering over Source Code
During software development, developers need to ensure that the developed code is bug-free and the best coding practices are followed during the code development process. To guarantee this, the developers require answers ... -
Service scheduling with Service, Waiting and Dissatisfaction costs
Service or job scheduling problems arise in many contexts such as cloud computing, task scheduling in CPUs, traffic routing and scheduling, production scheduling in plants, scheduling charging of electric vehicles (EVs), ... -
Design, Fabrication and Characterization of ZnO based Thin Film Schottky Diodes and Transistors
The thesis focuses on the development of thin film Schottky diodes and thin film transistors (TFTs) based on ZnO. ZnO has been recognized as a promising candidates for the next generation of transparent and flexible ... -
Recovery Algorithms for planted structures in Semi-random models
For many NP-hard problems, the analysis of best-known approximation algorithms yields “poor” worst-case guarantees. However, using various heuristics, the problems can be solved (to some extent) in real-life instances. ...