Division of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Science (EECS): Recent submissions
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Design and Analysis of Consistent Algorithms for Multiclass Learning Problems
(2018-08-14)We consider the broad framework of supervised learning, where one gets examples of objects together with some labels (such as tissue samples labeled as cancerous or non-cancerous, or images of handwritten digits labeled ... -
Effective Characterization of Sequence Data through Frequent Episodes
(2018-08-14)Pattern discovery is an important area of data mining referring to a class of techniques designed for the extraction of interesting patterns from the data. A pattern is some kind of a local structure that captures correlations ... -
Antiresonance and Noise Suppression Techniques for Digital Power Distribution Networks
(2018-08-14)Power distribution network (PDN) design was a non-existent entity during the early days of microprocessors due to the low frequency of operation. Once the switching frequencies of the microprocessors started moving towards ... -
Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning - Algorithms, Analysis and an Application
(2018-08-13)Problems involving optimal sequential making in uncertain dynamic systems arise in domains such as engineering, science and economics. Such problems can often be cast in the framework of Markov Decision Process (MDP). ... -
Experience Mapping based Prediction Controller
(2018-08-13)A novel controller termed as Experience Mapping based Prediction Controller (EMPC) is developed in this work. EMPC is developed utilizing the broad control concepts of human motor control (HMC). The concepts of HMC are ... -
Experimental Studies on Acoustic Noise Emitted by Induction Motor Drives Operated with Different Pulse-Width Modulation Schemes
(2018-08-13)Voltage source inverter (VSI) fed induction motors are increasingly used in industrial and transportation applications as variable speed drives. However, VSIs generate non-sinusoidal voltages and hence result in harmonic ... -
Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Dense Linear Algebra Computations
(2018-08-13)Achieving high computation efficiency, in terms of Cycles per Instruction (CPI), for high-performance computing kernels is an interesting and challenging research area. Dense Linear Algebra (DLA) computation is a representative ... -
Modeling and Analysis of Grid Connected Variable Speed Wind Generators
(2018-08-13)The growing demand for power and increased environmental concerns gave an impetus to the growth of clean and renewable energy sources like wind, solar etc. There is a remarkable increase in the penetration of wind energy ... -
Efficient Transceiver Techniques for Massive MIMO and Large-Scale GSM-MIMO Systems
(2018-08-13)Multi-antenna wireless communication systems that employ a large number of antennas have recently stirred a lot of research interest. This is mainly due to the possibility of achieving very high spectral efficiency, power ... -
Integrated CM Filter for Single-Phase and Three-Phase PWM Rectifiers
(2018-08-11)The use of insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)-based power converters is increasing exponentially. This is due to high performance of these devices in terms of efficiency and switching speed. However, due to the ... -
Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Low Voltage Capacitive RF MEMS Switches
(2018-08-11)This dissertation presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of low-voltage capacitive RF MEMS switches. Although, RF MEMS switches have shown superior performance as compared to the existing solid-state ... -
Incentive Strategies and Algorithms for Networks, Crowds and Markets
(2018-08-02)This work is motivated by several modern applications involving social networks, crowds, and markets. Our work focuses on the theme of designing effective incentive strategies for these applications. Viral marketing is ... -
Trajectory-based Descriptors for Action Recognition in Real-world Videos
(2018-07-30)This thesis explores motion trajectory-based approaches to recognize human actions in real-world, unconstrained videos. Recognizing actions is an important task in applications such as video retrieval, surveillance, ... -
Design, Analysis and Development of Sensor Coil for Fiber Optics Gyroscope
(2018-07-30)Interferometer Fiber Optic Gyroscope (IFOG) has established as critical sensor for advance navigation systems. Sensor coil is known to be heart of IFOG. The bias drift and scale factor performance of IFOG depend on the ... -
Integrated Parallel Simulations and Visualization for Large-Scale Weather Applications
(2018-07-28)The emergence of the exascale era necessitates development of new techniques to efficiently perform high-performance scientific simulations, online data analysis and on-the-fly visualization. Critical applications like ... -
Algorithms For Spatial Modulation Systems
(2018-07-28)It is well known that multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver are imperative for reliable and high data-rate communication over wireless channels. However, these systems essentially need multiple radio frequency ... -
Checking Compatability of Programs on Shared Data
(2018-07-28)A large software system is built by composing multiple programs, possibly developed independently. The component programs communicate by sharing data. Data sharing involves creation of instances of the shared data by one ... -
A Static Slicing Tool for Sequential Java Programs
(2018-07-28)A program slice consists of a subset of the statements of a program that can potentially affect values computed at some point of interest. Such a point of interest along with a set of variables is called a slicing criterion. ... -
Efficient Instrumentation for Object Flow Profiling
(2018-07-20)Profiling techniques to detect performance bugs in applications are usually customized to detect a specific bug pattern and involve significant engineering effort. In spite of this effort, many techniques either suffer from ... -
A Memory Allocation Framework for Optimizing Power Consumption and Controlling Fragmentation
(2018-07-20)Large physical memory modules are necessary to meet performance demands of today's ap- plications but can be a major bottleneck in terms of power consumption during idle periods or when systems are running with workloads ...