Name: Hossein Tajik Date: November 15, 2016 Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM Location: DBH 3011 Conference Room Committee: Nikil Dutt (Chair), Tony Givargis, Alex Nicolau Abstract: With the increasing number of cores on a chip, we are moving towards an era where many-core platforms will soon be ubiquitous. Efficient use of tens to hundreds of cores on […]
Name: Rana A. Abdelaal Date: January 30, 2017 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Engineering Hall 3106 Committee: Professor Ahmed Eltawil Abstract: Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) technology has seen prolific use to achieve higher data rates and an improved communication experience for cellular systems. However, one of the challenging problems in MIMO systems is interference. Interference limits the […]
Name: Brett Chien Date: November 29, 2016 Time: 10:00AM Location: EH 2210 Committee: Pai H. Chou (Chair) Abstract: While Internet-Of-Things (IoT) has drawn more attention to researchers and the public, to build a complete system from the edge sensing units to the cloud services requires massive amount of efforts. Researchers with strong interests in collected information are […]
Name: Hung Nguyen Date: November 17, 2016 Time: 1:30 P.M. Location: EH 3206 Committee: Fadi Kurdahi (Chair), Aditi Majumder (Co-Chair) Abstract: We explore and develop an embedded real time system and associated algorithms that enable an aggregation of limited resource, low-quality, projection-enabled mobile devices to collaboratively produce a higher quality video stream for a superior viewing […]
Name: Ahmed Nassar Date: September 2, 2016 Time: 12:00 P.M. Location: EH 3403 Committee: Fadi Kurdahi (Chair), Rainer Doemer, Ahmed Eltawil Abstract: Post-Deployment runtime verification (RV) has recently emerged as a complementary technology to extend coverage of conventional software verification and testing methods. This thesis is an attempt to tackle three major barriers that need […]
Name: Aras Pirbadian Date: August 29, 2016 Time: 3:30pm Location: EH 3403 Committee: Ahmed Eltawil (Chair), Fadi Kurdahi, Rainer Doemer With the continued scaling of chip manufacturing technologies, the significance of process variation in performance of the systems is increasing. Specifically, process variation results in growing voltage and frequency overhead margins required to ensure error […]
Name: Zhenqiu Huang Date: July 29, 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: EH 4106 Committee: Kwei-Jay Lin (Chair), Fadi Kurdahi, Mohammad Al Faruque Abstract: This thesis studies the issues on building and managing future Internet of Things (IoT) systems. IoT systems consist of distributed components with services for sensing, processing, and controlling through devices deployed in our […]
Name: Jun Luan Location: EH 4106 Date: February 24, 2016 Time: 1:00pm Committee: Pai Chou (Chair), Mohammad Al Faruque, Fadi Kurdahi Abstract: Medical sensing systems collect and analyze the patients’ physiological data for monitoring, aid or diagnostic purposes. System designers are faced with stringent requirements on not only correctness and safety but also power. Reference […]
Name: SeungJae Lee Date: April, 5, 2016 Time: 3:00p.m. Location: EH 4106 Committee: Pai H. Chou (Chair), Fadi Kurdahi, Tony Givargis Abstract: Wearable embedded systems with sensing, communication, and computing capabilities have given rise to innovations in e-health and telemedicine in general. The scope of such systems ranges from devices and mobile apps to cloud […]
Name: Chengjia Huo Location: EH 4404 Date: September 30, 2015 Time: 1pm Committee: Pai H. Chou (chair), Phillip Sheu, Rainer Doemer Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) has been receiving growing attention in recent years as the next wave of computing revolution made possible by all types of networks of things (NoTs), where devices powered […]
Name: Ting-Shuo Chou Date: May 21, 2015 Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm Location: Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway 2200 Conference Room Committee Chair: Jeffrey Krichmar (Chair), Nikil Dutt, Alexandru Nicolau Abstract: Neurodevelopmental disorders, such as Attention-Deficit–Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), have core clinical symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity (often hyper- and hypo- […]
Name: Volkan Gunes Date: May 27, 2015 Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM Location: Donald Bren Hall 3013 Conference Room Committee: Tony Givargis (Chair), Alexandru Nicolau, Ian Harris, Steffen Peter Abstract: The cyber-physical system (CPS) is a term describing a broad range of complex, multi-disciplinary, physically-aware next generation engineered systems that integrate embedded computing technologies (cyber part) […]