Ph.D. Dissertations - 2008
A Baseband Mixed-Signal Receiver Front-End for 1Gbps Wireless Communications at 60GHz
David Amory Sobel [advisor: Robert W. Brodersen]
A Hierarchical Coordination Language for Reliable Real-Time Tasks
Arkadeb Ghosal [advisor: Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and Thomas A. Henzinger]
A Platform-Based Approach to Communication Synthesis for Embedded Systems
Alessandro Pinto [advisor: Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli]
Advanced Structures and New Detection Methods for Future High Density Non-volatile Memory Technologies
Alvaro Padilla [advisor: Tsu-Jae King Liu]
Attacks and Defenses of Ubiquitous Sensor Networks
Tanya Gazelle Roosta [advisor: S. Shankar Sastry]
Compositionality in Deterministic Real-Time Embedded Systems
Slobodan Matic [advisor: Edward A. Lee and Thomas A. Henzinger]
Data Compression for Maskless Lithography Systems: Architecture, Algorithms and Implementation
Vito Dai [advisor: Avideh Zakhor]
Device and Circuit Techniques for Reducing Variation in Nanoscale SRAM
Andrew Evert Carlson [advisor: Tsu-Jae King Liu]
Digitally Calibrated Analog-to-Digital Converters in Deep Sub-micron CMOS
Cheongyuen (Bill) Tsang [advisor: Borivoje Nikolic]
Efficient Programming of Reconfigurable Hardware through Direct Verification
Kevin Brandon Camera [advisor: Robert W. Brodersen]
Evaluating the Security of Machine Learning Algorithms
Marco Antonio Barreno [advisor: Doug Tygar]
Improving Distributed Application Reliability with End-to-End Datapath Tracing
George Porter [advisor: Randy H. Katz]
Low-complexity Vector Microprocessor Extensions
Joseph James Gebis [advisor: David A. Patterson]
Nano-Electromechanical Optoelectronic Tunable Lasers
Michael Chung-Yi Huang [advisor: Constance Chang-Hasnain]
Nanoscale CMOS Modeling
Mohan Vamsi Dunga [advisor: Ali Niknejad]
Nanoscale organic electronics: Experimental and theoretical studies on alkyl thiophene and rotaxane
Kin-Yip Phoa and Vivek Subramanian [advisor: Vivek Subramanian]
Optimization and Reconstruction over Graphs
Samantha J. Riesenfeld [advisor: Richard M. Karp]
Partial Evaluation for Optimized Compilation of Actor-Oriented Models
Gang Zhou [advisor: Edward A. Lee]
PIER: Internet Scale P2P Query Processing with Distributed Hash Tables
Ryan Jay Huebsch [advisor: Joseph M. Hellerstein]
Redesign of the Micromechanical Flying Insect in a Power Density Context
Erik Edward Steltz [advisor: Ronald S. Fearing]
Security Inference from Noisy Data
Li Zhuang [advisor: Doug Tygar]
Sequential Optimization for Low Power Digital Design
Aaron P. Hurst [advisor: Robert K. Brayton]
Single and Multi-CPU Performance Modeling for Embedded Systems
Trevor Conrad Meyerowitz [advisor: Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli]
Slow and Fast Light in Semiconductors
Forrest G. Sedgwick [advisor: Constance Chang-Hasnain]
Towards Silicon Nanowire Based Resonant Systems
Noel Arellano [advisor: Roger T. Howe and Jeffrey Bokor]
Ultra-Low Power Wake-Up Receivers for Wireless Sensor Networks
Nathan Pletcher and Jan M. Rabaey [advisor: Jan M. Rabaey]
Visually Dependent Nonverbal Cues and Video Communication
David Tong Nguyen [advisor: John F. Canny]