Ph.D. Dissertations - 2009
A Design Methodology for Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converters
Michael Douglas Seeman [advisor: Seth R. Sanders]
A Multi-Tier Network Architecture for Long Distance Rural Wireless Networks in Developing Regions
Rabin Krushnachandra Patra [advisor: Eric Brewer]
A Practical Theory of Micro-Solar Power Sensor Networks
Jaein Jeong [advisor: David E. Culler]
A System-level Approach to Fault and Variation Resilience in Multi-core Die
Yury Markovskiy [advisor: John Wawrzynek]
Analysis and Optimization of Monolithic RF Downconversion Receivers
Christopher D. Hull [advisor: Robert G. Meyer]
Analysis of Goal-directed Human Actions using Optimal Control Models
Sumitra Ganesh [advisor: Ruzena Bajcsy]
Architectural Synthesis Techniques for Distributed Automotive System
Wei Zheng [advisor: Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli]
Building and Optimizing Declarative Networked Systems
David Chiyuan Chu [advisor: Joseph M. Hellerstein]
Circuit Symmetries in Synthesis and Verification
Donald Chai [advisor: Andreas Kuehlmann]
Coarse-to-Fine Natural Language Processing
Slav Orlinov Petrov [advisor: Daniel Klein]
Communication and Third Parties: Costs, Cues, and Confidentiality
Krish Eswaran [advisor: Kannan Ramchandran and Michael Gastpar]
Compile Time Task and Resource Allocation of Concurrent Applications to Multiprocessor Systems
Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish [advisor: Kurt Keutzer]
Complex Program Transformations Via Simple Online Dynamic Analyses
Ajeet Ganesh Shankar [advisor: Ras Bodik]
Constructing grammar: A computational model of the emergence of early constructions
Nancy Chih-Lin Chang [advisor: Jerome A. Feldman]
Contextual Bootstrapping for Grammar Learning
Eva H. Mok [advisor: Jerome A. Feldman]
Contour Detection and Image Segmentation
Michael Randolph Maire [advisor: Jitendra Malik]
Design and Modeling of 60-GHz CMOS Integrated Circuits
Chinh Huy Doan [advisor: Robert W. Brodersen]
Design of LDPC Decoders for Improved Low Error Rate Performance
Zhengya Zhang [advisor: Borivoje Nikolic]
Designing Distributed Systems for Heterogeneity
Philip Brighten Godfrey [advisor: Ion Stoica]
Designs of Broadband Highly Linear CMOS LNAs for Multiradio Multimode Applications
Wei-Hung Chen [advisor: Ali Niknejad]
Downconverting Sigma-Delta A/D Converter for a Reconfigurable RF Receiver
Renaldi Winoto and Borivoje Nikolic [advisor: Borivoje Nikolic]
Dynamic Scenes and Camera Networks
Marci Lenore Meingast [advisor: S. Shankar Sastry]
Dynamic Test Generation for Large Binary Programs
David Alexander Molnar [advisor: David Wagner]
Efficient Motor Control Learning
Gregory Donnell Lawrence [advisor: Stuart J. Russell]
Energy Efficient Wireless Transmitters: Polar and Direct-Digital Modulation Architectures
Jason Thaine Stauth and Seth R. Sanders [advisor: Seth R. Sanders]
Exploring a Centralized/Distributed Hybrid Routing Protocol for Low Power Wireless Networks and Large Scale Datacenters
Arsalan Tavakoli [advisor: Scott Shenker]
Growth and Characterization of III-V Nanowires and Nanoneedles
Michael James Moewe [advisor: Constance Chang-Hasnain]
Human Factors in Web Authentication
Chris K. Karlof [advisor: David Wagner and Doug Tygar]
In-Situ, Portable Monitoring Methods for Photolithography Characterization
Jing Xue [advisor: Costas J. Spanos]
Interfaces and Junctions in Nanoscale Bottom-Up Semiconductor Devices
Yu-Chih Tseng [advisor: Jeffrey Bokor]
Internet Routing and Internet Service Provision
Henry Lin [advisor: Christos Papadimitriou and Satish Rao]
LNA and Mixer Designs for Multi-Band Receiver Front-Ends
Nuntachai Poobuapheun [advisor: Ali Niknejad]
Maximizing Performance in Long Distance Wireless Networks for Developing Regions
Sergiu Nedevschi [advisor: Eric Brewer]
Measuring Empirical Computational Complexity
Simon Fredrick Goldsmith [advisor: Alexander Aiken]
Millimeter - Wave CMOS Power Amplifiers Design
Mounir Youssef Bohsali [advisor: Ali Niknejad]
Model Transformation with Hierarchical Discrete-Event Control
Thomas Huining Feng [advisor: Edward A. Lee]
Occlusions in Camera Networks and Vision: The Bridge between Topological Recovery and Metric Reconstruction
Edgar J. Lobaton [advisor: S. Shankar Sastry]
On Invariants to Characterize the State Space for Sequential Logic Synthesis and Formal Verification
Mike Case [advisor: Robert K. Brayton]
On the Design of Concurrent, Distributed Real-Time Systems
Yang Zhao [advisor: Edward A. Lee]
On the Use of Context in Network Intrusion Detection Systems
Jayanth Kumar Kannan [advisor: Ion Stoica]
Optimization and Incentives in Communication Networks
Libin Jiang [advisor: Venkat Anantharam and Jean Walrand]
Packet Classification as a Fundamental Network Primitive
Dilip Antony Joseph [advisor: Ion Stoica]
Practical Fault Tolerance for Quantum Circuits
Mark Whitney [advisor: John D. Kubiatowicz]
Querying Uncertain Data in Resource Constrained Settings
Alexandra Meliou [advisor: Joseph M. Hellerstein]
RF Ranging for Location Awareness
Steven Michael Lanzisera and Kristofer Pister [advisor: Kristofer Pister]
Signal processing meets computer vision: Overcoming challenges in wireless camera networks
Chuohao Yeo [advisor: Kannan Ramchandran]
SIlicon Photonic Devices for Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits
Ming-Chun Tien [advisor: Ming C. Wu]
Sparse Coding Models of Natural Images: Algorithms for Efficient Inference and Learning of Higher-Order Structure
Pierre Jerome Garrigues [advisor: Laurent El Ghaoui and Bruno Olshausen]
Structured Tracking for Safety, Security, and Privacy: Algorithms for Fusing Noisy Estimates from Sensor, Robot, and Camera Networks
Jeremy Ryan Schiff [advisor: Ken Goldberg]
Thin Film Formation of a Solution Processed Pentacene
Daniel C Huang [advisor: Vivek Subramanian]
Wireless Sensor Network Metrics for Real-Time Systems
Phoebus Wei-Chih Chen [advisor: S. Shankar Sastry]