Electrical Engineering
      and Computer Sciences

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

UC Berkeley

   

Ph.D. Dissertations - 2013

A hybrid approach of physical laws and data-driven modeling for estimation: the example of queuing networks
Aude Hofleitner [advisor: Alexandre Bayen and Pieter Abbeel]

A study of some problems in network information theory
Sudeep Kamath [advisor: David Tse and Venkat Anantharam]

A Warping Framework for Wide-Angle Imaging and Perspective Manipulation
Robert Carroll [advisor: Maneesh Agrawala]

Advanced Architectures for Efficient mm-Wave CMOS Wireless Transmitters
JiaShu Chen [advisor: Ali Niknejad]

Aircraft Design Optimization as a Geometric Program
Warren Hoburg [advisor: Pieter Abbeel]

Application of Inkjet-Printing Technology to Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
Eung Seok Park [advisor: Tsu-Jae King Liu and Vivek Subramanian]

Automatic Mapping of Real Time Radio Astronomy Signal Processing Pipelines onto Heterogeneous Clusters
Terry Esther Filiba [advisor: John Wawrzynek]

Avoiding Communication in Dense Linear Algebra
Grey Ballard [advisor: James Demmel]

Control and Optimization of Power Systems with Renewables: Voltage Regulation and Generator Dispatch
Baosen Zhang [advisor: David Tse]

Design and Analysis of Digitally Modulated Transmitters for Efficiency Enhancement
Lu Ye [advisor: Ali Niknejad]

Design Techniques for Fully Integrated Switched-Capacitor Voltage Regulators
Hanh-Phuc Le [advisor: Seth R. Sanders and Elad Alon]

Design Techniques for Robust and Reliable Ultra-Low Power Radios
Jesse Aaron Richmond [advisor: Jan M. Rabaey]

Economics and Computation: Ad Auctions and Other Stories
Christopher Wilkens [advisor: Christos Papadimitriou]

Eliciting Private Information from Selfish Agents
Rafael Frongillo [advisor: Christos Papadimitriou]

Energy Efficient Digital Logic Using Nanoscale Magnetic Devices
Brian Lambson [advisor: Jeffrey Bokor]

Hardness of Maximum Constraint Satisfaction
Siu On Chan [advisor: Elchanan Mossel]

Helping Developers Construct Secure Mobile Applications
Erika Chin [advisor: David Wagner]

Hybrid Aerial and Terrestrial Locomotion, and Implications for Avian Flight Evolution
Kevin Peterson [advisor: Ronald S. Fearing]

Learning from Subsampled Data: Active and Randomized Strategies
Fabian Wauthier [advisor: Michael Jordan]

Low Power, Scalable Platforms for Implantable Neural Recording
Rikky Muller [advisor: Jan M. Rabaey]

Low-Complexity Message-Passing Algorithms for Distributed Computation
Nima Noorshams [advisor: Martin Wainwright]

Low-Dimensional Models for PCA and Regression
Dapo Omidiran [advisor: Laurent El Ghaoui]

Material Science and Device Physics of
Rehan Kapadia [advisor: Ali Javey]

Minimally Actuated Dynamic Climbing in the Sagittal Plane
Paul Birkmeyer [advisor: Ronald S. Fearing]

Modularity Conserved during Evolution: Algorithms and Analysis
Luqman Hodgkinson [advisor: Richard M. Karp]

Nanodiamond Imaging: a New Molecular Imaging Approach
Alex Hegyi [advisor: Eli Yablonovitch]

Novel Technologies for Next Generation Memory
WookHyun Kwon [advisor: Tsu-Jae King Liu]

Pebble Games and Complexity
Siu Man Chan [advisor: Elchanan Mossel]

Reflective Impulse Radios: Principles and Design
Yuhui David Chen [advisor: Jan M. Rabaey]

Scalable Statistical Methods for Ancestral Inference from Genomic Variation Data
Andrew Chan [advisor: Yun S. Song]

Scale-Independent Relational Query Processing
Michael Armbrust [advisor: David A. Patterson and Armando Fox]

Schedulability Analysis and Verification of Real-Time Discrete-Event Systems
Christos Stergiou [advisor: Edward A. Lee and Koushik Sen]

Shapes, Paint, and Light
Jonathan Barron [advisor: Jitendra Malik]

Speaker Diarization: Current Limitations and New Directions
Mary Tai Knox [advisor: Nelson Morgan]

Speech-enabled Systems for Language Learning
Anuj Tewari [advisor: John F. Canny]

Spontaneous Emission Rate Enhancement Using Optical Antennas
Nikhil Kumar [advisor: Eli Yablonovitch]

Surface Web Semantics for Structured Natural Language Processing
Mohit Bansal [advisor: Daniel Klein]

The Complexity of Optimal Auction Design
George Pierrakos [advisor: Christos Papadimitriou]

The Computational Complexity of Randomness
Thomas Watson [advisor: Umesh Vazirani and Luca Trevisan]

Towards Evidence-Based Assessment of Factors Contributing to the Introduction and Detection of Software Vulnerabilities
Matthew Finifter [advisor: David Wagner]

Tunneling in low-power device-design: A bottom-up view of issues, challenges, and opportunities
Kartik Ganapathi [advisor: Sayeef Salahuddin]

User-Guided Inverse 3D Modeling
James Andrews [advisor: Carlo H. Séquin]

Using FPGAs to Simulate Novel Datacenter Network Architectures At Scale
Zhangxi Tan [advisor: David A. Patterson and Krste Asanović]