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]

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

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]

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]

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]

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

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]

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]

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