Master's Theses & Technical Reports - 2012
M.S. | 5th Year M.S. | M.Eng.
M.S.
A High Accuracy, Low-latency, Scalable Microphone-array System for Conversation Analysis
David Qin Sun [advisor: John F. Canny]
A Multimodal Approach to Automatic Geo-Tagging of Video
Jaeyoung Choi [advisor: Nelson Morgan]
A Stable Algorithm for Non-Negative Invariant Numerical Solution of Reaction-Diffusion Systems on Complicated Domains
Insoon Yang [advisor: Claire Tomlin]
A Succinct Control Theory Derivation and New Experiments with the Square-Root Variant of Fitts' Law for Heterogeneous Targets
Siamak Faridani [advisor: Ken Goldberg]
Adaptive Time Synchronization and Frequency Channel Hopping for Wireless Sensor Networks
Branko Kerkez [advisor: Kristofer Pister]
An All-Fragments Grammar for Simple and Accurate Parsing
Mohit Bansal [advisor: Daniel Klein]
An Optimized Distributed Video-on-Demand Streaming System: Theory and Design
Kang Wook Lee [advisor: Kannan Ramchandran]
Analysis and Design of a High Speed Delta-Sigma Modulator for mm-Wave Imaging Applications
Juan Yaquian [advisor: Ali Niknejad]
Auto-tuning the Matrix Powers Kernel with SEJITS
Jeffrey Morlan [advisor: Armando Fox]
Automated Tuberculosis Diagnosis Using Fluorescence Images from a Mobile Microscope
Jeannette Chang [advisor: Jitendra Malik and Daniel A. Fletcher]
Cake: Enabling High-level SLOs on Shared Storage Systems
Andrew Wang [advisor: Ion Stoica]
Closed-Loop Decoder Adaptation Algorithms for Kalman Filters in Brain-Machine Interface Systems
Siddharth Dangi [advisor: Jose M. Carmena]
Communication-Avoiding Optimization of Geometric Multigrid on GPUs
Amik Singh [advisor: James Demmel]
Communication-Efficient Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent with Butterfly Mixing
Huasha Zhao [advisor: John F. Canny]
Designing a Voting Machine for Testing and Verification
Cynthia Sturton [advisor: David Wagner]
Designing plant dynamics to optimize task-specific closed-loop performance of brain-machine interfaces
Suraj Gowda [advisor: Jose M. Carmena]
Effect of Periodic Virtual Metrology Recalibration on Blended Metrology Schemes
Jae Yeon (Claire) Baek [advisor: Costas J. Spanos]
Efficient Parallelization of Natural Language Applications using GPUs
Chao-Yue Lai [advisor: Kurt Keutzer]
Electromagnetic Inverse Design of Light Trapping Textures for Subwavelength Thick Solar Cells
Vidya Ganapati [advisor: Eli Yablonovitch]
Experimental Study of Fine Frequency Selection Techniques for Piezoelectric Aluminum Nitride Lamb Wave Resonators
Ting-Ta Yen [advisor: Albert Pisano and Clark Nguyen]
Exploiting Memory-level Parallelism in Reconfigurable Accelerators
Shaoyi Cheng [advisor: John Wawrzynek]
Fantasktic: Improving Quality of Results for Novice Crowdsourcing Users
Philipp Gutheim [advisor: Björn Hartmann]
Firm Software Parallelism: Building a measure of how firms will be impacted by the changeover to multicore chips
Neil Thompson [advisor: James Demmel]
Formation Control with Size Scaling using Relative Position Feedback
Samuel Coogan [advisor: Murat Arcak]
Future Architectures for Middlebox Processing Services on the Internet and in the Cloud
Justine Sherry [advisor: Sylvia Ratnasamy]
High Optical Quality Polycrystalline Indium Phosphide Grown on Metal Substrates by MOCVD for Photovoltaic Applications
Maxwell Zheng [advisor: Ali Javey]
HTTPS Vulnerability to Fine Grain Traffic Analysis
Bradley Miller [advisor: Doug Tygar]
Image Cropping: Collection and Analysis of Crowdsourced Data
Sally Ahn [advisor: Maneesh Agrawala]
Implantable Miniaturized Glucose Fuel Cell
Hoai Chau Nguyen Van [advisor: Elad Alon]
Inverse Electromagnetic Design of Optical Antennas for Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording
Samarth Bhargava [advisor: Eli Yablonovitch]
Location Privacy: User Behavior in the Field
Andrew Fisher [advisor: David Wagner and Björn Hartmann]
Low-Power Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Applications
Xiao Xiao [advisor: Borivoje Nikolic]
Measuring User Confidence in Smartphone Security and Privacy
Erika Chin [advisor: David Wagner]
Nanodiamond Imaging: Methods and Apparatus
Alex Hegyi [advisor: Eli Yablonovitch]
On-board Model Predictive Control of a Quadrotor Helicopter: Design, Implementation, and Experiments
Patrick Bouffard [advisor: Claire Tomlin]
Optimal Camera Placement
Avital Steinitz [advisor: Ruzena Bajcsy]
Private Media Search on Public Databases
Giulia Fanti [advisor: Kannan Ramchandran]
Protocol-Independent Compression for Resource-Constrained Wireless Networks
Travis Massey [advisor: Kristofer Pister]
Re-optimizing Data Parallel Computing
Sameer Agarwal [advisor: Ion Stoica]
Reducing Cluster Energy Consumption through Workload Management
Sara Alspaugh [advisor: Randy H. Katz]
REGIS: A Tool for Building and Distributing Personalized Practice Problems
Albert Segars [advisor: Dan Garcia]
Resilient Design Methodology for Energy-Efficient SRAM
Brian Zimmer [advisor: Borivoje Nikolic and Krste Asanović]
Single View Pose Estimation of Mobile Devices in Urban Environments
Aaron Hallquist [advisor: Avideh Zakhor]
Temperature Compensation of Aluminum Nitride Lamb Wave Resonators Utilizing the Lowest-Order Symmetric Mode
Chih-Ming Lin [advisor: Albert Pisano]
The Berkeley 3D Object Dataset
Allison Janoch [advisor: Trevor Darrell]
Transfer-printed Electrodes for Colloidal Nanocrystal Solar Cells Utilizing “Soft” Polydimethylsiloxane Stamps
Sarah Swisher [advisor: Vivek Subramanian and A. Paul Alivisatos]
Ultra-sensitive SiGe Bipolar Phototransistors for Optical Interconnects
Michael Roe [advisor: Eli Yablonovitch]
5th Year M.S.
A Constraint-Aware Motion Planning Algorithm for Robotic Folding of Clothes
Apoorva Sachdev [advisor: John F. Canny and Pieter Abbeel]
Ballbot: A Low-Cost Robot for Tennis Ball Retrieval
John Wang [advisor: Pieter Abbeel]
Database Operations Using Asynchronous Remote Method Invocation
James Sproch [advisor: Michael Franklin]
Juxtapp and DStruct: Detection of Similarity Among Android Applications
Saung Li [advisor: Dawn Song]
Monte Carlo Methods for Multiple Target Tracking and Parameter Estimation
Daniel Duckworth [advisor: Stuart J. Russell]
Shark: Fast Data Analysis Using Coarse-grained Distributed Memory
Clifford Engle [advisor: Michael Franklin]
Solid State Tesla Coils and Their Uses
Sean Soleyman [advisor: Jaijeet Roychowdhury]
The Art of Digital Publishing: A foundation of combined standards to support the future of publishing
Daniel Lynch [advisor: Babak Ayazifar]
M.Eng.
A software approach for combining real time data measurement and building energy model to improve energy efficiency
Jiechao Li [advisor: David E. Culler and Pieter Abbeel]
Analysis of LED Technologies for Solid State Lighting Markets
Emmanuel Chao [advisor: Constance Chang-Hasnain and Sayeef Salahuddin]
Analysis of LED Technologies for Solid State Lighting Markets
Guannan Wang [advisor: Constance Chang-Hasnain and Sayeef Salahuddin]
BayScope
Yun Jin [advisor: Björn Hartmann]
Clothing Simulation of LaundryBot
Wei Wang [advisor: Pieter Abbeel]
CrowdBrush: A Mobile Photo Editing Application with a Crowd Inside
Yin-Chia Yeh [advisor: Björn Hartmann]
CrowdBrush: A mobile photo-editing application with a crowd inside
Suryaveer Lodha [advisor: Björn Hartmann]
Crowdsourced Rotoscoping
Hanzhong Ye [advisor: Björn Hartmann]
Diabeats: Empowering Diabetics to Live Smartly
Rohan Nagesh [advisor: Björn Hartmann and Ikhlaq Sidhu]
Dr. Chi
Xi Peng [advisor: Sayeef Salahuddin and Lee Fleming]
Dr.Chi
Yuan Yang [advisor: Sayeef Salahuddin and Lee Fleming]
Energy Harvesting for Wireless Power Monitoring - Implementing a Low Power, Low Data Rate Wireless Network (OpenWSN)
David Stanislowski [advisor: Kristofer Pister, Bernhard Boser and Pieter Abbeel]
Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensor Networks
Vincent Lee [advisor: Kristofer Pister, Bernhard Boser and Sayeef Salahuddin]
Estimating and Reconstructing a T-Shirt’s Configuration into Simulation through Tracking Fiduciary Markers for the Purpose of Laundry Folding
Ruben Zhao [advisor: Pieter Abbeel]
Evaluation of Visible and Invisible Fiducial Markers for Clothing Tracking
Siyu E [advisor: Pieter Abbeel]
Food Fight: A Social Diet Network Mobile Application
Tony Chang [advisor: Pieter Abbeel and Lee Fleming]
High Frequency Trading: Price Dynamics Models and Market Making Strategies
Cheng Lu [advisor: Björn Hartmann and Xin Guo]
High-Frequency Trading
Xin Guo [advisor: Pieter Abbeel and Xin Guo]
HYDRASCOPE: ADAPTING EXISTING WEB APPLICATIONS FOR MULTI-DISPLAY WALLS
Viraj Kulkarni [advisor: Björn Hartmann]
HydraScope: Interaction and Application of Wall Sized Display
Hong Wu [advisor: Björn Hartmann]
Impacting the Future of Diabetes Management
Nathan Collingridge [advisor: Pieter Abbeel and Ikhlaq Sidhu]
Mobile Health Monitoring: The Glucose Intelligence Solution
Chun Ming Chin [advisor: Sayeef Salahuddin and Ikhlaq Sidhu]
NetApp Autosupport Analysis
Junwei Da [advisor: Philip M. Kaminsky, Pieter Abbeel and Ikhlaq Sidhu]
Non-Contact Wireless Power Monitoring
Ankur Aggarwal [advisor: Bernhard Boser and Sayeef Salahuddin]
Outlet Power Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks
Ameer Ellaboudy [advisor: Pieter Abbeel]
Pulse Reading Mobile Application: Dr. Chi
Tianyu Fu [advisor: Pieter Abbeel and Lee Fleming]
Reinforcement Learning Methods to Enable Automatic Tuning of Legged Robots
Nicolas Zeitlin [advisor: Pieter Abbeel]
Reinforcement Learning Methods to Enable Automatic Tuning of Legged Robots
Mallory Tayson-Frederick [advisor: Pieter Abbeel]
Searching for a Scalable Solution to Diabetes Management
Kevin Tseng [advisor: Pieter Abbeel and Ikhlaq Sidhu]
Study of Reinforcement Learning Methods to Enable Automatic Tuning of State of The Art Legged Robots
Zihong Lian [advisor: Pieter Abbeel]