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ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE COLD PLASMA PROCESSING OF BIOCHAR AND INACTIVATION OF BACTERIA
(2019)This dissertation describes my experimental investigations of an atmospheric pressure cold plasma reactor based on the corona discharge. Chapter 1 contains a literature review focused on methods used by others to produce ... -
PNetTFV: A Colored Petri Net Based Online Firmware Functional Validation Scheme And Implementation
(2019)Firmware functional validation has major challenges due to its hardware-specific nature, and the current firmware functional validation approach cannot benefit from the formal analysis used by high-level software validation, ... -
DATA-DRIVEN ALGORITHMS FOR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OPERATION AND CONTROL
(2019)Transactive energy systems are emerging as a transformative solution for the problems that distribution system operators face due to an increase in the use of distributed energy resources and rapid growth in the scalability ... -
ENHANCED SINGLE AND MULTIPLE BAD DATA PROCESSING IN POWER SYSTEM STATIC STATE ESTIMATION
(2019)Although the state estimator has been a regular application running in many utility control centers for over four decades, detection and identification of bad data (outliers) among the input measurements continues to be a ... -
Scalable Methods For Genome Assembly
(2019)De novo genome assembly is a fundamental problem in the field of computational biology. The goal is to reconstruct an unknown genome from short DNA fragments (called “reads”) obtained from it. Over the last decade, with ... -
IMPROVING SENSOR NETWORK PREDICTIONS THROUGH THE IDENTIFICATION OF GRAPHICAL FEATURES
(2019)We propose a framework that represents sensor network data as a graph, extracts graphical features, and applies feature selection methods to identify the most useful features to be used by a classifier for prediction tasks ... -
Teaching effectiveness of intelligent tutoring system
(2019)In this dissertation, the author presents two projects regarding teaching strategies that apply to an intelligent tutoring system (ITS). The author applied multiple-solution teaching methods to the ITSs. The first project ... -
EXPLORING SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS FOR COMPUTER PROGRAMMING: LEVERAGING LEARNING THEORIES TO AFFECT STUDENT SOCIAL AND PROGRAMMING BEHAVIOR
(2019)The 2012 report by the US President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) predicts a deficit in the workforce for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the following decade and ... -
SUPPORTING EFFICIENT GRAPH ANALYTICS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION USING ASYNCHRONOUS DISTRIBUTED-MEMORY PROGRAMMING MODELS
(2019)Future High Performance Computing (HPC) nodes will have many more processors than the contemporary architectures. In such a system with massive parallelism it will be necessary to use all the available cores to drive the ... -
Advanced Control Strategies for Renewable Energy Systems
(2019)The renewable energy sector in the United States is continuously growing, and wind---an abundantly available source of renewable energy---plays a leading role in this transition. In the last decade, the installed global ... -
Towards Energy Efficient And Reliable 3D Manycore Chip Enabled By Machine Learning
(2018)As the demand for high performance and energy efficient computation has increased significantly, manycore chip architectures have emerged as a mainstream solution paradigm. A three-dimensional Network-on-Chip (3D NoC) that ... -
NETWORK-ON-CHIP ENABLED MANYCORE ARCHITECTURES FOR CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM
(2018)Predicting and controlling is the long-cherished goal of human. Among the various framework of prediction and control, the Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is a promising approach and grows fast in both academic and industry ... -
MACHINE LEARNING-INSPIRED HIGH-PERFORMANCE AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT HETEROGENEOUS MANYCORE CHIP DESIGN
(2018)CPU-GPU based heterogeneous manycore architecture is expected to be the dominant computing platform for many emerging application domains including artificial intelligence, bio-computing and big data analytics. This ... -
Local Area Influence Detectors for Turbo Equalization of Two Dimensional Magnetic Recording
(2018)Two-dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR) is a new technology to increase the areal density of magnetic recording systems with conventional magnetic disks. We incorporate signal processing and machine learning techniques ... -
Efficient Machine Learning Algorithms for Automatic Reconfiguration of Mobile Health Monitoring Systems
(2018)Mobile health monitoring plays a central role in a variety of healthcare applications. Due to the sensitive nature of healthcare applications, these systems need to process these personal and physiological informations ... -
HIGHLY EFFICIENT AND LINEAR RECONFIGURABLE MM-WAVE CMOS POWER AMPLIFIERS FOR 5G MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
(2018)With the race to next-generation millimeter-wave (mm-wave) fifth-generation (5G) wireless technology, implementation of highly power-efficient transceivers has become an important research topic. Particularly, the design ... -
OPTIMALITY STUDY OF DYNAMIC VOLTAGE/FREQUENCY SCALING IN FINE- TO COARSE-GRAIN ISLAND PARTITIONING FOR MULTICORE SYSTEMS
(2018)High performance computing centers need to keep up with the growing applications of varying computational characteristics. Due to their high computation rates, these computing systems consume vast amounts of energy with ... -
Enhanced protection and control strategies for improving power system transient stability
(2018)Due to the expensive cost of expanding transmission lines, power systems are operated closer to their stability margins. Consequently, stability becomes a challenging problem in the operation of power systems. Interconnected ... -
REAL-TIME DETECTION OF MULTI-SCALE CHANGES IN SMART HOMES
(2018)Change Point Detection (CPD) is the problem of discovering time points at which the behavior of a time series changes abruptly. Such abrupt changes may represent transitions that occur between states. Tracking these changes ... -
SPECIFICATIONLESS INTRUSTION DETECTION USING THERMODYNAMIC FORMALISM OF FREE ENERGY
(2018)This dissertation serves as a sort of historical road map on my journey to help secure not just computers, but the networks that connect them, and their sometimes critical mission, and the people that depend upon them. We ...