Ph.D. Thesis

2009

• Jin He
  Proliferation of Mobile Data Applications
  Advisor: Masoud Salehi
• Ikaro Silva
  Objective Estimation of Loudness growth Using tone Burst Evoked auditory Responses
  Advisor: Michael Epstein
• Volkan Vural
  Improving Large Margin Classifiers using Relationships among Samples.
  Co-advisors: Jennifer Dy, Dana Brooks,Deniz Erdogmus and Glenn Fung

2008

• Janice Cheng
  Optical Diffraction Tomography
  Advisor: Anthony Devaney
• Mohamed Khodja
  Imaging and Radiation Enhancements from Metamaterials
  Advisor: Edwin Marango
• Damon Hyde
  Statistical Models and Structured Regularization for Fluorescence Molecular Tomography.
  Co-advisors: Prof. Dana Brooks, NU and Prof. Eric Miller, Tufts
• Mohamed Khodja
  Imaging and Radiation Enhancements from Metamaterials
  Advisor: Edwin Marango
• Xiaojun Wang
  Variable Precision Floating-Point Divide and Square Root for Efficient FPGA Implementation of Image and Signal Processing Algorithms
  Advisor: Miriam Leeser

2007

• Michele Battelli
  Localization Techniques in Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Emphasis on Wireless Sensor Networks.
  Advisor: Stefano Basagni
• Lucio Cetto
  Analysis of DNA Chromatograms for Base Calling Using Unsupervised Statistical Learning Methods.
  Advisor: Elias Manolakos
• Wang Chen
  Acceleration of the 3D FDTD Algorithm in Fixed-point Arithmetic using Reconfigurable Hardware.
  Advisor: Miriam Leeser
• Mohammadreza Marandian Hagh
  Iterative Receivers for Wireless Communication Systems.
  Advisor: M. Salehi
• Eric Hernandez
  Applied Observer Theory in Structural Health Monitoring and Diagnostics.
  Advisor: Dionisio Bernal
• Ting Su
  Clustering High-Dimensional Data.
  Advisor: Jennifer Dy
• Xiaojun Wang
  Variable Precision Floating-Point Divide and Square Root for Efficient FPGA Implementation of Image and Signal Processing Algorithms.
  Advisor: Miriam Leeser

2006

• Saeed Babaeizadeh
  3-D Electrical Impedance Tomography for Domains with Piecewise Constant Conductivity.
  Advisor: D. Brooks
• Oguz Bayat
  Adaptive and Iterative Transceiver Designs For Wireless Communication Applications.
  Advisor: B. Sahfai
• Hamid Satar
  Partial Tracking of Music Signals using Robust Kalman Filtering.
  Advisor: B. Sahfai

2005

• Alireza Ghodrati
  Lead selection and wavefront-based models for the inverse problem of electrocardiography.
  Advisor: D. Brooks
• Minthri Ho
  Super-Resolution Techniques in Multistatic Sensor Array Processing.
  Advisor: H. Lev-Ari
• Yiheng Zhang
  Spatio-Temporal Preprocessing and Regularization for Dynamic Linear Inverse Problems with Application to Diffuse Optical Imaging and Tomography.
  Advisor: D. Brooks

2004

• Mehmet Aydinlik
  Unequal Error Protecting Turbo Coded Modulation: Structure, Design, and Performance Bounds.
  Advisor: M. Salehi
• Michael Epstein
  On Using Tone-Burst Otoacoustic Emissions to Measure Basilar-Membrane Response in Humans.
  Advisor: S. Buus
• Webert Montlouis
  Robust DOAV Estimation and Tracking Techniques for Moving Sources.
• Heather Quinn
  Runtime Tools for Hardware/Software Systems with Reconfigurable Hardware.
  Advisor: M. Leeser
• Mehmet Nejat Tek
  Title: Least Squares Regularization Techniques for Contactless Electrical Conductivity Imaging.
  Advisor: B. Sahfai

2003

• Bekir Ahmet Dogrusoz
  Soft Source Codiing with Unequal Error Protecting Turbo Codes.
  Advisor: M. Salehi
• Roger Dufour
  Target Classification and Parameter Estimation with a Deformable Template Library.
  Advisors: E. Miller and D. Brooks
• Ravishankar Mahadevappa
  Interference Cancellation Techniques for Multiuser Communication Systems.
• Juan Rojas
  Multimedia Macros for Portable Optimized Programs.
  Advisor: M. Leeser
• Yesim Serinagaoglu
  Application of Bayesian Methods to Electrocardiography.
  Advisor: D. Brooks
• Sreenivasa Sista
  Statistical Methods for Unsupervised Topic Discovery.
  Advisors: J. Makhoul
• Ethem Mutlu Sozer
  Reliable Communications over Frequency-Selective Rapidly-Fading Channels.
  Advisor: J. Proakis

FALL 2002

• Ozgur Dural
  Reduced Complexity and Close to Optimum Performing Receivers for Continuous Phase Modulation.
  Advisor: Prof. John Proakis
• Lu Jiang
  Sensorless Control of PMSMs with a Passivity Based Observer.
  Advisors: Profs. Gilead Tadmor and Aleksandar Stankovic

SUMMER 2002

• Sameh El-Difrawy
  A Soft-Computing System for accurate DNA base-calling.
  Advisor: Prof. Elias Manolakos
• Mauricio Martinez
  Efficient Filter Bank Adaptive Filtering.
  Advisor: Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ari
• Cesar Santivanez
  Mechanisms toward a Multi-mode Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks.
  Advisor: Prof. E. Manolakos

SUMMER 2001

• Apostolos Rizos
  PR-Shaped, Coded Linear Modulations and Low-Complexity Approaches for their Detection.
  Advisor: Prof. J. Proakis

SPRING 2001

• Bjorn Bjerke
  Multiple-Antenna systems for Wireless Communications.
  Advisor: Prof. J. Proakis
• William Scott Hoge
  An Adaptive Signal Processing Approach to Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
  Co-Advised - Prof. D. Brooks and Prof. H. Lev-Ari
• Dimitris Kalofonos
  Advanced Phusical Layer Techniques for CDMA Broadband Wireless Integrated Services Networks
  Advisor: Prof. J. Proakis
• Gerald Larocque
  Multi-Rate Adaptive Filters.
  Advisor: Prof. H. Lev-Ari
• Andrew Stone
  Methods and Tools for the Synthesis of Scalable Parallel VLSI Architectures from Algorithmic Descriptions
  Advisor:Prof. E. Manolakos
• Xiaoyin Xu
  Statistical methods to detect and localixe buried objects from ground penetrating radar array measurement.
  Advisor: Prof. E. Miller
• Xuehu Zhang
  Remotely Sensing the Chesapeake Bay Outflow Plume Using an X-Band Imaging Radar.
  Advisor: Bahram Shafai, Co Advisor Professor David J. McLaughlin

SUMMER 2000

• Richard J. Gaudette
  Constrained Reconstruction Techniques for Diffuse Optical Tomography.
  Advisor: Prof. D.H. Brooks
• Hannes Musch
  Predicting Speech Intelligibility: A New Model Based on Statistical Decision Theory.
  Advisor: Prof. S. Buus

SPRING 2000

• Omur Yuksel Bas
  Proportional- Integral Kalman Filter Design with Applications to Target Tracking.
  Advisor: Prof. B. Shafai

WINTER 2000

• Vali Uddin
  Reduced Order LTR Controller.
  Advisor: Prof. B. Shafai

FALL 1999

• Zoe Antoniou
  Scheduling Algorithms for Application- Level QoS Support of Continuous Media Streams.
  Advisor: Prof. I. Stavrakakis
• Tamer Dag
  Proactive/Reactive Congestion Control Schemes for High Speed Networks.
  Advisor: Prof. I. Stavrakakis

SUMMER 1999

• Murat Belge
  Multiscale and Curvature Methods for the Regularization of the Linear Inverse Problems.
  Advisor: Prof. E.L. Miller
• Kadagattur Srinidhi
  Convex Optimization Algorithms for Inverse Electrocardiography with Physiologically Relevant Constraints.
  Advisor: Prof. D.H. Brooks

1999

• Ismail Agirman
  Adaptive Torque- Ripple Minimization in Switched Reluctance Motors.
  Advisor: Profs. Alex M. Stankovic and Gilead Tadmor

FALL 1998

• Vladislav Davidkovich
  Passivity Based Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor.
  Advisor: Prof. Aleksandar M. Stankovic
• Timoor Sakharuk
  Effects of Finite Switching Frequency and Delay on PWM Controlled Systems.
  Advisor: Prof. Aleksandar M. Stankovic
• Elizabeth Twarog
  Remote Sensing of Coastal Regions Using an Airborne Imaging Radar.
  Advisor: Prof. David J. McLaughlin
• Alexis Tzannes
  Detection of Small Targets in Infrared Image Sequences Containing Evolving Cloud Clutter.
  Advisor: Prof. Dana H. Brooks

SUMMER 1998

• Adnan Sahin
  Near Field Forward Scattering, and Object- Based Localization Algorithms for Subsurface Objects.
  Advisor: Prof. Eric L. Miller

SPRING 1998

• Tolga M. Duman
  Turbo Codes and Turbo Coded Modulation Systems: Analysis and Performance Bounds.
  Advisor: Prof. Masoud Salehi
• Xiaohui Luo
  A Multivariate Non- Gaussian Distribution Theory with Applications To Array Detection.
  Advisor: Prof. Ram S. Raghavan
• Yue Ma
  Ink Matching of Cursive Chinese Handwritten Annotations.
  Advisor: Prof. Jill D. Crisman
• Haifeng Qiu
  Adaptive Array Detection in Structured Interference.
  Advisor: Prof. Ram S.Raghavan
• Jeffrey E. Smith
  UML Formalization and Transformation.
  Advisor: Prof. Mitch M. Kokar

FALL 1997

• Stephen P. Linder
  Robust Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for Disturbance Rejection and Fault Accommodation.
  Advisor: Prof. Bahram Shafai
• Jindong Li
  Reduced- State MLSE Algorithms for Magnetic Recording Systems.
  Advisor: Prof. John G. Proakis

SUMMER 1997

• Anastasios Anastasakos
  Speaker Normalization Methods for Speaker Independent Speech Recognition.
  Advisor: Prof. John Makhoul
• Michael Cleary
  Systematic Use of Deictic Commands for Mobile Robot Navigation.
  Advisor: Prof. Jill Crisman
• Scott Coutts
  Passive Localization of Moving Emitters Out- of- Plane Multipath.
  Advisor: Prof. Ram Raghavan
• Yael Ehrlich
  Identification of Arbitrarily Time- Variant Systems.
  Advisor: Prof. Hanoch Lev- Ari
• Edwin A. Marengo
  A New Theory for Analysis and Synthesis of Time- Dependent Scalar and Electromagnetic Sources and Fields.
  Advisor: Prof. Tony Devaney

SPRING 1997

• Jeffrey M. Capone
  Achievable QoS and Scheduling Policies for Integrated Services Wireless Networks.
  Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Stavrakakis
• Erozan Kurtas
  Multi- Track Matched Spectral Null Codes for the Partial Response Maximum Likelihood Magnetic Recording Channels.
  Advisor: Profs. John G. Proakis and Masoud Salehi
• Nicholas B. Pulsone
  Adaptive Signal Detection in Non- Gaussian Interference.
  Advisor: Prof. Ram Raghavan