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Efficient and accurate statistical timing analysis for non-linear non-Gaussian variability with incremental attributes	Identification of human walking patterns using 3-D dynamic modeling

X-ray image segmentation and an Internet-based tool for medical validation	Distributed two-dimensional Fourier Transforms on DSPs: With an applications for phase retrieval

A study on the neural-based perceptron branch predictor and its behavior	Topology reconfiguration with successive approximations

Detection of irregular phonation in speech	Radiation dose reduction strategies for intraoperative guidance and navigation using CT

Emittance measurements of the Jefferson Lab free electron laser using optical transition radiation	Fabrication of Bragg gratings using interferometric lithography

Investigation of pulsed coherent injection locking of a mode-locked laser	A performance characterization of kernel-based algorithms for anomaly detection in hyperspectral imagery

Material growth of InGaAs/InAlAs superlattices for quantum cascade laser application	Line probing in VoIP networks to find performance limit of echo canceller

Hardware-accelerated automatic 3D nonrigid image registration	Testing and characterization of silicon devices at cryogenic temperatures

Memory allocation for embedded systems with a compile-time-unknown scratch-pad size	Microcantilever biosensors with chitosan for the detection of nucleic acids and dopamine

Hardware design of a wearable system for gesture-based teleoperation of a robotic manipulator	Implementation of prognostics and health management for electronic systems

Human appearance modeling in visual surveillance	Transport protocol and flow control for IP-based broadband aeronautical satellite networks

A PLL based frequency synthesizer in 0.13 mum SiGe BiCMOS for MB-OFDM UWB systems	Steering laws for pursuit

Real-time unattended package detection using a syntactic approach	Illumination recovery from images with cast shadows

Integrating dual-Vth design flow using mixed Vth cell libraries in EDA tool	Reduction of architecture vulnerability factor using Modified Razor flipflops

Eliminating inter-process cache interference through cache reconfigurability for real-time and low-power embedded multi-tasking systems	Prognostics demonstration of electronic components subjected to vibration environment of a light military tactical vehicle

Indium phosphide MEMS cantilever waveguides for chemical sensing with integrated optical readout	Design and application of pan and tilt servo gimbals in pointing, acquisition, and tracking

Throughput evaluation and optimization in wireless networks	Investigation of the nonlinear index of refraction of water at 815 and 407 nanometers

A self-contained cold plate utilizing force-fed evaporation for cooling of high-flux electronics	The impact of interface states on sub-threshold leakage and power management in CMOS devices and circuits

Uplink channel estimation in WiMAX	Fabrication and modeling of silicon carbide bipolar junction transistors

Microresonators and photonic crystals for quantum optics and sensing	High-speed reconstruction of low-dose CT using iterative techniques for image-guided interventions

A high-throughput, low-power asynchronous Mesh-of-Trees interconnection network for the eXplicit Multi-Threading (XMT) parallel architecture	Monolithic in-plane tunable optical filter

Double-exposure gray-scale photolithography	Closed-loop control of a micropositioner using integrated photodiode sensors

Jointly optimal placement and power allocation of nodes of a wireless network	Gaussian process regression for model estimation

Human activity classification based on gait and support vector machines	Highly sensitive fiber Bragg grating biosensors

Reliability of lead-free high temperature surface mount component attaches	Run-time instruction cache configurability for energy efficiency in embedded multitasking workloads

Low dimensional description of pedestrian-induced instability of the Millennium Bridge	An optical MEMS sensor for on-chip catechol detection

Development of a test methodology to determine dynamic fracture strength in microfabricated MEMS structures	Simultaneous multi-view face tracking and recognition in video using particle filtering

The effects of environmental stresses on the reliability of flexible and standard termination multilayer ceramic capacitors	Stochastic properties of wide field integrated optic flow measurements

Enhancement of an indium phosphide resonator sensor microsystem through the development of an adaptive feedback circuit and electrospray deposition	Implementation, evaluation, and applications of mobile mesh networks for platforms in motion

Comparison of optic flow in the visible light and infrared spectrums	Lead-free electronics use and repair dynamic simulation

Spectrotemporal modulation sensitivity in hearing-impaired listeners	Some mechanics challenges and solutions in flexible electronics

Implementation of e-beam proximity effect correction using linear programming techniques for the fabrication of asymmetric bow-tie antennas	Application specific precision analysis of Cholesky decomposition in MIMO receiver systems

Implementation of Kalman Filter to tracking custom four-wheel drive four-wheel-steering robotic platform	Novel integrated system architecture for an autonomous jumping micro-robot

Properties of a DTN packet forwarding scheme inspired by thermodynamics	High accelerations produced through secondary impact and its effect on reliability of printed wiring assemblies

High-performance dram system design constraints and considerations	Spectrum Sensing Security in Cognitive Radio Networks

Metropolitan area network IP geolocation through wavelet techniques	Maximum likelihood pitch estimation using sinusoidal modeling

A system for 3D shape estimation and texture extraction via structured light	Active instrument cables with buffer amplification

Investigation of magnetic domain configuration and vortex-antivortex creation and annihilation on CoFeB patterns	Representation and scheduling of scalable dataflow graph topologies

Characterization of gradient estimators for stochastic activity networks	Degradation analysis and health monitoring of lithium ion batteries

An analysis of heat flux-induced arc formation in residential electrical cables	Automatic speech code identification with application to tampering detection of speech recordings

Estimation of mixed distributions on vehicular traffic measurements using the Bluetooth(RTM) technology	Automatic critical section discovery using memory usage patterns

Prototype design for thermoacoustic flashover detector	Image geolocation through heirarchical classification and dictionary-based recognition

Using commercial ray tracing software to drive an attenuator-based mobile wireless testbed	A networked dataflow simulation environment for signal processing and data mining applications

Arcing failure of RoHS compliant electromagnetic relays	Investigation of low temperature solid oxide fuel cells for air-independent UUV applications

An atomic layer deposition passivated Surface Acoustic Wave sensor for bacterial biofilm growth monitoring	Decoding of walking kinematics from non-invasively acquired electroencephalographic signals in stroke patients

Key management: Towards the design of efficient, lightweight schemes for secure group communications in large Mobile Ad Hoc Networks	Modeling and design of microwave-millimeterwave filters and multiplexers

Robust design of wireless networks	Network flow optimizations and distributed control algorithms

The ADI-FDTD method for high accuracy electrophysics applications	myCACTI: A new cache design tool for pipelined nanometer caches

Piezoelectric MEMS disk resonator and filter based on epitaxial Al0.3Ga0.7As films	Novel organic polymeric and molecular thin-film devices for photonic applications

Planar electromagnetic bandgap structure for wideband switching noise mitigation in high speed circuits	Disk design-space exploration in terms of system-level performance, power, and energy consumption

State space approaches for modeling activities in video streams	Analysis, vocal-tract modeling and automatic detection of vowel nasalization

Development of a ZnO/SiO2/Si high sensitivity interleukin-6 biosensor	Heap data allocation to scratch-pad memory in embedded systems

Applying perceptrons to speculation in computer architecture	Probabilistic models to estimate fire-induced cable damage at nuclear power plants

Game theoretical framework for cooperation in autonomous wireless networks	Symbiotic subordinate threading (SST)

Pointing, acquisition, and tracking systems for free-space optical communication links	Cross-layer design for cooperative communications and networking

VLSI design of heart model	Intrusion detection for defense at the MAC and routing layers of wireless networks

Generation of a CW local oscillator signal using a stabilized injection locked semiconductor laser	Adaptation in standard CMOS processes with floating gate structures and techniques

Free-space optical communication link across 16 kilometers to a modulated retro-reflector array	The study and development of automatic data acquisition system for spin-stand imaging and drive independent recovery of hard disk data

Measurements of doping-dependent microwave nonlinear response in cuprate superconductors	Physics-based detection of subpixel targets in hyperspectral imagery

Characterizing and accelerating bioinformatics workloads on modern microarchitectures	Visual tracking of human hand and head movements and its applications

Problems in selective modal analysis and control	Dataflow integration and simulation techniques for DSP system design tools

High-speed performance, power and thermal co-simulation for SoC design	High-performance FPAA design for hierarchical implementation of analog and mixed-signal systems

Robust network trust establishment for collaborative applications and protocols	Understanding and optimizing high-speed serial memory system protocols

Variability-aware VLSI design automation for nanoscale technologies	Dynamic reconfiguration of network topology in optical networks

On-chip thermoelectric cooling of semiconductor hot spot	Cross-layer distortion control for delay sensitive sources

Covert channels and anonymous communication in ad hoc networks	Towards markerless motion capture: Model estimation, initialization and tracking

Capacity results for wireless networks: Effects of correlation, cooperation and interference	View synthesis from image and video for object recognition applications

Error resilience in heterogeneous visual communications	Low phase noise CMOS PLL frequency synthesizer analysis and design

Medium access control and network coding for wireless information flows	Calibration and metrology using still and video images

A joint coding and embedding framework for multimedia fingerprinting	Digital forensic techniques for graphic data

A new physics-of-failure based VLSI circuits reliability simulation and prediction methodology	Gallium nitride nanowire based electronic and optical devices

Design, fabrication, and characterization of a rotary variable-capacitance micromotor supported on microball bearings	Resource allocation schemes for OFDMA based wireless systems with quality of service constraints

Self-organizing wireless sensor networks	Enabling dynamic spectrum allocation in cognitive radio networks

Benzocyclobutene-based electric micromachines supported on microball bearings: Design, fabrication, and characterization	Embedded system for construction material tracking using combination of radio frequency and ultrasound signal

Harnessing checker hierarchy for reliable microprocessors	Computer aided design of wide-band microwave components

Benzocyclobutene microring resonators	Evaluating host intrusion detection systems

Physical aspects of VLSI design with a focus on three-dimensional integrated circuit applications	CMOS n-dimensional m-level hysteresis circuits and possible applications

Development and evaluation of methodologies for vulnerability analysis of ad-hoc routing protocols	Design methodology for embedded computer vision systems

Distributed trust management in autonomic networks	Topology control and pointing in free space optical networks

On lifetime maximization and fault tolerance measurement in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks	High power microwave interference effects on analog and digital circuits in IC's

Signalling and resource allocation for secure communication in Gaussian wireless channels	High-speed analog-to-digital converters for modern satellite receivers: Design verification test and sensitivity analysis

Synchronization in chaotic systems: Coupling of chaotic maps, data assimilation and weather forecasting	Characterization of linear electro-optic effect of poled organic thin films

Interaction of lasers with atomic clusters and structured plasmas	Analysis and design of high-speed A/D converters in SiGe technology

Electromagnetic interference reduction using electromagnetic bandgap structures in packages, enclosures, cavities, and antennas	Studies of the optical properties of plasmonic nanostructures

Development of electronic DNA hybridization detection using carbon nanotube field effect transistor arrays	Optimum transmit strategies for Gaussian multi-user MIMO systems with partial CSI and noisy channel estimation

Study of longitudinal dynamics in space-charge dominated beams	Speculative data distribution in shared memory multiprocessors

The role of plasmonic resonance in enhancement of interaction of light and silver nanostructures in fluorescence	High-performance 3D image processing architectures for image-guided interventions

Diversity in cooperative networks: How to achieve and where to exploit?	Space-time behavior of millimeter wave channel and directional medium access control

Development of self-assembled ZnO nanostructures in diblock copolymers on large area Si wafers for gas sensor applications	Hearing vs. listening: Attention changes the neural representations of auditory percepts

Advance materials and processes for integrated microcircuit technology	Formation and piezoelectricity of self-assembled PbTiO3-CoFe2O4 nanostructural films

Cross-layer customization platform for low-power and real-time embedded applications	New algorithmic techniques for large scale volumetric data visualization on parallel architectures

Nonlinear detection, estimation, and control for free-space optical communication	Correlation and cooperation in network information theory

Distributed wireless multicast: Throughput and delay	Self-organizing directional wireless backbone networks

Mesh-of-Trees interconnection network for an eXplicitly Multi-Threaded parallel computer architecture	Bio-inspired VLSI systems: From synapse to behavior

Representation of speech in the primary auditory cortex and its implications for robust speech processing	Hardware design, prototyping and studies of the eXplicit Multi-Threading (XMT) paradigm

Control of piecewise smooth systems: Generalized absolute stability and applications to supercavitating vehicles	Multicasting in all-optical WDM networks

Analysis and experimental demonstration of conformal adaptive phase-locked fiber array for laser communications and beam projection applications	Multimedia forensic analysis via intrinsic and extrinsic fingerprints

Physical layer authentication	Integrated CMOS capacitance sensor and microactuator control circuits for on-chip cell monitoring

Study of transient effects in photo-excited semiconducting polymers	New technologies for broadband quantum key distribution: Sources, detectors, and systems

Modeling and characterization of 4H-SiC MOSFETs: High field, high temperature, and transient effects	Latent failures and mixed distributions: Using mixed distributions and cost modeling to optimize the management of systems with weak latent defect subpopulations

Shape dynamical models for activity analysis and coded aperture imaging for light-field capture	Security of wireless sensor networks in the presence of captured nodes

Improving network performance, security and robustness in hybrid wireless networks using a satellite overlay	The measurement manager: Modular and efficient end-to-end measurement services

Resource allocation in relay-based satellite and wireless communication networks	Energy-driven optimization of hardware and software for distributed embedded systems

Computer vision and image processing techniques for mobile applications	Microturbopump utilizing microball bearings

Prognostics of solder joint reliability under vibration loading using physics of failure approach	Relay deployment and selection in cooperative wireless networks

Exploiting inherent program redundancy for fault tolerance	A cross-layer study of the scheduling problem

Multipath routing algorithms for communication networks: Ant routing and optimization based approaches	Characterization and classification of faces across age progression

Random routing and concentration in quantum switching networks	Low power smartdust receiver with novel applications and improvements of an RF power harvesting circuit

Quantum noise in optical parametric amplifier based on a lossy nonlinear interferometer	A study of nanometer semiconductor scaling effects on microelectronics reliability

Modeling shape, appearance and motion for human movement analysis	Quality and reliability of elastomer sockets

An MRI-based articulatory and acoustic study of American English liquid sounds /r/ and /l/	Using locality and interleaving information to improve shared cache performance

Random codes and graphs for secure communication	Consensus problems and the effects of graph topology in collaborative control

Estimation of elevation and azimuth in a neuromorphic VLSI bat echolocation system	Cognitive multiple access for cooperative communications and networking

Single electron transistor in pure silicon	Design, fabrication, and testing of a microsystem for monitoring bacterial quorum sensing

Correlation of signals, noise, and harmonics in parallel analog-to-digital converter arrays	Dynamic spectrum allocation and sharing in cognitive cooperative networks

Particle filtering for stochastic control and global optimization	Novel integro-differential schemes for multiscale image representation

Learning algorithms for Markov decision processes	Semiconductor waveguides for nonlinear optical signal processing

Secure, policy-based, multi-recipient data sharing	Spectrum auctions for dynamic spectrum access networks

Evaluation of thermal interface materials and the laser flash method	Statistical and geometric modeling of spatio-temporal patterns for video understanding

Robust methods for visual tracking and model alignment	Visual tracking and illumination recovery via sparse representation

Robust and efficient inference of scene and object motion in multi-camera systems	Localizing the effects of link flooding attacks in the Internet

Statistical/geometric techniques for object representation and recognition	Flow control in wireless ad-hoc networks

Systematic exploration of trade-offs between application throughput and hardware resource requirements in DSP systems	Application of porous silicon in terahertz technology

Object tracking and mensuration in surveillance videos	Quantum switching networks: Unicast and multicast

Latching microelectromechanical shock sensor systems: Design, modeling, and experiments	Equilibrium analysis and control for design of packet reservation multiple access protocols

Nanocrystalline diamond thin film integration in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors and 4H-SiC heterojunction diodes	An optimal control model for human postural regulation

Fundamental studies of tin whiskering in microelectronics finishes	Characterization and modeling of high power microwave effects in CMOS microelectronics

Development of a simplified, mass producible hybridized ambient, low frequency, low intensity vibration energy scavenger (half-lives)	Bounds on the size of codes

Capacity bounds for multi-user channels with feedback, relaying and cooperation	Low power adaptive circuits: An adaptive log domain filter and a low power temperature insensitive oscillator applied in smart dust radio

Activity representation from video using statistical models on shape manifolds	Design and Analysis of Free Space Optical Sensor Networks for Short-Range Applications

Development of fatigue models for copper traces on printed wiring assemblies under quasi-static cyclic mechanical bending	Reliability evaluation of common-cause failures and other interdependencies in large reconfigurable networks

Efficient spectrum management for mobile ad hoc networks	Detection of interconnect failure precursors using RF impedance analysis

Materials for large-area electronics: Characterization of pentacene and graphene thin films by AC transport, Raman spectroscopy, and optics	Generalized distributed consensus-based algorithms for uncertain systems and networks

Topology control algorithms for rule-based routing	Game-theoretic strategies for dynamic behavior in cognitive radio networks

Delay minimization in energy constrained wireless communications	Design and fabrication of high-performance interband cascade tunable external cavity lasers

Component based routing protocol designing methodology for MANET	Predictions regarding the performance of field emission cathodes in radio frequency guns

Development of carbon nanotube field-effect transistor arrays for detection of HER2 overexpression in breast cancer	Novel tunneling diodes for a high performance infrared rectenna

Theory, design, and implementation of landmark promotion cooperative simultaneous localization and mapping	Improving robustness of speech recognition systems

Design of beam steering electronic circuits for medical applications	CMOS image sensors for lab-on-a-chip microsystem design

Controlling and enhancing atmospheric optical/plasma filaments	Segregation of speech signals in noisy environments

Studies of high frequency wave excitation in fast and slow wave vacuum devices	Combinatorial methods in coding theory

Optical nonlinearities near single photon level with a quantum dot coupled to a photonic crystal cavity	Multimedia protection using content and embedded fingerprints

Modeling and testing of ethernet transformers	Wireless network cocast: Cooperative communications with space-time network coding

IP geolocation in metropolitan areas	Single-event gate rupture in power mosfets: A new radiation hardness assurance approach

Prognostics of polymer positive temperature coefficient resettable fuses	Sparse and nonnegative factorizations for music understanding

Random graph modeling of key distribution schemes in wireless sensor networks	Multimedia social networks: Game theoretic modeling and equilibrium analysis

Model-driven and Data-driven Approaches for some Object Recognition Problems	Design and implementation of information paths in dense wireless sensor networks

Statistical models and optimization algorithms for high-dimensional computer vision problems	Simulation-based methods for stochastic control and global optimization

Synchronization of chaotic optoelectronic oscillators: Adaptive techniques and the design of optimal networks	Sparse acquisition and reconstruction for some computer vision problems

Cognitive Robots for Social Interaction	Rapid prototyping of high performance signal processing applications

Cyclic pursuit: Symmetry, reduction and nonlinear dynamics	Analysis and synthesis of collective motion: From geometry to dynamics

Diffusion kurtosis magnetic resonance imaging and its application to traumatic brain injury	Superconducting logic circuits operating with reciprocal magnetic flux quanta

Security, Trust and Cooperation in Wireless Sensor Networks	Preserving trustworthiness and confidentiality for online multimedia

Alignment and cooperation for secrecy in multi-user channels	Ultra low power FSK receiver and RF energy harvester

Sensing small changes in a wave chaotic scattering system and enhancing wave focusing using time reversal mirrors	A group-based ring oscillator physical unclonable function

Buffer-on-board memory system	Private communication detection via side-channel attacks

Light field analysis and its applications in adaptive optics and surveillance systems	Silicon-germanium photodetectors for optical telecommunications

Digital multimedia forensics and anti-forensics	Efficient sensing, summarization and classification of videos

Resiliency assessment and enhancement of intrinsic fingerprinting	Three dimensional edge detection using wavelet and shearlet analysis

Modeling the bat spatial navigation system: A neuromorphic VLSI approach	Information-theoretic secrecy in multi-user channels