Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Electrical engineering"
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Aqueous Solution Synthesis of ZnO for Application in Optoelectronics
(2013-09-23)Recently, ZnO has garnered widespread attention in the semiconductor community for its large set of useful properties, which include a wide bandgap and its resulting optical transparency, a large exciton binding energy, a ... -
Architecting High Performance Silicon Systems for Accurate and Efficient On-Chip Deep Learning
(2023-05-12)The unabated pursuit of omniscient and omnipotent AI is levying hefty latency, memory, and energy taxes at all computing scales. At the same time, the twilight of Dennard scaling means traditional performance gains are no ... -
Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) Bio-electronic Interface for Cell-based Phenotypic Drug Screening
(2021-07-12)Microelectrode Array (MEA) has been widely researched and with some commercial usage in measuring electrical properties and behavior of cardiac and neuronal networks, thanks to its low cost and parallelism compared to ... -
A Configurable Terasample-per-second Imaging System for Optical SETI
(2013-10-08)A new instrument for conducting astronomical searches for nanosecond-scale optical pulses has been designed, built, and is now operating at Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, MA. The Advanced All-sky Camera, based on the ... -
Contributions to Quantum Control and Statistical Physics
(2021-05-13)This thesis consists of two parts. The first part is on the complexity of controlling quantum systems. Specifically, we present results on sufficient conditions under which control of quantum systems is efficient. We ... -
The Convexity of Quadratic Maps and the Controllability of Coupled Systems
(2013-09-16)A quadratic form on \(\mathbb{R}^n\) is a map of the form \(x \mapsto x^T M x\), where M is a symmetric \(n \times n\) matrix. A quadratic map from \(\mathbb{R}^n\) to \(\mathbb{R}^m\) is a map, all m of whose components ... -
Deep Learning for Inverse Problems in Engineering and Science
(2023-05-11)In a famous Socratic dialogue by Plato, Meno postulates that the epistemic pursuit of knowledge demands a target, without which one cannot determine the object of inquiry or even recognize it upon discovery. The paradox ... -
Design and Characterization of Hybrid Biological-Inorganic Systems
(2023-03-14)Hybrid biological-inorganic systems have been designed to drive fine chemical syntheses and to interrogate fundamental biology. These systems couple electronic signals to cellular activity, allowing the unique chemistries ... -
Device, Circuit, and Algorithm Co-Design for Efficient Neural Network Inference in Hardware
(2023-11-21)Artificial neural networks (ANN) using machine learning algorithms have achieved amazing performance in many artificial intelligent tasks. However, the hardware implementations of these ANNs are faced with two major ... -
Distributed and Data-Driven Decision-Making for Sustainable Power Systems
(2022-01-19)With a large-scale integration of renewable generation, especially wind power and solar energy, significant uncertainty and volatility have been introduced to the control and operation of electric power systems. The increase ... -
Efficient Passive Ranging with Computational Optics
(2022-01-10)Passive ranging is using the measurement of environmental light to estimate the distance of the nearest reflective surface from a viewpoint along a direction without emitting photons. It outputs a two-dimensional depth map ... -
Enabling High Performance, Efficient, and Sustainable Deep Learning Systems At Scale
(2022-09-15)The world has witnessed an exponential rise in AI, particularly deep learning-based engines, over the last decade. These deep learning-based AI engines form the backbone of the modern Internet, determining how we interact ... -
Estimation and Learning via Convex Optimization: Asymptotics, Phase Transitions, and New Algorithms
(2022-01-14)Modern datasets are formed by a large number of samples and features. This new regime presents new challenges and opportunities. One major challenge that arises when working with high--dimensional datasets is the curse of ... -
Fabrication and Characterization of Single-Crystal Diamond Photonic Cavities
(2013-09-19)Cavity quantum electrodynamics provide a platform to form a quantum network which connects individual quantum bits (qubits) via photon. Optical cavity, a device which traps photons in a confined volume can enhance the ... -
Flight Control of a Millimeter-Scale Flapping-Wing Robot
(2014-10-21)Flying insects display remarkable maneuverability. Unlike typical airplanes, these insects are able to execute an evasive action, rapidly change their flight speed and direction, or leisurely land on flowers buffeted by ... -
Integrated lithium niobate photonics and applications
(2022-05-16)The past decade has witnessed a surge in research of photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Novel devices, modules, and system architectures have been realized on several integrated photonics platforms including silicon, ... -
Locally Confined Chemistry at a CMOS Electrochemical Interface
(2023-05-15)Chemical reactions are closely linked to one another through a network of equilibrium reactions, whose rates depend directly on the concentrations of the involved chemical species. Locally confining a chemical species of ... -
Low Dimensional Carbon Electronics
(2014-06-06)This thesis covers several different experiments that comprised my graduate career. The main focus of these experiments was the use of carbon as an electronic material and a steady evolution of fabrication recipes that ... -
Manipulating Light on Wavelength Scale
(2013-09-18)Light, at the length-scale on the order of its wavelength, does not simply behave as "light ray", but instead diffracts, scatters, and interferes with itself, as governed by Maxwell's equations. A profound understanding ... -
Manufacturing and Design of Echinoderm-Inspired Underwater Soft Robots
(2021-07-12)Echinoderms, a unique group of marine invertebrates that include sea stars and sea urchins, have emerged recently as a unique focus in the soft robotics field. These animals have unique biological actuators, symmetrical ...