Dissertations & Theses: Recent submissions
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MACROMODELING AND ACCELERATED SIMULATIONS OF ELECTRIC MACHINES
(2021-08-02)Electric machines are the most important element in the power grid. Given its centennial legacy and the rise of electric vehicles and distributed energy resources, it is imperative to bring new technologies into this area. ... -
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ON-CHIP OPTOFLUIDIC DROPLET LASERS
(2020-05-19)Optofluidic lasers have been an emerging field for the applications of biological sensing and diagnosis, chemical sensing, and point-of-care devices. Droplets, as optical cavities, confines whispering gallery modes with ... -
Distributed Optimal Policies for Multi-Agent Systems under Uncertainties
(2020-05-14)Multi-agent systems (MAS) have attracted increasing attention in the past years due to their wide applications in mobile robots, sensor networks, autonomous driving systems, etc. Along with this trend, developing ... -
Evaluation and Modeling of Power System Components
(2022-06-01)Future power system architectures will rely on a combination of rotating machines, power electronic devices, and energy storage. While it is possible to procure each component separately and conduct studies incorporating ... -
POWER ALLOCATION AND MASSIVE MIMO CHANNEL MODELING FOR 5G WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
(2022-05-11)To meet the demand for wireless communication transmission rate to reach a thousand times of the existing system in 2021, the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication system was developed. Compared with Long-Term Evolution ... -
SURFACE FLASHOVER UNDER VARIOUS SURFACE CONDITIONS
(2022-05-12)Electrical insulators are critical components used in every high voltage application whether it is operated continuously or in a pulsed mode. Bulk dielectric breakdown and surface flashover must be prevented in all use ... -
Development of a Novel Sensor For Soil Moisture's Profile
(2022-05-05)Monitoring of soil’s water content has been an important part of the irrigation system in farming, regional resources development, rainfall detection as well as disaster prevention. There has been studies and developments ... -
SCALABLE OPTIMIZATION METHOD FOR GENERATOR SCHEDULING UNDER UNCERTAINTY
(2021-12-16)Scalable optimization methods for power system operation has been subject of research over the last 60 years. State-of-the-art methods in this research area is yet to yield the scalability desired by system operators for ... -
Fast and Parallelizable Numerical Algorithms for Large Scale Conic Optimization Problems
(2021-12-16)Many real world problems from various application areas such as engineering, finance and operation research can be cast as optimization problems. Generally, the goal is to optimize an objective function under a set of ... -
Heterogeneous Transcoding for Next Generation Multimedia Video Codecs for Efficient Communication
(2020-11-30)Innovations in the communication systems and technology are growing tremendously and the growth seen is unimaginable in the last forty years. In multimedia communication systems, technology has transformed from analog ... -
INVESTIGATION OF THE CHANNEL HOT CARRIER (CHC) STRESSING EFFECTS AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE STRESS-INDUCED OXIDE TRAPS LEADING TO RTS IN PMOSFETS
(2020-11-12)Electrical stressing mechanisms are responsible for the generation of stress-induced gate SiO2 defects, in addition to the presence of process-induced oxide traps, in MOSFETs. Random telegraph signal (RTS) can be utilized ... -
FLEXIBLE ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSORS BASED ON IRIDIUM OXIDE FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
(2019-08-16)Considering the disadvantages of the costly, laborious, and time-consuming traditional clinical analyses, there is a tendency of developing non-hospital point-of-care which allows patients to monitor their health conditions ... -
LONG-DISTANCE AND BROAD-BAND AERIAL COMMUNICATION USING DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS: THEORY, IMPLEMENTATION, AND APPLICATIONS
(2019-08-05)Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have found broad civilian applications. However, existing commercial usages are limited to single UAVs. To facilitate commercial multi-UAV applications, robust UAV-to-UAV communication with ... -
BEAMFORMING USING QUASI OPTICAL APPROACH FOR 5G BACKHAUL
(2021-05-06)A new method is proposed for quasi optical beamforming that will enhance performance of emerging systems such as broad deployment of 5G backhaul communications, Internet of Things (IOT), vehicular networking systems, and ... -
WI-FI-BASED INDOOR LOCALIZATION USING MODEL-BASED AND DATA-DRIVEN APPROACHES
(2021-08-13)This thesis investigates model-based and data-driven approaches for indoor localization using the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) of Wi-Fi signals. We study multiple model-based indoor localization approaches, ... -
ADAPTIVE ACTIVATIONS AND SHIFT INVARIANCE IN SHALLOW CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS
(2021-08-13)Deep learning training training algorithms are a huge success in recent years in many fields including speech, text,image video etc. Deeper and deeper layers are proposed with huge success with resnet structures having ... -
MULTI-PLAYER H1 DIFFERENTIAL GAME USING ON-POLICY AND OFF-POLICY REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
(2021-08-03)This work studies a multi-player H-infinity differential game for systems of general linear dynamics. In this game, multiple players design their control inputs to minimize their cost functions in the presence of worst-case ... -
Wearable Biomedical Sensors
(2019-05-08)Focusing on current major research interests about the wearable biomedical sensors, numerous achievements contributed by researchers and engineers are reviewed in chapter 1. Development and research trends, as well as ... -
SELF-INDUCED BACK ACTION ACTUATED NANOPORE ELECTROPHORESIS (SANE) SENSOR FOR MOLECULAR DETECTION AND ANALYSIS
(2019-05-15)We fabricated a novel single molecule nanosensor by integrating a Solid-State Nanopore (SSNP) and a Double Nanohole (DNH) nanoaperture. The nanosensor employs Self-Induced Back-Action (SIBA) for optical trapping and enables ... -
DYNAMIC EQUIVALENT WIND FARM MODELS FOR PLANNING, OPERATION, AND POST-FAULT ANALYSES
(2021-03-15)With high penetration level of the wind power energy in the power grid, it is necessary to develop robust dynamic wind farm models for stability analysis under different scenarios. However, one single wind generator (WG) ...