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Fall 2018

Chee, Ryan

Molecular imaging is allowing researchers to make ground breaking strides in science and medicine by imaging molecular processes in vivo. Applications include detecting disease biomarkers, improving drug efficacy, studying biochemistry, and understanding disease mechanisms of action....

Spring 2018

Smith, Ian

Power electronics based variable-frequency drives (VFDs) for electric motors are a widespread technology in industrial settings and commercial products; offering increased functionality, accurate control of speed and torque, and substantial energy savings. A myriad of converter topologies and...

Spring 2018

Estuka, Fadwa M A

Database-driven Websites and the amount of data stored in their databases are enormously growing. Web databases retrieve relevant information in response to users’ queries; the retrieved information is encoded in dynamically generated Web pages in the form of structured data records....

Spring 2018

Banerjee, Bitan

With increasing data rate demand, caching popular multimedia content at base stations or routers is emerging as a promising technology for 5G. The primary benefits of wireless caching in cellular networks are traffic offload from macro base stations and decreased delays at the user equipment....

Fall 2018

Li, Chenglin

With the increasing popularity of Android smart phones in recent years, the amount of Android malware is growing rapidly. Due to its great threat and damage to mobile phone users, Android malware detection has become increasingly important in cyber security. Traditional methods for android...

Spring 2018

El-Halwagy, Waleed M.

The upcoming fifth mobile generation (5G) standard – scheduled to be launched by 2020 – has recently attracted the attention of the industrial and research communities in different fields owing to its promises to achieve higher bandwidth, data rates and support the continuously growing mobile...

Spring 2018

Taei, Farid

Energy harvesting techniques, which exploit ambient energy to power communications devices, have gained increased attention in recent years. Such techniques have emerged as a promising solution for energy-constrained wireless networks, with possible applications in the future Internet of things....

Spring 2018

Fink, Geoffrey

To achieve a fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) the vehicle needs a high level of self awareness. At a minimum it needs to know where it is and where it wants to go. Computer vision (CV) is a logical solution to this problem. However, using CV to solve motion control problems for UAVs...

Fall 2018

Cao, Ning

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are receiving increasing interest from industry and academia due to their wide application in search and rescue, infrastructure inspection, and surveillance. This thesis focuses on research in the area of nonlinear control for rotary wing UAVs. Throughout this...

Spring 2018

Marin Marcano, Jorge

The increasing use of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) over the past few years has opened the door to a large number of applications in research, commercial, and industrial areas. UAVs have become an efficient, cost effective, and environmentally friendly (less or zero CO2 emissions) platform...