Rapid strides made in the development of computing infrastructure over the last ten years have played a crucial role in significantly advancing the state-of-the-art in reinforcement learning. These developments have enabled the successful implementation of reinforcement learning…
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The wireless industry is growing very fast in the last decade with the main aim of high-speed, low-latency, and reliable communication. Localization, being a primary and essential component of wireless communication, needs to be efficient enough to match modern requirements. Wit…
The structures comprising the human auditory periphery each perform unique functions to direct incoming sound, provide frequency-dependent gain, match impedance between air and liquids, and decompose the signal into its component frequencies. However, conductive and sensorineura…
This dissertation proposes to develop, leverage, and apply machine learning algorithms on various smart grid applications including state estimation, false data injection attack detection, and reliability evaluation. The dissertation is divided into four parts as follows.. Part …
Climate change is one of the major challenges to human beings and many other species in our time. In the recent decade, the number of disasters related to climate change such as wildfires, storms, floods and droughts are increasing, and the casualty and economic losses caused by…
Same-day delivery (SDD) changes the way people shop as it combines immediate product availability and the convenience of ordering from electronic devices. The SDD market has seen a fast growth over the past decade. These services have further gained popularity during the COVID-1…
In today's world, people visit many attractive places. On such an occasion, It is of utmost importance to be accompanied by a tour guide, who is known to explain about the cultural and historical importance of places. Due to the advancements in technology, smartphones today have…
Digitalization is changing society, industry, and how business is done. For new companies that are more or less born digital, there is the opportunity to use and benefit from the capabilities offered by the new digital technologies, of which data-driven decision-making forms a c…
The identity of subjects in many portraits has been a matter of debate for art historians that relied upon a subjective analysis of facial features to resolve ambiguity in sitter identity. Developing automated face verification techniques has thus garnered interest to provide a …
Resistance switching devices based on transition metal oxides have generated significant research interest over the last decade due to the promise they hold for non-volatile memory applications. Currently they are one of the leading candidates for replacing Flash memory technolo…
With the explosion of chip transistor counts, the semiconductor industry has struggled with ways to continue scaling computing performance in line with historical trends. In recent years, the de facto solution to utilize excess transistors has been to increase the size of the on…
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) have been proposed to enhance the safety and efficiency of transportation systems. Such networks hold unique characteristics and fulfill new goals that necessitate their study from a whole new perspective other than what has been the prevailing…
Sonochemical growth of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires and nanowalls is a relatively new synthetic technique that allows for room ambient growth and large scale production. This synthesis technique allows for services ranging from gas sensors and UV switches. In comparison to the wid…
Much of the world's information in industry/office settings continues to be initially recorded in the form of handwritten documents. Examples include notes taken at meetings, lectures, and even medical records. One important drawback inherent to such handwritten notes is that th…
This thesis investigates two different equalization techniques for combatting interference in aeronautical telemetry channels using the Shaped Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (SOQPSK) modulation waveform. Aeronautical Telemetry is the wireless propagation of crucial data me…
This dissertation addresses the fundamental problem of how to build computing systems for the nanoscale. With CMOS reaching fundamental limits, emerging nanomaterials such as semiconductor nanowires, carbon nanotubes, graphene etc. have been proposed as promising alternatives. H…
The need for storing energy has grown in correlation with the need for renewable and distributed energy resources. Designing a storage unit system which complements the distributed generation is required for increased efficiency and reducing the burden on the utility grid. The e…
Auto-focus (AF) and Auto Exposure (AE) are key features in consumer level digital and cell-phone cameras allowing users to focus automatically and set the exposure automatically. AF provides automatic focusing in order to get sharp images with no user intervention. AE is also a …
We describe a set of fundamental contributions to the design, analysis and implementation of distributed MIMO techniques in wireless networks. The main idea behind distributed MIMO is to organize groups of wireless transmitters and receivers into distributed antenna arrays to co…