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Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings: Attacks and Defenses
Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success over the last decade in a variety of tasks. Such models are, however, typically designed and developed with the implicit assumption that they will be deployed in benign ... -
Machine Learning to Optimize Embedded Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation
This thesis focuses on the development and application of novel machine learning approaches to the problem of optimization in adaptive deep brain stimulation. As brain-computer and brain-machine interfacing has rapidly ... -
Marine mammal species detection and classification
Transient source detection and classification is a particularly challenging problem. Marine mammal vocalizations are a well-known example of these non-stationary sources, including a variety of clicks, pulse bursts and ... -
Measuring 3D-Length from an Image Using Robust and Accurate Curve Estimation
Accurate and robust curve estimation is important for many practical applications. In this work we develop an application for measuring an infant’s 3D length with regular 2D cellphone photos using accurate and robust curve ... -
MEMS RESONANT MASS SENSING WITH ENABLED OPTICAL INTERACTION FOR CELLULAR STUDY
The precision and mass sensitivity of nano- and micro-resonators is unmatched, revealing mechanical properties on progressively diminishing size-scales. Such lofty promises to deliver high resolution in robust and versatile ... -
Meta-form near eye visor
This thesis is about meta-form near-eye visor (NEV). Near eye visor is the core component in a head mounted display (HMD), because it directly decides the quality and volume of HMD. Regarding freeform NEV, a limitation on ... -
Microwave remote sensing techniques for vapor, liquid and ice parameters
(1995)The objective of this dissertation is to develop a comprehensive physical inverse model for microwave remote sensing of atmospheric components. This novel approach provides a rigorous basis for understanding and extracting ... -
Miniaturization and Integration of Optoelectronics for Contact Lens Embedded Display and Wireless Communication
(2014-02-24)This dissertation presents the progress to miniaturize and integrate optics and optoelectronics for two applications. In the first segment, latest progress in wireless powering of several single pixel displays embedded in ... -
Mitigating Short-Term Variations of Photovoltaic Generation Using Energy Storage with VOLTTRON
A smart-building communications system performs smoothing on photovoltaic (PV) power generation using a battery energy storage system (BESS). The system runs using VOLTTRON™, a multi-agent python-based software platform ... -
Mobile Health Sensing for Widespread Disease Screening and Chronic Management
Medical care today revolves mainly around the clinic, with devices and care designed with accuracy as the main metric of success. Many medical tests can be accomplished with just a small vial of blood, and in the ICU we ... -
Modeling & Analysis of Small Hydroelectric Generation and Battery Energy Storage Connected as a Microgrid
Interest in battery energy storage continues to grow as a way to realize a variety of benefits in complement to their ability to store energy, including incorporation in microgrids that can operate in parallel with or ... -
Modeling and characterization of photoresponse of nanowires with asymmetric contacts and bending strain
This work investigates (i) contact asymmetry induced response of semiconductors, with emphasis on nanowire photo response, and (ii) strain induced electronic and optoelectronic properties of narrow silicon nanowires. Contact ... -
Modeling and Enhancing Human-Machine Interaction for Accessibility and Health
Multi-channel closed-loop interfaces using biosignals measured from sensors in, on, or around our bodies have the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with devices, machines, and each other. Such signals can be ... -
Modeling and simulation of arsenic activation and diffusion in silicon
(2002)One of the critical problems that exist in a Very Large Scale Integrated circuit (VLSI) process modeling today is the prediction and simulation of arsenic behavior in silicon during the integrated circuit fabrication. This ... -
Modeling and simulation of custom power devices
(1996)In the recent years, the utilities are becoming increasingly concerned over the issues of power quality and power flow control. At the same time, there has been a tremendous interest in the application of power electronic ... -
Modeling Electrical Transport through Nucleic Acids
Nucleic acids play a vital role in many biological systems and activities. In recent years, engineers and scientists have been interested in studying their electrical properties. The motivation for these studies stems from ... -
Modeling of Distributed Generation under Next Generation Interconnection Requirements
The amount of renewable energy and distributed generation is increasing in the distribution network and is changing the network from passive to active. IEEE is currently revising the interconnection Standard 1547 and in ... -
Molecular Computers Built from DNA Components
At the nanoscale, the ability to control spatio-temporal interactions would give us unparalleled power. DNA strand displacement systems seem to be the perfect technology to achieve control over molecular interactions, as ... -
Multi-scale Scattering Transform in Music Similarity Measuring
Scattering transform is a Mel-frequency spectrum based, time-deformation stable method, which can be used in evaluating music similarity. Compared with Dynamic time warping, it has better performance in detecting similar ... -
Multi-Task Averaging: Theory and Practice
(2013-04-17)This dissertation addresses the problem of estimating the means of multiple distributions. I begin with a brief history of the mean, leading to a discussion and literature review of Stein estimation and multi-task learning. ...