Browsing Electrical & Computer Engineering Doctoral Work by Title
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A Study of Conformal Metasurfaces on Passive Beam Steering for Arrays
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Beam-steering has drawn significant interest due to the expansion of network capacity. However, a traditional beam steering system involves active phase shifters and controlling networks which can be complex. This work ... -
A Study of Inverter-Based Resources on Power Grid Operation Under Uncertain Operating Conditions
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The electric power grid is undergoing a rapid change predominantly driven by high penetration levels of renewable energy resources (RERs) such as wind and solar. These resources are interfaced with the power grid through ... -
Synthesis of Specifications and Refinement Maps for Real-Time Object Code Verification
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Formal verification methods have been shown to be very effective in finding corner-case bugs and ensuring the safety of embedded software systems. The use of formal verification requires a specification, which is typically ... -
Timed Refinement for Verification of Real-Time Object Code Programs
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Real-time systems such as medical devices, surgical robots, and microprocessors are safety- critical applications that have hard timing constraint. The correctness of real-time systems is important as the failure may result ... -
Timed Refinement for Verification of Real-Time Object Code Programs
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Real-time systems such as medical devices, surgical robots, and microprocessors are safety-critical applications that have hard timing constraint. The correctness of real-time systems is important as the failure may ... -
Towards Secure Cloud Storage Services
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Cloud computing is anticipated to revolutionize the Information and Communication Technology sector and has been a mainstream of research over the last decade. The cloud computing, upsurges the capabilities of the hardware ... -
Transformation Electromagnetics/Optics for Designing and Scanning Antenna Arrays
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Recent developments in engineered electromagnetic materials, also known as metamaterials paved the way for new design approaches of unique and incomprehensible electromagnetic devices and structures using electromagnetic ... -
Turning Visual Noise Into Hardware Efficiency: Systems of Viewer and Content Aware Power-Quality Scalable Embedded Memories With ECC-Adaptation for Big Videos and Deep Learning
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Mobile devices, such as smart phones, are being increasingly utilized for watching videos. Video processing requires frequent memory access that consume a significant amount of power due to large data size and intensive ... -
Using Formal Methods to Validate the Usage, Protocols, and Feasibility in Large Scale Computing Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2014)A paradigm shift has occurred in the Information and Communication Technology sector. The main obstacle to relegate complex and sensitive tasks is not the inadequate speed and unsatisfactory computing power of the existing ... -
Utilization of Interdigitated Microelectrodes and Dielectrophoresis for Biosensing, Bio Molecule Manipulation and Biomanufacturing Therapeutic Cells
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Microelectrode arrays (MEA) and microfluidic systems are two of the most used technologies in Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) applications. These integrated and miniaturized systems are said to offer significant advantages in medical ... -
Utilizing Recommender Systems as an Analysis Tool for Measuring Network Dynamics
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Recommender systems apply numerous knowledge discovery techniques to suggest the preferred products, information, or service on contextual data. In our study, we utilize the recommender system for analyzing and measuring ... -
Variation, Energy Consumption, Latency, and Failure Aware Design for Memristive ANNs
(North Dakota State University, 2021)As a novel non-volatile device, the memristive crossbar array has delivered many promises in giving low computation complexity, high energy efficiency, and high density for neuromorphic computing. However, the intrinsic ... -
Weak Power Grid Analysis for Renewable Energy Sources Integration
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Weakness analysis based on grid strength assessment is useful for identifying potential weak grid issues. However, when taking into account the impact of the interactions among Renewable Energy Sources (RESs), the weakness ... -
Wide Band-Gap Semiconductor Based Power Converter Reliability and Topology Investigation
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Wide band-gap semiconductor materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) have been widely investigated these years for their preferred operation at higher switching frequency, higher blocking voltage, ... -
Zeroth Order Resonator (ZOR) Based RFID Antenna Design
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Meander-line and multi-layer antennas have been used extensively to design compact UHF radio frequency identification (RFID) tags; however the overall size reduction of meander-line antennas is limited by the amount of ...