MS Thesis Defense: Real-Time Grasp Type Estimation for a Robotic Prosthetic Hand Mehrshad Zandigohar Location: Zoom Link Abstract: For lower arm amputees, prosthetic hands promise to restore most of physical interaction capabilities. This requires to accurately predict hand gestures capable of grabbing varying objects and execute them timely as intended by the user. Current approaches […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Improving the Resilience of the Power Grid Ahmet Oner Location: Teams Meeting Abstract: The power grid constitutes one of the most critical infrastructures that have significant interdependencies with various others such as communication, transportation, emergency, and health-care delivery systems. A disruption in the operation of the power grid may affect the operation […]
MS Thesis Defense: Rough-Terrain Locomotion and Unilateral Contact Force Regulations With a Multi-Modal Legged Robot Kaier Liang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: The study for legged locomotion has made lots of achievements. However, the stability of the state-of-the-art bipedal robots are still vulnerable to external perturbation, cannot negotiate extreme rough terrains, and cannot directly regulate unilateral […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Spectral Ranking Regression Ilkay Yildiz Location: Zoom Link Abstract: We consider learning from ranking labels generated as follows: given a query set of samples in a dataset, a labeler ranks the samples w.r.t.~her preference. Such ranking labels scale exponentially with query set size; most importantly, in practice, they often exhibit lower variance […]
MS Thesis Defense: LiDAR with a Silicon Photomultiplier for Applications in Adverse Weather Danton Zhao Location: Zoom Link Abstract: As Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) integration becomes more widespread in the field of remote sensing for autonomous navigation, the impact of degraded visual environments will quickly need to be addressed. The particles responsible for the […]
MS Thesis Defense: Supervised Classification on Deep Neural Network Attack Toolchains Yize Li Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Deep learning, while an important machine learning technique, is susceptible to adversarial example attacks. Adversarial examples generated by adding perturbations on clean images/video frames can lead to mis-predictions of deep neural networks. Moreover, deep learning/machine learning can be […]
MS Thesis Defense: Variation is the Norm: Brain State Dynamics Evoked By Emotional Video Clips Ashutosh Singh Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Past affective neuroscience studies have attempted to identify a “biomarker” or consistent pattern of brain activity (as measured externally using, for instance, fMRI) to indicate the presence of a single pre-defined category of emotion […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Model-Based Manipulation of Linear Flexible Objects Peng Chang Location: Teams Meetings Abstract: Manipulation of deformable objects plays an important role in various scenarios such as manufacturing, service, healthcare, and security. Linear flexible objects such as cables, wires, and ropes are common in these scenarios. However, the high dimensionality of the linear flexible […]
MS Thesis Defense: Unifying Performance and Security Evaluation for Microarchitecture Design Exploration Griffin Knipe Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Computer architects develop microarchitectural features that boost instruction-level parallelism to improve CPU performance. While performance may be improved, adding new features increases the CPU’s design complexity. This further compounds the effort required to complete design verification. Trustworthy […]
MS Thesis Defense: Reconstruction of Sulcal Geometry in Brain Stimulation Models using Spherical Harmonics Hao Chen Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Over the past few years, there has been increasing interest in transcranial electrical stimulation (tCS) and thus it has been the subject of a growing number of simulation studies. Indeed, some federal agencies in the […]