"Advancing Passive Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing for Detection of Fish Sounds, Seismo-Acoustic Airgun Signals, and Marine Mammal Vocalizations including Instrumentation Enhancements" Committee: Prof Purnima Ratilal Makris (Advisor) Prof Josep M Jornet Dr Nils Olav Handegard Abstract: Underwater passive acoustic monitoring is important for understanding the marine environment, since many ocean entities produce sound that […]

"Securing FPGA as a Shared Cloud-Computing Resource: Threats and Mitigations" Abstract: With the widespread adoption of cloud computing, the demand for programmable hardware acceleration devices, such as field-programmable gate array (FPGA), has increased. To further improve the performance of FPGA-enabled cloud computing, one promising technology is to virtualize the hardware resources of an FPGA device, […]

"Real-Time Spectrum Sensing for Inference and Control" Abstract: Spectrum sensing can enable the next generation of wireless applications ranging from opportunistic spectrum access to cognitive radio networks. The key unaddressed challenges of spectrum sensing are that (i) it has to be performed with extremely low latency over varying bandwidths and must guarantee strict real-time processing […]