"Overcoming and Engineering Wireless Signals for Communication and Computation" Abstract: The phenomenal growth of connected devices, especially rapid expansion of IoT networks and the increasing demand for wireless services are the main driving forces for the evolution of wireless technologies. However, the realization of such technologies requires a radical transformation of existing infrastructures to satisfy […]
"Channel-and-Adversary-Resilient Radio Fingerprinting through Data-Driven Approaches at Scale" Committee: Prof. Tommaso Melodia (Advisor) Prof. Kaushik Chowdhury Prof. Francesco Restuccia Abstract: Radio fingerprinting authenticates wireless devices by leveraging tiny hardware-level imperfections inevitably present in the radio circuitry. This way, devices can be directly identified at the physical layer– thus avoiding energy-expensive upper-layer cryptography that resource-limited embedded […]
"Decoupling Efficiency-Performance Optimization for Modern Neural Networks" Committee: Prof. Yanzhi Wang (Advisor) Prof. David R. Kaeli Prof. Sunil Mittal Prof. Jennifer Dy Abstract: Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in a variety of modern applications, but this success is often accompanied by inefficiency in terms of storage and inference speed, which can hinder their practical […]