ADVANCED PROJECTS

May be repeated for up to 6 points of credit. Graduate-level projects in various areas of electrical engineering and computer science. In consultation with an instructor, each student designs his or her project depending on the students previous training and experience. Students should consult with a professor in their area for detailed arrangements no later than the last day of registration.

• Instructor: Kenneth Shepard
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• Instructor: Tanvir Ahmed Khan
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• Instructor: Yannis P Tsividis
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• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
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• Instructor: Wen I Wang
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• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
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• Instructor: John Wright
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info
• Instructor: Charles A Zukowski
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• Instructor: Gil Zussman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Alexander Gaeta
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• Instructor: Savannah Eisner
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• Instructor: James Anderson
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• Instructor: Asaf Cidon
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• Instructor: Xiang Meng
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• Instructor: Micah Goldblum
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• 1-4 points

ADV ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

Integrated circuit device characteristics and models; temperature- and supply-independent biasing; IC operational amplifier analysis and design and their applications; feedback amplifiers, stability and frequency compensation techniques; noise in circuits and low-noise design; mismatch in circuits and low-offset design. Computer-aided analysis techniques are used in homework(s) or a design project.

• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Harish Krishnaswamy
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• 3 points

Analog-Digital Interfaces in VLSI

Analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion techniques for very large scale integrated circuits and systems. Precision sampling; quantization; A/D and D/A converter architectures and metrics; Nyquist architectures; oversampling architectures; correction techniques; system considerations. A design project is an integral part of this course.

• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy Dickson
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• 3 points

MICROWAVE CIRCUIT DESIGN

Introduction to microwave engineering and microwave circuit design. Review of transmission lines. Smith chart, S-parameters, microwave impedance matching, transformation and power combining networks, active and passive microwave devices, S-parameter-based design of RF and microwave amplifiers. A microwave circuit design project (using microwave CAD) is an integral part of the course.

• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Yves Baeyens
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• 3 points

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PHYSICS

Physics and properties of semiconductors. Transport and recombination of excess carriers. Schottky, P-N, MOS, and heterojunction diodes. Field effect and bipolar junction transistors. Dielectric and optical properties. Optical devices including semiconductor lamps, lasers, and detectors.

• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiang Meng
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• 3 points

VLSI DESIGN LABORATORY

Design of a CMOS mixed-signal integrated circuit. The class divides up into teams to work on mixed-signal integrated circuit designs. The chips are fabricated to be tested the following term. Lectures cover use of computer-aided design tools, design issues specific to the projects, and chip integration issues. This course shares lectures with E4350, but the complexity requirements of integrated circuits are higher.

• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mingoo Seok
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• 3 points

LIGHTWAVE SYSTEMS

Fiber optics. Guiding, dispersion, attenuation, and nonlinear properties of fibers. Optical modulation schemes. Photonic components, optical amplifiers. Semiconductor laser transmitters. Receiver design. Fiber optic telecommunication links. Nonregenerative transmission using erbium-doped fiber amplifier chains. Coherent detection. Local area networks. Advanced topics in light wave networks.

• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiang Meng
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

Photonic integrated circuits are important subsystem components for telecommunications, optically controlled radar, optical signal processing, and photonic local area networks. An introduction to the devices and the design of these circuits. Principle and modeling of dielectric waveguides (including silica on silicon and InP based materials), waveguide devices (simple and star couplers), and surface diffractive elements. Discussion of numerical techniques for modeling circuits, including beam propagation and finite difference codes, and design of other devices: optical isolators, demultiplexers.

• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michal Lipson
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• 3 points

MODERN CONTROL THEORY

• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: James Anderson
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• 3 points

TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP

Advanced Deep Learning

Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.

• W 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoran Kostic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP

Deep Learning on the Edge

Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.

• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoran Kostic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP

TPC: MATHEMATICS OF DEEP LEARN

Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.

• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Predrag R Jelenkovic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

INFORMATION THEORY

Classical and quantum information measures.  Source coding theorem. Capacity of discrete memoryless channels and the noisy channel coding theorem. The rate-distortion theory. Gaussian channel capacity. Quantum source coding. Quantum channel capacity.

• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN NETWORKING

5G&NxtG Programmable Ntwr

Further study of areas such as communication protocols and architectures, flow and congestion control in data networks, performance evaluation in integrated networks. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6770 to 6779.

• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Doru Calin
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN NETWORKING

MachineLearn for Networks

Further study of areas such as communication protocols and architectures, flow and congestion control in data networks, performance evaluation in integrated networks. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6770 to 6779.

• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Anwar I Walid
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN NETWORKING

Further study of areas such as communication protocols and architectures, flow and congestion control in data networks, performance evaluation in integrated networks. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6770 to 6779.

• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• 3 points

SPEECH&AUDIO PROC&REC

Fundamentals of digital speech processing and audio signals. Acoustic and perceptual basics of audio. Short-time Fourier analysis. Analysis and filterbank models. Speech and audio coding, compression, and reconstruction. Acoustic feature extraction and classification. Recognition techniques for speech and other sounds, including hidden Markov models.

• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Nima Mesgarani
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• 3 points

Statistical signal processing and learni

STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCES

Introduction to the fundamental principles of statistical signal processing related to detection and estimation. Hypothesis testing, signal detection, parameter estimation, signal estimation, and selected advanced topics. Suitable for students doing research in communications, control, signal processing, and related areas.

• M 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Guido H Jajamovich
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• 3 points

Sparse and Low-Dimensional Models for Hi

SPARSE MODELS FOR HI-D DA

Overview of theory, computation and applications for sparse and low-dimensional data modeling. Recoverability of sparse and low-rank models. Optimization methods for low-dim data modeling. Applications to imaging, neuroscience, communications, web data.

• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: John Wright
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING

INTRO TO BLOCKCHAIN TECH

Advanced topics in signal processing, such as multidimensional signal processing, image feature extraction, image/video editing and indexing, advanced digital filter design, multirate signal processing, adaptive signal processing, and wave-form coding of signals. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6880 to 6889.

• F 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• 3 points

TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING

LARGE-SCALE STREAM PROCESSING

Advanced topics in signal processing, such as multidimensional signal processing, image feature extraction, image/video editing and indexing, advanced digital filter design, multirate signal processing, adaptive signal processing, and wave-form coding of signals. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6880 to 6889.  Topic: Large Data Stream Processing.

• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Deepak S Turaga
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• 3 points

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

System Optimization AI/ML

Advanced topics spanning electrical engineering and computer science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899.

• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Hubertus Franke
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• 3 points

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

Reinforcement Learning

Advanced topics spanning electrical engineering and computer science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899.

• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Javad Ghaderi
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• 3 points

TOPICS-INFORMATION PROCESSING

TPC: Adv Big Data & AI

Advanced topics spanning Electrical Engineering and Computer Science such as speech processing and recognition, image and multimedia content analysis, and other areas drawing on signal processing, information theory, machine learning, pattern recognition, and related topics. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6890 to 6899.  Topic: Advanced Big Data Analytics.

• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ching-Yung Lin
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• 3 points

TPCS-ELEC & COMPUT ENGINEERING

Smart Grid-Holist. Approa

Selected topics in electrical and computer engineering. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6900 to 6909.

• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Sindhu Suresh
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• 3 points

TPCS-ELEC & COMPUT ENGINEERING

Future Energy: Econ-Syst

Selected topics in electrical and computer engineering. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6900 to 6909.

• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Debasis Mitra
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• 3 points

TPCS-ELEC & COMPUT ENGINEERING

Model Predictive Control

Selected topics in electrical and computer engineering. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6900 to 6909.

• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 3 points

TOPICS IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINE

Embedded AI

Selected topics in electrical and computer engineering. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6900 to 6909.

• M 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaofan Jiang
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• 3 points

RESEARCH II

Points of credit to be approved by the department. Requires submission of an outline of the proposed research for approval by the faculty member who is to supervise the work of the student. The research facilities of the department are available to qualified students interested in advanced study.

• Instructor: Dimitris Anastassiou
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• Instructor: Keren Bergman
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• Instructor: Shih-Fu Chang
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• Instructor: Javad Ghaderi
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• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
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• Instructor: Predrag R Jelenkovic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 35 Info
• Instructor: Xiaofan Jiang
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• Instructor: Ethan Katz-Bassett
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• Instructor: Dion Khodagholy Araghy
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• Instructor: Peter Kinget
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• Instructor: Zoran Kostic
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• Instructor: Harish Krishnaswamy
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• Instructor: Ioannis Kymissis
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• Instructor: Aurel A Lazar
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• Instructor: Michal Lipson
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• Instructor: Nima Mesgarani
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• Instructor: Debasis Mitra
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• Instructor: John W Paisley
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• Instructor: Matthias Preindl
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• Instructor: Mingoo Seok
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• Instructor: Kenneth Shepard
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• Instructor: Tanvir Ahmed Khan
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• Instructor: Yannis P Tsividis
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• Instructor: David G Vallancourt
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• Instructor: Wen I Wang
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• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
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• Instructor: John Wright
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 44 Info
• Instructor: Charles A Zukowski
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• Instructor: Gil Zussman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: James Anderson
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• Instructor: Savannah Eisner
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• Instructor: James Anderson
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• Instructor: Asaf Cidon
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• Instructor: Xiang Meng
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• Instructor: Micah Goldblum
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• 0-6 points