Computer Engineering

Joseph Cavallaro
Student needs: up to 2
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• GPU/FPGA acceleration of wireless basestation algorithms for LTE systems
• Dataflow architectures for control of flexible RF units in cognitive radio networks,br> • GPU/FPGA acceleration of registration algorithms for MRI image analysis

Farinaz Koushanfar
Student needs: 1 or 2 students
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• Integrated Circuits and Systems security (1 or 2 students)

Lin Zhong
Student needs: up to 2 students
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• Experimental systems for massive MIMO wireless (argos.rice.edu)
• operating system support for distributed personal computing

Multimedia Communications

Ashutosh Sabarwal
Student needs: 2-3 students
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• Large-scale full-duplex
• Side-channel full-duplex
• Delayed channel information

Wireless Networks

Edward Knightly
Student needs: up to 4 students
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• Diverse spectrum access networks (UHF, 60GHz, and VLC)
• Multi-antenna networks
• Wireless applications including security and health sensing

Signal and Image Processing

Richard Baraniuk
Student needs: 1 student
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• Sparse Signal Processing

Ashok Veeraraghavan (Rice), Stephan Schwanauer (Rice); and Arvind Rao (UT MDACC)
Student needs: up to 2
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• Supervised Dictionary Learning for Risk Assessment using 2D Histopathological Images
• Supervised Dictionary Learning for Risk Assessment using 2D/3D MRI Images

Ashok Veeraraghavan
Student needs: 2-3 students
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• Various Projects in Computational Imaging

Photonics, Electronics, and Nanoengineering

Aydin Babakhani
Student needs: 2
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• Designing CMOS-based mm-wave transceivers and on-chip antennas

Naomi Halas
Student needs: 1-2
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• TBA

Kevin Kelly
Student needs: see projects
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• Probing nanoscale magnetism in 2-D layered compounds (1 student)
• Simulation and implementation of novel compressive imaging strategies for motion tracking (1 student)

Junichiro Kono
Student needs: 1 per project
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• Development of Carbon Nanotube Based Infrared and Terahertz Detectors
• Graphene Active Photonics for Infrared and Terahertz Devices

Peter Nordlander
Student needs: 3
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• TBA

Isabell Thomann
Student needs: see projects
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• Nanostructured two-dimensional materials (1 student)
• Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (2 or 3 students)
• Nanophotonic scanning probe microscopy (1 or 2 students)

Neuroengineering

Xaq Pitkow
Student needs: up to 3 students
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• Inferring object attributes in visual cortex
• Robust nonlinear neural codes, with applications to balance perception
• Statistical inference in neural population codes
• Canonical architecture in neural inference
• Neural computation with structured high-dimensional uncertainty
• Solo or Chorus: causal inference and pitch fusion in musical sounds

Jacob Robinson
Student needs: 1 student
Suggested Elec 599 projects:

• Integrated nanophotonic microscope

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