The continued scaling of Cu low k technology is facing serious challenges imposed by basic limits from materials, processing and reliability. This has generated great interests recently to further develop Cu nanointerconnects ...

Applications that require ultra low latency and high reliability--such as intelligent transportation, telemedicine, and industrial automation--often involve a significant element of control and decision making. In particular, ...

Unsupervised learning involves inferring the inherent structures or patterns from unlabeled data. Since there is no label information, the fundamental challenge of unsupervised learning is that the objective function is ...

This thesis details the synthesis of the BDP-A crosslinker as well as how this synthesis toolkit can be used to synthesize novel crosslinkers. In this research, BDP-A was successfully synthesized and used to characterize ...

This report summarizes the creation of Black Gold, a series pilot. It covers the writing process, pre-production, and post-production. Black Gold was produced as a graduate thesis project in partial fulfillment of a Master ...

Data converters bridge the physical and digital worlds. They have been the crucial building blocks in modern electronic systems, and are expected to have a growing significance in the booming era of Internet-of-Things (IoT) ...

There has been a large body of research on distributional models, which are computational models of word use. However, less research has explored diachronic distributional models, which predict changes in word use over ...

Conscious states are ones that there is something it is like to undergo. There are three senses in which this dissertation delivers new work for non-reductive theories of consciousness. First, it supports non-reductive ...

This report echoes my visual work. I claim that while my writing articulates my life’s philosophy and my visual work exemplifies it, both bond in a reiterative relationship. Moments of leaving this relationship are rare; ...