FACULTY PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

January 1999 - December 2001

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803

1. Books and Book Chapters

"Improving variable placement for embedded processors," Sunil Atri, J. Ramanujam, and M. Kandemir, to appear in Languages and Compilers for High-Performance Computing, (s. Midkiff et al. Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2000.

J. Chen and G. Gu, Control-Oriented System Identification - An H¥ Approach, John Wiley Publisher, 2000.

"Integer Lattice Based Methods for Local Address Generation for Block-Cyclic Distributions," J. Ramanujam, to appear in Languages, Compilation Techniques and Run Time Systems for Scalable Parallel Systems, D. Agrawal and S. Pande (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2000.

"Bifurcation stabilization with applications in jet engine control," G. Gu and A. Sparks, in Controlling Bifurcations and Chaos in Engineering Systems, G. Chen Eds., pp. 347-368 CRC Press, 1999.

"H-Infinity Control," K. Zhou, The Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, vol. 9, pp. 94-106, 1999.

M. Feldman, "Electronics Laboratory Manual", published in 2002 by Prentice Hall.

Subhash Kak, "The Architecture of Knowledge: Quantum Mechanics, Neuroscience, Computers, and Consciousness." 2002/2003 (to appear), ICPR/ Oxford University Press.

Kemin Zhou, John C. Doyle, and Keith Glover, Robust and Optimal Control, Prentice Hall, 1996. (Japanese translation published in November of 1997 and Chinese translation published in July 2002.)

Kemin Zhou and John Doyle, Essentials of Robust Control, Prentice Hall, September 1997.

Kemin Zhou, Essentials of Robust Control -- Solutions Manual, Prentice Hall, 1998.

Edited Books (since 1990)

L. Benini, M. Kandemir, and J. Ramanujam (editors), Compilers and Operating Systems for Low Power, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2002 (to appear).

2. Articles in Refereed Journals

2.1 Articles in print

"Optimally Scaling Permutation Routing on Reconfigurable Linear Arrays with Optical Buses," J. L. Trahan, A. G. Bourgeois, Y. Pan and R. Vaidyanathan, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 60, no. 9, pp. 1125-1136, 2000.

"Relating Two-Dimensional Reconfigurable Meshes with Optically Pipelined Buses," A. G. Bourgeois and J. L. Trahan, International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 553-571, 2000.

"Pseudopower Scale Signatures: Frequency Domain Approach," J. L. Aravena and V. Venkatachalam, J. Franklin Inst., Special Issue on Time Frequency Analysis, Vol. 337 (2000), pp. 389-401.

"2-D Filter Optimal Design Using Matrix Dilation Approach," J. L. Aravena and Brad Banker, IEEE Transactions Sig. Proc., Vol 48, No. 7, pp. 2074-2082, July 2000.

"Constrained robustness analysis by randomized algorithms," X. Chen and K. Zhou, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 1180-1186, June 2000.

"Active agents, intelligence, and quantum computing," S. C. Kak, Information Sciences, vol. 128, pp. 1-17, 2000 (Invited Millennial paper).

"Quantum key distribution using three basis states," S. C. Kak, Pramana, Journal of Physics, vol. 47, pp. 709-713, May 2000.

"Rotating a qubit," S. C. Kak, Information Sciences, vol. 130, pp. 5-12, 2000.

"A unified framework for optimizing locality, parallelism, and communication in out-of-core computations," M. Kandemir, A. Choudhary, J. Ramanujam, and M. Kandaswamy, IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 11, No. 7, July 2000.

"Compiler algorithms for optimizing locality and parallelism on shared and distributed memory machines," M. Kandemir, J. Ramanujam, and A. Choudhary, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 60, No. 8, pp. 924-965, August 2000.

"On the robustness of uncertain time delay systems with structureed uncertainties," Y. Huang and K. Zhou, Systems and Control Letters, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 367-376, December 2000.

"Detection, estimation, and accommodation of loss of control effectiveness," E. Wu, Y. Zheng, and K. Zhou, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, vol. 24, pp. 775-795, 2000.

"Control reconfigurability of linear time-invariant systems," E. Wu, K. Zhou and G. Salomon, Automatica, vol. 36, No. 11, pp. 2169-2173, November 2000.

"Robust stability of uncertain time delay systems," Y. Huang and K. Zhou, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 2169-2173, November 2000.

"Constrained robustness analysis by randomized algorithms," X. Chen and K. Zhou, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 1180-1186, June 2000.

"Direct digital filter synthesis," J. L. Aravena and V. Venkatachalam, in Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, J. G. Webster, Ed., John Wiley, 1999.

"A neural-network based intelligent metasearch engine," B. Shu and S. C. Kak, Information Sciences, vol. 120, pp. 1-11, 1999.

"Introduction to quantum information processing," Dan Ventura and S. C. Kak, Information Sciences, vol. 130, pp. 1-4, 2000.

"The multi polynomial channel polynomial residue arithmetic system," M. Abdallah and A. Skavantzos, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 165-171, February 1999.

"Modeling of normalized coprime factors with v-metric uncertainty," G. Gu, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 44, pp. 1498-1511, Aug. 1999.

"Parametric H¥ loopshaping and weighted mixed sensitivity minimization," G. Gu, J. Chen and E. B. Lee, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 44, pp. 846-851, 1999.

"Bifurcation stabilization with local output feedback," G. Gu, X. Chen, A. Sparks and S. Banda, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, vol. 37, pp. 934-956, March 1999.

"Stability analysis for rotating stall dynamics in axial flow compressors," G. Gu, A. Sparks and C. Belta, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, vol. 18, pp. 331-350, Aug. 1999.

"Phase Grating Modulator," M. Hasan and M. Feldman, R. Sci. Instru, Vol 70, no. 1, pp. 11-13, Jan. 1999.

"Design of multichannel QMF banks with frequency domain optimizations," J. Huang, G. Gu and B. A. Shenoi, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II, vol. 46, pp. 599-607, May 1999.

"Indium Antimonide position and Infrared Detection," Y.Y. Jin and G. S. Lee, Korean Society of Sensor (invited), vol. 10, p. 244, 1999.

"Faster web search and prediction using instantaneously trained neural networks,'' S.C. Kak, IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 14, pp. 2-6, November/December 1999.

"Quantum computing and artificial intelligence,'' S.C. Kak, IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 14, pp. 9-11, July/August 1999.

``The initialization problem in quantum computing,'' S.C. Kak, Foundations of Physics, vol. 29, pp. 267-279, 1999.

"A global communication optimization technique based on data flow analysis and linear algebra," M. Kandemir, P. Banerjee, A. Choudhary, J. Ramanujam, N. Shenoy, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 1251-1297, November 1999.

"A matrix-based approach to global locality optimization," M. Kandemir, A. Choudhary, J. Ramanujam, and P. Banerjee, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 190-235, September 1999.

"A linear algebra framework for automatic determination of optimal data layouts," M. Kandemir, A. Choudhary, N. Shenoy, P. Banerjee, and J. Ramanujam, IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 115-135, February 1999.

"Improving cache locality by a combination of loop and data transformations," M. Kandemir, J. Ramanujam, and A. Choudhary, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 159-167, February 1999.

"Bifurcation test functions and surge control for axial flow compressors," W. Kang, G. Gu , A. Sparks and S. Banda, Automatica, vol. 35, pp. 229-239, 1999.

"Thermal Stability of Sputtered Ta/PECVD SiOF Films for Intermetal Dielectric Application," K. Kim, S. Park and G. S. Lee, Journal of Electrochemical Society, vol. 146, p. 3799, 1999.

"Robust stabilization of MIMO nonlinear systems by backstepping," X. Liu, G. Gu, and K. Zhou, Automatica, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 987-992, May 1999.

"Global Stabilization of MIMO minimum-phase nonlinear systems without strict triangular conditions," X. Liu, K. Zhou, and G. Gu, Systems and Control Letters, vol. 36, pp. 359-362, 1999.

"Implementation issues of the two-level residue number system with pairs of conjugate moduli," A. Skavantzos and M. Abdallah, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 826-838, March 1999.

"Inverse kinematics in robotics using neural networks,'' S. Tejomurtula and S.C. Kak, Information Sciences, vol. 116, pp. 147-164, 1999.

"Nonstationary Signal Classification Using Pseudo Power Signatures: The Matrix $SVD$ Approach," V. Venkatachalam and J. L. Aravena, IEEE Trans. Circ. & Syst., Vol. 46, No. 12, pp. 1497-1505, Dec. 1999.

"LFT uncertain model validation with time- and frequency-domain measurements," D. Xu, Z. Ren, G. Gu and J. Chen, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 44, pp. 1435-1441, July 1999.

"Design of optimal reduced order H2 filters," K. Zhou and X. Chen, Systems and Control Letters, vol. 37, no. 8, 1999.

"Balanced realization and model reduction method for unstable systems," K. Zhou, G. Salomon, and E. Wu, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 9, pp. no. 3, pp. 183-198, 1999.

2.2 Articles accepted for publication

"Minimizing data and synchronization costs in one-way communication," M. Kandemir, A. Choudhary, P. Banerjee, J. Ramanujam, and N. Shenoy, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

"A fast approach to computing exact solutions to the resource-constrained scheduling problem," M. Narasimhan and J. Ramanujam, to appear in ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 2002.

"Focusing X-ray Masks for Printing Very Narrow Features," M. Feldman, M. Khan, and F. Cerrina, submitted to, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., Nov./Dec. 2001.

"Distortion Correction in Adaptive Membrane Masks," X. Zhuang and M. Feldman, to be published, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., Nov./Dec. 2001.

"A New Controller Architecture for High Performance, Robust, Adaptive, and Fault Tolerant Control," K. Zhou and Z. Ren, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, to appear in September 2001.

"Relating Two-Dimensional Reconfigurable Meshes with Optically Pipelined Buses," A. G. Bourgeois and J. L. Trahan, to appear in International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 2000.

"Rotating stall control for axial flow compressors," C. Belta, G. Gu, A. Sparks, and S. Banda, to appear in Automatica, 2000.

"Generation of Arbitrary Three Dimensional Surfaces by X-Ray - Lithography," M. Feldman, G. S. Lee, D. Noel, C. Khan Malek, and R. Bass, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., vol. B-18, no. 6, to be published, Nov./Dec. 2000.

"A nearly interpolatory algorithm for H¥ identification," G. Gu and J. Chen, IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., to appear in 2000.

"On the robustness of uncrtain time delay systems with structured uncertainties," P. Huang and K. Zhou, Systems and Control Letters, 2000.

"An Optimal and Scalable Algorithm for Permutation Routing on Reconfigurable Linear Arrays with Optically Pipelined Buses," J. L. Trahan, A. G. Bourgeois, Y. Pan, and R. Vaidyanathan, to appear in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2000.

"Robust stability of uncertain time delay systems," Y. Huang and K. Zhou, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, November 2000.

"Constrained robustness analysis by randomized algorithms," X. Chen and K. Zhou, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1999.

"Thermal Compensation of X-Ray Mask Distortion," M. Feldman, to be published, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., vol. B-17, no. 6, Nov./Dec. 1999.

"An overview of rotating stall and surge control for axial flow compressors," G. Gu, S. Banda and A. Sparks, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Control Technology, 1999.

"Bifurcation stabilization with applications in jet engine control," G. Gu and A. Sparks, Chaos, Bifurcations, and Control, to be published by CRC Press, 1999.

"Robust stability of uncertain time delay systems," Y. Huang and K. Zhou, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1999.

"A LIGA-like process for high-aspect-ratio PZT microstructures," G. S. Lee, Y. Jin, S. Park, P. Ajmera, C. Khan Malek, J. Wang and F. Tang, Proceedings of SPIE Smart Electronics and MEMS Conference, vol. 3673, pp. 127 - 132, 1999.

"Development of a High Reliability FET - Type Reference Electrode for FET - Type Electrolyte Sensors," Y. C. Lee, Y. J. Kim, D. H. K, H. I. Seo, Y. M. Sohn, B. K. Sohn and G. S. Lee, Proceedings of the 4th East Asian Conf. on Chemical Sensors, Hsinchu, Taiwan, November 1999.

"A neural-network based intelligent metasearch engine,'' B. Shu and S.C. Kak, Information Sciences, 1999, in press.

"Detection, estimation, and accommodation of loss of control effectiveness," E. Wu, Y. Zheng and K. Zhou, a special issue of International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 1999.

"H¥ strong stabilization," D. U. Campos-Delgado and K. Zhou, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

"Multiobjective Control Design," X. Chen and K. Zhou, Accepted by SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.

"Local Robustness of Stationary Bifurcation Control," Xiang Chen, Andrew G. Sparks, Kemin Zhou and Guoxiang Gu, to appear as an invited paper in Latin American Applied Research.

"A New Controller Architecture for High Performance, Robust, Adaptive and Fault Tolerant Control," K. Zhou and Z. Ren, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, to appear in September 2001.

"Direct digital filter synthesis," J.L. Aravena and V. Venkatachalam, Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

"Kalman filter with hypothesis testing: a tool for estimating uncertain parameters," F. Chowdhury and J.L. Aravena, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing.

"Budeanu's power theory: 60 years of illusions," L.S. Czarnecki, Journal on Electric Power Quality and Utilization.

"Outline of the history of power theory development," L.S. Czarnecki, Journal on Electric of Power Quality and Utilization.

"Algorithmic mapping of feedforward neural networks onto multiple bus systems," A. El-Amawy and P. Kulasinghe, IEEE Trans. Parallel and Distributed Systems.

"Flexible learning rules for neural networks," M. Hegde, M. Naraghi-Pour, and G. Nandakumar, Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computations.

"Thermal Stability of Sputtered Ta/PECVD SiOF Films for Intermetal Dielectric Application," K. Kim, S. Park, and G.S. Lee, Journal of. Electrochemical Society (to be published).

"Estimation of exogenous traffic based on link measurements in circuit-switched networks," P.S. Min, M. Hegde, and M.A. Rayes, IEEE Trans. on Communications.

"Nonstationary Signal Classification Using Pseudo Power Signatures: The Matrix SVD Approach," V. Venkatachalam and J. L. Aravena, IEEE Trans. Circ. & Syst.

"Optimal 2-D FIR digital filter with separable components," V. Venkatachalam, and J.L. Aravena, IEEE Trans. Sig. Proc.

3. Conference Proceedings

"Fault Detection of Flight Critical Systems," Jorge Aravena, Fahmida Chowdhury, 20th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Daytona Beach,a FL, October 2001.

"Identification and active control of thermoacoustic instabilities," d. U. Campos-Delgado, D. Allgood, K. Zhou, and S. Acharya, submitted to 2001 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Mexico, January 2001.

"Local Robustness of Hopf Bifurcation Control," Xiang Chen, Guoxiang Gu and Kemin Zhou, to appear as an invited paper in Proc. IFAC 5th Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Russia, 2001.

"Acoustic control of thermoacoustic instabilities using experimental model-based controllers," D. Allgood, D. U. Campos-Delgado, S. Acharya, and K. Zhou, Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo '01, 46th ASME International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Technical Congress, June 4-7, 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

"Fault tolerant control of a gyroscope system," D. U. Dampos-Delgado and K. Zhou, American Control Conference, Arlington, VA, pp. 2688-2693, June 25-27, 2001.

"A New Controller Architecture for High Performance, Robust, Adaptive, and Fault Tolerant Control," K. Zhou, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 4120-4125, Sydney, Australia, 2000.

"Robust Stability and Performance of Uncertain Delay systems with Structured Uncertainties," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1509-1514, Sydney, Australia, 2000.

"On Reconfigurability," N. Eva Wu, K. Zhou, G. Salomon, Safeprocess, 2000.

"Generalized internal model control for a single flexible beam," D. U. Campos-Delgado, Y.P. Huang, and K. Zhou, IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design 2000, Prague, Czech Republic, 21-23 June 2000.

"A parallel frequency sweeping algorithm for computing maximal structured singular value mu, X. Chen and K. Zhou, IEEE Conferences on Decision and Control, Phoenix, Arizona pp. 1869-1874, December 1999.

"A new variable placement algorithm for embedded processors," S. Atri, J. Ramanujam and M. Kandemir, to appear in Proc. International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC'00), Bangalore, India, December 17-20, 2000.

"Improving variable placement for embedded processors," S. Atri, J. Ramanujam and M. Kandemir, to appear in Proc. Annual Workshop on Languages and Compilers for High Performance Computing (LCPC'00), Yorktown Heights, NY, August 2000.

"Relating Two-Dimensional Reconfigurable Meshes with Optically Pipelined Buses," A. Bourgeois and J. L. Trahan, Proc. 14th Int'l. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symp., (IEEE, Cancun, Mexico, May 2000), pp. 747-752.

"Fault Tolerant Algorithms for a Linear Array with a Reconfigurable Pipelined Bus System," A. G. Bourgeois and J. L. Trahan, Proc. Workshop on Optics in Computer Science (Parallel and Distributed Processing; Lect. Notes Comp. Sci. # 1800), (IEEE, Cancun, Mexico, May 2000), pp. 1044-1052.

"Generalized internal model control for a single flexible beam," D. U. Campos-Delgado, Y. P. Huang, and K. Zhou, IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design 2000, Prague, Czech Republic, 21-23 June 2000.

"A nearly interpolatory algorithm for H¥ identification," G. Gu and J. Chen, IFAC System Identification, June 2000.

"Data relation vectors: A new abstraction for data optimizations," M. Kandemir and J. Ramanujam, to appear in Proc. International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'00), Philadelphia, PA, October 2000.

"Neighborhood Prefetching on Multiprocessors Using Instruction History," David M. Koppelman, International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, October 2000.

"On lower bounds for scheduling problems in high-level synthesis," M. Narasimhan and J. Ramanujam, Proc. 37th Design Automation Conference, Los Angeles, CA, pp. 546-551, June 2000.

"On Reconfigureability," N. Eva Wu, K. Zhou, G. Salomon, Safeprocess, 2000.

"Cell Placement in a CDMA Network," R. Akl, M. Hegde, M. Naraghi-Pour and P. Min, Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference (VCNC '99), pp. 903-907, New Orleans, LA, Sept. 21-24, 1999.

"Flexible Allocation of Capacity in Multi-Cell CDMA Networks," R. Akl, M. Hegde, M. Naraghi-Pour and P. Min, Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC '99), pp. 1643-1647, Houston, TX, May 16-20, 1999.

"A bifurcation approach to rotating stall," C. Belta, G. Gu, A. Sparks, and S. Banda, Proc. of 1999 IFAC, (Beijing, China), July 1999.

"Finite time horizon multiobjective filtering and control," X. Chen and K. Zhou, Proceedings of 1999 IFAC Congress, vol. G, pp. 259-264, (Beijing).

"New techniques for robustness analysis," X. Chen and K. Zhou, IEEE Conferences on Decision and Control, pp. 1809-1814, (Arizona, December 1999).

"Lower Bounds on the Loading of Degree-2 Multiple Bus Networks for Binary-Tree Algorithms," H. P. Dharmasena and R. Vaidyanathan, Proc. 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium & 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, pp. 21-25, (San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1999).

"High Speed, High Capacity Bused Interconnects Using Optical Slab Waveguides," M. Feldman, R. Vaidyanathan and A. El-Amawy, Proc. 1999 Workshop on Optics in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1586, pp. 924-937, April 1999.

"Thermal Compensation of X-Ray Mask Distortion," M. Feldman, to be published, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., vol. B-17, no. 6, Nov./Dec. 1999.

"Improved Scaling Simulation of the General Reconfigurable Mesh," J. A. Fernandez-Zepeda, R. Vaidyanathan, and J. L. Trahan, Proc. Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1586, pp. 616-624, (San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1999).

"Robust control of uncertain time delay systems," Y. Huang and K. Zhou, IEEE Conferences on Decision and Control, pp. 1130-1135, (Arizona, December 1999).

"Code restructuring for improving executing efficiency, code size and power consumption for embedded DSPs," V. Jain, S. Rele, S. Pande, and J. Ramanujam, Proc. Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, San Diego, CA, August 1999.

"Indium Antimonide Position and Infrared Detection," Y. Y. Jin and G. S. Lee, Proceedings of Korean Sensor Society (invited), Pusan, Korea, November, 1999.

"An integer linear programming approach to optimizing cache locality," M. Kandemir, P. Banerjee, A. Choudhary, J. Ramanujam and E. Ayguade, in Proc. ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 99), pp. 500-509, Rhodes, Greece, June 1999.

"Compiler optimizations for I/O intensive computations," M. Kandemir, A. Choudhary, and J. Ramanujam, in Proc. 1999 International Conference on Parallel Processing, Aizu, Japan, pp. 164-171, September 1999.

"I/O conscious tiling for disk-resident data sets," M. Kandemir, A. Choudhary and J. Ramanujam, Proc. Euro-Par'99, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1685, p. 430-439, Toulouse, France, September 1999.

"Restructuring I/O-intensive computations for locality," M. Kandemir, A. Choudhary and J. Ramanujam, Proc. Workshop on High Performance Computation on Very Large Data Sets, HPCN Europe 99 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1593, pp. 1097-1106, Springer-Verlag, April 1999.

"A framework for interprocedural locality optimization using both loop and data layout transformations," M. Kandemir, A. Choudhary, J. Ramanujam and P. Banerjee, in Proc. 1999 International Conference on Parallel Processing, Aizu, Japan, pp. 95-102, September 1999.

"A graph based framework to detect optimal memory layouts for improving data locality," M. Kandemir, A. Choudhary, J. Ramanujam, and P. Banerjee, in Proc. IPPS 99, Puerto Rico, pp. 738-743, April 1999.

"Improving locality using a graph-based technique for detecting memory layouts of arrays," M. Kandemir, A. Choudhary, J. Ramanujam, and P. Banerjee, Proc. 9th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, San Antonio, TX, March 1999.

"An iteration space transformation algorithm based on explicit data layout representation for optimizing locality," M. Kandemir, J. Ramanuja, A. Choudhary, and P. Banerjee, to appear in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, S. Chatterjee et al., (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1656, pp. 34-50, Springer-Verlag, 1999.

"On reducing false sharing while improving locality on shared memory multiprocessors," M. Kandmir, A. Choudhary, J. Ramanujam, and P. Banerjee, Proc. International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'99), Newport Beach, CA, pp. 203-211, October 1999.

"A LIGA-like process for high-aspect-ratio PZT microstructures," G.S. Lee, Y. Jin, S. Park, P. Ajmera, C. Khan Malek, J. Wang, and F. Tang, Proceedings of SPIE Smart Material Conference, Newport Beach, CA, March 1999.

"Photovoltaic On-Demand Pulse Generator as an On-Board Power Source for Electrostatic Actuator Array," Jeong B. Lee, M. G. Allen A. Rohatgi, SPIE Symposium on Micromachining and Microfabrication, SPIE vol. 3878, pp. 328-336, September 19-23, 1999.

"Development of a High Reliability FET-Type Reference Electrode for FET-Type Electrolyte Sensors," Y. C. Lee, Y. J. Kim, D. H. K, H. I. Seo, Y. M. Sohn, B. K. Sohn, and G.S. Lee, Proceedings of the 4th East Asian Conf. on Chemical Sensors, Hsinchu, Taiwan, November 1999.

"Structure and robust stabilization of multivariable nonlinear interlacing systems," X. Liu, K. Zhou, G. Gu, Proceedings of 1999 IFAC Congress, vol. F, pp. 411-416, (Beijing).

"A new balanced realization and model reduction method for unstable systems," G. Salomon, K. Zhou, and E. Wu, Proceedings of 1999 IFAC Congress, vol. D, pp. 123-128, (Beijing).

"Application of New Chinese Remainder Theorems to RNS with two Pairs of Conjugate Moduli," A. Skavantzos and Y. Wang, Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, (Victoria, Canada, August 1999), pp. 165-168.

"New efficient RNS-to-weighted decoders for conjugate-pair moduli residue number systems," A. Skavantzos and Y. Wang, to appear in Proceedings of the Thirty Third Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, (Pacific Grove, CA, October 1999).

"Grouped-Moduli Residue Number Systems," A. Skavantzos and T. Stouraitis, Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (Orlando, FL, May 1999), pp. III 478 - III 483.

"A digital readout CMOS design for capacitive sensors using on-chip variable sense capacotor arrays," A. Srivastava, H. Yong, D. Wildhaber, M. Hassan, V. Gongalreddy, J. Wang, P. K. Ajmera and F. Pouralborz, in Proc. of 6th Annual International SPIE Symp. On Smart Structures and Materials, (Newport Beach, CA, March 1-3, 1999), vol. 3673, pp 93 - 103.

"Optimally Scaling Permutation Routing on Reconfigurable Linear Arrays with Optical Buses," J. L. Trahan, A. G. Bourgeois, Y. Pan and R. Vaidyanathan, Proc. 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium & 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, pp. 233-237, (San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1999).

4. Presentations

"Adaptive Membrane Masks," M. Feldman, S. Zhuang, M. Lim, K. Murooka, H. Smith and S. Uchiyama, invited talk at workshop on "Non-Conventional Patterning below 50 nm," sponsored by Defense Sciences Research Council, Stanford University, and DARPA, at the Strategic Analysis Corporation, Arlington, VA, January 17, 2001.

"Adaptive Membrane Masks, Not Just for X-Rays," M. Feldman, X. Zhuang, M. Lim, S. Uchiyama, and H. I. Smith, DARPA Advanced Lithography Review, Charleston, South Carolina, April 2-5, 2001.

"Distortion Correction in Adaptive Membrane Masks," X. Zhuang and M. Feldman, to be presented 45th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology & Nanofabrication, Washington, DC, May 29-June 1, 2001.

"Focusing X-ray Masks for Printing Very Narrow Features," M. FEldman, M. Khan, G. Tsvid and F. Cerrina, to be presented, 45th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology & Nanofabrication, Washington, DC, May 29-June 1, 2001.

"Generation of arbitrary three dimensional surfaces by X-ray lithography," M. Feldman, G. S. Lee, D. Noel, C. Khan Malek, and R. Bass, 44th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, Palm Springs, CA, May 30 - June 2, 2000.

"A Low-cost X-ray mask for high-aspect ratio structures," N.Abdollahi, J. Ross and P. K. Ajmera, Poster Paper, 5th CAMD Science & Technology Symposium and Users' Meeting, Baton Rouge, May 7-8, 1999.

"Demystifying Hinduism" P. K. Ajmera, Guest Speaker, Department of Residential Life Faculty Lecture Series, LSU, Feb. 1999.

"Integration of high-aspect ratio structures with electronics," P. K. Ajmera, given to Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD, Sensor and Electron Devices Directorate. April 1, 1999.

P. K. Ajmera, Research Activities in the ECE Department, LSU Materials Science and Engineering Workshop, Baton Rouge, March 6, 1999.

"Optical Interconnects," M. Feldman, invited talk at Motorola, Inc., Plantation, FL, August 31, 1999.

"Thermal Compensation of X-ray Mask Distortions," M. Feldman and Jeong B. Lee, The 43rd International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, Marco Island, FL, June 1-4, 1999.

"High Speed, High Capacity Bused Interconnects Using Optical Slab Waveguides," M. Feldman, R. Vaidyanathan and A. El-Amawy, 1999 Workshop on Optics in Computer Science in conjunction with the 13th International parallel Processing Symposium/10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 16, 1999.

"Indium Antimonide position and Infrared Detection," G. S. Lee, Korean Sensor Society (invited), Pusan, Korea, November, 1999.

"Stability Improvement of SiOF Film for Intermetal Low Dielectric Material," G. S. Lee, POSTEC University, Pohang, Korea, October 1999.

"A LIGA-like process for high-aspect-ratio PZT microstructures," G. Lee, Y. Jin, S. Park, P. Ajmera, C. Khan Malek, J. Wang, and F. Tang, SPIE Smart Material Conference, Newport Beach, CA, March 1999.

"LIGA-based RF MEMS and Bio MEMS research program at LSU," Jeong-Bong Lee, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, June 16, 1999.

"Development of a High Reliability FET-Type Reference Electrode for FET-Type Electrolyte Sensors," Y. C. Lee, Y. J. Kim, D. H. K, H. I. Seo, Y. M. Sohn, B. K. Sohn, and G.S. Lee, Proceedings of the 4th East Asian Conf. on Chemical Sensors, Hsinchu, Taiwan, November 1999.

"Provisioning of Quality of Service in wireless ATM (WATM) Networks," M. Naraghi-Pour, invited talk at National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, June 1999.

"Optimizing locality in loop nests," J. Ramanujam, University of Cincinnati, March 1999.

"High-Speed, High-Capacity Optical Interconnects," R. Vaidyanathan, invited presentation at Symposium to Initiate an Information Technology Center in Collaboration with Thinkstream, Inc., LSU, November 1999.

5. Other Publications