SUMMARY
During the academic year 1997-98 graduate students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department were co-owners in one patent, co-authors in two chapters in books, 12 refereed journal publications and over 20 conference presentations. They have also been finalist in student design competitions, awarded NSF travel grants and invited to give seminars to other institutions.

Graduate students deserving recognition include:

A.G. Bourgeois, D. Campos-Delgado, X. Chen, H.P. Dharmasena, J.A. Fernandez-Zepeda, J. Huang, K.H. Kim, G. Nallapati, M. Narasimhan, S. Park, J. Song, K.W. Tang, and V. Venkatachalam.

American Vacuum Society 44th National Symposium,
25th International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films,
194th Annual meeting of the Electrochemical Society,
American. Control Conference,
IEEE International Syumposium Circuit & Systems,
IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems,
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
International Conference on Communications (ICC'98),
Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'98),
International Conference on Parallel Processing,
International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Computing Systems,
IEEE International. Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis,
International Conference on High Performance Computing,
International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD-98).

Journal of Vacuum Science of Technology B
Applied Physics Letters
Systems and Control Letters
Automatica
IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing
SIAM Journal in Optimization and Control
Parallel Processing Letters
IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems.
Circuits, Systems Signal Processing

Patents
Dr. G.S. Lee and Juho Jong
"Low-temperature plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition of silicon oxide films and fluorinated silicon oxide films using disilane as a silicon precursor,"
 

Chapters in Books
 

1. J. Ramanujam, S. Dutta, and A. Venkatachar, "Code Generation for Complex Subscripts in Data-Parallel Programs," in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, Z. Li et al., (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1366, pp. 49-63, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

 
2. A. Venkatachar, J. Ramanujam, and A. Thirumalai, "Generalized Overlap Regions for Communication Optimization in Data-Parallel Programs," in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, D. Sehr et al., Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1239, pp. 404-419, Springer-Verlag, 1997.

 

1. Juho Song, P.K. Ajmera, and G.S. Lee, "Low Temperature Plasma Enhanced Chemical vapor Deposition of Fluorinated Silicon Oxide Films as an Interlayer Dielectric," Journal of Vacuum Science of Technology B, vol. 15, p. 1843, 1997.

 
2. K. Kim , Juho Song, D. Kwon, and G. S. Lee, "Effect of Fluorine on Chemical and Electrical Properties of Room Temperature Oxide Films Prepared by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 72, p. 1247, 1998.

 
3. K. Kim, D. H. Kwon, G. Nallapati, and G. S. Lee, "Characterization of Low Dielectric Constant PECVD Fluorinated Silicon Oxide Films as Intermetal Dielectric Materials," Journal of Vacuum Science of Technology ,vol. A16, p. 1509, 1998.

 
4. X. Chen and K. Zhou, "Order Statistics and probabilistic robust control," Systems and Control Letters, to appear in 1998.

 
5. X. Chen, G. Gu, P. Marten and K. Zhou, "Bifurcation control with output feedback and its applications to rotating stall control," Automatica, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 437-443, 1998.

 
6. G. Gu, J. Huang "Convergence results on the design of QMF banks," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing,Vol. 46, 758-761, March 1998.

 
7. J. Huang and G. Gu, "A direct approach to the design of QMF banks via frequency domain optimizations," to appear in IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Aug. 1998.

 
8. G. Gu, X. Chen, A. Sparks, and S. Banda, "Bifurcation Stabilization with Local Output Feedback," to appear in SIAM J. Optimiz. Contr., 1998.

 
9. J. L. Trahan, A. G. Bourgeois and R. Vaidyanathan, "Tighter and Broader Complexity Results for Reconfigurable Meshes," to appear in Parallel Processing Letters, special issue on Bus-based Architectures.

 
10. J. A. Fernandez-Zepeda, R. Vaidyanathan and J. L. Trahan, "Relative Scalability of the Fusing-Restricted Reconfigurable Mesh," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems.

 
11. A. Venkatachar, J. Ramanujam, and A. Thirumalai, "Communication Generation for Block-Cyclic Distributions," Parallel Processing Letters, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 195-202, 1997.

 
12. K.-W. Tang and S.C. Kak, "A new corner classification approach to neutral network training," Circuits, Systems Signal Processing, vol. 17, 1998, pp. 459-469.

 
13. S. Stadler and P.K. Ajmera, "Stress control in thin sputtered films towards potential application in micromachined structures," Materials Letters, vol. 35, pp 18 -21, 1998.

 
14. G. Nallapati and P.K. Ajmera, "Process characterization of plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of silicon nitride films with disilane as silicon source," J. Vacc. Sci. and Technol (B), vol.16, pp 1077-1081, 1998.

 

1. K. H. Kim, D. H. Kwon, G. Nallapati, and G. S. Lee, "Characterization of Low Dielectric Constant PECVD Fluorinated Silicon Dioxide Films as Intermetal Dielectric Layers," presented at American Vacuum Society 44th National Symposium, San Jose, CA, October 1997.

 
2. K. H. Kim, D. H. Kwon, and G. S. Lee, "Properties of Low Dielectric Constant Fluorinated SiO2 Films Prepared by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition," presented at The 25th International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, San Diego, CA, April 1998.

 
3. K. Kim, S. Park, and G. S. Lee, "Termal Stability of Sputtered Ta/PECVD SiOF Films for Intermetal Dielectric Application," will be presented at the 194th Annual meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Boston, MA, Nov. 1-6, 1998.

 
4. G. Gu, X. Chen, A. Sparks, and S. Banda, "Bifurcation stabilization with local output feedback," Proceedings of 1997 Amer. Contr. Conference., (Albuquerque, NM), 2193-2197, 1997.

 
5. X. Chen, G. Gu, P. Marten, and K. Zhou, "Rotating stall control via bifurcation stabilization," Proceedings. of 1998 IEEE Int. Symp. Cir. & Syst., (Monterey, CA), 1998.

 
6. D. Xiong, G. Gu and K. Zhou, "Identification in Hoo via convex programming," Proceedings of Amer.Contr. Conf., (San Francisco, June 1993), pp. 1692-1693.

 
7. V. Venkatachalam, and J.L. Aravena, "Nonstationary signal classification using pseudo power signatures," 1998 IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems, Monterrey, CA, June 1 - 3, 1998.

 
8. X. Chen and K. Zhou, "Constrained robustness analysis and synthesis by randomized algorithms," Proceedings of 1998 American Control Conference, Philadelphia, pp. 1429-1433, June 1998.

 
9. X. Chen and K. Zhou, "A probabilistic approach to robust control," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, pp. 4894-4895, December 1997.

 
10. X. Chen and K. Zhou, "On the probabilistic characterization of model uncertainty and robustness," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, pp. 3816-3821, December 1997.

 
11. C. Vargas, M. Hegde and M. Naraghi-Pour, "Blocking Effects of Mobility and reservation in Wireless Networks," Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications (ICC'98), pp. 1612-1616.

 
12. C. Vargas, M. Hegde and M. Naraghi-Pour, "Implied Costs in Wireless Networks," Proceedings of the Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'98).

 
13. H. P. Dharmasena and R. Vaidyanathan, "An Optimal Multiple Bus Network for Fan-in Algorithms," Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel Processing, pp. 100-103, Bloomingdale, IL, August 1997.

 
14. S. T. Kamath and R. Vaidyanathan, "Running Weak Hypercube Algorithms on Multiple Bus Networks," Proceedings of ISCA International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 217-222, New Orleans, LA, October 1997.

 
15. J. L. Trahan, Y. Pan, R. Vaidyanathan, and A. G. Bourgeois, "Scalable Basic Algorithms on a Linear Array with Reconfigurable Pipelined Bus System," Proceedings of ISCA International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 564-569, New Orleans, LA, October 1997.

 
16. V. Venkatachalam, J. L. Aravena, ``Enhanced Signatures for Event Classification: The Projector Approach ,'' IEEE International. Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, Oct. 6-9, 1998, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

 
17. J. L. Aravena, V. Venkatachalam, ``Detecting Periodic Behavior in Nonstationary Signals,'' IEEE International. Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, Oct. 6-9, 1998, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

 
18. J. Ramanujam, A. Venkatachar, and S. Dutta, "Efficient Address Sequence Generation for Two-level Mappings in High Performance Fortran," to appear in Proceedings of 1998 International Conference on High Performance Computing, Chennai, India, December 1998.

 
19. M. Narasimhan and J. Ramanujam, "Improving the Computational Efficiency of ILP-based Problems," to appear in Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD-98), San Jose, CA, November 1998.

 
20. J. Ramanujam, S. Dutta, A. Venkatachar, and A. Thirumalai, "Advanced Compilation Techniques for HPF," in Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computers, Linkoping, Sweden, P. Fritzson (Ed.), pp. 57-68, June-July 1998.

 
21. A. Srivastava, S.V. Prasanna and P.K. Ajmera, "Readout electronics scheme in CMOS technology for integration with analog outputs from integrated smart sensors," to appear in Proceedings of Smart Electronics and MEMS - Part of SPIEâs 5th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, CA, March 1-5, 1998.

 
22. G.Nallapati and P.K.Ajmera, "Low temperature plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of silicon nitride and oxynitride layers," in Physics of Semiconductor Devices, vol. 1, Eds. V. Kumar and S. K. Agarwal, 9th International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Delhi, India, Dec.16-20, 1997), pp 573 - 579. (Invited).

 
23. S. Stadler and P.K. Ajmera, "Integration of LIGA structures with CMOS circuitry," in Proc. of 4th Annual SPIE Symp. on Smart Structures and Materials, (San Diego, CA, March 6, 1997), vol. 3046, pp. 230 - 241 (Invited).

 
24. P.K.Ajmera, S.Stadler, C. Khan Malek and V. Saile, "High-aspect ratio structures for sensors compatible with electronic circuitry," in Physics of Semiconductor Devices, vol. 1, Eds. V.Kumar and S.K.Agarwal, 9th International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, ( Delhi, India, Dec. 16-20, 1997), pp 504 - 508.

 
25. A. Srivastava, S.V.Prasanna and P.K. Ajmera, "Readout electronics scheme in CMOS technology for integration with analog outputs from integrated smart sensors," in Proc. of 5th Annual International SPIE. Symp. on Smart Structures and Materials, (San Diego, CA, March 2-5, 1998), vol. 3328, pp .

 
26. P.K.Ajmera, S. Stadler and N. Abdollahi, "Development of a low-cost x-ray mask for high-aspect ratio MEM smart structures," in Proc. of 5th Annual International SPIE Symp. on Smart Structures and Materials, (San Diego, CA, March 2-5, 1998), vol. 3328, pp . (Invited).

Other Honors and Recognitions to ECE Graduate Students

Xinjia Chen won the NSF travel grant to 1997 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, December 1997.

Merten Jung and Daniel Campos-Delgado reached the finals of the 1998 American Control Conference Design Competition. The winner was selected by a draw from among the finalists.

Vidya Venkatachalam was invited to give a seminar at the Laboratory of Computational Methematics, Rice University, Houston.