Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Master Works Symposium

May 6, 2008

The EECS Masterworks Symposium is an opportunity for students to give a presentation of their Master's thesis work to faculty and other students. Presenters at Masterworks are graduate students currently working for the degrees of Master of Engineering or Master of Science in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Since the symposium is held only once per year, students who have finished a Master's Degree in September or February are also eligible to present.

In 2008 there will be 36 poster presentations. There will be prizes for the best oral presentations and for outstanding theses.

EECS Masterworks is to be held on May 6, 2008 from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM in the Faculty Lunchroom area of the Stata Center (Building 32)

Here is a listing of this year’s presentations:

2008 EECS Masterworks Symposium
Name		Advisor	Title
Hassen	Abdu	Vladimir Bulovic	Molecular Non-volatile Floating Gate Memory
Abhinav	Agarwal	Arvind	Comparison of High-Level Hardware Design Methodologies for Algorithmic IPs
Michael	Bernstein	David Karger	Information Scrap Management: Understanding and Design
Solomon	Bisker	Federico Casalegno	Applications of Mobile Barcode Recognition to Real-Time Events and Gatherings
S.R.K.	Branavan	Regina Barzilay	High Compression Rate Text Summarization
Hung-An	Chang	Jim Glass	Large-margin Gaussian Mixture Modeling for Phonetic Classification
Roger	Chen	Regina Barzilay	Discourse Models for Collaboratively Edited Corpora
Brandon	Cho	Srini Devedas	Diastolic Arrays: Throughput-Driven Reconfigurable Computing
Hyeyoun	chung	Isaac Chuang	The Study of Entangled States in Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
Rick	Cory	Russ Tedrake	Flying Robots that Perch
Guilherme	Fujiwara	Manolis Kellis	A general framework for genome interpretation using evolutionary signatures
Shyamnath	Gollakota	Dina Katabi	ZigZag Decoding: Combating Hidden Terminals in Wireless Networks
Brian	Jacokes	David Brock	Syllables and the M Language: Improving Unknown Word Guessing
Jason	Katz-Brown	Michael Collins	Improving Japanese-English Machine Translation
Do Ba	Khanh	Piotr Indyk	Sublinear Time Algorithms for Earth Mover's Distance
Yongwook	Kim	Polina Golland	Comparison of Data-Driven Analysis Methods for Identification of Functional Connectivity in fMRI
John	Lee	Trevor Darrell	Efficient Object Recognition and Image Retrieval for Large-Scale Applications
Vin	Misra	Vivek Goyal	Functional Quantization
Christopher	Moh	Fredo Durand	Inpainting Bayesian Mattes
Valerie	Morash	Pawan Sinha	The Magnetoencephalography M170 Response to Degraded Images
Michael	Naber	Lou Braida	SOUNDGEN: A Web Services Based Sound Generation System for the Psychoacoustics Laboratory
Ali	ParendahGheibi	Muriel Medard and Asu Ozdaglar	Fair Resource Allocation in Multiple Access Channels
Lev	Popov	Sam Madden	iNav: A Hybrid Approach to WiFi Localization and Tracking of Mobile Devices
Adam	Rogal	Larry Rudolph	PreCog: A Robust Machine Learning System to Predict Failure in a Virtualized Environment.
Yuan	Shen	Moe Win	Fundamental Limits of Wideband Localization
Shirley	Shi	Muriel Medard	Joint Base-Calling of Two DNA Sequences with Factor Graphs
Yasuhiro	Shirasaki	Vladimir Bulovic	Efficient Förster Energy Transfer From Phosphorescent Organic Molecules to J-aggregate Thin Film
Mahmut	Sinangil	Anantha Chandrakasan	Ultra-Dynamic Voltage Scalable (U-DVS) SRAM Design Considerations
Hui	Tang	Vladimir Bulovic	Lithographically Processed metal-oxide FETs
Murali	Vijayaraghavan	Arvind	Rapid development of processor performance models on FPGAs
Grace	Wang	Bertrand Delgute	Spatio-temporal representation of the pitch of complex tones in the auditory nerve and cochlear nucleus
Daniel	Weller	Vivek Goyal	Mitigating Timing Noise in ADCs through Digital Post-Processing
Jenny	Yuen	Eric Grimson and Antonio Torralba	Global and Local Motion Priors and their Applications
Yoyo	Zhou	Barbara Liskov	Computing network coordinates in the presence of Byzantine failures
Joey	Zhou	C. Leiserson	Technology for Facilitating and Analyzing Interviews in Large Groups
Bo	Zhu	Jim Glass	Multimodal Speech Recognition with Ultrasonic Sensors