Past Programs

SRIP 2023 Projects

FACULTY MENTOR	PROJECT TITLE
An, Cheolhong	High-Speed Camera System Multiview Reconstruction for High-Speed Camera
Antipa, Nick	Computational Camera Model Simulator Fast Differentiable Wave Optics Mini-Scope Prototype High-Speed HDR Imaging
Atanasov, Nikolay	Python Robotics Quadrotor Robot Design and Autonomous Flight Inverse Reinforcement Learning of Robot Manipulation Skills Robot Motion Planning for Mobile Target Tracking
Baghdadchi, Saharnaz	Light-Matter Interactions and Optical Biosensors Optical Voice Recorder Using Digital Holography Plasmonic Sensors
Bharadia, Dinesh	Securing Wireless Networks Through Spectrum Awareness and Analytics Compute and Memory Efficient SLAM by Leveraging RF-signals Smartphone Enabled Ubiquitous Indoor Navigation and Mapping Ubiquitous Ultra-wideband Based 6 DoF Tracking and Localization Towards Ubiquitous Blood Pressure Sensing with Ambient Light Designing a 3-D Printed Smart Orthopedic Implant with WiForceSticker for Implant Health Monitoring Low Power IoT Sensor Testbed Based on Backscatter Communication Platform Augmenting Multi-Beam 5G mmWave Systems with Environment Sensing mmReliable-v2 Improving Reliability of a Multi-User 5G Millimeter-Wave System Using Machine Learning Developing 5G New Radio Testbed with Phased Arrays and USRP in Verilog sMMart-surface: Reconfigurable Smartsurface for mmwave 5G Connectivity
Cosman, Pamela	Analysis of Visual Attention Write Coach VR Job Interview Simulation and Coaching Compression and Cooperative Perception of Point Clouds Machine Learning Based Automated Behavioral Coaching for People with ASD
Dey, Sujit	Driver’s State of Mind and Intent Detection using Multiple Sensors and Machine Learning
Gilja, Vikash	Estimating Behaviorally Relevant Error from Neural Activity to Advance Speech Prosthesis Design Computer Vision-Based Tracking of Songbirds During Vocal Behavior
Gudem, Prasad	5G mmWave IC Design Wireless positioning, MEMS, and Drones
Hall, Drew	Design of IP blocks (amplifiers, references, data converters, etc.) in TSMC 65 nm Hardware Test Engineer
Kang, Mingu	Machine learning algorithm optimization for Edge Devices
Khoshabeh, Ramsin	RL^2: Real-life Reinforcement Learning! Smart Spaces! Super RC Racers!
Koushanfar, Farinaz	Learning Based Optimization
Le, Hanh-Phuc	Integrated Wireless Power Transfer Power Delivery for Motor Drive Stacked Transformer Power Converter for 48V POL Applications
Lin, Bill	Model Heterogeneity in Federated Learning Explainable Machine Learning Multi-Core Processor Architecture
Liu, Zhaowei	Optical Imaging with Deep Learning
Lo, Yuhwa	Heterogeneous Integration on CMOS Machine learning/AI for biomedicine
Lomakin, Vitaliy	Graphics Interface for an Electromagnetic Simulator Electromagnetic Losses in Human Body
Mercier, Patrick	Low-Power Wireless Communication Systems Multi-Modal Wearable Sensors
Milstein, Larry	Ultra-Low-Power Communications for Drone Applications
Mirarab, Siavash	Deep learning for (meta)-genomic analyses Statistical methods of phylodynamic reconstruction Algorithms for analyzing biodiversity using genomic data
Morris, Karcher	Bringing ECE 5 to High School Tools for Marine Robotics Engineering Education Design & Development of Wearable Device to Measure a Surgeon’s Ergonomic Performance
Ng, Tse Nga Tina	Objective assessment of motor disorders Understanding Cycle Life of Conducting Polymers as Anodes for High-Energy Supercapacitor
Nomura, Kenji	Cost-effective p-channel Transistor Development Oxide-TFT Development for Memory
Pal, Piya	Optimization and (Online) Learning for Channel Sensing with Limited Data
Schurgers, Curt	Engineers for Exploration Software Development for Pedagogical Use
Shi, Yuanyuan	Designing Learning Algorithms for Accelerated Control Reinforcement Learning under Large Dynamics Shift Data-driven Smart Building Modeling A Neural Network Solver for Combinatorial Optimization Problem Smart Forecast Catering to a Risk-aversion Decision-maker
Turakhia, Yatish	GPU Acceleration of Bioinformatics Algorithms A Programmable Hardware Accelerator for Dynamic Programming Algorithms Algorithms for Pathogen Genomic Surveillance
Vasconcelos, Nuno	Unsupervised Realistic Visual Question Answering (RVQA) Iterative Dataset Collection Generalized Bird’s-Eye View (BEV) Perception with Monocular Sequences Continual Learning with Deep Understanding of Objects Customizing Radiation Cancer Treatment with Deep Learning Accurate 3D-Hand Pose Estimation via Multi-Modal Fusion Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) with Few Images Crowd Localization with Diffusion Models
Wang, Edward	Smartphone-Based Medical Monitoring and Interventions Wearable and Ambient Computing for Noninvasive Digital Health Monitoring
Wang, Xiaolong	Robotic Manipulation using Reinforcement Learning with Vision Foundation Model Learning Legged Robot Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning Imitation Learning for Dexterous Manipulation using Allegro Hand Open World Recognition and Generation with Diffusion Models Learning Generalizable NeRFs on Large-Scale Data Object 6D Pose Estimation in the Wild
Xie, Pengtao	Leveraging Side Information for Text-to-Image Generation Prevent Performance Collapse of Differentiable Neural Architecture Search by Encouraging Transferability Automatic Annotation of Objects Based on Image Captions Curriculum Self-Supervised Learning Reweight Source Data via Tri-Level Optimization
Yip, Michael	Learning Safe Surgical Manipulation Sim-to-Real Control, Planning, for Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects Data-driven Approaches for Modeling, Control, Learning of Catheter Like Soft/Continuum Robots ARCSnake - Screw-Propelled Snake Robots Robot Design from the Wild Robotic Perception for Manipulation Modeling and Planning for Bimanual Deformable Object Manipulation Vision-Based Robotic Soft-Tissue Dissection Learning to Implicitly Track Deformation in the Surgical Scene
Zhang, Xinyu	A Millimeter-Wave MIMO Software Radio for Joint Communications and Sensing in 6G Life Logging Using Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion An Interactive Video Platform to Augment Remote Learning
Zheng, Yang	Predictive Control for Autonomous Vehicles in Mixed Traffic Systems Semidefinite Relaxation for Machine Learning Problems Model-Free Learning in Non-Convex Control Problems Efficient Algorithm Design for Semidefinite Optimization

SRIP 2022 Projects

FACULTY MENTOR	PROJECT TITLE
An, Cheolhong	Real-time Physical based rendering for medical images Deep neural network for Neurodegeneration Syndrome Real-time cell classification Optical Coherence Tomography Simulation
Antipa, Nick	Data-driven microscope design Next generation tools for optical function neuroimaging Backscatter holography for oceanographic imaging
Atanasov, Nikolay	Python Robotics Inverse Reinforcement Learning Hardware Design for Autonomous Quadrotor Robots Multi-agent Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Semantic Segmentation and Terrain Mapping
Bandaru, Prab	Thermal modeling of nanoscale materials and devices
Bharadia, Dinesh	Smartphone Enabled Ubiquitous Indoor Navigation and Mapping Robust SLAM for Autonomous System by combining light-based sensing (Lidar, Camera) and RF-based sensing Automotive radar perception in bad weather Intelligent Nonlinear communications In-Body Localization Sensing Driven Communication SweepSense 2.0 Securing your communication with IoT devices using device Identification Bespoke FPGA Based Communication Testbed Wireless Virtual Reality Over 5G Testbed Smart Radio: Simultaneous Communication and Sensing Smart Surfaces enabling both communication and sensing
Cosman, Pamela C	Eye-tracking for Reading Informational Text Mobile app for assisting in physical therapy VR training for conversational engagement
Dey, Sujit	Virtual Physical Therapy Behavioral Coaching and Guidance for People with ASD Driver’s State of Mind and Intent Detection using Multiple Sensors and Machine Learning Creating a Digital Twin of UCSD’s CV2X Testbed Using Wearables and Machine Learning to Enable Personalized Lifestyle Recommendations to Improve Blood Pressure Explaining Wireless Protocols Learned via Reinforcement Learning
Gerstoft, Peter	Acoustic room characterization and speaker tracking with Google voice Machine Learning for radio frequencies
Gessner, Rick	Utilizing Machine Learning to Enhance a Social Learning Platform
Gudem, Prasad	Analog/RF Integrated Circuit Design Study of aerodynamics of boomerangs and drones using wireless position location
Hall, Drew	IC Block Level Design Padring Synthesis Script Machine-Learning for Biomarker Identification
Kang, Mingu	Deep neural network accelerator with analog switched-capacitors Natural language processing under resource constraints
Khoshabeh, Ramsin & Mark Liu	MPC Racer Enhanced Access Control System Intelligent Low-cost Consumer-Grade Drone
Kuzum, Duygu	Nonvolatile memory devices for neuromorphic computing Novel electrooptical sensors for detecting brain signals
Le, Hanh-Phuc	Integrated power supply for soft robotics
Lerman, Imanuel	Neural Engineering Device Development Neuromodulation for Sleep
Lin, Bill	Explainable machine learning Multi-core processor architecture
Liu, Zhaowei	Super resolution sound/ultrasound imaging Computational spectrometry
Lo, Yuhwa	Semiconductor photodetectors for LiDAR and AR/VR Biophotonic machine learning system for biomedicine
Mercier, Patrick	Wearable physiochemical sensor technologies Ultra-low-power wireless communication circuits
Mi, Chris	Research on second life EV battery for energy storage applications in business building
Mirarab, Siavash	Deconvolving DNA mixtures New species sampling algorithms for faster statistical inference Machine learning methods for reconstructing evolutionary past
Mookherjea, Shayan	Implementing Quantum Networking Using Light
Morris, Karcher	Design & Development of Wearable Device to Measure a Surgeon’s Ergonomic Performance Mixing Circuits and Python for Education Bringing ECE 5 Curriculum to High School
Ng, Tina	Developing High-Energy Supercapacitors Recording Motor Disorders
Nguyen, Truong	RGB-based Face Anti-Spoofing with Spoof Hint Detection Lightweight Human Digitization System Analysis of Corticobasal Degeneration using Machine Learning Detection of Defects in Tire
Nomura, Kenji	Development of energy and cost-effective thin-film transistor Development of low-dimensional oxide semiconductor devices
Pal, Piya	Machine Learning for Inverse Problems
Schurgers, Curt	Engineers for Exploration Building a new student response system
Shi, Yuanyuan	Individual Carbon Footprint Profiling and Data Analytics Data-driven Electric Vehicle Fleet Charging Simulation and Applications
Taswell, Carl	Rendering, Region-Segmenting and Path-Following Algorithms for BrainWatch VR Software Effect of Neurodegenerative Disease Status on Co-Registration Accuracy of PET and MRI Brain Scans Automated Meta-Analyses of Dementia Literature with the SOLOMON Ontology and Nexus- PORTAL-DOORS-Scribe
Turakhia, Yatish	Hardware acceleration of computational genomics Large-scale COVID-19 Phylogenetics
Vasconcelos, Nuno	Visual grounding for robotics An iterative framework for dataset collection Larger vocabulary few-shot classification for machine teaching Generalized bird’s-eye view (BEV) perception with monocular images Continual taxonomic learning Action induced 3D detection Tire defect detection
Vasconcelos, Nuno & Antipa, Nick	Privacy Preserving Vision Cameras
Wang, Xiaolong	Imitation learning for dexterous manipulation Self-Supervised Learning of 3D from Videos Self-Supervised Representation Learning from Videos Vision-Guided Locomotion Control Learning to generate grasps Content Generation with Implicit Functions Robot Arm Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning Trifinger Manipulation 3D Articulation Modeling
Xie, Pengtao	Leveraging Side Information for Text-to-Image Generation Prevent Performance Collapse of Differentiable Neural Architecture Search by Encouraging Transferability Performance-Aware Mutual Knowledge Distillation Automatic Annotation of Objects Based on Image Captions Curriculum Self-Supervised Learning Reweight Source Data via Tri-Level Optimization
Yip, Michael	Learning Key-points For Deformable Robotic Manipulation Combing Model-based and Learning-based Control for Automation in Surgical Robotics Simulation of Advanced Multibody Physical Environment for Real-to-Sim Robotics Control and Planning Sim-to-Real Instrument Tracking For Surgical Robot Fast Collision Detection with Point Cloud via Machine Learning for Robotic Manipulators Interactive Perception and Planning in Dense and Deformable Environments Bimanual Planning for Deformable Object Manipulation Benchmarking Learning-Based Motion Planners for Robot Manipulators ViP-SuPer: A Vision and Physics-Based Surgical Perception Framework for Robotic Tissue Manipulation Tissue Deformation Prediction and Future Video Frame Synthesis for Robotic Tissue Manipulation Handheld Robotic Catheter Development and Deployment with School of Medicine and San Diego Zoo
Zhang, Xinyu	A Programmable Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Radio for 5G Communications and Sensing Intelligent reflectors for 5G range expansion. Sensing Everyday Activities Using WiFi: A Machine Learning Based Framework An Interactive Video Platform to Augment Remote Learning
Zheng, Yang	Autonomous Vehicles in mixed traffic systems: analysis, control, and numerical experiments Inner and outer approximations for semidefinite optimization Convex Relaxations for Global Optimization over Neural Networks Optimization landscape analysis of some control problems

SRIP 2021 Projects

FACULTY MENTOR	PROJECT TITLE
An, Cheolhong	OCT-Angiography processing for disease detection and classification Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) system Real-time cell classification for the flow cytometry Machine learning based dynamic fracture behavior tracking and estimation
Atanasov, Nikolay	Python Robotics Metric-Semantic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Model-based Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Balasubramani, Pragathi	Understanding the relationship between simultaneously recorded electro gastrogram signals and electroencephalogram signals during cognitive activities. Understanding how the neural activities vary between cognitive tasks for a person
Cosman, Pamela C	Eye-tracking for quantifying reading behavior Using mobile devices and computer vision to aid physical therapy Point cloud compression
Depp, Colin	Applying network analyses to understand regulation of emotion and cognition
Der-Avakian, Andre	Developing a wireless EEG recording system for rodents
Dey, Sujit	Deep Learning Enabled mmWave Communicationsfor Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Personalized Effect of Health Behavior on Blood Pressure: Machine Learning Based Prediction and Recommendation Driver’s State of Mind and Intent Detection usingMultiple Sensors and Machine Learning Sustainable Wireless Communications with OptimalUtilization of Renewable Energy and Storage GPS-free Object Tracking and Trajectory Prediction inSmart Transportation Exploring Edge Computing in 5G and future directions towards 6G
Ettenhofer, Mark	Eye tracking in VR for diagnosis of neurological conditions Computer vision for analysis of eye movements and pupil response in individuals with brain injuries Multimodal physiological signal processing for assessment of human performance after brain injury
Eyler, Lisa T	Facilitating Expansion of the Global Aging and Geriatrics Experiments in Bipolar Disorder Database: Semi-automated Intake of Archival Clinical Datasets
Gerstoft, Peter	MIMO Array Channel Sounder and Beam former Acoustic room characterization and speaker tracking with google voice
Gudem, Prasad	Wireless Tracking of Boomerang Flight TrajectoryUsing Ultra-Wide-Band Position Location System Design of Analog Circuits to Stabilize FerroelectricCapacitors Study of N-path Filters with Arbitrary Source/LoadImpedances
Guido K.W. Frank, MD; Mateusz Gola, PhD	Developing Virtually Reality to Treat and Understand the Neurobiology of Anorexia Nervosa
Harinath Garudadri (QI) & Eric Granholm (SoM), Colin Depp (SoM)	Psi-Fi Oral Interactions Psi-Fi Physical Activity Monitoring Psi-Fi Contextual Ecological Momentary Assessment
Javidi, Tara	DetecDrone Active Information Acquisition
Kang, Mingu	Traffic Sign Recognition on FPGA with XGBoost Algorithm Optimal bit-quantization and channel skipping in neural networks Deep neural network accelerator with analog switched-capacitors Dynamic approximate computing for deep neural network with real-time bit precision modulation in FPGA Data sparsity-aware dynamic frequency modulation for deep neural network acceleration in FPGA Deep neural network training under noisy devices
Le, Hanh-Phuc	Power Electronics for Sustainable Renewable Energy in Rural Areas
Lerman, Imanuel	Novel Sensing and Stimulation of Human Nerves thatEncode Infection Vagus Nerve Stimulation Effects on Sleep andLearning
Lin, Bill	Machine Learning for Real-Time Wireless and WirelineNetworking Problems SMT-Based Optimizations for Difficult-to-Solve Design Problems
Lo, Yuhwa	Viral RNA detection for virus in the environments Detection of single photons for LIDAR and imaging
Mercier, Patrick	Ultra-miniaturized power converters for microrobotic applications Wearable physiochemical sensor technologies Ultra-low-power wireless communication circuits
Meyer, Florian	Radar‐Based Machine Perception Underwater Acoustic Environmental Inversion
Morris, Karcher	Design & Development of Wearable Device toMeasure a Surgeon’s Ergonomic Performance Mixing Circuits and Python for Education Educational Technologies in ECE 5 Bringing ECE 5 Curriculum to High School
Ng, Tina	Objective assessment of motor disorder
Nguyen, Truong	Autonomous Transducer Positioning System forAI-guided Scanning Real-Time System for Detecting and Localizing theVagus Nerve in Ultrasound Scans Automated Visual Inspection system for Tire Defect
Nuno, Vasconcelos	Natural World 3D Computer Vision Long-tailed recognition of visual relationships Visualization guided machine teaching 3D object detection with monocular images and radar data in Autonomous driving Computational Cancer ImmunoPathology Multi-view machine learning for identifying underwater organisms from recorded data Self-Supervised Learning for Plankton ImageClassification Explainable AI for self-supervised learning An iterative framework for dataset collection Sound source localization in 360 video Fusing RGB and thermal images for improved computer vision Understanding group activity in public spaces
Rosing, Tajana	Accelerating bioinformatics workloads Hyperdimensional computing systems design Acceleration of Fully Homomorphic Encryption in PIM
Schurgers,Curt	Engineers for Exploration
Taswell, Carl	Wavelet-Based Algorithms for Rendering, Region-Segmenting and Path-Following in BrainWatch VR Software Effect of Neurodegenerative Disease Status on Coregistration Accuracy of PET and MRI Brain Scans Artificial Intelligence Methods for Concept-Similarity Detection and Matching for Brain Sciences Literature
Shi, Yuanyuan	Learning to Run a Power Network in a Sustainable World
Turakhia, Yatish	A GPU-accelerated library for aligning genomic longreads Real-time SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetics
Wang, Xiaolong	Vision-based RL for Robotics Manipulation andControl Learning Explicit 3D Representation from Videos Self-Supervised Learning with Videos
Xie, Pengtao	Interpretable Generation of Diagnosis Reports fromMedical Images Multi-task Learning with Graph Neural Networks Discriminative Learning of Graph Structure Few-shot Multi-instance Learning Automatic Medical Knowledge Graph ConstructionUsing Deep Reinforcement Learning Diversity-promoting Learning of Hierarchical LatentSpace Models Curriculum Determinantal Point Process for DiverseSubset Selection When Gaussian Process Meets Determinantal PointProcess: Learning Diverse Inducing Points Curriculum Determinantal Point Process for DiverseSubset Selection
Yip, Michael	Development of a Surgical Robot's User Interface State estimation for autonomous suturing Planning in the constrained bimanual end-effector space Data efficient learning algorithms for learning from demonstrations Real-to-sim Control and Learning for Automation inSurgical Manipulation Data-driven Approaches for Modeling and Control ofCatheter Like Continuum Robots
Zhang, Xinyu	A Programmable Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Radio for 5G Communications and Sensing Motion tracking using smart earbuds Sensing Everyday Activities Using WiFi: A Machine Learning Based Framework
Zheng, Yang	Advanced Control and Optimization for Autonomous Vehicles in Mixed Traffic Systems

SRIP 2020 Projects

FACULTY MENTOR	PROJECT TITLE
An, Cheolhong	Retinal Feature extraction and tracking OCT-Angiography processing for disease detection and classification Real-time cell classification for the flow cytometry Lensless camera: Simultaneous Depth and Scene reconstruction
Atanasov, Nikolay	Python Robotics Power design for a quadrotor robot Modeling, Simulation and Control of an Autonomous Quadrotor
Baghdadchi, Saharnaz	Generation of spatial polarization and phase patterns at focus Fiber-based endoscopy
Bharadia, Dinesh	Smartphone Enabled Ubiquitous Indoor Navigation and Mapping Robust SLAM for Autonomous System by combining light-based sensing (Lidar, Camera) and RF-based sensing Automotive radar perception in bad weather Deep Learning driven Intelligent Nonlinear communications In-Body sensing and localization of sensors Sensing Driven Communication using Deep Learning Autonomous monitoring and management of the spectrum Securing your communication with IoT devices using deviceIdentification Bespoke FPGA Based Communication Testbed Wireless virtual reality over 5G testbed Smart Radio: Simultaneous communication and sensing mm-accurate wireless localization for VR/AR and robotics
Cosman, Pamela	Detection of conversational engagement cues Eye-tracking to detect attention and distance to multiple faces 360 degree video streaming
Dey, Sujit	Driver’s State of Mind Detection using Multiple Sensors andMachine Learning Real-time Augmented Perception of Occluded Objects on movingVehicular Camera View Sustainable Wireless Communications with Optimal Utilization ofRenewable Energy and Storage Personalized Effect of Health Behavior on Blood Pressure: Machine Learning Based Prediction and Recommendation Matching objects with large viewpoint differences
Franceschetti, Massimo	Efficient deep neural networks
Gerstoft, Peter	MIMO Array Channel Sounder and Beam former Acoustic room characterization and speaker tracking with google voice
Gilja, Vikash	Robust neural prostheses using non-volitional activity Integration of depth sensing to track hand movements for neuralprosthesis experiments Automation of Language Processing and Audio Classification Neurally Driven Vocal Prosthesis: Vocal Production Decodingfrom Neural Activity
Gudem, Prasad	5G Based Position Location System Design of Bias Circuit for Novel Negative Capacitance Field EffectTransistor (NCFET) N-Path Filter Fast-locking PLL design Impact of FR1 5G NR Jammers on UWB System
Hall, Drew	IC Testing IC Block Design
Javidi, Tara	DetecDrone: DRONES THAT THINK. Using AI-enabled drones to augment human vision & senses Mathematical Underpinning of Information Acquisition Systems
Kim, Alicia	1. Design optimization for metamaterial
Khoshabeh, Ramsin	Not-So-Smart PCB Racer Optical Blood Pressure Sensor Synergistic IoT Cars
Kuzum, Duygu	Implantable Neurodevices Neuromorphic Devices for In-memory Computing
Le, Hanh-Phuc	1. Power Converter for Soft Robots
Lerman, Imanuel	Development of Focused Ultrasound Stimulation Therapy forNeuronal Diseases Optically Pumped Magnetometers to Detect Peripheral NeuronalSignals Vagus Nerve Stimulation Effects on Sleep and Learning
Lo, Yu-Hwa	Microfluidic and photonic biosensors Single photon detectors for sensing and imaging
Mercier, Patrick	Magnetic Human Body Communication Systems forNext-Generation Wearables Power management integrated circuits for microrobotics Low-power wireless receivers for IoT applications
Meyer, Florian	Long-Range Maritime Situational Awareness Radar-Based Machine Perception
Mi, Chris	Modeling of an extremely high power charging system for all electric airplanes Modeling of the power systems of an all-electric passenger airplane
Milstein, Larry	1. Spectrum Sensing using Machine Learning for Cognitive Radio
Mirarab, Siavash	Reconstructing evolutionary distances from bits and pieces of strings Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithms for inferring ancient evolutionary times Statistical models of amino acid evolution that account for biochemical properties
Ng, Tina	Recording Repetitive Behaviors and Physiological Stress inAutism Objective assessment of motor disorders Understanding Cycle Life of Conducting Polymers as Anodes forHigh-Energy Supercapacitors
Nguyen, Truong	Human-Inspired Camera Platform New Feature Matching Algorithm and Applications Collaborative machine vision for autonomous vehicle Gaze Estimation using Multiple Sensors and Machine Learning Remote Sensing Technology to Improve Community-Based FallRisk Assessment Vision-based Human Biometrics Estimation ECE-centric hands-on projects demonstrating Mathematics concepts Human Pose and Activity Recognition
Orlitsky, Alon	Explanation and Visualization of Random Phenomena Visual and Machine learning Tools for Conference Organization
Schurgers, Curt	Engineers for Exploration Development of educational technologies
Vasconcelos, Nuno	Datasets for Natural World 3D Computer Vision Long-tailed recognition of visual relationships Visualization guided machine teaching 3D object detection with monocular images and radar data inAutonomous driving Computational Cancer ImmunoPathology Reinforcement Learning for Underwater Communications Classification of point cloud data Biological Imaging Machine Learning for Clinical Decision Support
Wang, Edward	Ubiquitous Computing for Healthy Living
Wang, Xiaolong	Compositional Action Recognition Functional Grasping Video Editing and Synthesis
Xie, Pengtao	Discriminative Learning of Graph Structure Few-shot Multi-instance Learning When Gaussian Process Meets Determinantal Point Process: Learning Diverse Inducing Points Multi-task Learning with Graph Neural Networks Curriculum Determinantal Point Process for Diverse SubsetSelection Diversity-promoting Learning of Hierarchical Latent Space Models Interpretable Generation of Diagnosis Reports from MedicalImages Automatic Medical Knowledge Graph Construction Using DeepReinforcement Learning Teach Machine to Pass the United States Medical LicensingExamination
Yip, Mike	Developme nt of Reinforcement Learning Environments forSurgical Robotics Machine Learning for Robot Planning and Control Machine Learning for Task and Motion Planning Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for real-world Robotics problems Integration of Learning-based Motion Planners with standard motion planning libraries Bayesian Reinforcement Learning for Needle Insertion Task InRobot Surgery Surgical Robotic System Tracking within an MRI Scanner
Zhang, Xinyu	AI-Driven 5G Networks for Connected Vehicles A Programmable Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Radio for 5G Communications and Sensing for Sensing Everyday Activities Using WiFi: A Machine LearningBased Framework Mobile Indoor Navigation Using Existing Lighting Infrastructure

SRIP 2019 Projects

FACULTY MENTOR	PROJECT TITLE
Abi-Samra, Nicholas	Tablet Application for Tracking and Analyzing Damage fromWildfires and Extreme Weather Transmission line design applets Distribution systems applets
An, Cheolhong	Lensless Camera ML network for Medical image analysis3. CNN: Image Sensor to color image ML network to overlay metadata onto medical images
Atanasov, Nikolay	Gazebo Simulation of a Ground-Aerial Robot Team Lidar Odometry and Trajectory Tracking for an Autonomous Racecar Modeling, Simulation and Control of an Autonomous Quadrotor
Bae, Won	Deep Learning in Medical Imaging: Musculoskeletal Applications
Baghdadchi, Saharnaz	Singular imaging in turbulence Endoscopic Reflectance Spectroscopy
Bharadia, Dinesh	Wireless Virtual Reality Headset using Deep Learning All Weather Radar for Autonomous Driving An app Indoor Navigation -- on smartphones Wireless Virtual Reality tracking with standard glasses BLE localization and communication platform Helping Disaster zone using drones to identify human under the rubble
Cosman, Pamela	Machine learning & eye-tracking for autism assessment Speech processing to detect overlap and rate
Cleary, Daniel	Development of neurosurgical simulations for training resident physicians
Deledalle, Charles	Full-Focus Image Reconstruction PNG2SVG: Generating vectorial graphics from rasterized versions Image restoration with bi-directional GAN priors
Dey, Sujit	Improving collaboration in autonomous vehicles Towards On-demand Virtual Physical Therapist: PatientPerformance Evaluation and Balance Ability Quantification using Multiple Sensors Personalized Effect of Health Behavior on Blood Pressure: Machine Learning Based Prediction and Recommendation Towards On-demand Virtual Physical Therapist: PatientPerformance Evaluation and Balance Ability Quantification using Multiple Sensors Personalized Effect of Health Behavior on Blood Pressure: Machine Learning Based Prediction and Recommendation
Dow, Steven	Design for San Diego
El Amili, Abdelkrim	Opto-electrical probes for Silicon chips testing
Esmaili, Reza	Solar Charger for residential application 4-Leg 3-Phase UPS System Power converters and control for wind Turbine application Control of Permanent Magnet Drive for Electric CarApplication
Garudadri, Harinath	Human Activity Classification and Quantification Ambulatory Pupillometry
Gerstoft, Peter	Sparse modeling and machine learning in geoscience Detecting and Classifying Ships in the Ocean with Sound MIMO Array Channel Sounder and Beamformer
Ghoudjehbaklou, Hassan	Locating Oscillation Source, Using PMU Measurements Multi-terminal lines impedance estimation Power System Dynamic Network Reduction
Gilja, Vikash	The Development of an Avian Model for Neurally DrivenVocal Prostheses Behavioral Context Decoding from Neural Activity Estimating Brain State with High-Density Electrode Grids
Gudem, Prasad	Hawk-eye to capture flight trajectory of a boomerang Non-GPS Accurate Positioning Location
Hall, Drew	Ring-based Potentiostat Integrated Circuit Testing
Hessenauer, Sam	Blockchain AR Collectibles Machine Learning on 3D protein models for Binding Sites
Hsueh, Tzu-Chien & El Amili, Abdelkrim	Electrical and Optical Links Modeling and Budget Analyses Low-Power Integrated Lidar Circuits and Systems
Kuzum, Duygu	Neuroelectronic interfaces for brain Neuro-inspired in memory computing systems
Leung, Vincent	Wireless Power Transfer for Intra-cortical MiniaturizedDistributed Brain Implant ICs Design and Test of CMOS ICs for Adaptive, Energy-Optimized Wireless Brain Implant Network Circuit Design for Ultra-Low-Power Radio and Ambient RFEnergy Harvesting for IoT Applications
Lin, Bill	Solving engineering problems with AlphaZero Solving engineering problems with SAT and SMT solvers
Liu, Zhaowei	3D laser scanner
Liu, Thomas	Studying Dynamic Brain Activity with SimultaneousEEG-fMRI Deep Learning for Understanding Brain Activity High Performance Functional MRI Non-invasive imaging of the neurovascular system using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Lo, Yu-Hwa	Biophotonic systems for medical research Image processing and machine learning for biological systems
Mi, Chris	1. Battery parameter identification
Milstein, Larry	1. Video Transmission over Underwater Communication Channels
Mirarabbaygi, Siavash	New integrated algorithms for understanding microbiome Solving the mystery of how human segmental duplications evolved Noise reduction techniques for inferring evolutionary trees from genomic data
Ng, Tina	Organic Short-Wavelength Infrared Photodetectors Recording Motor Disorder Understanding Cycle Life of Conducting Polymers asAnodes for High-Energy Supercapacitors
Nguyen, Truong	Multi-camera calibration 3D face Modeling and Reconstruction Human Activity Dataset Collection and Annotation Human Pose and Activity Recognition 3D Scene Reconstruction for VR
Nomura, Kenji	High speed and Highly integrated vertical
Obrzut, Sebastian	Signal Processing of Parkinson's Disease Tremor Data fromVirtual Reality Application Deep Learning SPECT Medical Image Reconstruction Compressive Sensing Absorber for Molecular BreastImaging
Schurgers, Curt	Engineers for Exploration
Seshadri, Nambi	Machine learning for communication systems
Silberman, Jack	Affordable Open Source Smart Wheelchair
Suresh, Preetham	Digital Manikin (Mixed Reality Application) Real time Labeled Ultrasound Reference Stream Vitals into EPIC
Taswell, Carl	Development of Algorithms for Rendering, Region-Segmenting and Path-Following in BrainWatch VR Software Effect of Neurodegenerative Disease Status on Co-Registration Accuracy of PET and MRI Brain Scans Automated Meta-Analyses of Dementia Literature with the SOLOMON Ontology and Nexus-PORTAL-DOORS System
Taur, Yuan	Modeling of I-V characteristics of short-channel double-gate MOSFETs above threshold Modeling of output conductance of short-channel MOSFETsin saturation
Thode, Aaron	Embedded real-time classification of whale and noise signals on a marine mammal bioacoustic tag. Design and assembly of an autonomous underwater acoustic recording system
Touri, Behrouz	Distributed Optimization over Time-varying Graphs Models of Scale-free Networks
Unpingco, Jose	Python Package for Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations
Vasconcelos, Nuno	Image collection with drones Object size estimation from one single real-world image Biological Imaging Self-driving and multi-task learning Classification of point cloud data Exploration of the impact of synthesized data for real-world computer vision problems Compressed deep learning networks Multi-frame visual recognition Underwater microscopy
Vera, David	Radiopharmacokinetic System Design
Yip, Mike	Data-Efficient Reinforcement and Imitation Learning Computational Motion Planning Sparse Regression for Distance Estimation in RobotConfiguration Space Model-free control and modeling methods for muscle-powered robotics research
Zhang, Xinyu	AI-Driven 5G Networks Developing a Hardware Platform to Support 5G Communications and Wireless Sensing Applications Sensing Everyday Activities Using WiFi: A Machine LearningBased Framework An Android App for Indoor Navigation

SRIP 2018 Projects

PARTICIPATING COMPANIES
COMPANY	PROJECT TITLE
In-Q-Tel	Secure Deep Learning Classifying Synthetic Biology Audio Recognition at the Edge Text in Video
Kneron	Deep learning Research on Embedded Device
Konch	Audio and Video ML @ Konch.AI
ProductBio	Software Engineering Internship for Sustainable Procurement Data Science Company
PARTICIPATING FACULTY
FACULTY MENTOR	PROJECT TITLE
Abi-Samra, Nicholas	Dynamic models for three ancillary services for battery energy storage systems (BESS) Frequency Scan tool for subsynchronous resonance studies A spatial load forecasting tool accounting for PV and EVpenetration
An, Cheolhong	Parallel lossless compression on GPU Real-time GPU Database and Interactive Visualization CNN: Image sensor to color image
Atanasov, Nikolay	Build a robot from scratch and make it move!
Baghdadchi, Saharnaz	Trapping and manipulating particles with highly focused beams Imaging through scattering using spatially encoded optical beams
Bandaru, Prabhakar (MAE)	Electrical characteristics, and quantum capacitance of two-dimensional materials Thermal characteristics of graphene, for device applications
Cosman, Pam	Using eye-tracking glasses to quantify looks in social interactions
Cosman, Pam and Taswell, Carl	Development of Algorithms for Rendering, Region-Segmenting and Path-Following in BrainWatch VR Software
Cubukcu, Ertugrul	Two-dimensional optical antennas
Depp, Colin	Brief mobile intervention for suicide prevention in the community
Garudadri, Hari	Multisensory stimulus to promote executive function and motor competence High density, high resolution, wireless wearable EEG
Gerstoft, Peter	Sparse modeling and machine learning in geoscience MIMO Array Processing for Atmospheric Duct Detection
Hylton, Todd	A smart camera using predictive machine learning
Jaffe, Jules	Enabling Real-Time Video Control Underwater via an LEDCommunications Array Nano-AUV Low Cost Microscopy and Sensing
Javidi, Tara	Real-time Object detection and Tracking for Self-drivingCars, Assistive Drones, and Smart Homes Drone formations for wireless connectivity From Smart Cities to Connected Vehicles
Khoshabeh, Ramsin	PiB: Learning Python PIB: iOS App Development PIB: Augmented Reality PiB: Android App Development PiB: Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Whiteboard Capture with ML Intelligent Whiteboard Capture API
Kleinfeld, David (Physics)	Few GHz pulse counter for PMT output
Kuzum, Duygu	Deep Neural Nets for Biophysical Modeling of BrainNetworks Neuromorphic systems for unsupervised learning Implatable Neurodevices for Probing Brain Circuits
Leung, Vincent	Enabling a Wireless Communication Network of BrainImplants Develop a hands-on Wireless Communication Project based on NI’s SDR Platform
Liu, Zhaowei	High speed optical imaging
Lo, Yu-Hwa	Detection of single photons Wearable medical devices for detection of blood flow and cardio output 3D imaging flow cytometer and cell sorter
Milstein, Larry	Machine Learning for Cognitive Radio
Mi, Chris	Wireless Charging of Multiple Mobile Devices Over a Large Distance
Ng, Tina	Recording Repetitive Behaviors in Autism Polymer photodiode for infrared spectrum
Nguyen, Truong	Camera Systems for 3D Scene Reconstruction Transmission of Touch VR High quality free viewpoint video generation
Schurgers, Curt	Engineers for Exploration
Silberman, Jack	UC San Diego Smart Open Source Wheelchair UCEMBDEV (University of California Embedded SystemsDevelopment Testbed for Robotics) UCESCR (University of California San Diego ElectronicSpeed Controller for Robotics)
Taur, Yuan	Modeling of MOSFET output conductance in the saturation region
Vasconcelos, Nuno	Image collection with drones Deep learning to measure image quality Deep Learning for Object Size Estimation from Real WorldImages Using synthetic data for training deep learning systems Efficient Deep Learning for Drones and Smart Phones The role of context in object detection Deep Learning for Biological Imaging Multi-frame visual recognition Synthesize hand gesture sequences for deep learning Action prediction in videos using Convolutional NeuralNetworks
Yip, Mike	Snake robot for colonoscopy Reinforcement Learning in OpenAI Gym Automating Robotic Surgery
Yu, Angela	Computational Modeling of Human Face Processing
Zhang, Xinyu	An Android App for Indoor Navigation Sensing heart rate using WiFi Enabling 5G Mobile Wireless Networks At Scale A Hardware Platform to Support 5G Communications and Wireless Sensing Applications

SRIP 2017 Projects

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Bott-Suzuki, Simon	A multiple output digital delay module for diagnostic timing	Camille Lee & Christian Perez Castanaza (Undergrads)
Cosman, Pam	Image/video color and visibility restoration Predicting video packet importance	Vivian Meng & Yalun Zheng (Undergrads) Mehmet Can Hucumenoglu, Shivika Pathania & Ankitesh Singh (MS)
Cubukcu, Ertugrul	Monolayer Photonics	Xiaojie Zhang (MS)
Dow, Steven (Cog Sci) and Don Norman (ECE/CogSci/Psych)	Enabling Crowdsourced Visualizations to Support Large-Scale Civic Engagement	Justin Tran (Undergrad) Yikun Huang (MS)
Garudadri, Hari	1. Hardware design for wearable, realtime, open speech platform Quantifying degree of abnormality in movement tasks by Parkinson Disease (PD) patients Wearable EEG Sensor Rady Glove Project Embedded Programming	Rui Han & Ningwei Li (Undergrads) Krishna Chaithanya Vastare (MS) Yuxuan Liu (Undergrad), Jingyi Yang (MS) Yiyu Zhu (Undergrad), YifengBu (MS) Simon Fong, Andrew Yoo & Hendry Joe (Undergrads)
Gerstoft, Peter	Compressive and sparse methods in acoustic/EM signal processing	Shashankar Sudarsan (MS)
Ghoudjehbaklou, Hassan	Estimating dynamic parameters of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) models	Kevin Abler (Undergrad)
Gilja, Vikash	Neural Signal ProcessingSwiss Army Knife Semi-automated system for labeling patient behavior	Stephen Estrin (Undergrad) Kenny Chen & Chenghao Gong (Undergrads)
Javidi, Tara	1. Real-time Object detection and Tracking for Self-driving Cars, Assistive Drones, and Smart Homes From Smart Cities to Connected Vehicles Design Prototyping Softwarefor Artists	1. Bharat Kambalur (MS) Govind Gopal & Weijia Wang (MS) Kavya Putluri (MS), Yizhou Hao (Undergrad), Chenhua Shi (Undergrad)
Khoshabeh, Ramsin and Raul Pegan	IoT, Data Analytics, Computer Vision, and More… Glasses-free 3D and Reconstruction from Stereo	Abhiram Iyer (Undergrad), Keith Yu (Undergrad), Akash Agrawal (MS)
Kreutz-Delgado, Ken	Digital Neuromorphic Implementation of Deep Neural Networks	Ian Colbert (Undergrad)
Kuzum, Duygu	Modeling Brain Circuits	1. Zhuoran Gu & Leon Nguyen (MS)
Liu, Zhaowei	Instrument for stroke therapy LED based Li-Fi communication	Yixiong Li Joseph Kadifa (Undergrad), Tiansong Zhang (MS)
Lo, Yu-Hwa	Biomedical devices and systems for point of care and precision medicine	Xingyu Huang & Rui Tang (MS)
Maralani, Ayden	Transistor Design and Simulation Transistor Characterization And Modeling SOI CMOS IC Design and Simulation Power Converter Design and Simulation	Jack Harms (Undergrad), Samuel Harms (Undergrad), Ping-Chien Lee (MS) Joshua Cho (Undergrad) Zhongzhong Dong & Wenxuan Zhang (Undergrads) Johnny Wang (Undergrad)
Mi, Chris	A Wireless Charging System for Electric Vehicles	Haili Cai (Undergrad)
Mirarab, Siavash	New methods for inference of unbalanced phylogenetic trees	Shenghao Jiang (Undergrad)
Ng, Tina	Short-Wavelength Infrared Photodiodes Based on Modular Tunable Conjugated Polymers	Rong Xi (Undergrad)
Nguyen, Truong	Multimodal DenoisingAutoencoders Human/hand pose estimation using machine learning 3D reconstruction system using RGB-D camera Testbed for free viewpoint indoor touring system Optimal design of microgrid considering uncertain energy market parameters Real-time Texturing in FreeViewpoint Video Image and Video Defencing	Anirudh Ravichandran (MS) Nan Jiang (MS) Shiyuan Huang (Undergrad), Zhongjian Zhu (MS) Nasrin Enayatzadeh (Undergrad), Seyedehelham Sadatian (Undergrad), Chih-yin Kan (MS) Shayan Ghaderi & Khai Tran (Undergrads) Chen Du (MS)
Pal, Piya	Blind Deconvolution and Super resolution Imaging	1. Anthony Haas & Yikun Xu (MS)
Vasconcelos, Nuno	Fast face/hand detection and tracking for gesture video Light-weight CNN for pose estimation in gesture video Facial landmark localization with deep learning Image collection with drones Real-time object detection on drones Biological imaging	Harshirta Mangal (MS), Akshaya Purohit (MS) Yuhan Chen (Undergrad), Hao Jiang (MS), George Ma (MS) Yang Zhang (MS) Amir Persekian (Undergrad) Xinxin Chen (Undergrad)
Yip, Mike	Haptics for minimally invasive robotic surgery Learning robot locomotion via reinforcement learning MRI-safe robot design and image-based control Reducing tumor resection margins via natural medical image overlays through wireless augmented reality headsets	Guangyan Shen (Undergrad),Mayur Bency (MS) Ojash Neopane (Undergrad) Andrew Saad & DimitriSchreiber (Undergrads) Yuqi Zhang (MS)
Yu, Angela	Predicting human decision-making using mouse tracking and eye blink rate monitoring	Jianling Liu (Undergrad), Girish Bathala (MS)

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