MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Masterworks is an annual presentation of thesis research by Master's students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It is open to the public; students, undergraduate and graduate, are particularly welcome.

Students who are nearing the end of their thesis research and who wish to make a presentation submit an abstract to Masterworks and those who are selected present a 15-minute talk on their research. Prizes are awarded for the best presentations.

The talks are scheduled in 12 1-hour sessions of 3 talks each; 6 sessions occur simultaneously.

PROGRAM

3:00 p.m.

Session A (34-301)

Erik R. Deutsch
Development of Calibration Standards for Accurate Measurement of Geometry in Microelectromechanical Systems

Craig B. Abler
Spectral Envelope Estimation for Transient Event Detection

Lily Y. Kim
Capacitive Position-Sensing System and Electronics for a Linear Electrostatic Micromotor

Session B (34-302)

Andrew L. P. Chang
VLSI Datapath Choices: Cell-Based Versus Full-Custom

Arvind Parthasarathi
The NetLog: An Efficient, Highly Available Stable Storage Abstraction

Jacob Seid
Barriers to Growth of the Hong Kong Software Industry

Session C (34-303)

Leaf Jiang
Propagation Properties of Duobinary Transmission in Optical Fibers

Can Emre Koksal
Impacts of Coherent Crosstalk on the Performance and Scalability of WDM AONs

Bryan S. Robinson
All-Optical Switching Using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers Biased at Transparency

Session D (34-304)

Anna E. Chefter
Simulation Tool for IOA Language

J. P. Grossman
Point Sample Rendering

Andrew F. Stark
Debuggging Multithreaded Programs that Incorporate User-Level Locking

Session E (34-401A)

Ekaterina Dolginova
Formal Verification of Safety of Automated Vehicle Maneuvers

Debajit Ghosh
Automatic Grammar Induction from Semantic Parsing

Christiana V Toutet
Generating Threads for Programs Written in Non-strict Functional Languages

Session F (34-401B)

Richard Chang
Physics of high-frequency operation in Silicon MOSFETs

Ritwik Chatterjee
Linearity of Power AlGaAs/GaAs HBTs

Ameet Ranadive
Low-Power Row and Column Drivers for Flat Panel FED Displays

4:00 p.m.

Session G (34-301)

Steven C. Lee
Probabilistic Segmentation for Segment-Based Speech Recognition

Erin Marie Panttaja
Recognizing Intonational Patterns in English Speech

Jon Yi
Natural-Sounding Speech Synthesis Using Variable-Length Units

Session H (34-302)

Tae H. Park
Framework for Characterization of Copper Interconnect in Damascene CMP Processes

Laura C. Pruette
Non-Perfluorocompound Chemistries for Dielectric Etching Applications

Arun Thomas
Evaluation of Compartmentalization as an Explanation of Discrepancies Calculating Fixed Charge Density in Cartilage

Session J (34-303)

M. Josie Ammer
A Highly Integrated Adiabatic Charge Recovery Digital to Analog Converter (ACRDAC)

Susan Dacy
A/D Converters for CMOS Imagers

Shan J. Wang
A Single Supply Wide Bandwidth 4:1 Video Multiplexer in an 8 GHz Dieletrically Isolated Complementary Bipolar Process

Session K (34-304)

Grant Ho
An Improved Lost-Packet Recovery Technique for the ITU-T G.723.1 Speech Coding System

Euree Y. Kim
Packet Delay and Sequence Number Space in the Radio Link Protocol Layer

Poompat Saengudomlert
Analysis and Detection of Jamming Attacks in All-Optical Networks

Session L (34-401A)

Daniel Lewin
Consistent Hashing and Random Trees: Algorithms for Caching in Distributed Networks

David Shapiro
Push-Based Web Filtering Using PICS Profiles

Marc Shuster
Diffusion of Network Innovation: Implications for Adoption of Internet Services

Session M (34-401B)

Louay Bazzi
Robust Detection of Patterns Embedded in Cluttered Observations

Asuman E. Koksal
Using Multiresolution Range-Profiled Real Imagery in a Statistical Object Recognition System

Vivek Nadkarni
A Parallel Precorrected FFT Based Capacitance Extraction Program for Signal Integrity Analysis