Nonfaculty Master's Thesis Supervisors

The following members of the research staff and departmental affiliates have been approved as Master's thesis supervisors.

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Bowman, H. F. (Area VII)
Development and evaluation of computer-based medical instrumentation (e.g. temperature, oxygen blood flow and thermal properties). Projects relevant to clinical applications in cancer, surgery, anesthesia, physiology, neurosurgery, shock and bioheat and mass transfer.

Burns, S. K. (Areas VII, III)
Medical instrumentation, microprocessor based instrumentation and system development hardware and software, analog and digital signal processing, real-time computer networks, electrocardiography, sports medicine, telephony. Medical instruments in the developing world.

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Cooke, C. M. (Areas IV, III, V, VII)
Electrostatic phenomena, properties and theories of dielectrics at high stresses. Generation and measurement of high voltages and electron X- ray beams. High resolution computerized tomography and acoustic wave imaging. Electronic instrumentation circuits. Sensors and monitoring systems.

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Delgutte, B. (Area VII)

Neural basis of auditory perception. Improvement of hearing aids, cochlear implants, and artificial systems for reproduction, transmission and recognition of sounds.

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Eddington, D. K. (Area VII)
Electrical stimulation of the human auditory system: sound processing systems that stimulate implanted electrodes, psychophysics, and models of current spread in the cochlea and of auditory nerve activity.

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Finn, S. (Area I)
Data network design, architectures, routing and congestion control algorithms and network management. All optical wideband networks and their design and architecture.

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Garland, S. J. (Area II)
Practical applications of formal methods to software design and development. Specifying and reasoning about distributed systems and network protocols. Automated deduction.

Gershwin, S. B. (Area I)
Manufacturing systems. Markov processes and queuing systems. Large scale optimization in networks. Optimal control.

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Hanson, C. (Area II)
VLSI Mixed-signal design. Radio communications. Signal processing.

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Khazan, R. (Area II)
Robust and secure algorithms and protocols for distributed systems and networks -- both theory and systems. Communication and collaboration in dynamic environments. Information assurance and computer security. Protection against and understanding of malicious software.

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Lippman, A. B. (Areas III, I)
Wireless network communications involving scalable radio that works in realtime independent of any infrastructure. We call these "viral communications" because they simplify innovation. Elements iclude protocols, radio design, signal processing, media representations and human interaction.

Lippman, R. (Area I, II)
Neural networks, computer security, pattern classification, computer intrusion detection. Static code analysis to detect security vulnerabilities.

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O'Reilly, U.-M. (Area II)
Genetic and evolutionary algorithms applied to circuit optimization, network coding, systems (e.g. multicore) and conceptual design. Leader of EVO-DesignOpt.

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Perkell, J. S. (Area VII)
Speech motor control. Normal speech production, speech of cochlear implant patients. Multichannel recording, analysis and modeling of physiological and acoustical phenomena in speech production.

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Quatieri, T. F. (Area VII)
Digital signal processing; time-frequency analysis of speech, audio and underwater signals; signal processing in sound production and auditory frontends; applications to speaker recognition, speech enhancement and modification. (At Lincoln Lab)

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Rosowski, J.J. (Area VII)
Acoustics and mechanics of external and middle ears. Diagnostic methods for the detection and analysis of auditory impairments and therapies. Acoustic cues used inauditory localization.

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Seneff, S. (Areas VII, III)
Spoken conversational systems, spoken language understanding and generation, genomics.

Shrobe, H. (Area II)
Artificial intelligence design of mechanisms, programming environments.

Sollins, K. R. (Area II)
Network architecture, distributed systems, naming, security, information systems.

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Temkin, R. J. (Area IV)
Vacuum electron devices, coherent radiation generation, free electron lasers, gyrotron research, quasi-optical antennas, relativistic beam physics, accelerator physics, plasma physics.

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Weinstein, C. (Areas I, II)
Speech processing, recognition, and understanding. Network and information system survivability and security. (At Lincoln Lab)

Whitney, D.E. (Area I)
CAD/CAM, product development. Mechanical assemblies; computer data models of assemblies.

Wong, N. C. (Areas IV, V)
Experimental nonlinear and quantum optics, entangled sources for quantum information infrastructure, optical frequency division, periodically poled nonlinear crystals, wireless optical communication.

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