{"505981":{"#nid":"505981","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Tushar Kumar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E:\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECharacterizing and Controlling Program Behavior Using Execution-Time Variance\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Pande , Advisor\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Yalamanchili, Co-Advisor\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Patricio Vela, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Richard Vuduc, CS\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Abhijit Chatterjee, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Umakishore Ramachandran, CS\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003EImmersive applications, such as computer gaming, computer vision and video codecs,\u003Cbr \/\u003Eare an important emerging class of applications with QoS requirements that are di\ufb03cult\u003Cbr \/\u003Eto characterize and control using traditional methods. This thesis proposes new techniques\u003Cbr \/\u003Ereliant on execution-time variance to both characterize and control program behavior. The\u003Cbr \/\u003Eproposed techniques are intended to be broadly applicable to a wide variety of immersive\u003Cbr \/\u003Eapplications and are intended to be easy for programmers to apply without needing to gain\u003Cbr \/\u003Especialized expertise.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn particular, we create new QoS controllers that programmers can easily apply to their applica-\u003Cbr \/\u003Etions to achieve desired application-speci\ufb01c QoS objectives on any platform or application\u003Cbr \/\u003Edata-set, provided the programmers verify that their applications satisfy some simple do-\u003Cbr \/\u003Emain requirements speci\ufb01c to immersive applications. The controllers adjust programmer-\u003Cbr \/\u003Eidenti\ufb01ed knobs every application frame to e\ufb00ect desired values for programmer-identi\ufb01ed\u003Cbr \/\u003EQoS metrics. The control techniques are novel in that they do not require the user to pro-\u003Cbr \/\u003Evide any kind of application behavior models, and are e\ufb00ective for immersive applications\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethat defy the traditional requirements for feedback controller construction.\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE PhD Dissertation Defense"}],"uid":"28475","created_gmt":"2016-02-24 16:51:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:16:41","author":"Daniela Staiculescu","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-03-09T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-03-09T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-03-09T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-03-09 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-03-09 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-03-09 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"434381","name":"ECE Ph.D. Dissertation Defenses"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"100811","name":"Phd Defense"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}