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Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence With Systems Architecting Diagram Creation: Advancement, Challenges, Opportunities And Future Perspectives, Cansu Yalim, Holly H. Handley Jan 2024

Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence With Systems Architecting Diagram Creation: Advancement, Challenges, Opportunities And Future Perspectives, Cansu Yalim, Holly H. Handley

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

Generative AI (GenAI) serves as a powerful tool that can create a wide range of content, including but not limited to text, speech, images, code, videos, and 3D models. ChatGPT stands out as a particularly appealing Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) model that offers supplementary capabilities through GPTs and plugins. These extensions enable users to engage with the chatbot and improve its functionality, surpassing mere content generation. Our study delves into the potential of ChatGPT, specifically GPT-4, to expedite the creation of diagrams to support the system architecting process. To this end, we explored the use of ChatGPT's Diagrams Show Me …


Understanding The Link Between Conflict Profiles And Team Affective Outcomes Using Lpa And Nlp Techniques, Francisco Cima, Pilar Pazos-Lago Jan 2024

Understanding The Link Between Conflict Profiles And Team Affective Outcomes Using Lpa And Nlp Techniques, Francisco Cima, Pilar Pazos-Lago

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

Team conflict is a naturally emerging phenomenon resulting from individuals' interactions during project execution. Cross-disciplinary teams can experience higher levels of conflict than single-discipline teams because of the increased diversity of knowledge and perspectives. Research has shown that team conflict can emerge from different types of disagreements (cognitive and interpersonal), which have different implications for team functioning. Past empirical research has focused on the impact of both conflict types independent from each other while overlooking their combined effects. This work examines the conflict profiles resulting from the combined levels of interpersonal and cognitive disagreements and their association with team outcomes. …


External Runtime Execution Monitoring Of A Cyber Physical System Via Trace Interfaces, Peter Vaughan Truslow Jan 2024

External Runtime Execution Monitoring Of A Cyber Physical System Via Trace Interfaces, Peter Vaughan Truslow

Theses and Dissertations

In the past two decades, Unmanned Aerial Systems have progressed from expensive military hardware or one-off custom builds, to include off-the-shelf drones that can be purchased for a rather affordable price and flown by nearly anyone. As the technology and performance have improved, the door is opened to applications that require operation in environments where the consequences for failure are high, such as operating in the navigable airspace or in urban environments, or with human passengers. This requires a great deal of trust in the reliability and integrity of the control systems of the aircraft. A method of monitoring the …


Design Of An Adaptive Robust Pi Controller For Dc/Dc Boost Converter Using Reinforcement-Learning Technique And Snake Optimization Algorithm, Seyyedmorteza Ghamari, Mojtaba Hajihosseini, Daryoush Habibi, Asma Aziz Jan 2024

Design Of An Adaptive Robust Pi Controller For Dc/Dc Boost Converter Using Reinforcement-Learning Technique And Snake Optimization Algorithm, Seyyedmorteza Ghamari, Mojtaba Hajihosseini, Daryoush Habibi, Asma Aziz

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The DC/DC Boost converter exhibits a non-minimum phase system with a right half-plane zero structure, posing significant challenges for the design of effective control approaches. This article presents the design of a robust Proportional-Integral (PI) controller for this converter with an online adaptive mechanism based on the Reinforcement-Learning (RL) strategy. Classical PI controllers are simple and easy to build, but they need to be more robust against a wide range of disturbances and more adaptable to operational parameters. To address these issues, the RL adaptive strategy is used to optimize the performance of the PI controller. Some of the main …


Optimizing Energy-Efficient Grid Performance: Integrating Electric Vehicles, Dstatcom, And Renewable Sources Using The Hippopotamus Optimization Algorithm, Mohamed Abdelaziz, A.A. Ali, R.A. Swief, Rasha Elazab Jan 2024

Optimizing Energy-Efficient Grid Performance: Integrating Electric Vehicles, Dstatcom, And Renewable Sources Using The Hippopotamus Optimization Algorithm, Mohamed Abdelaziz, A.A. Ali, R.A. Swief, Rasha Elazab

Renewable Electrical Energy Engineering

The rapid increase in renewable energy integration and electric vehicle (EV) adoption creates significant challenges for the stability and efficiency of power distribution networks. This study addresses the need for optimized placement and sizing of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCSs), photovoltaic (PV) systems, and Distribution Static Compensators (DSTATCOMs) to enhance grid performance. The motivation for this work arises from the fluctuating nature of renewable energy generation and the unpredictable demands of EV charging, which strain existing infrastructure. To address these challenges, we propose a novel optimization framework that introduces the Renewable Distributed Generation Hosting Factor (RDG-HF) and Electric Vehicle Hosting …


Development Of A Low-Cost Resistivity Meter For Local Groundwater Survey, Jose Claro N. Monje, Ma. Leonora Guico, Carlos M. Oppus, Mark Glenn F. Retirado, Alfonso Rafael Cuezon, Justin Bryce M. Torres Jan 2024

Development Of A Low-Cost Resistivity Meter For Local Groundwater Survey, Jose Claro N. Monje, Ma. Leonora Guico, Carlos M. Oppus, Mark Glenn F. Retirado, Alfonso Rafael Cuezon, Justin Bryce M. Torres

Electronics, Computer, and Communications Engineering Faculty Publications

The researchers developed a low-cost resistivity meter with a built-in data file storage system using locally available parts. This effort was done in partnership with the National Water Resources Board and the Department of Science and Technology under the Water for Tourism project for water quality monitoring in tourist areas in the Philippines such as Boracay and Caticlan. The resistivity meter system consists of a power supply module, a sensor module, and an equipment module, built using locally available materials and equipment, emulating the commercially available PASI model 16 GL-N. Due to pandemic restrictions, the developed prototype could only be …


Simulation Of A Pick And Place System For Electronic Cards Using A Yumi Cobot, Derrick Sze, Rosula Sj Reyes, Patricia Angela R. Abu Jan 2024

Simulation Of A Pick And Place System For Electronic Cards Using A Yumi Cobot, Derrick Sze, Rosula Sj Reyes, Patricia Angela R. Abu

Electronics, Computer, and Communications Engineering Faculty Publications

Collaborative Robots are one of the main drivers of Industry 4.0, which started as a vision focusing on industrial production. It addresses several challenges in the current manufacturing industry such as performing repetitive work and requiring highly skilled workers. The goal of the research is to be able to simulate a pick and place environment with electronic cards using a YuMi cobot and mobile platforms in Coppeliasim. The mobile robot is responsible for transporting the electronic cards to the target location through path planning implemented using the OMPL plug-in. After arriving at the target location, YuMi will then perform the …


H-Nobs: Achieving Certified Fairness And Robustness In Distributed Learning On Heterogeneous Datasets, Guanqiang Zhou, Ping Xu, Yue Wang, Zhi Tian Jan 2024

H-Nobs: Achieving Certified Fairness And Robustness In Distributed Learning On Heterogeneous Datasets, Guanqiang Zhou, Ping Xu, Yue Wang, Zhi Tian

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Fairness and robustness are two important goals in the design of modern distributed learning systems. Despite a few prior works attempting to achieve both fairness and robustness, some key aspects of this direction remain underexplored. In this paper, we try to answer three largely unnoticed and unaddressed questions that are of paramount significance to this topic: (i) What makes jointly satisfying fairness and robustness difficult? (ii) Is it possible to establish theoretical guarantee for the dual property of fairness and robustness? (iii) How much does fairness have to sacrifice at the expense of robustness being incorporated into the system? To …


Cross-Layer Performance Evaluation Of C-V2x, Dhruba Sunuwar Jan 2024

Cross-Layer Performance Evaluation Of C-V2x, Dhruba Sunuwar

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The evolution of connected vehicles from a distant futuristic concept to an integral part of daily life is indisputable. Vehicle-to-everything communication (V2X) serves as the cornerstone of this transformation, facilitating seamless interaction among vehicles, infrastructure, pedestrians, and networks. However, evaluating V2X system performance proves intricate due to the dynamic nature of vehicles influenced by mobility factors. To address this complexity, we have developed a specialized system-level simulator expressly for evaluating V2X communication performance. Notably, the simulator encompasses (i) intelligent transportation system (ITS) scenarios integrated into a geographical framework and (ii) the capability to assess cross-layer performance spanning physical (PHY) and …


Smart Dog Door, Andrew Shetler, William Boissoneault, Jacob Stump, Benjamin Charlson Jan 2024

Smart Dog Door, Andrew Shetler, William Boissoneault, Jacob Stump, Benjamin Charlson

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

With modern life getting busier and more complex, many have turned to autonomous assistance for taking care of pets. The objective of this project is to design and prototype a device and application that will allow only certain dogs to enter and exit through a dog door while making the owners aware of their dog's activity. The dog door will utilize wireless communication from the dog to the door to control the status of the door’s lock and update the database that will send updates to the application. The application will keep track of when the dog enters and exits …


A Wavegan Approach For Mmwave-Based Fanet Topology Optimization, Enas Odat, Hakim Ghazzai, Ahmad Alsharoa Jan 2024

A Wavegan Approach For Mmwave-Based Fanet Topology Optimization, Enas Odat, Hakim Ghazzai, Ahmad Alsharoa

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The integration of dynamic Flying Ad hoc Networks (FANETs) and millimeter Wave (mmWave) technology can offer a promising solution for numerous data-intensive applications, as it enables the establishment of a robust flying infrastructure with significant data transmission capabilities. However, to enable effective mmWave communication within this dynamic network, it is essential to precisely align the steerable antennas mounted on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with their corresponding peer units. Therefore, it is important to design a novel approach that can quickly determine an optimized alignment and network topology. In this paper, we propose a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)-based approach, called WaveGAN, …


Prompt, Accurate, And Noncontact Material Identification Using A Single Microwave Sensor With Machine Learning Analysis, Chen Zhu, Osamah Alsalman, Jie Huang Jan 2024

Prompt, Accurate, And Noncontact Material Identification Using A Single Microwave Sensor With Machine Learning Analysis, Chen Zhu, Osamah Alsalman, Jie Huang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In This Article, a Novel Approach to Microwave Sensors is Proposed and Demonstrated that Allows for Prompt, Accurate, and Noncontact Material Identification Even with Arbitrary Lift-Off Distances between the Sensor and the Material under Test (MUT). a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) is Trained to Directly Learn the Relation of the Measured Reflection Spectra of a Homemade Open-Ended Coaxial Cable Resonator Probe with Respect to Different MUTs and Then Achieve One-To-One Mapping between a Measured Spectrum and the MUT. as a Proof-Of-Concept Demonstration, the Performance of the MLP Model is Tested using Easily Accessible Materials, Including Wood, Glass, Water, and Metal. Reflection …


Electromagnetic-Circuital-Thermal-Mechanical Multiphysics Numerical Simulation Method For Microwave Circuits, Huan Huan Zhang, Zheng Lang Jia, Peng Fei Zhang, Ying Liu, Li Jun Jiang, Da Zhi Ding Jan 2024

Electromagnetic-Circuital-Thermal-Mechanical Multiphysics Numerical Simulation Method For Microwave Circuits, Huan Huan Zhang, Zheng Lang Jia, Peng Fei Zhang, Ying Liu, Li Jun Jiang, Da Zhi Ding

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

An electromagnetic-circuital-thermal-mechanical Multiphysics numerical method is proposed for the simulation of microwave circuits. The discontinuous Galerkin time-domain (DGTD) method is adopted for electromagnetic simulation. The time-domain finite element method (FEM) is utilized for thermal simulation. The circuit equation is applied for circuit simulation. The mechanical simulation is also carried out by FEM method. A flexible and unified Multiphysics field coupling mechanism is constructed to cover various electromagnetic, circuital, thermal and mechanical Multiphysics coupling scenarios. Finally, three numerical examples emulating outer space environment, intense electromagnetic pulse (EMP) injection and high-power microwave (HPM) illumination are utilized to demonstrate the accuracy, efficiency, and …


Modeling Wideband Radiated Emissions From Pcbs In Shielding Enclosures Based On Single-Plane Phaseless Near-Field Scanning, Zhifei Xiao, Zi An Wang, Li Jun Jiang, Ping Li Jan 2024

Modeling Wideband Radiated Emissions From Pcbs In Shielding Enclosures Based On Single-Plane Phaseless Near-Field Scanning, Zhifei Xiao, Zi An Wang, Li Jun Jiang, Ping Li

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This article presents a wideband phase less source reconstruction method (SRM) for the evaluation of the radiated emissions from printed circuit boards (PCBs) in shielding enclosures. The PCBs are modeled with equivalent dipoles, and the numerical Green's function (NGF) is deployed to establish the relationship between the equivalent source and the input near-field (NF) data, thus the electromagnetic influences of the surrounding environments comprehensively accounted. This method only requires magnitude-only NF scanning over a single plane, thus significantly decreasing the NF measurement difficulty. To remedy the lack of phase information of the NF data, the input NF data are equally …


Time-Resolved Electromagnetic Near-Field Scanning: Dual Sparse Sampling In Time And Space, Yanming Zhang, Peifeng Ma, Lijun Jiang, Steven Gao Jan 2024

Time-Resolved Electromagnetic Near-Field Scanning: Dual Sparse Sampling In Time And Space, Yanming Zhang, Peifeng Ma, Lijun Jiang, Steven Gao

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Time-resolved electromagnetic near-field scanning plays a pivotal role in antenna measurement and unraveling complex electromagnetic interference and compatibility issues. However, the rapid acquisition of high-resolution spatio–temporal data remains challenging due to physical constraints, such as moving the probe position and allowing sufficient time for sampling. This article presents a novel hybrid approach combining kriging for sparse spatial measurement, compressed sensing (cs) for sparse temporal sampling, and dynamic mode decomposition (dmd) for comprehensive analysis of the dual-sparse sampling electromagnetic near-field data. We leverage cs to optimize sparse sampling in the time domain and latin hypercube sampling to guide the probe position …


On The Feasibility Of A Direct Injection Probe With A Capacitively Coupled Return And Integrated Voltage Monitor, Aaron Harmon, Daniel Szanto, Victor Khilkevich, Daryl Beetner Jan 2024

On The Feasibility Of A Direct Injection Probe With A Capacitively Coupled Return And Integrated Voltage Monitor, Aaron Harmon, Daniel Szanto, Victor Khilkevich, Daryl Beetner

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Characterizing the susceptibility of an IC while it is integrated within a system can be challenging. Characterization is even harder if one wants to know the waveform at the target IC pin when injecting a signal on the pin. In this work, the feasibility of a direct injection probe with a capacitively coupled return and integrated voltage monitor is proposed. This probe is advantageous because it does not need to be soldered to the test device and its ability to provide a measurement of the waveform on the target IC pin during the injection. Methods for reconstructing the pin waveform …


A Method For Measuring The Transfer Function Inside A Compact Metallic Enclosure Using A Slot Antenna, Xiangrui Su, Wenchang Huang, Junghee Cho, Joonki Paek, Chulsoon Hwang Jan 2024

A Method For Measuring The Transfer Function Inside A Compact Metallic Enclosure Using A Slot Antenna, Xiangrui Su, Wenchang Huang, Junghee Cho, Joonki Paek, Chulsoon Hwang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Radio frequency desensitization issues comprise two components: noise radiation sources and the transfer function from noise sources to the victim antenna. For modern electronic products, noise sources are often located inside a compact metal enclosure, making it difficult to measure the transfer function using conventional methods. Moreover, opening the metallic enclosure would dramatically change the transfer function, and inserting a near-field probe into the enclosure is challenging and may not even be possible because of the limited space inside. In this article, a novel practical method for measuring the transfer function inside a compact metallic enclosure is proposed and experimentally …


Coupling-Informed Data-Driven Scheme For Joint Angle And Frequency Estimation In Uniform Linear Array With Mutual Coupling Present, Yanming Zhang, Wenchao Xu, A. Long Jin, Min Li, Peifeng Ma, Lijun Jiang, Steven Gao Jan 2024

Coupling-Informed Data-Driven Scheme For Joint Angle And Frequency Estimation In Uniform Linear Array With Mutual Coupling Present, Yanming Zhang, Wenchao Xu, A. Long Jin, Min Li, Peifeng Ma, Lijun Jiang, Steven Gao

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper proposes a novel coupling-informed data-driven algorithm tailored for the concurrent estimation of frequency and angle within a uniform linear array (ULA), while addressing the complicating influence of mutual coupling. Leveraging the hybrid dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) methodology, termed as averaged DMD, we incorporate moving average techniques to achieve effective denoising. The averaged DMD further decomposes the received signal into eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors. The frequency information is derived from the eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenvectors represent the steering vectors of sources. Subsequently, mutual coupling is informed into the calibration of the steering vector for each source. Specifically, the …


A Tensor-Based Data-Driven Approach For Multidimensional Harmonic Retrieval And Its Application For Mimo Channel Sounding., Yanming Zhang, Wenchao Xu, A. Long Jin, Min Li, Ping Yuan, Lijun Jiang, Steven Gao Jan 2024

A Tensor-Based Data-Driven Approach For Multidimensional Harmonic Retrieval And Its Application For Mimo Channel Sounding., Yanming Zhang, Wenchao Xu, A. Long Jin, Min Li, Ping Yuan, Lijun Jiang, Steven Gao

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In wireless channel sounding, accurately estimating multiple parameters within a multipath signal, such as azimuth, elevation, Doppler shift, and delay, necessitates addressing the challenges posed by the multidimensional harmonic retrieval (MHR) problem. To overcome these complexities, we propose a framework based on high-order dynamic mode decomposition (HODMD) that designed for robustly estimating frequencies of interest from high-dimensional sinusoidal signals, particularly in additive white Gaussian noise conditions. The HODMD approach, a hybrid algorithm amalgamating high-order singular value decomposition (HOSVD) and dynamic mode decomposition (DMD), operates by initially decomposing observed tensorial data into a core tensor and R mode matrices through HOSVD. …


Variation-Aware Non-Linear Mapping For Honey-Memristor Based Neuromorphic System, Harshvardhan Uppaluru, Md Mehedi Hasan Tanim, Md Omar Faruque, Mohammed Rafeeq Khan, Zoe Templin, Feng Zhao, Jinhui Wang Jan 2024

Variation-Aware Non-Linear Mapping For Honey-Memristor Based Neuromorphic System, Harshvardhan Uppaluru, Md Mehedi Hasan Tanim, Md Omar Faruque, Mohammed Rafeeq Khan, Zoe Templin, Feng Zhao, Jinhui Wang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Natural organic memristors are promising synapse candidates for neuromorphic systems due to their significant benefits, such as environmental sustainability, low production and disposal cost, non-volatile storage capability, and bio/CMOS-compatibility. In this paper, experimental evaluations of a neuromorphic system based on honey-memristors are reported. First, honey-memristors are manufactured and tested based on our in-house technology, and then the non-linear characteristics inherent to honey-memristors, which causes inaccurate weight updates and reduces the inference accuracy, are explored. A non-linear mapping (NMP) method is applied to mitigate the effects of non-linearity in honey-memristor, under different scenarios including multiple cycle-to-cycle variations and Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) …


Frequency Division Multiplexing And Random Phasing For Improved Uniformity In Microwave Heating Applications, Logan M. Wilcox, Ali Mirala, Mohammad Tayeb Al Qaseer, Kristen M. Donnell Jan 2024

Frequency Division Multiplexing And Random Phasing For Improved Uniformity In Microwave Heating Applications, Logan M. Wilcox, Ali Mirala, Mohammad Tayeb Al Qaseer, Kristen M. Donnell

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Microwave heating has been recently used as an active thermal excitation method in thermography. Within the nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDT&E) realm, this method is referred to as active microwave thermography, or AMT. In AMT, unlike other thermal excitation methods utilized in thermography, microwave heating inherently provides a nonuniform heating pattern. This is a direct result of the radiating antenna used to deliver the energy. This nonuniform pattern may result in defect detection errors (i.e., false positives and/or negatives). To reduce this potential for detection error and improve the overall robustness of the technique, a new electromagnetic system, consisting of …


High-Sensitivity Fabry-Perot Interferometric Sensor Based On Microwave Photonics With Phase Demodulation, Ruimin Jie, Hongkun Zheng, Osamah Alsalman, Jie Huang, Chen Zhu Jan 2024

High-Sensitivity Fabry-Perot Interferometric Sensor Based On Microwave Photonics With Phase Demodulation, Ruimin Jie, Hongkun Zheng, Osamah Alsalman, Jie Huang, Chen Zhu

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Optical fiber sensors have emerged as vital tools in various applications. Among them, Fabry-Perot interferometers (FPIs), have gained prominence due to their compactness and versatility in sensor design. Microwave photonics (MWP) techniques offer enhanced performance and flexibility for developing optical sensor interrogation methods. This paper proposes and experimentally demonstrates a novel MWP interrogation technique based on phase measurement for short-cavity FPI sensors. The technique utilizes the phase response of the FPI sensor within an MWP-assisted single radio frequency bandpass filter, providing improved sensitivity and dynamic sensing capabilities compared to traditional methods. Simulation and experimental results validate the effectiveness of the …


Advanced Nested Coaxial Thin-Film Zno Nanostructures Synthesized By Atomic Layer Deposition For Improved Sensing Performance, Pengtao Lin, Lari S. Zhang, Kai Zhang, Helmut Baumgart Jan 2024

Advanced Nested Coaxial Thin-Film Zno Nanostructures Synthesized By Atomic Layer Deposition For Improved Sensing Performance, Pengtao Lin, Lari S. Zhang, Kai Zhang, Helmut Baumgart

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

We report a new synthesis method for multiple-walled nested thin-film nanostructures by combining hydrothermal growth methods with atomic layer deposition (ALD) thin-film technology and sacrificial films, thereby increasing the surface-to-volume ratio to improve the sensing performance of novel ZnO gas sensors. Single-crystal ZnO nanorods serve as the core of the nanostructure assembly and were synthesized hydrothermally on fine-grained ALD ZnO seed films. Subsequently, the ZnO core nanotubes were coated with alternating sacrificial coaxial 3D wrap-around ALD Al2O3 films and ALD ZnO films. Basically, the center nanorod was coated with an ALD 3D wrap-around Al₂O₃ sacrificial layer to realize a nested …


Neurosymbolic Value-Inspired Ai (Why, What, And How), Amit Sheth, Kaushik Roy Jan 2024

Neurosymbolic Value-Inspired Ai (Why, What, And How), Amit Sheth, Kaushik Roy

Publications

The rapid progression of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, facilitated by the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), has resulted in their widespread application to provide human assistance across diverse industries. This trend has sparked significant discourse centered around the ever-increasing need for LLM-based AI systems to function among humans as part of human society, sharing human values, especially as these systems are deployed in high-stakes settings (e.g., healthcare, autonomous driving, etc.). Towards this end, neurosymbolic AI systems are attractive due to their potential to enable easy-tounderstand and interpretable interfaces for facilitating valuebased decision-making, by leveraging explicit representations of shared values. …


K-Perm: Personalized Response Generation Using Dynamic Knowledge Retrieval And Persona-Adaptive Queries, Kanak Raj, Kaushik Roy, Vamshi Bonagiri, Priyanshul Govil, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Raxit Goswami, Manas Gaur Jan 2024

K-Perm: Personalized Response Generation Using Dynamic Knowledge Retrieval And Persona-Adaptive Queries, Kanak Raj, Kaushik Roy, Vamshi Bonagiri, Priyanshul Govil, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Raxit Goswami, Manas Gaur

Publications

Personalizing conversational agents can enhance the quality of conversations and increase user engagement. However, they often lack external knowledge to tend to a user’s persona appropriately. This is particularly crucial for practical applications like mental health support, nutrition planning, culturally sensitive conversations, or reducing toxic behavior in conversational agents. To enhance the relevance and comprehensiveness of personalized responses, we propose using a two-step approach that involves (1) selectively integrating user personas and (2) contextualizing the response with supplementing information from a background knowledge source. We develop K-PERM (Knowledge-guided PErsonalization with Reward Modulation), a dynamic conversational agent that combines these elements. …


Tutorial: Knowledge-Infused Artificial Intelligence For Mental Healthcare, Kaushik Roy Jan 2024

Tutorial: Knowledge-Infused Artificial Intelligence For Mental Healthcare, Kaushik Roy

Publications

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems for mental healthcare (MHCare) have been ever-growing after realizing the importance of early interventions for patients with chronic mental health (MH) conditions. Social media (SocMedia) emerged as the go-to platform for supporting patients seeking MHCare. The creation of peer-support groups without social stigma has resulted in patients transitioning from clinical settings to SocMedia supported interactions for quick help. Researchers started exploring SocMedia content in search of cues that showcase correlation or causation between different MH conditions to design better interventional strategies. User-level Classification-based AI systems were designed to leverage diverse SocMedia data from various MH conditions, …


Ai Trustworthy: Ethical Challenges And Strategies, Jian Liu, Iwan Sandjaja, Donald C. Wunsch Jan 2024

Ai Trustworthy: Ethical Challenges And Strategies, Jian Liu, Iwan Sandjaja, Donald C. Wunsch

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper explores the pivotal role of trust in the widespread application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across various domains. We review AI applications in sectors like energy, healthcare, and autonomous vehicles and discuss the crisis of human trust they face. This paper introduces a novel framework that delineates the relationship between AI transparency and user trust, highlighting specific industry applications. Through a systematic review of recent literature, we first delve into factors such as emotional response, acceptance, transparency, accuracy, and interpretability that shape human trust in AI. We then underscore the necessity of ethical AI practices and highlight the importance …


Designing High-Performance Identity-Based Quantum Signature Protocol With Strong Security, Sunil Prajapat, Pankaj Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Ashok Kumar Das, Sachin Shetty, M. Shamim Hossain Jan 2024

Designing High-Performance Identity-Based Quantum Signature Protocol With Strong Security, Sunil Prajapat, Pankaj Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Ashok Kumar Das, Sachin Shetty, M. Shamim Hossain

VMASC Publications

Due to the rapid advancement of quantum computers, there has been a furious race for quantum technologies in academia and industry. Quantum cryptography is an important tool for achieving security services during quantum communication. Designated verifier signature, a variant of quantum cryptography, is very useful in applications like the Internet of Things (IoT) and auctions. An identity-based quantum-designated verifier signature (QDVS) scheme is suggested in this work. Our protocol features security attributes like eavesdropping, non-repudiation, designated verification, and hiding sources attacks. Additionally, it is protected from attacks on forgery, inter-resending, and impersonation. The proposed scheme benefits from the traditional designated …


Proknow: Process Knowledge For Safety Constrained And Explainable Question Generation For Mental Health Diagnostic Assistance In The Age Of Large Language Models, Kaushik Roy, Manas Gaur, Misagh Soltani, Vipula Rawte, Ashwin Allen, Amit P. Sheth Jan 2024

Proknow: Process Knowledge For Safety Constrained And Explainable Question Generation For Mental Health Diagnostic Assistance In The Age Of Large Language Models, Kaushik Roy, Manas Gaur, Misagh Soltani, Vipula Rawte, Ashwin Allen, Amit P. Sheth

Publications

Current Virtual Mental Health Assistants (VMHAs) primarily offer counseling and suggestive care but do not assist with patient diagnosis due to their lack of training in safety-constrained and specialized clinical process knowledge, referred to as ProKnow. In this work, we define ProKnow as an ordered set of information aligned with evidence-based guidelines or categories of conceptual understanding used by domain experts. We also introduce a new dataset of diagnostic conversations guided by safety constraints and Pro- Know, known as ProKnow-data. We develop a method for natural language question generation (NLG) designed to interactively gather diagnostic information from patients, termed ProKnow-algo. …


Guarding The Grid: Exploring Iot And Iiot Security Vulnerabilities In Smart Power Systems, Nicole G. Parker Jan 2024

Guarding The Grid: Exploring Iot And Iiot Security Vulnerabilities In Smart Power Systems, Nicole G. Parker

Honors Undergraduate Theses

The Internet of Things (IoT) encompasses the collective network of electrical devices and the technology that enables them to send and receive data. The use of IoT technologies in industrial settings, such as transportation, manufacturing, and energy is referred to as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). With the expansion of IoT in homes and IIoT in the energy sector has come an increase in the number of devices connected with each other. Engineers have utilized this network to develop sophisticated smart systems that combine sensing, processing, actuation, and control to produce smart environments. Along with the benefits of IoT …