Subject Proposals for Erasmus Students

Below you find a list of proposed research projects, listed per research group, for students interested in studying at our department.

MICAS

2	Modeling supply-voltage modulation of RF power amplifiers
3	Design of a CMOS power supply modulator for GSM-EDGE applications
4	Design of a bluetooth transmitter
5	Design of a High-Speed Low Voltage 10bit Pipelined Analog Digital Converter
6	Design of a Low Power Digital Family
7	Design of a High Voltage High Speed Output Driver in Standard CMOS
9	Pareto-Optimal Surface Modeling
10	Design of a Micromachined Actuator for Large Displacements
14	Design of an ultra low power digital library
15	The Modeling of a High-Accuracy High-Speed Current-Steering DAC
16	Exploration of low power locationing in sensor networks
17	An Accurate Integrated Frequency Reference
20	Cryptography for RFID tags and sensornetworks
21	Implementation of compact hashfunctions
30	Integration of a radiation tolerant sensor pre-amplifier for nuclear fusion reactors

PSI

1	Automatic segmentation of the mandibular nerve from Cone Beam CT data
2	Breathing motion compensation for improved image guided treatment by cardiac ablation
3	Quantification of bone morphology using microCT
4	Construction of a pediatric digital brain atlas
5	Automatic segmentation of sub-cortical structures in MR brain images
6	Synchronisation of digital cameras
7	Capturing dynamic scenes in 3D
8	Software package for forensic image treatment
9	Transfer of real-time 3D data
10	3D object recognition demo
11	Intelligent interface for robot navigation
12	Efficient representation of lightfields
13	Metal artefacts suppression in Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT)
14	Automatic lumbar vertebra volume measurements for population studies

SISTA-COSIC-DOCARCH

1	A standalone implementation to eavesdrop on displays
2	Cracking keys with a stopwatch
3	Cryptography for RFID tags and sensornetworks
4	Implementation of compact hashfunctions
5	COSIC Thesis topics for 2006-2007
6	Security software of the Nokia 6131 NFC
7	Cryptography for RFID tags and sensornetworks
8	Protecting a reputation system against Sybil attacks: An implementation
9	Searching for AES, DES and RSA keys in memory dumps
10	Hardware attacks on trusted computing platforms
11	Two attacks on popular encryption standards
12	Authentication and pairing of limited resource mobile devices
13	Secure transfer of big files over unreliable channels
14	Extending educational software for symmetric cryptography
15	Low cost secure boot solution for mobile phones
16	Implementations of pairings for cryptography in constrained environments
17	Side-channel attacks on stream ciphers
18	Study on perceptual image hashing
19	Public-key cryptography for RFID tags
20	Using Playstation 3 game console as a security engine
21	Non-parametric time delay estimation for MIMO Systems
23	Bioi: Clustering of gene expression patterns by maximizing the number of genes that are actually differentially expressed
27	Bioi: Genetic network inference using Bayesian networks
32	Multiple model adaptive State Estimation and Control
34	Biomed: Quantification and classification of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy signals of human brain tumors
36	Data Mining : Input and feature selection by optimisation methods
39	Automatic feedback suppression for PA-systems
40	Turbo detection for WLAN MIMO transmission
41	Knowledge Management
42	Bonded VDSL
43	Biomed: Prediction of epileptic seizures from EEG recordings.
44	Biomed: Analysis of event related potentials in patients with impaired cognitive functioning
50	Keeping biometrics private
51	Fuzzy extractors for speaker recognition
52	Low cost IP protection for FPGA designs
53	Visualization of side-channel attacks
54	Implementation of a privacy-preserving e-petition system

TELEMIC

1	Flexible testbeds for the Internet of the future
2	The Ultimate Smart Antenna
3	Demonstrator for smart antennas
4	Graphical User Interface for Propagation Prediction Software