Recent Publications

Listed below are recent publications (publications from 2018 to now). For a comprehensive list, visit our "All Publications” page.

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Journal Articles

 
H. Tian, X. Jiang, F. Trozzi, S. Xiao, E. C. Larson, and P. Tao, “Explore Protein Conformational Space With Variational Autoencoder,” Journal on Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, section Biological Modeling and Simulation (Frontiers), (November 2021), doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2021.781635.
 
Y. Wang, J. Dai, T. Morgan, M. Elsaid, A. Garbens, X. Qu, R. Steinberg, J. Gahan, and E. C. Larson, “,” Journal of Robotic Surgery (JORS), (2021), doi: 10.1007/s11701-021-01316-2.
 
M. Makos, N. Verma, E. C. Larson, and E. Kraka, “Generative Adversarial Networks for Transition State Geometry Prediction,” The Journal of Chemical Physics, 155, 024116 (2021), doi.org/10.1063/5.0055094.
 
R. Srinivas, N. Verma, E. Kraka, and E. C. Larson, “,” Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Vol. 61, Issue 5, pp. 2159-2174, (May 2021), doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.0c01355.
 
N. Verma, X. Qu, F. Trozzi, M. Elsaied, N. Karki, P. Tao, B. Zoltowski, E. C. Larson, and E. Kraka, “,” International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol. 22, Issue 3, Article 1392, (2021), doi: 10.3390/ijms22031392..
 
J. Wilson, S. Nair, S. Scielzo, and E. C. Larson, “,” Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Vol. 5, Issue 1, Article 40, 35 pages, (March 2021), doi: 10.1145/3448111.
 
S. Alhelaly, J. Dworak, K. Nepal, T. Manikas, P. Gui and A. L. Crouch, "," in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Vol. 9, Vo. 2, pp. 774-786, (April-June 2021), doi: 10.1109/TETC.2020.2984162.
 
X. Ding and E. C. Larson, “,” Journal of Neurocomputing, Vol. 409, pp. 74-82, (October 2020).
 
J. Wilson, S. Nair, S. Scielzo, and E. C. Larson, “,” International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, Vol. 7, Issue 3, Article 7, (2020).
  X. Ding, Z. Raziei, E. C. Larson, E. Olinick, P. Krueger, and M. Hahsler, “,” EURASIP Journal on Information Security, (May 2020), doi:10.1186/s13635-020-00109-8.
  X. Wang, T. Liu, S. Guo, M. A. Thornton, and P. Gui, “,” IEEE Transactions on VLSI, Vol. 28, Issue 1, pp. 12–22, (January 2020), (ieeexplore pre-print access, August 12, 2019), doi:10.1109/TVLSI.2019.2931478.
  Y. Sun, F. Zhang, H. Jiang, K. Nepal, J. Dworak, T. W. Manikas, and R. I. Bahar, “,” Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA), (December 2019)..
  K. N. Smith and M. A. Thornton, “,” ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, Vol. 16, No. 1, Article 3, 21 pages, (October 2019).
  J. M. Medellin and M. A. Thornton, “,” Annals of Emerging Technologies in Computing, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 15–27, (October 2019).
 

T. Giallanza, T. Siems, E. Sharp, E. Gabrielsen, I. Johnson, M. A. Thornton, and E. C. Larson, “,” Proc. of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 45-1 - 45-22, (June 2019).

  K. N. Smith, T. P. LaFave Jr., D. L. MacFarlane, and M. A. Thornton, “,” Journal of Applied Logics, Vol. 5, Issue 9, pp. 1781-1798, (December 2018). 
  X. Ding, D. Nassehi, and E. C. Larson, “,” IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 2603-2610, (November 2018).

Books, Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Articles

    

D. K. Houngninou, M. A. Thornton and D. M. Miller, “On Computing the Reed-Muller Spectrum/Algebraic Normal Form for Cryptography and Switching Theory,” Chapter 1 in Advances in the Boolean Domain (pp. 28). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Bernd Steinbach (Ed.), 2022.

    

M. A. Thornton, D. K. Houngninou and D. M. Miller, “Extracting the Reed-Muller Spectrum/Algebraic Normal Form from a Circuit Specification,” Chapter 2 in Advances in the Boolean Domain (pp. 28). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Bernd Steinbach (Ed.), 2022.

    

M. A. Thornton, “Keystroke Dynamics,” Article in the Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy, 3rd Edition, S. Jajodia, P. Samarati, and M. Yung, Editors, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, May 2021, (first online February 7, 2021), doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-27739-9_783-2.

Patents

U.S. Patent Application 17/230,251, “Systems and Methods for Controlled Quantum Information Processing Operation with Trans-radix Basis Components,” November 25, 2021, April 15, 2021 (filing date), M. A. Thornton (inventor).
U.S. Patent Application 17/350,824, “,” (continuation of U.S. Patent 11,042,638) October 7, 2021, June 17, 2021 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, M. A. Taylor, K. N. Smith (inventors).
U.S. Patent Application 17/468,358, “Systems and Methods for Efficient Photonic Heralded Quantum Computing Systems,” September 7, 2021 (filing date), D. L. MacFarlane, M. A. Thornton, W. V. Oxford (inventors).
U.S. Patent 11,080,614, “,” August 3, 2021, December 5, 2017 (filing date), W. V. Oxford, M. A Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, T. P. LaFave, Jr. (inventors).
U.S. Provisional Patent 63/211,281, “Computing System Network Anomaly Detection Using Packet Prediction and External Sensors,” June 16, 2021 (filing date), M.A. Thornton, E. C. Larson, T. W. Manikas, M. A. Taylor, A. Sinha, N. Srirama.
  U.S. Provisional Patent 63/180,877, “Systems and Methods for Hybrid Quantum PUF Construction,” April 28, 2021 (filing date), D. L. MacFarlane, M. A. Thornton, W. V. Oxford inventors).
  U.S. Patent Application , “Systems and Methods for Preservation of Qubits,” (continuation of 10,878,333), November 24, 2020 (filing date), claiming priority from: Quantum State Oscillators and Methods for Operation and Construction of Same, U.S. Provisional Patent No. 62/491,815, filed April 28, 2017, M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, T. P. LaFave, Jr., W. V. Oxford (inventors).
 

U.S. Patent Application 16/825,449, “,” September 24, 2020, March 20, 2020 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, W. V. Oxford, Micah A. Thornton (inventors).

 

U.S. Patent 10,579,936 B2, “,” March 3, 2020, April 27, 2018 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, T. P. LaFave, Jr., W. V. Oxford (inventors).

  U.S. Patent Application 67/776,238, “Generating Upsampled Signal from Gyroscope Data,” December 6, 2019 (filing date), M. A. Thornton, E. C. Larson, I. Johnson, T. Siems, E. Gabrielsen (inventors).

Conference Proceedings

  

X. Wen, T. Fu, J. Liu, R. Hua, M. A. Thornton and P. Gui, “Controller Area Network (CAN) Bus Transceiver with Authentication Support,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 4 pp., May 28, 2022, (to appear).

  

G. Sammit, Z. Wu, Y. Wang, Z. Wu, A. Kamata, J. Nese, and E. C. Larson, “Automated Prosody Classification for Oral Reading Fluency with Quadratic Kappa Loss and Attentive X-vectors,” International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022), May 22-27, 2022, (to appear).

  

A. Sinha and M.A. Thornton, “Quantum Multiple Valued Kernel Circuits,” IEEE International Symposium on Multiple Valued Logic (ISMVL), 8 pp., May 18, 2022, (to appear).

  

N. Crothers, Y. Sinha, S. Scielzo, and E. C. Larson, “Real-Time Situation Awareness Assessment for Pilots via Machine Learning: Constructing an Automated Classification System,” Modeling & Simulation (MODSIM) World 2022, May 9-11, 2022, (to appear).

  

M. A. Taylor, E. C. Larson, and M. Thornton, “General Process Detection Through Physical Side Channel Characterization,” IEEE International Conference on Systems (SysCon 2022), April 25-28, 2022, (to appear).

  

M. Lee, J. Sylvester, S. Aggarwal, A. Sinha, M. Taylor, N. Srirama, E.C. Larson and M.A. Thornton, “Side Channel Identification using Granger Time Series Clustering with Applications to Control Systems,” International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP), 11 pp., February 9, 2022.

  

J. Sylvester, M. Lee, M.A. Thornton, E.C. Larson, S. Aggarwal, M.J. Hornbach, M. Manga, and B. Miller, “Time Series Clustering using Granger Causality to Identify Time Series Applicable to Forecasting Internal Waves in Lake and Marine Environments,” American Geophysical Union (AGU), December 13-17, 2021, (abstract only).

  

C. A. Harper, A. Sinha, M. A. Thornton, and E. C. Larson, “,” Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR), pp. 372-375, October 31-November 3, 2021, doi: 10.1109/IEEECONF53345.2021.9723370.

  

Y. Sun, H. Jiang, L. Ramakrishnan, J. Dworak, K. Nepal, T. Manikas, and R. I. Bahar, “,” 2021 IEEE International Test Conference, October 10-15, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ITC50571.2021.00045.

  

A. Sinha, M. Taylor, N. Srirama, T. Manikas, E. C. Larson, and M. A. Thornton, “,” 2021 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), August 8-11, 2021, doi: 10.1109/CCTA48906.2021.9659110.

  

M. Taylor, E. C. Larson, and M. A. Thornton, “,” 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), pp. 47-54, July 26-28, 2021, doi: 10.1109/CSR51186.2021.9527943.

  

E. Tsang, P. Foster, E. Adams, L. Ketterlin-Geller, E.C. Larson, and C. Clark (2021). “,” International Conference of Computational Thinking and STEM Education 2021 (CTE-STEM 2021), pp. 47-50, June 2-4, 2021.

  

D. Pompa and M. A. Thornton, “,” 18th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic, pp. 7, June 7-11, 2021, (poster presentation).

  

L. Wood and E. C. Larson, “,” 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 2800-2804, June 6-11, 2021.

  

R. Oshana, M. A. Thornton, E. C. Larson, and X. Roumegue, “,” 2021 IEEE International Systems Conference (SYSCON), pp. 1-8, April 15-May 15, 2021.

  

S. Scielzo, J. Wilson, and E. C. Larson, “,” Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation & Education Conference (I/ITSEC), November 29-December 3, 2020, Overall Best Paper Winner, Platinum Paper (winner among all papers at conference).

  

K. N. Smith, M. A. Thornton, and D. M. Miller, “,” IEEE International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL), pp. 259-264, November 11, 2020.

   K. N. Smith, D. L. MacFarlane and M. A. Thornton, “,” IEEE International Symposium on Multiple Valued Logic (ISMVL), pp. 164-169, November 10, 2020.
  M. A. Thornton, “Introduction to Quantum Computation Reliability,” IEEE International Test Conference (ITC), online proceedings, November 3-5, 2020 (invited, online, video).
  C. A. Harper, L. Lyons, M. A. Thornton, and E. C. Larson, “,” 2020 54th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 162-165, November 1-4, 2020.
 

K. N. Smith and M. A. Thornton, “,” IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing (PacRim), August 21 - 23, 2019.

  K. N. Smith and M. A. Thornton, “,” IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), pp. 73 – 76, August 4-7, 2019.
  X. Ding and E. C. Larson, “,” 7th ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, pp. 285-288, August 12-14, 2020, doi: 10.1145/3386527.3406729.
 

J. Medellin and M. A. Thornton, “,” International Conference on Emerging Topics in Computing (iCETiC), August 19-20, 2019, Springer Nature, LNICST Vol. 285, pp. 19-28, pub. date: July 14, 2019 (best paper award).

 

K. N. Smith and M. A. Thornton, “,” ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), pp. 579 – 588, June 22-26, 2019.

 

K. N. Smith, M. Soeken, B. Schmitt, G. De Micheli, and M. A. Thornton, “,” Quantum Physics and Logic Conference (QPL), pp. 1 – 11, June 10-14, 2019, arXiv:1901.02406.

 

T. W. Manikas and M. A. Thornton, “Model Checking for Security Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems,” International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security (ICDIS), South Padre Island, TX, June 2019. 

  K. N. Smith and M. A. Thornton, “,” IEEE Symposium on Multiple Valued Logic (ISMVL), pp. 114-119, May 21-23, 2019, arXiv:1906.00491.
  T. Giallanza, E. Gabrielsen, M. A. Taylor, E. C. Larson, and M. A. Thornton, “,” IEEE International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL), pp. 126-131, May 21-23, 2019.
  S. Douglas and E. C. Larson, “,” ICASSP 2019 – 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 7755-7759, May 2019 (invited paper)..
  M. A. Thornton and D. L. MacFarlane, “,” International Conference on Networked Systems/Workshop on Quantum Technology and Optimization Problems (NetSys/QTOP), Springer-Verlag LNCS 11413, pp. 171-182, March 18-21, 2019, presentation video.
  J. Medellin and M. A. Thornton, “,” in proc. International Conference on Grid, Cloud, and Cluster Computing (GCC), July 30, 2018.
 

J. Medellin and M. A. Thornton, “,” in proc. International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV), July 30, 2018.

 

X. Wang, T. Liu, S. Guo, M. A. Thornton, and P. Gui, “,” IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), pp. 360-363, June 10-12, 2018.

 

Micah A. Thornton and M. A. Thornton, “,” IEEE International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL), pp. 162-167, May 16-18, 2018.

  K. N. Smith, T. P. LaFave Jr., D. L. MacFarlane, and M. A. Thornton, “,” IEEE International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL), pp. 260-265, May 16-18, 2018.

Workshops


D. K. Houngninou, D. M. Miller, and M. A. Thornton, “,” Reed-Muller Workshop (RM 2021), Proceedings of the Workshop on Applications of the Reed-Muller Expansion in Circuit Design (RMW), pp. 1-11, May 10, 2021 (unpublished workshop proceedings, abstract provided only).

K. N. Smith, J. Henderson, and M. A. Thornton, “,” International Workshop on Quantum Compilation (IWQC, in conjunction with IEEE/ACM ICCAD), November 7, 2019 (refereed abstract with presentation).
  M. A. Thornton and K. N. Smith, “,” Reed-Muller Workshop (RM 2019), Proceedings of the Workshop on Applications of the Reed-Muller Expansion in Circuit Design (RMW), pp. 34-45, May 24, 2019 (unpublished workshop proceedings, abstract provided only).
  Y. Sun, H. Jiang, L. Ramakrishnan, M. Segal, J. Dworak, K. Nepal, T. W. Manikas, and R. I. Bahar, “Scan Segment Disable for Capture Power Reduction for Low-Power Decompressed Patterns,” 2019 IEEE North Atlantic Test Workshop (NATW), Essex, VT, USA, May 2019. 
  K. N. Smith and M. A. Thornton, “,” International Workshop on Post-Binary ULSI Systems (ULSI-WS), pp. 12-17, May 15, 2018.
 

E. Gabrielsen and M. A. Thornton, “,” Southwest Quantum Information and Technology Annual SQuInT Workshop (SQuInT), February 22-24, 2018.

  K. N. Smith, M. A. Thornton, D. L. MacFarlane, T. P. LaFave, Jr., and W. V. Oxford, “,” Southwest Quantum Information and Technology Annual SQuInT Workshop (SQuInT), February 22-24, 2018 (refereed abstract).

Articles, Interviews, Opinion Pieces and Media


Raytheon Technologies, Inc. Press Release, Raytheon Intelligence and Space Partners with Virginia Tech and ÃÛÌÒ½´Methodist University on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research, February 23, 2021, also ÃÛÌÒ½´press release, numerous web-based venues including: executivbiz.com, newsbreak.com, The Southwest Virginia Sun, The Dallas Express.

CBS DFW channel 11 (web edition), , December 8, 2020, from ÃÛÌÒ½´press release. Also, numerous other online articles resulted including those posted at enterpriseai.news, insidequantumtechnology.com, newsbreak.com, sciencex.com, quantumzeitgeist.com, techtransfercentral.com, dallasinnovates.com, insidehpc.com, newlocker.com, December 2020 ÃÛÌÒ½´Lyle Insider magazine, and others.
 

Houston Chronicle (print edition), , Opinion Editor, October 30, 2020, interviewed and quoted regarding quantum computing research in the U.S. and at SMU, hpcwire.com and others.

 

, Communications of the ACM (online edition), May 15, 2020.

  Communications of the ACM (CACM), Tech News (online edition), , online version of the CACM magazine by ACM, May 15, 2020.
 

KRLD interview of M. A. Thornton, Deason Institute’s sensor-based ransomware detection research, aired at 6:52AM, , May 14, 2020.

  The Daily Sentinel (Nacodoches, TX daily newspaper), , authored by AP, staff writer Josh Edwards, and ÃÛÌÒ½´office of public relations, quotes from M. A. Taylor and M. A. Thornton, May 13, 2020.
  Numerous on-line magazines ran articles about the Deason Institute research results in ransomware detection. Including EurekaAlert! Science New-AAAS, newsbreak.com, Cyber Daily Report, CywareSocial, helpnetsecurity, DigitPol, phys.org-Security News, redes-zone (in Spanish), sciencebusiness.tech, sciencebusinesstechnews, scienmag.com-Technology, TechXplore, and others, May 13-18, 2020.
  KRLD radio, live segment interview with M. A. Thornton, Cybersecurity concerns related to COVID19 pandemic, April 2, 2020
 

Dallas Morning News (print edition), , Jordan Wilkerson, describes research about keyboard/smartphone snooping privacy, September 23, 2019, features E.C. Larson and M. A. Thornton.

 

BBC radio, and two local UK BBC radio stations, interviewed by Oliver Conway and included in a radio piece about keyboard/smartphone snooping privacy, (audio recording at 11:33), additional similar stories on Dallas KRLD and KLIF radio stations, interview of M. A. Thornton.

 

, Forbes, August 20, 2019, (authored by Jeb Su, Forbes correspondent with interview of M. A. Thornton).

 

Communications of the ACM (CACM), Tech News (online edition), , features E.C. Larson and M. A. Thornton, August 19, 2019.

  , Dallas Morning News (online edition), August 13, 2019, (authored by Jordan Wilkerson, science reporter, also picked up by the Chicago Tribune, similar articles were written based on an ÃÛÌÒ½´press release and appeared in several other newspapers, TV news, magazines, and online publications such as Yahoo! News), features E.C. Larson and M. A. Thornton.
  ABC 10 TV News story, Sacramento, CA, , (several other TV news channels ran this story including Phoenix, AZ; Pittsburgh, PA; Greensboro, NC; Tyler, TX; , Charlotte, NC; , Dallas, TX; , Sydney, Australia; many others, features E.C. Larson and M. A. Thornton.
  “,” Dallas Morning News, Editorial, August 7, 2018, (authored by editorial board member Michael Lindenberger, including M. A. Thornton's research efforts in quantum computing at SMU).

Abstracts

M. A. Thornton, “Embedded Systems Cyber Security at the Physical Layer,” Information Systems and Computing Technology Networks (ISaCTN), (internal-only) Raytheon Technologies Conference, May 10, 2021.
Y. Sun, H. Jiang, L. Ramakrishnan, M. Segal, J. Dworak, T. W. Manikas, K. Nepal, and R. I. Bahar, “Test Architecture for Fine Grained Capture Power Reduction”, 2019 26th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Genova, Italy, November 2019
 

T. W. Manikas and M. A. Thornton, “Model Checking for Security Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems,” International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security (ICDIS), June 28-30, 2019.

  K. N. Smith and M. A. Thornton, “,” Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM), February 3.
  M. A. Thornton, W. V. Oxford, D. L. MacFarlane, and T. P. LaFave, Jr., “,” Quantum Simulation & Computation Conference (QSC), February 12-16, 2018.
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