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Publications (17)

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: Characterization of the first science-grade MKID array for the Prime-Cam 850 GHz module

Anthony I. Huber, Jordan Wheeler, James Burgoyne +16

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is a 6-meter crossed-Dragone telescope developed by the CCAT collaboration. Sited at 5600 m on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Plateau…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: Magnetic Sensitivity Measurements of Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Benjamin J. Vaughan, Yuhan Wang, Cody J. Duell +16

The CCAT Observatory is a ground-based submillimeter to millimeter experiment located on Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Desert, at an altitude of 5,600 meters. CCAT features the 6…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: Optical Responsivity, Noise, and Readout Optimization of KIDs for Prime-Cam

Eliza Gazda, Quintin Meyers, James R. Burgoyne +18

The Prime-Cam instrument on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) at the CCAT Observatory will conduct sensitive millimeter to submillimeter surveys for a range of astrophy…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: The 410 GHz camera module for FYST - design and testing of the MKID focal plane

Scott C. Chapman, Jordan Wheeler, Anthony Huber +17

Prime-Cam, the primary first-light instrument for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) developed by the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT) Collaboration, will accom…

cs.DC2022

Real-Time Dynamic Map with Crowdsourcing Vehicles in Edge Computing

Qiang Liu, Tao Han, Jiang +2

Autonomous driving perceives surroundings with line-of-sight sensors that are compromised under environmental uncertainties. To achieve real time global information in high definit…

cs.LG2025

An Information-Theoretic Framework for Feature Construction in Out-of-Distribution Detection

Sudeepta Mondal, Zhuolin Jiang, Xinyi +3

We present a theory for the construction of out-of-distribution (OOD) detection features for neural networks. We introduce random features for OOD through a novel information-theor…

astro-ph.IM2025

CCAT: Mod-Cam Cryogenic Performance and its Impact on 280 GHz KID Array Noise

Lawrence T. Lin, Eve M. Vavagiakis, Jason E. Austermann +27

The CCAT Observatory's Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) is designed to observe submillimeter astronomical signals with high precision, using receivers fielding state-of-th…

cs.NI2020

LiveMap: Real-Time Dynamic Map in Automotive Edge Computing

Qiang Liu, Tao Han, Jiang +2

Autonomous driving needs various line-of-sight sensors to perceive surroundings that could be impaired under diverse environment uncertainties such as visual occlusion and extreme…

cs.NI2024

When Learning Meets Dynamics: Distributed User Connectivity Maximization in UAV-Based Communication Networks

Bowei Li, Saugat Tripathi, Salman Hosain +4

Distributed management over Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based communication networks (UCNs) has attracted increasing research attention. In this work, we study a distributed user…

eess.SY2024

Learning with Dynamics: Autonomous Regulation of UAV Based Communication Networks with Dynamic UAV Crew

Ran Zhang, Bowei Li, Liyuan Zhang +3

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based communication networks (UCNs) are a key component in future mobile networking. To handle the dynamic environments in UCNs, reinforcement learnin…

astro-ph.IM2025

CCAT: Design, Implementation, and Testing of a System to Read Out over 10,000 280 GHz KIDs using RFSoC Electronics

Darshan A. Patel, Yuhan Wang, Cody J. Duell +28

Over the past decade, kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs) have emerged as a viable superconducting technology for astrophysics at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. KIDs spa…

stat.ME2021

U-Statistics for Left Truncated and Right Censored Data

Sudheesh, K. K., Anjana +3

The analysis left truncated and right censored data is very common in survival and reliability analysis. In lifetime studies patients often subject to left truncation in addition t…

eess.SY2024

Maximizing User Connectivity in AI-Enabled Multi-UAV Networks: A Distributed Strategy Generalized to Arbitrary User Distributions

Bowei Li, Yang Xu, Ran Zhang +3

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been extensively applied to Multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) network (MUN) to effectively enable real-time adaptation to complex, time-vary…

cs.CV2026

Robust Cross-Domain Generalization Using Unlabeled Target Data with Source-Domain Supervision

Yuyue Zhou, Shrimanti Ghosh, Michael +7

It is often desirable to generalize medical imaging AI models trained with dense annotations to data acquired from different ultrasound scanners or clinical sites; however, retrain…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: Design and Characterization of the 350 GHz Instrument Module

Ben Keller, Jordan Wheeler, Cody J. Duell +24

The CCAT Collaboration's Prime-Cam instrument will soon be deployed to the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in Chile's Atacama Desert. Featuring prominently in Prime-Cam's…

astro-ph.IM2026

CCAT: Mod-Cam Readout Overview and Flexible Stripline Performance

Ben Keller, Rodrigo Freundt, James R. Burgoyne +14

The CCAT Observatory's primary science instrument, Prime-Cam, is nearing readiness for deployment to the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in the Atacama Desert in northern…

astro-ph.IM2025

CCAT: Multi-Rate DSP for Sub-mm Astronomy: Polyphase Synthesis Filter Bank on FPGA for Enhanced MKID Readout

Ruixuan, Xie, Adrian K. Sinclair +3

The next-generation mm/sub-mm/far-IR astronomy will in part be enabled by advanced digital signal processing (DSP) techniques. The Prime-Cam instrument of the Fred Young Submillime…