Fall 2005 Thesis Defense Schedule
Fall 2005 Schedule
| Ph.D. Final Oral Examinations |
| Student: Sergio A. Clavijo Title: "Diffraction Control for Electrically Small Low-Profile Antennas" Committee: R. Diaz (Chair), A. Abbaspour-Tamijani, J. Aberle, C. Balanis, J. Palais Date: November 22, 2005, at 1:30 p.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Yong Cao Title: "Demonstration of Mid-Infrared Equalateral-Triangle-Resonator Lasers" Committee: Y. Zhang (Chair), S. Goodnick, N. Tao, N. Newman, S. Johnson Date: November 21, 2005, at 1:00 p.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Seth Wilk Title: "Microfabricated Silicon Apertures for Transmembrane Ion Channel Measurement" Committee: T. Thornton (Chair), S. Goodnick, D. Gust, N. Tao, N. Woodbury Date: November 18, 2005, at 1:00 p.m. in ECG 315 |
| Student: Shuiqing Yu Title: "Gallium Arsenide Based Optoelectronic Devices" Committee: Y. Zhang (Chair), S. Goodnick, D. Schroder, M. Kozicki, S. Johnson Date: November 18, 2005, at 9:00 a.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Jiangbo Wang Title: "Electronic and Optical Properties of Novel Semiconductor Heterostructures" Committee: Y. Zhang (Chair), S. Goodnick, D. Schroder, M. Kozicki, S. Johnson Date: November 17, 2005, at 3:00 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Ye Jiang Title: "Descrete Charaterizations of Wideband and Dispersive Time-Varying Systems" Committee: A. Papandreou-Suppappola (Chair), D. Morrell, A. Spanias, C. Tepedelenlioglu, T. Duman Date: November 16, 2005, at 9:30 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Santhosh Krishnan Title: "Band-Structure and Detailed Quantum Effects on Hole Transport In p-Channel MOSFETs" Committee: D. Vasileska, M. Fishchetti (Co-Chairs), D. Ferry, D. Schroder, S. Goodnick Date: November 9, 2005, at 2:30 p.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Qian Ma Title: "Advanced Techniques for Diversity in Wireless Communications" Committee: C. Tepedelenlioglu (Chair), T. Duman, J. Zhang, A. Papandreou-Suppappola, D. Morrell Date: November 9, 2005, at 2:00 p.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Zhichao Zhang Title: "Design of the Broadband Admittance Tunnel for High Fidelity Material Characterization" Committee: R. Diaz (Chair), G. Pan, C. Balanis, J. Palais, J. Aberle Date: November 8, 2005, at 1:00 p.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Chakravarthy Gopalan Title: "Programmable Metallization Cell Devices Based on Copper Doped Tungsten Oxide" Committee: M. Kozicki (Chair), D. Schroder, S. Goodnick, M. Mitkova, T. Thornton Date: November 4, 2005, at 3:00 p.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Mustafa Nazmi Kaynak Title: "Coding and Detection for Magnetic Recording and Wireless Communication Systems" Committee: T. Duman (Chair), D. Morrell, A. Papandreou-Suppappola, J. Zhang, C. Tepedelenlioglu Date: November 2, 2005, at 2:00 p.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Xiaolin Gao Title: "Integrated Magnetics for Switch-Mode DC-DC Converter" Committee: R. Ayyanar (Chair), R. Farmer, G. Heydt, G. Karady, D. Tylavsky Date: October 20, 2005, at 2:00 p.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Prabhanjan C. Gurumohan Title: "Competitive Traffic Pricing for the Internet" Committee: J. Hui (Chair), M. Reisslein, V. Syrotiuk, T. Taylor, J. Zhang Date: October 10, 2005, at 3:30 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Rahim Kasim Title: "Advanced MEMS for Medium and High Power Integrated Distribution Systems" Committee: B. Kim (Chair), A. Abbaspour-Tamijani, R. Ayyanar, Y. Joo, S. Mahajan Date: September 30, 2005, at 2:00 p.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Jui-Yi Lin Title: "Wavelet-Based Algorithm for Scattering and Inverse Scattering Problems" Committee: G. Pan (Chair), J. Aberle, R. Diaz, E. Elsharawy, A. Abbaspour-Tamijani Date: September 27, 2005, at 12:00 p.m. in GWC 487 |
| Student: Lei Ma Title: "Fast Algorithms for Image Segmentation and Video Target Tracking with Automatic Initialization" Committee: J. Si (Chair), G. Abousleman, B. Li, G. Qian, M. Reisslein Date: September 26, 2005, at 3:00 p.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Xin Xie Title: "Fast Multiresolution Methods in Frequency and Time Domains for Radiation and EMC Applications" Committee: G. Pan (Chair), J. Aberle, R. Diaz, E. Elsharawy, Y. Joo Date: September 20, 2005, at 2:30 p.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Jing Hu Title: "Analysis of Motor Cortical Control and Adaption in a Brain-Machine Interface Setting" Committee: J. Si (Chair), J. He, A. Papandreou-Suppappola, S. Tillery, K. Tsakalis Date: September 14, 2005, at 10:40 a.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Mikhail K. Mikhov Title: "Investigation of Extended Defects in Silicon Carbide and Gallium Nitride by Scanning Techniques" Committee: B. Skromme (Chair), D. Schroder, S. Goodnick, S. Mahajan, Y. Zhang Date: September 7, 2005, at 10:30 a.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Gil Speyer Title: "Specific Problems in Molecular Electronics" Committee: D. Ferry (Chair), R. Akis, O. Sankey, N. Tao, D. Vasileska Date: September 7, 2005, at 9:00 a.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Sai B. Narasimhamurthy Title: "Quanta Data Storage: Information Processing and Transportation Architecture for Storage Area Networks" Committee: J. Hui (Chair), W. Tsai, J. Zhang, Y. Lai, M. Reisslein Date: August 24, 2005, at 3:15 p.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Xiaolin Mao Title: "Transformer Linear Thermal Modeling" Committee: D. Tylavsky (Chair), G. Heydt, R. Farmer, K. Holbert, R. Ayyanar Date: August 24, 2005, at 11:00 a.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Huibao Lin Title: "Visual Information Extraction: Region-of-Interest Detection, Digital Zernike Moments and Multi-Point Descriptors" Committee: J. Si (Chair), G. Abousleman, C. Tepedelenlioglu, M. Reisslein, L. Karam Date: August 22, 2005, at 3:00 p.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Matthew Jacob Gilbert Title: "Three Dimensional Quantum Mechanical Simulations of Semiconductor Nanowire Transistors" Committee: D. Ferry (Chair), S. Goodnick, R. Roedel, R. Akis, J. Shumway Date: August 2, 2005, at 10:00 a.m. in ERC 490 |
| M.S. Final Oral Examinations |
| Student: Huayue Chen Title: "An Autonomous Dance Scoring System Using Marker-Based Motion Capture" Committee: G. Qian (Chair), B. Li, J. James Date: November 21, 2005, at 4:30 p.m. in Matthews Center, 2nd Floor, AME Computer Lab |
| Student: Saurabh Saksena Title: "Effect of Voltage Sags on Loads in Residential Areas" Committee: G. Karady (Chair), G. Heydt, V. Vittal Date: November 21, 2005, at 12:30 p.m. in GWC 593 |
| Student: Addison M. Dee Title: "Feasibility Demonstration of Magnetic Field Amplification" Committee: R. Diaz (Chair), J. Aberle, J. Palais Date: November 21, 2005, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Rick Dwyer Title: "Bandwidth Expansion Techniques for Polar Modulation Systems" Committee: B. Bakkaloglu (Chair), S. Kiaei, J. Kleider Date: November 21, 2005, at 8:00 a.m. in GWC 305 |
| Student: Adam Burke Title: "Scanning Gate Microscopy Investigations of an In Plane Gated Quantum Dot" Committee: D. Ferry (Chair), J. Shumway, R. Akis Date: November 18, 2005, at 3:00 p.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Ramachandran Venkatasubramanian Title: "Spreadsheets to Promote Interactive Engagement in Semiconductor Device Courses" Committee: B. Skromme (Chair), D. Schroder, S. Goodnick Date: November 17, 2005, at 1:00 p.m. in ERC 193 |
| Student: Alvaro Diaz Aguilar Title: "Chemical Sensors Using Peptide-Functionalized Conductive Polymer Nanojunction Arrays" Committee: N. Tao (Chair), H. Barnaby, M. Levitus, R. Tsui Date: November 17, 2005, at 10:00 a.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Ju Kyung Lee Title: "High Efficiency Push-Pull Cascode Power Amplifier with Active Balun for Handset Applications" Committee: E. Elsharawy (Chair), D. Allee, B. Bakkaloglu Date: November 17, 2005, at 9:30 a.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Satish Krishnamoorthy Title: "Experimental Characterization of Stochastic Resonance" Committee: Y. Lai (Chair), B. Bakkaloglu, C. Tepedelenlioglu Date: November 4, 2005, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 604 |
| Student: Deepak Krishna Lakshminarasimhan Title: "Wavelet Based Cyber Attack Detection" Committee: N. Ye, Y. Lai (Co-Chairs), J. Si Date: November 2, 2005, at 11:00 a.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Asha Balijepalli Title: "Non-Linear Model of a SOI MESFET" Committee: T. Thornton (Chair), D. Schroder, Y. Cao Date: October 27, 2005, at 3:00 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Dhruvit Patel Title: "Two Tier Pus Pull RF Power Amplifier for Wide-Band Code Division Multiple Access Base-Station" Committee: E. Elsharawy (Chair), D. Allee, R. Grondin Date: October 27, 2005, at 1:00 p.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Sreekar Krishna Title: "Towards Pose Angle and Illumination Angle Invariant Face Recognition" Committee: S. Panchanathan (Chair), B. Li, G. Qian Date: October 13, 2005, at 10:00 a.m. in BYENG 510 |
| Student: Srikanth Surapaneni Title: "Modeling of High Speed Interconnects for Mixed-Signal Circuits" Committee: B. Kim (Chair), Y. Joo, R. Ayyanar Date: September 30, 2005, at 11:30 a.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Venkataramanan Kalayanaraman Title: "Automatic Test Program Generation Tool for Mixed-Signal Device Interface Boards" Committee: B. Kim (Chair), Y. Joo, B. Bakkaloglu Date: September 30, 2005, at 9:00 a.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Ryan R. Wilhelm Title: "Application of re-Radiating Boundary Conditions in FDTD to Sub-Wavelength Computational Domains for the Design of an Annular Slot Antenna" Committee: R. Diaz (Chair), C. Balanis, J. Aberle Date: September 29, 2005, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Yan Guo Title: "Design of a Compact High Fidelity Free-Space Material Measurement Test Set-Up" Committee: R. Diaz (Chair), C. Balanis, J. Palais Date: September 8, 2005, at 2:00 p.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Manikandan Ponnuswamy Title: "Dynamical Analysis of Epileptic Seizures Using Synchronization-Based Measures" Committee: L. Iasemidis, K. Tsakalis (Co-Chairs), A. Spanias Date: September 2, 2005, at 10:15 a.m. in 80 East Rio Salado Parkway, Suite 511 |
| Student: Vamshi Gannaboina Title: "Dielectric Characterization of Low Loss Thin Films Using Microwave Slit Cavity" Committee: E. Elsharasy, N. Newman (Co-Chairs), G. Pan Date: August 31, 2005, at 12:00 p.m. in GWC 353 |