Spring 2006 Thesis Defense Schedule
Spring 2006 Schedule
| Ph.D. Final Oral Examinations |
| Student: Tuyet-Trang Lam (Snow) Title: "Selective Error Detection and Error Concealment for Error-Resilient Wavelet-Based Image Coding" Committee: L. Karam (Chair), A. Spanias, T. Duman, A. Papandreou-Suppappola, J. Zhang, G. Abousleman Date: April 21, 2006, at 3:00 p.m. in GWC 216 |
| Student: Nilanjan Senroy Title: "Emergency State Stability Control of Power Systems Through Intelligent Islanding" Committee: G. Heydt (Chair), D. Tylavsky, S. Phillips, R. Ayyanar, R. Farmer Date: April 21, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. in GWC 487 |
| Student: Sung-Hoon Oh Title: "Automatically Tuning Antenna System for Software-Defined and Copnitive Radio" Committee: J. Aberle (Chair), B. Bakkaloglu, C. Chakrabarti, Y. Joo, G. Pan Date: April 21, 2006, at 1:30 p.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Joon-Young Choi Title: "SOI Characterization with the Mercury Contact Pseudo-MOSFET (HgFET)" Committee: D. Schroder (Chair), S. Mahajan, M. Kozicki, T. Thornton, Y. Joo Date: April 20, 2006, at 1:40 p.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Jiun-Hsin Liao Title: "Characterization of Strained Silicon" Committee: D. Schroder (Chair), D. Allee, M. Kozicki, J. Palais, R. Roedel Date: April 20, 2006, at 8:30 a.m. in ERC 193 |
| Student: Amit Singh Chhetri Title: "Sensor Scheduling and Efficient Algorithm Implementation for Target Tracking" Committee: A. Papandreou-Suppappola, D. Morrell (Co-Chairs), A. Spanias, T. Taylor, J. Zhang Date: April 19, 2006, at 3:15 p.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Ghassan Maalouli Title: "Estimation and Equalization of a Time Varying Channel in the Presence of Second Order Dynamics" Committee: A. Spanias (Chair), L. Karam, A. Papandreou-Suppappola, D. Morrell, K. Tsakalis Date: April 19, 2006, at 11:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Derrick Lim Title: "Fluorescence Enhancing Photonic Devices" Committee: R. Diaz (Chair), J. Aberle, J. Menendez, G. Pan, S. Phillips Date: April 18, 2006, at 12:30 p.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Natthaphob Nimpitiwan Title: "Consequences of Fault Currents Contributed by Distributed Generation" Committee: G. Heydt (Chair), G. Karady, R. Farmer, R. Ayyanar, S. Phillips Date: April 18, 2006, at 8:30 a.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Basel Naser Title: "Time Resolved Measurements of Electron Transport in Quantum Point Contact" Committee: J. Bird, S. Goodnick (Co-Chairs), D. Ferry, N. Newman, P. Bennett Date: April 7, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Khan A. Tarik Title: "Modeling of Schottky Junction Transistor Using Monte Carlo Device Simulation Technique" Committee: D. Vasileska, T. Thornton (Co-Chairs), D. Ferry, S. Goodnick, D. Schroder Date: December 7, 2005, at 3:00 p.m. in ERC 593 |
| M.S. Final Oral Examinations |
| Student: Ashutosh P. Kulkarni Title: "Robust People Matching Across Videos Using Multiple Cues" Committee: J. Si, G. Qian (Co-Chairs), Gl Abousleman Date: April 26, 2006, at 11:00 a.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Mingyue Shen Title: "Design of a Hollow Dielectric Pipe Antenna and Free-Space Material Measurement Test Set-Up" Committee: R. Diaz (Chair), J. Palais, A. Abbaspour-Tamijani Date: April 21, 2006, at 10:30 a.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Rob Romak Title: "Non-Foster Impedances as Active Broadband Matching Networks for Electrically Small Antennas" Committee: J. Aberle (Chair), B. Bakkaloglu, Y. Joo Date: April 18, 2006, at 4:00 p.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Abhishek Hundiwale Title: "Evaluation of Composite Cores for High Temperature Low Sag (HTLS) Conductors" Committee: R. Gorur (Chair), G. Heydt, G. Karady Date: April 17, 2006, at 10:00 a.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Nad E. Gilbert Title: "Multi-Level Cell Memory Design with Programmable Metallization Cells" Committee: M. Kozicki (Chair), L. Clark, D. Wayne Date: April 4, 2006, at 2:30 p.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Christel Amburgey Title: "Free Space Propagation and Field Reconstruction Using Plane Wave Spectrum" Committee: R. Diaz (Chair), J. Aberle, C. Balanis Date: February 27, 2006, at 1:00 p.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Briann Mann Title: "Accuracy Improvement Strategies for Problematic Power System Measurements and Their Effect on State Estimation" Committee: G. Heydt (Chair), D. Tylavsky, V. Vittal Date: February 21, 2006, at 1:30 p.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Prashant Srinivasan Title: "Design of a Large Area Pressure Sensing Floor" Committee: G. Qian (Chair), D. Birchfield, H. Thornburg Date: January 13, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. in MCTR 236 AME Computer Lab |
| Student: Graham Taylor Title: "A Frequency-Agile Cognitive Antenna" Committee: J. Aberle (Chair), C. Chakrabarty, B. Bakkaloglu Date: January 12, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Lakshmi Girija Title: "Implementation and Analysis of Select MPEG Algorithms on a Matrix-Oriented Architecture" Committee: A. Spanias (Chair), A. Papandreou-Suppappola, G. Qian Date: January 12, 2006, at 11:00 a.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Yue Yang Title: "Perceptual Enhancement of Image and Video by Non-linear Processing with Gabor Filters" Committee: B. Li, A. Papandreou-Suppappolai (Co-Chairs), J. Si Date: December 1, 2005, at 12:00 p.m. in GWC 487 |
| Student: Rahim I. Khoja Title: "A Co-Processor Architecture for Protein Sequence Identification" Committee: C. Chakrabarti (Chair), T. Acharya, K. Chatha Date: December 1, 2005, at 12:00 p.m. in GWC 353 |
| Student: Neil N. Shah Title: "Analysis of a Hight Power Switch Utilizing Microelectromechanical Systems for AC Distribution System" Committee: G. Karady (Chair), G. Heydt, E. Gel Date: November 28, 2005, at 10:00 a.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Edwin Bosco Ramayya Title: "Modeling of Electron Mobility in a Rectangular Silicon Nanowire Transistor" Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. Goodnick, R. Akis Date: November 23, 2005, at 3:00 p.m. in ERC 593 |