| PhD Final Oral Examinations |
| Student: Mark Rice Title: "Condition Indicator Analysis for the Enhancement of Power System State Estimators" Committee: G. Heydt (Chair), V. Vittal, D. Tylavsky, R. Ayyanar, J. Si Date: April 19, 2007, at 2:30 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Bo Yang Title: "Slow Coherency Based Graph Theoretic Islanding Strategy" Committee: V. Vittal (Chair), G. Heydt, R. Farmer, D. Tylavsky, A. Sen Date: April 19, 2007, at 8:10 a.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Weiqing Jiang Title: "Distributed State Estimation" Committee: V. Vittal (Chair), D. Tylavsky, G. Heydt, J. Si, R. Farmer Date: April 13, 2007, at 3:00 p.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Bo Yang Title: "Nonstandard Finite-Difference Methods for Electromagnetics" Committee: C. Balanis (Chair), J. Aberle, R. Diaz, G. Pan, R. Renaut Date: April 11, 2007, at 3:30 p.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Jinhui Chen Title: "Robust Ultra-Low Power Subthreshold Digital Circuit Design" Committee: L. Clark (Chair), Y. Cao, B. Bakkaloglu, D. Allee, T. Thronton Date: April 10, 2007, at 1:00 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Nguyen Ly Title: "Protein Separation and Detection with Microfabricated Devices" Committee: N. Tao (Chair), S. Phillips, T. Thornton, B. Towe, N. Woodbury Date: April 5, 2007, at 1:00 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Anastasios Panaretos Title: "A Discrete Time-Domain Electromagnetics Formulation with Minimized Numerical Artifacts" Committee: J. Aberle, R. Diaz (Co-Chairs), G. Pan, A. Abbaspour-Tamijani, K. Tsakalis Date: April 3, 2007, at 3:15 p.m. in GWC 305 |
| Student: Donald Hall Title: "MOSFET Subthreshold Region Modeling for Ultra-Low Power Circuit Design Using BSIM3V3" Committee: D. Schroder (Chair), L. Clark, M. Kozicki, B. Skromme, B. Towe Date: March 30, 2007, at 12:30 p.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Niranjan Chakravarthy Title: "A feedback Systems Perspective for Modeling and Controlling Epileptic Seizures" Committee: K. Tsakalis, L. Jassemidis (Co-Chairs), J. Abbas, J. Si, A. Spanias Date: March 26, 2007, at 2:00 p.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Jeffrey Foutz Title: "Adaptive Low Rank Beamforming for Linear, Planar, and Semispherical Arrays" Committee: A. Spanias (Chair), D. Morrell, A. Papandreou-Suppappola, K. Tsakalis, G. Qian Date: March 16, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Praveen Ghanta Title: "Stochastic Performance Modeling and Analysis of VLSI Circuits in the Presence of Process Variations" Committee: S. Vrudhula (Chair), C. Chakrabarti, M. Kozicki, Y. Cao, G. Runger Date: March 6, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Lary Reed Larson Title: "Corrosion of Silicon Devices for Medical Applications" Committee: D. Schroder (Chair), G. Pan, H. Yu, B. Towe, K. Sjeradzki Date: March 2, 2007, at 1:00 p.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Oguzhan Cifdaloz Title: "H-Infinity Mixed-Sensitivity Optimization for Infinite Dimensional Plants Subject to Convex Constraints" Committee: A. Rodriguez (Chair), W. Higgins, H. Mittelmann, J. Si, K. Tsakalis Date: February 21, 2007, at 3:30 p.m. in GWC 379 |
| Student: Sandeep Prasad Sira Title: "Waveform-Agile Sensing for Target Tracking and Detection in Clutter" Committee: A. Papandreou-Suppappola (Chair), D. Morrell, A. Spanias, J. Zhang, T. Taylor Date: January 8, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Vadim Kushner Title: "Low Frequency Noise Spectroscopy of SOI Wafers" Committee: T. Thornton (Chair), D. Schroder, D. Vasileska, S. Goodnick, H. Barnaby Date: December 20, 2006, at 3:30 p.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Yu Wang Title: "Investigation of Electrical Properties of Defects in Silicon Carbide Schottky and P-I-N Diodes" Committee: B. Skromme (Chair), D. Schroder, H. Barnaby, D. Vasileska, S. Mahajan Date: December 18, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Jae-Young Kim Title: "Development of MEMS Device for Biological Anaylsis" Committee: S. Phillips (Chair), D. Allee, M. Kozicki, J. Thornton, S. Myhajlenko Date: December 18, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Xiulan Li Title: "Charge Transport in Single Molecules" Committee: N. Tao (Chair), M. Kozicki, D. Allee, L. Nagahara, P. Zhang Date: November 22, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. in ERC 593 |
| MS Final Oral Examinations |
| Student: Gordana Stojanovic Title: "Monte Carlo Device Simulator Development for HEMT Modeling" Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. Goodnick, O. Hartin Date: April 20, 2007, at 3:00 p.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Kailash Chandrashekar Title: "Wide Bandwidth Transimpedance Amplifier Using Modified Cherry Hooper Amplifier" Committee: H. Barnaby (Chair), B. Bakkaloglu, T. Copani Date: April 19, 2007, at 12:00 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Miguel F. Garcia Title: "Multivariable Control of Flexible Spacecraft" Committee: A. Rodriguez (Chair), K. Tsakalis, D. Rivera Date: April 18, 2007, at 3:30 p.m. in GWC 379 |
| Student: Yong Yang Title: "Miniaturized HPLC Column with Nano-Pore Beads for Protein Separation on Flexible Medical Implants" Committee: J. Chae (Chair), M. Kozicki, N. Tao Date: April 18, 2007, at 3:30 p.m. in GWC 305 |
| Student: Rakesh Vattikonda Title: "Predictive Modeling of NBTI Effect" Committee: Y. Cao (Chair), C. Chakrabarti, J. Chae Date: April 17, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Chong Gon Kim Title: "Integrated Antenna-Filter Modules for Millimeter-Wave Arraya" Committee: A. Abbaspour-Tamijani (Chair), C. Balanis, R. Diaz Date: April 13, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Zi Li Title: "Noise Margin Analysis of A-Si:H Digital Circuit and Integrated A-Si:H Row Drivers on Stainless Steel Substrate" Committee: D. Allee (Chair), L. Clark, C. Chakrabarti Date: April 12, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. in ERC 193 |
| Student: Adarsh Bangalore Narasimhamurthy Title: "Antenna Selectrion for MIMO OFDM Systems with Channel Estimation Error" Committee: C. Tepedelenlioglu (Chair), T. Duman, A. Spanias Date: April 12, 2007, at 10:30 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Brian Lenoski Title: "Estimating the Autocorrelation of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Time-Series: Pre-Surgical Mapping of Motor and Language Comprehension Ability" Committee: L. Karam (Chair), G. Abousleman, J. Debbins Date: April 12, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 487 |
| Student: Jeffrey James Dickeson Title: "Gain Scheduled H-Infinity Controller Design for the Hover-to-Cruise Conversion of a Tilt-Wing Rotorcraft" Committee: A. Rodriguez (Chair), J. Si, K. Tsakalis Date: April 5, 2007, at 2:00 p.m. in GWC 379 |
| Student: Richard P. Ormeno Title: "The Role of Echo Cancellation in Frequency Independent Antennas" Committee: R. Diaz (Chair), J. Aberle, C. Balanis Date: April 4, 2007, at 4:30 p.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: David Wayne Miles Title: "LPV Modeling and H-Infinity Control of A Tiltwing Rotorcraft" Committee: A. Rodriguez (Chair), K. Tsakalis, J. Si Date: April 4, 2007, at 3:30 p.m. in GWC 379 |
| Student: Anusha Rammohan Title: "Integer Ambiguity Resolution in Global Positioning Systems Using Particle Filters" Committee: Y. Lai (Chair), A. Papandreou-Suppappola, C. Tepedelenlioglu Date: March 30, 2007, at 3:00 p.m. in GWC 604 |
| Student: Srinivasan Gopal Title: "An Experimental Study of Chaotic MOS Oscillators" Committee: Y. Lai (Chair), R. Ayyanar, B. Bakkaloglu Date: March 22, 2007, at 9:00 a.m. in GWC 604 |
| Student: Pallavi Satyan Title: "Pose Invariant Face Recognition Using Frontal and Profile Views" Committee: S. Panchanathan (Chair), G. Farin, D. Hansford, G. Qian Date: March 2, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in BYENG 528 |
| Student: Ankur Mani Title: "User Context Modeling with Applications to Media Retrieval" Committee: H. Sundaram, G. Qian (Co-Chairs), A. Rodriguez, H. Thornburg Date: February 19, 2007, at 12:00 p.m. in Matthews Center 236 |
| Student: Sivashankar Sivasubramanian Title: "Optical Characterization of Gallium Nitride, Zinc Oxide and Zinc Magnesium Oxide" Committee: Brian Skromme (Chair), D. Schroder, F. Ponce Date: February 12, 2007, at 1:00 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Bindu Koshy Title: "Automating Standardization of Fruit-Fly Embryo Images" Committee: S. Kumar, S. Panchanathan (Co-Chairs), A. Papandreou-Suppappola Date: December 19, 2006, at 1:00 p.m. in BD AL1-10/14 |
| Student: Niharika Varanasi Title: "Modeling of Pulsed Laser Strike Effects in High Speed VCOs" Committee: H. Barnaby (Chair), J. Aberle, B. Vermeire Date: December 18, 2006, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 487 |
| Student: Gayle Fran Collins Title: "Robust Linearization and Stability of RF Power Amplifiers" Committee: B. Bakkaloglu, S. Phillips (Co-Chairs), D. Runton Date: December 1, 2006, at 10:00 a.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Ahmad A. Ababnah Title: "" Committee: A. Papandreou-Suppappola, C. Chakrabarti (Co-Chairs), D. Morrell Date: December 1, 2006, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 488 |
