| PhD Final Oral Examinations |
| Student: Lida Jauregui-Rivera Title: "Reliability Assessment of Transformer Thermal Models" Committee: D. Tylavsky (Chair), R. Ayyanar, R. Farmer, D. Montgomery, G. Heydt Date: July 20, 2006, at 9:00 a.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Madhusudhana Gargesha Title: "Content-based Image Analysis Techniques and Biological Validation Schemes for Images Depicting Spatial Gene Expression Patterns in Developing Embryos" Committee: S. Panchanathan, S. Kumar (Co-Chairs), S. Newfeld, G. Qian, M. Reisslein Date: June 16, 2006, at 10:00 a.m. in BY510 |
| Student: Haixin Zhu Title: "Dry-Etch Benzocyclobutene (BCB) Based Neural-Electronic Interface" Committee: J. He, B. Kim (Co-Chairs), N. Tao, J. Si, D. Vasileska Date: June 5, 2006, at 8:15 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Tansal Gucluoglu Title: "Reduced Complexity Receivers for Space-Time coded Systems Over Frequency Selective Fading Channels" Committee: T. Duman (Chair), D. Morrell, A. Papandreou-Suppappola, J. Zhang, C. Tepedelenlioglu Date: May 26, 2006, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| MS Final Oral Examinations |
| Student: Daniel Aguiar Title: "Communications-Sensing Trade-Off in Wireless Sensor Networks" Committee: J. Zhang (Chair), A. Papandreou-Suppappola, C. Tepedelenlioglu Date: July 27, 2006, at 12:00 p.m. in GWC 487 |
| Student: Michael Lee McLain Title: "Total Ionizing Dose Response in Deep Sub-Micron Shallow-Trench Isolation Oxides" Committee: H. Barnaby (Chair), K. Holbert, L. Clark Date: July 26, 2006, at 10:30 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Ivan Sanchez Esqueda Title: "Characterization and Modeling of the Radiation Response on Sub-Micrometer N-Channel MOSFETS" Committee: H. Barnaby (Chair), D. Schroder, K. Holbert Date: July 25, 2006, at 10:30 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Tarun Sairam Title: "Low-Power Digital Design with FinFET Technology" Committee: Yu Cao (Chair), C. Chakrabarti, L. Clark Date: July 21, 2006, at 10:00 a.m. in ERC 593 |
| Student: Cynthia Ratnakumar Title: "Programmable Metallization Cell Fabrication and Characterization with the Focused Ion Beam" Committee: M. Kozicki (Chair) M. Mitkova, D. Schroder Date: June 30, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Hyungsoo Kim Title: "Design of Negative Impedance Converters for VHF and UHF Applications" Committee: J. Aberle (Chair), B. Jalalifarahani, T. Copani Date: May 26, 2006, at 10:30 a.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Lakshmi Rajagopalan Title: "Noise-Induced Imtermittent Energy Bursts in Nonlinear Wavesystem" Committee: Y. Lai (Chair), J. Lopez, C. Tepedelenlioglu Date: May 18, 2006, at 2:30 p.m. in GWC 604 |
| Student: Umar Lyles Title: "An Injection Locked Tracking ΣΔ Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer" Committee: S. Kiaei (Chair), B. Bakkaloglu, J. Aberle Date: May 15, 2006, at 11:00 a.m. in GWC 353 |