Fall 2007 Thesis Defense Schedule
Fall 2007 Schedule
| PhD Final Oral Examinations |
| Student: Weimin Wu Title: "Advanced Compact Modeling of Silicon-On-Insulator MOSFETs for VLSI Applications" Committee: Dr. Gennady Gildenblat (chair), Dr. Bertan Bakkaloglu, Dr. Yu Cao, Dr. Sayfe Kiaei, Dr. Colin McAndrew Date: November 19, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 305 |
| Student: Rony Ferzli Title: "Perceptual Based Image Quality Assessment and Enhancement" Committee: Dr. Lina Karam (chair), Dr. Andreas Spanias, Dr. Chaitali Chakrabarti, Dr. Qian Gang, Dr. Walid Ali Date: November 19, 2007, at 11:30 a.m. in GWC 216 |
| Student: Shahin Mehdizad Taleie Title: "Finite Impulse Response Current Steering Radio Frequency Digital to Analog Converter for Digital-IF Transmitter Architecture" Committee: Dr. Sayfe Kiaei (chair), Dr. Bertan Bakkaloglu, Dr. James Aberle, Dr. Junseok Chae, Dr. Yu Cao Date: November 19, 2007, at 3:00 p.m. in GWC 302 |
| Student: Tai-Hua Chen Title: "Ultra-Low Power Radiation Hardened Integrated Circuits" Committee: Dr. Lawrence T. Clark (chair), Dr. David A. Allee, Dr. Robert O. Grondin, Dr. Yu Cao, Dr. Hongjiang Song Date: November 19, 2007, at 4:00 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Visar Berisha Title: "Bandwidth Extension of Speech Using Perceptual Criteria" Committee: Dr. Andreas Spanias (chair), Dr. Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola, Dr. Konstantinos Tsakalis, Dr. Gang Qian, Dr. Glen Abousleman Date: November 16, 2007, at 9:30 a.m. in GWC 487 |
| Student: Mehmet Argin Title: "Polyurethane Foam Application for High Voltage Insulation" Committee: Dr. George Karady (chair), Dr. Keith Holbert, Dr. Raja Ayyanar, Dr. Elbadawy Elsharawy, Prof. Richard Farmer Date: November 16, 2007, at 2:00 p.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Feng Guo Title: "Robust Visual Tracking of Articulated Human Motion" Committee: Dr. Gang Qian(chair), Dr. Andrew Spanias, Dr. Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola,Dr. Hari Sundaram, Dr. Baoxin Li Date: Novembere 16, 2007, at 2:00 p.m. in Matthews Center 236 |
| Student: Leo Petrossian Title: "Cylindrical Solid State Nanopores" Committee: Dr. Trevor Thornton (chair), Dr. Stephen Goodnick, Dr. Michael Kozicki, Dr. Nongjian Tao, Dr. Michael Goryll Date: November 15, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 216 |
| Student: Hasanur Rahman Khan Title: "Quantum Transport Simulation of Nano-scale FinFET Devices" Committee: Dr. Dragica Vasileska (co-chair), Dr. Denis Mamaluy (co-chair), Dr. David K. Ferry, Dr. Stephen M. Goodnick, Dr. Dieter K. Schroder Date: November 15, 2007, at 10:30 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Xiaomin Chen Title: "Design and analysis of a low-lower low-complexity Ultra Wideband Impulse Radio transmitter" Committee: Dr. Sayfe Kiaei (chair), Dr. James T. Aberle, Dr. Bertan Bakkaloglu, Dr. Junseok Chae, Dr. Chaitali Chakrabarti, Dr. Bahar Jalali-Farahani Date: November 15, 2007, at 3:00 p.m. in GWC 305 |
| Student: Asha Balijepalli Title: "Compact Modeling and Applications of a PD Soi Mesfet" Committee: Dr. Trevor Thornton (chair), Dr. Bertan Bakkaloglu, Dr. Dieter Schroder, Dr. Michael Kozicki, Dr. Yu Cao Date: November 13, 2007, at 9:00 a.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Joseph E. Ervin Title: "Fabrication and Characterization of Soi Mesfets" Committee: Dr. Trevor Thornton (chair), Dr. Schroder, Dr. Kozicki, Dr. Bakkaloglu, Dr. Chae Date: November 9, 2007, at 9:00 a.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Taehoon Kim Title: "Novel Hysteretic Magneto-Resistance in Epitaxially Grown NiSi2 Nanowire" Committee: Dr. Stephen Goodnick (chair), Dr. Jonathan Bird, Dr. Dieter Schroder, Dr. Ralph Chamberlin, Dr. Mark Van Schilfgaarde Date: October 4, 2007, at 12:30 p.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Jianli Zhuo Title: "Energy Management for Embedded Systems Powered by Fuel Cell-Battery Hybrid Source" Committee: Dr. Chaitali Chakrabarti (chair), Dr. Yu Cao, Dr. Karam Chatha, Dr. Lina Karam, Dr. Saram Vrudhula Date: September 24, 2007, at 2:30 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Jun Hu Title: "Iterative Decoding and Detection for Wireless and Storage Systems" Committee: Dr. Tolga M. Duman (chair), Dr. Junshan Zhang, Dr. Andreas Spanias, Dr. Cihan Tepedelenlioğlu, Dr. Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola Date: September 7, 2007, at 10:30 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Geert Van der Auwera Title: "Traffic Study of H.264/AVC and SVC Video Stream" Committee: M. Reisslein (chair), V. Syrotiuk, J. Si, C. Tepedelenlioglu, B. Li Date: August 29, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Stanislav Ogurtsov Title: "Unconditionally Stable and Wavelet Based Finite-Difference Time-Domain Methods for Electromagnetic Simulations" Committee: Dr. George W. Pan (chair), Dr. Elbadawy Elsharawy, Dr. James T. Aberle, Dr. Rodolfo E. Diaz, Dr. Carl Gardner Date: August 24, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 216 |
| Student: Dong Zheng Title: "Physical-layer Aware Control and Optimization in Stochastic Wireless Networks" Committee: Dr. Junshan Zhang (chair), Dr. Joseph Hui, Dr. Tolga M. Duman, Dr. Martin Reisslein, Dr. Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola Date: August 24, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Luke Ritchie Title: "Physical Carrier Sense Based Mechanisms for Efficient Broadcast and Convergecast in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks" Committee: M. Reisslein (chair), A. Richa, C. Tepedelenlioglu, C. Colbourn, C. Chakrabarti Date: August 17, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| MS Final Oral Examinations |
| Student: Vivek Nandakumar Title: "Techniques for Rapid Pathogen Detection" Committee: Dr. Terry L. Alford (co-chair), Dr. Lokesh Joshi (co-chair), Dr. Dieter Schroder, Dr. Jeffrey Labelle Date: November 20, 2007, at 1:30 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Patrick M. Corrigan Title: "Optimized Design of a Residential Solar Energy System with Storage" Committee: Dr. Gerald T. Heydt (chair), Dr. Keith E. Holbert, Prof. Richard G. Farmer Date: November 19, 2007, at 4:00 p.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Sudheendra Kadri Title: "Performance Driven Design Space Exploration in Portable Devices Powered by Fuel Cell-Battery Hybrid System" Committee: Dr. Sarma Vrudhula (chair), Dr. Chaitali Chakrabarti, Dr. Aviral Shrivastava Date: November 16, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in BYAC 190 |
| Student: Ziyan Wang Title: "Digitally Assisted Flash Analog to Digital Converter Design" Committee: Dr. Lawrence Clark (co-chair), Dr. David Allee (co-chair), Dr. Bertan Bakkaloglu Date: November 14, 2007, at 1:30 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Anand Meruva Title: "Implementation of Comprehensive Digital Calibration Scheme for High Performance Pipeline A/D Converters" Committee: Dr. Bahar Jalali-Farahani (chair), Dr. Sayfe Kiaei, Dr. Bertan Bakkaloglu, Dr. Douglas Garrity Date: November 14, 2007, at 3:00 p.m. in GWC 305 |
| Student: Sankaranarayanan Rangarajan Title: "Design of a Pressure Sensing Floor for Movement-Based Human Computer Interaction" Committee: Dr. Gang Qian (chair), Dr. David Birchfield, Dr. Lee Phillips, Dr. Todd Ingalls Date: November 9, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in MCent 236 |
| Student: William Ruthruff Title: "The Evaluation of Shunt Capacitor Effectiveness in a Distribution System" Committee: Dr. Gerald Heydt (chair), Dr. Vijay Vittal, Dr. Daniel Tylavsky Date: November 6, 2007, at 1:00 p.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Jayanth Madapura Title: "Improving Accuracy and Speed in Real Time Visual Tracking Based on Particle filters" Committee: Dr. Baoxin Li (co-chair), Dr. Gang Qian (co-chair), Dr. Hari Sundaram Date: November 5, 2007, at 1: 30 p.m. in BYENG 455 |
| Student: Ankit Mishra Titile: "Failure Analysis of Porcelain and Glass Suspension Type Insulators" Committee: Dr. Ravi Gorur (chair), Dr. George G. Karady, Dr. Vijay Vittal Date: November 1, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. in ERC 193 |
| Student: Dinesh Kumar Ganesan Title: "Finite Point Gate Model" Committee: Dr. Yu Cao (chair), Dr. Chaitali Chakrabarti, Dr. Janet Wang Date: October 31, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Surendra Reddy Puchalapalli Title: "A Novel Approach to Subsynchronous Resonance Screening Using Z-BUS" Committee: Dr. George G. Karady (chair), Prof. Richard G. Farmer, Dr. Raja Ayyanar Date: October 25, 2007, at 9:00 a.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Gopakumar Gopinathan Title: "Proposal of a New Humidity Correction Factor for Short Uniform Field Gaps at 60 HZ" Committee: Dr. Ravi Gorur (chair), Dr. George Karady, Prof. Richard Farmer Date: October 24, 2007, at 9:00 a.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Aditya Rao Title: "Inducing Robust Chaos in Electronic Circuits" Committee: Dr. Ying-Cheng Lai (chair), Dr. Yu Cao, Dr. Kwangho Park Date: October 24, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Shwetha Reddy Edla Title: "Dynamic Waveform Selection for Target Tracking in Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio Environments" Committee: Dr. Antonia Papandreou-Suppapola (chair), Dr. Darryl Morrell, Dr. Andreas Spanias Date: October 15, 2007, at 9:30 a.m. in GWC 216 |
| Student: Ritu Singhal Titile: "Analytical Modeling of NRG Effect" Committee: Dr. Yu Cao (chair), Dr. Chaitali Chakrabarti, Dr. Trevor Thornton Date: September 25, 2007, at 2:00 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Kanwaldeep Sobti Titile: "FANTOM: A Fixed Point Framework for Algorithm Architecture Co-design" Committee: Dr. Chaitali Chakrabarti (chair), Dr. Karam Chatha, Dr. Lina Karam Date: September 24, 2007, at 12:00 p.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Sushmit Goswami Titile: "Circuit Techniques for Parallel Optical Receiver Frontends" Committee: Dr. Hugh Barnaby (chair), Dr. Vert Vermeire, Dr. David Allee Date: September 24, 2007, at 9:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Habib Karaki Titile: "Impact of Deterministic Coupling in a Dual Slope Time to Digital Converter" Committee: Dr. Bert Vermeire (co-chair), Dr. Bertan Bakkaloglu (co-chair), Dr. Safye Kiaei Date: September 21, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 305 |
| Student: Anuj Jain Title: "Analysis and Estimation of Random Jitter in Dual Slope Interpolation Based Time-To-Digital Converters" Committee: Dr. Bert Vermeire (co-chair), Dr. Bertan Bakkaloglu (co-chair), Dr. Bahar Jalali-Farahani Date: September 20, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Muhammad Randhawa Title: "Voltage Stability Assessment of the Entergy Electrical System" Committee: Dr. Vijay Vittal (chair), Dr. Gerald Heydt, Professor Richard Farmer Date: September 14, 2007, at 2:00 p.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Chih-Wei Huang Title: "Development of the MP3 Decorder in JAVA-DSP" Committee: Dr. Andreas Spanias (chair), Dr. Antona Papandreou-Suppappola, Dr. Gang Quian Date: August 31, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Prasanth T. David Title: "Traffic and Quality Analysis of H.264 and SVC" Committee:M. Reisslein (chair), L. Karam. B. Li Date: August 24, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Amit Aneja Title: "An Online Approach to Excess Bandwidth Distribution for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPONs)" Committee:M. Reisslein (chair), C. Tepedelenlioglu, M. McGarry Date: August 13, 2007, at 10:30 a.m. in GWC 409 |