Spring 2008 Thesis Defense Schedule
Spring 2008 Schedule
| PhD Final Oral Examinations |
| Student: James Dankert Title: "Approaches to Asynchronous Control of Motor Cortical Neural Prosthetics" Committee: Dr. Jennie Si (co-chair), Dr. Konstantinos Tsakalis (co-chair), Dr. Stephen I. Helms Tillery, Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez, Dr. Thomas Taylor Date: April 18, 2008, at 8:00 a.m. in GWC 208C |
| Student: Matthew J. Marinella Title: "Characterization of 4H-SiC MOS Capacitors" Committee: Dr. Dieter K. Schroder (chair), Dr. Terry L. Alford, Dr. Michael N. Kozicki, Dr. Denis Mamaluy, Dr. Ronald J. Roedel Date: April 17, 2008, at 10: a.m. in ERC 193 |
| Student: Joshua Hihath Title: "Methods and Applications in Single Molecule Electronics" Comittee: Dr. Nongjian Tao (chair), Dr. David Ferry, Dr. Stephen Goodnick, Dr. Michael Goryll, Dr. Joseph Wang Date: April 16, 2008, at 3:30 p.m. in ISTB1 #227 |
| Student: Ishtiaq Ahsan Title: "Challenges of Accurate Gate Length Characterization with Emphasis on the Effects of Intra-Die Thermal Variation" Committee: Prof. Dieter K. Schroder (chair), Prof. Ronald Roedel, Prof. Chaitali Chakrabarti, Prof. Michael Kozicki, Dr. Edward J. Nowak Date: April 11, 2008, at 8:30 a.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Dongwon Park Title: "Wide Dynamic Range and High SNR CMOS Image Sensor" Committee: Dr. Youngjoong Joo (chair), Dr. Lina Karam, Dr. Bertan Bakkaloglu, Dr. Bahar Jalali-Farahani, Dr. Junseok Chae Date: April 3, 2008, at 12:20 p.m. in GWC 305 |
| Student: Shivkumar Sabesan Title: "Spatiotemporal Brain Dynamics in Epilepsy: Application to Seizure Prediction and Focus Localization" Committee: Dr. Konstantinos Tsakalis (co-chair), Dr. Leonidas Jassemidis (co-chair), Dr. Andreas Spanias, Dr. Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola, Dr. James Abbas Date: March 21, 2008, at 1:30 p.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Jason S. Ayubi-Moak Title: "Global Modeling of Microwave Transistors using a Full-Band Cellular Monte Carlo/Full-Wave Maxwell Simulator" Committee: Dr. Stephen M. Goodnick (chair), Dr. David K. Ferry, Dr. Dragica Vasileska, Dr. Marco Saraniti, Dr. Christian Ringhofer Date: March 7, 2008, at 3:00 p.m. in GWC 487 |
| Student: Peter J. Bevelacqua Title: "Antenna Arrays: Performance Limits and Geometry Optimization" Committee: Dr. Constantine A. Balanis (chair), Dr. Abbaspour-Tamijani, Dr. James Aberle, Dr. Joseph Palais, Dr. Cihan Tepedelenlioglu Date: March 4, 2008, at 12:30 p.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Vijay N Choudhary Title: "Fault-tolerant Circuit Topologies and Digital Control Methods for Modular Dc-Dc Converters" Committee: Dr. Raja Ayyanar (chair), Dr. George Karady, Prof. Richard Farmer, Dr. Daniel Tylavsky, Dr. Youngjoong Joo Date: March 3, 2008, at 3:15 p.m. in ERC 533 |
| Student: Beshan Kulapala Title: "Discrete and Continuous-Time Collaborative Prefetching of Continuous Media" Committee: Dr. Martin Reisslein (chair), Dr. Andrea Richa, Dr. Jennie Si, Dr. Joseph Hui, Dr. Lina Karam Date: February 29, 2008, at 1:00 p.m. in ISTB1 227 |
| Student: Giby Samson Title: "Robust Dynamic Circuits with Low Power and High Performance for Nanometer CMOS Technologies" Committee: Dr. Lawrence T. Clark (chair), Dr. David R. Allee, Dr. Chaitali Chakrabarti, Dr. Michael N. Kozicki, Dr. Yu Cao Date: February 18, 2008, at 1:45 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Raul E. Perez-Guerrero Title: "Optimal Restoration of Distribution Systems Using the Lagrangian Dual Relaxation" Committee: Dr. Gerald T. Heydt (chair), Prof. Richard Farmer, Dr. Ahmet Keha, Dr. Daniel Tylavsky, Dr. Vijay Vittal Date: January 29, 2008, at 12:30 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Lei Yang Title: "Understanding and Analyzing Direct Heuristic Dynamic Programming" Committee: Dr. Jennie Si (chair), Dr. Daniel E. Rivera, Dr. Konstantinos Tsakalis, Dr. Teresa Wu, Dr. Armando A. Rodriguez Date: January 17, 2008, at 1:30 p.m. in GWC 355 |
| MS Final Oral Examinations |
| Student: Sanket G. Adhikari Title: "Survey and Modeling of Distribution Power Cable Produced EMF in Residential Areas" Comittee: Dr. Keith E. Holbert (chair), Dr. George G. Karady, Prof. Richard G. Farmer Date: April 17, 2008, at 9:00 a.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Nikhil Gupta Title: "Design of a Low Cost, Hight Density Radiation Hardened Nand Flash Memory" Comittee: Dr. Bert Vermeire (co-chair), Dr. Hugh Barnaby (co-chair), Dr. Michael N. Kozicki Date: April 11, 2008, at 3:00 p.m. in GWC 305 |
| Student: Sung Ho Kim Title: "Ultra Low-Power Cellular Neural Networks from Novel Devices for Analog Image Processing" Committee: Dr. Bertan Bakkaloglu (chair), Dr. Trevor J. Thornton, Dr. Jennie Si Date: April 11, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 487 |
| Student: Amit Goel Title: "Characterization of Nanoscale Digital Circuits for Statistical Timing and Signal Integrity Analysis" Committee: Dr. Sarma Vrudhula (chair), Dr. Lawrence T. Clark, Dr. Karam S. Chatha Date: March 24, 2008, at 12:30 p.m. in BYENGG 455 |
| Student: Sanjay Mani Title: "Adaptive Modulation Techniques for Underwater Acoustic Channels" Committee: Dr. Tolga M. Duman (chair), Dr. Cihan Tepedelenlioglu, Dr. Antonia Papandreou Suppappola Date: March 20, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Ravi Seshachala Title: "Multicast Capacity of Optical WDM Packet Ring for Hotspot Traffic" Committee: Dr. Martin Reisslein (chair), Dr. Arunabha Sen, Dr. Cihan Tepedelenlioglu Date: March 19, 2008, at 11:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Vinod Kandasamy Title: "Coded Differential OFDM for underwater Acoustic Communications" Committee: Dr. Tolga M. Duman (chair), Dr. Cihan Tepedelenlioglu, Dr. Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola Date: March 17, 2008, at 1:45 p.m. in ERC 490 |
| Student: Shreyas V. Iyer Title: "Design of Quasi – Optical Wave Adapters" Committee: Dr. Abbas Abbaspour-Tamijani (chair), Dr. Constantine Balanis, Dr. Rodolfo Diaz Date: February 29, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 305 |
| Student: Rangasayee Lalgudi Chandrasekaran Title: "Significance of Step Size and Timing Jitter in the Acquisition Performance of Coherent IR-UWB Receivers" Committee: Dr. Cihan Tepedelenlioglu (chair), Dr. Tolga M. Duman, Dr. Andreas Spanias Date: February 27, 2008, at 1:45 p.m. in GWC 487 |
| Student: Omar Rahman Title: "BER Analysis of a SIMO Multi-User Diversity System" Committee: Dr. Cihan Tepedelenlioglu (chair), Dr. Tolga M Duman, Dr. Andreas Spanias Date: February 27, 2008, at 9:30 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Dilip Swaminathan Title: "Dynamic Bayesian Approaches to Expressive Human Movement Analysis" Committee: Dr. Harvey Thornburg (chair), Dr. Gang Qian, Ms. Jodi James, Mr. Todd Ingalls Date: February 13, 2008, at 3:00 p.m. in Mathews Center 236 |
| Student: Sapna Deval Title: "Resilience of Physical Carrier Sense based MANET Backbones" Committee: Dr. Martin Reisslein (chair), Dr. Andrea Richa, Dr. Cihan Tepedelenlioglu Date: February 13, 2008, at 11:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Adithya Renduchintala Title: "Visual and Multimedia tools for Group Awareness" Committee: Dr. Winslow Burleson (co-chair), Dr. Harvey Thornburg (co-chair), Dr. Aisling Kelliher, Dr. Hari Sundaram Date: February 6, 2008, at 3:00 p.m. in Matthews Center 236 |
| Student: Kai Tu Title: "Human Activity Analysis in a Mediated Constructive Learning Environment" Committee: Dr. Andreas Spanias(co-chair), Dr. Harvey Thornburg(co-chair), Dr. Gang Qian Date: January 10, 2008, at 5:15 p.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Shibani Misra Title: "Statistical Clustering Algorithm for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Using Modified Linear Prediction Based Cepstral Features" Committee: Dr. Andreas Spanias (chair), Dr. Antonia Papandreou Suppappola, Dr. Gang Qian Date: January 4, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 409 |
| Student: Harikrishnan Raghunathan Title: "A Comparative Study of Different State Estimation Techniques" Committee: Dr. Kostas Tsakalis (chair), Dr. Esma Gel, Dr. Ahmet Keha Date: November 30, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in GWC 487 |