Friday, June 27, 2008, 1:00-3:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
M. J. Lee (Professor A. Abidi, advisor)
A Low Noise, Wideband Digital Phase-Locked Loop based on A New Time-to-Digital Converter with Subpicosecond Resolution.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 2:00-4:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
S. Chehrazi (Professor A. Abidi, advisor)
Broadband Front-Ends for Software-Defined Radios.

Monday, June 16, 2008, 10:00-12:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
F. Sun (Professor H. Fetterman, advisor)
Ultrafast transient absorption study of lead-salt colloidal quantum dots carrier dynamics.

Monday, June 9, 2008, 10:00AM-12:00PM, Engr IV Room 67-124
R. Diaz (Professor J. M. Liu, advisor)
Multifunction Lidar.

Thursday, June 5, 2008, 10:00-12:00AM, Engr IV Room 57-124
H. Kim (Professor J. Villasenor, advisor)
Joint coding and security.

Thursday, June 5, 2008, 8:00-11:00AM, Engr IV Room 57-124
D. Choi (Professor J. Villasenor, advisor)
Integration of non-volatile memory with volatile memory for embedded memory architectures and signal processing application.

Monday, June 2, 2008, 10:00-12:00PM, Engr IV Room 67-124
R. Khalaf (Professor I. Rubin, advisor)
Power rate and energy trade-offs in wireless ad hoc and mesh networks.

Friday, May 23, 2008, 4:00-6:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
M. Tzoufras (Professor W. Mori, advisor)
Generation of multi-GeV electron beams with high beam quality and charge using plasma-based acceleration.

Friday, May 23, 2008, 2:00-4:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
B. Foo (Professor M. van der Schaar, advisor)
Towards a Systematic Approach for Modeling and Optimizing Distributed and Dynamic Multimedia Systems.

Thursday 22, 2008, 10:00-12:00PM, UCLA Medical Imaging Informatics, Suite 420
W. Wu (Professor W. Kaiser, advisor)
An End-to-End Biomedical System Based on Active Sensor Fusion.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 2:00-4:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
A. R. Fattahi (Professor F. Paganini, advisor)
Resource Management in Communication Networks from a Microeconomic Perspective.

Friday, May 16, 2008, 3:00-5:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
C-E. Chen (Professor K. Yao, advisor)
Theory and Applications of Parametric Estimation Methods for Sensor Array Signal Processing.

Friday, May 16, 2008, 12:00-2:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
A. Parsa (Professor B. Razavi, advisor)
A New Transceiver Architecture for the 60-GHz Band.

Monday, May 5, 2008, 12:00-2:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
M. Chiang (Professor J. Liu, advisor)
Development of a Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscope.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:00PM-4PM, 57-124 ENGR. IV
Chieh Sung (Professor C. Joshi, advisor)
Interaction of a Relativistic Electron Beam with Radiation in the THZ Frequency Range

Monday, April 21, 2008, 1:00-3:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
D. Liu (Adjunct Professor M. Fitz, advisor)
Capacity Approaching and Efficient Signaling Schemes for Wideband Wireless Communication Systems.

Thursday, April 17, 2008, 2:00-4:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
S. Asgari (Professor K. Yao, advisor)
Far-field DOA Estimation and Source Localization for Different Scenarios in a Distributed Sensor Network.

Friday, March 14, 2008, 10:00-11:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
J. Kim (Professor C. K. Yang, advisor)
Multi-level power optimization for Pipelined ADC.

Thursday, March 13, 2008, 8:00-10:00AM, Boelter Hall 7702
J. Stillman (Professor J. Judy, advisor)
Three-Dimensional Microfabrication with Laser-Patterned Photostructurable Glass.

Monday, March 12, 2008 1:00pm-3PM, 67-124 ENGR. IV
Tzung-I Lee (Professor Y. Wang, advisor)
Performance and Potentials of Compact Mode-Based Antennas for MIMO Application

Thursday, February 21, 2008, 11:00AM-1:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
Y-L. Chao (Professor J. Woo, advisor)
Ge channel MOSFETs for future CMOS applications

Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 10:00AM-12:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
W. Hu (Professor G. Pottie, advisor)
Medium access control protocols for cognitive radio based dynamic spectrum access networks

Thursday, February 15, 2008, 3:00-5:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
M. Heidari (Professor A. Abidi, advisor)
An all-digital out-phasing modulator for software-defined radio transmitter

Friday, February 8, 2008, 3:00-5:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
S. Moloudi (Professor A. Abidi, advisor)
An outphasing power amplifier for a software-defined radio

Friday, February 1, 2008, 11:00-12:00noon, Room Engr IV 57-124
L-M. Lee (Professor K. Yang, advisor)
Low-jitter multi-phase clock distribution

Thursday, January 31, 2008
Chia-Jen Hsu (Professor B. Jalali, advisor)
All-Dialectric Wireless Receiver Front End

Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 3:00-4:00PM, Room Engr IV 57-124
N. Jin (Professor Y. Rahmat-Samii, advisor)
Particle swarm optimization in engineering electromagnetics

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Keyvan Bahadori (Professor Y. Rahmat-Samii, advisor)
Spaceborne Reflector Antennas for Advanced Remote Sensing Applications

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Varun Raghunathan (Professor B. Jalali, advisor)
Raman-Based Silicon Photonic Devices

Thursday, January 10, 2008, 10:00-12:00PM, Room Engr IV 57-124
H. Torreblanca (Professor F. Chen, advisor)
Multi-tube helicon source with permanent magnets

Thursday, January 7, 2008 1:00-3PM, Room Engr IV 67-124
Dong-Ho Cha (Professor K. Wang, advisor)
Study of Ge/Si quantum dots on nanopatterns made by a self-assembled diblcok copolymer

Thursday, December 13, 2007, 12:00-2:00PM, Room Engr IV 57-124
Cassio G. Lopes (Prof. A. H. Sayed, advisor)
Distributed cooperative strategies for adaptive processing

Thursday, December 6, 2007, 10:00-12:00PM, Room Engr IV 57-124
Alireza Razzaghi (Prof. F. Chang, advisor)
A single-channel 10b 1GS/s ADC with 2-cycle latency using pipelined cascaded folding architecture

Monday, December 03, 2007
Subal Sahni (Professor E. Yablonovitch, advisor)
Highly Integrated Germanium Photo-Detectors and III-V Hybrid Lasers for Silicon Photonic Applications

Thursday, November 29, 2007
Anthony Lai (Professor F. Paganini, advisor)
One- and Two-Dimensional Microwave Devices Based on Left-Handed Metamaterials

Thursday, November 29, 2007, 2:00-4:00PM, Room Engr IV 57-124
Miaomiao Zhou (Prof. W. Mori, advisor)
Accelerating ultra-short electron/positron bunches in field ionization produced plasmas

Thursday, November 29, 2007, 9:00-11:00PM, Room Engr IV 57-124
Fang Fang (Prof. C. Joshi, advisor)
Some nonlinear aspects of ultra-intense laser-plasma interaction

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:00am-12PM, 57-124 ENGR. IV
Herwin Chan (Professor I. Verbauwhede, advisor)
Accelerating Applications through Cross-Layer Co-design

Wednesday, November 21, 2007, 2:00-4:00PM, Room Engr IV 57-124
Catherine Allen (Prof. T. Itoh, advisor)
Metameterial-based transmission line components and antennas

Friday, November 16, 2007, 3:00-5:00PM, Room Engr IV 57-124
Yan Lin (Prof. L. He, advisor)
Power variation and reliability optimization for FPGAS in nanometer technologies

Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 12:30-2:30PM, Room Engr IV 57-124
Hairong Yu (Professor F. Chang, advisor)
A 1V 2.5G/S 8-bit self-calibrated flash ADC in 90 NM GP CMOS

Friday, October 07, 2007
Andres Vila Casado (Professor R. Wesel, advisor)
Improving LDPC Decoders: Informed Dynamic Message-Passing Scheduling and Multiple-Rate Code Design

Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 9:00-11:00AM, Room Engr IV 67-124
Stephan Lang (Professor B. Daneshrad, advisor)
analysis, design, implementation and deployment of wireless MIMO OFDM communication systems

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Darren Goshi (Professor T. Itoh, advisor)
Advanced Retrodirective Array and Phased Array Architectures for Wireless Communication Systems

Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:00PM-4PM, 57-124 ENGR. IV
Roman Ostroumov (Professor K. L. Wang, advisor)
Power Dissipation and New State Variables for Information Processing

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 2:00-4PM, 57-124 ENGR. IV
Maged Barsoum (Professor M. Fitz, advisor)
On Constellation Design and Iterative Codes

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:00AM-1PM, 57-124 ENGR. IV
Qian Zhong (Professor V. Roychowdhury, advisor)
Exploring Large Systems:Neurons and Genes

Thursday, August 2, 2007 12:00PM-1PM, 57-124 ENGR. IV
Jacob Rael (Professor A. Abidi, advisor)
Phase Noise in LC Oscillators

Monday, July 02, 2007
Sze-Chun Chan (Professor J. Liu, advisor)
Nonlinear Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers for Microwave Photonics Applications

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Cheng-Jung Lee (Professor T. Itoh, advisor)
Metamaterial and Dispersion Engineering Techniques in Microwave Circuits Applications

Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:00PM-4PM, 57-124 ENGR. IV
Chiyun Xia (Professor P. K. Wang, advisor)
Optimal Control of Switched Systems with Dimension-Varying State Spaces

Friday, June 22, 2007 9:00am-11AM, 53-135 ENGR. IV
Jiwei Chen (Professor F. Paganini, advisor)
Efficient Data Transfer and Congestion Control in Wireless Networks

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:00AM-11AM, 57-124 ENGR. IV
Aida Varzaghani (Professor C. K. Yang, advisor)
Analog to Digital Conversion with Embedded Channel Equalization for High-Speed Serial Link Receivers