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2007-2008 PhD Defenses

2009-2010     2008-2009     2007-2008

• 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.