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2008-2009 PhD Defenses

2009-2010     2008-2009     2007-2008

• Thursday, June 11, 2009, 3:00pm-5:00pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Diane Budzik (Professor William Kaiser, advisor) [abstract]
  Multitier Multiscale Sensing: A new paradigm for actuated sensing.
• Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 10:00am-12:00pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Per Henrik Borgstrom [abstract]
  Cable-Driven Robotic Platforms and Algorithms for Environmental Sensing Applications.
• Friday, May 29, 2009, 11:00am-1:00pm, Engr IV Room 67-124
  Shalabh Gupta (Professor Bahram Jalali, advisor) [abstract]
  Photonic time-stretch analog-to-digital conversion for high resolution and real-time burst sampling of ultra-wideband signals
• Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 12:00pm-2:00pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Joseph S. Kong (Professor Vwani P. Roychowdhury, advisor) [abstract]
  Dynamics of Large-Scale Networks: Models, Empirical Analysis and Applications (An Adventure in Computer and Computational Epidemiology)
• Friday, May 22, 2009, 10:00am-12:00pm, Boelter Hall 6750
  Yu Hu (Professor Lei He, advisor) [abstract]
  Resynthesis Techniques for FPGA Optimizations.
• Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 10:00am-12:00pm, Engr IV Room 67-124
  Tzu-Chieh Kuo (Professor Alan N. Willson, Jr., advisor) [abstract]
  VLSI Architectures and Implementations of Iterative FEC Decoders.
• Monday, May 18, 2009, 9:00am-11:00am, Engr IV Room 67-124
  Zhi Quan (Professor Ali H. Sayed, advisor) [abstract]
  Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radios.
• Thursday, May 14, 2009, 1:00pm-3:00pm, Engr IV Room 67-124
  Sai-Wang (Rocco) Tam (Professor M-C. Frank. Chang, advisor) [abstract]
  RF-Interconnect for Future Network-On-Chip.
• Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 10:00am-12:00pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Yiyu Shi (Professor Lei He, advisor) [abstract]
  Uncertainties Modeling and Statistical Optimization for Power Integrity of VLSI Circuits and Systems.
• Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 4:00pm-6:00pm, Engr IV Room 67-124
  Karim Mohammed (Professor Babak Daneshrad, advisor) [abstract]
  A MIMO decoder accelerator for next generation wireless communications.
• Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 9:00am-11:00am, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Hsien-Po Shiang (Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, advisor) [abstract]
  Designing Autonomic Wireless Multi-Hop Networks for Delay-Sensitive Applications.
• Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 10:00am-11:00am, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Amarjeet Singh (Professor William J. Kaiser, advisor) [abstract]
  Efficient Sensing using Mobile Robots – From Theoretical Foundations to in-field Validation.
• Monday, March 9, 2009, 3:00pm-5:00pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Wei-Ho Chung (Professor Kung Yao, advisor) [abstract]
  Fading Modeling, MIMO Channel Generation, and Spectrum Detection for Wireless Communications.
• Thursday, March 5, 2009, 1:00pm-3:00pm, Engr IV Room 53-135
  Shenheng Xu (Professor Yahya Rahmat-Samii, advisor) [abstract]
  Optimization and Compensation Techniques for Reflector Antenna Designs.
• Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 11:00am-1:00pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Ping-Hsuan Hsieh (Professor Chih-Kong Ken Yang, advisor) [abstract]
  A CMOS Digital Phase-Locked Loop for Nanometer-Scale Technology.
• Thursday, February 19, 2009, 11:00am-1:00pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Franklin Chiang (Prof. Jack Judy, advisor) [abstract]
  Micromachined Probes for Laboratory Plasmas.
• Friday, January 16, 2009, 10:00am-12:00pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Tim LaRocca (Professor Frank Chang, advisor)
  A 60GHz Re-configurable CMOS Transmitter and Power Amplifier Based on a Digitally Controlled Artificial Dielectric.
• Thursday, December 11, 2008, 9:00am-12:00pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Heng-Yu Jian (Professor Frank Chang, advisor)
  TBA.
• Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 11:00am-2:00pm, Engr IV Room 67-124
  Ashutosh Verma (Professor Behzad Razavi, advisor)
  A 10-bit 55-mW 500-MHz CMOS ADC.
• Monday, December 8, 2008, 1:30pm-4:30pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Bibhu Datta Sahoo (Professor Behzad Razavi, advisor) [abstract]
  A New Calibration Technique for Pipelined ADC.
• Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 11:00am-12:00pm, Engr IV Room 67-124
  Xiaojing Jessie Xu (Professor Y. Ethan Wang, advisor)
  TBA.
• Thursday, November 20, 2008, 1:00pm-3:00pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Hyunggon Park (Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, advisor)
  Distributed and Dynamic Resource Management Strategies for Multimedia Networks using Cooperative Game Theoretic Approaches.
• Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 2:00pm-4:00pm, Engr IV Room 67-124
  Sudhir Kumar Singh (Professor Vwani Roychowdhury, advisor)
  Information, Incentives, and the Internet.
• Monday, November 17, 2008, 10:00am-12:00pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Mohamed Aboudina (Professor Behzad Razavi, advisor)
  A New DAC Mismatch Shaping Technique for Sigma-Delta Modulators.
• Monday, November 10, 2008, 10:00am-12:00pm, Engr IV Room 67-124
  Robert Rubio (Professor Dee-Son Pan, advisor)
  The Design, Simulation and Analysis of InP Double Heterojunction Transistor for Power Amplifiers.
• Friday, November 7, 2008, 10:00am-12:00pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Cathy Kong (Professor Gregory Pottie, advisor)
  Sampling Strategies in Sensor Networks.
• Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 10:00am-12:00pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Kevin Song-Kai Ni (Professor Gregory Pottie, advisor)
  Sensor Network Data Faults and Their Detection Using Bayesian Methods.
• Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 10:00am-12:00noon, Engr IV Room 67-124
  Milan Bradonjic, (Professor V. Roychowdhury, advisor)
  Study On Geographical Threshold Graphs: Theory and Applications.
• Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 2:00-4:00pm, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Runhe Zhang, (Professor I. Rubin, advisor)
  Robust Routing and Flow Control for Mobile Wireless Networks.
• Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 10:00-12:00noon, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Ju-Lan Hsu, (Professor I. Rubin, advisor)
  Physical, Medium Access & Routing based Cross-Layer Control Using Directional Antennas & Multi-Rate Radios in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.
• Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 1:00-3:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
  King Ho Tam, (Professor L. He, advisor)
  Power and Variability Aware Modeling and Optimization for Physical Design Automation.
• Thursday, August 7, 2008, 1:00-3:00PM, Engr IV Room 67-124
  S. Panchapagesan, (Professor A. Alwan, advisor)
  Frequency Warping by Linear Transformation, and Vocal Tract Inversion for Speaker Normalization in Automatic Speech Recognition.
• Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 11:00AM-12:00PM, Engr IV Room 57-124
  Qiyue Zou (Professor A. H. Sayed, advisor)
  Signal Processing for RF Distortion Compensation in Wireless Communication Systems.