2011-2012 PhD Defenses

Wednesday, Sep 12, 2012, 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Maxwell Room 57-124

Design Enablement and Design-Centric Assessment of Future Semiconductor Technologies

 

Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Tesla Room 53-125

Towards the Efficient Design of Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

 

Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012, 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Elliott Room 53-135

Digitally Enhanced Wireless Transceivers for Multi-mode Reconfigurable Radios

 

Tuesday, Aug 28, 2012, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Faraday Room 67-124

A 25-Gb/s 5-mW CMOS CDR/Deserializer

 

Monday, Aug 27, 2012, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, ENGR. IV Bldg., Faraday Room 67-124

Investigation and Modeling of Impact Ionization Spatial-Transient Effects in Silicon Devices

 

Thursday, Aug 23, 2012, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Engr. IV Bldg., Tesla Room 53-125

MIMO Accelerator: A Programmable MIMO Decoder Chip and Design Environment

 

Monday, Aug 20, 2012, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, ENGR. IV Bldg., Faraday Room 67-124

The Er3+: Y2O3 Ceramic System

 

Tuesday, Aug 07, 2012, 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg., Maxwell Room 57-124

High-Frequency Multiphase Clock Generation Using Multipath Oscillators and Applications

 

Tuesday, Aug 07, 2012, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Faraday Rm. 67-124

Traffic-Aware Multi-Channel Multi-Stage Spectrum Sensing Protocols for Dynamic Spectrum Access

 

Monday, Aug 06, 2012, 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Maxwell Room 57-124

Design of a 100+ Meter 12Gb/s/Lane Copper Cable Link Based on Clock-Forwarding

 

Thursday, Aug 02, 2012, 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg., Tesla Room 53-125

Circuit and Interconnect Modeling and Optimization for 3D IC and High Bit-Rate Applications

 

Thursday, Jul 26, 2012, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Faraday Room 67-124

Flexible and Transparent Memory

 

Friday, Jul 13, 2012, 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg., Tesla Rm. 53-125

Coding for Storage Systems

 

Friday, Jul 06, 2012, 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Faraday Room 67-124

Physical Mechanism and Fundamental Performance Limits on Graphene Non-volatile Memory Technologies

 

Monday, Jul 02, 2012, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Faraday Room 67-124

Control of Cyber-Physical Systems Using Incremental Properties of Physical Systems

 

Friday, Jun 15, 2012, 08:30 AM - 10:30 AM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Tesla Room 53-125

Economic and Distributed Model Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems

 

Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Tesla Room 53-135

Implications of Modern Semiconductor Technologies in Gate Sizing

 

Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Tesla Room 53-135

Implications of Modern Semiconductor Technologies in Gate Sizing

 

Friday, May 25, 2012, 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Maxwell Room 57-124

Neural Spike Sorting in Hardware: From Theory to Practice

 

Friday, May 25, 2012, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Maxwell Room 57-124

Engineering the Intracellular Micro- and Nano- Environment via Magnetic Nanoparticles

 

Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Tesla Room 53-125

Frequency Synthesis Using Concurrency: Reaching a Solution to a Few Classical and Hard-Headed RF and mm-wave Integrated Circuit Problems

 

Monday, May 21, 2012, 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Maxwell Room 57-124

Silicon Photonics for Chemical Sensing and Spectroscopy, Diagnosis and Therapy

 

Friday, May 18, 2012, 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM, Engr. IV Bldg. Maxwell Room 57-124

Strategic Pricing and Resource Allocation: Framework and Applications

 

Thursday, May 17, 2012, 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM, Engr. IV Bldg., Faraday Room 67-124

Substrate Integrated Waveguide Based Metamaterial Components and Novel Miniaturized Planar Antennas

 

Tuesday, May 08, 2012, 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM, Engr. IV Bldg., Maxwell Room 57-124

Noise in Large-Signal, Time-Varying RF CMOS Circuits: Theory and Design

 

Tuesday, May 08, 2012, 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Maxwell Room 57-124

Lensfree Holographic On-Chip Imaging and Three-dimensional Tracking

 

Wednesday, May 02, 2012, 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Maxwell Room 57-124

Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Transmission-Line Metamaterials

 

Tuesday, May 01, 2012, 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM, Maxwell Room (57-124 Engr IV)

Shockwave Acceleration of Monoenergetic Protons using a Multi-Terawatt CO2 Laser

 

Thursday, Mar 22, 2012, 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Maxwell Room 57-124

Analysis and Mitigation of Tropospheric Effects on Ka Band Satellite Signals and Estimation of Ergodic Capacity and Outage Probability for Terrestrial Links

 

Wednesday, Mar 21, 2012, 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg., Maxwell Rm. 57-124

A System-Level Analysis of a Wireless Low-Power Biosignal Recording Device

 

Wednesday, Mar 21, 2012, 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Maxwell Room 57-124

A 2.8 to 3.2 GHz fractional-N digital PLL with ADC-assisted TDC and Inductively-Coupled Fine-Tuning DCO

 

Friday, Mar 09, 2012, 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. 47-124

Absorbing Set Analysis of LDPC Codes and Read-Channel Quantization in Flash Memory

 

Friday, Mar 09, 2012, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Tesla Room 53-125

Effects of Cooling on the Overall Power Consumption of Processors

 

Wednesday, Mar 07, 2012, 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Shannon Room 54-134

On Classification with Unreliable Labels for Environmental and Medical Applications

 

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2012, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg. Faraday Room 67-124

Parametric Learning in Collaborative Signal Processing

 

Monday, Feb 06, 2012, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM, ENGR. IV Bldg., Faraday Rm. 64-127 Abstract:

CMOS MM-WAVE IMAGING TECHNIQUES

 

Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011, 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM, Engr IV - Maxwell Room 57-124

Noise Robust Signal Processing for Human Pitch Tracking and Bird Song Classification and Detection

 

Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011, 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM, Engr IV - Faraday Room 67-124

Scalable Synthesis of Graphene on Patterned Ni and Transistor Fabrication

 

Friday, Nov 18, 2011, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Maxwell Room, Engr. IV 57-124

A Zero Voltage Switching Contour based Power Amplifier for Minimal Efficiency Degradation under Power Back-Off

 

Friday, Nov 18, 2011, 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM, Elliott Room, ENGR IV 53-135

Design of CMOS SOI for RF Switch Application

 

Friday, Nov 18, 2011, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Maxwell Room, 57-124 Engr. IV

A Compact, Low-Power 7-bit 2.2-GS/s ADC for Ultra High-Speed Digital Communications

 

Thursday, Nov 17, 2011, 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM, Maxwell Room 57-124, Engineering IV Building

Adaptive Power, Adaptive Rate Scheduling in Spatial-TDMA Wireless Networks

 

Thursday, Nov 17, 2011, 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM,

Photonic Time-stretch for high-speed analog-to-digital conversion and imaging

 

Monday, Nov 07, 2011, 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM, Elliott Room, ENGR IV 53-135

Energy Efficient Acquisition and Inferencing for Low Power Physiological Sensing

 

Thursday, Oct 06, 2011, 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM, Maxwell Room, Engr. IV 57-124

Correlation-aware Resource Allocation

 

Monday, Sep 26, 2011, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Faraday Room, Engr. IV 67-124

High Speed Ⅲ-Ⅴ Semiconductor Based Electrooptic Modulators