Graduate Student Exams

2012 Schedule

Prior Years Exams: 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024

December 19, 2012

Pritam Shah
M.S. Final
1pm
Eddy 104
VIRTUAL COORDINATE BASED TECHNIQUES FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS: A SIMULATION TOOL AND LOCALIZATION & PLANARIZATION ALGORITHMS

December 19, 2012

Dalton Young
Ph.D. Preliminary
9:00AM
CS305
STOCHASTICALLY ROBUST, DEADLINE AND ENERGY CONSTRAINED DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN A HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

December 13, 2012

Yi Xiang
Ph.D. Qualifying
3PM-4:30PM
Engineering E203
N/A

December 10, 2012

Bhavesh Khemka
Ph.D. Qualifying
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
CS 305 - ISTeC Conference Room
N/A

December 6, 2012

Kyle Tarplee
Ph.D. Qualifying
3:30 PM
ISTeC Conference Room - CS305
N/A

December 3, 2012

Zhenliang Zhang
Ph.D. Preliminary
10:00am--12:00pm
Eddy 110
DISTRIBUTED HYPOTHESIS TESTING NETWORKED SYSTEMS

November 30, 2012

Kyle Gilliam
M.S. Final
10:00 AM
ECE Conference Room
A NEW ALGORITHM FOR RETRIEVAL OF TROPOSPHERIC WET PATH DELAY OVER INLAND WATER BODIES AND COASTAL ZONES USING BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DEFLECTION RATIOS

November 27, 2012

Nicholas Klausner
Ph.D. Preliminary
2:00 pm
Natural Resources 115
MULTIPLE CHANNEL SIGNAL DETECTION AND DETECTION IN SONAR IMAGERY

November 26, 2012

Nishi Kapadia
Ph.D. Preliminary
9:30 am
ISTeC Conference Room - CS305
A HOLISTIC FRAMEWORK FOR MULTI-OBJECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF 2D AND 3D NOC-BASED MPSOCS WITH VOLTAGE ISLANDS

November 14, 2012

Wenbing Dang
Ph.D. Preliminary
9:30am-11:30am
ECE Conference Room C101B Engineering
SIGNAL DESIGN FOR ACTIVE SENSING

November 12, 2012

Neil Wachowski
Ph.D. Preliminary
10:00 a.m.
ECE Conference Room C101B Engineering
CHARACTERIZATION OF MULTIPLE TIME-VARYING TRANSIENT SOURCES FROM MULTIVARIATE DATA

November 8, 2012

YONG ZOU
Ph.D. Qualifying
1:00 - 2:30
ENgineering B101
N/A

November 7, 2012

Joseph Hardin
Ph.D. Qualifying
3:30pm
Engineering B4
N/A

October 22, 2012

HONG YAO
M.S. Final
3:00-5:00pm
ECE conference room
MODELING AND DESIGN OF A CURRENT MODE CONTROL BOOST CONVERTER

October 19, 2012

Mayank Panwar
M.S. Final
10AM-12PM
ECE Conference Room C101B Engineering
RELIABILITY QUANTIFICATION AND VISUALIZATION FOR ELECTRIC MICROGRIDS

October 17, 2012

Herath Bandara
Ph.D. Final
1:00 pm
Lory Student Center 211E
ENHANCING COLLABORATIVE PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEMS USING RESOURCE AGGREGATION AND CACHING: A MULTI-ATTRIBUTE RESOURCE AND QUERY AWARE APPROACH

October 12, 2012

Fathalla Eldali
M.S. Final
8:30AM
ECE Conference Room C101B Engineering
A COMPARITVE STUDY BETWEEN VECTOR CONTROL AND DIRECT TORQUE CONTROL OF INDUCTION MOTOR USING MATLAB SIMULINK

October 12, 2012

Miguel Galvez
M.S. Final
2:00 pm
Engineering B2
THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF AN X-BAND DUAL POLARIZATION DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR TEST NODE FOR A TROPICAL NETWORK

October 11, 2012

Shirish Bahirat
Ph.D. Preliminary
2:30 to 3:30 PM
Engineering D102
DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF HYBRID NANOPHOTONIC NETWORK-ON-CHIP ARCHITECTURES

October 5, 2012

Seyedeh Somayeh Hosseini
Ph.D. Qualifying
2pm
Stardust Studio Classroom ENGR B201
N/A

October 2, 2012

MYEONG YEOL CHOI
Ph.D. Final
1:45pm-3:30pm
Plant Sciences W9
PLASMA CHEMICAL DRIVEN BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS WITH A RADIO FREQUENCY DRIVEN ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMA JET

September 27, 2012

Lukasz Urbanski
Ph.D. Final
11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
ERC Computer Classroom
COHERENT EUV LITHOGRAPHY WITH A TABLE-TOP LASER

September 21, 2012

Amanda Dinstel
M.S. Final
10:00am
ECE Conference Room C101B Engineering
WIDEBAND NEAR-FIELD ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING USING THE SPARSE REPRESENTATION FRAMEWORK

August 27, 2012

Timothy Erickson
Ph.D. Qualifying
10:00 am
ECE Conference Room
N/A

July 23, 2012

Soheil Kolouri
M.S. Final
3:00 PM
Engineering B101
ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY OF THE ATMOSPHERE USING ITERATED UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER

July 20, 2012

Cuong Nguyen
Ph.D. Preliminary
1:30-3:30 PM
Engineering B101
ELECTRONIC SCAN WEATHER RADAR: SCAN STRATEGY AND SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR VOLUME TARGETS

July 3, 2012

Joel Kindt
M.S. Final
10:00 am
Engineering D102
OPTOFLUIDIC INTRACAVITY SPECTROSCOPY FOR SPATIALLY, TEMPERATURE, AND WAVELENGTH DEPENDENT REFRACTOMETRY

June 29, 2012

Abdulla Al-Qawasmeh
Ph.D. Final
10 AM
ISTeC Conference Room - CS305
HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT CHARACTERIZATION AND THERMAL-AWARE SCHEDULING STRATEGIES TO OPTIMIZE DATA CENTER POWER CONSUMPTION

June 26, 2012

Ilys Kuznetsov
Ph.D. Qualifying
09:00 am
ERC Electronic Classroom (A210)
N/A

June 15, 2012

Kumar Vijay Mishra
M.S. Final
2:00 pm
Engineering D102
FREQUENCY DIVERSITY WIDEBAND DIGITAL RECEIVER AND SIGNAL PROCESSOR FOR SOLID-STATE DUAL-POLARIMETRIC WEATHER RADARS

June 14, 2012

Dongliang Duan
Ph.D. Final
4:00 pm
ECE Conference Room C101B Engineering
SENSING, COMMUNICATIONS AND MONITORING FOR THE SMART GRID

May 3, 2012

Peter Langston
Ph.D. Preliminary
2:00 pm
Foothills Campus Electronic Classroom
ADVANCES IN HIGH DAMAGE THRESHOLD ION BEAM SPUTTERED FILMS FOR USE IN THE NEAR INFRA-RED (IR)

April 20, 2012

Dulanjalie Dhanapala
Ph.D. Final
11:00 am
Engineering E106
ANCHOR CENTRIC VIRTUAL COORDINATE SYSTEMS IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS: FROM SELF-ORGANIZATION TO NETWORK AWARENESS

April 13, 2012

Lucas Krakow
Ph.D. Qualifying
8:00am
Engineering B3
N/A

April 11, 2012

Sudarshan Ananda Natarajan
M.S. Final
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Engineering B4
SOME ASPECTS OF THE COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY IN THE DESIGN OF ISLANDED MICROGRIDS DESIGN, AND ANALYSIS OF BLACKSTART SEQUENCES FOR A NOTIONAL MICROGRID

April 6, 2012

Lukasz Urbanski
Ph.D. Preliminary
9.00 am
ERC Electronic Classroom
COHERENT EUV LITHOGRAPHY WITH CAPILLARY DISCHARGE LASER

March 23, 2012

Elene Chobanyan
Ph.D. Qualifying
3:00pm
N/A
N/A

March 23, 2012

Brad Donohoo
M.S. Final
1:00 PM
ECE Conference Room - C101B Engineering
MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES AND ALGORITHMS FOR ENERGY OPTIMIZATION IN MOBILE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

March 23, 2012

Vidarshana W. Bandara
Ph.D. Preliminary
09:00am
Engineering B3
CHARACTERIZING AND DETECTING BASELINES AND ANOMALIES OF NETWORK DATA

March 19, 2012

Paul Maxwell
Ph.D. Final
1000-1200
ISTeC Conference Room (CS305)
ROBUST RESOURCE ALLOCATION HEURISTICS FOR MILITARY VILLAGE SEARCH ENVIRONMENTS

March 5, 2012

Mark Woolston
M.S. Final
10:30 am
ERC Electronic Classroom
FAST ELECTRONIC DRIVER FOR OPTICAL SWITCHES

February 20, 2012

Manuel Vega
Ph.D. Qualifying
1:30 PM
Engineering B4
N/A

February 16, 2012

Hai Chi
Ph.D. Qualifying
11:00AM to 12:00PM
Engineering 120
N/A

February 15, 2012

Ana Manic
Ph.D. Qualifying
3 pm
Engineering B4
N/A

February 13, 2012

Nishit Kapadia
Ph.D. Qualifying
10 am
Engr C101B
N/A

February 8, 2012

Manish Mohanpurkar
Ph.D. Qualifying
10 am to 12pm
Military Science 105
N/A

February 1, 2012

Delbert Willie
Ph.D. Qualifying
2pm
Engr C101B
N/A

January 11, 2012

Darrin Albers
M.S. Final
9:00
Engineering 126
DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF DIRECT DETECTION, MMIC-BASED MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIOMETERS AT 92 AND 130 GHZ FOR WET-TROPOSPHERIC PATH DELAY CORRECTION FOR SATELLITE ALTIMETRY IN THE COASTAL ZONE

January 10, 2012

Mark Ritschard
Ph.D. Qualifying
10am-Noon
Engineering B105
N/A