Graduate Student Exams

2015 Schedule

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December 18, 2015

Clayton Bargsten
M.S. Final
10:30 am - 11:30 am
ERC Room A210
VOLUMETRIC CREATION OF ULTRA-HIGH-ENERGY-DENSITY PLASMA BY IRRADIATION OF ORDERED NANOWIRE ARRAYS

December 11, 2015

Liang Yin
Ph.D. Preliminary
12:15 pm - 3:15 pm
A210 ERC
COMPREHENSIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF LASER-CREATED GD AND TB PLASMA EMISSION NEAR λ = 6.7NM

December 11, 2015

Benjamin Lickiss
Ph.D. Qualifying
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
ECE Conference Room
N/A

December 10, 2015

Neels van Greunen
Ph.D. Qualifying
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
ECE conference room
N/A

December 7, 2015

faeze heydaryanfroshani
Ph.D. Qualifying
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
chemical and bilolgical conference room
N/A

December 4, 2015

Lang Yang
Ph.D. Qualifying
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Atlas Design Studio, Scott
N/A

December 2, 2015

Harrison Bourne
M.S. Final
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Mechanical Engineering Conference Room
AN ALGORITHM FOR ACCURATE IONOSPHERIC TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT AND RECEIVER BIAS ESTIMATION USING GPS MEASUREMENTS

November 13, 2015

Mayank Panwar
Ph.D. Preliminary
9:00 am - 11:00 am
ECE Conference Room C101B
MICROGRID DISPATCH, CONTROL, AND HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATIONS IN A DISTRIBUTED REAL-TIME ENVIRONMENT

November 13, 2015

Alden Curtis
Ph.D. Qualifying
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
ERC A210
N/A

November 2, 2015

Craig Powers
M.S. Final
10:00 am - 11:30 am
LSC 380
OFFLINE DETECTION OF BROKEN ROTOR BARS IN AC INDUCTION MOTORS

October 30, 2015

Pawan Singh
M.S. Final
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Mechanical Engineering Conference room
REAL TIME MODELING AND SIMULATION OF DISTRIBUTION FEEDER AND DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES

October 21, 2015

Fateh Elsherif
Ph.D. Qualifying
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Civil Engineering Conference Room
N/A

October 13, 2015

Mugdha Puranik
M.S. Final
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
CSB 425
OPTIMAL DESIGN SPACE EXPLRATION FOR FPGA-BASED ACCELERATORS: A CASE STUDY ON 1-D FDTD

October 5, 2015

Miguel Galvez
Ph.D. Final
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Morgan Library Rm 172
ATTENUATION CORRECTION OF X-BAND POLARIMETRIC DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SIGNALS: APPLICATION TO SYSTEMS WITH HIGH SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION

October 1, 2015

Scott Domingue
Ph.D. Final
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
ENGR E 106
DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF NEAR-INFRARED ULTRAFAST LASER SOURCES GENERATED BY NONLINEAR PROPAGATION

September 28, 2015

Xilin Cheng
Ph.D. Final
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Mechanical Engineering Conference Room
RELIABLE AND ENERGY EFFICIENT COOPERATIVE OFDM COMMUNICATIONS OVER UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC CHANNELS

September 11, 2015

Turki Alaqeel
Ph.D. Qualifying
9:00 am - 11:00 am
ECE Conference Room C101B
N/A

September 8, 2015

Yi Xiang
Ph.D. Final
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
ECE Conference Room
A SEMI-DYNAMIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR MULTICORE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS WITH ENERGY HARVESTING

September 4, 2015

Pranav Damale
M.S. Final
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Mechanical Engineering Conference Room
DESIGN OF A GAIT ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING THE RECOVERY IN A CLASSICAL MURINE MODEL OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE

August 19, 2015

Ana Manic
Ph.D. Final
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
ENGRG B4
FAST AND ACCURATE DOUBLE-HIGHER-ORDER METHOD OF MOMENTS ACCELERATED BY DIAKOPTIC DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION AND MEMORY EFFICIENT PARALLELIZATION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS

August 3, 2015

Shoumik Maiti
Ph.D. Qualifying
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
ECE Conference Room
N/A

July 30, 2015

Divyanka Bose
M.S. Final
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
ECE Conference Room
SECURITY OF VIRTUAL COORDINATE BASED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

July 24, 2015

Wei Li
Ph.D. Preliminary
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
ERC Electronic Classroom A210
COHERENT LITHOGRAPHY USING A TABLE-TOP EUV LASER

May 27, 2015

Jonathan Edelen
Ph.D. Final
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
ERC Electronic Classroom (A210)
THEORY, SIMULATION, AND MITIGATION OF ELECTRON BACK-BOMBARDMENT IN RADIO-FREQUENCY THERMIONIC CATHODE ELECTRON GUNS

May 26, 2015

Joseph Hardin
Ph.D. Final
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Clark A206
AN INTEGRATED RETRIEVAL FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIPLE POLARIZATION, MULTIPLE FREQUENCY RADAR NETWORKS.

May 22, 2015

Auralee Edelen
Ph.D. Qualifying
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
ERC B301
N/A

May 12, 2015

Eric Jonardi
M.S. Final
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Mechanical Engineering Conference room (A101)
A HIERARCHICAL FRAMEWORK FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN GREEN DATA CENTERS

May 8, 2015

Timothy Hansen
Ph.D. Final
9:00 am - 11:00 am
ECE Conference Room
RESOURCE ALLOCATION OPTIMIZATION IN THE SMART GRID AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

May 8, 2015

Ilya Kuznetsov
Ph.D. Preliminary
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
ERC Electronic Classroom, A210
NANOSCALE 3D MOLECULAR IMAGING BY EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LASER ABLATION MASS SPECTROMETRY

May 6, 2015

Aditi Krishna Prasad
Ph.D. Qualifying
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Room 390 LSC
N/A

May 6, 2015

Chepchumba Limo
M.S. Final
9:00 am - 11:00 am
LSC 304
DECENTRALIZED AND DYNAMIC COMMUNITY FORMATION IN P2P NETWORKS AND PERFORMANCE OF COMMUNITY BASED CACHING

May 1, 2015

Robert M. Beauchamp
Ph.D. Preliminary
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Clark A205
DUAL-POLARIZATION RADAR CHARACTERIZATION OF WIND TURBINES WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR SUPPRESSION

May 1, 2015

Ryan Friese
Ph.D. Final
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
ECE Conference Room
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR HETEROGENOUS COMPUTING SYSTEMS: UTILITY MAXIMIZATION, ENERGY-AWARE SCHEDULING, AND MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION

April 30, 2015

Drew Schiltz
M.S. Final
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
ERC A210 (Foothills Campus)
ADVANCEMENTS IN THE LASER DAMAGE RESISTANCE OF ION BEAM SPUTTER DEPOSITED INTERFERENCE COATINGS FOR HIGH ENERGY LASERS

April 29, 2015

Nishit Kapadia
Ph.D. Final
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Room: LSC 378
DESIGN-TIME AND RUN-TIME FRAMEWORKS FOR MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF 2D AND 3D NOC-BASED MULTICORE COMPUTING SYSTEMS

April 28, 2015

Fathalla Eldali
Ph.D. Qualifying
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
LSC 390
N/A

April 27, 2015

Neels van Greunen
Ph.D. Qualifying
10:15 am - 11:30 am
ECE Conference Room C101B
N/A

April 21, 2015

Joel Williams
Ph.D. Qualifying
9:45 am - 12:00 pm
Foothills Campus- ERC Design Studio 3
N/A

April 16, 2015

Kyle Tarplee
Ph.D. Final
9:00 am - 11:00 am
ECE Conference Room
HIGHLY SCALABLE ALGORITHMS FOR SCHEDULING TASKS AND PROVISIONING MACHINES ON HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING SYSTEMS

April 9, 2015

Pooria Pakrooh
Ph.D. Final
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
LSC376
PARAMETER ESTIMATION FROM SPARSE AND COMPRESSED MEASUREMENTS

April 3, 2015

Megan Emmons
Ph.D. Qualifying
10:00 am - 12:01 pm
Physics Conference Room, AR124
N/A

April 1, 2015

Sanaz Sadegh
Ph.D. Preliminary
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Phoenix Design Studio, Scott Building
SINGLE MOLECULE FLUORESCENT MEASUREMENTS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS

April 1, 2015

Ishan Thakkar
Ph.D. Qualifying
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Civil Engineering Conference Room
N/A

March 30, 2015

sai vineel reddy chittamuru
Ph.D. Qualifying
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
ECE Conference room
N/A

March 27, 2015

Nada Sekeljic
Ph.D. Final
9:00 am - 11:00 am
ECE Conference room, C101B
TRANSIENT ANALYSIS OF CLOSED- AND OPEN-REGION ELECTROMAGNETIC PROBLEMS USING HIGHER ORDER FINITE ELEMENT METHOD AND METHOD OF MOMENTS IN THE TIME DOMAIN

March 25, 2015

Yi Xiang
Ph.D. Preliminary
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
JNTHR-120 (Johnson Hall)
A SEMI-DYNAMIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR MULTICORE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS WITH ENERGY HARVESTING

March 13, 2015

Delbert Willie
Ph.D. Final
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
ENGRG B214
RADAR MULTI-SENSOR QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION

January 28, 2015

Ali Buoud
Ph.D. Qualifying
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
B214
N/A

January 21, 2015

Vidarshana Bandara
Ph.D. Final
8:30 am - 11:00 am
JNTHR-120 (Johnson Hall)
EXTRACTION, CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING OF NETWORK DATA FEATURES - A COMPRESSIVE SENSING AND ROBUST PCA BASED APPROACH