Graduate Student Exams

2023 Schedule

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December 18, 2023

Stephen Kasdorf
Ph.D. Preliminary
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Zoom
NUMERICAL METHODS IN COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS

December 8, 2023

Apichart Vasutapituks
Ph.D. Final
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
virtual exam on Teams
PATH PLANNING FOR AUTONOMOUS AERIAL VEHICLES USING MONTE CARLO TREE SEARCH

December 6, 2023

Kamil Khan
Ph.D. Qualifying
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
ECE Conference Room
N/A

December 5, 2023

Sirui Qi
Ph.D. Qualifying
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
ECE C101B
N/A

November 14, 2023

Arya Chowdhury Mugdha
Ph.D. Preliminary
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Phoenix Design Studio, Scott Building
STUDY OF MITOCHONDRIAL HETEROGENEITY IN LIVE FIBROBLASTS USING LABEL-FREE OPTICAL MICROSCOPY AND UNSUPERVISED NEURAL NETWORKS

October 20, 2023

Alexander Meadows
Ph.D. Preliminary
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
ERC A210 - Computer Classroom
HIGH-ENERGY, FEW-CYCLE BEAMLINE FOR ULTRA-HIGH FIELD NANOPHOTONICS

October 13, 2023

Lydia Rush
Ph.D. Final
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
ECE Electronics Classroom A210 (and Zoom)
EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LASER IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY: PROBING MATERIALS AT THE MICRO AND NANO SCALES

October 5, 2023

Jacob Lesher-Garcia
M.S. Final
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
LSC Room 328
SUPER-RESOLUTION​ GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORK​ FOR WEATHER RADAR APPLICATIONS​

August 17, 2023

Songjian Tan
M.S. Final
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Engineering B105 and Teams
DEEP LEARNING FOR RADAR BEAM BLOCKAGE CORRECTION

August 17, 2023

Danish Gufran
Ph.D. Qualifying
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
ENGR C101B (ECE Conference Room)
N/A

August 15, 2023

Samantha Williams
Ph.D. Preliminary
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
ECE Conference Room (C101B)
NARROW BAND FILTER DESIGN AND THERMAL NOISE CALIBRATION SERVICE

August 2, 2023

Claudio Lima
Ph.D. Preliminary
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
ECE Conference Room (C101B)
ROTOR POSITION SYNCHRONIZATION CONTROL METHODS IN CENTRAL-CONVERTER MULTI-MACHINE ARCHITECTURES WITH APPLICATION TO AEROSPACE ELECTRIFICATION

July 24, 2023

Pranav Damale
Ph.D. Final
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Zoom
PERFORMANCE-COMPUTATION TRADEOFFS IN DETECTION AND ESTIMATION

July 5, 2023

NINAD HOGADE
Ph.D. Final
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
ECE Conference Room Engineering C101B; Hybrid
ENERGY-AWARE WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED DATA CENTERS

June 27, 2023

Tanmay Thakur
M.S. Final
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Teams
AIR POLLUTANT SOURCE ESTIMATION FROM SENSOR NETWORKS

June 26, 2023

Zane Miller
M.S. Final
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Engineering C101B
SIMULATION AND HARDWARE VALIDATION OF METHODS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION OF CENTRAL-CONVERTER MULTI-MOTOR ELECTRIC ACTUATION SYSTEMS

June 22, 2023

Ivan Arias Hernandez
Ph.D. Final
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
LSC Room 226-28
MICROPHYSICAL RETRIEVAL IN SEVERE STORMS FROM GROUND-BASED AND SPACE-BORNE RADAR NETWORK: APPLICATION TO LA PLATA REGION IN SOUTH AMERICA

June 9, 2023

Sounak Biswas
Ph.D. Final
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
LSC 328 - 30
ADVANCED SOLUTIONS FOR RAINFALL ESTIMATION OVER COMPLEX TERRAIN IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

May 26, 2023

Keith Wernsing
Ph.D. Final
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Scott Bioengineering, Room 229
MULTIPHOTON SPATIAL FREQUENCY MODULATED IMAGING

May 5, 2023

Salma Afifi
M.S. Final
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
ECE Conference Room
SILICON PHOTONIC HARDWARE ACCELERATORS FOR TRANSFORMERS AND GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS

April 28, 2023

Apichart Vasutapituks
Ph.D. Preliminary
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Google meeting
UAV ONLINE PATH PLANNING IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS

April 28, 2023

Mattia Vaccarono
Ph.D. Final
9:30 am - 11:30 am
Teams
COEXISTENCE OF WEATHER RADARS AND TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS: A MODEL TO IDENTIFY INTERFERING SOURCES DURING THE TELECOMMUNICATION AUTHORIZATION PROCESS AND A NEW MITIGATION TOOL BASED ON INTERFERING SIGNAL FEATURES

April 28, 2023

Ebad Taheri
Ph.D. Preliminary
1:00 pm - 2:45 pm
ECE conference room
DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF EFFICIENT AND FAULT-TOLERANT NETWORKS FOR EMERGING 2.5D AND 3D CHIP TECHNOLOGIES

April 14, 2023

Codie Lewis
Ph.D. Preliminary
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Microsoft Teams
IMPROVED DISTRIBUTED TRACKING WITH MHT

March 16, 2023

Chenke Yi
M.S. Final
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm
Teams
INTERPOLATING RGB RADAR IMAGES BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING

March 13, 2023

Ajai Singh
M.S. Final
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Online (MS Teams)
MODELING, SIMULATION, AND CONTROL OF SOFT ROBOTS USING KOOPMAN OPERATOR THEORY

March 10, 2023

Shun Yao
Ph.D. Qualifying
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Rockwell 165
N/A

February 8, 2023

Kristian Dehne
M.S. Final
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
ERC Electronics Classrom A210
DEMONSTRATION OF FILAMENT-GUIDED ELECTRICAL DISCHARGES FROM A HIGH AVERAGE POWER 1 KHZ PICOSECOND LASER