Graduate Student Exams

2024 Schedule

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December 18, 2024

Renish Thomas
Ph.D. Preliminary
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Teams and LSC 328
ADVANCES IN PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING: CAPABILITIES OF FORWARD-LOOKING RADIOMETERS FOR AIRCRAFT ICING DETECTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL RADIOMETRIC SCENE GENERATOR.

December 6, 2024

Matchima Buddhanoy
Ph.D. Qualifying
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
LSC Room 376
N/A

December 5, 2024

Maxwell Weiss
M.S. Final
9:00 am - 11:00 am
ERC A104- Foothills Campus
INVESTIGATION ON HAFNIUM OXIDE MIXTURES FOR UV COATINGS FOR FUSION ENERGY APPLICATIONS

November 18, 2024

Salma Afifi
Ph.D. Qualifying
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
ENGRC101B (ECE Conference Room)
N/A

November 6, 2024

Amin Shafiee
Ph.D. Preliminary
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
ECE Conference Room
DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTATION

November 1, 2024

Danish Gufran
Ph.D. Preliminary
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
ENGR C101B (ECE Conference Room)
SPARK: SECURE, PRIVACY-AWARE, AND ROBUST ALGORITHMS FOR HIGH-ACCURACY INDOOR LOCALIZATION USING LIGHTWEIGHT DEEP LEARNING

October 22, 2024

Ahmed Mohammad
M.S. Final
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
ECE Conference room
ENGINEERING A SILICON-PHOTONIC BIMODAL BIOSENSOR

October 18, 2024

Ming-Hao Cheng
Ph.D. Final
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
LSC 394
IMSIS: AN INSTRUMENTED MICROPHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED SENSORS FOR MONITORING CELLULAR METABOLIC ACTIVITIES

October 18, 2024

Bowen Li
Ph.D. Qualifying
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
ECE Conference Room
N/A

October 17, 2024

Codie Lewis
Ph.D. Final
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Teams
IMPROVEMENTS TO THE TRACKING PROCESS

October 16, 2024

Stephen Kasdorf
Ph.D. Final
10:00 am - 11:00 am
LSC 384
FULL-WAVE AND ASYMPTOTIC COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS METHODS: ON THEIR USE AND IMPLEMENTATION IN RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGH, RADAR-CROSS-SECTION, AND UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION PREDICTIONS

October 9, 2024

Yousef Saqer
M.S. Final
10:00 am - 11:35 am
Teams
DEEP LEARNING FOR SHORT-TERM PREDICTION OF WILDFIRE USING GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE OBSERVATION

October 8, 2024

Cameron Holmes
M.S. Final
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
LSC 300
ANALYSIS OF LEAC BIOSENSOR FOR SCALABLE MANUFACTURING USING BPM AND FDTD SIMULATION METHODS

September 13, 2024

Mohammad Amin Mahdian
Ph.D. Qualifying
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
virtual
N/A

July 23, 2024

Asif Anwar Baig Mirza
Ph.D. Final
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Engineering B105
DESIGN EXPLORATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF SILICON PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS UNDER FABRICATION-PROCESS VARIATIONS

June 18, 2024

Claudio Lima
Ph.D. Final
9:00 am - 11:00 am
ECE Conference Room (ENGR C101B)
ROTOR POSITION SYNCHRONIZATION CONTROL METHODS IN CENTRAL-CONVERTER MULTI-MACHINE ARCHITECTURES WITH APPLICATION TO AEROSPACE ELECTRIFICATION

May 23, 2024

Cheng Guo
Ph.D. Preliminary
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Hybrid. ECE Conference Room – C101B Engineering; and Zoom Meeting
AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUAL AFRICAN LEOPARDS IN UNLABELED CAMERA C IMAGES

May 21, 2024

Liangwei Wang
M.S. Final
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
B105 Engineering
IMPROVING RADAR QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION THROUGH DEEP LEARNING

May 10, 2024

Rashadul Kabir
Ph.D. Qualifying
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
ECE Conference Room, Engineering C101B
N/A

May 7, 2024

Maxine Varughese
Ph.D. Preliminary
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Scott 229
SINGLE-PIXEL LOCALIZATION MICROSCOPY

May 6, 2024

Ungkana Srivitidkul
Ph.D. Qualifying
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
ECE Conference Room ENGRC101B
N/A

May 6, 2024

Ungkana Srivitidkul
Ph.D. Qualifying
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
ECE Conference Room ENGRC101B
N/A

May 6, 2024

Ungkana Srivitidkul
Ph.D. Qualifying
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
ECE Conference Room ENGRC101B
N/A

May 6, 2024

Tunde Adubi
M.S. Final
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
LSC 226-28
FUSION OF OBSERVATIONS FROM C-BAND POLARIMETRIC RADAR AND S-BAND PROFILER RADAR DURING A CONVECTIVE STORM.

May 3, 2024

Ebad Taheri
Ph.D. Final
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
LSC-306
DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF EFFICIENT, FAULT-TOLERANT AND SECURE 2.5D CHIPLET SYSTEMS

April 26, 2024

Febin Sunny
Ph.D. Final
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
ECE Conference room
HARDWARE-SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN OF SILICON PHOTONIC AI ACCELERATORS

April 22, 2024

Yao-Chun Ko
M.S. Final
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
LSC328-30 and virtual
HIGH-RATE GNSS SATELLITE CLOCK ESTIMATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR RADIO OCCULTATION BENDING ANGLE ACCURACY

March 19, 2024

Samuel Castro Lucas
M.S. Final
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
ERC electronic classroom A210
INVESTIGATION ON THE STRUCTURAL, MECHANICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF AMORPHOUS OXIDE THIN FILMS FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS.

March 7, 2024

Cameron Coleal
Ph.D. Final
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Engineering E203 and on Zoom
TRANSIENT PHASE MICROSCOPY USING BALANCED-DETECTION TEMPORAL INTERFEROMETRY AND A COMPACT PIEZOELECTRIC MICROSCOPE DESIGN WITH SPARSE INPAINTING

February 29, 2024

Ryan Way
M.S. Final
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Engineering C101B
A MICROPHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEM FOR STUDYING BARRIER HEALTH OF LIVE TISSUES IN REAL TIME

February 19, 2024

Hugh Currah
Ph.D. Qualifying
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
ERC Room A210
N/A

January 17, 2024

Zheyi Qin
Ph.D. Preliminary
1:15 pm - 3:00 pm
ECE Conference Room
GREEN AND RESOURCE ADAPTABLE GRAPH MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURES