Graduate Student Exams

2025 Schedule

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November 17, 2025

Md Sojib Ahmed
Ph.D. Qualifying
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Engineering #C101B.
N/A

November 14, 2025

Jack Eldridge
M.S. Final
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Engineering Research Center A210- Foothills Campus
EFFICIENT FREQUENCY DOUBLING OF A ND:YLF REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER SYSTEM USING AN LBO CRYSTAL

October 29, 2025

Cheng Guo
Ph.D. Final
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
LSC 378 / Zoom
EFFECTIVE APPROACHES FOR INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFICATION OF AFRICAN LEOPARDS IN UNLABELED CAMERA TRAP IMAGES

October 27, 2025

Brandon Van Over
Ph.D. Preliminary
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
LSC392
“A PERFORMANCE BOUND FOR THE GREEDY ALGORITHM IN A GENERALIZED CLASS OF STRING OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS

October 27, 2025

MONDOL ANIK KUMAR
Ph.D. Qualifying
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
ENGR conference room C101B
N/A

October 24, 2025

Kiyoshi Yamamoto
M.S. Final
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
ERC A210
RELATIVISTIC INTENSITY FEW-CYCLE BEAMLINE FOR LASER-MATTER INTERACTIONS

October 22, 2025

Kevin Mienta
M.S. Final
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
ECE Conference Room ENGRC101B
ANALYZING RADIATION DEFECTS IN PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

October 13, 2025

Jason Crop
Ph.D. Qualifying
9:00 am - 11:00 am
ECE Conference Room, Engineering C101B
N/A

October 10, 2025

Mohammadamin Mahdian
Ph.D. Preliminary
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zoom
SILICON PHOTONIC DEVICES AND ARCHITECTURES FOR SECURE, SCALABLE, AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATION IN AI AND CHIPLET SYSTEMS

September 23, 2025

Matchima Buddhanoy
Ph.D. Preliminary
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
LSC 312
DATA SANITIZATION IN 3D NAND FLASH DEVICES: CHALLENGES, CHARACTERIZATION AND COUNTERMEASURES

September 5, 2025

Bowen Li
Ph.D. Preliminary
10:00 am - 11:30 am
LSC Room 380
ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS AND PERFORMANCE BOUNDS FOR ADAPTIVE SENSING PROBLEMS

September 5, 2025

Amin Shafiee
Ph.D. Final
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
ECE Conference Room
DESIGN, CHARACTERIZATION, AND OPTIMIZATION OF PHOTONIC NEURAL PROCESSORS AND MEMORIES

September 4, 2025

Zahra Ghanaatianjobzari
Ph.D. Qualifying
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
ECE Conference Room
N/A

August 27, 2025

Danish Gufran
Ph.D. Final
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
ECE Conference Room C101B
SPARK: SECURE, PRIVACY-AWARE, AND ROBUST ALGORITHMS FOR HIGH- ACCURACY MOBILE INDOOR LOCALIZATION USING MACHINE LEARNING

August 21, 2025

Hayden Moore
Ph.D. Qualifying
9:00 am - 11:00 am
ECE Conference Room
N/A

June 23, 2025

Maxine Varughese
Ph.D. Final
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Scott Bioengineering 229 and Teams
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF LOCALIZATION PRECISION LIMIT IN SINGLE-PIXEL LOCALIZATION MICROSCOPY WITH SPATIO-TEMPORALLY MODULATED ILLUMINATION

June 11, 2025

Luke Taulbee
M.S. Final
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
ECE Conference Room ENGRC101B and Teams
DEEP LEARNING FOR DOWNSCALING GOES-18 MEASUREMENTS FOR WILDFIRE DETECTION

June 6, 2025

Anjali Murali
M.S. Final
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
ECE Conference Room C101B and Teams
EXPOSING DATA REMANENCE IN SANITIZED NOR FLASH: CHARACTERIZATION AND COUNTERMEASURES

May 30, 2025

Qianya Zhu
M.S. Final
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Teams
BIAS CORRECTION OF TEMPERATURE AND WIND FORECASTS FROM THE NOAA GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEM (GFS) USING MACHINE LEARNING

May 19, 2025

AKHIL SINGAMPALLI
Ph.D. Qualifying
9:00 am - 11:00 am
ECE Conference Room ENGR C101B
N/A

May 14, 2025

Yifan Yang
Ph.D. Preliminary
10:00 am - 11:30 am
ENGR B105 and Teams
DEEP LEARNING FOR GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING OF PRECIPITATION

May 5, 2025

Salma Afifi
Ph.D. Preliminary
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
ENGRC101B (ECE Conference Room)
NEW DIRECTIONS IN ROBUST AND ENERGY EFFICIENT AI HARDWARE ACCELERATION USING SILICON PHOTONICS AND IN-MEMORY COMPUTING

May 2, 2025

Kamil Khan
Ph.D. Preliminary
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm
ECE Conference Room ENGR C101B
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR ON-CHIP AND OFF-CHIP ADAPTIVE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

April 11, 2025

Abhishek Balasubramaniam
M.S. Final
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Teams
OPTIMIZING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

March 21, 2025

Sergio Oloriz
M.S. Final
9:00 am - 11:00 am
ERC Electronic Classroom
DEVELOPMENT OR CRYOGENIC LIQUID SENSORS TO MONITOR FLOW AND PRESSURE

March 12, 2025

Hein Thant
Ph.D. Qualifying
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
LSC Room 226-28
N/A

February 28, 2025

Arya Chowdhury Mugdha
Ph.D. Final
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Odyssey Design Studio, Scott-301 and Zoom
NOVEL TIME RESOLVED OPTICAL AND MACHINE LEARNING METHODS FOR LABEL FREE BIOMEDICAL IMAGING