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Contact the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Friday, December 19, 2014 — 2:00 PM EST
Candidate
Raisa Georgiana Pesel
Title
Impedance Matching Networks for Wireless Applications
Supervisor
Raafat Mansour
Thursday, December 18, 2014 — 1:00 PM EST
Candidate
Areeb Ali
Title
CMOS Impedance Measurement Array for Cell Sensing
Supervisor
Peter Levine
Thursday, December 18, 2014 — 11:00 AM EST
Candidate
Sihem Romdhani
Title
Implementation of DNN-HMM Acoustic Models for Phoneme Recognition
Supervisor
Fakhreddine Karray
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 — 11:00 AM EST
Candidate
Amir Ostadi
Title
Optimal Sizing of Battery/Ultracapacitor-Based Energy Storage Systems in An Electric City Bus
Supervisor
Mehrdad Kazerani
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 — 11:00 AM EST
Speaker
Dr. Minming Ni, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Topic
Rethinking the Interference Modeling Method for Random Wireless Networks
Monday, December 15, 2014 — 2:30 PM EST
Candidate
Kaveh Fazli
Topic
Efficient and Secure Image Processing Algorithms
Supervisor
Guang Gong
Background subjects
- Cryptography
- Image processing
- Hardware synthesis
Monday, December 15, 2014 — 11:00 AM EST
Candidate
Khadige Hussein Abboud
Title
Node Cluster Stability in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks
Supervisor
Weihua Zhuang
Monday, December 15, 2014 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Wenzhu Man
Title
COI:A First Step towards Truetype Bytecode Analysis
Supervisor
Patrick Lam
Thursday, December 11, 2014 — 4:00 PM EST
Speaker
Dr. Allaa Hilal
Title
The Future of the Connected Car - Intelligent Transportation Systems Powering Driver-Centric Technology
Thursday, December 11, 2014 — 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EST
Speaker
Professor Thomas H. Ortmeyer
Topic
Planning the Potsdam Resilient Underground Microgrid
Thursday, December 11, 2014 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Masoomeh Rudafshani
Title
Finding and Fixing Memory Leaks in JavaScript Applications
Supervisor
Paul Ward
Thursday, December 11, 2014 — 9:30 AM EST
Candidate
Ali Hooshyar
Title
Protection of Renewable Energy Systems
Supervisor
Ehab El-Saadany
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 — 11:00 AM EST
Candidate
Chong Lou
Title
A Study of Energy-efficient Routing Supporting Coordinated Sleep Scheduling in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Supervisor
Weihua Zhuang
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Olzhas Tazabekov
Topic
CMOS-MEMS Resonant Gate Transistor for Filter and AFM Applications
Supervisor
Raafat Mansour
Background subjects
- CMOS Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
- MEMS VHF and UHF filters for communication systems
- Atomic Force Microscopy
- CMOS Analog Integrated Circuit Design
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Mohammad Hamdaqa
Title
StratusML: An Integrated Modeling Framework for Cloud Applications
Supervisor
Ladan Tahvildari
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 — 9:30 AM EST
Candidate
Mohamed Abdelaziz Abdelwahed
Topic
Offshore Wind Farms Integration into AC Grids Using Multi-Terminal VSC-HVDC Transmission Systems
Supervisor
Ehab El-Saadany
Background subjects
- Wind integration
- Multi-terminal HVDC systems
- Power electronics
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 — 1:00 PM EST
Candidate
Victor Grant Shadbolt
Title
Removing Interferences within ElectroThermal Vaporization Flame Atomic Emissions Spectrometry
Supervisor
Chris Backhouse
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 — 1:00 PM EST
Candidate
Badr Lami
Topic
Detecting Critical Components and Critical Buses of Composite Power Systems Considering Reliability and Risk Assessment
Supervisor
Kankar Bhattacharya
Background subjects
- Power System Operation
- Power System Reliability
- Reliability and Risk Modelling and Analysis
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 — 12:30 PM EST
Candidate
Ali-Akbar Samadani
Title
Automatic Recognition and Generation of Affective Movements
Supervisor
Robert Gorbet and Dana Kulic
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 — 9:30 AM EST
Candidate
Abdoulmenim Bilh
Topic
Adaptive Energy Coordination for Electric Vehicles in Distribution Systems with Uncertainties
Supervisors
Kshirasagar Naik and Ramadan El-Shatshat
Background subjects
- Smart grids
- Communication network protocols
- Probability and stochastic process
- Optimization
Monday, December 8, 2014 — 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
Speaker
Professor Basem Shihada
Topic
WQM: Practical, Adaptive, and Lightweight Wireless Queue Management System
Friday, December 5, 2014 — 9:00 AM EST
Candidate
Bo Zhu
Title
Designing Password Hashing Algorithms
Supervisor
Guang Gong
Thursday, December 4, 2014 — 2:00 PM EST
Candidate
Edward Yongchao Tang
Topic
High Quality Factor Microwave Resonators with Superconducting Proximity Enhancement
Supervisors
Guo-Xing Miao and David Cory (Chemistry)
Background subjects
- Superconductor
- Proximity Effect
- Microwave Resonator
- Material Growth
Thursday, December 4, 2014 — 11:30 AM EST
Candidate
Aneta Wyrzykowska
Title
Broadband Doherty Power Amplifier using Symmetrical GaN Transistors
Supervisor
Slim Boumaiza
Thursday, December 4, 2014 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Mahsa Sadat Emami Taba
Topic
A Systematic Decision-Making Approach for Self-Protecting Software Systems
Supervisor
Ladan Tahvildari
Background subjects
- Self-Adaptive Software Systems
- Software Security
- Game-theory