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Contact the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 — 9:30 AM EST
Candidate
Omar Alghamdi
Title
Modelling the Power Cost of Application Software Running on Servers
Supervisor
Kshirasagar Naik
Friday, November 20, 2015 — 1:00 PM EST
Candidate
Man Chun Tam
Topic
Correlation of Structural Properties and Ultrafast Photoconduction Dynamics in InGaAs-InAlAs Multi-Quantum Wells
Supervisor
Zbigniew Wasilewski
Background subjects
- Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE)
- Low Temperature Grown Nonstoichiometric Semiconductors
- Terahertz Photonics & Time-Domain Spectroscopy
Friday, November 20, 2015 — 1:00 PM EST
Candidate
Philip James McCarthy
Topic
Control and synchronization of sampled-data systems on matrix Lie groups
Supervisor
Christopher Nielsen
Background subjects
- Linear control
- Nonlinear dynamics
- Matrix Lie groups
Friday, November 20, 2015 — 11:00 AM EST
Candidate
Steven Stewart
Topic
A Massively Parallel Column-Oriented Database for SAT and Analytics
Supervisors
Derek Rayside and Krzysztof Czarnecki
Background subjects
- SAT solvers
- Generative programming techniques
- Database query processor implementation
- GPU programming
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 — 11:00 AM EST
Candidate:
Sanu Edayath Subramanian
Title:
Bit-Vector Support In Z3-str2 Decision Procedure
Supervisor
Vijay Ganesh
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 — 11:00 AM EST
Speaker
Professor Sean L. Rommel, Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
Topic
Benchmarking of III-V Esaki Diodes for Tunneling Field Effect Transistor Applications
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 — 9:30 AM EST
Candidate
Yoshitaka Kajiyama
Title
New Color Patterning Techniques for OLED Displays
Supervisor
Hany Aziz
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 — 1:00 PM EST
Candidate
Ferhat Aydinoglu
Topic
Nanostructured Silicon using Photo-Assisted Electrochemical Etching
Supervisor
Bo Cui
Background subjects
- Nanofabrication
- Electrochemical Etching
- Porous Silicon
Friday, November 13, 2015 — 10:30 AM EST
Candidate
Lin Li
Topic
Topological Insulator/Superconductor Heterostructure-Seeking Majorana Fermions
Supervisors
Guo-Xing Miao and Bo Cui
Background subjects
- Condensed matter physics
- Superconductivity
- Thin film growth and characterization
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 — 1:00 PM EST
Candidate
Jianjin Dong
Topic
Nanowire alignment through substrate stretching and its applications in device integration
Supervisor
Irene Goldthorpe
Background subjects
- Nanofabrication
- Semiconductor devices
- Semiconductor processing technology
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 — 1:00 PM EST
Speaker
Dr. Babak Taati, Scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network
Topic
Computer Vision Systems in Health and Safety Monitoring
Friday, November 6, 2015 — 2:00 PM EST
Candidate
Bita Jan Feshan
Title
Charge Carrier Transfer Dynamics at the ZnO Nanowire/Quantum Dot Interface
Supervisor
Siva Sivoththaman
Friday, November 6, 2015 — 9:30 AM EST
Candidate
Hua Fan
Topic
Consistency-Throughput-Latency Trade-offs in Distributed Storage Systems
Supervisor
Wojciech Golab
Background subjects
- Database system
- Distributed computing
- Algorithm
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Ahmed Mohamed Hamza Abouelenin
Title
Analysis and Mitigation of Asynchronous Interference in Coordinated Multipoint Systems
Supervisor
Jon Mark (Adjunct)
Monday, November 2, 2015 — 2:00 PM EST
Candidate
Ahmed Mohamed Hamza Abouelenin
Title
Analysis and Mitigation of Asynchronous Interference in Coordinated Multipoint Systems
Supervisor
Jon Mark (Adjunct)
Thursday, October 29, 2015 — 10:30 AM EDT
Ultrasound imaging innovations for live monitoring of complex flow dynamics
Thursday October 29, 2015
10:30 – 11:30 am
EIT 3142
Dr. Alfred Yu
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Yoshitaka Kajiyama
Title
New Color patterning techniques for OLED displays
Supervisor
Hany Aziz
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 — 2:30 PM EDT
Speaker
Sahar Sargheini, PhD Candidate, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Bo Wang
Title
CO-OFDM Elastic Optical Networks - Issues on Transmission, Routing, and Bandwidth Allocation
Supervisor
Pin-Han Ho
Monday, October 26, 2015 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Bita Jan Feshan
Title
Charge Carrier Transfer Dynamics at the ZnO Nanowire/Quantum Dot Interface
Supervisor
Siva Sivoththaman
Friday, October 23, 2015 — 2:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Bo Wang
Title
CO-OFDM Elastic Optical Networks - Issues on Transmission, Routing, and Bandwidth Allocation
Supervisor
Pin-Han Ho
Friday, October 23, 2015 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Jeyran Amirloo Abolfathi
Title
Interband Cascade Lasers, from Fabry–Pérot waveguides to sub-wavelength cavities
Supervisor
Simarjeet Saini
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Jeyran Amirloo Abolfathi
Title
Interband Cascade Lasers, from Fabry–Pérot waveguides to sub-wavelength cavities
Supervisor
Simarjeet Saini
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Nafeesa Mehboob
Title
Smart charging of plug-in electric vehicles considering uncertainties
Supervisors
Claudio Canizares and Catherine Rosenberg
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 — 9:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Mohamed El Badawe
Topic
Metasurfaces for Antenna and Wireless Energy Transfer Applications
Supervisor
Omar Ramahi
Background subjects
- Metasurfaces
- Antenna
- Electromagnetic Energy Harvesters