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Contact the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thursday, July 30, 2015 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Hany Kashif
Title
Deployment of Real-Time Applications on Multicore Architectures
Supervisors
Sebastian Fischmeister and Hiren Patel
Thursday, July 30, 2015 — 9:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Nazy Ranjkesh
Title
Silicon Waveguide Technology for High Performance Millimeter-Wave/Terahertz Integrated Systems
Supervisors
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini and Mohamad Basha (Systems Design)
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Jianqiao Shao
Title
CSMA/CA-Based MAC Layer Solution for Inter-WBAN Interference and Starvation
Supervisor
Sherman Shen
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Julie Tournet
Title
Growth and Characterization of Epitaxial Al Layers on GaAs and Si Substrates for Superconducting CPW Resonators in Scalable Quantum Computing Systems
Supervisor
Zbigniew Wasilewski
Monday, July 27, 2015 — 3:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Kartik Vamaraju
Title
Single-Input Multiple-Output Media Based Modulation
Supervisor
Amir Khandani
Monday, July 27, 2015 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Nazy Ranjkesh
Title
Silicon Waveguide Technology for High Performance Millimeter-Wave/Terahertz Integrated Systems
Supervisors
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini and Mohamad Basha (Systems Design)
Monday, July 27, 2015 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Teng Wu
Title
On the Message Authentication in Cellular Network
Supervisor
Guang Gong
Thursday, July 23, 2015 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Ming Tan
Title
Online Defect Prediction for Imbalanced Data
Supervisor
Lin Tan
Abstract
Many defect prediction techniques are proposed to improve software reliability. Change classification predicts defects at the change level, where a change is the modifications to one file in a commit. In this thesis, we conduct the first study of applying change classification in practice and share the lessons we learned.
Thursday, July 23, 2015 — 9:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Thibaud Lutellier
Title
Comparing Software Architecture Recovery Techniques Using Accurate Dependencies
Supervisor
Lin Tan
Abstract
Many techniques have been proposed to automatically recover software architectures from software implementations. A thorough comparison among the recovery techniques is needed to understand their effectiveness and applicability. This study improves on previous studies in two ways.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Jefferson Ordonez
Title
Optimal Load Management Application for Industrial Customers
Supervisor
Claudio Canizares
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Marten Pape
Title
Design of a Flexible and Modular Test Bed for Studies on Islanded Microgrids
Supervisor
Mehrdad Kazerani
Thursday, July 16, 2015 — 2:30 PM EDT
Speaker
Professor Amir Mortazawi
Electrical Engineering
The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Topic
Switchable and Tunable Ferroelectric Devices for Adaptive and Reconfigurable RF Circuits
Thursday, July 16, 2015 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Ahmed Abdellatif
Title
High Performance Integrated Beam-Steering Techniques for Millimeter-Wave Systems
Supervisor
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini
Thursday, July 16, 2015 — 9:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Ayman Hamouda
Title
Design Techniques for Lithography-Friendly Nanometer CMOS Integrated Circuits
Supervisors
Karim Karim and Mohab Anis (Adjunct)
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 — 4:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Saman Nazari Nejad
Title
Miniature Magnetic Sensors
Supervisor
Raafat Mansour
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Naimeh Ghafarian
Topic
Graphene Traveling Wave amplifier for Integrated mm-wave and THz Systems
Supervisors
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini and Hamed Majedi
Background subjects
- Optoelectronic devices
- Photonic devices and systems
- Radiation and propagation of electromagnetic fields
- Quantum electronics and photonics
Monday, July 13, 2015 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Aditya Ramaraju
Title
RGLock: Recoverable Mutual Exclusion for Non-Volatile Main Memory Systems
Supervisor
Wojciech Golab
Friday, July 10, 2015 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Ayman Hamouda
Title
Design Techniques for Lithography-Friendly Nanometer CMOS Integrated Circuits
Supervisors
Karim Karim and Mohab Anis (Adjunct)
Thursday, July 9, 2015 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Ahmed Abdellatif
Title
High Performance Integrated Beam-Steering Techniques for Millimeter-Wave Systems
Supervisor
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini
Thursday, July 9, 2015 — 11:00 AM EDT
Speaker
Dr. Dominique Brunet, NSERC Visiting Fellow at the Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Research Section in Environment Canada.
Topic
The MetObject Approach: Enabling Man and Machine Intelligence in Weather Forecasting
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Ali Albishi
Topic
Ultrasensitive Microwave Based Sensors
Supervisor
Omar Ramahi
Background subjects
- Electrically small resonators and metamaterials
- Detection and material characterization
- Microwave near-field sensors
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Talal Alharbi
Title
Energy Management and Smart Charging of PEVs in Isolated Microgrids
Supervisor
Kankar Bhattacharya
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 — 8:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Ahmed Ashoor
Topic
Dielectric Materials for Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer
Supervisor
Omar Ramahi
Background subjects
- Dielectric materials
- Antennas
- Wireless power transfer
- Electromagnetic Energy Harvesters
Thursday, July 2, 2015 — 10:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Mantosh Devgan
Title
Investigation of high frequency switching transients on wind turbine step up transformers
Supervisor
Sheshakamal Jayaram
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 — 10:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Jude Arun Selvan Jesuthasan
Title
Incremental Timing Driven Placement with Displacement Constraint
Supervisor
Andrew Kennings