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Contact the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Monday, May 4, 2015 — 9:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Mariano Arriaga Marin
Title
Long-Term Renewable Energy Electricity Planning for Remote Communities
Supervisors
Claudio Canizares and Mehrdad Kazerani
Friday, May 1, 2015 — 3:00 PM EDT
Speaker
Imran Mehdi, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States
Topic
Super-compact Submillimeter-wave Array Receivers for Space Applications
Friday, May 1, 2015 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Alireza Parsafar
Title
Design and Implementation of a High Resolution CMOS X-Ray Imager with Amorphous Selenium Sensor
Supervisors
Peter Levine and Karim Karim
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Behrooz Semnani
Topic
Graphene-Based Integrated Nonlinear Optics
Supervisors
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini and Hamed Majedi
Background subjects
- Quantum Mechanics
- Electromagnetic Theory
- Computational Electromagnetics
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 — 9:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Shahed Shahir
Title
Near-Field Scattering Tomography Systems for Object Imaging and Material Characterization
Supervisors
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini and Jeffery Orchard (Computer Science)
Monday, April 27, 2015 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Graeme Williams
Title
Factors Affecting Charge Collection in Organic Solar Cells and Their Associated Deterioration With Time
Supervisor
Hany Aziz
Monday, April 27, 2015 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Ahmed Ibrahim Nashed
Title
Design, Analysis, and Optimization of a Cherenkov Radiation Based Sub-mm/THz BWO
Supervisors
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini and Sujeet Chaudhuri (Adjunct)
Thursday, April 23, 2015 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Masoomeh Rudafshani
Title
Detection and Diagnosis of Memory Leaks in Web Applications
Supervisor
Paul Ward
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 — 2:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Hisham Alharbi
Title
Optimal Planning and Scheduling of Battery Energy Storage Systems for Isolated Microgrids
Supervisor
Kankar Bhattacharya
Abstract
"Balancing the energy demand in isolated microgrids is a critical issue especially in the presence of intermittent energy sources.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Zhuoran Yin
Title
Graph Locality Prefetcher for Graph Database
Supervisor
Hiren Patel
Monday, April 20, 2015 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate
Samaneh Hosseini Semnani
Title
Distributed Target Engagement in Large-Scale Mobile Sensor Networks
Supervisor
Otman Basir
Monday, April 20, 2015 — 10:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Bethany Allison McCollum
Title
Optimization of the Migration of Virtual Machines over a Bipartite Mesh Network Topology
Supervisor
Gordon Agnew
Friday, April 17, 2015 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Eric Wai Yiu Lum
Title
Super Resolution of HARDI images Using Compressed Sensing Techniques
Supervisor
Oleg Michailovich
Thursday, April 16, 2015 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Yuantao Ji
Title
Fabrication and Characterizations of Fe/NaCl/Fe Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Supervisor
Guo-Xing Miao
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Jagadish Ghimire
Title
Heterogeneous Cellular Networks: from Resource Allocation to User Association
Supervisor
Catherine Rosenberg
Abstract
Heterogeneous networking paradigm addresses the ever growing need for capacity and coverage in wireless networks by deploying numerous low power base stations overlaying the existing macro cellular coverage.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 — 10:30 AM EDT
Speaker
Ekram Hossain, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Topic
Stochastic Geometry-Based Modeling and Analysis of Cognitive and Energy Harvesting D2D Communication in Cellular Networks
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 — 9:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Nazila Rajaei
Title
Fault Current Management in Power Systems Using Inverter Based Distributed Generators
Supervisor
Magdy Salama
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 — 9:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Scott (Wei-Ting) Chen
Title
Wearable RF Resonant Transdermal Gaseous Chemical Sensor Array
Supervisor
Raafat Mansour
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 — 4:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Alfredo Vaccaro
Title
Affine Arithmetic for Power and Optimal Power Flow Analyses in the Presence of Uncertainties
Supervisor
Claudio Canizares
Monday, April 13, 2015 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Scott (Wei-Ting) Chen
Title
Wearable RF Resonant Transdermal Gaseous Chemical Sensor Array
Supervisor
Raafat Mansour
Monday, April 13, 2015 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Fatima Binte Zia
Title
Coordinated Volt/Var Control in Smart Distribution System with Distributed Generators
Supervisor
Ehab El-Saadany
Friday, April 10, 2015 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Miao Wang
Title
Capacity Analysis in Different Systems Exploiting Mobility of VANETs
Supervisor
Sherman Shen
Thursday, April 9, 2015 — 2:30 PM EDT
Speaker
Professor Robi Polikar, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, United States
Topic
Semi-supervised and active learning in initially labeled nonstationary and evolving environments
Thursday, April 9, 2015 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Mike Yun Qian Miao
Title
Adaptive Learning Algorithms for Non-Stationary Data
Supervisor
Mohamed Kamel
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 — 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
Speaker
Shuhei Miyashita, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Topic
Universal manufacturing method for synthetic electromechanical devices