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Friday, July 15, 2016 — 3:30 PM EDT
Speaker
Dr. Faycal Saffih
Topic
Intelligence Design (ID): From System to Circuit to Device Implementations
Friday, June 17, 2016 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Speaker:
Dr. Shankar Sastry is the Dean of the College of Engineering and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
Abstract:
Thursday, May 5, 2016 — 2:00 PM EDT
Title
Circuit Techniques for Next-Generation Wireless Communication
Speaker
Professor Bram Nauta, University of Twente
Friday, December 16, 2016 — 3:00 PM EST
Candidate
Abdurrahman Elbuni
Title
Distributed byzantine fault detection and data integrity scheme in WANET
Supervisor
Otman Basir
Friday, December 9, 2016 — 10:30 AM EST
Candidate
Shuo Zheng
Title
Fabrication of AFM tips with a capability of direct positioning upon samples
Supervisor
Bo Cui
Friday, December 9, 2016 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Tyler Austin Davidson-Hall
Topic
Degradation Mechanisms Governing Quantum Dot Light Emitting Device Stability
Supervisor
Hany Aziz
Background subjects
- Organic Semiconductors
- Optoelectronic Devices
- Quantum Dots
- Microfabrication
Thursday, December 8, 2016 — 1:00 PM EST
Candidate
Abolfazl Mosaddegh
Title
Optimal Feeder Operation with Smart Loads
Supervisors
Claudio Canizares and Kankar Bhattacharya
Thursday, December 8, 2016 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Ahmet Camlica
Topic
Amorphous Selenium Photoconductor Device Architecture for Real-time and Photon Counting Radiation Imaging Applications
Supervisors
Karim Karim and Denny Lee (Adjunct)
Background subjects
- Photoconductors
- Micro fabrication
- Amorphous selenium
Thursday, December 8, 2016 — 9:30 AM EST
Candidate
Edmund Wong
Topic
Improving Software Dependability through Documentation Analysis
Supervisor
Lin Tan
Background subjects
- Natural Language Processing
- Documentation Analysis
- Symbolic Execution
- Automatic Comment Generation
Friday, December 2, 2016 — 2:00 PM EST
Candidate
Rasoul Mohammadi Nasiri
Topic
Video Quality Assessment: Exploring the Impact of Frame Rate
Supervisor
Zhou Wang
Background subjects
- Video quality assessment
- Image and video processing
- Video compression
Friday, December 2, 2016 — 1:30 PM EST
Candidate
Maziar Moradi
Title
Polycrystalline Silicon Capacitive MEMS Strain Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Turbines
Supervisor
Siva Sivoththaman
Friday, December 2, 2016 — 12:00 PM EST
Candidate
Jianian Tao
Title
Design of Low Voltage Unsaturated Ring Oscillator for a Sigma Delta Time to Digital Converter
Supervisor
Bosco Leung
Friday, December 2, 2016 — 11:00 AM EST
Candidate
Abolfazl Mosaddegh
Title
Optimal Feeder Operation with Smart Loads
Supervisors
Claudio Canizares and Kankar Bhattacharya
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 — 12:00 PM EST
Candidate
Mahdi Elghazali
Title
Low-Leakage ESD Power Supply Clamps in General Purpose 65 nm CMOS Technology
Supervisors
Manoj Sachdev and Ajoy Opal
Monday, November 28, 2016 — 11:00 AM EST
Candidate
Maziar Moradi
Title
MEMS Strain Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Turbines
Supervisor
Siva Sivoththaman
Friday, November 25, 2016 — 2:00 PM EST
Candidate
Jeff Yucong Luo
Topic
Program Synthesis of Pluggable Type Systems
Supervisors
Werner Dietl and Patrick Mitran
Background subjects
- Program Synthesis
- Type Systems
- Domain Specific Languages
Friday, November 25, 2016 — 11:00 AM EST
Candidate
Mahdi Elghazali
Title
Low-Leakage ESD Power Supply Clamps in General Purpose 65 nm CMOS Technology
Supervisor
Manoj Sachdev and Ajoy Opal
Thursday, November 24, 2016 — 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM EST
ECE Seminar
Julien Eynard
Title
A Full RNS Variant of FV like Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption Schemes
Invited by Professor Anwar Hasan
All are welcome!
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Danlu Guo
Title
A Comprehensive Study of DRAM Controllers in Real-Time Systems
Supervisor
Rodolfo Pellizzoni
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 — 9:30 AM EST
Candidate
Mostafa Azizi
Title
CMOS-MEMS Scanning Microwave Microscopy
Supervisor
Raafat Mansour
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 — 9:00 AM EST
Candidate
Yigit Ozcan
Topic
Towards D2D Communications in 5G Cellular Networks
Supervisor
Catherine Rosenberg
Background subjects
- Fundamentals of Optimization
- Stochastic Processes
- Digital Communications
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 — 10:00 AM EST
Candidate
Thirupathaiah Vasantam
Topic
Randomized Routing in Large Systems with General Service Time Distributions
Supervisor
Ravi Mazumdar
Background subjects
- Stochastic processes
- Applied functional analysis
- Queuing systems
Monday, November 21, 2016 — 9:00 AM EST
Candidate
Subhajit Majhi
Topic
Wireless Networks in Dual Millimeter and Microwave Bands
Supervisor
Patrick Mitran
Background subjects
- Information Theory
- Optimization
- Stochastic Process
Friday, November 18, 2016 — 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM EST
“Scientists are very often consciously or unconsciously driven by agendas well outside science, even if they do not acknowledge them.”
—Neil Turok, Director, Perimeter Institute, 2012 CBC Massey Lectures