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Friday, April 28, 2017 — 3:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Ali Mojdeh
Title
Aluminum Nitride SAW Resonators
Supervisor
Raafat Mansour
Abstract
There are many devices that need filters for capturing signals and conditioning them in wireless systems and communication. Microwave filters for long were the center of attention for these types of signal conditionings. However acoustic filters have been given great attention recently for their miniature size and high quality factor.
Friday, April 28, 2017 — 9:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Chao Xu
Title
Toward High Performance Broad-band Frequency Comb Operation of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
Supervisor
Dayan Ban
Thursday, April 27, 2017 — 3:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Christopher Deimert
Supervisor
Zbigniew Wasilewski
Background subjects
- Photonics
- Solid State Physics
- Quantum Mechanics
Thursday, April 27, 2017 — 3:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Oliver Ka Wai Wong
Title
Development of Tunable RF Integrated Passive Devices
Supervisor
Raafat Mansour
Thursday, April 27, 2017 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Xiaoliang He
Supervisor
Dayan Ban
Background subjects
- Semiconductor Physics
- Photonics
- Device nanofabrication and characterization
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Wenchao Xu
Topic
Heterogeneous Resource Leveraging in Vehicular Networks
Supervisor
Sherman Shen
Background subjects
- Stochastic Process
- Queueing theory
Monday, April 24, 2017 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Boyu Wen
Topic
Simulation Design and Characterization on High Performance Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser
Supervisor
Dayan Ban
Background subjects
- Quantum Cascade Laser
- Terahertz radiation source
- Semiconductor device
- Quantum Mechanics
Friday, April 21, 2017 — 11:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Jianchu Li
Title
A General Pluggable Type Inference Framework and its use for Data-flow Analysis
Supervisor
Werner Dietl
Friday, April 21, 2017 — 8:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Parsa Pourali
Topic
A Human-Centric and Artefact-Centric Approach for Reducing the Effort of Software Modelling in Model-Driven Engineering
Supervisors
Joanne Atlee (Computer Science) and Krzysztof Czarnecki
Background subjects
- Software Modelling Languages and Notations
- Requirements Engineering
- Empirical Software Engineering
Thursday, April 20, 2017 — 3:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Weisen Shi
Supervisor
Sherman Shen
Background subjects
- Digital Signal Processing
- Computer Network
- Stochastic Process
Thursday, April 20, 2017 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Jianbing Ni
Topic
Security and Privacy Preservation for Mobile Crowdsensing
Supervisors
Sherman Shen and Xiaodong Lin (Adjunct)
Background subjects
- Computer and Network Security
- Broadband Communication
- Wireless Communication
- Applied Cryptography
Thursday, April 20, 2017 — 9:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Atulan Zaman
Title
Exploring Microfluidic Design Automation: Thin-wall Membrane Regulator
Supervisor
Derek Rayside
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 — 11:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Zhengfang Duanmu
Title
Subjective and Objective Quality-of-Experience of Adapative Video Streaming
Supervisor
Zhou Wang
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 — 10:30 AM EDT
Speaker
Xihua Wang, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada
Topic
Engineered micro/nanostructures for flexible photonics and electronics
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 — 9:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Ahmed Zawia
Title
An RNS variant of fully homomorphic encryption over integers
Supervisor
Anwarul Hasan
Thursday, April 13, 2017 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Muhammad Refaat Sedky Soliman
Topic
Towards Predictable Prefetching for Scratchpad-based Real-Time Systems
Supervisor
Rodolfo Pellizzoni
Background subjects
- Computer Architecture
- Real-time Systems
- Fundamentals of Optimization
- Basics of Compilers
Thursday, April 13, 2017 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Bright Chijioke Iheanacho
Title
Optoelectronic Properties and Applications of 3-D Hybrid a-Si:H/ZnO Nanowire Structures
Supervisor
William Wong
Thursday, April 13, 2017 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Luyao Chen
Title
Smartphone-enabled Biotelemetric System For a Smart Contact Lens
Supervisor
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini and George Shaker (Adjunct)
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate
Jonathan Feng-Shun Lin
Title
Temporal Segmentation of Human Motion for Rehabilitation
Supervisor
Dana Kulic
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 — 9:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Abdulbaset Ali
Title
Intelligent Microwave Detection of Surface and Sub-Surface Anomalies
Supervisor
Omar Ramahi
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 — 10:30 AM EDT
Candidate
Hao Zhang
Title
Physics Based Virtual Source Compact Model of Gallium-Nitride High Electron Mobility Transistors
Supervisor
Slim Boumaiza and Lan Wei
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 — 10:00 AM EDT
Speaker
Professor Xiao-Ping Zhang, Department of Electronic, Electrical & Systems Engineering University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Topic
Flexible LCC HVDC System
Friday, April 7, 2017 — 1:00 PM EDT
Speaker
Matthew Millard
Topic
Predicting Human Motion Using Optimal Control
Thursday, April 6, 2017 — 11:15 AM EDT
Candidate
Yihang Yang
Title
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Magnetic Proximity Effect
Supervisor
Guo-Xing Miao
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate
Badr Lami
Title
New Approaches to Composite Reliability Assessment of Smart Power Systems
Supervisor
Kankar Bhattacharya