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Thursday, April 27, 2023 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate: Amir Amini
Title: On Nonlinear Time-Invariant Behavioural Models of Power Transistors Used in the Computer-Aided Design of Power Amplifiers
Date: April 27, 2023
Time: 1:30 PM
Place: EIT 3151-53
Supervisor(s): Boumaiza, Slim
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023 — 4:00 PM EDT
Candidate: Amir Amini
Title: Time-Domain Power Transistor Behavioural Models for Effective Design of High Power Amplifiers
Date: April 26, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: EIT 3151-53
Supervisor(s): Boumaiza, Slim
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate: Puneet Gill
Topic: Minimizing number of roles and edges for bottom-up role-mining problem
Date: April 26, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Tripunitara, Mahesh
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate: Mohammad Robati Shirzad
Date: April 25, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: EIT 3145
Supervisor(s): Lam, Patrick
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 — 10:30 AM EDT
Candidate: Pourya Aliasghari
Topic: Developing a Cognitive Framework to Enable Inclusive Social Learning for Robots
Date: April 19, 2023
Time: 10:30 AM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Dautenhahn, Kerstin - Nehaniv, Chrystopher L. - Ghafurian, Moojan
Monday, April 17, 2023 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate: Pat De La Torre Sanchez
Topic: Real time region-wise speed of sound estimation and beamforming for aberration correction in ultrasound images
Date: April 17, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Yu, Alfred
The Chair of the Committee is Professor Pezhouhan Tavassoti-Kheiry of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.
Friday, April 14, 2023 — 1:00 PM EDT
Candidate: Mohammad Nouri
Title: Effect of microfabrication process on the electrical behavior of transition-metal dichalcogenide field-effect transistor arrays
Date: April 14, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM
Place: EIT 3142
Supervisor(s): Wong, William
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Friday, April 14, 2023 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate: Jonathan Atkinson
Title: Silver Nanowire Networks in Electrochromic Devices
Date: April 14, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM
Place: EIT 3151-53
Supervisor(s): Goldthorpe, Irene (Adjunct)
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023 — 1:30 PM EDT
Candidate: Sheyang Tang
Topic: Representation Learning for Regression
Date: April 12, 2023
Time: 1:30 PM
Place: EIT 3151-53
Supervisor(s): Wang, Zhou
The Chair of the Committee is Professor Shunde Yin of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 — 9:30 AM EDT
Candidate: Mahdi Naseri
Topic: Adversarial Scene Graph Inpainting for Image Synthesis
Date: April 12, 2023
Time: 9:30 AM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Wang, Zhou
The Chair of the Committee is Professor Cliff Butcher of the Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering.
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 — 3:40 PM EDT
Candidate: Md. Masud Rana
Title: Organic-Inorganic Nanomaterial based Highly Efficient Flexible Nanogenerator for Self-powered Wireless Electronics
Date: April 11, 2023
Time: 3:40 PM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Ban, Dayan
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023 — 11:30 AM EDT
Candidate: Gurshaant Singh Malik
Topic: Learning Design Parameters to Build Application Customizable Network-on-Chips for FPGAs
Date: April 11, 2023
Time: 11:30 AM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Kapre, Nachiket
The Chair of the Committee is Professor Bill Annable of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 — 11:00 AM EDT
Candidate: Hafiz Muhammad Usman Butt
Title: Real-Time Energy Management Controller for Electric Vehicle Charging and Discharging in Smart Residential Homes
Date: April 11, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): El Shatshat, Ramadan - El-Hag, Ayman
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023 — 10:00 AM EDT
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Monday, April 10, 2023 — 4:00 PM EDT
Abstract
This thesis addresses the prevalence of electronic hardware level threats in today’s world, which range from counterfeit or malicious hardware in supply chains to electronic attack tools. These threats can be rapidly changing and highly customized, making validating hardware dicult. Measurement devices have been developed to identify these threats, but they require a high level of expertise to deploy.
Monday, April 10, 2023 — 2:30 PM EDT
The Chair of the Committee is Professor Mike Worswick of the Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering.
Candidate: Robyn Klassen
Topic: Toward improved sonoporation efficacy: Clarifying cellular bioeffects induced by microbubble cavitation
Date: April 10, 2023
Time: 2:30 PM
Place: EIT 3142
Supervisor(s): Yu, Alfred
Monday, April 10, 2023 — 9:00 AM EDT
Candidate: Lingheng Meng
Title: Engaging Behavior Generation from Human Preferences In A Large Scale Interactive System: A Simulation Experiment
Date: April 10, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Kulic, Dana (Adjunct) - Gorbet, Rob
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Thursday, April 6, 2023 — 10:00 AM EDT
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This thesis presents the design and characterization of a high-spatial-resolution direct-conversion X-ray imager built using complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology integrated with an amorphous-selenium photoconductor. Our imager targets applications in high-energy-diffraction microscopy and aims to improve the performance of existing imagers by reducing pixel size, and increasing conversion efficiency and frame rate.
Wednesday, April 5, 2023 — 4:00 PM EDT
Candidate: Amr Samir
Title: Silicon-Based Integration Technology for Terahertz Source
Date: April 5, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: E5 4047
Supervisor(s): Majedi, Hamed - Basha, Mohamed A. (Adjunct)
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 — 11:00 AM EDT
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 — 11:00 AM EDT
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Monday, April 3, 2023 — 3:00 PM EDT
Name: Zhiping Cai
Date: Monday April 3rd 2023
Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm (EST)
Location: EIT 3145
Supervisor: Prof. Werner Dietl
Attending faculty members: Prof. Arie Gurfinkel, and Prof. Mahesh Tripunitara
Title: UniFlow: A CFG-based Framework for Pluggable Type Checking andType Inference
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Monday, April 3, 2023 — 2:00 PM EDT
Candidate: Md. Masud Rana
Title: Organic-Inorganic Nanomaterial based Highly Efficient Flexible Nanogenerator for Self-powered Wireless Electronics
Date: April 3, 2023
Time: 2:00 PM
Place: REMOTE ATTENDANCE
Supervisor(s): Ban, Dayan
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Monday, April 3, 2023 — 10:00 AM EDT
Candidate: Matteo Pennacchietti
Topic: Entanglement swapping with nanowire quantum dot entangled photon sources and photonic integrated circuits
Date: April 3, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM
Place: EIT 3142
Supervisor(s): Reimer, Michael
The Chair of the Committee is Professor Hamid Jahed of the Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering.