Events

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.

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

Abstract:

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

Abstract:

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Computer-aided cryptography offers a variety of tools that are essential for ensuring the security of cryptographic protocols. These tools can assist in designing the protocol, verifying its correctness during implementation, and detecting potential side-channel attacks. In the functional correctness branch of computer-aided cryptography, program specifications are compared against program behavior using a specification language.

Abstract

Design of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) based biosensing platforms for cancer detection require careful optimization of nanostructure size and interparticle gap to facilitate resonance of localised plasmons and thus maximize enhancement factor. In this thesis, we discussed a simple modeling strategy of nanoparticle-based SERS biosensing platform, which can even be extended to other complex nanostructures as per design requirement.

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)

Abstract:

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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.

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

Abstract:

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

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.