2023 past PhD defences

Reza Zarringhalam - Wednesday, January 4, 2023 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM  E3-4117 - remote

Title: Sensor Fault Detection and Fault-Tolerant Estimation of Vehicle States

Supervisors: Amir Khajepour / William Melek


Alejandro Martinez - Tuesday, January 10, 2023 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM online

Title: Monitoring and Control of Metal Additive Manufacturing Processes Using Ultrasound

Supervisor: Ehsan Toyserkani


Francis  Lacombe  - Friday, January 13, 2023 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM  E5-3006 in person

Title: Stability of compressible boundary layers in presence of smooth roughness and wall temperature effects 

Supervisor: Jean-Pierre Hickey


Chia-Pei Wang - Friday, January 13, 2023 from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM - EC4-1104 in person

Title: Virtual Model Building for Multi-Axis Machine Tools using Field Data

Supervisors: Kaan Erkorkmaz / John McPhee


Nivas Ramachandiran - Friday, January 20, 2023 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM - remote

Title: Structure Property Correlation in Additive Manufactured Ti - 5553 Component

Supervisors: Adrian Gerlich / Ehsan Toyserkani


Neel Pratik Bhatt - Thursday, February 23, 2023 from 11:30 AM-2:30 PM - remote

Title: Trajectory Prediction of Dynamic Objects in Urban Driving Settings for Autonomous Driving

Supervisors: Amir Khajepour / Ehsan Hashemi


Ali Ghatei Kalashami - Tuesday, February 28, 2023 from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM - Remote

Title: An integrative investigation of liquid metal embrittlement in the Fe-Zn system: From responsible mechanisms to mitigation strategies

Supervisor: Norman Zhou


Muhammad Shehryar Khan - Wednesday,  March 8, 2023, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM remote

Title: Improving the multiscale morphological and mechanical properties of laser welded Al-Si coated ultra-high strength 22MnB5 press-hardened steels 

Supervisor: Norman Zhou / Elliot Biro


OMAR ALSHEHRI - Friday, March 10, 2023 from  8:00 AM to 11:00 AM  - Remote 

Title: New Platform Designs for Enabling AtomicInteractions in Solid and Gaseous States

Supervisor: William Melek


Farzaneh Kaji - Thursday, March 16, 2023 from  8:30 AM to 11:30 AM - Remote

Title: In-situ monitoring and intermittent controller for adaptive trajectory generation during laser directed energy

Supervisor: Ehsan Toyserkani


Ehsan Mohammadbagher - Tuesday, March 21, 2023 from 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM - Remote

Title: Efficient Vehicle Self-Localization Using Vector Maps and Multi-Modal Odometry

Supervisors: Amir Khajepour / Ehsan Hashemi


Mobin Khamooshi - Friday, March 24, 2023 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Remote

Title: Cooperative Vehicle Perception and Localization Using Infrastructure-based Sensor Nodes

Supervisors: Amir Khajepour / Ehsan Hashemi


Ali Shahidi - Tuesday March 28, 2023 from  2:30 PM to 5:30 PM - Remote

Title: MPC Controller Weight Tuning and Real-Time Learning-Based Weight Selection

Supervisor: Amir Khajepour


Mercy  Ombogo - Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from  2:00 PM to 5:00 PM E5 - 3052 in person

Title: Extending Range of Motion in Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

Supervisors: Naveen Chandrashekar / John Medley / G Daniel Langohr


Sirshendu Misra - Tuesday, April 11, 2023 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM  E5-3052   in person

Title: Wetting at Interfaces: From Drops to Microorganisms 

Supervisor: Sushanta Mitra


Zhi Cheng - Tuesday, April 11, 2023 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Remote

Title: Flow Dynamics and Aeroacoustics of Flow-induced Vibration of Bluff Bodies

Supervisors: Fue-Sang Lien


Yaodong Cui - Wednesday, May 10, 2023 from  9:30 AM to 12:30 PM - Remote

Title: Towards Domain Invariant Real-time Point Cloud Perception

Supervisor: Amir khajepour


Hatameh  Asgarimoghaddam - Tuesday, May 16, 2023 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Remote

Title: Spatial atomic layer deposition of Alumina-based thin film encapsulation for high performance perovskite solar cells

Supervisor: Kevin Musselman


Mohamed Serry  - Friday, May 19, 2023 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM E5 - 3052 in person

Title: From Clinical Data to Theoretical and Numerical Analyses of Laryngeal Biomechanics: Towards Understanding Vocal Hyperfunction

Supervisor: Sean Peterson


Atekeh  Abolhasani  - Wednesday, May 31, 2023 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Remote

Title: Experimental Analysis and Modeling Investigation of Precipitation Kinetics and Hardening in two  Al-Zn-Mg-Cu Alloys 

Supervisors: Esmaeili,Shahrzad / Mary Wells


Tao Guo  - Friday, July 21, 2023 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 AM E5 - 3052

Title: Chalcogenide and metal-oxide memristive devices for advanced neuromorphic computing

Supervisors: Yimin Wu / Norman Zhou


Xiaoying Wang - Tuesday, December 5, 2023 from 9:00 AM -12 :00 PM E5 - 3006 Hybrid

Title: Effect of Cu and Die Geometry on the Extrudability of AA6xxx Alloys

Supervisors: Mary Wells


Zhenchuan Xu - Tuesday, December 12, 2023 from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM Remote

Title: Design, Implementation, and Control of a Magnetic Levitated Planar Motor

Supervisor: Behrad Khamese