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Updated: Wednesday, May 14, 2008:

2008 GRADUATE STUDIES COMMENCEMENT
DATE: Sunday, June 22, 2008
PLACE: UCSD RIMAC Arena
TIME: 10:30 a.m. (approximately 2.5 hours)

All Commencement participants must complete the online Commencement Participation Form, located on this web site, by 4:00 p.m., Friday, June 13, 2008: http://ogs.ucsd.edu/commencement/index.htm

 *Graduates Hall of Fame!
 *Upcoming Final Defense
 *ECE Grad Student Pics -- on the Web!
 *FA07 TA Excellence and Outstanding Tutor Award Winners 
 *ECE Graduates – Winter 2008 
 *SP08 Intramural Teams and Schedules

GRADUATES HALL OF FAME!
 
We would like to congratulate the following students who recently completed their degree:

 Dr. Justin Robert Bickford
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Applied Physics)
Advisor:  Professor Paul Yu
Dissertation Title:  Sparse Gallium Arsenide to Silicon Metal Waferbonding for Heterogeneous Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits
Current Employment:  Post-doc, Army Research Laboratory 

Dr. Junsheng Han
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems)
Advisor:  Professor Paul Siegel
Dissertation Title:  Code Representation and Performance of Graph-based Decoding
Current Employment:  Senior Engineer, Qualcomm Inc. 

Dr. Kuang-Man Huang
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems)
Advisor:  Professor Pamela Cosman
Dissertation Title:  Tracking and Analysis of C. elegans Behavior Using Machine Vision 

Richard G. Bolz
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current Employment:  Network Engineer, SSC Pacific 

UPCOMING FINAL DEFENSE 

The following Ph.D. Candidates will be defending their dissertation this week.  All defense examinations are public, so feel free to attend these exams and congratulate your colleagues for completing their Doctor of Philosophy degree! 

The department has scheduled the Final Defense for the Ph.D. degree for Mr. Qi Qu in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems) as follows: 

Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008
Place: EBU1 6504
Time: 10:30am to 12:30pm 

The title of Mr. Qu’s presentation is “Power and Spectrum Efficient Communications in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”. 

The department has scheduled the Final Defense for the Ph.D. degree for Mr. Meng-Ping Kao in Electrical Engineering (Signal & Image Processing) as follows: Date:   

Monday, May 19, 2008
Time:    10:00 a.m.
Place:   CalIt2 - 4004

The title of Mr. Meng-Ping Kao’s presentation is "Block Based Scalable Motion Model for Highly Scalable Video Coding". 

The department has scheduled the Final Defense for the Ph.D. degree for Mr. Eric Wong in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems) as follows: 

Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm 
Place: EBU1 2512

The title of Mr. Wong’s presentation is “On Physical Carrier Sensing for Random Wireless Ad-hoc Networks”.  

The department has scheduled the Final Defense for the Ph.D. degree for Mr. Dashan Gao in Electrical Engineering (Signal & Image Processing) as follows:  

Date:    Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Time:    1:30pm – 3:30pm
Place:   EBU1-6504 

The title of Mr. Gao’s presentation is “A Discriminant Hypothesis for Visual Saliency: Computational Principles, Biological Plausibility and Applications in Computer Vision.”

ECE GRAD STUDENT PICS -- ON THE WEB! 

Check out our new web site devoted to providing a pictorial view of graduate student life at ECE:  http://www.ece.ucsd.edu/photo/index.php 

Recent additions - pics from the joint ECE/BIOENG luau held on April 25...

Enjoy!

TA EXCELLENCE AND OUTSTANDING TUTOR AWARD WINNERS FOR FALL 2007

ECE would like to congratulate Shibin Parameswaran and Mehmet Parlak who are the recipients of the TA Excellence Award for the Fall Quarter 2007.  In addition, we would like to commend Eldridge Alcantara for providing an exceptional teaching service to the ECE Department by presenting him with the Outstanding Tutor Award.

ECE GRADUATES – WINTER 2008

We would like to give special acknowledgement to a number of graduate students for their achievements and setting academic milestones during Winter 2008:

**Three (3) students passed their Comprehensive (Preliminary) Exam

**Eleven (11) students passed their Qualifying Exam

We also offer our best wishes to these students in their future endeavors.
 
**Four (4) students completed their Ph.D. degree requirements: 

Dr. Tsai-Pi Hung
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits & Systems)
Advisor:  Professor Peter Asbeck
Dissertation Title:  High Efficiency Switching Mode Amplifiers for Wireless Communication SystemsCurrent Employment: Senior Engineer, Qualcomm Inc. 

Dr. Jaclyn Marie Nascimento
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Photonics)
Advisors:  Professors Sadik Esener and Michael Berns
Dissertation Title:  Analysis of Sperm Motility and Physiology Using Optical TweezersCurrent Employment: Principal Optical Engineer, L-3 Communications: Photonics 

Dr. Ping Zhou
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems)
Advisors:  Professor Ramesh Rao
Dissertation Title:  On Optimizing Wireless Mesh Networks: From Theoretical Capacity Analysis to Practical Algorithm DesignCurrent Employment: Senior System Engineer, Qualcomm Inc. 

Dr. Yun-Shiang Shu
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits & Systems)
Advisors:  Professor Bang-Sup Song and Professor Larry Larson
Dissertation Title:  Background Digital Calibration Techniques for High-Speed, High Resolution Analog-to-Digital Data Converters 

**Sixteen (16) students completed the Master of Engineering degree:  

Benjamin W Lee
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current Employment:  Hardware Engineer II, CISCO

He Fei
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current Employment:  Image Processing Tool Designer, Booklab

Erik Grindheim
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Wei-Hsi Wu
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current Employment:  Software Engineer, QUALCOMM 

Beverly Pinjing Wang
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

David Wang
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Teng-Yi Wang
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Kevin S. Wang
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current Employment:  Engineer, QUALCOMM 

Rouzbeh Kashef
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Jia-Dong Yang
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Soha P. Dalal
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current Employment:  Firmware Engineer, X-Digital System 

Michael Ryan Conry
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current Employment:  Designer, Peregrine Semiconductor 

Michael C. McMillen
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Amy Chia-Yun Chen
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Kenneth S. Louie
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Eric James Seto
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

**And one (1) student completed the Master of Science degree: 

Aditya Vadrevu
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems)
Advisor:  Professor Elias Masry
Thesis Title:  Random Sampling Estimates of Fourier Transforms: Antithetical Monte Carlo 

SP08 INTRAMURAL TEAMS AND SCHEDULESHere’s a list of ECE teams that will be playing Intramural sports for Spring – catch a game when you get a chance, and cheer them on!!! 

Men's 5-on-5 Basketball - "MVPs"
Games - Sundays at 5pm at RIMAC Arena
* Ying-Kai Wang
* Yen-Lin Lee
* Yu-Chin Ou
* HsiehChih Shih
* Chia-Chiunn Ho
* Wei-Hao Lin
* Po-Hao Kung

Men's 5-on-5 Basketball - "ECE All-Stars"
Games - Sundays at 4pm at RIMAC Arena
* Guowen Wei
* Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi
* Kevin Amendt
* Mehmet Parlak
* Colin Gage

Men's Soccer - "ECE Footballers"
Games - 4/23 at 10 pm, 4/30 at 11pm, 5/7 at 10pm and 5/14 at 8pm at RIMAC Aux Gym
Team Players:
* Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi
* Brian Shirley
* Liang Feng
* Sagnik Ghosh
* Nikhil Karamchandani
* Manish Amde
* Hossein Taghavi
* Nikhil Rasiwasia
* Maxim Abashin
* Mehmet Parlak
* Doug Jorgesen

Coed Softball - "The Swingers"
Games - Sundays at 5pm at North Campus Recreation Field (north of RIMAC)
* Jack Tzeng
* Clay McPheeters
* Maurice Ayache
* Jeremy Law
* Matthew Chen
* Sayanan Sivaraman
* Karl Ni
* Sheu-Sheu Tan
* Beth Shafer
* Emily Sylwestrak
* Vihyun Shin
* Hao Zheng
* Omer Lang

Coed Tennis - "Can-of-Balls"
Games - Wednesdays at 7pm at North Campus Recreation Tennis Courts (north of RIMAC)
* Johana Yan
* Matthew Chen
* Mehmet Parlak
* Neda Nouri
* Banu Dost

Men's Tennis - "My Prediction: Pain!"
Games - Thursdays at 8:30pm at North Campus Recreation Tennis Courts (north of RIMAC)
* Jeremy Law
* Clay McPheeters
* Jason Karp
* Mark Hsu
* Sam Yuspeh

Men's Beach Volleyball Doubles - "OPENET"
Games - Sundays at 3pm at MUIR College Sand Courts
* Russell Burdt
* Mehmet Parlak


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