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Updated: Monday, September 29, 2008:

Welcome New Graduate Students!!
Please submit your completed Degree Planner to Karol Previte in EBU1 2718 by Friday, October 10, 2008.

 *Welcome to Fall 2008 Quarter!
 *SP08 TA Excellence Award Winner
 *Upcoming Final Defense
 *Graduates Hall of Fame!
 *ECE Graduates – Spring 2008 
 *2008-09 GSC Elected Members
 *ECE Grad Student Pics -- on the Web!
 *FA08 Intramural Sports - Sign up Now!!

WELCOME TO FALL 2008 QUARTER! 

Instructions for Fall 2008 quarter classes start on September 25.  We wish you all the best in the new academic year!!

SP08 TA EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER

ECE would like to congratulate Yen-Wei Chang who is the recipient of the TA Excellence Award for the Spring Quarter 2008.

UPCOMING FINAL DEFENSE 

The following Ph.D. Candidates will be defending their dissertation soon.  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 of Electrical and Computer Engineering has scheduled Mr. Kwang-Jin Koh's Final Defense for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits & Systems) as follows: 

Date: Friday, October 3, 2008
Place: EBU1 - 6504
Time: 3:00pm – 5:00pm

The title of Mr. Koh’s presentation is “Integrated Phased-Array Designs in Silicon Technologies for RF, Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Smart Antennas”.
 


The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has scheduled Ms. Shan Yan's Final Defense for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits & Systems) as follows: 

Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Place: EBU1-2512
Time: 1:00pm 

The title of Ms. Yan's presentation is "Synthesis of Application-Specific On-Chip Networks". 


The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has scheduled Mr. Mohammad Taghavi Nasrabadi's Final Defense for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory and Systems) as follows: 

Date:  Friday, October 10, 2008
Place:  EBU1 - 6504
Time:  1:30pm 

The title of Mr. Taghavi Nasrabadi's presentation is "Decoding Linear Codes via Optimization and Graph-Based Techniques".


The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has scheduled Mr. Kazuhiro Ikeda's Final Defense for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Electrical Engineering (Photonics) as follows: 

Date: Monday, November 24, 2008
Place: EBU1-2512
Time: 9:00 am 

The title of Mr. Ikeda’s presentation is “All-Optical Nonlinear Switching in Optical Micro-Resonators on a Silicon Chip”.

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

Dr. Peng Chen
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Applied Physics)
Advisor:  Professor Silvanus S. Lau
Dissertation Title:  Integration of III-V Materials with Silicon for Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit Applications
Current Employment:  Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Dr. Sumit Bhardwaj
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory and Systems)
Advisor:  Professors Anthony Acampora and Ruth J. Williams
Dissertation Title:  On Advantages of Cooperation in Cellular Systems: Throughput and Heavy Traffic Performance
Current Employment:  Fair Isaac 

Dr. Somsak Kittipiyakul
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory and Systems)
Advisor:  Professor Tara Javidi
Dissertation Title:  Cross-Layer Optimization for Transmission of Delay-Sensitive and Burst Traffic in Wireless Systems
Current Employment:  Lecturer, SIIT Thailand 

Dr. Koohyar Minoo
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Signal and Image Processing)
Advisor:  Professor Truong Nguyen
Dissertation Title:  On the Rate and Distortion: Conformity with the Statistics of Natural Images and Visual Perception in Humans
Current Employment:  Distinguished Member Technical Staff Engineer, Motorola 

Dr. Dashan Gao
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Signal and Image Processing)
Advisor:  Professor Nuno Vasconcelos
Dissertation Title:  A Discriminant Hypothesis for Visual Saliency: Computational Principles, Biological Plausibility and Applications in Computer Vision
Current Employment:  Computer Scientist, GE Global Research Center 

Dr. Shadi Ahmad Dayeh
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Applied Physics)
Advisor:  Professors Deli Wang and Edward Yu
Dissertation Title:  Semiconductor Nanowires for Future Electronics: Growth, Characterization, Device Fabrication, and Integration
Current Employment:  Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dr. Jillian Leigh Cannons
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory and Systems)
Advisor:  Professor Kenneth Zeger
Dissertation Title:  Topics in Network Communications

Dr. Sanja Zlatanovic
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Photonics)
Advisor:  Professor Sadik Esener
Dissertation Title:  Optical Resonant Nanoprobes for the Measurement of Biomolecular Interactions
  

Dr. Sourja Ray
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits and Systems)
Advisor:  Professor Bang-Sup Song
Dissertation Title:  Calibration of Multi-Bit Per Stage Pipelined ADC Using Statistical Properties of Capacitor Arrays
Current Employment:  Hardware R & D Engineer, Agilent Technologies

ECE GRADUATES - SPRING 2008

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

**Fifteen (15) students passed their Comprehensive (Preliminary) Exam

**Six (6) students passed their Qualifying Exam
 
We also offer our best wishes to these students in their future endeavors.
 
**Thirteen (13) students completed their Ph.D. degree requirements:
 

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. David Wei-Ting Chi
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems)
Advisor:  Professors Pankaj Das & Rene Cruz
Dissertation Title:  Performance Analysis and Enhancement of OFDM-based WLAN Systems in the Presence of Nonlinear HPAs and Narrowband Interference for Single and Multiple Transmit Antennas
 

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
 

Dr. Meng-Ping Kao
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Signal and Image Processing)
Advisor:  Professor Truong Nguyen
Dissertation Title:  Block-Based Scalable Motion Model for Highly Scalable Video Coding
Current Employment:  Senior Engineer, Qualcomm Inc. 

Dr. Andrew S. Ling
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems)
Advisor:  Professor Laurence Milstein
Dissertation Title:  Performance Analysis of Multi-Carrier Modulation Systems
Current Employment:  Electronics Engineer, SPAWAR 

Dr. Karl Song-Jeng Ni
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems)
Advisor:  Professor Truong Nguyen
Dissertation Title:  Solving the Superresolution Problem Using a Training Set
Current Employment:  Technical Staff, M.I.T. Lincoln Labs 

Dr. Chul Hong Park
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering)
Advisor:  Professor Andrew Kahng
Dissertation Title:  Lithography-Driven Design for Manufacturing in Nanometer-Era VLSI
 

Dr. Ryan Strong Prendergast
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Signal and Image Processing)
Advisor:  Professor Truong Nguyen
Dissertation Title:  Modeling and MMSE Reconstruction Solutions for Image and Video Super-Resolution
 

Dr. Qi Qu
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems)
Advisor:  Professor Laurence Milstein
Dissertation Title:  Power and Spectrum Efficient Communications in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Current Employment:  System Engineer, SST Communications 

Dr. Yaoming Shen
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Applied Physics)
Advisor:  Professors Shaya Fainman and Lu Jeu Sham
Dissertation Title:  Photoluminescence Spectral Study of Single CdSe/ZnS Colloidal Nanocrystals in Poly (methyl methacrylate) and Quantum Dot Molecules
 

Dr. Yusong Tan
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems)
Advisor:  Professor Anthony Acampora
Dissertation Title:  Capacity Consideration of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
 

Dr. Chiu Ngok Eric Wong
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems)
Advisor:  Professor Rene Cruz
Dissertation Title:  On Physical Carrier Sensing for Random Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
Current Employment:  Senior Engineer, CISCO Systems 


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

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

Yann Yun Bonnie Chen
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current Employment:  Engineering Intern, Broadcom Corporation 

David M Corsello
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Farhad Ehya
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current Employment:  Engineer, Qualcomm Inc. 

Mark Felipe
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current Employment:  RF Systems Engineer, Quorum Systems 

Michael T Kretsch
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current Employment:  Research Engineer, SAIC 

Jonathan Kai-Jun Lau
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Tony Samuel Lee
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Soe Myint
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Diep N Nguyen
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Shadi Sagheb
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Eric Michael Salgado
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current Employment:  Electrical Engineer, SPAWAR Systems Center 

James D. Speros
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current Employment:  Systems Engineer, Staccato Communications 

Peter Tsao
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Current Employment:  Engineering Intern, Qualcomm Inc. 

Elizabeth Marie Wyrwich
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 

Yingtzu Yu
Master of Engineering in Electrical & Computer Engineering 


 **And one (2) students completed the Master of Science degree: 

Daniel Hill
M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Intelligent Systems, Robotics, and Control)
Advisor:  Professor David Kleinfeld

Catherine Angelica Noble
M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Photonics)
Advisor:  Professor Sadik Esener

2008-09 ECE GRAD STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTED MEMBERS

Please join us in congratulating your GSC elected members for 2008-09:

President: Arthur Zhang

Vice-Presidents: Clay McPheeters & Natan Jacobson
 
Treasurer: Jung Park
 
Secretary: Omer Lang
 
Social Coordinator: Sayanan Sivaraman
 
Lounge Coordinator: Winnie Chen
 

We would like to thank Natan, Jason, Clay, Arthur, and Mehrdad for all their contribution as past GSC members to graduate student life at ECE.

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 FA08 Orientation Session and Buddy Luncheon held on September 19...

Enjoy!

FA08 INTRAMURAL SPORTS - SIGN UP NOW!!

Email Bernadette at villaluz@ece.ucsd.edu the following information by September 22, 2008:
1.      your full name, PID, and phone number
2.      your teammates (if applicable)
3.      the designated team captain (if you are a single player signing up, please indicate if you would be willing to represent a team as their captain- keep in mind that the captain must attend a mandatory meeting with the Intramural staff)
4.      the sports in which you are interested in playing (please rank in order of preference)
 
Here are the Sports offered during Fall quarter: 
~ Flag Football (men’s, women’s, coed)
~ Volleyball (men’s, women’s, coed)
~ Dodge Ball (coed)
~ Team Tennis (coed)
~ 3-On-3 Basketball (Men's, Women's)
~ Indoor Soccer (Coed)