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 ApplicationsCurrent 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