All students and faculty are welcome to attend the final defense
of EECS graduate students completing their M.S. or Ph.D. degrees.
Defense notices for M.S./Ph.D. presentations for this year
and several previous years are listed below in reverse
chronological order.
Students who are nearing the completion of their M.S./Ph.D. research
should schedule their final defenses through the EECS graduate office at
least THREE WEEKS PRIOR to their presentation date so that there is time to
complete the degree requirements check, and post the presentation
announcement online.
COMMITTEE:
Jim Stiles, Chair
Chris Allen
Shannon Blunt
Ken Demarest
Tyrone Duncan* MS Thesis Defense
CASEY BIGGS
MS/EE
Practical Considerations for Radar Emb edded Communication
July 1, 2009
11:00 am
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Shannon Blunt, Chair
Chris Allen
Erik Perrins MS Thesis Defense
MARTIN KUEHNHAUSEN
MS/CS
Service Oriented Architecture for Monitoring Cargo in Motion Along Trusted Corridors
July 1, 2009
10:30 am
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Victor Frost, Chair
Joseph Evans
Gary Minden MS Thesis Defense
MICHAEL WASIKOWSKI
MS/CS
Combating the Class Imbalance Problem in Small Samples and Heterogeneous Data
June 30, 2009
10:00 am
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Xue-Wen Chen
Jun Huan
Brian Potetz PhD Dissertation Defense
MEI LIU
PHD/CS
Discovering Domain-Domain Interactions Toward Genome-wide Protein Interaction and Function Predictions
June 29, 2009
10:00 am
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Xue-Wen Chen
Arvin Agah
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Jun Huan
Robert Ward*
MS Thesis Defense
ADAM SMITH
MS/CoE
Compiler Transformations to Generate Reentrant C Programs to Assist Software Parallelization
June 15, 2009
1:30 pm
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Prasad Kulkarni, Chair
Perry Alexander
Andy Gill PhD Comprehensive Defense
JUSTIN EHRLICH
PHD/CS
Real-Time Dynamic Instant Radiosity
May 29, 2009
10:00 am
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jim Miller, Chair
Perry Alexander
Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya
Man Kong
Sean Smith* MS Thesis Defense
SEAN GARRISON
MS/EE
A S-band Voltage Controlled Oscillator for a Highly-Integrated, Phase-Locked Loop, Frequency Synthesizer in a CMOS, Silicon-on-Sapphire Process
May 21, 2009
2:00 pm
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Chris Allen, Chair
Fernando Rodriguez-Morales
Jim Stiles MS Thesis Defense
PETER SPEER
MS/EE
The Study and Implementation of Electrically Small Micorstrip Antennas for an Integrated Transceiver Design
April 28, 2009
8:30 am
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Chris Allen, Chair
Shannon Blunt
Jim Stiles MS Thesis Defense
JOSEPH MAKAREWICZ
MS/CoE
A Novel Method for Digital Image Acquisition from a Scanning Electron Microscope
April 24, 2009
3:00 pm
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Carl Leuschen
Brian Potetz PhD Comprehensive Defense
SUYANG JU
PHD/EE
Intelligent Approaches for Routing Protocol in Cognitive Ad-Hoc Networks
April 22, 2009
2:30 pm
317 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Joseph Evans
Xue-Wen Chen
Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya
Erik Perrins
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan* PhD Dissertation Defense
QI CHEN
PHD/EE
Wideband Channel Sounding Techniques for the Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
April 22, 2009
10:00 am
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Gary Minden, Chair
Erik Perrins
Jim Roberts
Alexander Wyglinski
Tyrone Duncan* PhD Comprehensive Defense
DANIEL LEUNG
PHD/CS
Robustness and Energy Efficient in Distributed Map Making of Small Autonomous Indoor Robots
April 20, 2009
11:00 am
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Swapan Chakrabarti
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Brian Potetz
Sarah Kieweg* PhD Comprehensive Defense
BRYAN BANZ
PHD/CS
A Framework for Model Development Using Dimension Reduction and Low-Cost Surrogate Functions
April 6, 2009
11:00 am
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
James Miller, Chair
Arvin Agah
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Nancy Kinnersley
John Doveton* PhD Comprehensive Defense
CHRISTOPHER REDFORD
PHD/CS
Argumentation-Based Negotiation in Multi-Agent Systems
March 30, 2009
12:15 pm
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Swapan Chakrabarti
Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya
Brian Potetz
Paul Atchley* MS Project Defense
PIYUSH UPADHYAY
MS/EE
Performance Optimization in Lossy Multihop Wireless Network Using Cross-Layer Interactions
March 5, 2009
1:00 pm
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
James Sterbenz, Chair
Bo Luo
Gary Minden PhD Comprehensive Defense
GEOFFREY AKERS
PHD/EE
An Approach to GMTI Using Multiple Resolutions of Simultaneously Generated Multilook SAR Images
February 20, 2009
2:30 pm
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jim Stiles, Chair
Shannon Blunt
David Petr
Glenn Prescott
Tyrone Duncan* PhD Comprehensive Defense
VICTOR JARA-OLIVARES
PHD/EE
Temperate Ice Depth Sounder Radar (TIDSOR)
February 16, 2009
9:00 am
317 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Sivaprasad Gogineni, Chair
Christopher Allen
Carl Leuschen
Glenn Prescott
Fernando Rodriguez-Morales
David Braaten* PhD Dissertation Defense
CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR
PHD/CS
A Multi-Tiered Genetic Algorithm for Data Mining and Hypothesis Refinement
January 23, 2009
2:00 pm
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Xue-Wen Chen
Nancy Kinnersley
List Friis* MS Thesis Defense
RABAT MAHMOOD
MS/EE
Simulating Challenges to Communication Networks for Evaluation of Resilience
January 20, 2009
2:00 pm
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
James Sterbenz, Chair
Victor Frost
Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya MS Thesis Defense
AQSA PATEL
MS/EE
Signal Generation for Ultra-Wideband Radar
January 20, 2009
9:30 am
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Carlton Leuschen, Chair
Christopher Allen
Sivaprasad Gogineni PhD Comprehensive Defense
NAJLA AHMAD
PHD/CS
Intent Recognition in Multi-Agent Systems
January 12, 2009
2:00 pm
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya
Victor Frost
Brian Potetz
Sarah Kieweg*
