EECS MS and PhD Defense Notices
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.
2008 Defense Notices
MS Thesis Defense
SUPREETHA AROOR
MS/EE
A Dual-Resonant Microstrip-Based UHF RFID "Cargo" Tag
August 22, 2008
2:00 pm
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Daniel Deavours, Chair
Erik Perrins
Jim Stiles
MS Thesis Defense
SATHYANARAYANAN SUNDHARARAJAN
MS/EE
In-situ PMD Monitoring Using Coherent Detection and Polarization Tracking
August 22, 2008
10:00 am
250 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Rongqing Hui, Chair
Christopher Allen
Shannon Blunt
PhD Comprehensive Defense
YALING LIU
PHD/CS
A Process-Based Search Engine
August 14, 2008
2:00 pm
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Xue-Wen Chen
Man Kong
James Miller
Sarah Kieweg*
MS Thesis Defense
KANAGARAJ PORUR DAMODARAN
MS/EE
Serially Concatenated Coded Continuous Phase Modulation for Aeronautical Telemetry
August 14, 2008
10:00 am
246 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
Erik Perrins, Chair
Victor Frost
James Roberts
MS Thesis Defense
TSZ PING CHAN
MS/EE
Reiterative Minimum Mean Square Error Estimator for Direction of Arrival Estimation and Biomedical Functional Brain Imaging
July 18, 2008
1:00 pm
246 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
Shannon Blunt, Chair
David Petr
James Stiles
Mihai Popescu*
MS Thesis Defense
MARK SOENEN
MS/CS
Design and Implementation of a Highly Modifiable Retail E-Commerce Website
July 18, 2008
10:00 am
129 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Prasad Kulkarni
Jim Miller
MS Thesis Defense
SEAK FEI LEI
MS/CS
Towards Protein Function Annotation for Matching Remote Homologs
June 27, 2008
1:00 pm
246 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
Jun Huan, Chair
Arvin Agah
Xue-Wen Chen
MS Thesis Defense
BOGDAN PATHAK
MS/EE
Electrostatic Probe Measurements in RF Driven He, N2, and BCl3 Plasmas
June 3, 2008
3:00 pm
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Ron Hui, Chair
Karen Nordheden, Co-Chair*
Chris Allen
Glenn Prescott
PhD Comprehensive Defense
JUSTIN ROHRER
PHD/EE
Designing Resilience in Transport Protocols
May 2, 2008
10:00 am
246 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
James Sterbenz, Chair
Joseph Evans
Victor Frost
Tyrone Duncan*
David Bonner*
Bernhard Plattner*
PhD Dissertation Defense
TIMOTHY NEWMAN
PHD/EE
Multiple Objective Fitness Functions for Cognitive Radio Adaptation
April 29, 2008
3:30 pm
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Joseph Evans, Chair
Perry Alexander
Gary Minden
Alexander Wyglinski
Tyrone Duncan*
MS Thesis Defense
LEVI PIERCE
MS/CoE
Computational Modeling of DNA Sequence Effects on the Nucleome Core Particle
April 25, 2008
3:30 pm
129 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Terry Clark, Chair
Arvin Agah
Xue-Wen Chen
PhD Comprehensive Defense
JAMES JENSHAK
PHD/EE
Multistatic Transmit Coding
April 17, 2008
3:15 pm
250 Nichols
COMMITTEE:
James Stiles, Chair
Chris Allen
Shannon Blunt
Ken Demarest
Tyrone Duncan*
MS Project Defense
ADNAN CHAUDHRY
MS/CS
Web-Based Course Scheduling System
April 7, 2008
4:30 pm
2001-B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jim Miller, chair
Arvin Agah
Perry Alexander
MS Thesis Defense
LANCE FEAGAN
MS/CS
Development of a Data Management Architecture for the Support of Collaborative Computational Biology
March 31, 2008
3:30 pm
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Terry Clark, chair
David Andrews
Victor Frost
MS Project Defense
KUMAR GOUNDAN
MS/CS
An Event-Based Mechanism for Client Synchronization with a Database
March 27, 2008
12:00 pm
155 Regnier Hall
COMMITTEE:
Hossein Saiedian, chair
Arvin Agah
Prasad Kulkarni
MS Thesis Defense
WITOLD RZEPNICKI
MS/CS
Evaluating the Impact of Content Delivery Networks on Performance and Scalability of Content-Rich and Highly Transactional E-commerce Websites
March 27, 2008
10:30 am
155 Regnier Hall
COMMITTEE:
Hossein Saiedian, chair
Arvin Agah
Prasad Kulkarni
MS Thesis Defense
BHARATWAJAN RAMAN
MS/EE
Synthetic Storm Modeling for Millimeter Wave Mesh Networks
March 14, 2008
1:00 pm
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
James Sterbenz, Chair
Victor Frost
Alexander Wyglinski
MS Project Defense
LIJUN GUO
MS/CS
A Modified Version of MLEM2 Rule Induction Algorithm
March 14, 2008
11:00 am
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, chair
Swapan Chakrabarti
Jim Miller
MS Thesis Defense
VINAYKUMAR MURALIDHARAN
MS/EE
A Unified End-to-End Communication Paradigm for Heterogeneous Networks
March 14, 2008
10:30 am
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
James Sterbenz, Chair
Victor Frost
Alexander Wyglinski
MS Thesis Defense
MAHMOOD ABDUL HAMEED
MS/EE
Design and Development of Spartan FPGA Based Data Acquisition using PATA Interface
March 3, 2008
9:00 am
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Chris Allen, Chair
Carl Leuschen
Fernando Morales Rodriguez
MS Thesis Defense
BALACHANDRA KUMARSWAMY
MS/EE
Applications of the PAM Representation of CPM
February 26, 2008
11:00 am
2001B Eaton Hall
COMMITTEE:
Erik Perrins, Chair
James Roberts
Alexander Wyglinski
MS Thesis Defense
JAYANTH VENKATARAMAN
MS/CS
A Programming Model for Precise Computation of Video Pipelines
February 20, 2008
10:00 am
317 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Douglas Niehaus, Chair
Arvin Agah
Prasad Kulkarni
MS Thesis Defense
KIRAN MARATHE
MS/EE
Dual-Band Multi-Channel Airborne Radar for Mapping the Internal and Basal Layers of Polar Ice Sheets
February 15, 2008
9:00 am
317 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Chris Allen, Chair
Prasad Gogineni
Fernando Rodriguez-Morales
MS Thesis Defense
JYOTHEERMAYEE DASS
MS/CS
Designing an Interactive Interface for Chemical Reactor Simulations
January 25, 2008
11:30 pm
2001B Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
James Miller, Chair
David Andrews
Perry Alexander
MS Thesis Defense
PRASHANTH RENGASWAMY CHANDRAN
MS/EE
Symbol Timing Recovery for SOQPSK
January 25, 2008
2:30 pm
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Erik Perrins, Chair
Shannon Blunt
James Roberts
MS Thesis Defense
MUTHARASU SIVAKUMAR
MS/EE
A Dual-Resonant Microstrip Antenna for UHF RFID in the Cold Chain Using Corrugated Fiberboard as a Substrate
January 24, 2008
10:00 am
246 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Danial Deavours, Chair
Ken Demarest
James Stiles
PhD Comprehensive Defense
CHRISTOPHER GIFFORD
PHD/CS
Heterogeneous Collaborative Learning for Robotics and Applied Artificial Intelligence
January 14, 2008
12:30 pm
317 Nichols Hall
COMMITTEE:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Chris Allen
Swapan Chakrabarti
Carl Leuschen
Georgios Tsoflias*
