Seventy-six PhD students have graduated from the ECpE department in the last two years. They have been hired as faculty at major universities, as well as for various positions in industry and at national laboratories.
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BIOENGINEERING
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| Name | Dissertation |
| Bais, Preeti | Methods for Integrated Biochemical Pathway Analysis |
| Chen, Baozhen | Integrated Bioassays for Screening Chemical and Biological Species |
| Labyed, Yassin | Optimization and application of ultrasound attenuation estimation algorithms |
| Vanhemert, John | Bioinformatics methods for metabolomics based biomarker detection in functional genomics studies |
| Zhang, Lifeng | Text Mining for Systems Biology and MetNet |
| Zhou, Wengang | Developing Virtual Reality Applications: The Design and Evaluation of Virtual Reality Development Tools for Novice Users |
| COMMUNICATIONS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING | |
| Name | Dissertation |
| Das, Samarjit | Particle Filtering on Large Dimensional State Spaces and Applications in Computer Vision |
| Ke, Lei | Achievable Rates for Relay Networks Using Superposition Coding |
| Kumar, Naveen | A Communications System Perspective for Dynamic Mode Atomic Force Microscopy, with Applications to High-density Storage and Nanoimaging |
| Li, Shizheng | Network Flow Algorithms for Wireless Networks and Design and Analysis of Rate Compatible LDPC Codes |
| Lu, Wei | Sparse Recovery with Partial Support and Signal Value Knowledge and Applications in Dynamic MRI |
| Mercado, Ramon | A probabilistic approach to performance estimation at higher abstraction levels for communication based system-level design. |
| Qiu, Kun | Expectation Maximization Hard Thresholding Methods for Sparse Signal Reconstruction |
| Ramalingam, Neevan | Degrees of Freedom of Wireless Interference Network |
| Shi, Cuizhu | Algebraic Approaches to Distributed Compression and Network Error Correction |
| Topakkaya, Hakan | Interference Alignment for Wired Networks with General Message Demands |
| Xu, Songyan | Control and diagnosis of real-time systems under finite-precision measurement of time |
| COMPUTING AND NETWORK SYSTEMS | |
| Name | Dissertation |
| Abichar, Zakhia | Medium access control and network planning in wireless networks |
| Almasaeid, Hisham | Spectrum Allocation Algorithms for Cognitive Radio Mesh Networks |
| Chen, Xi | Practical and Context-Aware Resource Adaptation in Mobile Networks |
| Chun, Young | Security and Prioritization in Multiple Access Relay Networks |
| Keung, Ka-Ming | A study of on-chip FPGA system with 2D mesh network |
| Long, Long | On Traffic Grooming and Survivability in WDM Optical Networks |
| Pande, Amit | Algorithms and architectures for secure embedded multimedia systems |
| Park, Yong-Joon | Efficient Validation of Control Flow Integrity for Enhancing Computer System Security |
| Ramesh, Prem | Aggressive and Reliable High-Performance Architectures – Techniques for Thermal Control, Energy Efficiency, and Performance Augmentation |
| Saleh, Mohammad | Design and Operation of Optical WDM Networks with Many-To-Many Traffic Grooming |
| Sun, Song | Redesign of Data Mining Programs |
| ELECTRIC POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS | |
| Name | Dissertation |
| Bai, Hua | Novel Sensorless Generator Control & Grid Fault Ride-Through Strategies For Variable-Speed Wind Turbines & Implementation on a New Real-Time Simulation Platform |
| Fu, Chuan | Efficient processing of system scenarios in statistical and machine learning studies for power system operational and investment planning |
| Gu, Yang | A multiobjective optimization approach to the operation and investment of the national energy and transportation systems |
| Ibanez Sopena, Eduardo | High speed extended term time domain simulation for online cascading analysis of power system |
| Krishnan, Venkat | Long-Term Power System Capacity Expansion Planning Considering Reliability and Economic Criteria |
| Li, Juan | Evaluation of wholesale electric power market rules and financial risk management by agent-based simulations |
| Luo, Cheng | Novel measurement based load modeling and demand side control methods for fault induced delayed voltage recovery mitigation |
| Silveira Leonardi, Bruno | Investigation of Novel Methodologies Using Reactive Power Reserves for Online Voltage Stability Margin Monitoring and Control |
| Sun, Wei | Reconfiguration of Power Networks Based on Graph-Theoretic Algorithms |
| Wu, Di | Integrating Plug-In Electric Vehicles into the Electric Power System |
| Yan, Jie | Economic Analysis for Transmission Operation and Planning |
| Yang, Sheng | A Comprehensive Invariant Subspace-Based Framework for Power System Small-Signal Stability Analysis |
| Yu, Nanpeng | New Optimization Techniques for Power System Generation Scheduling |
| Zhou, Qun | A New Emergency Control Method and a Preventive Mechanism Against Cascaded Events to Avoid Large-Scale Blackouts |
| ELECTROMAGNETICS, MICROWAVE AND NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION | |
| Name | Dissertation |
| Chen, Tianming | Capacitive sensors for measuring complex permittivity of planar and cylindrical structures |
| Gerdes, Ryan | Physical Layer Identification: Methodology, Security, and Origin of Variation |
| Hu, Fu-Gang | Integral equation analysis of electromagnetic wave propagation in periodic structure and error analysis of various basis functions in projection of plane waves |
| Jain, Sidharath | Efficient methods for solving boundary integral equation in diffusive scalar problem and eddy current nondestructive evaluation |
| Oster, Sasha | Interferometric Methods of Magneto-Optic Optical Switching |
| Tioh, Jin-Wei | Interferometric switches for transparent networks: development and integration |
| Yang, Ming | Techniques suitable for on chip implementation and ADC Built-in Self-test solutions for low cost and accurate ADC testing |
| MICROELECTRONICS AND PHOTONICS | |
| Name | Dissertation |
| Chakravarty, Nayan | Chemical Annealing for Fabricating Low Bandgap |
| Liu, Yifen | Polarization-diverse, broadband absorption enhancement in thin-film organic photovoltaic devices using metallic gratings |
| Nalwa, Kanwar | Increasing the Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells by Photonic and Electrostatic-Field Enhancements |
| Shoeb, Juline | Plasma-Surface Interactions In Nanoscale Processing: Preservation Of Low-K Integrity And Hfo2 Gate-Stack Etching With Si Selectivity |
| Shyam, Ashutosh | (aSiGe/ncSi) superlattice thin film silicon solar cell |
| SECURE AND RELIABLE COMPUTING | |
| Name | Dissertation |
| Al-Kofahi, Majd | Securing Enterprise Networks with Statistical Node Behavior Profiling |
| Blakely, Benjamin | Cyberprints: Identifying Cyber Attackers by Feature Analysis |
| Chang, Su | A graph oriented approach for network forensic analysis |
| Idziorek, Joseph | Exploiting Cloud Utility Models for Profit and Ruin (dissertation) |
| Khalaf, Taha | Data Mixing at the Source, Relay, and in the air in Mutiple-Access Relay Networks |
| Lahiri, Bibudh | Secure Location-Aware Communications in Energy-Constrained Wireless Networks |
| Muthusrinivasan, M | A Composable Approach to Design of Newer Techniques for Large-Scale Denial-Of-Service Attack |
| Wang, Wei | Dervice Oriented Architecture (SOA) Security Models |
| Wei, Yawen | Detecting Exploit Patterns from Network Packet Streams |
| SOFTWARE SYSTEMS | |
| Name | Dissertation |
| Gui, Kang | Proving Safety Properties of Software |
| Jia, Ming | Machine Learning Methods for Omics Data Integration |
| Kabala, David | Visualizing Biological Data in Google Earth |
| Sarje, Abhinav | Applications on Emerging Paradigms in Parallel Computing |
| Wehe, Andre | Error Correction and Clustering Algorithms for Next Generation Sequencing |
| Yang, Xiao | Large-Scale Tree Parsimony |
| SYSTEMS AND CONTROLS | |
| Name | Dissertation |
| He, Jun | Analyses and Design Strategies for Fundamental Enabling Building Blocks: Dynamic Comparators, Voltage References and On-die Temperature Sensors |
| Wang, Jing | Distributed Averaging Over Communication Networks: Fragility, Robustness and Opportunities |
| VLSI | |
| Name | Dissertation |
| Duan, Jingbo | Techniques suitable for on chip implementation and ADC Built-in Self-test solutions for low cost and accurate ADC testing |
| Tao, Chengwu | Control Architectures for Spur-Free Operation in Switching |
| Xu, Yue | Handling the complexity of routing problem in modern VLSI design |
| Yan, Zijun | Floorplan-Guided Placement for Large-Scale Mixed-Size Designs |
| Zhang, Yanheng | 3D Global Router: a Study to Optimize Congestion, Wirelength and Via for Circuit Layout |