MASc & PhD Thesis Oral Examinations
The following presentations are open to all graduate students and professors in ECE.
MASc Thesis Oral Examinations
| Presentation Date, Time, Location | MASc Candidate | Thesis Title, Committee |
|---|---|---|
| Date: 04 December 2024 Time: 9:00:00AM Location: Remote | Russett, Jackson | Thesis Title: Development of a Compact, Fiber-based, Hyper-entangled Photon Pair Source Committee: Prof. Li Qian (Supervisor), Prof. Xilin Liu (Chair), Prof. Ofer Levi, Prof. Peter Herman |
| Date: 02 December 2024 Time: 11:00:00AM Location: Hybrid | Sa, Satyam | Thesis Title: Fault Detection and Localization in Three-Phase Dual-Active-Bridge Converters Committee: Prof. Olivier Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. Kostas Plataniotis (Chair), Prof. Wai Tung Ng, Prof. Daifei Zhang |
| Date: 20 November 2024 Time: 3:00:00PM Location: Remote | Du, Jia Bao | Thesis Title: HeLEx: Heterogeneous Layout Explorer Framework for Spatial Elastic Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Arrays Committee: Prof. Tarek Abdelrahman (Supervisor), Prof. Sean Hum (Chair), Prof. Natalie Enright Jerger, Prof. Andreas Moshovos |
| Date: 14 November 2024 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: Remote | Wu, Bowen | Thesis Title: Effect of Soft Information in Earnings Announcement Day and Price Formation Committee: Prof. Andreas Veneris (Supervisor), Prof. Kevin Truong (Chair), Prof. John Hull, Prof. Charles Martineau |
| Date: 30 September 2024 Time: 1:15:00 PM Location: Remote | Barrie, Richard | Thesis Title: Analysis of Wireline FEC Performance Using an FPGA Platform Committee: Prof. Anthony Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. Mo Mojahedi (Chair), Prof. Frank Kschischang, Prof. Xilin Liu |
| Date: 26 September 2024 Time: 2:00:00PM Location: Hybrid | Gibson, Devin | Thesis Title: Just Do More Parsing: Structurizing Semi-Structured Log Data for High Compression and Fast Search Committee: Prof. Ding Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. Tony Chan Carusone (Chair), Prof. Ashvin Goel, Prof. Michael Stumm |
| Date: 25 September 2024 Time: 12:00:00PM Location: Remote | Jager, Thomas Johann | Thesis Title: 200 GHz Circuit for Qubit Interrogation and Readout by Transmission Committee: Prof. Sorin P. Voinigescu (Supervisor), Prof. Alberto Leon-Garcia (Chair), Prof. Wai Tung Ng, Prof. David A. Johns |
| Date: 25 September 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Teper, Zachary | Thesis Title: Millimetre-Wave Integrated Circuits for Qubit Spin Control & Readout in Silicon Quantum Processors Committee: Prof. Sorin Voinigescu (Supervisor), Prof. Wei Yu (Chair), Prof. Wai Tung Ng, Prof. Roman Genov |
| Date: 24 September 2024 Time: 3:00:00PM Location: Remote | Wang, Xuan | Thesis Title: A Design Methodology for the Optimization of HV-CMOS Devices Committee: Prof. Wai Tung Ng (Supervisor), Prof. Ben Liang (Chair), Prof. Harry ruda, Prof. Dawson Francis |
| Date: 24 September 2024 Time: 12:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Wei, Xiaochong | Thesis Title: A Top-Down Method for Detecting and Diagnosing Performance Noise Hotspots Committee: Prof. Ding Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. Hai-Ling Cheng (Chair), Prof. Ashvin Goel, Prof. Michael Stumm |
| Date: 23 September 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Hybrid | Sheikholeslami, Sahar | Thesis Title: Garbage Collection in Erasure-Coded Distributed Storage Systems Committee: Prof. Bianca Schroeder (Supervisor), Prof. Liscidini, Antonio (Chair), Prof. Niv Dayan, Prof. Angela Demke Brown |
| Date: 23 September 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Halawi, Yara | Thesis Title: An Electromigration Simulation Engine for Integrated Circuit Power Grid Verification and Optimization Committee: Prof. Farid Najm (Supervisor), Prof. Sorin Voinigescu (Chair), Prof. Vaughn Betz, Prof. Jason Anderson |
| Date: 20 September 2024 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Zhou, Yufeng | Thesis Title: A CPU/GPU Implementation of Partial Neighbor Search Algorithm Committee: Prof. Ali Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. Ofer Levi (Chair), Prof. Jeff Rosenthal, Prof. Tarek Abdelrahman |
| Date: 20 September 2024 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Hybrid | Li, Duo | Thesis Title: Fast Transient Controller Techniques for Multiphase and Multilevel Multiphase Converters Committee: Prof. Aleksandar Prodic (Supervisor), Prof. Shurui Zhou (Chair), Prof. Peter, Lehn, Prof. Zeb Tate |
| Date: 20 September 2024 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Ardo, Nour | Thesis Title: Enabling Versal AI Engines in the Galapagos Platform Committee: Prof. Paul Chow (Supervisor), Prof. George Eleftheriades (Chair), Prof. Vaughn Betz, Prof. Natalie Enright Jerger |
| Date: 19 September 2024 Time: 1:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Song, Ryan | Thesis Title: Coding for Downlink Massive Random Access Committee: Prof. Wei Yu (Supervisor), Prof. Wai Tung Ng (Chair), Prof. Frank Kschischang, Prof. Alberto Leon-Garcia |
| Date: 18 September 2024 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Hybrid | Vytas, Gloria | Thesis Title: High Performance Graphene-Silicon Nanomembrane Heterojunction Photodetectors Committee: Prof. Nazir P. Kherani (Supervisor), Prof. Berj Bardakjian (Chair), Prof. Harry Ruda, Prof. Zheng Hong Lu |
| Date: 18 September 2024 Time: 1:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Lee, Edwin | Thesis Title: Multi-FPGA Acceleration of Butterfly Matrix Multiplication Committee: Prof. Paul Chow (Supervisor), Prof. Adrian Nachman (Chair), Prof. Jason Anderson, Prof. Tarek Abdelrahman |
| Date: 18 September 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Lehal, Harvinder | Thesis Title: Network Calculus Characterization of Congestion Control for Time-Varying Traffic Committee: Prof. Jorg Liebeherr (Supervisor), Prof. Abdelrahman, Tarek (Chair), Prof. Ben Liang, Prof. Frank Kschischang |
| Date: 17 September 2024 Time: 2:30:00 PM Location: Hybrid | Vaheb, Omid | Thesis Title: Learning to Remove Noise from Astronomical Images Without Ground Truth Data Committee: Prof. Stark Draper (Supervisor), Prof. Ali Hooshyar (Chair), Prof. Parham Aarabi, Prof. Suresh Sivanandam |
| Date: 16 September 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Hsu, Hao Yun | Thesis Title: A 77GHz Cognitive Receiver in 22mm FDSOI CMOS Committee: Prof. Sorin Voinigescu (Supervisor), Prof. Peter Herman (Chair), Prof. Wai Tung Ng, Prof. David A. Johns |
| Date: 12 September 2024 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Hybrid | Dao, Dylan Hai-Hien | Thesis Title: Optimizing spatial frequency domain imaging for defocus-invariance towards robust remote patient monitoring Committee: Prof. Ofer Levi (Supervisor), Prof. Freeman Lan (Chair), Prof. Daniel Franklin, Prof. Mo Mojahedi |
| Date: 12 September 2024 Time: 1:00:00 PM Location: In Person | Yuan, Beicheng | Thesis Title: Grid-Tied Cascaded Dual-Inverter with Zigzag Transformer for EV Fast Charging Committee: Prof. Peter Lehn (Supervisor), Prof. Li Qian (Chair), Prof. Iravani Reza, Prof. Tate Joseph Euzebe |
| Date: 12 September 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Hybrid | Jiao, Jie | Thesis Title: Spatial frequency domain imaging with coherent illumination Committee: Prof. Ofer Levi (Supervisor), Prof. Baochun Li (Chair), Prof. Daniel Franklin, Prof. Amr Helmy |
| Date: 12 September 2024 Time: 9:30:00 AM Location: Hybrid | Wei, Chuanning | Thesis Title: Linear System Identification of an Urban Drainage System with the Inegrator-Delay-Zero Model Committee: Prof. Margaret Chapman (Supervisor), Prof. Farid N. Najm (Chair), Prof. John Simpson, Prof. David Meyer |
| Date: 09 September 2024 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Kahloon, Amesh | Thesis Title: Subwavelength Dispersion Engineering for Nonlinear Integrated Photonics Committee: Prof. Amr Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. Ravi Adve (Chair), Prof. Harry Ruda, Prof. Ofer Levi |
| Date: 09 September 2024 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Chu, Chun Yee | Thesis Title: Hot-Carrier Injection Reliability Characterization of n-LDMOS Transistors and Stress Tests in a Buck Converter Configuration Committee: Prof. Wai Tung Ng (Supervisor), Prof. John Simpson-Porco (Chair), Prof. Francis Dawson, Prof. Sorin Voinigescu |
| Date: 06 September 2024 Time: 2:30:00 PM Location: In Person | Sadrossadat, Yousef | Thesis Title: Efficient Search and Retrieval in Encrypted Domains Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption Committee: Prof. Glenn Gulak (Supervisor), Prof. Aleksandar Prodić (Chair), Prof. Gerald Penn, Prof. David Lie |
| Date: 06 September 2024 Time: 12:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Chen, Cheng | Thesis Title: Low-bitwidth Floating-Point Quantization for Diffusion Models Committee: Prof. Andreas Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. Ervin Sejdic (Chair), Prof. Jason Anderson, Prof. Tarek Abdelrahman |
| Date: 06 September 2024 Time: 9:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Fan, Donney | Thesis Title: Online Non-preemptive Resource Constrained Scheduling Committee: Prof. Ben Liang (Supervisor), Prof. Costas Sarris (Chair), Prof. Elvino Sousa, Prof. Baochun Li |
| Date: 04 September 2024 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Hybrid | Zhu, Zhanda | Thesis Title: Mist: Co-Optimize Memory Optimizations with Parallelism for Large Scale Distributed Training Committee: Prof. Gennady Pekhimenko (Supervisor), Prof. Amr Helmy (Chair), Prof. Mark Jeffrey, Prof. Nandita Vijaykumar |
| Date: 28 August 2024 Time: 2:30:00 PM Location: In Person | Liu, Zhi (James) | Thesis Title: Graph-Based Automated Design of Multi-Function CGRA Processing Elements Committee: Prof. Jason H. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. Paul Yoo (Chair), Prof. Natalie Enright Jerger, Prof. Vaughn Betz |
| Date: 28 August 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Hybrid | Downing, Matthew Alexander | Thesis Title: Active Silicon Photonic Refractive Index Sensors for Biosensing Applications Committee: Prof. Ofer Levi (Supervisor), Prof. Andreas Moshovos (Chair), Prof. Li Qian, Prof. Stewart J. Aitchison |
| Date: 27 August 2024 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: Hybrid | Hebb, Amos | Thesis Title: Belief-Driven Radar Scheduling Policies Committee: Prof. Raviraj S. Adve (Supervisor), Prof. J Stewart Aitchison (Chair), Prof. Frank Kschischang, Prof. Stark Draper |
| Date: 27 August 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: In Person | Qu, Yicheng | Thesis Title: Constituent Automorphism Decoding of Reed–Muller Codes Committee: Prof. F.R. Kschischang (Supervisor), Prof. Jonathan Rose (Chair), Prof. R.S. Adve, Prof. S.C. Draper |
| Date: 26 August 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Hybrid | Bao, Qinyang | Thesis Title: MPBRQ - A Framework for Mixed-Precision Quantization for Large Language Models Committee: Prof. Andreas Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. Zeb Tate (Chair), Prof. Natalie Enright Jerger, Prof. Vaughn Betz |
| Date: 19 August 2024 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Xu, Haiqi | Thesis Title: Segregated Message Table, an efficient storage structure for log compression and search Committee: Prof. Ding Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. Elvino Sousa (Chair), Prof. Ashvin Goel, Prof. Michael Stumm |
| Date: 13 August 2024 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: In Person | Abeywardena, Kalana | Thesis Title: The impact of intrinsic excitability heterogeneity on the macro-scale brain dynamics: Computational analysis on stability, resilience, and synchrony Committee: Prof. Stark Draper (Supervisor), Prof. Jason Anderson (Chair), Prof. Berj Bardakjian, Prof. Jose Zariffa |
| Date: 07 August 2024 Time: 11:00:00 AM Location: Hybrid | Zhang, Guozheng | Thesis Title: Efficient Concurrent Priority Scheduling: The Tradeoffs of Scheduler Design Committee: Prof. Mark Jeffrey (Supervisor), Prof. Manfredi Maggiore (Chair), Prof. Ashvin Goel, Prof. Niv Dayan |
| Date: 29 July 2024 Time: 9:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Mertens, Alexander | Thesis Title: Spatial Subspae Method for Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reconstruction Committee: Prof. Hai-Ling Cheng (Supervisor), Prof. Hoi-Kwong Lo (Chair), Prof. Ravi Adve, Prof. Adrian Nachman |
| Date: 26 July 2024 Time: 1:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Wang, Jiaqi | Thesis Title: In Differential Privacy, There is Truth: On Vote Leakage in Ensemble Private Learning Committee: Prof. Nicolas Papernot (Supervisor), David Lie (Co-Supervisor), Prof. Francis Dawson (Chair), Prof. Aleksandar Nikolov, Prof. Jonathan Rose |
| Date: 26 July 2024 Time: 9:30:00 AM Location: Hybrid | Li, Kexin | Thesis Title: Recovering Utility in LDP Schemes by Training with Noise^2 Committee: Prof. David Lie (Supervisor), Prof. Frank Kschischang (Chair), Prof. Nicolas Papernot, Prof. Shurui Zhou |
| Date: 12 July 2024 Time: 9:30:00 AM Location: Hybrid | Doumet, Mario | Thesis Title: High Performance CNN Inference on FPGAs with High-Bandwidth Memory Committee: Prof. Vaughn Betz (Supervisor), Prof. Mireille Broucke (Chair), Prof. Andreas Moshovos, Prof. Natalie Enright Jerger |
| Date: 28 June 2024 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Han, Han | Thesis Title: Active Sensing for Multiuser Beam Tracking with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Committee: Prof. Wei Yu (Supervisor), Prof. Michael Stumm (Chair), Prof. Shahrokh Valaee, Prof. Ben Liang |
| Date: 28 June 2024 Time: 1:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Zhao, Jianan | Thesis Title: Broadband CMOS Transimpedance Amplifiers for 100+ Gbaud Fiberoptic Applications Committee: Prof. Voinigescu, Sorin (Supervisor), Prof. Andreas Moshovos (Chair), Prof. Wai Tung Ng, Prof. David A. Johns |
| Date: 26 June 2024 Time: 1:00:00 PM Location: In Person | Qian, Shujian | Thesis Title: Massively Parallel Multi-Versioned Transaction Processing Committee: Prof. Goel, Ashvin (Supervisor), Prof. Jorg Liebeherr (Chair), Prof. Michael Stumm, Prof. Angela Demke Brown |
| Date: 24 May 2024 Time: 11:00:00AM Location: Remote | Sarofim, Seif | Thesis Title: Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) Fast Charging (FC) Optimization in Cold Weather Committee: Prof. Trescases, Olivier (Supervisor), Prof. Truong, Kevin (Chair), Prof. Hooshyar, Ali, Prof. Triverio, Piero |
| Date: 08 May 2024 Time: 2:00:00PM Location: Remote | Gu, Cheng | Thesis Title: Accelerating Internet Scale Distributed Machine Learning Committee: Prof. Li, Baochun (Supervisor), Prof. Sheikholeslami, Ali (Chair), Prof. Jacobsen, Arno, Prof. Stumm, Michael |
| Date: 26 April 2024 Time: 10:00AM Location: Hybrid | Mohaghegh, Amin | Thesis Title: Expanding FPGA CAD and Architecture Exploration to New Routing Structures and Stacked Sillicon Committee: Prof. Betz, Vaughn (Supervisor), Prof. Paul Yoo (Chair), Prof. Anderson, Jason Helge, Prof. Jeffrey, Mark Christopher |
| Date: 11 April 2024 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: Remote | Ma Yang, Tian Wen (Helene) | Thesis Title: An Impedance Matching Network for Wireless Power Transfer System using Phase Controlled Switching Capacitors Committee: Prof. Ng, Wai Tung (Supervisor), Prof. Qian, Li (Chair), Prof. Dawson, Francis, Prof. Najm, Farid |
| Date: 09 April 2024 Time: 9:30:00AM Location: Remote | Arjun Sridharkumar | Thesis Title: Towards understanding and identifying vulnerabilities with disclosed delays in open-source communities Committee: Prof. Zhou, Shurui (Supervisor), Prof. Helmy, Amr (Chair), Prof. Lie, David, Prof. Chechik, Marsha |
| Date: 03 April 2024 Time: 15:00:00PM Location: Hybrid | Gummaluru, Chandra | Thesis Title: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Analyzing Transit Systems with Autonomous Vehicles Committee: Prof. Lacra, Pavel (Supervisor), Prof. Sargent, Edward (Chair), Prof. Chapman, Margaret, Prof. Chi-Guhn Lee |
| Date: 27 March 2024 Time: 9:00:00AM Location: Hybrid | Prasad, Vandana | Thesis Title: Intracranial Neurofeedback of Hippocampal Theta Oscillations to Enhance Memory Committee: Prof. Sejdic, Ervin(Supervisor) Prof. Taufik A. Valiante(Co-supervisor), Prof. Plataniotis, Kostas (Chair), Prof. Milosevic, Luka, Prof. Duncan, Katherine |
| Date: 26 March 2024 Time: 12:00:00PM Location: Remote | Deng, Xun | Thesis Title: Enhancing Smart Contracts Security: Front-running Flash Loan DeFi Attacks And Safeguarding Smart Contracts Against Oracle Deviations Committee: Prof. Veneris, Andreas (Supervisor) Prof. Long, Fan(Co-supervisor), Prof. Luca Scardovi (Chair), Prof. Lie, David, Prof. Jacobsen, Arno |
| Date: 25 March 2024 Time: 9:30:00AM Location: Remote | Wu, Yuntao | Thesis Title: Narrative Uncertainty and Market Volatility Committee: Prof. Veneris, Andreas (Supervisor), Prof. Sousa, Elvino (Chair), Prof. Hull,John, Prof. Martineau, Charles |
| Date: 27 February 2024 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: Hybrid | Tijanic, Sofia | Thesis Title: Dynamic, Hardware-Conscious Tuning of Concurrent Multithreaded Analytical Database Queries Committee: Prof. Jacobsen, Arno (Supervisor), Prof. Dawson, Francis (Chair), Prof. Enright Jerger, Natalie, Prof. Abdelrahman, Tarek |
| Date: 07 February 2024 Time: 17:00:00PM Location: Remote | Jiang, Chenhao | Thesis Title: Arbitor: A Numerically Accurate Emulation Tool for DNN Accelerators Committee: Prof. Pekhimenko, Gennady (Supervisor), Prof. Hoi-Kwong Lo (Chair), Prof. Jeffrey, Mark Christopher, Prof. Moshovos, Andreas |
| Date: 16 January 2024 Time: 14:00:00PM Location: Remote | Yousefi, Hossein | Thesis Title: Spectrum Sharing Between Mobile Network Operators:A Market Design Committee: Prof. Adve, Ravi (Supervisor), Prof. Enright Jerger, Natalie (Chair), Prof. Pavel, Lacra, Prof. Sousa, Elvino |
| Date: 16 January 2024 Time: 11:30:00AM Location: Remote | Devsot, Rishikesh | Thesis Title: CLODS: A Closed Loop On-Site Diagnosis System Committee: Prof. Yuan, Ding (Supervisor), Prof. Maggiore, Manfredi (Chair), Prof. Goel, Ashvin, Prof. Stumm, Michael |
| Date: 16 January 2024 Time: 13:30:00PM Location: Remote | Kong, Jeong Min | Thesis Title: Piggybacking on UAV Package Delivery Systems to Enable Aerial Wireless Network in 6G Committee: Prof. Sousa, Elvino (Supervisor), TBD (Chair), Prof. Valaee, Shahrokh, Prof. Liang, Ben |
| Date: 10 January 2024 Time: 13:00:00PM Location: Remote | Mirnezhad, Seyed Hosein | Thesis Title: Doubly fed Induction Generator Wind Turbines Compliance with the Modern Grid Codes’ Requirements Committee: Prof. Hooshyar, Ali (Supervisor), Prof. Wong, Willy (Chair), Prof. Iravani, Reza, Prof. Tate, Joseph (Zeb) |
| Date: 10 January 2024 Time: 13:00:00PM Location: Remote | Mahmoudi, Fatemehsadat | Thesis Title: CAD Algorithms and Benchmarks for NoC-enhanced and 3D-stacked FPGAs Committee: Prof. Betz, Vaughn (Supervisor), Prof. Lo, Hoi-Kwong (Chair), Prof. Chow, Paul, Prof. Anderson, Jason Helge |
| Date: 10 January 2024 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: Hybrid | Lan, Xi (Lorna) | Thesis Title: A Modular Multilevel Converter Based Solid-State Transformer with Reduced Component Count Committee: Prof. Lehn, Peter (Supervisor), Prof. Betz, Vaughn (Chair), Prof. Prodic, Aleksandar, Prof. Hooshyar, Ali |
| Date: 08 January 2024 Time: 3:00:00PM Location: In Person | Shahaj, Andi | Thesis Title: Development of Pulsed Diode-Pumped Fiber-Based Entangled Photon Source Committee: Prof. Qian, Li (Supervisor), Prof. Ng, Wai Tung (Chair), Prof. Aitchison, Stewart, Prof. Herman, Peter |
| Date: 20 December 2023 Time: 3:00:00PM Location: Remote | Kumar, Tanuj | Thesis Title: Generation of Backward-Looking Complex Reflections for a Motivational Interviewing-Based Smoking Cessation Chatbot using GPT-4 Committee: Prof. Rose, Jonathan (Supervisor), Prof. Chapman, Margaret (Chair), Prof. Li, Baochun, Prof. Betz, Vaughn |
| Date: 18 December 2023 Time: 3:00:00PM Location: Remote | Datta, Ameya | Thesis Title: Characterization of an 8PSK Transmitter based on a Class-C Injection-Locked Power Amplifier Committee: Prof. Liscidini, Antonio (Supervisor), Prof. Jacobsen, Arno (Chair), Prof. Liu, Xilin, Prof. Chan Carusone, Anthony |
| Date: 13 December 2023 Time: 12:30:00PM Location: Remote | Keyrouz, Jean Louis | Thesis Title: Passive Reflective Impedance Metasurfaces for Beam-steering and Beam-forming Committee: Prof. Eleftheriades, George (Supervisor), Prof. Chow, Paul (Chair), Prof. Sarris, Costas, Prof. Hum, Sean |
| Date: 12 December 2023 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: Remote | Tang, Johnson | Thesis Title: An Active Fault Detection Approach to Power Systems with Inverter-based Resources Committee: Prof. Taylor, Josh (Supervisor), Prof. Chan Carusone, Anthony (Chair), Prof. Simpson-Porco, John, Prof. Tate, Joseph (Zeb) |
| Date: 04 December 2023 Time: 1:00:00PM Location: In Person | Majnaric Borad, Jeffrey Kezele | Thesis Title: Applications of Loop-based Advanced Electromagnetic Surfaces Committee: Prof. Hum, Sean (Supervisor), Prof. Anderson, Jason Helge (Chair), Prof. Eleftheriades, George, Prof. Triverio, Piero |
| Date: 30 November 2023 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: Remote | Chen, Zhao Bin | Thesis Title: Reserve-on-Demand Mapping of Dataflow Graphs on Spatial Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays Committee: Prof. Abdelrahman, Tarek (Supervisor), Prof. Broucke, Mireille (Chair), Prof. Moshovos, Andreas, Prof. Enright Jerger, Natalie |
| Date: 08 November 2023 Time: 1:00:00PM Location: Remote | Li, Daniel | Thesis Title: Automated Morphological Grading of Human Blastocysts from Multi-focus Images Committee: Prof. Sun, Yu (Supervisor), Prof. Abdelrahman, Tarek (Chair), Prof. Nachman, Adrian, Prof. Eric Diller |
| Date: 01 November 2023 Time: 3:30:00PM Location: Remote | Abdi, Mohammadjavad | Thesis Title: Fearless and Zero-Cost Parallelism: Rust's Promises and Performance Across Various Types of Parallelism Committee: Prof. Jeffrey, Mark Christopher (Supervisor), Prof. Eleftheriades, George (Chair), Prof. Tarek S. Abdelrahman, Prof. Maryam Mehri Dehnavi |
| Date: 27 September 2023 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: Remote | Lu, Zhengyao | Thesis Title: Implementing a GPU-Assisted LDPC Decoder for 5G New Radio Committee: Prof. Sousa, Elvino (Supervisor), Prof. Sejdic, Ervin (Chair), Prof. Valaee, Shahrokh, Prof. Anderson, Jason Helge |
| Date: 25 September 2023 Time: 11:00:00AM Location: Remote | Kosar, Fahrican | Thesis Title: A Net-Decomposing Parallel Field-Programmable Gate Array Router Committee: Prof. Betz, Vaughn (Supervisor), TBD (Chair), Prof. Anderson, Jason Helge, Prof. Jeffrey, Mark Christopher |
| Date: 25 September 2023 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: Remote | Shi, Yeqi | Thesis Title: Privacy-Preserving Network Anomaly Detection via Homomorphic Encryption Committee: Prof. Gulak, Glenn (Supervisor), TBD (Chair), Prof. Li, Baochun, Prof. Hatzinakos, Dimitrios |
| Date: 22 September 2023 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Liu, Enmeng | Thesis Title: Towards Efficient Data Analysis using Computational Notebooks Committee: Prof. Zhou, Shurui (Supervisor), Prof. Konstantinos N (Kostas) Plataniotis (Chair), Prof. Kelly Lyons, Prof. Marsha Chechik |
| Date: 21 September 2023 Time: 11:00:00AM Location: Hybrid | Liu, Ruiqian | Thesis Title: Optical Force Integration in Lab-on-Chip Cell Sorting Techniques Committee: Prof. Aitchison, J Stewart (Supervisor), Prof. Liebeherr, Jorg (Chair), Prof. Qian, Li, Prof. Levi, Ofer |
| Date: 20 September 2023 Time: 3:00:00PM Location: In Person | Shen, Jiabao | Thesis Title: SERS Substrates with High Enhancement Factor and Hotspot Uniformity and Reproducibility Through Metallic and Dielectric Optimization Committee: Prof. Kherani, Nazir (Supervisor), Prof. Iravani, Reza (Chair), Prof. Aitchison, Stewart, Prof. Naomi Matsuura |
| Date: 19 September 2023 Time: 1:00:00PM Location: Remote | Tosevski, Vele | Thesis Title: Enabling Large-Scale Privacy-Preserving Recurrent Neural Networks with Fully Homomorphic Encryption Committee: Prof. Gulak, Glenn (Supervisor), TBD (Chair), Prof. Lie, David, Prof. Gerald, Penn |
| Date: 19 September 2023 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: Remote | Geng, Hongxiang | Thesis Title: Leveraging Cellular and Bluetooth Sensor Data for Enhanced Urban Travel Time Predictions Committee: Prof. Leon-Garcia, Alberto (Supervisor), Prof. Li, Baochun (Chair), Prof. Yuan, Ding, Prof. Lie, David |
| Date: 14 September 2023 Time: 3:00:00PM Location: Hybrid | Zhai, Yuxiao | Thesis Title: Interference Mitigation In Integrated Access And Backhaul Networks Using Layered-Division Multiplexing And Multiple-Transmission-And-Reception Point Committee: Prof. Sousa, Elvino (Supervisor), Prof. Berj Bardakjian (Chair), Prof. Leon-Garcia, Alberto, Prof. Yu, Wei |
| Date: 12 September 2023 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: Remote | Wen, Xiaojing | Thesis Title: VLR: Scalable Failure-tolerant Routing Based on Identifiers Committee: Prof. Liebeherr, Jorg (Supervisor), Prof. Aitchison, Stewart (Chair), Prof. Ben, Liang, Prof. Baochun, Li |
| Date: 12 September 2023 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: In-Person | Arsenault, Evan Marcel | Thesis Title: Pointwise Error Bounds for Scalable Risk-Aware Safety Analysis Committee: Prof. Chapman, Margaret (Supervisor), TBD (Chair), Prof. Pavel, Lacra, Prof. Maggiore, Manfredi |
| Date: 11 September 2023 Time: 4:00:00PM Location: Remote | Djogo, Radomir | Thesis Title: Capsule Networks and Lightweight Dual-Path Model With Fresnel Zone-Based Voting for Human Activity Recognition Using Wi-Fi Channel State Information Committee: Prof. Valaee, Shahrokh (Supervisor), Prof. Nicolas Papernot (Chair), Prof. Hatzinakos, Dimitrios, Prof. Liebeherr, Jorg |
| Date: 11 September 2023 Time: 11:00:00AM Location: Remote | Zhang, Tianyi | Thesis Title: An Automated Impedance Matching Network For Wireless Power Transfer Committee: Prof. Ng, Wai Tung (Supervisor), Prof. Shurui, Zhou (Chair), Prof. Sarris, Costas, Prof. Lehn, Peter |
| Date: 11 September 2023 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: Remote | Boritz, Alexander | Thesis Title: Prescient Migration for Data-Dependent Distributed Transactions Committee: Prof. Ashvin Goel (Supervisor), Prof. Joyce Poon (Chair), Prof. Baochun, Li, Prof. Angela Demke Brown |
| Date: 08 September 2023 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: Remote | Macht, Jesse P. | Thesis Title: Detection of Vaulting Gait with Multi-Modal Non-Linear State Estimation Committee: Prof. Taylor, Josh (Supervisor) Prof. Fae Azhari(Co-Supervisor), Prof. Ervin Sejdic (Chair), Prof. Chapman, Margaret, Prof. Kei Masani |
| Date: 07 September 2023 Time: 10:30:00AM Location: In-Person | Mejia Uzeda, Erick | Thesis Title: On the Use of Control Theory to Understand the Brain: Learning and Forgetting Committee: Prof. Broucke, Mireille (Supervisor), TBD (Chair), Prof. Simpson-Porco, John, Prof. Chapman, Margaret |
| Date: 05 September 2023 Time: 9:30:00AM Location: Remote | Keilty, Eric | Thesis Title: Model Checking and Gas Optimization of Move Smart Contracts, and Transaction Order Dependency Detection and Rectification Committee: Prof. Veneris, Andreas (Supervisor), Prof. Frank Kschischang (Chair), Prof. Jacobsen, Arno, Prof. Long, Fan |
| Date: 05 September 2023 Time: 11:00:00AM Location: Remote | Wang, Rui | Thesis Title: High Compression and Fast Search on Semi-Structured Logs Committee: Prof. Yuan, Ding (Supervisor), Prof. Li Qian (Chair), Prof. Stumm, Michael, Prof. Goel, Ashvin |
| Date: 05 September 2023 Time: 2:00:00PM Location: In-Person | Wang, Kexiang | Thesis Title: A4S: Co-Designing Scaling and Placement in Stream Processing Systems with Memory-Parallelism Curves Committee: Prof. Ashvin Goel (Supervisor), TBD (Chair), Prof. Michael Stumm, Prof. Yuan, Ding |
| Date: 01 September 2023 Time: 3:00:00PM Location: Remote | Brown, Andrew | Thesis Title: Deployment and Evaluation of a MI Chatbot for Smoking Cessation and Distillation of Large Language Models for Generating MI Reflections Committee: Prof. Rose, Jonathan (Supervisor), Prof. Wei Yu (Chair), Prof. Sejdic, Ervin, Prof. Rahul G. Krishnan |
| Date: 01 September 2023 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: Remote | Guo, Xiangyu | Thesis Title: EvoCrawl: Exploring Web Application Code and State using Evolutionary Search Committee: Prof. David Lie (Supervisor), Prof. Zeb Tate (Chair), Prof. Zhou, Shurui, Prof. Goel, Ashvin |
| Date: 30 August 2023 Time: 4:00:00PM Location: Remote | Yang, Peiming | Thesis Title: CMP: A Filesystem Metadata Compression Framework For Data Intensive Workloads Committee: Prof. Pekhimenko, Gennady (Supervisor), TBD (Chair), Prof. Mark,Jeffrey, Prof. Nandita, Vijaykumar |
| Date: 28 August 2023 Time: 3:00:00PM Location: Hybrid | Qiao, Ruihua | Thesis Title: Meta-Learning-Based Fronthaul Compression for Cloud Radio Access Networks Committee: Prof. Yu, Wei (Supervisor), Prof. Farid N. Najm (Chair), Prof. Adve, Raviraj, Prof. Kschischang, Frank |
| Date: 25 August 2023 Time: 2:00:00PM Location: Hybrid | Srinivasan, Srivatsan | Thesis Title: Design Mapping And Optimization For Field Programmable Gate Arrays With Embedded Network On Chip Committee: Prof. Betz, Vaughn (Supervisor), Prof. Lacra Pavel (Chair), Prof. Anderson, Jason Helge, Prof. Enright Jerger, Natalie |
| Date: 23 August 2023 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Mohammadi, Seyedmahmoud | Thesis Title: UWB radar Tool Tracking in Minimally Invasive Surgeries Committee: Prof. Adve, Ravi (Supervisor), Prof. Ali Tavallaei(Co-Supervisor), Prof. Xilin Liu (Chair), Prof. Ofer Levi, Prof. Graham Wright |
| Date: 16 August 2023 Time: 10:30:00AM Location: Hybrid | Anjula Mary Antonis | Thesis Title: EV Assisted Robust Security Constrained ACOPF for N-1 Line and Generator Contingencies Committee: Prof. Zeb Tate (Supervisor), Prof. John Simpson (Chair), Prof. Peter, Lehn, Prof. Aleksandar,Prodic |
| Date: 07 August 2023 Time: 11:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Feghali, Cedric | Thesis Title: Power Grid Safety under Electromigration Committee: Prof. Najm, Farid (Supervisor), Prof. Hai-Ling Cheng (Chair), Prof. Anderson, Jason Helge, Prof. Sarris, Costas |
| Date: 02 August 2023 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Hybrid | Zhong, Wei Jian (John) | Thesis Title: Quantized Analog Signaling on a Switch Capacitor DAC (SCDAC)-based Transmitter Committee: Prof. Liscidini, Antonio (Supervisor), Prof. Nachman Adrian (Chair), Prof. Chan Carusone, Anthony, Prof. Liu, Xilin |
| Date: 01 August 2023 Time: 12:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Tang, Tianwen | Thesis Title: Linearly-scalable R-2R Multiply-and-Accumulate Architecture for AI Edge Devices Committee: Prof. Liscidini, Antonio (Supervisor), Prof. Dawson, Francis (Chair), Prof. Tony Chan Carusone, Prof. Xinlin, Liu |
| Date: 31 July 2023 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Song, Xinyang | Thesis Title: BloomTier: Practical Frequency-based Page Management for CXL-Enabled Tiering Systems Committee: Prof. Pekhimenko, Gennady (Supervisor), Prof. Ravi Adve (Chair), Prof. Ding, Yuan, Prof. Nandita, Vijaykumar |
| Date: 26 July 2023 Time: 10:00:00AM Location: Remote | Li, Xin | Thesis Title: An Automatic Approach for Concurrent Machine Learning Training Committee: Prof. Pekhimenko, Gennady (Supervisor), Prof. Edward Sargent (Chair), Prof. Tarek Abdelrahman, Prof. Michael Stumm |
| Date: 13 July 2023 Time: 9:30:00 AM Location: Remote | Srisht Fateh Singh | Thesis Title: Sustainable State Sharding and Token Liquidity Liquidity Provision for the Blockchain Ecosystem Committee: Prof. Veneris, Andreas Long, Fan(Supervisor), Prof. Sousa, Elvino (Chair), Prof. David Lie, Prof. Jacobsen H A |
| Date: 12 July 2023 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: In-Person | Brkic, Isidor Randall | Thesis Title: The Performance Cost of Disintegrated Manycores: Which Applications Lose and Why? Committee: Prof. Jeffrey, Mark Christopher (Supervisor), Prof. Iravani mohammad (Chair), Prof. Enright Jerger, Natalie, Prof. Abdelrahman, Tarek |
| Date: 11 July 2023 Time: 11:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Jokic, Diana | Thesis Title: Developing a Custom Handheld Diagnostic Device for Noninvasive Detection of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia using High Resolution Cervical Auscultation Recordings Committee: Prof. Ervin Sejdic (Supervisor), Prof. Sean, Victor Hum (Chair), Prof. Wong, Willy, Prof. Zariffa, Jose |
| Date: 10 July 2023 Time: 9:00:00 AM Location: Hybrid | Buck, Alexander Daniel | Thesis Title: Approximation for Flash Memory to Reduce Energy and Increase Lifetime Committee: Prof. Enright Jerger, Natalie (Supervisor), Prof. Sarris, Costas (Chair), Prof. Moshovos, Andreas, Prof. Jeffrey, Mark Christopher |
| Date: 28 June 2023 Time: 12:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Gao, Yu | Thesis Title: Collective Communication Enabled Transformer Acceleration on Heterogeneous Clusters Committee: Prof. Chow, Paul (Supervisor), Prof. Sousa, Elvino (Chair), Prof. Betz, Vaughn, Prof. Jeffrey, Mark Christopher |
| Date: 29 May 2023 Time: 10:00 AM Location: In-Person | Wang, Cheng Feng | Thesis Title: Hybrid DC-DC Converter and Power-Mix Control for Multi-Chemistry Battery Packs in Evs Committee: Prof. Trescases, Olivier (Supervisor), Prof. Enright Jerger, Natalie (Chair), Prof. Hooshyar, Ali, Prof. Tate, Joseph |
| Date: 18 May 2023 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Remote | Kelly, Spencer | Thesis Title: Extended Proximal Primal-Dual Online Feedback Controller Committee: Prof. Simpson-Porco, John (Supervisor), Prof. Lehn, Peter (Chair), Prof. Pavel, Lacra, Prof. Chapman, Margaret |
| Date: 25 April 2023 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Remote | Atan, Ozan | Thesis Title: Increasing the Speed of Colloidal Quantum Dot Based Photodetectors Committee: Prof. Sargent, Edward (Supervisor), Prof. Anderson, Jason Helge (Chair), Prof. Levi, Ofer, Prof. Kherani, Nazir |
| Date: 18 April 2023 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Remote | D'Arolfi, Daniel Cataldo | Thesis Title: Detection of Central and Lobar Pulmonary Embolisms within Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiogram Scans Utilizing a Two-Stage Deep Learning Approach Committee: Prof. Sejdic, Ervin (Supervisor), Prof. Jeffrey, Mark (Chair), Prof. Bardakjian, Berj, Prof. Genov, Roman |
| Date: 14 April 2023 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Remote | Nguyen, Don | Thesis Title: Selected Topics in Computational Imaging: From Pixel Simulation to Applications of Coded-Exposure Cameras Committee: Prof. Genov, Roman (Supervisor), Prof. Hooshyar, Ali (Chair), Prof. Kutulakos, Kyros, Prof. Moshovos, Andreas |
| Date: 12 April 2023 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Hybrid | Wang, Yuheng | Thesis Title: Applications of Risk-Averse Control Policies on Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine Drives Committee: Prof. Chapman, Margaret (Supervisor), Prof. Goel, Ashvin (Chair), Prof. Zhou, Shurui, Prof. Simpson-Porco, John |
| Date: 3 April 2023 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Remote | Chen, Shuangyi | Thesis Title: Distributed Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning via Homomorphic Encryption Committee: Prof. Khisti, Ashish (Supervisor), Prof. Chow, Paul (Chair), Prof. Li, Baochun, Prof. Liang, Ben |
| Date: 30 March 2023 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Remote | Phillips, Paige | Thesis Title: Automated pulmonary Embolism Identification Committee: Prof. Sejdic, Ervin (Supervisor), Prof. Najm, Farid (Chair), Prof. Zariffa, Jose, Prof. Liu, Xilin |
| Date: 2 March 2023 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Remote | Abbaszadeh, Mahdi | Thesis Title: Efficient Data Streaming for a Tightly-Coupled CGRA Committee: Prof. Sargent, Edward (Supervisor), Prof. Hatzinakos, Dimitrios (Chair), Prof. Chow, Paul, Prof. Enright Jerger, Natalie |
| Date: 27 February 2023 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Remote | Cong, Guanhua | Thesis Title: Direct Subsampling Digital Wireless Receiver Based On Quantized Analog Front-End Committee: Prof. Liscidini, Antonio (Supervisor), Prof. Jacobsen, Hans-Arno (Chair), Prof. Chan Carusone, Anthony, Prof. Liu, Xilin |
| Date: 20 January 2023 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Remote | Sha, Eugene Ching Hong | Thesis Title: Scalable Modular Template Compression for Neural Spike Sorting Committee: Prof. Moshovos, Andreas (Supervisor), Prof. Sheikholeslami, Ali (Chair), Prof. Enright Jerger, Natalie, Prof. Genov, Roman |
| Date: 18 January 2023 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Remote | Talaei Khoozani, Kimia | Thesis Title: Capturing Realistic Architectures for Field Programmable Gate Array Optimization Committee: Prof. Betz, Vaughn (Supervisor), Prof. Liu, Xilin (Chair), Prof. Chow, Paul, Prof. Anderson, Jason Helge |
| Date: 16 January 2023 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Remote | Mazraeli, Mohammadmahdi | Thesis Title: Multi-FPGA Application Partitioning and Infrastructure Committee: Prof. Chow, Paul (Supervisor), Prof. Eleftheriades, George (Chair), Prof. Betz, Vaughn, Prof. Anderson, Jason Helge |
| Date: 13 January 2023 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Remote | Hang Yu Xu | Thesis Title: Demonstration of a polarization-frequency hyperentangled photon pair source based on periodically poled silica fiber Committee: Prof. Qian, Li (Supervisor), Prof. Hum, Sean (Chair), Prof. Kherani, Nazir, Prof. Poon, Joyce |
| Date: 11 January 2023 Time: 12:00 PM Location: In-Person | Tianyi Yu | Thesis Title: Automated compilation framework for RISCV+CGRA Systems Committee: Prof. Anderson, Jason Helge (Supervisor), (Chair - TBD), Prof. Enright Jerger, Natalie, Prof. Betz, Vaughn |
| Date: 11 January 2023 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Remote | Rakshith Ramish | Thesis Title: Digital Systems for Closed-Loop Neuromodulation Research Committee: Prof. Poon, Joyce (Supervisor), Prof. Valiante, Taufik (Co-Supervisor), Prof. Liscidini, Antonio (Chair), Prof. Genov, Roman, Prof. Chow, Paul |
| Date: 10 January 2023 Time: 3:30 PM Location: Remote | Zichu Liu | Thesis Title: Understanding Generative Adversarial Networks in the Context of Game Theory and Control Theory Committee: Prof. Pavel, Lacra (Supervisor), Prof. Yuan, Ding (Chair), Prof. Papernot, Nicolas, Prof. Chapman, Margaret |
| Date: 09 January 2023 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Remote | Ziyin Wei | Thesis Title: Temporal Multiplexed Fluorescence Imaging Device for Bead-based Immunoassay Detection Committee: Prof. Aitchison, J Stewart (Supervisor), Prof. Aarabi, Parham (Chair), Prof. Levi, Ofer, Prof. Kherani, Nazir |
| Date: 09 January 2023 Time: 1:30 PM Location: Remote | Shuran Wang | Thesis Title: Incorporating Clinical Access Limitations in Automated Treatment Planning for Photodynamic Therapy Committee: Prof. Betz, Vaughn, (Supervisor), Prof. Li Qian (Chair), Prof. Rose, Jonathan, Prof. Nachman, Adrian |
| Date: 16 December 2022 Time: 9:30 AM Location: Remote | Alexander Greenwood | Thesis Title: Detecting Multipartite Entangled States with Machine Learning-Derived Witnesses Committee: Prof. Li Qian (Supervisor), Prof. Shurui Zhou (Chair), Prof. Hoi-Kwong Lo, Prof. James Daniel |
| Date: 14 December 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Remote | Jiupeng Zhang | Thesis Title: Aging Detection Techniques for FinFET Circuits Committee: Prof. Wai Tung Ng (Supervisor), Prof. Aleksandar Prodic (Chair), Prof. Xilin Liu, Prof. Sorin Voinigescu |
| Date: 13 December 2022 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Remote | Sin Man Tang | Thesis Title: Optimization of 48-to-1 V Multi-inductor Hybrid Converter Committee: Prof. Wai Tung Ng (Supervisor), Prof. Shurui Zhou (Chair), Prof. Francis Dawson, Prof. Olivier Trescases |
| Date: 13 December 2022 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Remote | Jiaqi Wu | Thesis Title: A Power-Performance Comparison of CMOS Tunable-Delay Clock Buffers Committee: Prof. Anthony Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. Frank Kschischang (Chair), Prof. Wai Tung Ng, Prof. David Andrew Johns |
| Date: 8 December 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: In-Person | Dixin Wu | Thesis Title: A Low-Cost Low-Power Wide-Area Network for Environmental Sensing Committee: Prof. Jorg Liebeherr (Supervisor), Prof. David Lie (Chair), Prof. Ben Liang, Prof. Ravi Adve |
| Date: 7 December 2022 Time: 10:30 AM Location: Remote | Nikhil Pradeep Sambhus | Thesis Title: Reuse-Aware Temporal Partitioning of DataFlow Graphs on a Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array Committee: Prof. Tarek Abdelrahman (Supervisor), Prof. Ashish Khisti (Chair), Prof. Andreas Moshovos, Prof. David Lie |
| Date: 5 December 2022 Time: 8:00 AM Location: Remote | Yanjiang Liu | Thesis Title: Materials Design and Engineering for Efficient Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Monoxide Committee: Prof. Edward H. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. Baochun Li (Chair), Prof. Nazir Kherani, Prof. David Sinton |
| Date: 16 November 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Remote | Daniel Gershanik | Thesis Title: FCRC: A Fully Connected Recurrent Convolutional Network for Recommendation. Committee: Prof. K. Plataniotis (Supervisor), Prof. Y. Lawryshyn (Co-Supervisor), Prof. L. Scardovi (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. C. G. Lee |
| Date: 10 November 2022 Time: 9:30 AM Location: Remote | Zhongze Zhang | Thesis Title: Learning based Communication and Sensing with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface. Committee: Prof. W. Yu (Supervisor), Prof. O. Trescases (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. S. Valaee |
| Date: 4 October 2022 Time: 12:30 PM Location: Remote | Armita Jalooli | Thesis Title: Hardening the Soft Information in Earnings Calls. Committee: Prof. Andreas Veneris (Supervisor), Prof. Li Qian (Chair), Prof. J. Hull, Prof. C. Martineau |
| Date: 28 September 2022 Time: 1:15 PM Location: Remote | Frank-Edward Nemeth | Thesis Title: Detecting Drowsiness While Driving Using Physiological Signals. Committee: Prof. Azadeh Yadollahi (Supervisor), Prof. Shahrokh Valaee (Chair), Prof. E. Sejdic, Prof. E. Dolatabadi |
| Date: 27 September 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Remote | Albert Lee | Thesis Title: PR-MRC: MRC Construction with Non-Statistical Sampling. Committee: Prof. Michael Stumm (Supervisor), Francis Dawson (Chair), Prof. A. Goel, Prof. D. Yuan |
| Date: 23 September 2022 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Hybrid | Lindsay Ryoko Kuramoto | Thesis Title: Remote Tissue Oxygenation Monitoring Using Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging and Depth Sensors. Committee: Prof. Ofer Levi (Supervisor), John Simpson-Porco (Chair), Prof. C. Simmons, Prof. L. Lilge |
| Date: 23 September 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Remote | Marius Octavian Stan | Thesis Title: HPIPE-NX: Leveraging Tensor Blocks for High-Performance CNN Inference Acceleration on FPGAs. Committee: Prof. Vaughn Betz (Supervisor), Shahrokh Valaee (Chair), Prof. P. Chow, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 22 September 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Remote | Liam McRae | Thesis Title: Reactively Sputtered Aluminum Oxynitride Deposited at Ambient Temperature: A Material Platform for Tunable Optical Applications. Committee: Prof. N. Kherani (Supervisor), Jonathan Rose (Chair), Prof. A. Helmy, Prof. H. Ruda |
| Date: 22 September 2022 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Remote | Govind Nanda | Thesis Title: Tuning of Hydrogen Charge State in Silicon: Towards Improved a-Si/c-Si Passivation For Heterojunction Solar Cells. Committee: Prof. N. Kherani (Supervisor), Vaughn Betz (Chair), Prof. H. Ruda, Prof. S. Aitchison |
| Date: 21 September 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Remote | Jiahui Wang | Thesis Title: Gecko: Hardware support for Deep Learning Training Acceleration by Dynamic Adaption of Floating Point Value Encoding. Committee: Prof. A. Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. J. Tate (Chair), Prof. P. Chow, Prof. T. Abdelrahman |
| Date: 21 September 2022 Time: 10:30 AM Location: Remote | Samuel Atkins | Thesis Title: Homomorphically Trained Neural Networks. Committee: Prof. G. Gulak (Supervisor), Prof. L. Pavel (Chair), Prof. D. Lie, Prof. F. Kschischang |
| Date: 20 September 2022 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Remote | Yutian Zhang | Thesis Title: Maximizing Sum Frequency Generation Efficiency. Committee: Prof. Amr Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. W. T. Ng (Chair), Prof. S. Aitchison, Prof. H. Ruda |
| Date: 15 September 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Remote | Youssef Al Falah | Thesis Title: Towards Optimal Steady State Control of Multi-terminal HVDC Systems. Committee: Prof. Josh Taylor (Supervisor), Prof. John Simpson-Porco (Co-Supervisor), Prof. Wei Yu (Chair), Prof. Peter Lehn, Prof. Lacra Pavel |
| Date: 14 September 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Remote | Guanglei Zhou | Thesis Title: Novel CAD Techniques for Reconfigurable Architectures. Committee: Prof. Jason H. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. Ben Liang (Chair), Prof. Vaughn Betz, Prof. Paul Chow |
| Date: 13 September 2022 Time: 1:30 PM Location: Remote | Songlin (Eric) Yang | Thesis Title: Applications of Epsilon-Near-Zero ITO in Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguides. Committee: Prof. Amr Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. TBD (Chair), Prof. Peter Herman, Prof. Harry Ruda |
| Date: 13 September 2022 Time: 1:30 PM Location: Remote | Yu Chen (Shirley) Wang | Thesis Title: NVCaracal: A Deterministic Database for Non-Volatile Main Memory. Committee: Prof. Ashvin Goel (Supervisor), Prof. Angela Demke Brown (Co-Supervisor), Prof. Nazir Kherani (Chair), Prof. Michael Stumm, Prof. Ding Yuan |
| Date: 12 September 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Remote | Francis Duhamel | Thesis Title: Design of a Highspeed CMOS Compatible Plasmonic Photodetector. Committee: Prof. Amr Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. Ravi Adve (Chair), Prof. Nazir Kherani, Prof. Wai Tung Ng |
| Date: 12 September 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Remote | Jeffrey Changjie Qiu | Thesis Title: Skeleton-based Body Geometry Reconstruction from Sparse Image Sequences. Committee: Prof. Deepa Kundur (Supervisor), Prof. Berj Bardakjian (Chair), Prof. Ervin Sejdic, Prof. Wei Yu |
| Date: 12 September 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Location: In-Person | Anurag Agarwal | Thesis Title: Robust Feedback-Based Nash Equilibrium Seeking. Committee: Prof. Lacra Pavel (Supervisor), Prof. John Simpson-Porco (Co-Supervisor), Prof. Peter Herman (Chair), Prof. Margaret Chapman, Prof. Josh Taylor |
| Date: 7 September 2022 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Remote | Liangjie Chen | Thesis Title: A Fixed-Point Algorithm for the AC Power Flow Problem. Committee: Prof. John Simpson-Porco (Supervisor), Prof. David Lie (Chair), Prof. Zeb Tate, Prof. Josh Taylor |
| Date: 22 August 2022 Time: 9:30 AM Location: Remote | Anjandev Momi | Thesis Title: Generator Model Identification Using the Unscented Kalman Filter Based on Augmented Phasor Measurement Unit Signals. Committee: Prof. Zeb Tate (Supervisor), Prof. Margaret Chapman (Chair), Prof. Ali Hooshyar, Prof. Peter Lehn |
| Date: 19 August 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Remote | Apurv Bharadwaj | Thesis Title: Ab Initio DFT Approaches to CMOS Quantum Dot Simulation. Committee: Prof. Sorin Voinigescu (Supervisor), Prof. Stephen Brown (Chair), Prof. Wai Tung Ng, Prof. Peter Herman |
| Date: 12 August 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Hybrid (In-Person & Remote) | Gilead Posluns | Thesis Title: A Speculative Hardware Scheduler Supporting Priority Updates. Committee: Prof. Mark Jeffrey (Supervisor), Prof. M. Chapman (Chair), Prof. Natalie Enright Jerger, Prof. Gennady Pekhimenko |
| Date: 12 August 2022 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Tyler Gamvrelis | Thesis Title: 5G Resource Allocation with Interference and Scarcity: Market Design for Spectrum and Beyond. Committee: Prof. Ravi Adve (Supervisor), Prof. Andreas Veneris (Chair), Prof. Albert Leon-Garcia, Prof. Frank Kschischang |
| Date: 9 August 2022 Time: 11:00 AM Location: In-Person | Amirreza Asadzadeh | Thesis Title: Approximate and randomized ADMM-LP decoding using geometric information of the parity polytope. Committee: Prof. Stark Draper (Supervisor), Prof. Wai Tung Ng (Chair), Prof. Frank Kschischang, Prof. Ravi Adve |
| Date: 3 August 2022 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Bijan Shahriari | Thesis Title: A fast electromigration simulator for integrated circuit power grid verification. Committee: Prof. Farid N. Najm (Supervisor), Prof. J. Poon (Chair), Prof. Jason Anderson, Prof. Jianwen Zhu |
| Date: 26 July 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Yongxin Liu | Thesis Title: Active Radar Tag Arrays in 22nm FDSOI Committee: Prof. Sorin P. Voinigescu (Supervisor), Prof. R. Iravani (Chair), Prof. A. Liscidini, Prof. W. T. Ng |
| Date: 18 July 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Weiqi Wang | Thesis Title: PathDiff: Systematic Differential Testing Using Symbolic Analysis Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. A. Liscidini (Chair), Prof. S. Zhou, Prof. M. Stumm |
| Date: 7 July 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Zhenming Huang | Thesis Title: Vector Parabolic Equation Based Propagation Modeling for Sub-6 GHz 5G Systems in Tunnels Committee: Prof. C. Sarris (Supervisor), Prof. M. Chapman (Chair), Prof. G. V. Eleftheriades, Prof. S. V. Hum |
| Date: 28 April 2022 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Iris Uwizeyimana | Thesis Title: Tackling Resource Utilization in DNN Accelerators Committee: Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Supervisor), Prof. L. Scardovi (Chair), Prof. M. C. Jeffrey, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 19 April 2022 Time: 4:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Ioana (Michelle) Samfira | Thesis Title: EEG-based Brain Networks in Children with Infantile Spasms: Localization of Network Hubs Committee: Prof. B. Bardakjian (Supervisor), Prof. F. Najm (Chair), Prof. J. Zariffa, Prof. E. Sejdic |
| Date: 7 April 2022 Time: 7:30 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Jianfeng Li | Thesis Title: Hole Edge Enhancement in 3D Point Cloud Obtained with Structured Light Committee: Prof. Y. Sun (Supervisor), Prof. F. Dawson (Chair), Prof. Xinyu Liu, Prof. Xilin Liu |
| Date: 5 April 2022 Time: 1:30 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Zi Han Zhao | Thesis Title: SigVM: Enabling Event-Driven Execution for Autonomous Smart Contracts Committee: Prof. F. Long (Supervisor), Prof. H-L. Cheng (Chair), Prof. A. Veneris, Prof. D. Lie |
| Date: 17 March 2022 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Yaoyao Ding | Thesis Title: IOS: Inter-Operator Scheduler for CNN Acceleration Committee: Prof. G. Pekhimenko (Supervisor), Prof. L. Qian (Chair), Prof. T. Abdelrahman, Prof. M. Jeffrey |
| Date: 21 January 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Kuei-Fang Hsueh | Thesis Title:Exploring Deep Learning and Hybrid Controllers for Connected Autonomous Vehicles Networks Under Large or Time-Varying Delays Committee: Prof. D. Kundur (Supervisor), Prof. M. Al Janaideh (Supervisor) Prof. B. Li (Chair), Prof. M. Chapman, Prof. J. Simpson |
| Date: 20 January 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Yan Fu | Thesis Title:Model Inversion Via Generative Adversarial Network Committee: Prof. A. Khisti (Supervisor), Prof. M. Broucke (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. D. Hatzinakos |
| Date: 18 January 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Suyash Pati Tripathi | Thesis Title:Cryogenic Characterization and Modelling of Commercial FinFET Technology Committee: Prof. S. Voinigescu (Supervisor), Prof. H. Ruda (Chair), Prof. W.T. Ng, Prof. N. Kherani |
| Date: 17 January 2022 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Zhuqi Jin | Thesis Title:Understanding and Detecting Software Upgrade Failures in Distributed Systems Committee: Prof. D. Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. B. Liang (Chair), Prof. A. Goel, Prof. M. Stumm |
| Date: 12 January 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Wentao Cui | Thesis Title:A Segmented Gate Driver for SiC Power MOSFETs with Optimized Driving Pattern Committee: Prof. W.T. Ng (Supervisor), Prof. H. Ruda (Chair), Prof. F. Dawson, Prof. T. Chan Carusone |
| Date: 11 January 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Sut Yee Leung | Thesis Title: Envelope Tracking Power Supplies for 5G RF Amplifiers Committee: Prof. W.T. Ng (Supervisor), Prof. P. Chow (Chair), Prof. S. Voinigescu, Prof. F. Dawson |
| Date: 10 January 2022 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Mohamed Ibrahim | Thesis Title: Extending Data Flow Architectures for Convolutional Neural Networks to Object Detection and Multiple FPGAs Committee: Prof. V. Betz (Supervisor), Prof. S. Aitchison (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 14 December 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Farhad Yusufali | Thesis Title: Phase Aware Approximation Committee: Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Supervisor), Prof. L. Pavel (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. M. Jeffrey |
| Date: 13 December 2021 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Imtihan Ahmed | Thesis Title: Automatic Generation and Detection of Motivational-Interviewing-Style Reflections for Smoking Cessation Therapeutic Conversations Using Transformer-based Language Models Committee: Prof. J. Rose (Supervisor), Prof. P. Yoo (Chair), Prof. N. Papernot, Prof. M. H. Chignell |
| Date: 10 December 2021 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Jiacheng Yang | Thesis Title: Enabling Privacy-Preserving Model Personalization via On-Device Incremental Learning Committee: Prof. G. Pekhimenko (Supervisor), Prof. B. Bardakjian (Chair), Prof. M. Jeffrey, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 2 December 2021 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Yiyang Fu | Thesis Title: A Comparative Study of Regular- and High-Fidelity Solvers for the Prediction of Aortic Hemodynamics Committee: Prof. P. Triverio (Supervisor), L. Jimenez-Juan (Supervisor), Prof. O. Levi (Chair), Prof. C. Amon, Prof. H-L. Cheng |
| Date: 2 December 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Robin Li | Thesis Title: ctFS: Eliminating File Indexing with Contiguous File System on Persistent Memory Committee: Prof. D. Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. K. Plataniotis (Chair), Prof. M. Stumm, Prof. A. Goel |
| Date: 3 November 2021 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Evey Yijia Liu | Thesis Title: StrandStrainer - Release Strand Persistency Committee: Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Supervisor), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. M. Jeffrey |
| Date: 29 October 2021 Time: 10:30 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Rose Li | Thesis Title: Oriko: A Simulator for Energy Harvesting Systems and Intermittent Computing Committee: Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Supervisor), Prof. N. Kherani (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. D. Lie |
| Date: 29 September 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Ziqiao Wang | Thesis Title: Secret Key Agreement over Gaussian Two-way Wiretap Channel Committee: Prof. A. Khisti (Supervisor), Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Chair), Prof. S. Draper, Prof. W. Yu |
| Date: 29 September 2021 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Shi Hu | Thesis Title: Comparative Study of Anomaly Detection in Financial Journal Entries Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods Committee: Prof. Y. Lawryshyn (Supervisor), Prof. K. Plataniotis (Supervisor), Prof. P. Herman (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. C-G. Lee |
| Date: 29 September 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Nicolas Faria | Thesis Title: Reconfigurable Cylindrical Beamformers based on Electromagnetic Surfaces Committee: Prof. S. V. Hum (Supervisor), Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Chair), Prof. G. Eleftheriades, Prof. C. Sarris |
| Date: 28 September 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Mahdi Sheikholeslami | Thesis Title: Probabilistic methods for crowd-sourced indoor localization Committee: Prof. S. Valaee (Supervisor), Prof. A. Moshovos (Chair), Prof. E. Sousa, Prof. K. Plataniotis |
| Date: 27 September 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Yunhao Mao | Thesis Title: Reversing CRDTs Through Compensating Operations Committee: Prof. H-A. Jacobsen (Supervisor), Prof. J. Simpson-Porco (Chair), Prof. S. Zhou, Prof. B. Li |
| Date: 27 September 2021 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Amirhossein Rahimnouri | Thesis Title: 3D Laser Written Mirror-Waveguide Circuits for Silicon Photonic Interconnects Committee: Prof. P. Herman (Supervisor), Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Chair), Prof. S. Jaimungal, Prof. J. Poon, Prof. L. Qian |
| Date: 23 September 2021 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Nicholas Fung | Thesis Title: Variational Autoencoders for Volatility Surfaces Committee: Prof. A. Veneris (Supervisor), Prof. E. Sejdic (Chair), Prof. S. Jaimungal, Prof. J. Hull |
| Date: 22 September 2021 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Carl-Georges Chaanin | Thesis Title: Generating Constraints for Electromigration Safety for Chip Power Grid Committee: Prof. F. Najm (Supervisor), Prof. P. Lehn (Chair), Prof. P. Triverio, Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. A. Veneris |
| Date: 22 September 2021 Time: 8:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Young Hwan Kim | Thesis Title: Lens-less in-fiber Bragg grating (FBG) spectrometer and femtosecond laser welding-based packaging Committee: Prof. P. Herman (Supervisor), Prof. S. Voinigescu (Chair), Prof. P. Triverio, Prof. S. Aitchison, Prof. J. Poon |
| Date: 20 September 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Shaveer Bajpeyi | Thesis Title: A Hardware Accelerator for Fully Homomorphic Encryption based Machine Learning Applications Committee: Prof. G. Gulak (Supervisor), Prof. J. Liebeherr (Chair), Prof. F. Kschischang, Prof. J. Anderson |
| Date: 17 September 2021 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Xiaoyi Ling | Thesis Title: An Open-Source Framework for the Generation of RISC-V Processor + CGRA Accelerator Systems Committee: Prof. J. H. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. T. Sargent (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. M. C. Jeffrey |
| Date: 15 September 2021 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | George Zhang | Thesis Title: Universal Rate-Distortion-Perception Representations for Lossy Compression and Applications using Generative Models Committee: Prof. A. Khisti (Supervisor), Prof. Z. Tate (Chair), Prof. F. Kschischang, Prof. A. Makhzani |
| Date: 15 September 2021 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Vimal Varghese Chacko | Thesis Title: Power, Performance, and Area Consequences of Multi-context Support in CGRAs Committee: Prof. J. H. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. F. Kschischang (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 14 September 2021 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Fangwei Chang | Thesis Title: Shifted-Beam Array of Coils for Highly Focal Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Committee: Prof. G. Eleftheriades(Supervisor), Prof. A. Khisti (Chair), Prof. C. Sarris, Prof. P. Triverio |
| Date: 10 September 2021 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Tina Behrouzi | Thesis Title: Graph Learning Perspective on EEG-based Human Identification Committee: Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Supervisor), Prof. S. Hum (Chair), Prof. E. Sousa, Prof. K. Plataniotis |
| Date: 10 September 2021 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Justin Kang | Thesis Title: Scheduling for Massive Random Access Committee: Prof. W. Yu (Supervisor), Prof. M. Maggiore (Chair), Prof. F. Kschischang, Prof. A. Khisti |
| Date: 8 September 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Akshay Kawlay | Thesis Title: Evolutionary Search for Authorization Vulnerabilities in Web Applications Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Chair), Prof. S. A. Goel, Prof. S. Zhou |
| Date: 8 September 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Zhiqi He | Thesis Title: Supporting Low-Latency Transactions in Shared- Memory Deterministic Databases Committee: Prof. A. Goel (Supervisor), Prof. A. Demke Brown (Supervisor), Prof. C. Sarris (Chair), Prof. M. Stumm, Prof. D. Yuan |
| Date: 8 September 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Yi Fan Danny Zhang | Thesis Title: Applications of High-Speed Wireline Clocking Architectures for Low-Power Systems Committee: Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Chair), Prof. A. Sheikholeslami, Prof. A. Liscidini |
| Date: 7 September 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Seyederfan Hosseini | Thesis Title: Secure Aggregation in Federated Learning using Multiparty Homomorphic Encryption Committee: Prof. A. Khisti (Supervisor), Prof. A. Goel (Chair), Prof. B. Li, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date: 27 August 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Kamran Hasan | Thesis Title: Memory Dependence Prediction for Energy Constrained Devices Committee: Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Supervisor), Prof. H.L.M. Cheng (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. M. Jeffrey |
| Date: 26 August 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Tianchen Wang | Thesis Title: Fair Licensed Spectrum Sharing Between Two MNOs Using Resource Optimization in Multi-Cell Multi-User MIMO Networks Committee: Prof. R. Adve (Supervisor), Prof. M. Jeffrey (Chair), Prof. S. Valaee, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date: 24 August 2021 Time: 11:30 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Yueqi Wang | Thesis Title: Wavelength Conversion Based on Third-Order Nonlinearity in AlGaAs-on-AlOx Waveguides Committee: Prof. A. Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. T. Abdelrahman (Chair), Prof. R. Marjoribanks, Prof. J. S. Aitchison |
| Date: 19 August 2021 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Steven McKiel | Thesis Title: Hybrid Perovskite-on-Silicon Integrated Electro-Optic Modulators Committee: Prof. J. Poon (Supervisor), Prof. C. Amza (Chair), Prof. T. Sargent, Prof. L. Qian |
| Date: 27 July 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Sam Sattarzadeh | Thesis Title: Visual Post-Hoc Explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks Via Attribution-Based Perturbation Committee: Prof. K. Plataniotis (Supervisor), Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. Y. Lawryshyn |
| Date: 19 July 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Seung-Hun Chung | Thesis Title: Optimization of Compiler-Generated OpenCL CNN Kernels and Runtime for FPGAs Committee: Prof. T. Abdelrahman (Supervisor), Prof. W. Yu (Chair), Prof. P. Chow, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 15 July 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Motasem Ahmed Abdelalim Sakr | Thesis Title: Hardware-Efficient Accelerators for Mask Generation in Coded-Exposure Cameras Committee: Prof. R. Genov (Supervisor), Prof. W. Wong (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. N. Enright Jerger |
| Date: 12 July 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Lin Qiao (James) Liu | Thesis Title: Building a Sparse Convolutional Neural Network Inference Accelerator on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Committee: Prof. S. D. Brown (Supervisor), Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Chair), Prof. J. H. Anderson, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 2 June 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Qingnan Yu | Thesis Title: Digital Algorithms for Quantized Analog Signal Processing Committee: Prof. A. Liscidini (Supervisor), Prof. A. Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. F. Dawson (Chair), Prof. W. T. Ng., Prof. T. Caldwell |
| Date: 20 April 2021 Time: 4:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Koen Bertens | Thesis Title: Simulation-Assisted Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cell Band Alignment using Two-Step Ionic Doping Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. J. Rose (Chair), Prof. T. Bender, Prof. T. Filleter |
| Date: 14 April 2021 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Natchanon Luangsomboon | Thesis Title: Fast Packet Scheduling for Hierarchical Fairness Committee: Prof. J. Liebeherr (Supervisor), Prof. A. Nachman (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. S. Valaee |
| Date: 13 April 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Erin Battle | Thesis Title: A Control-Theoretic Model of the Optokinetic System Committee: Prof. M. Broucke (Supervisor), Prof. L. Qian (Chair), Prof. M. Chapman, Prof. L. Pavel |
| Date: 12 April 2021 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Michael Tisi | Thesis Title: Multiplexing Quantum and Classical Channels for a Commercial Quantum Key Distribution System Committee: Prof. L. Qian (Supervisor), Prof. H-K. Lo (Supervisor), Prof. N. Papernot (Chair), Prof. J. Poon, Prof. A. Helmy |
| Date: 9 April 2021 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Yuxi Cai | Thesis Title: Decentralized Oracles and Network Economics in Modern Blockchain Systems Committee: Prof. A. Veneris (Supervisor), Prof. O. Trescases (Chair), Prof. F. Long, Prof. A. Park |
| Date: 1 April 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Lucas Benoît Jacques Bourtoule | Thesis Title: Model Extraction in the Context of Audio Classifiers Committee: Prof. N. Papernot (Supervisor), Prof. D. Johns (Chair), Prof. D. Lie, Prof. J. Rose |
| Date: 29 March 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Violet Wanlin Jiang | Thesis Title: Comparative Analysis and Demonstration of Monolithic-Integration in High-Voltage Gallium Nitride Processes Committee: Prof. O. Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. M. Chapman (Chair), Prof. A. Liscidini, Prof. F. Dawson |
| Date: 26 March 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Parastoo Ashtari | Thesis Title: Two-Dimensional Parallel Tempering for Solving Constraint-Satisfaction Problems Committee: Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. G. Gulak (Chair), Prof. C. Beck, Prof. J. Rosenthal |
| Date: 24 March 2021 Time: 4:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Romina Eliasi | Thesis Title: An Optimization Technique for Volumetric Modulated ArcTherapy (VMAT) Committee: Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. A. Hooshyar (Chair), Prof. M. Hodaie, Prof. R. Genov |
| Date: 18 March 2021 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Karush Suri | Thesis Title: Deep Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Committee: Prof. Y. Lawryshyn (Supervisor), Prof. K. Plataniotis (Supervisor), Prof. L. Scardovi (Chair), Prof. C-G. Lee, Prof. D. Hatzinakos |
| Date: 1 February 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Austin Liolli | Thesis Title: Selective Control-Flow Reduction for Hardware Synthesis Committee: Prof. J. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 20 January 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Matthew Agostini | Thesis Title: Balancing Graph Processing Workloads Using Work Stealing on Heterogeneous CPU-FPGA Systems Committee: Prof. T. Abdelrahman (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. C. Amza, Prof. N. Enright Jerger |
| Date: 20 January 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Adrian Chiu | Thesis Title: Profiling the Performance of Programming Language Runtimes and Towards Building a New Python Runtime Committee: Prof. D. Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. R. Adve (Chair), Prof. M. Stumm, Prof. D. Lie |
| Date: 18 January 2021 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Chen Dang | Thesis Title: Graphical Processing Unit 5G Primary Synchronizaiton Signal Detection in Software Defined Radio Committee: Prof. E. Sousa (Supervisor), Prof. A. Liscidini (Chair), Prof. R. Adve, Prof. A. Leon-Garcia |
| Date: 15 January 2021 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Netan Yakop | Thesis Title: Control of the Current Shaping MMC to Enable High Step-Down AC/DC Power Conversion Committee: Prof. P. Lehn (Supervisor), Prof. V. Betz (Chair), Prof. F. Dawson, Prof. A. Prodic |
| Date: 14 January 2021 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Yihuan Huang | Thesis Title: Anomaly Detection for Cybersecurity Attacks on NetFlow Data Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. H.A. Jacobsen (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. E. Sousa |
| Date: 14 January 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Adan Moran-MacDonald | Thesis Title: Energy injection for mechanical systems through the method of Virtual Nonholonomic Constraints Committee: Prof. M. Maggiore (Supervisor), Prof. S. Draper (Chair), Prof. R. Kwong, Prof. L. Pavel |
| Date: 13 January 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Jingyuan Liang | Thesis Title: A High Efficiency Three-level Integrated Boost Converter with a Flying Capacitor for Mobile Applications Committee: Prof. W.T. Ng (Supervisor), Prof. M. Mojahedi (Chair), Prof. F. Dawson, Prof. R. Genov |
| Date: 12 January 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Utku Alakusu | Thesis Title: Cryogenic Device Characterization and Wideband Receiver Design for Large-Scale Monolithic Quantum Processors Committee: Prof. S. Voinigescu (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. A. Liscidini, Prof. W.T. Ng |
| Date: 8 January 2021 Time: 9:30 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Iman Tabrizian | Thesis Title: Co-location of Deep Learning Jobs in GPU Clusters Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. P. Chow (Chair), Prof. B. Li, Prof. E. Sousa |
| Date: 7 January 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Rozhina Ghanavi | Thesis Title: A Deep Generative Model for Missing Data Imputation Committee: Prof. B. Liang (Supervisor), Prof. J. Anderson (Chair), Prof. B. Li, Prof. S. Valaee |
| Date: 6 January 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Wenyuan Chen | Thesis Title: Optical Measurement of Highly Reflective Surfaces Committee: Prof. Y. Sun (Supervisor), Prof. M. Broucke (Chair), Prof. F. Shkurti, Prof. J.S. Aitchison |
| Date: 22 December 2020 Time: 11:30 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Ashok Tak | Thesis Title: Deep Learning-based Fault Diagnosis in Transmission Lines via Long Short Term Memory Networks Committee: Prof. D. Kundur (Supervisor), Prof. L. Pavel (Chair), Prof. S. Valaee, Prof. A. Hooshyar |
| Date: 21 December 2020 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Da Kang | Thesis Title: Quantized Analog Processing Techniques for Wireless Receiver Front-Ends Committee: Prof. A. Liscidini (Supervisor), Prof. D. Yuan (Chair), Prof. W. T. Ng, Prof. R. Genov |
| Date: 17 December 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Alexander James Mackay | Thesis Title: High Dispersion Planar Antennas for Frequency Beam Scanning Committee: Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Supervisor), Prof. T.S. Abdelrahman (Chair), Prof. S.V. Hum, Prof. C. Sarris |
| Date: 16 December 2020 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Shengjie Xu | Thesis Title: Efficient Subobject-Granularity Spatial Memory Safety Enforcement with In-Fat Pointer Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. S. Valaee (Chair), Prof. T.S. Abdelrahman, Prof. N. Enright Jerger |
| Date: 8 December 2020 Time: 12:30 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Serina Tan | Thesis Title: GPUPool: A Holistic Approach to Fine-Grained GPU Sharing in the Cloud Committee: Prof. G. Pekhimenko (Supervisor), Prof. S. Voinigescu (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 1 December 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Arzhang Rafii | Thesis Title: Performance Monitoring of Multi-FPGA Systems Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. P. Triverio (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. J. Anderson |
| Date: 20 November 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Danson Evan L. Garcia | Thesis Title: High Dynamic Range (HDR) Signal Processing, Augmented Reality and Wearable Technology Applications in Audiovisual Perception and Sensing Committee: Prof. S. Mann (Supervisor), Prof. S. Hum (Chair), Prof. H.L.M. Cheng, Prof. F. Kschischang |
| Date: 16 November 2020 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Phillip V. Do | Thesis Title: Waveform Visualization in Augmented Reality Using Software-Defined Radio and Electric Machines Committee: Prof. S. Mann (Supervisor), Prof. B. Liang (Chair), Prof. S. Hum, Prof. E. Sousa |
| Date: 30 October 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Tinglin Duan | Thesis Title: Unsupervised Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection Via Transformer-based Models and Time Series Encoding Committee: Prof. K. Plataniotis, Prof. Y. Lawryshyn (Co-Supervisors), Prof. D. Yuan (Chair), Prof. S. Valaee, Prof. D. Hatzinakos |
| Date: 16 October 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Gavin Cui | Thesis Title: Detect Iago Vulnerabilities in Legacy Code with Reverse Syscall Fuzzing Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. R. Genov (Chair), Prof. D. Yuan, Prof. A. Goel |
| Date: 2 October 2020 Time: 12:30 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Wenjun Qiu | Thesis Title: Calpric: Automated Classification of Privacy Policy Using Deep Active Learning and Crowdsourcing Techniques Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. M. Broucke (Chair), Prof. N. Papernot, Prof. G. Penn |
| Date: 1 October 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Jamie Koerner | Thesis Title: Machine Learning-Driven Patient-Specific Early Seizure Detection for Neuromodulation Devices Committee: Prof. R. Genov (Supervisor), Prof. T. Valiante (Co-Supervisor), Prof. J. Liebeherr (Chair), Prof. P. Chow, Prof. V. Betz |
| Date: 30 September 2020 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Mohannad Shehadeh | Thesis Title: Space–Time Codes from Sum-Rank Codes Committee: Prof. F. Kschischang (Supervisor), Prof. S.V. Hum (Chair), Prof. R. Adve, Prof. W. Yu |
| Date: 29 September 2020 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Ahmad Abdel Gawad | Thesis Title: A Control-Theoretic Model of Sensorimotor Adaptation Committee: Prof. M. Broucke (Supervisor), Prof. P. Lehn (Chair), Prof. L. Scardovi, Prof. J. Simpson-Porco |
| Date: 28 September 2020 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Michael Dimmick | Thesis Title: HiCSR: a Hi-C Super-Resolution Framework for Producing Highly Realistic Contact Maps Committee: Prof. B. Frey (Supervisor), Prof. K. Truong (Chair), Prof. A. Makhzani, Prof. R. Yuen |
| Date: 28 September 2020 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Fatemeh Sadat Mousavi | Thesis Title: Fusion of ECG and PPG Signals in Apply to Spoof Detection and Biometric Authentication Committee: Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Supervisor), Prof. Z. Tate (Chair), Prof. K. Plataniotis, Prof. E. Sousa |
| Date: 25 September 2020 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Mathew Hildebrand | Thesis Title: Uncertainty Measurement As A Sensor Performance Metric In Adverse Conditions Committee: Prof. S. Brown (Supervisor), Prof. M. Maggiore (Chair), Prof. S. Waslander, Prof. N. Papernot |
| Date: 24 September 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Varun Sharma | Thesis Title: PGAS Communication for Heterogeneous Clusters with FPGAs Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. N. Kherani (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. V. Betz |
| Date: 24 September 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Aaron Kogon | Thesis Title: Efficient Simulation of Driven Finite Periodic Structures using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method Committee: Prof. C. Sarris (Supervisor), Prof. D. Lie (Chair), Prof. P. Triverio, Prof. S. Hum |
| Date: 23 September 2020 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Seyed Mohammad Pakdaman | Thesis Title: Real-time Video Analytics at Scale: Design, Deployment and Evaluation Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. H.A. Jacobsen (Chair), Prof. P. Chow, Prof. E. Sousa |
| Date: 23 September 2020 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Seyed Farzad Mousavi | Thesis Title: A GPU-Accelerated Population-Based Boltzmann Machine for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems Committee: Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. K. Plataniotis (Chair), Prof. M. Bodur, Prof. J. Rosenthal |
| Date: 22 September 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Jonathan Anderson | Thesis Title: Electromagnetic Surface Treatments for Improving Ground Penetrating Radar Committee: Prof. S. Hun (Supervisor), Prof. O. Trescases (Chair), Prof. C. Sarris, Prof. G. Eleftheriades |
| Date: 21 September 2020 Time: 1:30 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Yu Chen Xu | Thesis Title: Hardware-Accelerated Minimum Probability Flow Training for Boltzmann Machine Problems Committee: Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. Z. Tate (Chair), Prof. S. Valaee, Prof. J. Rosenthal |
| Date: 18 September 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Tianyuan Xue | Thesis Title: Optimization of 2x2 Couplers for Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry Committee: Prof. J. Poon (Supervisor), Prof. J. Simpson-Porco (Chair), Prof. P. Herman, Prof. L. Qian |
| Date: 18 September 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Marco Merlini | Thesis Title: Practical Debug for Dataflow Computations on One or More FPGAs Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. A. Prodic (Chair), Prof. D. Yuan, Prof. J. Anderson |
| Date: 16 September 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Alex Labach | Thesis Title: Gibbs Pruning: A Framework for Structured and Unstructured Neural Network Pruning Committee: Prof. S. Valaee,(Supervisor), Prof. V. Betz (Chair), Prof. B. Li, Prof. K. Plataniotis |
| Date: 15 September 2020 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Christopher Lucasius | Thesis Title: Noninvasive EEG-Based Prediction of Infantile Spasms Using Deep Learning Networks with Phase Amplitude Cross-Frequency Coupling Committee: Prof. B. Bardakjian ,(Supervisor), Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Chair), Prof. J. Zariffa, Prof. K. Plataniotis |
| Date: 10 September 2020 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Mayank Aggarrwal | Thesis Title: Low Power Analog Front End Design for 112 Gbps PAM-4 SERDES Receiver Committee: Prof. D.A. Johns,(Supervisor), Prof. A. Moshovos (Chair), Prof. S. Voinigescu, Prof. T. Chan Carusone |
| Date: 10 September 2020 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Hong Yue Sean Liu | Thesis Title: A General Method for Analyzing Visual Scanning Behaviour in Neuropsychiatric Disorders Committee: Prof. M. Eizenman,(Supervisor), Prof. F. Kschischang (Chair), Prof. W. Wong, Prof. J. Rose, Prof. L. Pinhas |
| Date: 1 September 2020 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Mathew Hall | Thesis Title: Architecture and Automation for Efficient Convolutional Neural Network Acceleration on Field Programmable Gate Arrays Committee: Prof. V. Betz,(Supervisor), Prof. C. Sarris (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 31 August 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Soumil Chugh | Thesis Title: An Eye Tracking System for a Virtual Reality Headset Committee: Prof. J. Rose,(Supervisor), Prof. M. Eizenman (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. B. Li, Prof. W. Wong |
| Date: 28 August 2020 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Rohan Pradhan | Thesis Title: Towards Modular Multispectral Object Detection Using Adaptive Weighted Fusion Committee: Prof. D. Kundur,(Supervisor), Prof. J. Simpson-Porco (Chair), Prof. F. Shkurti, Prof. C. Amza |
| Date: 28 August 2020 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Francis O'Brien | Thesis Title: A Streaming Accelerator for Heterogeneous Multicore-FPGA Processing of Graph Analytics Applications Committee: Prof. T. Abdelrahman,(Supervisor), Prof. D.A. Johns (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 26 August 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Ming-Jia Mecca Gong | Thesis Title: Readout Transimpedance Amplifiers Monolithically Integrated with Quantum Dot Structures in a Production 22-nm FDSOI CMOS Technology Committee: Prof. S. Voinigescu,(Supervisor), Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Chair), Prof. W.T. Ng, Prof. D.A. Johns |
| Date: 21 August 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Jashva Rafique | Thesis Title: Large-Swing DACS for 56+ GBaud Optical Modulator Applications Committee: Prof. S. Voinigescu,(Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. W.T. Ng, Prof. D.A. Johns |
| Date: 20 August 2020 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Ishita Ray | Thesis Title: Effect of Skin Tone on the Confidence of WearOS Smartwatches Committee: Prof. C. Amza,(Supervisor), Prof. E. de Lara (Supervisor), Prof. B. Bardakjian (Chair), Prof. M. Gabel, Prof. F. Chevalier |
| Date: 19 August 2020 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Shuo Han | Thesis Title: Angle of Arrival Estimation as an Ising Energy Minimization Problem Committee: Prof. S. Valaee (Supervisor), Prof. S. Brown (Chair), Prof. J. Leibeherr, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date: 18 August 2020 Time: 2:30 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Weicheng Cao | Thesis Title: A Large Scale Study on the Interplay between User Behaviors, Expectations and Attitudes with Android Permissions Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. B. Liang (Chair), Prof. J. Rose, Prof. N. Papernot |
| Date: 13 August 2020 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Mahdi Safari | Thesis Title: Visibly Transparent, RF Transmitting, and Low-emissive Metasurfaces: Theoretical and Experimental Study Committee: Prof. N. Kherani (Supervisor), Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Supervisor), Prof. R. Iravani (Chair), Prof. M. Mojahedi, Prof. S. Hum |
| Date: 13 August 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Geoffrey Elliott | Thesis Title: Implementing Reconfigurable Packet Matchers on Field Programmable Gate Arrays Committee: Prof. H.A. Jacobsen (Supervisor), Prof. S. Draper (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 11 August 2020 Time: 9:30 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Stefanos Bakirtzis | Thesis Title: FDTD-Based Modeling of Diffuse Scattering in 5G Millimeter-Wave Frequencies Committee: Prof. C. Sarris (Supervisor), Prof. R. Adve (Chair), Prof. G. Eleftheriades, Prof. S. Hum |
| Date: 31 July 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Anthony Kwan | Thesis Title: Predicting Fine-grained Cloud Resource Usage with Online and Offline Learning Committee: Prof. H.A. Jacobsen (Supervisor), Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Chair), Prof. B. Li, Prof. A. Leon-Garcia |
| Date: 28 July 2020 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Isak Edo Vivancos | Thesis Title: Amplifying On-Chip Memory Storage Capacity via Compression for Neural Network Workloads Committee: Prof. A. Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. S. Aitchison (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. V. Betz |
| Date: 9 July 2020 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Omar Mohamed Awad | Thesis Title: FPRaker: Exploiting Fine-Grain Sparsity to Accelerate Neural Network Training Committee: Prof. A. Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. S. Voinigescu (Chair), Prof. G. Peckhimenko, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 7 July 2020 Time: 4:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Tanner Young-Schultz | Thesis Title: Hardware Acceleration of Biophotonic Simulations Committee: Prof. V. Betz (Supervisor), Prof. S. Brown (Supervisor), Prof. J. Liebeherr (Chair), Prof. J. Rose, Prof. J. Anderson |
| Date: 25 June 2020 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Yew Meng Khaw | Thesis Title: A Deep Learning-Based Cyberattack Detection and Mitigation System for Transmission Protective Relays Committee: Prof. D. Kundur (Supervisor), Prof. M. Broucke (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. Z. Tate |
| Date: 24 June 2020 Time: 2:30 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Sarin Rajapakse | Thesis Title: Experimental Implementation of DC Microgrid with Energy Management System Committee: Prof. P. Lehn (Supervisor), Prof. H.A. Jacobsen (Chair), Prof. A. Hooshyar, Prof. A. Prodic |
| Date: 25 May 2020 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Si Tan Wang | Thesis Title: A 3-Phase Electric Vehicle Charger Integrated with Dual Inverter Drive Committee: Prof. P. Lehn (Supervisor), Prof. M. Maggiore (Chair), Prof. F. Dawson, Prof. A. Prodic |
| Date: 8 May 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Todd Darcie | Thesis Title: Hybrid Silicon-Organic Augmented Low Index Guiding Waveguides for Nonlinear Optics Committee: Prof. S. Aitchison (Supervisor), Prof. J. Anderson (Chair), Prof. A. Helmy, Prof. M. Mojahedi |
| Date: 21 April 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Aravind Bathini Ramaraju | Thesis Title: Machine Learning Assisted Discovery of New Metal-Free Perovskites for Blue Light Emission Committee: Prof. E. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. R. Genov (Chair), Prof. L. Qian, Prof. O. Voznyy |
| Date: 13 April 2020 Time: 1:00 PM Location:Virtual Correspondence | Juan Camilo Vega | Thesis Title: SHIP: A Storage System for Hybrid Interconnected Processors Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Chair), Prof. J. Rose, Prof. J. Anderson |
| Date: 10 April 2020 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Viktor Karyofyllis | Thesis Title: Precompression: A Prelude to Cache Compression Committee: Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Supervisor), Prof. F. Kschischang (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. T. Abdelrahman |
| Date: 8 April 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Camilo Andres Tejeiro Lara | Thesis Title: Low-power Edge-combining Ring-oscillator-based RF Transmitters for Flexible-electrode Neural Microimplants Committee: Prof. R. Genov (Supervisor), Prof. J. Zariffa (Chair), Prof. T. Caldwell, Prof. W.T. Ng |
| Date: 13 March 2020 Time: 1:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Emily Vukovich | Thesis Title: Virtual Constraint Generation for Stable Acrobot Gaits Committee: Prof. M. Maggiore (Supervisor), Prof. A. Prodic (Chair), Prof. M. Broucke, Prof. L. Scardovi |
| Date: 9 March 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-4287 | Danial Mohammadi | Thesis Title: Continuous-Time Pipelined Binary-Search Flash ADC Committee: Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. A. Khisti (Chair), Prof. T. Caldwell, Prof. W.T. Ng |
| Date: 2 March 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-4287 | Venkata Raghuram Namburi | Thesis Title: A GaN-Based High-Conversion-Ratio DC-DC Converter with Fast-Transients and Fault-Isolation for Automotive Applications Committee: Prof. O. Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. R. Iravani, Prof. W.T. Ng |
| Date: 26 February 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-4164 | Paul Chen | Thesis Title: All-Digital Calibration Algorithms to Correct Static Non-Linearities in ADCs Committee: Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. B. Liang (Chair), Prof. R. Genov, Prof. T. Caldwell |
| Date: 25 February 2020 Time: 2:00 PM Location: BA-7180 | Amr Mohamed | Thesis Title: Cyberattacks against Power System Synchronization Systems Committee: Prof. D. Kundur (Supervisor), Prof. T. Abdelrahman (Chair), Prof. J. Taylor, Prof. A. Hooshyar |
| Date: 21 February 2020 Time: 10:30 AM Location: MB-101 | Prathima Sundaram | Thesis Title: Response of Retinal Ganglion Cells to Electrical Stimulation: From Prosthesis to "Seeing" Committee: Prof. W. Wong (Supervisor), Prof. A. Hooshyar (Chair), Prof. P. Yoo, Prof. M. Eizenman |
| Date: 20 February 2020 Time: 12:00 PM Location: BA-7180 | Lixiang (Alfred) Chen | Thesis Title: On the Elementary Symmetric Polynomials, Inverse Vandermonde Matrix, and its Application in Signals and Images Committee: Prof. S. Hum (Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), Prof. P. Triverio, Prof. G. Eleftheriades |
| Date: 28 January 2020 Time: 11:30 AM Location: BA-3014 | Gursimran Singh Sethi | Thesis Title: Low-Profile Electronically Reconfigurable Radial Leaky-Wave Apertures for Satellite Applications Committee: Prof. S. Hum (Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), Prof. P. Triverio, Prof. G. Eleftheriades |
| Date: 21 January 2020 Time: 11:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Luyuan Chen | Thesis Title: AutoVM: Accelerating convolutional neural network training with actively managed GPU virtual memory Committee: Prof. M. Stumm (Supervisor), Prof. S. Hum (Chair), Prof. D. Yuan, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 21 January 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-5287A | Saba Zargham | Thesis Title: A Low-Power Injection-Locked OQPSK/8PSK Transmitter Committee: Prof. A. Liscidini (Supervisor), Prof. Z. Tate (Chair), Prof. R. Genov, Prof. W. T. Ng |
| Date: 20 January 2020 Time: 3:10 PM Location: BA-4287 | Dhruv Rajendra Patel | Thesis Title: The Design of Co-Packaged 100+ Gbps Optical Communication Receiver Front-Ends in FINFET CMOS Committee: Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. R. Adve (Chair), Prof. W. T. Ng, Prof. R. Genov |
| Date: 17 January 2020 Time: 2:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Lifu (Tom) Zhang | Thesis Title: Pipelined Training with Stale Weights of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Committee: Prof. T. Abdelrahman (Supervisor), Prof. A. Khisti (Chair), A. Moshovos, Prof. D. Yuan |
| Date: 17 January 2020 Time: 12:00 PM Location: SF-1022 | Kasra Madayeni Avval | Thesis Title: Cellular-Based Localization for Mobile Devices with Structured Motion Committee: Prof. E. Sousa (Supervisor), Prof. D. Lie (Chair), A. Leon-Garcia, Prof. D. Hatzinakos |
| Date: 17 January 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Samantha Murray | Thesis Title: A Modular Bi-Directional Current-Controlled Inverter with Masterless Interleaving and Active Power Decoupling Committee: Prof. O. Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. B. Liang (Chair), A. Hooshyar, Prof. Z. Tate |
| Date: 16 January 2020 Time: 2:00 PM Location: BA-7180 | Mingyue Yang | Thesis Title: Using Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. L. Scardovi (Chair), N. Papernot, Prof. J. Rose |
| Date: 16 January 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Romina Abachi | Thesis Title: Policy-Aware Model Learning for Policy Gradient Methods Committee: Prof. B. Frey (Supervisor), Prof. J. Anderson (Chair), A.M. Farahmand, Prof. S. McIlraith |
| Date: 15 January 2020 Time: 4:15 PM Location: SF-B560 | Fu Der Chen | Thesis Title: Classification of Neural Tissue Types for an Endoscopic Full-field Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging System Committee: Prof. J. Poon (Supervisor), Prof. C. Sarris (Chair), P. Herman, Prof. T. Valiante |
| Date: 15 January 2020 Time: 3:00 PM Location: BA-4287 | Shai Bonen | Thesis Title: Monolithically Integrated FDSOI CMOS Electron- and Hole- Quantum Dot Qubits and Readout Electronics for Large-Scale Quantum Processors Committee: Prof. S. Voinigescu (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), W.T. Ng, Prof. H. Ruda |
| Date: 15 January 2020 Time: 1:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Rein Dylan Otsason | Thesis Title: Virtual Constraint Generation Committee: Prof. M. Maggiore (Supervisor), Prof. P. Lehn (Chair), L. Pavel, Prof. L. Scardovi |
| Date: 14 January 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: SF-B560 | Milos Nikolic | Thesis Title: Characterizing Sources of Ineffectual Computations in Deep Learning Networks Committee: Prof. A. Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. K. Plataniotis (Chair), N. Enright Jerger, Prof. V. Betz |
| Date: 13 January 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Room 12-177 (University Health Network) | Qi Zhang | Thesis Title: Determination of Exercise Capacity Indices Using Acoustic Analysis Committee: Prof. A. Yadollahi (Supervisor), Prof. S. Valaee (Chair), J. Zariffa, Prof. P. Oh |
| Date: 9 January 2020 Time: 2:00 PM Location: BA-4287 | Zhongnan Qu | Thesis Title: Vanadium Dioxide Phase Transition Modeling and Bias Control for Photodetection Committee: Prof. J. Poon (Supervisor), Prof. D. Lie (Chair), E. Sargent, Prof. S. Aitchison |
| Date: 7 January 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Talia Xu | Thesis Title: Reconfigurable Dual-band and Wide-band Spatially-fed Array Antennas Committee: Prof. S. Hum (Supervisor), Prof. M. Stumm (Chair), G. Eleftheriades, Prof. C. Sarris |
| Date: 6 January 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: SF-B560 | Karthik Raja Kalaiselvi Bhaskar | Thesis Title: Implicit Feedback Deep Collaborative Filtering Product Recommendation System Committee: Prof. Y. Lawryshyn (Supervisor), Prof. D. Kundur (Co-Supervisor), Prof. Z. Tate (Chair), D. Hatzinakos, Prof. J. Paradi |
| Date: 19 December 2019 Time: 1:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Ian David Taras | Thesis Title: Impact of FPGA Architectures on Area and Performance of CGRA Overlays Committee: Prof. J. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. M. Broucke (Chair), J. Rose, Prof. V. Betz |
| Date: 19 December 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-4164 | Alvin Yonathan Sukmadji | Thesis Title: Zipper Codes: High-rate Spatially Coupled Codes with Algebraic Component Codes Committee: Prof. F. Kschischang (Supervisor), Prof. B. Li (Chair), A. Khisti, Prof. W. Yu |
| Date: 19 December 2019 Time: 9:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Henry Kao | Thesis Title: Cache Coherence for Approximate Computing Committee: Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), J. Anderson, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 13 December 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: MB-101 | He (Shawn) Shuang | Thesis Title: Using Context to Verify User Intentions Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. E. Sousa (Chair), D. Yuan, Prof. A. Goel |
| Date: 11 December 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: MB-101 | Carl Lamoureux | Thesis Title: Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Based Power-Mix Control Strategy for Imrpoved Second-Life Battery Performance Committee: Prof. O. Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. V. Betz (Chair), W.T. Ng, Prof. P. Lehn |
| Date: 6 December 2019 Time: 2:00 PM Location: BA-7180 | Sayantan Chowdhury | Thesis Title: Explaining Class-of-Service Oriented Network Traffic Classification with Superfeatures Committee: Prof. B. Liang (Supervisor), Prof. O. Trescases (Chair), A. Khisti, Prof. B. Li |
| Date: 5 December 2019 Time: 2:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Mohamed Bahaaeldin Mohamed Eldafrawy | Thesis Title: FPGA Logic Block Architectures for Efficient Deep Learning Inference Committee: Prof. V. Betz (Supervisor), Prof. P. Lehn (Chair), J. Anderson, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 29 November 2019 Time: 12:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Nicholas V. Giamblanco | Thesis Title: Dynamic Memory Allocation Techniques for High-Level Synthesis Committee: Prof. J. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. A. Hooshyar (Chair), V. Betz, Prof. T. Abdelrahman |
| Date: 29 November 2019 Time: 9:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Amir Hosein Khas Ahmadi | Thesis Title: Memory-based Graph Networks Committee: Prof. B. Frey (Supervisor), Prof. A. Prodic (Chair), Q. Morris, Prof. B. Wang |
| Date: 11 November 2019 Time: 11:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Michael Jones | Thesis Title: A Portable and Low-Cost Frequency-Scanned Traffic Radar With Metasurface Collimation Committee: Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Supervisor), Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Chair), S. Hum, Prof. C. Sarris |
| Date: 30 October 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Shuang Nie | Thesis Title: Three-Phase Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicle Charging with Improved Receiver Misalignment Tolerance Committee: Prof. P. Lehn (Supervisor), Prof. V. Betz (Chair), A. Prodic, Prof. F. Dawson |
| Date: 4 October 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Lyndon Hin-Cheung Chan | Thesis Title: Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation in the Multi-Class Setting Across Different Image Domains Committee: Prof. K. Plataniotis, Prof. P. Aarabi (Co-Supervisors), Prof. A. Moshovos (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. S. Valaee |
| Date: 26 September 2019 Time: 1:00 PM Location: BA-5287A | Remy Ko | Thesis Title: Protein Capture on Multiwavelength SERS Substrates Committee: Prof. N. Kherani (Supervisor), Prof. R. Iravani (Chair), Prof. N. Matsuura, Prof. B. Hatton |
| Date: 26 September 2019 Time: 9:00 AM Location: SF-B560 | Shahrzad Kianidehkordi | Thesis Title: Exploitation of Stragglers in Hierarchical Coded Matrix Multiplication Committee: Prof. S. Draper (Supervisor), Prof. Z. Tate (Chair), Prof. A. Khisti, Prof. F. Kschischang |
| Date: 24 September 2019 Time: 3:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Milad Keshani | Thesis Title: An Isolated Three-Phase Fully-Integrated Battery Charger for Electric Vehicles Committee: Prof. P. Lehn (Supervisor), Prof. W. Wong (Chair), Prof. Z. Tate, Prof. A. Prodic |
| Date: 23 September 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-7180 | Ivan Radovic | Thesis Title: A Novel Converter Topology and Mixed-Signal Controller for Pulsed Power Applications Committee: Prof. A. Prodic (Supervisor), Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Chair), Prof. R. Iravani, Prof. J Taylor |
| Date: 23 September 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: PT-473 | Simona Marinova | Thesis Title: End-to-end Network Slicing for Flash Crowds in Multi-Region Cloud Platform Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. P. Chow (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. E. Sousa |
| Date: 23 September 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Nameer Khan | Thesis Title: Wireless Charger for Electric Vehicles with Electromagnetic Coil Based Position Correction Committee: Prof. O. Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. C. Sarris (Chair), Prof. W.T. Ng, Prof. A. Hooshyar |
| Date: 23 September 2019 Time: 9:30 AM Location: MB-101 | Pushkar Subramanya Bettadpur | Thesis Title: Privacy Protection against Passive Monitoring using SDNs Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. Z. Tate (Chair), Prof. A. Goel, Prof. D. Yuan |
| Date: 20 September 2019 Time: 3:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Adheesh Boratkar | Thesis Title: An Improved PMU Model for Voltage Response in Transient Stability Simulation Committee: Prof. Z. Tate (Supervisor), Prof. W. Wong (Chair), Prof. A. Prodic, Prof. J. Taylor |
| Date: 20 September 2019 Time: 1:00 PM Location: BA-7180 | Kym Derrick Uy | Thesis Title: Algal Analysis Through a Chip-Based Flow Cytometer Committee: Prof. J. S. Aitchison (Supervisor), Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Chair), Prof. O. Levi, Prof. G. Allen |
| Date: 20 September 2019 Time: 11:00 AM Location: BA-4287 | Yu Xue | Thesis Title: Using Layered Division Multiplexing for Mixed Unicast-Broadcast Service Delivery in 5G-MBMS Committee: Prof. E. Sousa (Supervisor), Prof. Z. Tate (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. A. Leon-Garcia |
| Date: 20 September 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Owen Yeh | Thesis Title: Fine Position Estimation of the Myocardium Using a UWB Radar for Magnetic Resonance Image Guided Cardiac Ablation Committee: Prof. R. Adve (Supervisor), V. Betz (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. S. Valaee |
| Date: 19 September 2019 Time: 1:00 PM Location: BA-5287A | Ze Yang Wang | Thesis Title: Mitigation of Classes of Attacks using a Probabilistic Discrete Event System Framework Committee: Prof. R. Kwong (Supervisor), E.S. Sousa (Chair), Prof. W.M. Wonham, Prof. M.E. Broucke |
| Date: 19 September 2019 Time: 1:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Mustafa Abbas | Thesis Title: System Level Communication Challenges of Large FPGAs Committee: Prof. V. Betz (Supervisor), J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. J. Rose, Prof. J. Anderson |
| Date: 18 September 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: SF-B560 | Duxuan Wu | Thesis Title: Selectively-Filled HC-PCF Microfluidic Raman Sensor and Its Biomedical Applications Committee: Prof. A. Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. H.L.M. Cheng (Chair), Prof. C. Chin, Prof. O. Levi |
| Date: 17 September 2019 Time: 2:30 PM Location: BA-3014 | Nikita Gusev | Thesis Title: System-Level Design of CMOS Coded-Exposure Cameras for Computational Imaging Applications Committee: Prof. R. Genov, Prof. K. Kutulakos (Co-Supervisors), Prof. E. Sousa (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 17 September 2019 Time: 12:00 PM Location: MB-101 | Kyle Anthony Johnson | Thesis Title: A Full-Vectorial Theory of Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Effects in Aluminum Gallium Arsenide Waveguides Committee: Prof. J. S. Aitchison (Supervisor), Prof. C. Sarris (Chair), Prof. A. Helmy, Prof. M. Mojahedi |
| Date: 13 September 2019 Time: 1:30 PM Location: Holland Bloorview, Room 4W415 | Maryam Fallah | Thesis Title: A Novel Combination of Natural Language Processing and Brain Computer Interface in a Communication System Committee: Prof. T. Chau (Supervisor), Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Chair), Prof. T. Dutta, Prof. E. Biddiss |
| Date: 13 September 2019 Time: 12:30 PM Location: BA-3014 | Yifan Gong | Thesis Title: Minimizing the Completion Time of Distributed Learning Workloads via Deep Reinforcement Learning Committee: Prof. B. Li, Prof. B. Liang (Co-Supervisors), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. S. Valaee, Prof. D. Yuan |
| Date: 9 September 2019 Time: 1:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Enes Sinan Parildi | Thesis Title: Deep Learning Aided Runtime Opcode Based Malware Detection Committee: Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. Y. Lawryshyn (Co-Supervisors), Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Chair), Prof. K. Plataniotis, Prof. S. Valaee |
| Date: 9 September 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Matthew James Peter Walker | Thesis Title: Connectivity-Based Mapping for Diverse Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures Committee: Prof. J. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 6 September 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: SF-1022 | Adam Issa | Thesis Title: A Stochastic Approach to Electromigration Checking for Chip Power Grids Committee: Prof. F. Najm (Supervisor), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. A. Veneris, Prof. J. Zhu |
| Date: 5 September 2019 Time: 2:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Jiankun Wang | Thesis Title: Medical Imaging Semantic Segmentation with Ising Conditional Random Field Post-processing and Lesion Localization Committee: Prof. S. Valaee (Supervisor), Prof. R. Genov (Chair), Prof. A. Khisti, Prof. J. Liebeherr |
| Date: 5 September 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Mathieu Sylvestre | Thesis Title: Learning in Games with Side Information Committee: Prof. L. Pavel (Supervisor), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. R. Kwong, Prof. L. Scardovi |
| Date: 5 September 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: SF-B560 | Linda Shen | Thesis Title: Effects of and Mitigation Strategies for Fast Voltage Transients on Current and Future FPGAs Committee: Prof. V. Betz (Supervisor), Prof. R. Adve (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. W. T. Ng |
| Date: 4 September 2019 Time: 11:00 AM Location: BA-5287A | Neil Veira | Thesis Title: Novel Approaches to Register Transfer Level Debugging and Embedding Representations for Knowledge Base Completion Committee: Prof. A. Veneris (Supervisor), Prof. L. Scardovi (Chair), Prof. D. Yuan, Prof. F. Long |
| Date: 4 September 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Kevin Siu | Thesis Title: Reducing Off-Chip Memory Accesses in Deep Neural Network Accelerators Committee: Prof. A. Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. G. Pekhimenko |
| Date: 29 August 2019 Time: 2:00 PM Location: BA-5287A | Srishti Garg | Thesis Title: A Multiplexed, Point-of-Care Sensing System for Dengue Committee: Prof. S. Aitchison (Supervisor), Prof. W. T. Ng (Chair), Prof. A. Guenther, Prof. O. Levi |
| Date: 26 August 2019 Time: 3:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Eric Fenghua Jiang | Thesis Title: Offloading and Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing with Multiple Computing Access Points Committee: Prof. B. Liang (Supervisor), Prof. L. Pavel (Chair), Prof. A. Leon-Garcia, Prof. J. Liebeherr |
| Date: 26 August 2019 Time: 11:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Andres Acevedo | Thesis Title: Optimal Generation Redispatch and Visualization of Network Flows Considering Uncertainty Committee: Prof. Z. Tate (Supervisor), Prof. M. Maggiore (Chair), Prof. R. Iravani, Prof. A. Prodic |
| Date: 15 August 2019 Time: 1:00 PM Location: BA-5287A | Thomas Rodrigues Lordello | Thesis Title: Experimental Apparatus for Nanophotonic Neuroprobe-Enabled Fluorescence Imaging Committee: Prof. J. Poon (Supervisor), Prof. W. Wong (Chair), Prof. A. Helmy, Prof. W.T. Ng |
| Date: 14 August 2019 Time: 9:00 AM Location: BA-5287A | Vasily Rudchenko | Thesis Title: Transforming Existing Stateful Network Protocol Applications into Effective Protocol-Specific Security Testing Tools Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. J. Poon (Chair), Prof. D. Yuan, Prof. A. Goel |
| Date: 31 July 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Bo Lian | Thesis Title: Performance and Decoding Complexity Analysis of Short Binary Codes Committee: Prof. F. R. Kschischang (Supervisor), Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Chair), Prof. R. Adve, Prof. W. Yu |
| Date: 24 July 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-5287A | Ciaran Sean Geaney | Thesis Title: Reflectarray Antennas for Multiple-Beam Satellite Applications Committee: Prof. S. V. Hum (Supervisor), Prof. J. S. Aitchison (Chair), Prof. G. Eleftheriades, Prof. C. Sarris |
| Date: 18 July 2019 Time: 2:00 PM Location: BA-5287A | Dylan James Malone Stuart | Thesis Title: An Efficient Hardware Architecture for Exploiting Sparsity in Neural Networks Committee: Prof. A. Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. W. T. Ng (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. V. Betz |
| Date: 4 July 2019 Time: 1:00 PM Location: BA-5287A | Zhi Jin Zhang | Thesis Title: Control and Operation of a Utility Grid Connected DC Fast Charging Station Committee: Prof. R. Iravani (Supervisor), Prof. W. M. Wonham (Chair), Prof. Z. Tate, Prof. A. Hooshyar |
| Date: 3 July 2019 Time: 2:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Jiachen Zhang | Thesis Title: Bidirectional and Multiple Reconfiguration of Discrete-Event Systems Committee: Prof. W. M. Wonham (Supervisor), Prof. R. Iravani (Chair), Prof. L. Scardovi, Prof. R. Kwong |
| Date: 28 June 2019 Time: 12:00 PM Location: MB-101 | Jeffrey Reuben Kirman | Thesis Title: Machine-Learning-Accelerated Materials Discovery for Perovskites Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. J. Liebeherr (Chair), Prof. O. Voznyy, Prof. N. Kherani |
| Date: 5 June 2019 Time: 2:30 PM Location: BA-3014 | Siyu Chen | Thesis Title: Identification and Minimization of Power System Harmonics Committee: Prof. J. Taylor (Supervisor), Prof. L. Scardovi (Chair), Prof. A. Prodic, Prof. A. Hooshyar |
| Date: 4 June 2019 Time: 3:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Krist Papadopoulos | Thesis Title: Predicting Mutual Fund Redemptions with Collaborative Filtering Committee: Prof. K. Plataniotis, Prof. Y. Lawryshyn (Co-Supervisors), Prof. A. Moshovos (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. C.-G. Lee |
| Date: 28 May 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-7180 | Alok Deshpande | Thesis Title: Optimal Energy Management and Storage Sizing for Electric Vehicles Committee: Prof. J. Taylor (Supervisor), Prof. M. Maggiore (Chair), Prof. O. Trescases, Prof. P. Lehn |
| Date: 14 May 2019 Time: 2:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Degen Zhou | Thesis Title: Modeling and Design Optimization of Capacitive Touch Sensor Panels Committee: Prof. C. Sarris (Supervisor), Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Chair), Prof. S. Hum, Prof. D. Wigdor |
| Date: 9 May 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Tianrui Xiao | Thesis Title: A Data-Driven Approach to Preserving Privacy with Information-Theoretic Measures Committee: Prof. A. Khisti (Supervisor), Prof. B. Li (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. D. Hatzinakos |
| Date: 8 May 2019 Time: 12:00 PM Location: SF-2104 | Benjamin Ryken Scheffel | Thesis Title: Hybrid Organic-CQD Solar Cells Using a Near-IR-Absorbing Organic Bulk Heterojunction Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. M. Maggiore (Chair), Prof. N. Kherani, Prof. Z-H. Lu |
| Date: 8 May 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: MB-101 | Mubarek Abdela | Thesis Title: Impact of DC Fast Charging Station on the Utility Grid Committee: Prof. R. Iravani (Supervisor), Prof. N. Kherani (Chair), Prof. Z. Tate, Prof. J. Taylor |
| Date: 24 April 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: SF-2104 | Naftali Weiss | Thesis Title: Ultra-Wideband Multi-Phase Clock Generation for 200+ GS/s Time Interleaved ADCs Committee: Prof. S. Voinigescu (Supervisor), Prof. K. Plataniotis (Chair), Prof. A. Liscidini, Prof. T. Chan Carusone |
| Date: 17 April 2019 Time: 1:00 PM Location: SF-1022 | Emily E. Storey | Thesis Title: A Complete Portable Low-Cost Micro-Opto-Fluidic Raman Spectroscopic Measurement and Characterization System Committee: Prof. A. Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. P. Chow (Chair), Prof. M. Thompson, Prof. K. Plataniotis |
| Date: 8 April 2019 Time: 1:00 PM Location: MB-101 | Daniel Ly-Ma | Thesis Title: Live Migration of FPGA Applications Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. V. Betz |
| Date: 25 March 2019 Time: 12:00 PM Location: MB-101 | Yimeng Min | Thesis Title: Accelerated Discovery of New Materials for Oxygen Evolution Reaction Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. S. Draper (Chair), Prof. N. Kherani, Prof. J. Poon |
| Date: 21 February 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-5281 | Peter Thompson | Thesis Title: Compress-Forward Relaying for Interference Mitigation Committee: Prof. W. Yu (Supervisor), Prof. R. Kwong (Chair), Prof. R. Adve, Prof. F. Kschischang |
| Date: 5 February 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: SF-B560 | Kuang Ping (Steven) Niu | Thesis Title: Compact Area and Performance Modelling for CGRA Architecture Evaluation Committee: Prof. J. H. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. L. Scardovi (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 16 January 2019 Time: 2:00pm Location: BA-5287A | Yuxi Zhang | Thesis Title: Scaling Blockchain Applications with Pub/Sub Committee: Prof. H.A. Jacobsen (Supervisor), Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Chair), Prof. B. Li, Prof. J. Zhu |
| Date: 15 January 2019 Time: 3:00pm Location: SF-1022 | Gairik Dutta | Thesis Title: Column-Parallel 7um-pitch 2nd-order Delta-Sigma ADCs for Computational Image Sensors Committee: Prof. R. Genov (Supervisor), Prof. C. Sarris (Chair), Prof. A. Liscidini, Prof. K. Kutulakos |
| Date: 15 January 2019 Time: 3:00pm Location: MB-101 | Alessandro Sciarra | Thesis Title: Characterizing Impinging Jet Noise with Applications to Recovery Boiler Sootblowing Committee: Prof. W. Wong (Supervisor), Prof. J. Rose (Chair), Prof. H. Tran, Prof. M. Bussmann |
| Date: 15 January 2019 Time: 11:00am Location: BA-5281 | Mehrdad Malekmohammadi | Thesis Title: A Hamiltonian Engine for Radiotherapy Optimization Committee: Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. C. Sarris (Chair), Prof. S. Valaee, Prof. M. Hodaie |
| Date: 14 January 2019 Time: 11:00am Location: BA-4287 | Yasmin Afsharnejad | Thesis Title: Accelerating 3D Monte Carlo Photonic Simulations on Tightly Coupled CPU-FPGA Systems Committee: Prof. V. Betz (Supervisor), Prof. L. Qian (Chair), Prof. J. Rose, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 14 January 2019 Time: 9:00am Location: BA-7180 | Keivan Dabiri | Thesis Title: Replica Exchange MCMC Engine for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems Committee: Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. S. V. Hum (Chair), Prof. S. Valaee, Prof. A. Leon-Garcia |
| Date: 11 January 2019 Time: 12:00pm Location: SF-1022 | Bain Syrowik | Thesis Title: Automatic Accelerator Selection for the LegUp ARM Hybrid Flow Committee: Prof. S. Brown (Supervisor), Prof. C. Sarris (Chair), Prof. P. Chow, Prof. J. Anderson |
| Date: 11 January 2019 Time: 11:00am Location: BA-3014 | Peter Hermansen | Thesis Title: High Speed SAR ADC Design in SiGe BiCMOS Technology Committee: Prof. S. Voinigescu (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. D. Johns, Prof. A. Liscidini |
| Date: 10 January 2019 Time: 12:00pm Location: BA-7180 | Kae-An Liu | Thesis Title: New Techniques for High-Order Field Sensitivity Analysis with the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method Committee: Prof. C. Sarris (Supervisor), Prof. S. Draper (Chair), Prof. S. V. Hum, Prof. P. Nair |
| Date: 9 January 2019 Time: 9:00am Location: BA-3014 | Rajsimman Ravichandiran | Thesis Title: Autonomic Management System on SAVI-IoT Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. B. Li (Chair), Prof. H. A. Jacobsen, Prof. J. Liebeherr |
| Date: 20 December 2018 Time: 11:00am Location: BA-8227 | Hannah Beverly Elizabeth Mündel | Thesis Title: Plasmonic Sensor using Double-Layered Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Microgels for Multiplex Detection Committee: Prof. J.S. Aitchison (Supervisor), Prof. L. Pavel (Chair), Prof. O. Levi, Prof. M. Mojahedi |
| Date: 18 December 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-3014 | Brett Grady | Thesis Title: Synthesizable Heterogeneous FPGA Fabrics Committee: Prof. J.H. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. P. Herman (Chair), Prof. P. Chow, Prof. V. Betz |
| Date: 13 December 2018 Time: 2:00pm Location: BA-3014 | Seyed Amir Assadi | Thesis Title: Active Mitigation of Transformer Saturation in Dual-Active-Bridge Converter for Electric Vehicle Chargers Committee: Prof. O. Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. S. Draper (Chair), Prof. F. Dawson, Prof. W.T. Ng |
| Date: 11 December 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: MB-101 | Kristina Dzeparoska | Thesis Title: SDX-Based Security Collaboration: Extending the Security Reach Beyond Network Domains Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. B. Li (Chair), Prof. Y. Ganjali, Prof. E. S. Sousa |
| Date: 7 December 2018 Time: 3:00pm Location: BA-7180 | Omar Samhan | Thesis Title: Application-Specific Fixed-Point Design of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Linear Program Decoding Committee: Prof. S. Draper (Supervisor), Prof. O. Trescases (Chair), Prof. E. Sousa, Prof. D. Hatzinakos |
| Date: 6 December 2018 Time: 12:00pm Location: PT-473 | Fahad Almusharraf | Thesis Title: Motivating Smokers to Quit Through the Use of Conversational Systems Committee: Prof. J. Rose, Prof. P. Selby (Supervisors), Prof. R. H. Kwong (Chair), Prof. M. H. Chignell, Prof. W. Wong |
| Date: 3 December 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Wei Cui | Thesis Title: Spatial Deep Learning for Wireless Scheduling Committee: Prof. Wei Yu (Supervisor), Prof. A. Moshovos (Chair), Prof. F. Kschischang, Prof. S. Draper |
| Date: 18 October 2018 Time: 3:00pm Location: SF-1022 | Monorina Mukhopadhyay | Thesis Title: Hardware Classification of Circulating Tumor Cells and Clusters Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. B. Bardakjian (Chair), Prof. S. Kelley, Prof. P. Herman |
| Date: 25 September 2018 Time: 2:00pm Location: MC-331 | Daniel Rozhko | Thesis Title: Memory and Network Interface Virtualization for Multi-Tenant Reconfigurable Compute Devices Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. M. Maggiore (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. D. Lie |
| Date: 25 September 2018 Time: 2:00pm Location: BA-4287 | Sadegh Rahnamoon | Thesis Title: Modular Symbolic Encoding of Timed Discrete-Event Systems Committee: Prof. M. Wonham (Supervisor), Prof. F. Kschischang (Chair), Prof. R. Kwong, Prof. M. Broucke |
| Date: 25 September 2018 Time: 9:30am Location: SF-B560 | Jun Qian | Thesis Title: Two-Tiered Network: Beamforming at Secondary Node, Applied to LTE Committee: Prof. E. Sousa (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. S. Valaee, Prof. D. Hatzinakos |
| Date: 24 September 2018 Time: 11:00am Location: BA-3014 | Jin Sung Kang | Thesis Title: On the Variability of TEOAE Human Identification and Verification System Committee: Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Supervisor), Prof. Y. Lawryshyn (Co-Supervisor), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. K. Plataniotis, Prof. E. Sousa |
| Date: 24 September 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: MC-331 | Nariman Eskandari | Thesis Title: A Modular Heterogeneous Communication Layer for a Cluster of FPGAs and CPUs Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. A. Leon-Garcia |
| Date: 21 September 2018 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Eric Zakher | Thesis Title: Mathematical Model and Validation of Microvascular Function in Low Perfusion Tissue Committee: Prof. H.L. Cheng (Supervisor), Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Chair), Prof. J. Duffin, Prof. B. Bardakjian |
| Date:21 September 2018 Time: 1:00pm Location: RS-207 | Mohammad Saeid Hashemi | Thesis Title: Radio Resource Management and Transmission Modes for Two Tier Ceullar Systems Committee: Prof. E. Sousa (Supervisor), Prof. P. Chow (Chair), Prof. S. Valaee, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date:20 September 2018 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-3014 | Sen Yang | Thesis Title: Veillametrics: An Extramissive Approach to Analyze and Visualize Audio and Visual Sensory Fields Committee: Prof. S. Mann (Supervisor), Prof. J.S. Aitchison (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. A. Goel |
| Date:20 September 2018 Time: 11:00am Location: SF-1022 | Danny Yoo | Thesis Title: High-Speed Baud-Rate Clock and Data Recovery Committee: Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. J. Poon (Chair), Prof. T. Chan Carusone, Prof. D.A. Johns |
| Date:19 September 2018 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Jonathon Wong | Thesis Title: HyScale: Hybrid Scaling of Dockerized Microservices Architectures Committee: Prof. H.A. Jacobsen (Supervisor), Prof. B. Liang (Chair), Prof. B. Li, Prof. M. Chignell |
| Date:19 September 2018 Time: 12:30pm Location: SF-B560 | Javier Munster | Thesis Title: Securing Publish/Subscribe Committee: Prof. H.A. Jacobsen (Supervisor), Prof. W. Yu (Chair), Prof. B. Li, Prof. M. Chignell |
| Date:13 September 2018 Time: 9:00am Location: SF-B560 | Andrew Romano | Thesis Title: Nash Equilibrium Seeking with Output Regulation Committee: Prof. L. Pavel (Supervisor), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. M. Broucke, Prof. R. Kwong |
| Date:29 August 2018 Time: 2:00pm Location: BA-4287 | Tharindu Adikari Mudiyanselage | Thesis Title: Learning Data Representations for Robust Neighbor-Based Inference Committee: Prof. S. Draper (Supervisor), Prof. A. Goel (Chair), Prof. F. Kschischang, Prof. A. Khisti |
| Date:8 August 2018 Time: 11:00am Location: SF-B560 | Andrew Boutros | Thesis Title: On Enhancing FPGA Architecture for Efficient Deep Learning Inference Committee: Prof. V. Betz (Supervisor), Prof. S. Hum (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date:8 August 2018 Time: 9:30am Location: MB-101 | Avishek Bose | Thesis Title: Adversarial Attacks Against Face Detectors Using Neural Network Based Constrained Optimization Committee: Prof. P. Aarabi(Supervisor), Prof. J. Anderson (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. W. Yu |
| Date:30 July 2018 Time: 11:00am Location: SF-B560 | Umang Natubhai Yadav | Thesis Title: On Establishing PPG Biometrics for Human Recognition: Feasibility and Variability Committee: Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Supervisor), Prof. M. Broucke (Chair), Prof. K. Plataniotis, Prof. D. Kundur |
| Date:16 July 2018 Time: 11:00am Location: SF-B560 | Matin Macktoobian | Thesis Title: Automatic Reconfiguration of Untimed and Timed Discrete-Event Systems Committee: Prof. W.M. Wonham (Supervisor), Prof. R. Iravani (Chair), Prof. R. Kwong, Prof. M. Broucke |
| Date:20 June 2018 Time: 11:00am Location: BA-4287 | Zhongbin Huang | Thesis Title: Distributed Linear Quadratic Control with An Attack Detectability Constrain Committee: Prof. J. Taylor (Supervisor), Prof. B. Liang (Co-Supervisor), Prof. D. Yuan (Chair), Prof. D. Kundur, Prof. Z. Tate |
| Date:19 June 2018 Time: 2:00pm Location: BA-3014 | Xin Zhao | Thesis Title: Driver Cognitive Workload Detection via Eye-tracking and Physiological Modalities Committee: Prof. K. Plataniotis (Supervisor), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date:18 June 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-3014 | Yuqing Zhang | Thesis Title: Low-frequency ripple-shaping controller for operation of non-inverting buck-boost converters near step-up step-down boundary Committee: Prof. A. Prodic (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. J. Taylor, Prof. P. Lehn |
| Date:24 May 2018 Time: 2:00pm Location: MB-101 | Hao Lu | Thesis Title: The Multiscale Essence of Multimediated Reality Committee: Prof. S. Mann (Supervisor), Prof. J.S. Aitchison (Chair), Prof. P. Chow, Prof. M. Sain |
| Date:22 May 2018 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-8256 | Hoda Mohamed Mahmoud Youssef | Thesis Title: A Control Strategy For A Microgrid Integrated With Multiple Solar-PV Units And A Large Scale Battery Energy Storage System Committee: Prof. R. Iravani (Supervisor), Prof. M. Broucke (Chair), Prof. J. Taylor, Prof. Z. Tate |
| Date:13 April 2018 Time: 11:00am Location: BA-3014 | Yi Ping (Peter) Sun | Thesis Title: Investigating the Effectiveness of Android Privacy Policies Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. M. Mojahedi (Chair), Prof. A. Goel, Prof. D. Yuan |
| Date:12 April 2018 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-8227 | Vipin Bakshi | Thesis Title: Towards Practical Driver Cognitive Workload Monitoring Via Electroencephalography Committee: Prof. K. Plataniotis (Supervisor), Prof. R. Iravani (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. S. Valaee |
| Date:6 April 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: MB-101 | Roberto DiCecco | Thesis Title: Caffeinated FPGAs: FPGA Framework for Training and Inference of Convolutional Neural Networks with Reduced Precision Floating-Point Arithmetic Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. S. Valaee (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date:3 April 2018 Time: 2:30pm Location: BA-7180 | Zhipeng Li | Thesis Title: Successive Cancellation List-Based Latency and Computational Complexity Reduction for Polar Codes Committee: Prof. E. Sousa (Supervisor), Prof. O. Trescases (Chair), Prof. A. Khisti, Prof. S. Draper |
| Date:15 March 2018 Time: 4:00pm Location: SF-1022 | Zhe Gong | Thesis Title: Active Balancing and Online Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy for Electric Vehicle Battery Management Committee: Prof. O. Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. P. Lehn, Prof. R. Iravani |
| Date:17 January 2018 Time: 2:30pm Location: SF-B560 | Yu (Jack) Luo | Thesis Title: approf: An Offline Non-Intrusive Call-tree Profiler for Distributed Systems Committee: Prof. D. Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. E. Sousa (Chair), Prof. M. Stumm, Prof. D. Lie |
| Date:15 January 2018 Time: 3:30pm Location: SF-B560 | Behraz Vatankhahghadim | Thesis Title: A Fully-connected Boltzmann Machine with Virtual FPGAs Committee: Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. H.K. Lo (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. G. Gulak |
| Date:12 January 2018 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-7180 | Xiang (Jenny) Ren | Thesis Title: Achieving Scalable and Reliable Non-Intrusive Failure Reproduction in Distributed Systems by Enhancing the Event Chaining Approach Committee: Prof. D. Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. W. Yu (Chair), Prof. T. Abdelrahman, Prof. M. Stumm |
| Date:11 January 2018 Time: 4:30pm Location: BA-7180 | Ilan Felts Almog | Thesis Title: Endoscopic swept-source full-field optical coherence tomography neuroimaging system Committee: Prof. J. Poon (Supervisor), Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Chair), Prof. A. Lozano, Prof. P. Herman |
| Date:11 January 2018 Time: 3:30pm Location: BA-5281 | Kirk Rodrigues | Thesis Title: Non-Intrusive, Automated Log Discovery and Parsing Committee: Prof. D. Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. M. Broucke (Chair), Prof. M. Stumm, Prof. A. Goel |
| Date: 10 January 2018 Time: 10:00am Location:BA-4287 | Tian Xia | Thesis Title: Synchronization in Networks of Dynamical Systems: the Linear Time-Invariant Case Committee: Prof. L. Scardovi (Supervisor), Prof. R. Iravani (Chair), Prof. M. Maggiore, Prof. R. Kwong |
| Date: 10 January 2018 Time: 10:00am Location:SF-B560 | Namjee (Monica) Kim | Thesis Title: Pressureless Silver Nanopowder Sintering Bond for Liquid Cooled IGBT Power Modules for EVs and HEVs Committee: Prof. W.T. Ng (Supervisor), Prof. N. Kherani (Chair), Prof. F. Dawson, Prof. T.W. Coyle |
| Date: 10 January 2018 Time: 9:30am Location:BA-5281 | Gerard O'Leary | Thesis Title: Intelligent Medical Devices for Brain State Classification and Responsive Neuromodulation Committee: Prof. R. Genov (Supervisor), Prof. T.Valiante (Co-Supervisor), Prof. P. Yoo (Chair), Prof. P. Chow, Prof. S. Draper |
| Date: 9 January 2018 Time: 1:00pm Location:SF-B560 | Tom Moiannou | Thesis Title: Practical Implementation of Emerging Technologies for SMPS Committee: Prof. A. Prodic (Supervisor), Prof. D.A. Johns (Chair), Prof. R. Iravani, Prof. P. Lehn |
| Date: 9 January 2018 Time: 10:00am Location:SF-B560 | Amrit Singh | Thesis Title: Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) Enabled Power Dispatch and Autonomous Black Start of AC Microgrids Committee: Prof. P. Lehn (Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), Prof. Z. Tate, Prof. J. Taylor |
| Date: 4 January 2018 Time: 10:00am Location:SF-B560 | Seyed Sina Jahadi Hosseini | Thesis Title: Controllability of Networks of Linear Systems: A Graph Theoretic Approach Committee: Prof. L. Scardovi (Supervisor), Prof. F. Kschischang (Chair), Prof. M. Broucke, Prof. R. Kwong |
| Date: 14 December 2017 Time: 3:00pm Location:GB-173 | Andrew Kam | Thesis Title: Optoelectronic Characterization of Novel Photovoltaic Nanomaterials Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Chair), Prof. J. Poon, Prof. N. Kherani |
| Date: 14 December 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location:GB-173 | Marc Lejay | Thesis Title: Inkjet Printed Optoelectronic Devices Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. A. Liscidini (Chair), Prof. J. Poon, Prof. N. Kherani |
| Date: 14 December 2017 Time: 12:30pm Location:MC-331 | Michael Vukovich | Thesis Title: Decimation and Analysis: An Internal Bleeding Detection Framework for 3D Ultrasound Committee: Prof. K. Plataniotis (Supervisor), Prof. A. Veneris (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. S. Stergiopoulos |
| Date: 14 December 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:SF-B560 | Philip Christian | Thesis Title: Retroreflective Binary Huygens' Metasurface Committee: Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Supervisor), Prof. J. Liebeherr (Chair), Prof. S. Hum, Prof. C. Sarris |
| Date: 12 December 2017 Time:10:00am Location:BA-8256 | Dauren Zhumazhanov | Thesis Title: Delay Strategies for Anonymizing Mix-Networks' Nodes Committee: Prof. D. Kundur (Supervisor), Prof. L. Qian (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. C. Amza |
| Date: 7 December 2017 Time:10:00am Location:SF-1022 | Xiao Han Dong | Thesis Title: Towards Robust Far-field Super-resolution Optical Imaging with Superoscillations Committee: Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Supervisor), Prof. P. Herman (Chair), Prof. S. Hum, Prof. C. Sarris |
| Date: 6 December 2017 Time:12:00pm Location:SF-1022 | Zhong Hong Jiang | Thesis Title: A Low-Power Sub-GHz RF Receiver Front-End With Enhanced Blocker Tolerance Committee: Prof. D.A. Johns (Supervisor), Prof. A. Liscidini (Co-Supervisor), Prof. F. Kschischang (Chair), Prof. T. Chan Carusone, Prof. A. Sheikholeslami |
| Date: 5 December 2017 Time:11:00am Location:BA-5287 | Timur Malgazhdarov | Thesis Title: Scalable Collaborative Caching and Storage Platform for Data Analytics Committee: Prof. C. Amza (Supervisor), Prof. A. Khisti (Chair), Prof. A. Goel, Prof. E. de Lara |
| Date: 1 December 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:BA-7180 | Miad Nasr | Thesis Title: High Power Density, Four-Quadrant, DC-AC Converter Using Wide-Band Gap Semiconductors And Active Power Decoupling Committee: Prof. O. Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. W. Yu (Chair), Prof. Z. Tate, Prof. W.T. Ng |
| Date: 22 November 2017 Time: 1:00pm Location:BA-4287 | Sergeui Makarov | Thesis Title: An Event-Based Language for Programmable Debugging Committee: Prof. D. Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. B. Liang (Chair), Prof. T. Abdelrahman, Prof. F. Ellen, Prof. M. Stumm |
| Date: 14 November 2017 Time: 1:30pm Location:SF-1022 | Mohamed Elshazly | Thesis Title: Quantum Mechanical Characterization of Substrated Bilayer Graphene for Future Supercapacitor Applications Committee: Prof. F. Dawson (Supervisor), Prof. A. Huzayyin (Co-Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), Prof. H. Ruda, Prof. O. Trescases |
| Date: 14 November 2017 Time: 12:00pm Location:SF-1022 | Julian Pena-Sosa | Thesis Title: A Pathway to Interfacial Thermal Modeling of Electrochemical Devices Committee: Prof. F. Dawson (Supervisor), Prof. M. Pugh (Co-Supervisor), Prof. W.T Ng (Chair), Prof. H. Ruda, Prof. O. Trescases |
| Date: 29 September 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:GB-173 | Zihan Chen | Thesis Title: A Non-Invasive Assessment of Aortic Coarctation Severity Using Computational Fluid Dynamics Committee: Prof. P. Triverio (Supervisor), Prof. L. Jimenez Juan (Supervisor), Prof. V. Betz (Chair), Prof. D. Steinman, Prof. C. Sarris |
| Date: 27 September 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:MC-331 | Yingxian Ma | Thesis Title: A Novel Low-Volume Hybrid Step-Down DC-DC Converter for Battery Powered Portable Applications Committee: Prof. A. Prodic (Supervisor), Prof. J. Zhu (Chair), Prof. Z. Tate, Prof. P. Lehn |
| Date: 26 September 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:RS-207 | Siqi Ji | Thesis Title: Resource Optimization Across Geographically Distributed Datacenters Committee: Prof. B. Li (Supervisor), Prof. S. Valaee (Chair), Prof. C. Amza, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date: 26 September 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:BA-3014 | Saeed Arezoumand | Thesis Title: End-to-End Orchestration of Distributed Cloud Applications Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. H.A. Jacobsen (Chair), Prof. E. Sousa, Prof. Y. Ganjali |
| Date: 25 September 2017 Time: 1:00pm Location:BA-3014 | Ang Li | Thesis Title: Architectural Analysis for Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems Committee: Prof. R. Kwong (Supervisor), Prof. W.M. Wonham (Supervisor), Prof. J.H. Anderson (Chair), Prof. L. Scardovi, Prof. M. Broucke |
| Date: 25 September 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:SF-B560 | Hsuan Hsiao | Thesis Title: Making HLS a Bit Wiser: From Standard High-Level Datatypes to Arbitrary Low-Level Bitwidths Committee: Prof. J.H. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. B. Liang (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. J. Rose |
| Date: 22 September 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location:SF-B560 | Ramin Hamedi Zaviehgard | Thesis Title: Power Level Optimization in Small Cells: A Deep Learning Based Approach Committee: Prof. E. Sousa (Supervisor), Prof. J. Poon (Chair), Prof. A. Leon-Garcia, Prof. D. Hatzinakos |
| Date: 22 September 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:SF-1022 | Sara Al-Kokhon | Thesis Title: Pilot Patterns for Primary Links in MIMO-OFDM Two-Tiered Networks Committee: Prof. E. Sousa (Supervisor), Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Chair), Prof. R. Adve, Prof. D. Hatzinakos |
| Date: 20 September 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location:BA-3014 | Wilfred Cho | Thesis Title: Proxy Relearning for Feature-Driven Pattern Recognition in High Dimensional Imbalanced Data Set Committee: Prof. R. Genov (Supervisor), Prof. P. Yoo (Chair), Prof. S. Draper, Prof. K. Plataniotis |
| Date: 20 September 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location:GB-173 | Siyuan An | Thesis Title: Parallel Algorithms and Methods for FPGA Placement Committee: Prof. V. Betz(Supervisor), Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Chair), Prof. J. Rose, Prof. J.H. Anderson |
| Date: 19 September 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location:RS-407 | Firas Farah | Thesis Title: Coupled Oscillators Model of Hyperexcitable Neuroglial Networks Committee: Prof. B. Bardakjian (Supervisor), Prof. K. Plataniotis (Chair), Prof. P. Yoo, Prof. J. Zariffa |
| Date: 14 September 2017 Time: 12:00pm Location:BA-3014 | David Gutstein | Thesis Title: Quantum Transport Studies of InAs Based Nanowire Devices Committee: Prof. H. Ruda (Supervisor), Prof. N. Kherani (Chair), Prof. F. Dawson, Prof. W.T. Ng |
| Date: 13 September 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location:GB-173 | Yanhua Tian | Thesis Title: Harmonic-Constrained Optimal Power Flow Committee: Prof. J.A. Taylor (Supervisor), Prof. L. Pavel (Chair), Prof. P. Lehn, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date: 12 September 2017 Time: 12:30pm Location:BA-3014 | Maxim Goukhshtein | Thesis Title: Distributed Coding of Compressively Sensed Sources Committee: Prof. S. Draper (Supervisor), Prof. N. Kherani (Chair), Prof. F. Kschischang, Prof. R. Adve |
| Date: 8 September 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location:SF-B560 | Bolin Gao | Thesis Title: Higher-Order Game Dynamics in Population Games and Reinforcement Learning Committee: Prof. L. Pavel (Supervisor), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. L. Scardovi, Prof. M. Broucke |
| Date: 7 September 2017 Time: 2:30pm Location:GB-173 | Ahmad Ali Khan | Thesis Title: Optimizing the Downlink of MIMO Networks via Fractional Programming Committee: Prof. R. Adve (Supervisor), Prof. W. Yu (Supervisor), Prof. A. Prodic (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. M. Dong |
| Date: 7 September 2017 Time: 1:00pm Location:GB-173 | Alexander Daniel | Thesis Title: An Optimization Approach to Heterogeneous Coded Caching Committee: Prof. W. Yu (Supervisor), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. S. Draper, Prof. A. Khisti |
| Date: 31 August 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location:GB-173 | Cheng Chen Liu | Thesis Title: Towards Practical Driver Cognitive Load Detection Based on Visual Attention Information Committee: Prof. K. Plataniotis (Supervisor), Prof. A. Veneris (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date: 30 August 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:SF-B560 | Antoine Bois | Thesis Title: Nonlinear Pattern Formation in a Multilayer Photonic Platform Committee: Prof. J. Poon (Supervisor), Prof. C. Sarris (Chair), Prof. S. Aitchison, Prof. P. Herman |
| Date: 29 August 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:BA-7180 | Shreshth Gandhi | Thesis Title: Deep Learning Models for RNA-Protein Binding Committee: Prof. B. Frey (Supervisor), Prof. D. Duvenaud (Co-Supervisor), Prof. J. Rose (Chair), Prof. Q. Morris |
| Date: 28 August 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location:BA-7180 | Kevin deHaan | Thesis Title: Point-of-Care Detection System for Multiplexed Bead Based Assays Committee: Prof. S. Aitchison (Supervisor), Prof. P. Yoo (Chair), Prof. P. Herman, Prof. O. Levi |
| Date: 24 August 2017 Time: 11:00am Location:BA-3014 | Dian Gadjov | Thesis Title: Nash Equilibrium Seeking Over Undirected Graphs via Multi-Agent Agreement Committee: Prof. L. Pavel (Supervisor), Prof. H. Kunov (Chair), Prof. L. Scardovi, Prof. R. Kwong |
| Date: 24 August 2017 Time: 11:00am Location:MB-101 | Jose Antonio Munoz Cepillo | Thesis Title: A Microarchitectural Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms on Spark Committee: Prof. A. Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. G. Pekhimenko |
| Date: 22 August 2017 Time: 1:00pm Location:BA-3014 | Kevin Nam | Thesis Title: FISH: Linux System Calls for FPGA Accelerators Committee: Prof. S. Brown (Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. J.H. Anderson |
| Date: 15 August 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location:BA-7180 | Haoyu He | Thesis Title: Characterization of Quantum States Generated on Chip Committee: Prof. A. Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. E. Sousa (Chair), Prof. D.F.V. James, Prof. A.M. Steinberg |
| Date: 1 August 2017 Time: 3:00pm Location:SF-B560 | Sepehr Hadizadehmoghaddam | Thesis Title: Simultaneous Execution of Multiple Radar Tasks using OFDMA Committee: Prof. R. Adve (Supervisor), Prof. R. Iravani (Chair), Prof. E. Sousa, Prof. D. Hatzinakos |
| Date: 28 July 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:GB-173 | Eric Ping Chun Chen | Thesis Title: Fabrication of Semiconductor Laser on Bragg Reflection Waveguide Platform Committee: Prof. A. Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. P.B Yoo (Chair), Prof. N. Kherani, Prof. H. Ruda |
| Date: 25 July 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:SF-B560 | Robert Baker | Thesis Title: Large Swing Optical Modulator Drivers for 100+ GBaud Applications Committee: Prof. S. Voinigescu (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. T. Chan Carusone, Prof. W.T. Ng |
| Date: 21 July 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:GB-173 | Pao-Sheng Chou | Thesis Title: Hardware-Aware Motion Estimation via Low Resolution Motion Hints Committee: Prof. S. Draper (Supervisor), Prof. S. Hum (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. G. Gulak |
| Date: 21 July 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:MC-331 | Kyle Muehlegg | Thesis Title: Modelling and Energy Management for DC Microgrid Systems Committee: Prof. P. Lehn(Supervisor), Prof. R. Kwong (Chair), Prof. Z. Tate, Prof. J. Taylor |
| Date: 21 July 2017 Time: 3:00pm Location:SF-B560 | David Roper | Thesis Title: Inhibition and enhancement of quantized interference-driven, ultrafast-laser cleaving and intra-film ejection with angle and polarization control Committee: Prof. P. Herman(Supervisor), Prof. H.L. Cheng (Chair), Prof. J. Poon, Prof. J.S. Aitchison |
| Date: 14 July 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:GB-173 | Yu Ting Chen | Thesis Title: Automated Generation of Banked Memory Architectures in the High-Level Synthesis of Multi-Threaded Software Committee: Prof. J.H. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 28 June 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:BA-4164 | Alison Cheeseman | Thesis Title: Adaptive Waveform Design and CFAR Processing for High Frequency Surface Wave Radar Committee: Prof. R. Adve (Supervisor), Prof. C. Sarris (Chair), Prof. S. Valaee, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date: 23 June 2017 Time: 10:00am Location:SF-B560 | Sai Balakrishnan | Thesis Title: Optical and Structural Characterization of Hydrogenated Aluminium Nitride Thin-films Synthesized at Low Temperature Committee: Prof. N. Kherani (Supervisor), Prof. Z.H. Lu (Chair), Prof. J.S. Aitchison, Prof. H. Ruda |
| Date: 24 May 2017 Time: 11:00am Location:BA-3014 | Andrew Lee | Thesis Title: Launch-time Optimization of OpenCL Kernels Committee: Prof. T. Abdelrahman (Supervisor), Prof. K. Plataniotis (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. D. Yuan |
| Date: 17 May 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location:SF-1022 | Mariana D'Angelo | Thesis Title: Inferring User Consent on Android via Static User Interface Analysis Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. R. Kwong (Chair), Prof. M. Stumm, Prof. D. Yuan |
| Date: 12 May 2017 Time: 11:30am Location:MB101 | Mohammadmoein Soltanizadeh | Thesis Title: Power Minimization in Wireless Network Virtualization with Massive MIMO Committee: Prof. B. Liang (Supervisor), Prof. A. Veneris (Chair), Prof. A. Khisti, Prof. A. Leon-Garcia |
| Date: 19 April 2017 Time: 12:00pm Location:BA8227 | Cheng Xiang Wilson Feng | Thesis Title: A Sampling-Based Approach to GPGPU Performance Auto-tuning Committee: Prof. T. Abdelrahman (Supervisor), Prof. A. Prodic (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. N. Enright Jerger |
| Date: 18 April 2017 Time: 11:00am Location: SF-B560 | John Adler | Thesis Title: Novel Approaches to Automated Digital Design Debugging in a Modern Development Cycle Committee: Prof. A. Veneris (Supervisor), Prof. K. Plataniotis (Chair), Prof. J.H. Anderson, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 17 April 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-3014 | Kei-Ming Kwong | Thesis Title: MEMS Accelerometer Specifications and their Impact on Inertial Algorithms Committee: Prof. D.A. Johns (Supervisor), Prof. P. Chow (Chair), Prof. W.T. Ng, Prof. A. Liscidini |
| Date: 13 April 2017 Time: 11:00am Location: GB-173 | Kevin Joseph | Thesis Title: Femtosecond Laser Direct-Write of Optofluidic Lab in Fiber through Polymer-Coated Optical Fiber Committee: Prof. P.R. Herman (Supervisor), Prof. J.S. Aitchison (Supervisor), Prof. K. Plataniotis (Chair), Prof. O. Levi, Prof. M. Mojahedi |
| Date: 6 April 2017 Time: 1:00pm Location: SF-1022 | David Lion | Thesis Title: Don't Get Caught in the Cold, Warm-up Your JVM: Understand and Eliminate JVM Warm-up Overhead in Data-Parallel Systems Committee: Prof. D. Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. B. Liang (Chair), Prof. T. Abdelrahman, Prof. M. Stumm |
| Date: 14 March 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-3014 | Chen Sun | Thesis Title: Minimizing Dispersion in FDTD Methods with CFL Limit Extension Committee: Prof. P. Triverio (Supervisor), Prof. L. Scardovi (Chair), Prof. S.V. Hum, Prof. G. Eleftheriades |
| Date: 27 February 2017 Time: 10:30am Location: BA-7180 | Yue Yin | Thesis Title: The Role of Voltage Regulation in Power Integrity for Multi-Gbps Parallel I/O Interfaces Committee: Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. P. Chow (Chair), Prof. T. Caldwell, Prof. A. Liscidini |
| Date: 17 January 2017 Time: 4:00pm Location: BA-7180 | Steven Nesmith | Thesis Title: Hydrogen Plasma Passivation of Ultra-Thin Ozone-Grown Silicon Oxide Committee: Prof. N. Kherani (Supervisor), Prof. Z.H. Lu (Chair), Prof. W.T. Ng, Prof. H. Ruda |
| Date: 17 January 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-3014 | Naif Tarafdar | Thesis Title: Building and Using Virtual FPGA Clusters in Datacenters Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. P. Herman (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. A. Leon-Garcia |
| Date: 12 January 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location: BA-3014 | Alif Zaman | Thesis Title: Transceiver modelling for high-speed serial links Committee: Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. R. Kwong (Chair), Prof. T. Chan Carusone, Prof. A. Liscidini |
| Date: 6 January 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location: BA-3014 | David King Wai Li | Thesis Title: A Power Management Scheme Using A Time-Shared Inductor for Energy Harvesting Applications with Low Cold-Start Voltage Committee: Prof. O. Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Chair), Prof. W.T. Ng, Prof. Z. Tate |
| Date: 5 January 2017 Time: 3:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Justin Tai | Thesis Title: High-Level Synthesis for Datacenter Applications Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. L. Qian (Chair), Prof. H.A. Jacobsen, Prof. J. Zhu |
| Date: 13 December 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-8227 | Kenneth Samuel | Thesis Title: Systematic Design of a Microwave GaN Doherty Power Amplifier Committee: Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Supervisor), Prof. J. Anderson (Chair), Prof. C.D. Sarris, Prof. S.V. Hum |
| Date: 9 December 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: BA-3014 | Cory Rewcastle | Thesis Title: Electromagnetic and Mechanical Perturbations of Photonic Crystal Slab Sensors Committee: Prof. O. Levi (Supervisor), Prof. K. Truong (Chair), Prof. N. Kherani, Prof. M. Mojahedi |
| Date: 8 December 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: WB-407 | Wahid Rahman | Thesis Title: Frequency Detection for Reference-less Baud-Rate Clock and Data Recovery in 28nm CMOS Committee: Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. J. Poon (Chair), Prof. T. Chan Carusone, Prof. W.T. Ng |
| Date: 30 November 2016 Time: 3:00pm Location: RS-207 | Bozhou Du | Thesis Title: Analysis and design of simple, low loss and low cost reconfigurable reflectarrays Committee: Prof. S.V. Hum (Supervisor), Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Chair), Prof. G. Eleftheriades, Prof. C.D. Sarris |
| Date: 18 November 2016 Time: 3:10pm Location: SF-B560 | Kristopher Bicanic | Thesis Title: Design of a High Power White Light Source with Colloidal Quantum Dots and Non-Rare-Earth Phosphors Committee: Prof. E. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), Prof. P. Herman, Prof. A. Helmy |
| Date: 18 October 2016 Time: 3:00pm Location: BA-7180 | Chuanwei Li | Thesis Title: Class-C PA-VCO Cell for FSK and GFSK Transmitters in 130nm Technology Committee: Prof. A. Liscidini (Supervisor), Prof. J. Anderson (Chair), Prof. A. Chan Carusone, Prof. A. Sheikholeslami |
| Date: 11 October 2016 Time: 11:30am Location: BA-8256 | Hassan Farooq | Thesis Title: Metallic field-effect transistors Committee: Prof. S. Voinigescu (Supervisor), Prof. J. Rose (Chair), Prof. W.T. Ng, Prof. C. Veer Singh |
| Date: 29 September 2016 Time: 3:00pm Location: BA-8256 | Yinan Liu | Thesis Title: Improving Network Performance for Applications Running over Wide Area Networks Committee: Prof. B. Li (Supervisor), Prof. C. Amza (Chair), Prof. A. Leon-Garcia, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date: 29 September 2016 Time: 12:30pm Location: BA-8227 | Meng Lon Iu | Thesis Title: Optical Parametric Devices Committee: Prof. A. Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. P. Lehn (Chair), Prof. T. Sargent, Prof. N. Kherani |
| Date: 28 September 2016 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-4287 | Zeinab Mohammadi | Thesis Title: Ultrafast-Laser Formed Fiber Cladding Photonics for Evanescent Refractometry Committee: Prof. P. Herman (Supervisor), Prof. R. Genov (Chair), Prof. L. Qian, Prof. M. Mojahedi |
| Date: 28 September 2016 Time: 9:00am Location: BA-4287 | Shadi Dashmiz | Thesis Title: Auto-tune Near Minimum-Deviation Digital Controller For Hard Switching dc-dc Converters Committee: Prof. A. Prodic (Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), Prof. R. Iravani, Prof. J. Taylor |
| Date: 27 September 2016 Time: 4:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Steven Chung | Thesis Title: Hybrid Lead-Acid/Lithium-Ion Energy Storage System with Power-Mix Control for Light Electric Vehicles Committee: Prof. O. Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. P. Triverio (Chair), Prof. W.T. Ng, Prof. P. Lehn |
| Date: 26 September 2016 Time: 2:15pm Location: BA-7180 | David Yiwei Ding | Thesis Title: Joint Power Control and User Association in Downlink Heterogeneous Networks Committee: Prof. W. Yu (Supervisor), Prof. R. Kwong (Chair), Prof. E. Sousa, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date: 22 September 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: MC-331 | Michael Royle | Thesis Title: Frequency-Scanned Waveguide-Fed Slot Array for Millimetre-Wave Radar Applications Committee: Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Supervisor), Prof. R. Adve (Chair), Prof. C. Sarris, Prof. S. Hum |
| Date: 20 September 2016 Time: 10:30am Location: SF-B560 | Man Lok Joshua Chung | Thesis Title: A Comparison between GaN and Silicon Based Class D Audio Power Amplifier with Pulse Density Modulation Committee: Prof. W.T. Ng (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. T. Chan Carusone, Prof. S. Voinigescu |
| Date: 20 September 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-7180 | Oleg Petelin | Thesis Title: CAD Tools and Architectures for Improved FPGA Interconnect Committee: Prof. V. Betz (Supervisor), F. Kschischang (Chair), Prof. J. Rose, Prof. J. Anderson |
| Date: 19 September 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: GB-173 | Peter Scourboutakos | Thesis Title: NEW SEQUENTIAL WAVE IMPRINTING MACHINES VISUALIZE WAVES IN REAL-SPACE AND REAL-TIME BY AUGMEDIATING REALITY Committee: Prof. S. Mann (Supervisor), J.S. Aitchison (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. A. Veneris |
| Date: 19 September 2016 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-7180 | Bharath R. Vellaboyana | Thesis Title: Decentralized scheduling and control in power systems Committee: Prof. J. Taylor (Supervisor), Prof. R. Kwong (Chair), Prof. P. Lehn, Prof. R. Iravani |
| Date: 15 September 2016 Time: 1:00pm Location: RS-407 | Soroosh Ahmadi | Thesis Title: Evaluating Optical Imaging of Particles on Photonic Crystal Slab Biosensors Committee: Prof. O. Levi (Supervisor), Prof. J. Rocheleau (Chair), Prof. L. Qian, Prof. N. Kherani |
| Date: 09 September 2016 Time: 2:30pm Location: BA-3014 | Xingbo Wang | Thesis Title: Motion Control of a Gymnastics Robot Using Virtual Holonomic Constraints Committee: Prof. M. Maggiore (Supervisor), Prof. T. Abdelrahman (Chair), Prof. L. Scardovi, Prof. R. Kwong |
| Date: 08 September 2016 Time: 3:10pm Location: MC-331 | Basil Eleftheriades | Thesis Title: Vibrational Spectroscopy In Liquid Core Waveguides Committee: Prof. A. Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. R. Adve (Chair), Prof. N. Kherani, Prof. O. Levi |
| Date: 08 September 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: BA-4287 | Seyed Pouya Yasrebi | Thesis Title: NFV and VNF Service Chaining on SAVI SDI Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. L. Scardovi (Chair), Prof. H.K. Lo, Prof. K. Plataniotis |
| Date: 08 September 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-4164 | Tae Young Goh | Thesis Title: Single-Inductor 4-Output DC/DC Buck Converter with Comparator-based Fixed-Frequency Single Discharge Control Committee: Prof. W.T. Ng (Supervisor), Prof. R. Adve (Chair), Prof. F. Dawson, Prof. T. Chan Carusone |
| Date: 07 September 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-4287 | Mohammad-Sina Tavoosi-Monfared | Thesis Title: A Security Platform using Software Defined Infrastructure Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. B. Li (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. R. Adve |
| Date: 01 September 2016 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-4164 | Francis Deslauriers | Thesis Title: Opportunistic scheduling in cluster computing Committee: Prof. A. Goel (Supervisor), Prof. J. Liebeherr (Chair), Prof. D. Yuan, Prof. M. Stumm |
| Date: 01 September 2016 Time: 11:00am Location: SF-B560 | Shashwat Sharma | Thesis Title: Multiphysics Design Optimization of Microwave Ablation Antennas Committee: Prof. C. D. Sarris (Supervisor), Prof. P. Herman (Chair), Prof. G. Eleftheriades, Prof. P. Triverio |
| Date: 26 August 2016 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-7180 | Mark Sutherland | Thesis Title: Co-Locating Code and Data for Energy Efficient CPUs Committee: Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Supervisor), Prof. K. Kshishang (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. J. Anderson |
| Date: 24 August 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-4164 | John D Clark | Thesis Title: Study of Strain-Tunable Optical Properties of Metal Thin-Films on Elastomeric Substrates Committee: Prof. N. Kherani (Supervisor), Prof. P. Chow (Chair), Prof. M. Mojahedi, Prof. J. Nogami |
| Date: 22 August 2016 Time: 3:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Joseph Wahba | Thesis Title: Diagnostics in Software-Defined Infrastructure on the SAVI testbed Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garci (Supervisor), Prof. B. Li (Chair), Prof. E. Sousa, Prof. W. Yu |
| Date: 22 August 2016 Time: 1:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Spandan Bemby | Thesis Title: Orchestration over Heterogeneous Infrastructures Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. B. Li (Chair), Prof. E. Sousa, Prof. FW. Yu |
| Date: 02 August 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-7180 | Dong Chan Lee | Thesis Title: Automatic Power Quality Monitoring with Recurrent Neural Network Committee: Prof. D. Kundur (Supervisor), Prof. L. Scardovi (Chair), Prof. M.R. Iravani, Prof. J. Liebeherr |
| Date: 28 July 2016 Time: 10:30am Location: BA-7180 | Gleb Egorov | Thesis Title: Monolithic Photon Pair Separation Committee: Prof. A. Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. D. Yuan (Chair), Prof. D. James, Prof. H. Ruda |
| Date: 25 July 2016 Time: 11:30am Location: SF-B560 | Abdul-Amir Yassine | Thesis Title: A Fast Layer Elimination Approach for Power Grid Reduction in Integrated Circuits Committee: Prof. F. Najm (Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. J. Zhu |
| Date: 19 July 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | MohammadHosein Hasanbeig | Thesis Title: Multi-agent Learning in Coverage Control Games Committee: Prof. L. Pavel (Supervisor), Prof. C. Amza (Chair), Prof. T. Barfoot, Prof. L. Scardovi |
| Date: 13 July 2016 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-3014 | Connor Holmes | Thesis Title: Patterned Linear Systems and Control Committee: Prof. M. Broucke (Supervisor), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. M. Maggiore, Prof. L. Pavel |
| Date: 13 July 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Shuvomoy Das Gupta | Thesis Title: Optimization Models for Energy-Efficient Railway Timetables Committee: Prof. L. Pavel (Supervisor), Prof. R. Adve (Chair), Prof. R. Kwong, Prof. J. Taylor |
| Date: 12 July 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Nadeesha Amarasinghe | Thesis Title: A single-ended simultaneously bidirectional transceiver for ultra-short reach die to die links Committee: Prof. A. Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. J. Poon (Chair), Prof. P.G. Gulak, Prof. A. Liscidini |
| Date: 12 July 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-7180 | Sai Qian Zhang | Thesis Title: Multicast Routing for Virtual Network Functions on SDN Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. P. Chow (Chair), Prof. R. Adve, Prof. E. Sousa |
| Date: 28 June 2016 Time: 10:30am Location: BA-7180 | Hossein Shafieirad | Thesis Title: Opportunistic Routing in Large-Scale Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks Committee: Prof. R. Adve (Supervisor), Prof. S. ShahbazPanahi (Supervisor), Prof. J. Zhu (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. A. Leon-Garcia |
| Date: 24 June 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-5287A | Xiaofei Wang | Thesis Title: Influence of Generation Redispatch Policies on the Impact of Wind Forecast Errors Committee: Prof. J.E. Tate (Supervisor), Prof. J.H. Anderson (Chair), Prof. P.W. Lehn, Prof. A. Prodic |
| Date: 24 June 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-7180 | Mitchell Wasson | Thesis Title: Hardware-Based LP Decoding with ADMM Committee: Prof. S. Draper (Supervisor), Prof. V. Betz (Chair), Prof. P.G. Gulak, Prof. F. Kschischang |
| Date: 17 June 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Chaoxuan Ma | Thesis Title: Silicon Integrated Transmitter for Quantum Key Distribution Committee: Prof. J. Poon (Supervisor), Prof. J. Anderson (Chair), Prof. H.-K. Lo, Prof. L. Qian |
| Date: 7 June 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Abigail Susan Hayhoe | Thesis Title: Impact of Irradiance Change on MPPT Algorithm and Flicker Phenomenon of Solar-PV Units Committee: Prof. M.R. Iravani (Supervisor), Prof. L. Pavel (Chair), Prof. A. Prodic, Prof. J. Taylor |
| Date: 19 May 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-2104 | Dhaval Ketan Miyani | Thesis Title: BinPro – A Tool for Binary Backdoor Accountability for Code Audits Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. M. Mojahedi (Chair), Prof. A. Goel, Prof. D. Yuan |
| Date: 4 May 2016 Time: 1:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Mojtaba Ashourloo | Thesis Title: Efficient Modeling and Real-Time Simulation Architecture for the Electromagnetic Analysis of Half- and Full-Bridge Modular Multilevel Converters Committee: Prof. M.R. Iravani (Supervisor), Prof. M. Broucke (Chair), Prof. P. Lehn, Prof. A. Prodic |
PhD Thesis Departmental Oral Examinations
| Presentation Date, Time, Location | PhD Candidate | Thesis Title, Committee |
|---|---|---|
| Date: 25 November 2024 Time: 9:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Dorakhan, Roham | Thesis Title: CO Electroreduction to Hydrocarbons: Mechanistic Investigations and Catalyst Design Committee: Prof. Edward H. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. David Sinton, Prof. Stewart Aitchison |
| Date: 22 November 2024 Time: 1:30:00 PM Location: Remote | Shuang, He | Thesis Title: On the Security and Privacy of Web Requests Committee: Prof. David Lie (Supervisor), Lianying Zhao (Co-Supervisor), Prof. Ding Yuan, Prof. Ashvin Goel |
| Date: 18 November 2024 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Stirling, Trevor | Thesis Title: Improving Bragg Reflection Waveguide Lasers for Quantum State Generation Committee: Prof. Amr Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. Stewart Aitchison, Prof. Harry Ruda |
| Date: 04 November 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Marinova, Simona | Thesis Title: Autonomous Network Slice Orchestration and Assurance for Future Applications Committee: Prof. Alberto Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. Ben Liang, Prof. Elvino Sousa |
| Date: 04 November 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: In-person | Eleftheriades, Basil | Thesis Title: A Novel High Step-Down Fully Charged Flying Capacitor Converter Committee: Prof. Aleksandar Prodic (Supervisor), Prof. Reza Iravani, Prof. Zeb Tate |
| Date: 04 November 2024 Time: 7:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Habibi, Pooyan | Thesis Title: Service Orchestration and Management Framework for Cloud-native Application Slices Committee: Prof. Alberto Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. Paul Chow, Prof. Arno Jacobsen |
| Date: 18 October 2024 Time: 11:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Nikolić, Miloš | Thesis Title: Learning Efficient Datatypes for Deep Neural Network Training and Inference Committee: Prof. Andreas Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. Nandita Vijaykumar, Prof. Betz, Vaughn |
| Date: 07 October 2024 Time: 12:00:00 PM Location: In-person | Hassan Ali Ragheb Ismail, Omar | Thesis Title: CAD tools for Reconfigurable Architectures Committee: Prof. Jason Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. Vaugh Betz, Prof. Paul Chow |
| Date: 30 September 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Chen, Sijia | Thesis Title: Toward Reliable Problem Solving with Pre-trained Large Language Models Committee: Prof. Baochun Li (Supervisor), Prof. Wei Yu, Prof. Shahrokh Valaee |
| Date: 27 September 2024 Time: 9:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Perryman, Richard | Thesis Title: Port-Hamiltonian Control of Water Distribution Networks Committee: Prof. Joshua A. Taylor (Supervisor), Prof. Bryan Karney, Prof. Luca Scardovi |
| Date: 12 September 2024 Time: 9:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Li, Zonghao | Thesis Title: Applications of Machine Learning in the Design and Optimization of Analog Integrated Circuits and Systems Committee: Prof. Anthony Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. Xilin Liu, Prof. Sorin Voinigescu |
| Date: 22 August 2024 Time: 12:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Alam, Ahmed Shariful | Thesis Title: High-Speed and Power Efficient Integrated Electro-Optic Modulators Committee: Prof. J. Stewart Aitchison (Supervisor), Prof. Amr Helmy, Prof. Nazir P. Kherani |
| Date: 16 August 2024 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Hybrid | Choksi, Neel | Thesis Title: Ultra-narrow optical features using elliptically birefringent fibers Committee: Prof. Li Qian (Supervisor), Prof. Peter Herman, Prof. Mo Mojahedi |
| Date: 14 August 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Hybrid | Murray, Samantha | Thesis Title: Leveraging GaN Integrated Circuits for In-Situ Device Monitoring and High-Density Power Converters Committee: Prof. Olivier Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. Francis Dawson, Prof. Zeb Tate |
| Date: 13 August 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Yang, Mingyue | Thesis Title: Application of machine learning for program and malware analysis Committee: Prof. David Lie Nicolas Papernot (Supervisor), Prof. Ashvin Goel, Prof. Baochun Li |
| Date: 08 August 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Ren, Xiang | Thesis Title: Analyzing System Performance and Automating Performance Diagnosis Committee: Prof. Ding Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. Michael Stumm, Prof. Ashvin Goel |
| Date: 07 August 2024 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Emami Meybodi, Mohammad | Thesis Title: Data Recovery in High Speed Wireline Communication Committee: Prof. Ali Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. Anthony Chan Carusone, Prof. Antonio Liscidini |
| Date: 30 July 2024 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Park, Sungjin | Thesis Title: Pathways to Energy-efficient Chemical Upgrade via CO2 Electrolysis: Roles of the Catalytic Site Microenvironment Committee: Prof. Edward H. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. David Sinton, Prof. Wai Tung Ng |
| Date: 22 July 2024 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Dzeparoska, Kristina | Thesis Title: Management for Realization of Intents and Towards Self-Driving Networks Committee: Prof. Alberto Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. Ben Liang, Prof. Elvino Sousa |
| Date: 17 July 2024 Time: 1:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Xue, Yu | Thesis Title: Layered Division Multiplexing Enabled Broadcast Unicast Convergence in 5G and Beyond Committee: Prof. Elvino Sousa (Supervisor), Prof. Raviraj Adve, Prof. Dimitrios Hatzinakos |
| Date: 16 July 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: In-person | Nie, Shuang | Thesis Title: Advanced wireless power transfer systems for electric vehicles Committee: Prof. Peter W. Lehn (Supervisor), Prof. Francis Dawson, Prof. Zeb Tate |
| Date: 15 July 2024 Time: 9:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Kayal, Paridhika | Thesis Title: Efficient DAG Application Deployment Strategies in Single-tier and Multi-tier Computing Environment Committee: Prof. Alberto Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. Elvino S. Sousa, Prof. Ben Liang |
| Date: 10 July 2024 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: In-person | Almenabawy, Sara Magdi | Thesis Title: Wave Optics Light Trapping and Passivating Contact Schemes for Ultra-thin Silicon Photovoltaics Committee: Prof. Nazir Kherani (Supervisor), Prof. Harry Ruda, Prof. Timothy Bender |
| Date: 27 June 2024 Time: 1:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Chowdhury, Sayantan | Thesis Title: Knowledge Distillation and Its Application to Network Traffic Classification Committee: Prof. Ben Liang (Supervisor), Prof. Alberto Leon-Garcia, Prof. Shahrokh Valaee |
| Date: 27 June 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Roodi, Meysam | Thesis Title: Accelerating the DNA Sequencing Pipeline Committee: Prof. Andreas Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. Michael Stumm, Prof. Tarek S. Abdelrahman |
| Date: 27 June 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Li-Han, Leo Yan | Thesis Title: Methods for Detecting and Estimating Visual Field Progression in Glaucoma Committee: Prof. Willy Wong (Supervisor), Prof. Jonathan Rose, Prof. Ervin Sejdic |
| Date: 26 June 2024 Time: 9:30:00 AM Location: In-person | Goukhshtein, Maxim | Thesis Title: Distribution Matching for Probabilistic Shaping and Stealth Communication: Theory and Algorithms Committee: Prof. Stark Draper (Supervisor), Prof. Frank Kschischang, Prof. Ravi Adve |
| Date: 20 June 2024 Time: 9:00:00 AM Location: Hybrid | Severo, Daniel de Souza | Thesis Title: Random Permutation Codes: Lossless Source Coding of Non-Sequential Data Committee: Prof. Ashish Khisti (Supervisor), Prof. Alireza Makhzani (Co-supervisor), Prof. Frank Kschischang, Prof. Stark Draper |
| Date: 18 June 2024 Time: 1:00:00 PM Location: In-person | Wang, Zhengzheng | Thesis Title: Efficient analysis and optimization methods for the design of electromagnetic surface unit cells Committee: Prof. Sean V. Hum (Supervisor), Prof. George V. Eleftheriades, Prof. Piero Triverio |
| Date: 18 June 2024 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Salinas Delgado, Jhoan Alberto | Thesis Title: Analog Multi-Tone Signaling for Wireline Communication Systems Committee: Prof. Ali Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. Tony Chan Carusone, Prof. Antonio Liscidini |
| Date: 06 June 2024 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: In-person | Boutros, Andrew Maher Mansour | Thesis Title: Reconfigurable Architectures for Deep Learning Committee: Prof. Vaughn Betz (Supervisor), Prof. Jason Anderson, Prof. Paul Chow |
| Date: 31 May 2024 Time: 9:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Lin, Jieyu | Thesis Title: Automated Development and Efficient Execution of Distributed Deep Neural Network Applications on Multi-Tiered Infrastructure Committee: Prof. Leon-Garcia, Alberto (Supervisor), Prof. Jacobsen, Hans-Arno, Prof. Li, Baochun |
| Date: 29 May 2024 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Ebrahimi, MohammadReza | Thesis Title: Machine Learning Perspectives in Compression, Distributed Computing, and Brain Imaging Committee: Prof. Ashish Khisti (Supervisor), Prof. Ben Liang, Prof. Alireza Makhzani |
| Date: 27 May 2024 Time: 12:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Sajedi, Ahmad | Thesis Title: On the Effect of Data on Image Classification Tasks Committee: Prof. Konstantinos Plataniotis (Supervisor), Prof. Yuri Lawryshyn (Co-supervisor), Prof. Dimitrios Hatzinakos, Prof. Gerald Penn |
| Date: 27 May 2024 Time: 9:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Chen, Fu Der | Thesis Title: Wafer-scale Nanophotonic Neural Probes for Simultaneous Patterned Photostimulation and Electrophysiological Recording Committee: Prof. Joyce Poon (Supervisor), Prof. Taufik Valiante (Co-supervisor), Prof. Stewart Aitchison, Prof. Xilin Liu |
| Date: 15 May 2024 Time: 12:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Nelaturu, Keerthi | Thesis Title: Verification and Optimization of Smart contracts using Model-checking Framework Committee: Prof. Veneris, Andreas (Supervisor), Prof. Fan, Long, Prof. Chechik, Marsha |
| Date: 08 May 2024 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Choopani, Armin | Thesis Title: Quantized-Analog Software Defined Radio Committee: Prof. Antonio Liscidini (Supervisor), Prof. Tony Chan Carusone, Prof. Xilin Liu |
| Date: 30 April 2024 Time: 11:00:00 AM Location: In-person | Assadi, Seyed Amir | Thesis Title: Intergration of In-Situ Impedance Extraction into Battery Systems for Enhanced Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Committee: Prof. Trescases, Olivier (Supervisor), Prof. Lehn, Peter, Prof. Joseph Euzebe Tate |
| Date: 29 April 2024 Time: 1:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Anwar, Husna | Thesis Title: Accelerated Materials Exploration for Sustainable Energy Applications Committee: Prof. Edward H. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. Kherani, Nazir, Prof. Voznyy, Oleksandr |
| Date: 26 April 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: In-person | Nasr, Mohamad Amin | Thesis Title: Power Swing in Systems with Inverter-Based Resources Committee: Prof. Hooshyar, Ali (Supervisor), Prof. Iravani, Reza, Prof. Lehn, Peter |
| Date: 25 April 2024 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Akbari, Shiva | Thesis Title: Binary Sparse Modelling for Multi-Anchor Direct Localization using Channel State Information Committee: Prof. Valaee, Shahrokh (Supervisor), Prof. Liang, Ben, Prof. Sousa, Elvino |
| Date: 18 April 2024 Time: 1:00:00 PM Location: In-person | Sultan, Sari | Thesis Title: Configuring In-Memory Caches: From TTL-Aware Sizing to Interval-Based Historical Analysis with HistoChron Committee: Prof. Stumm, Michael (Supervisor), Prof. Goel, Ashvin, Prof. Yuan, Ding |
| Date: 02 April 2024 Time: 12:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Malekzadeh, Parvin | Thesis Title: Towards Efficient and Safe Sequential Decision-Making Agents in Multi-Faceted Uncertainty Committee: Prof. Plataniotis, Konstantinos (Supervisor), Prof. Sejdic, Ervin, Prof. Hatzinakos, Dimitrios |
| Date: 29 February 2024 Time: 9:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Wang, Jingrong | Thesis Title: Network Resource Allocation and Topology Design for Distributed Machine Learning Committee: Prof. Ben Liang (Supervisor), Prof. Li, Baochun, Prof. Draper, Stark |
| Date: 23 February 2024 Time: 11:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Rostampoor, Javane | Thesis Title: Robust Fronthaul in Wireless Networks: A Caching and Traffic Prediction Approach Committee: Prof. Adve, Raviraj (Supervisor), Prof. Liang, Ben, Prof. Yu, Wei |
| Date: 08 February 2024 Time: 12:00:00 AM Location: Hybrid | Ganesan, Karthik | Thesis Title: Secure and Private Machine Learning in Hardware Committee: Prof. Enright Jerger, Natalie (Supervisor), Prof. Moshovos, Andreas, Prof. Papernot, Nicolas |
| Date: 01 February 2024 Time: 12:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Grater, Luke | Thesis Title: Materials Engineering for Perovskite Photovoltaics: Phase-Stable Alloys, Targeted Trap State Remediation, and Synthetic Crystallization Control Committee: Prof. Sargent, Edward (Supervisor), Prof. Kherani, Nazir, Prof. Filleter, Tobin |
| Date: 30 January 2024 Time: 9:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Mohamed, Amr Saber | Thesis Title: Becoming the Cyberattacker: Active Defense for the Electric Grid Committee: Prof. Kundur, Deepa (Supervisor), Prof. Papernot, Nicolas, Prof. Chapman, Margaret |
| Date: 12 January 2024 Time: 12:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Xu, Jianxiong | Thesis Title: Spatially Zooming Energy-Efficient Integrated Neural Interfaces with Quantization Noise Suppression Committee: Prof. Genov, Roman (Supervisor), Prof. Chan Carusone, Anthony, Prof. Liu, Xilin |
| Date: 18 December 2023 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: In-person | Gao, Alice Jiexin | Thesis Title: RNA secondary structure prediction using hybrid methods Committee: Prof. Frey, Brendan (Supervisor), Prof. Makhzani, Alireza, Prof. Elias Khalil |
| Date: 14 December 2023 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Seretis, Aristeidis | Thesis Title: Physics-Based Propagation Models Enabled by Machine Learning Committee: Prof. Sarris, Costas (Supervisor), Prof. Hum, Sean, Prof. Draper, Stark |
| Date: 07 December 2023 Time: 10:30:00 AM Location: In-person | Jiang, Tao | Thesis Title: Learning and Optimization of Communication Systems with Large Arrays: Massive MIMO and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Committee: Prof. Yu, Wei (Supervisor), Prof. Adve, Raviraj, Prof. Liang, Ben |
| Date: 05 December 2023 Time: 9:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Parmar, Darshan Hemantbhai | Thesis Title: Quantum Dot Photodiodes for Enhanced Short-Wavelength Infrared Photodetection: Engineering Charge Transport Committee: Prof. Sargent, Edward (Supervisor), Prof. Kherani, Nazir, Prof. Zheng-Hong, Lu |
| Date: 27 November 2023 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Adikari, Tharindu | Thesis Title: Methods for Improving Computation and Communication Efficiency in Distributed Computing Algorithms Committee: Prof. Draper, Stark (Supervisor), Prof. Khisti, Ashish, Prof. Liang, Ben |
| Date: 23 November 2023 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: In-person | Romano, Andrew | Thesis Title: Nash Equilibrium Seeking with Dynamic Agents in Networks Committee: Prof. Pavel, Lacra (Supervisor), Prof. Broucke, Mireille, Prof. Simpson-Porco, John |
| Date: 22 November 2023 Time: 4:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Yang, Haitang | Thesis Title: Advanced Super-Oscillatory Imaging for Optical Super-resolution Committee: Prof. Eleftheriades, George (Supervisor), Prof. Sarris, Costas, Prof. Triverio, Piero |
| Date: 21 November 2023 Time: 4:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Léger, Zacharie | Thesis Title: Towards Scalable Integrated Sources of Spontaneous Parametric Down-conversion for Quantum Applications Committee: Prof. Helmy, Amr (Supervisor), Prof. Ruda, Harry, Prof. Aephraim M. Steinberg |
| Date: 16 November 2023 Time: 8:30:00 AM Location: Remote | Azizi, Ali | Thesis Title: Fault Current Limiting and Grid Code Compliance for Inverter-Based Resources Committee: Prof. Hooshyar, Ali (Supervisor), Prof. Iravani, Reza, Prof. Trescases, Olivier |
| Date: 10 November 2023 Time: 11:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Abdel-Hafez, Kareem Mahmoud Gamil | Thesis Title: Quantum Mechanical Modelling of Low-Dimensional Supercapacitor Electrodes Committee: Prof. Dawson, Francis (Supervisor), Prof. Donald W. Kirk, Prof. Ng, Wai Tung, Prof. Von Lilienfeld, Anatole |
| Date: 06 November 2023 Time: 4:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Zhao, Qiming | Thesis Title: Adaptive Modeling of Electromagnetic Structures with DGTD and Subcell FDTD Methods Committee: Prof. Sarris, Costas (Supervisor), Prof. Eleftheriades, George, Prof. Masayuki,Yano |
| Date: 01 November 2023 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: In-person | Zhang, Gengrui | Thesis Title: Towards More Efficient and Scalable Consensus Algorithms Committee: Prof. Jacobsen, Hans-Arno (Supervisor), Prof. Li, Baochun, Prof. Fan, Long |
| Date: 26 October 2023 Time: 1:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Elgammal, Mohamed Adel Attia Elhady | Thesis Title: Increasing FPGA CAD Adaptability using Reinforcement Learning and Smart Perturbations Committee: Prof. Betz, Vaughn (Supervisor), Prof. Chow, Paul, Prof. Anderson, Jason |
| Date: 24 October 2023 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: In-person | Kasper Facenda, Gustavo | Thesis Title: Fundamental Limits on Low-Latency Sequential Packet Communication Committee: Prof. Khisti, Ashish (Supervisor), Prof. Kschischang, Frank, Prof. Yu, Wei |
| Date: 20 October 2023 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Liu, Han | Thesis Title: Enhancing Quantum Optical Sensing and Metrology Using Novel Sources and Receivers Based on Optical Parametric Processes Committee: Prof. Helmy, Amr (Supervisor), Prof. Ruda, Harry, Prof. Aitchison, J Stewart |
| Date: 12 October 2023 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: In-person | Hafez, Mohamed Ashraf Kamal | Thesis Title: Adaptive Regulation: Modelling Cerebellum-Driven Processes Committee: Prof. Broucke, Mireille (Supervisor), Prof. Scardovi, Luca, Prof. Simpson-Porco, John |
| Date: 15 September 2023 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Bekmambetova, Fadime | Thesis Title: Conservation Properties of Finite-Difference Time-Domain Methods for the Maxwell and Schrödinger Equations With Application to the Development of New Schemes with Guaranteed Stability Committee: Prof. Triverio, Piero (Supervisor), Prof. Costas, Sarris, Prof. Sean Victor Hum |
| Date: 07 September 2023 Time: 4:10:00 PM Location: Remote | Najafi, Bahareh | Thesis Title: Neural-based Learning for Time-varying Network Analysis Application Committee: Prof. Leon-Garcia, Alberto (Supervisor), Prof. Hatzinakos, Dimitrios, Prof. Sousa, Elvino |
| Date: 31 August 2023 Time: 11:00:00 AM Location: Hybrid | Halamicek, Michael | Thesis Title: Techniques for Miniaturization and Integration of Low-Power Isolated and Non-isolated DC-DC Converters Committee: Prof. Prodic, Aleksandar (Supervisor), Prof. Peter Lehn, Prof. Zeb Tate |
| Date: 15 August 2023 Time: 1:30:00 PM Location: Remote | Arab, Alireza | Thesis Title: Stochastic Methods to Manage Uncertainty in Power system Operation Committee: Prof. Tate, Zeb (Supervisor), Prof. Peter Lehn, Prof. Aleksandar Prodic |
| Date: 03 August 2023 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Cosson-Martin, Jeremy | Thesis Title: Multi-Carrier Signalling in High-Speed Wireline Applications Committee: Prof. Sheikholeslami, Ali (Supervisor), Prof. Tony Chan Carusone, Prof. Liscidini, Antonio |
| Date: 02 August 2023 Time: 11:00:00 AM Location: hybrid | Josipovic, Ksenija | Thesis Title: Universal Minimum Deviation Controller Committee: Prof. Prodic, Aleksandar (Supervisor), Prof. Peter Lehn, Prof. Josh Taylor |
| Date: 25 July 2023 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Li, Chenyang | Thesis Title: Security proofs of quantum key distribution with imperfect source devices: from practical devices to passive system Committee: Prof. Lo, Hoi-Kwong (Supervisor), Prof. Qian, Li, Prof. Poon, Joyce |
| Date: 19 July 2023 Time: 10:30:00 AM Location: Remote | Taha, Bilal Majed | Thesis Title: Eye Biometrics Signal Analysis and Potential Applications in User Authentication and Affective Computing Committee: Prof. Hatzinakos, Dimitrios (Supervisor), Prof. Raviraj Adve, Prof. Shahrokh Valaee |
| Date: 18 July 2023 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Zeineddine, Ali-El-Hadi | Thesis Title: The Quest for Tunability: Nano-Optics of Undulations and Resonances (N.O.U.R) on Pliable and Rigid Substrates Committee: Prof. Kherani, Nazir (Supervisor), Prof. Ruda, Harry, Prof. Aitchison, J Stewart |
| Date: 14 July 2023 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: In-person | Mohammad, Hadeel | Thesis Title: Controlling Molecular Interactions Using Terahertz Electromagnetic Waves Committee: Prof. Adve, Ravi (Supervisor), Prof. Eckford, Andrew (Co-Supervisor), Prof. Wong, Willy, Prof. Sarris, Costas |
| Date: 12 July 2023 Time: 1:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Zhang, Yibo | Thesis Title: High Performance Silicon Optoelectronic Devices Enabled by Photocarrier Transport-Recombination Engineering and Surface Light-Trapping Topologies Committee: Prof. Kherani, Nazir (Supervisor), Prof. Ruda, Harry, Prof. Lu, Zheng-Hong |
| Date: 12 July 2023 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Teale, Sam | Thesis Title: Interface Passivation in Perovskite Photovoltaics: Formation, Dimensionality and Photophysics Committee: Prof. Sargent, Edward (Supervisor), Prof. Qian, Li, Prof. Filleter, Tobin |
| Date: 11 July 2023 Time: 10:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Bagherbeik, Mohammad | Thesis Title: A Multi-Platform High-Performance Computing Framework for Combinatorial Optimization Committee: Prof. Sheikholeslami, Ali (Supervisor), Prof. Chow, Paul, Prof. Enright Jerger, Natalie |
| Date: 04 July 2023 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Lion, David | Thesis Title: Investigating And Improving The Performance Of Managed Language Runtime Environments Committee: Prof. Yuan, Ding (Supervisor), Prof. Goel, Ashvin, Prof. Stumm, Michael |
| Date: 04 July 2023 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Khan, Ahmad Ali | Thesis Title: Percentile Optimization in Wireless Networks Committee: Prof. Adve, Ravi (Supervisor), Prof. Liang, Ben, Prof. Khisti, Ashish |
| Date: 30 June 2023 Time: 2:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Haghi Kashani, Milad | Thesis Title: High-Speed Low-Power Optical Transmitter and Receiver Front-End in 12nm CMOS FinFET Process Committee: Prof. Sheikholeslami, Ali (Supervisor), Prof. Ng, Wai Tung, Prof. Liscidini, Antonio |
| Date: 28 June 2023 Time: 3:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Gulve, Rahul Vasant | Thesis Title: Computational CMOS Image Sensors: Pixel-Wise Programmable Exposure and High-Dynamic-Range Flux Readout Committee: Prof. Genov, Roman (Supervisor), Prof. Chan Carusone, Anthony, Prof. Moshovos, Andreas |
| Date: 27 June 2023 Time: 12:00:00 PM Location: Remote | Da Silva Carvalho, Samuel | Thesis Title: Control and Topological Solutions for Emerging Converters with Increased Capacitive Energy Storage Committee: Prof. Prodic, Aleksandar (Supervisor), Prof. Tate, Zeb, Prof. Lehn, Peter |
| Date: 27 June 2023 Time: 11:00:00 AM Location: Remote | Mahmud, Alam | Thesis Title: Programmable Self-Regenerating Bioelectronic Devices Committee: Prof. Sargent, Edward (Supervisor), Prof. Kelley, Shana, Prof. Kherani, Nazir |
| Date: 20 Jun 2023 Time: 11:00 AM Location: In-Person | Kopp, Eric B. | Thesis Title: A Framework for Automated, Unsupervised Control Synthesis in Noiseless Subspaces of Open Quantum Systems Committee: Prof. Kwong, Raymond (Supervisor), Prof. Broucke, Mireille, Prof. Maggiore, Manfredi |
| Date: 19 Jun 2023 Time: 1:00 PM Location: In-Person | Ang, Paris | Thesis Title: Metasurface Techniques for Managing the Radar Cross-Section of Arbitrary Objects Committee: Prof. Eleftheriades, George (Supervisor), Prof. Hum, Sean, Prof. Sarris, Costas |
| Date: 19 Jun 2023 Time: 12:00 PM Location: In-Person | Ammar, Hussein | Thesis Title: Analysis and Design of Distributed MIMO Wireless Networks Committee: Prof. Adve, Ravi (Supervisor), Prof. Shahbazpanahi, Shahram (Co-Supervisor), Prof. Yu, Wei, Prof. Valaee, Shahrokh |
| Date: 15 Jun 2023 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Remote | Xia, Tian | Thesis Title: Analysis and control of interconnected infinite-dimensional linear systems Committee: Prof. Scardovi, Luca (Supervisor), Prof. Maggiore, Manfredi, Prof. Simpson-Porco, John |
| Date: 14 Jun 2023 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Remote | Little, Maxwell Lloyd | Thesis Title: Autonomous Operation and Control of a Mixed-Source Microgrid with Grid-Forming Converters Committee: Prof. Lehn, Peter (Supervisor), Prof. Tate, Joseph (Zeb), Prof. Dawson, Francis |
| Date: 13 Jun 2023 Time: 10:30 AM Location: Remote | Haghifam, Mahdi | Thesis Title: Information-Theoretic Methods to Study Generalization in Machine Learning Committee: Prof. Roy, Daniel (Supervisor), Prof. Papernot, Nicolas, Prof. Nikolov, Aleksandar |
| Date: 02 Jun 2023 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Remote | Huang, Wei | Thesis Title: Lessons Learned in Hardware-Assisted Operating System Security Committee: Prof. Lie, David (Supervisor), Prof. Stumm, Michael, Prof. Yuan, Ding |
| Date: 23 May 2023 Time: 3:30 PM Location: In-Person | Kemmeugne, Anthony | Thesis Title: Exploring the Potential of Software Defined Networking for Smart Grid Automation: A Cyber-Physical Systems Approach Committee: Prof. Kundur, Deepa (Supervisor), Prof. Li, Baochun, Prof. Hatzinakos, Dimitrios |
| Date: 16 May 2023 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Remote | Duke, Brendan | Thesis Title: Accelerating Deep Learning Workloads with Ephemeral Sparsity Committee: Prof. Parham Aarabi (Supervisor), Prof. Stark Draper, Prof. Kostas Plataniotis |
| Date: 05 May 2023 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Remote | Mohammed Wagih Emam Ismail | Thesis Title: A Design Methodology for Achieving Near Nyquist Continuous Time Pipelined ADCs Committee: Prof. Chan Carusone, Anthony (Supervisor), Prof. Liscidini, Antonio, Prof. Liu, Xilin |
| Date: 14 April 2023 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Remote | Tianhang Zheng | Thesis Title: Exploring Poisoning Effects on Deep Learning Committee: Prof. Baochun Li (Supervisor), Prof. Ben Liang, Prof. Shurui Zhou |
| Date: 04 April 2023 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Remote | Hao Lan | Thesis Title: Device Placement Optimization with Deep Reinforcement Learning Committee: Prof. Baochun Li (Supervisor), Prof. Ben Liang, Prof. Shahrokh Valaee |
| Date: 16 March 2023 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Remote | Hossein Shafieirad | Thesis Title: On Meeting a Max-Delay Constraint Using Reinforcement Learning Committee: Prof. Raviraj S. Adve (Supervisor), Prof. Elvino Sousa, Prof. Ashish Khisti |
| Date: 01 March 2023 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Remote | Behraz Vatankhahghadim | Thesis Title: Practical Considerations of Discrete Multitone Modulation for High-Speed Wireline Links Committee: Prof. A. Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. D. Johns, Prof. X. Liu |
| Date: 16 February 2023 Time: 1:30 PM Location: Remote | Juncheng Wang | Thesis Title: Online Learning and Optimization in Communication Networks Committee: Prof. B. Liang (Supervisor), Prof. M. Dong (Co-Supervisor), Prof. B. Li, Prof. A. Khisti |
| Date: 3 February 2023 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Remote | Wei Cui | Thesis Title: Generalizable Machine Learning for Mathematical Optimizations Committee: Prof. Wei Yu (Supervisor), Prof. S. Draper, Prof. S. Valaee |
| Date: 23 January 2023 Time: 3:15PM Location: In-Person | Ming Yang | Thesis Title: Post-FEC BER Analysis and Optimization of Wireline Transceivers Committee: Prof. Anthony Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. Ali Sheikholeslami, Prof. Xilin Liu |
| Date: 26 January 2023 Time: 12:00PM Location: In-Person | Justin Yonghui Kim | Thesis Title: Power Efficient Voltage-Mode RF Front-End using Quantized Analog Signal Processing Committee: Prof. Antonio Liscidini (Supervisor), Prof. Roman Genov, Prof. Tony Chan Carusone |
| Date: 26 January 2023 Time: 10:00AM Location: In-Person | Muhammed Tahsin Rahman | Thesis Title: Binary Sparse Modelling for Localization Using WiFi Channel State Information Committee: Prof. Shahrokh Valaee (Supervisor), Prof. Ravi Adve, Prof. Wei Yu |
| Date: 16 December 2022 Time: 8:30 AM Location: Remote | Rajiv Prinja | Thesis Title: THz and Raman Characterization of Gas Phase Synthesized Indium Nitride Nanostructures Committee: Prof. Nazir Kherani (Supervisor), Prof. Stewart Aitchison, Prof. Harry Ruda |
| Date: 15 December 2022 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Remote | Shehab Elsayed | Thesis Title: Improving Multi-threaded Application Performance on Modern Chip Multiprocessors Committee: Prof. Natalie Enright Jerger (Supervisor), Prof. Andreas Moshovos, Prof. Jason Anderson |
| Date: 13 December 2022 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Remote | Bazen Gashaw Teferra | Thesis Title: Correlates and Prediction of Generalized Anxiety Disorder from Acoustic and Linguistic Features of Impromptu Speech Committee: Prof. Jonathan Rose (Supervisor), Prof. Willy Wong, Prof. Ervin Sejdic |
| Date: 8 December 2022 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Remote | Morteza Moghaddassian | Thesis Title: Yodel: An ICN Architecture For The Future Internet Committee: Prof. Alberto Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Prof. Yashar Ganjali |
| Date: 29 November 2022 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Remote | Parinaz Naseri | Thesis Title: Inverse Design of Metasurfaces Using Machine Learning Techniques Committee: Prof. Sean Hum (Supervisor), Prof. George Eleftheriades, Prof. Stark Draper |
| Date: 25 November 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Remote | Alireza Zandieh | Thesis Title: Front-end Circuits for Coherent Optical Systems Committee: Prof. Sorin Voinigescu (Supervisor), Prof. Antonio Liscidini, Prof. Wai Tung Ng |
| Date: 24 November 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Remote | Chen Ying | Thesis Title: Improving Training Performance in Federated Learning Committee: Prof. Baochun Li (Supervisor), Prof. Ben Liang, Prof. Arno Jacobsen |
| Date: 22 November 2022 Time: 8:00 AM Location: Remote | Joshua Wicks | Thesis Title: Rational design of CO(2) electroreduction catalysts and their chemical micro-environments in gas diffusion electrode systems Committee: Prof. Edward Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. Nazir Kherani, Prof. David Sinton |
| Date: 11 November 2022 Time: 4:00 PM Location: Remote | Naif Tarafdar | Thesis Title: A Heterogeneous Development Stack for a Re-Configurable Data Centre. Committee: Prof. Paul Chow (Supervisor), Prof. Alberto Leon-Garcia, Prof. Vaughn Betz |
| Date: 10 November 2022 Time: 12:00 PM Location: In-Person | Abdullah Rahnama | Thesis Title: Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Filament Based Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors. Committee: Prof. Peter Herman (Supervisor), Prof. Amr Helmy, Prof. Stewart Aitchison |
| Date: 4 November 2022 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Remote | Maral Vafaie | Thesis Title: Materials Chemistry to Advance the Speed and Sensitivity of Infrared Solution-Cast Photodetectors. Committee: Prof. Edward Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. J. Stewart Aitchison, Prof. Benjamin D. Hatton |
| Date: 25 October 2022 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Remote | David Philpott | Thesis Title: Development and Applications of High-Throughput Microfluidic Cell Sorting Committee: Prof. Edward Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. Paul Yoo, Prof. Shana Kelley |
| Date: 24 October 2022 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Remote | Joao Martins de Pina | Thesis Title: Engineering Semiconductor Nanostructures for Short-Wave Infrared Detection Committee: Prof. Edward Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. Wai Tung Ng, Prof. Offer Levi |
| Date: 14 October 2022 Time: 12:00 PM Location: In-Person | Zhe Gong | Thesis Title: Impedance-Based Battery Management for Cell Utilisation Improvement in Electric Vehicles Committee: Prof. Olivier Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. Ali Hooshyar, Prof. Cristina Amon |
| Date: 12 October 2022 Time: 3:30 PM Location: Remote | Ali Hadi Zadeh | Thesis Title: Fast and Energy-Efficient Inference for Attention-Based Natural Language Processing Models Committee: Prof. Andreas Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. Tarek Abdelrahman, Prof. Gennady Pekhimenko |
| Date: 12 October 2022 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Remote | Yeganeh Zamiri-Jafarian | Thesis Title: Acquiring Information from Bayesian Surprise - A Cognitive Radar Design For Autonomous Driving Committee: Prof. K. N. Plataniotis (Supervisor), Prof. Deepa Kundur, Prof. Dimitrios Hatzinakos, Prof. Shahrokh Valaee |
| Date: 29 September 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Remote | Geonhui Lee | Thesis Title: Integrated Systems for CO2 Capture-and-Upgrade Committee: Prof. Edward Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. David Sinton, Prof. Wai Tung Ng |
| Date: 27 September 2022 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Remote | Salma Emara | Thesis Title: Sequential Decision-Making in Networking Problems Using Deep Reinforcement Learning Committee: Prof. Baochun Li (Supervisor), Prof. Alberto Leon-Garcia, Prof. Jonathan Rose |
| Date: 12 September 2022 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Remote | Nafiseh Ghoroghchian | Thesis Title: Graph-Based Learning for System Analysis and Control: Applications in Brain Networks Committee: Prof. Stark C. Draper (Supervisor), Prof. Roman Genov (Co-Supervisor), Prof. Taufik Valiante, Prof. Kostas Plataniotis |
| Date: 19 August 2022 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | CHOUBISA, Hitarth | Thesis Title: Accelerating the Discovery of Materials for Energy Capture and Energy Storage Using Quantum Chemistry and Machine Learning Committee: Prof. Edward Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. Joyce Poon, Prof. Oleksandr Voznyy |
| Date: 18 August 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | JAHROMI, Martiya Zare | Thesis Title: Security Enhancement of Power Transformer Differential Protection Committee: Prof. Deepa Kundur (Supervisor), Prof. Zeb Tate, Prof. Nicolas Papernot |
| Date: 17 August 2022 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | RODRIGUES, Kirk | Thesis Title: CLP: Efficient and Scalable Search on Compressed Logs. Committee: Prof. Ding Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. Ashvin Goel, Prof. Michael Stumm |
| Date: 17 August 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | OHADI, Amirmasoud | Thesis Title: High-efficiency Waveguide Tunable leaky-wave Antennas and Phase-shifters Committee: Prof. George Eleftheriades (Supervisor), Prof. S. Hum, Prof. P. Triverio |
| Date: 22 July 2022 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | ABORAHAMA, Yousuf | Thesis Title: Light by Design: Generating Arbitrary Scalar or Vectorial Optical Fields in Simple, Inhomogeneous or Anisotropic Media Committee: Prof. Mo Mojahedi (Supervisor), Prof. Li Qian, Prof. Stewart Aitchison |
| Date: 25 July 2022 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | TASBIHI, Amir | Thesis Title: Fiber-optic Communications Under Direct Detection: Capacity Bounds and Tukey Signalling Committee: Prof. Frank R. Kschischang (Supervisor), Prof. Wei Yu, Prof. Hoi-Kwong Lo |
| Date: 21 July 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | CASTRO DINIZ VIANA, Caniggia | Thesis Title: Electric Vehicle Drivetrain with Integrated, Standard Compliant, Nonisolated Charging and Auxiliary Power Module Committee: Prof. Peter W. Lehn (Supervisor), Prof. Reza Iravani, Prof. Olivier Trescases |
| Date: 14 July 2022 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Erfan Meskar | Thesis Title: Fair Multi-Resource Allocation For Mobile Edge Computing Committee: Prof. B. Liang (Supervisor), Prof. B. Li, Prof. S. Valaee |
| Date: 13 April 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA7180 | Philippe Gray | Thesis Title: The Current Shaping Modular Multilevel Converter Committee: Prof. P. Lehn (Supervisor), Prof. A. Prodic, Prof. F. Dawson |
| Date: 13 April 2022 Time: 11:30 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Sameer Kumar Sharma | Thesis Title: Design and Characterization of Touch Sensing, EMI Shielding and Wireless Power Transfer Structures for Wireless Devices Committee: Prof. C. Sarris (Supervisor), Prof. G. Eleftheriades, Prof. S. Hum |
| Date: 17 February 2022 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Robert McKenzie | Thesis Title: A Distortion Suppression Technique for a Digital Class D Audio Power Amplifier with Pulse Density Modulation Committee: Prof. W.T. Ng (Supervisor), Prof. O. Trescases, Prof. T. Chan Carusone |
| Date: 9 February 2022 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Shashwat Sharma | Thesis Title: Advanced Boundary Element Techniques for Multiregion and Multiscale Electromagnetic Modelling Committee: Prof. P. Triverio (Supervisor), Prof. C. Sarris, Prof. S. Hum |
| Date: 4 February 2022 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Gerard O’Leary | Thesis Title: Closed-Loop Neuroelectronic Interfaces: In Vitro to Silicon to Clinical Translation Committee: Prof. R. Genov (Supervisor), Prof. T. Valiante (Supervisor), Prof. M. Popovic, Prof. X. Liu |
| Date: 20 January 2022 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Geng Yu (Paul) Xu | Thesis Title: Advanced Electromagnetic Surfaces with Engineered Dispersion Committee: Prof. S. Hum (Supervisor), Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Supervisor), Prof. C. Sarris, Prof. P. Triverio |
| Date: 15 December 2021 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Ziliang Li | Thesis Title: Reduced-Dimensional Metal Halide Perovskites for Light Emission Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. P. Herman, Prof. A. Helmy |
| Date: 18 November 2021 Time: 10:30 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Po-Han Chang | Thesis Title: Integrated Photonic Functions Using Optically Anisotropic Materials Committee: Prof. A. Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. G. Eleftheriades, Prof. P. Herman |
| Date: 10 November 2021 Time: 8:30 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | AbdulAziz Al-Helali | Thesis Title: Molecular Communication in the Human Body for Implanted Electronic Medical Devices Committee: Prof. B. Liang (Supervisor), Prof. R. Adve, Prof. K. Plataniotis |
| Date: 29 October 2021 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Changjia Chen | Thesis Title: Entangled Photon Pair Sources Based on Periodically Poled Silica Fiber Committee: Prof. L. Qian (Supervisor), Prof. H.-K. Lo, Prof. D. James |
| Date: 14 October 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Surath Gomis | Thesis Title: Convergence of Molecular, Nanoscale, and Data-Driven Technologies for Therapeutics and Diagnostics Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. S. Kelley, Prof. S. Aitchison |
| Date: 7 October 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Mohamed Elshazly | Thesis Title: A General Interfacial Capacitance Model for Nanomaterial Supercapacitors: Insights from Computational Quantum Mechanics Committee: Prof. F. Dawson, Prof. A. Huzayyin (Co-Supervisors), Prof. H. Ruda, Prof. R. Newman |
| Date: 5 October 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Margherita Biondi | Thesis Title: Colloidal Quantum Dot Surface Modification for Emerging Optoelectronic Applications Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. N. Kherani, Prof. S. Aitchison |
| Date: 1 October 2021 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Jin Hee Kim | Thesis Title: Architecture and CAD Techniques for Efficient FPGA Implementation of Machine Learning and Other Applications Committee: Prof. J. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 30 September 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Shu-Yi Jack Wong | Thesis Title: A Black-Box Model of Memory Life-Span for NAND Flash Devices Committee: Prof. J. Zhu (Supervisor), Prof. H-A Jacobsen, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 20 September 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Amin Banaiemoqadamfariman | Thesis Title: Distance Protection of Systems with Inverter-Based Resources Committee: Prof. A. Hooshyar, Prof. R. Iravani (Co-Supervisors), Prof. Z. Tate, Prof. J. Taylor |
| Date: 20 August 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Sepehr Semsar | Thesis Title: Full Scale Electric Vehicle Drivetrain-Integrated Charging from a Single-Phase AC Grid and Wireless Power Transfer System Committee: Prof. P. Lehn (Supervisor), Prof. A. Prodic, Prof. Z. Tate |
| Date: 19 August 2021 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Foad Arvani | Thesis Title: RO-Based TDC Design with Configurable Resolution and Power for SPAD-Based TCSPC LiDAR Applications Committee: Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. A. Liscidini, Prof. R. Genov |
| Date: 11 August 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Hossein Farrokhbakht | Thesis Title: Reducing Reliance on Buffering and Virtual Channels in Networks-on-Chip Committee: Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Supervisor), Prof. M. Jeffrey, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 27 July 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Sherif Helmy Mahmoud Mohamed | Thesis Title: Stability Enhancement of the Microgrid Under High-Depth of Penetration of Electronically-Coupled Resources Committee: R. Iravani (Supervisor), Prof. A. Prodic, Prof. A. Hooshyar |
| Date: 26 July 2021 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Haider Al-Lawati | Thesis Title: Distributed Online Learning and Optimization Using the Fixed-Time Approach Committee: S. Draper (Supervisor), Prof. B. Li, Prof. P. Marbach |
| Date: 22 July 2021 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Konstantinos Vasilakopoulos | Thesis Title: Mixed-Signal Processing Techniques for RF Transmitters Committee: A. Liscidini (Supervisor), Prof. D. Johns, Prof. T. Chan Carusone |
| Date: 21 July 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Ziru Huang | Thesis Title: Materials and Device Engineering for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells Committee: T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. N. Kherani, Prof. Z. Lu |
| Date: 15 July 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Andrew Johnston | Thesis Title: Machine Learning-Aided High-Throughput Synthesis and Development of Optoelectronic Materials Committee: T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. D. Seferos, Prof. L. Qian |
| Date: 30 June 2021 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Thomas Lin | Thesis Title: Client-Centric Orchestration and Management of Distributed Applications in Multi-Tier Clouds Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. Y. Ganjali, Prof. H.-A. Jacobsen |
| Date: 29 June 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Behzad Khamidehi | Thesis Title: UAVs for Coverage, Monitoring, and Transport Applications: A Path Planning and Fleet Management Perspective Committee: Prof. E. S. Sousa (Supervisor), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. S. Valaee |
| Date: 25 June 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Majid Raeis | Thesis Title: Real-Time Delay Prediction and Quality of Service Assurance for Traffic Management in Service Systems Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. B. Li, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date: 16 June 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Daniel Di Matteo | Thesis Title: Inference of Anxiety and Depression from Smartphone-Collected Data Committee: Prof. J. Rose, Prof. M. Katzman (Co-Supervisors), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. P. Selby |
| Date: 2 June 2021 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Andrew Flood | Thesis Title: Stimulated Emission Luminescent Solar Concentrators (SELSCs): A Modelling and Materials Study Committee: Prof. N. Kherani (Supervisor), Prof. H. Ruda, Prof. S. Aitchison |
| Date: 20 May 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Sherif Nagib Abbas Seha | Thesis Title: Brain Biometrics under Auditory Stimulation for Human Identity Recognition Committee: Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Supervisor), Prof. K. Plataniotis, Prof. D. Kundur |
| Date: 19 May 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Ayman Hassen Dorrah | Thesis Title: Static and Dynamic Pencil Beam Antennas using Metasurfaces and Metamaterial Structures Committee: Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Supervisor), Prof. S. Hum, Prof. C. Sarris |
| Date: 16 April 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Samer Fouad Zachari Henry | Thesis Title: 3D Antenna Placement for Cellular Communications Committee: Prof. E. Sousa (Supervisor), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. S. Valaee |
| Date: 13 April 2021 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Fernando Martin del Campo Ramirez | Thesis Title: Parallel Architecture Exploration for Data-Intensive Applications Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. N. Koudas |
| Date: 12 March 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Liangji (Jasmine) Lu | Thesis Title: Current Programmed Mode and Fast Transient Control Techniques for Multi-Level Flying Capacitor Converters Committee: Prof. A. Prodic (Supervisor), Prof. P. Lehn, Prof. Z. Tate |
| Date: 4 March 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Petar Todorović | Thesis Title: The Design of Perovskites for Light-Emitting Applications Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. N. Kherani, Prof. A. Aspuru-Guzik |
| Date: 25 February 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Abed Yassine | Thesis Title: FPGA Micro-Architecture for Error Correcting Codes in Data Storage Committee: Prof. V. Betz (Supervisor), Prof. J. Rose, Prof. T.C.Y. Chan |
| Date: 24 February 2021 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Reza Nakhjavani | Thesis Title: FPGA Micro-Architecture for Error Correcting Codes in Data Storage Committee: Prof. J. Zhu (Supervisor), Prof. P. Chow, Prof. F. Kschischang |
| Date: 19 February 2021 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Javad Mirzaei | Thesis Title: Channel Estimation in TDD and FDD-Based Massive MIMO Systems Committee: Prof. R. Adve, Prof. S. ShahbazPanahi (Co-Supervisors), Prof. S. Valaee, Prof. W. Yu |
| Date: 17 February 2021 Time: 8:30 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Arash Riazi | Thesis Title: Nonlinear Interferometer for Quantum Information Processing and Metrology Committee: Prof. L. Qian (Supervisor), Prof. J. Sipe, Prof. T. Sargent |
| Date: 16 February 2021 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Harpreet Singh Grover | Thesis Title: Pulsed Power Circuit Topologies for Gas Laser Applications Committee: Prof. F. Dawson (Supervisor), Prof. H. Ruda, Prof. W. T. Ng |
| Date: 16 December 2020 Time: 10:30 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Mike (Dai) Qin | Thesis Title: Replication and Workload Management for In-Memory OLTP Databases Committee: Prof. A. Goel, Prof. A. Demke Brown (Co-Supervisors), Prof. M. Stumm, Prof. D. Yuan |
| Date: 15 December 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Torrey Thiessen | Thesis Title: Backside-Integrated III-V-on-Silicon Lasers and Modulators Committee: Prof. J. Poon (Supervisor), Prof. S. Aitchison, Prof. A. Helmy |
| Date: 14 December 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Navid Sarhangnejad | Thesis Title: Per-Pixel Coded-Exposure CMOS Image Sensors Committee: Prof. R. Genov, Prof. K. Kutulakos (Co-Supervisors), Prof. A. Liscidini, Prof. A. Sheikholeslami |
| Date: 14 December 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Junho Jeong | Thesis Title: Vanadium Dioxide for Memory, Oscillators, and Optical Beam Manipulation Committee: Prof. J. Poon (Supervisor), Prof. J. Nogami, Prof. H. Ruda |
| Date: 11 December 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Mojtaba Ashourloo | Thesis Title: A Masterless Fault-Tolerant Hybrid Switched-Capacitor Dickson Converter for 48-V Multi-Phase Automotive Applications Committee: Prof. O. Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. R. Iravani, Prof. T. Chan Carusone |
| Date: 25 November 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Masoud Barakatain | Thesis Title: Low-Complexity Forward Error Correction and Modulation for Optical Communication Committee: Prof. F. Kschischang (Supervisor), Prof. S. Draper, Prof. W. Yu |
| Date: 11 November 2020 Time: 12:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Hojjat Salehinejad | Thesis Title: Energy Models for Pruning Neural Networks Committee: Prof. S. Valaee (Supervisor), Prof. K. Plataniotis, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date: 9 November 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Michael Chen | Thesis Title: Design and Applications of Printed-Circuit-Board Huygens’ Metasurfaces Committee: Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Supervisor), Prof. S. Hum, Prof. C. Sarris |
| Date: 26 October 2020 Time: 12:30 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Yongle Zhang | Thesis Title: Automating Failure Diagnosis for Distributed Systems Committee: Prof. D. Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. M. Stumm, Prof. A. Goel |
| Date: 16 October 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Golam Bappi | Thesis Title: Carrier Dynamics and Lasing Applications of Colloidal Quantum Dots Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. S. Aitchison, Prof. L. Qian |
| Date: 8 September 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Arman Ghasaei | Thesis Title: Hierarchical Discrete-Event Supervisory Control of AC Multi-Microgrid Systems Committee: Prof. R. Iravani (Supervisor), Prof. Z. Tate, Prof. A. Prodic |
| Date: 6 August 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Michelle Yan Yi Wong | Thesis Title: Targeted Security Analysis of Android Applications with Hybrid Program Analysis Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. T. Abdelrahman, Prof. A. Goel |
| Date: 7 July 2020 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Mingyang Wei | Thesis Title: Composition and Dimensionality Engineering of Perovskite Materials for Photovoltaic Applications Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. H. Ruda, Prof. S. Aitchison |
| Date: 6 July 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | James Fan | Thesis Title: Managing the Surface of Infrared Colloidal Quantum Dots for Photovoltaics Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. N. Kherani, Prof. O. Voznyy |
| Date: 12 June 2020 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Kevin E. Murray | Thesis Title: Fast and Flexible CAD for FPGAs and Timing Analysis Committee: Prof. V. Betz (Supervisor), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. J. Rose |
| Date: 10 June 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Wanyu Lin | Thesis Title: Social Media Analytics with Graph Convolutional Networks Committee: Prof. B. Li (Supervisor), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. C. Amza |
| Date: 3 June 2020 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Xu Zhao | Thesis Title: Automating Log-Based Debugging on Distributed Server Stacks Committee: Prof. D. Yuan (Supervisor), Prof. D. Lie, Prof. M. Stumm |
| Date: 11 May 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Hao Wang | Thesis Title: Optimizing Distributed Computing Systems via Machine Learning Committee: Prof. B. Li (Supervisor), Prof. A. Leo-Garcia, Prof. H.A. Jacobsen |
| Date: 21 April 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Virtual Correspondence | Zhilin Chen | Thesis Title: Sparse Activity Detection for Massive Random Access Committee: Prof. W. Yu (Supervisor), Prof. R. Adve, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date: 11 March 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Location: SF-B560 | Andrew Shorten | Thesis Title: Digital Control for Switched Mode Power Supplies with Improved Power Device Behaviour and Reconfigurable Functionalities Committee: Prof. W.T. Ng (Supervisor), Prof. T. Chan Carusone, Prof. O. Trescases |
| Date: 27 February 2020 Time: 4:00 PM Location: MB-101 | Ryan Berryhill | Thesis Title: Novel Approaches to Hardware Safety Checking and Certificate Minimization Committee: Prof. A. Veneris (Supervisor), Prof. M. Chechik, Prof. J. Anderson |
| Date: 27 February 2020 Time: 2:15 PM Location: WB-215 | Moein Shayegannia | Thesis Title: Enhanced Rainbow Trapping in Width-graded Chirped MIM Nano-gratings for High-sensitivity Multiwavelength Bio-molecular Detection Committee: Prof. N. Kherani (Supervisor), Prof. H. Ruda, Prof. M. Mojahedi |
| Date: 31 January 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-7180 | Mostafa Mahfouz | Thesis Title: Control and Operation of the Battery-Enabled Direct-Current Fast Charging Station for Electric Vehicles Committee: Prof. R. Iravani (Supervisor), Prof. O. Trescases, Prof. J. Taylor, Prof. Z. Tate |
| Date: 20 January 2020 Time: 10:00 AM Location: SF-B560 | Arnamoy Bhattacharyya | Thesis Title: Context Aware Performance Modeling for Cloud Workloads Committee: Prof. E. de Lara, Prof. C. Amza (Co-Supervisors), Prof. W. T. Ng (Chair), Prof. B. Li, Prof. A. Goel |
| Date: 10 January 2020 Time: 1:00 PM Location: SF-B560 | Charles Lo | Thesis Title: Imrpving Hardware Design Reuse through Design-Space Exploration Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. A. Khisti (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. J. Anderson |
| Date: 20 December 2019 Time: 10:30 AM Location: BA-3014 | Braiden Brousseau | Thesis Title: Infrared Model-Based Eye Tracking for Smartphone Committee: Prof. J. Rose (Supervisor), Prof. M. Eizenman (Co-Supervisor), Prof. A. Prodic (Chair), Prof. B. Li, Prof. P. Aarabi |
| Date: 17 December 2019 Time: 11:00 AM Location: MC-331 | Ehsan Alimohammadian | Thesis Title: Shaping Nonlinear Laser Interactions Inside Thin Film and Bulk Glass Committee: Prof. P. Herman (Supervisor), Prof. H.L. Chen (Chair), Prof. J.S. Aitchison, Prof. L. Qian |
| Date: 14 November 2019 Time: 2:30 PM Location: BA-3014 | Kaiming Shen | Thesis Title: Fractional Programming for Communication System Design Committee: Prof. W. Yu (Supervisor), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. A. Khisti, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date: 13 November 2019 Time: 1:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | Maged ElAnsary | Thesis Title: Multi-modal Fully-wireless SoCs for Interfacing with the Nervous System Committee: Prof. R. Genov (Supervisor), Prof. O. Trescases (Chair), Prof. W.T. Ng, Prof. T. Chan Carusone |
| Date: 12 November 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Sayeh Sharifymoghaddam | Thesis Title: Loom and Laconic, Hardware Accelerators for Deep Learning Algorithms Committee: Prof. A. Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. D. Johns (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. G. Pekhimenko |
| Date: 25 October 2019 Time: 9:30 AM Location: PT-266 | Lei Ba | Thesis Title: Learning to Attend Committee: Prof. B. Frey, Prof. G. Hinton (Co-Supervisors), Prof. A. Moshovos (Chair), Prof. R. Grosse, Prof. D. Duvenaud |
| Date: 1 October 2019 Time: 11:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Xinyue Zhang | Thesis Title: Reduced-Order Modeling in the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method Committee: Prof. P. Triverio (Supervisor), Prof. S. Aitchison (Chair), Prof. S. Hum, Prof. C. Sarris |
| Date: 18 September 2019 Time: 1:00 PM Location: BA-3014 | M. Reza Pazhouhandeh | Thesis Title: BRAINI: Bidirectional Rail-to-rail Artifact-Immune Neural-Interface Committee: Prof. R. Genov (Supervisor), Prof. O. Trescases (Chair), Prof. D. Johns, Prof. T. Chan Carusone |
| Date: 29 August 2019 Time: 11:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Ibrahim Ahmed | Thesis Title: Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Current and Future FPGAs Committee: Prof. V. Betz (Supervisor), Prof. O. Levi (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 20 August 2019 Time: 1:00 PM Location: SF-1022 | Kamran Akbari Moornani | Thesis Title: Cooperative Distributed Model-Predictive Control of HVDC Grid Committee: Prof. R. Iravani, Prof. A. Yazdani (Co-Supervisors), Prof. W. Wong (Chair), Prof. J. Taylor, Prof. Z. Tate |
| Date: 31 July 2019 Time: 9:00 AM Location: MC-331 | Mario Badr | Thesis Title: New Tools for Evaluating Parallel and Heterogeneous Architectures Committee: Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Supervisor), Prof. H-L Cheng (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 24 July 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: MY-763 | Jonathan Chung | Thesis Title: Analysis of Visual Scanning Behaviour in Patients with Psychiatric Disorders Committee: Prof. M. Eizenman (Supervisor), Prof. J. Rose (Chair), Prof. F. Kschischang, Prof. P. GIacobbe |
| Date: 23 July 2019 Time: 9:30 AM Location: BA-7180 | Yuchu He | Thesis Title: Metamaterial Devices for Wavefront Manipulation from Optical to Microwave Frequencies Committee: Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. C. Sarris, Prof. S. Hum |
| Date: 22 July 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: PT-473 | Jingshu Yu | Thesis Title: A Smart Gate Driver IC for GaN Power Transistors Committee: Prof. W. T. Ng (Supervisor), Prof. P. Chow (Chair), Prof. J. Taylor, Prof. S. Voinigescu |
| Date: 18 July 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-7180 | Weijia Zhang | Thesis Title: A Smart Gate Driver IC for Enhancement Mode GaN Power Transistors with Dead-Time Correction Committee: Prof. W. T. Ng (Supervisor), Prof. J. Anderson (Chair), Prof. F. P. Dawson, Prof. A. Prodic |
| Date: 16 July 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-7180 | Alireza Heidar-Barghi | Thesis Title: A Model-Driven Framework for High-Level Adaptation of Algorithms to Computing Architectures Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. B. Liang (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 25 June 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-7180 | Arin Minasian | Thesis Title: Optimal Design of Multi-user Distributed Massive MIMO Systems Committee: Prof. R. Adve, Prof. S. Shahbaz Panahi (Co-Supervisors), Prof. T. Abdelrahman (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. S. Draper |
| Date: 24 June 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-3014 | Olivier Ouellette | Thesis Title: Optoelectronic Investigations of Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. J. Poon, Prof. N. Kherani |
| Date: 24 June 2019 Time: 9:30 AM Location: BA-7180 | Zhen Dai | Thesis Title: Line and Generator Outage Identification Using Synchophasor Measurements Committee: Prof. Z. Tate (Supervisor), Prof. J. Anderson (Chair), Prof. P. Lehn, Prof. A. Prodic, Prof. B. Venkatesh |
| Date: 23 May 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: SF-B560 | Sowndarya Sundar | Thesis Title: Optimization Algorithms for Task Offloading and Scheduling in Cloud Computing Committee: Prof. B. Liang (Supervisor), Prof. H-K Lo (Chair), Prof. A. Khisti, Prof. A. Leon-Garcia |
| Date: 14 May 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-7180 | Rafael Quintero-Bermudez | Thesis Title: Perovskite Semiconductor Nanostructures for Light Emission Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. V. Betz (Chair), Prof. S. Aitchison, Prof. M. Wilson |
| Date: 7 May 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: BA-7180 | S. Zeynep Lulec | Thesis Title: A Continuous-Time Modelling and Design Approach for Oversampled Passive Switched-Capacitor Filters Committee: Prof. D. Johns, Prof. A. Liscidini (Co-Supervisors), Prof. E. Sousa (Chair), Prof. T. Chan Carusone, Prof. A. Sheikholeslami |
| Date: 17 April 2019 Time: 2:00 PM Location: BA-5287A | Marijan Vukosavljev | Thesis Title: A Modular and Hierarchical Framework for Motion Planning with Feedback-Based Motion Primitives Committee: Prof. M. Broucke, Prof. A. Schoellig (Co-Supervisors), Prof. A. Khisti (Chair), Prof. L. Pavel, Prof. L. Scardovi |
| Date: 12 April 2019 Time: 10:00 AM Location: SF-1022 | Ruoyun Shi | Thesis Title: An Integrated Charge and Drive System for Electric Vehicles Committee: Prof. P. Lehn (Supervisor), Prof. S. Draper (Chair), Prof. F. Dawson, Prof. J. Taylor, Prof. A. Hooshyar |
| Date: 9 April 2019 Time: 11:00 AM Location: BA-7180 | Utkarsh Patel | Thesis Title: Reduced-Order Integral Equation Methods to Solve Complex Electromagnetic Problems Committee: Prof. P. Triverio, Prof. S. Hum (Co-Supervisors), Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Chair), Prof. G. Eleftheriades, Prof. C. Sarris |
| Date: 5 April 2019 Time: 3:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Antoine Lesage-Landry | Thesis Title: Online Optimization for Demand Response Committee: Prof. J. Taylor (Supervisor), Prof. S. Draper (Chair), Prof. R. Iravani, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date: 27 March 2019 Time: 12:00pm Location: BA-5281 | Mostafa Mahmoud | Thesis Title: Data-Aware Computational Imaging Acceleration Committee: Prof. A. Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 20 March 2019 Time: 1:00pm Location: SF-1022 | Jared Mikkelsen | Thesis Title: Photonic Devices and Platforms for Very-Large-Scale Integration on Silicon Committee: Prof. J. Poon (Supervisor), Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Chair), Prof. L. Qian, Prof. N. Kherani |
| Date: 15 March 2019 Time: 1:00pm Location: SF-1022 | Alex Rodionov | Thesis Title: Automated Interconnect Synthesis and Optimization for FPGAs Committee: Prof. J. Rose (Supervisor), Prof. A. Prodic (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. N. Enright Jerger |
| Date: 13 March 2019 Time: 4:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Neeraj Sood | Thesis Title: Ray-Tracing Propagation Models of Complex Guideway Geometries for the Deployment of Train Control Systems Committee: Prof. C. Sarris (Supervisor), Prof. J. Liebeherr (Chair), Prof. S. Hum, Prof. G. Eleftheriades |
| Date: 27 February 2019 Time: 2:30pm Location: BA-5287A | Charles Chih-Chin Lin | Thesis Title: Photonic Devices using Coupled Plasmonic Structures Committee: Prof. A. Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. E. Sousa (Chair), Prof. S. Aitchison, Prof. N. Kherani |
| Date: 21 February 2019 Time: 10:30am Location: SF-1022 | Zahra Naghsh | Thesis Title: Contiguous Conflict-Free Link Scheduling for Efficient V2X Communication in the Next Generation of Wireless Networks Committee: Prof. S. Valaee (Supervisor), Prof. A. Prodic (Chair), Prof. D. Kundur, Prof. D. Hatzinakos |
| Date: 1 February 2019 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Zheng Yong | Thesis Title: Optimized PN Junctions and Three-Dimensional Integration for Carrier-Depletion Silicon Optical Modulators Committee: Prof. J. Poon (Supervisor), Prof. R. Genov (Chair), Prof. S. Aitchison, Prof. T. Sargent |
| Date: 18 January 2019 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-3014 | Sadegh Yazdanshenas | Thesis Title: Datacenter-optimized FPGAs Committee: Prof. V. Betz (Supervisor), Prof. S. Draper (Chair), Prof. P. Chow, Prof. J. Anderson |
| Date: 17 January 2019 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-1022 | Essam Elsahwi | Thesis Title: In-situ Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy for Wastewater Treatment Applications Committee: Prof. F. Dawson, Prof. H. Ruda (Co-Supervisors), Prof. W. T. Ng (Chair), Prof. P. Lehn, Prof. D. Kirk |
| Date: 6 December 2018 Time: 12:00pm Location: SF-1022 | Zahi Moudallal | Thesis Title: Voltage-Drop and Electromigration in Chip Power Grids Committee: Prof. F. N. Najm (Supervisor), Prof. P. Triverio (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. V. Betz |
| Date: 19 November 2018 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-3014 | Ryan Janzen | Thesis Title: Extended Intelligence and Mediated Reality Veillametrics in the Space-Time-Frequency-Amplitude Domain Committee: Prof. S. Mann (Supervisor), Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Chair), Prof. P. Chow, Prof. H. Kunov |
| Date: 15 November 2018 Time: 3:00pm Location: BA-3014 | Grant Walters | Thesis Title: Extending the Breadth of Metal Halide Perovskite Applications to the Control and Modulation of Light Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. H. L. Cheng (Chair), Prof. J. Poon, Prof. N. Kherani |
| Date: 14 November 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: WB-139 | Loh Yi Yang Joel | Thesis Title: The Opto-electronic Characterization of Indium Oxide for the Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Committee: Prof. N. Kherani (Supervisor), Prof. A. Prodić (Chair), Prof. H. Ruda, Prof. G. Ozin |
| Date: 29 October 2018 Time: 2:10pm Location: SF-B560 | Ashton Roza | Thesis Title: Distributed Coordination Theory for Ground and Aerial Robot Teams Committee: Prof. M. Maggiore, Prof. L. Scardovi (Co-Supervisors), Prof. P. Lehn (Chair), Prof. R. Kwong, Prof. A. Schoellig |
| Date: 22 October 2018 Time: 2:00pm Location: WB-407 | Ahmed Dorrah | Thesis Title: Longitudinal Patterning of Structural Light and its Applications in Sensing Committee: Prof. M. Mojahedi (Supervisor), Prof. A. Nachman (Chair), Prof. S. Aitchison, Prof. P. Herman |
| Date: 12 October 2018 Time: 1:00pm Location: MB-101 | Shuhao Liu | Thesis Title: Optimizing Big Data Analytics Frameworks in Geographically Distributed Datacenters Committee: Prof. Baochun Li (Supervisor), Prof. J. Liebeherr (Chair), Prof. A. Khisti, Prof. B. Liang |
| Date:28 September 2018 Time: 1:00pm Location: RS-207 | Seyed Arvin Ayoughi | Thesis Title: Cooperative Interference Mitigation in Wireless Cellular Networks Committee: Prof. W. Yu (Supervisor), Prof. J. Zhu (Chair), Prof. F. Kischischang, Prof. A. Khisti |
| Date:26 September 2018 Time: 1:30pm Location: SF-B560 | Min Seok Kim | Thesis Title: Scalar and Tensorial Metasurfaces from Microwaves to Optics Committee: Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Supervisor), Prof. N. Kherani (Chair), Prof. S.V. Hum, Prof. C. Sarris |
| Date:10 September 2018 Time: 3:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Jason Chi Chun Mak | Thesis Title: Optimization Driven Design & Operation of Foundry Fabricated Silicon Photonics Committee: Prof. J. Poon (Supervisor), Prof. A. Khisti (Chair), Prof. T. Sargent, Prof. S. Aitchison |
| Date:10 September 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-4287 | Luke Wang | Thesis Title: ADC-Based Receivers for Wireline Communication Committee: Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. R. Adve (Chair), Prof. A. Sheikholeslami, Prof. W.T. Ng |
| Date:15 August 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-5281 | Javid Musayev | Thesis Title: Integrated Circuits for Quantized Analog Signal Processing Committee: Prof. A. Liscidini (Supervisor), Prof. S.V. Hum (Chair), Prof. D.A. Johns, Prof. T. Chan Carusone |
| Date:14 August 2018 Time: 11:00am Location: SF-B560 | Louis Tan | Thesis Title: Erasure Source Broadcast: Inner and Outer Bounds for Broadcasting a Binary Source over Erasure Channels with Distortion Constraints Committee: Prof. A. Khisti (Supervisor), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. W. Yu, Prof. K. Plataniotis |
| Date:2 August 2018 Time: 12:00pm Location: SF-1022 | Zachary Kroeze | Thesis Title: Output Reach Control Problem with Applications to Motion Planning for Robotic Systems Committee: Prof. M. Broucke (Supervisor), Prof. J. Taylor (Chair), Prof. L. Pavel, Prof. M. Maggiore |
| Date:22 June 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-7180 | Mengxia Liu | Thesis Title: Colloidal Quantum Dots for Solar Energy Conversion Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. R. Adve (Chair), Prof. N. Kherani, Prof. J.S. Aitchison |
| Date:18 June 2018 Time: 12:00pm Location: BA-5287A | Li Chen | Thesis Title: Optimizing Data Analytics Jobs with Fairness Constraints in Datacenter Networks Committee: Prof. B. Li (Supervisor), Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Chair), Prof. A. Jacobsen, Prof. D. Yuan |
| Date:18 June 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-7180 | Liyao Xiang | Thesis Title: Learning Towards Better Accuracy and Privacy Committee: Prof. B. Li (Supervisor), Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. A. Khisti |
| Date:13 June 2018 Time: 11:00am Location: SF-B560 | Zissis Paraskevas Poulos | Thesis Title: Scalable Inference in Hardware Verification and Social Graph Reasoning Committee: Prof. A. Veneris (Supervisor), Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. V. Betz |
| Date:5 June 2018 Time: 1:00pm Location: SF-1022 | Shuthakini Pulendran | Thesis Title: Energy Storage for Frequency Control of Power Systems Committee: Prof. Z. Tate (Supervisor), Prof. A. Khisti (Chair), Prof. P. Lehn, Prof. A. Prodic |
| Date:4 June 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Wendi Zhou | Thesis Title: Molecular and Nanoscale Strategies for Enhancing Biosensing Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. M. Broucke (Chair), Prof. J.S. Aitchison, Prof. S. Kelley |
| Date:11 May 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-1022 | Stephen Alexander Chin | Thesis Title: Architectures and Tools for Efficient Reconfigurable Computing Committee: Prof. J. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. J. Poon (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date:7 May 2018 Time: 1:00pm Location: MB-101 | Herman Man Kai Wong | Thesis Title: Nanophotonic Devices for Modulation and Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Committee: Prof. A. Helmy (Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), Prof. M. Mojahedi, Prof. J.S. Aitchison |
| Date:26 April 2018 Time: 12:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Xiwen Gong | Thesis Title: Quantum Dots in Perovskites: Liquid Heteroepitaxy for Optoelectronics Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. D. Yuan (Chair), Prof. J. Poon, Prof. M. Wilson |
| Date:24 April 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-1022 | Kaveh Mahdaviani | Thesis Title: Robustness and Flexibility in Coding for Distributed Storage Systems Committee: Prof. A. Khisti (Supervisor), Prof. B. Li (Chair), Prof. F. Kschischang, Prof. S. Draper |
| Date:22 March 2018 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-5287A | Michael Ka Kit Leung | Thesis Title: Inference of Computational Models of Alternative Polyadenylation and Splicing Committee: Prof. B. Frey (Supervisor), Prof. J. Rose (Chair), Prof. M. Hoffman, Prof. P. Kim |
| Date:20 March 2018 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-8256 | Xingqi Zhang | Thesis Title: Advanced Parabolic Equation-Based Propagation Modeling for Train Communication Systems Committee: Prof. C. Sarris (Supervisor), Prof. J. Liebeherr (Chair), Prof. G. Eleftheriades, Prof. P. Triverio |
| Date:13 March 2018 Time: 1:00pm Location: SF-1022 | Amit Deshwar | Thesis Title: Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Tumours Committee: Prof. B. Frey (Supervisor), Prof. Q. Morris (Co-Supervisor), Prof. M. Stumm (Chair), Prof. R. Zemel, Prof. P. Boutros |
| Date:26 February 2018 Time: 3:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Zhongfa Liao | Thesis Title: Vertical Integration of Optical Waveguides in the AlGaAs/GaAs Semiconductors Committee: Prof. J.S. Aitchison (Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), Prof. A. Helmy, Prof. L. Qian |
| Date:26 February 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Jingxuan Chen | Thesis Title: Smart IGBT Gate Driver with Temperature Compensated Collector Current Sensing Committee: Prof. W.T. Ng (Supervisor), Prof. P. Lehn (Chair), Prof. A. Prodic, Prof. T. Chan Carusone |
| Date:22 February 2018 Time: 12:00pm Location: BA-7180 | Zhen Huang | Thesis Title: Improving Software Security & Reliability Committee: Prof. D. Lie (Supervisor), Prof. P. Yoo (Chair), Prof. A. Goel, Prof. D. Yuan |
| Date:21 February 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: MB-101 | Binbin Dai | Thesis Title: Downlink Transmission and Caching Strategies for Backhaul-Limited Cloud Radio Access Networks Committee: Prof. W. Yu (Supervisor), Prof. L. Pavel (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. R. Adve |
| Date:8 February 2018 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-8256 | Shuze Zhao | Thesis Title: Moving Beyond Worst-Case Power Design in Datacenters - Distributed UPS and Dynamic Voltage Scaling for FPGAs Committee: Prof. O. Trescases (Supervisor), Prof. J. Anderson (Chair), Prof. Z. Tate, Prof. V. Betz |
| Date:24 January 2018 Time: 11:00am Location: SF-B560 | Patrick Judd | Thesis Title: Exploiting Data Characteristics in the Design of Accelerators for Deep Learning Committee: Prof. A. Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. Z. Tate (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. T. Abdelrahman |
| Date:11 December 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-8256 | Mohamed Ramadan Abdalaty Younis | Direct Stability Assessment of AC-DC Power Systems Committee: Prof. R. Iravani (Supervisor), Prof. D. Kundur (Chair), Prof. Z. Tate, Prof. J. Taylor |
| Date:7 December 2017 Time: 11:00am Location: GB-173 | Farhang Vedadi | Robust Egomotion Estimation for Automatic and Crowdsourcing-Based Indoor Localization and Tracking Committee: Prof. S. Valaee (Supervisor), Prof. A. Moshovos (Chair), Prof. D. Kundur, Prof. D. Hatzinakos |
| Date:6 December 2017 Time: 11:00am Location: GB-167 | Foad Sohrabi | Hybrid Beamforming and One-Bit Precoding for Large-Scale Antenna Arrays Committee: Prof. W. Yu (Supervisor), Prof. O. Trescases (Chair), Prof. R. Adve, Prof. A. Khisti |
| Date:6 November 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Jeffrey (Qiwei) Wang | Adaptive Blocker Cancellation for Wireless Receivers Committee: Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. A. Liscidini (Co-Supervisor), Prof. S. Hum (Chair), Prof. D. Johns, Prof. S. Voinigescu |
| Date:23 October 2017 Time: 12:00pm Location: BA-4164 | Christopher Srinivasa | Message Passing, Alternate Operators, and Hard Regimes Committee: Prof. B. Frey (Supervisor), Prof. M. Stumm (Chair), Prof. P. Aarabi, Prof. R. Grosse |
| Date:11 October 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: GB-173 | Alireza Makhzani | Unsupervised Representation Learning with Autoencoders Committee: Prof. B. Frey (Supervisor), Prof. J. Rose (Chair), Prof. R. Zemel, Prof. R. Urtasun |
| Date:4 October 2017 Time: 11:00am Location: SF-B560 | Oren Kraus | Automating High Content Screening with Deep Learning Committee: Prof. B. Frey (Supervisor), Prof. J. Poon (Chair), Prof. B. Andrews, Prof. A. Moses |
| Date:2 October 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Eman Hammad | Cyber Physical Modeling and Analysis for Smart Grids: Resiliency \& Security Committee: Prof. D. Kundur (Supervisor), Prof. A. Liscidini (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. J.A. Taylor |
| Date:5 September 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location: BA-7180 | Hans-Dieter Lang | Optimization of Wireless Power Transfer Systems with Multiple Transmitters and Receivers Committee: Prof. C. Sarris (Supervisor), Prof. J.A. Taylor (Chair), Prof. S.V. Hum, Prof. W. Yu |
| Date:1 August 2017 Time: 12:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Majid Komeili | Feature Selection, Cross-view Matching and Spoof Detection for Electrocardiogram-based Human Recognition Committee: Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Supervisor), Prof. J.A. Taylor (Chair), Prof. R. Adve, Prof. S. Valaee |
| Date:26 July 2017 Time: 1:00pm Location: MC-331 | Meng-Hsi Chen | Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Mobile Cloud with Computing Access Point Committee: Prof. B. Liang (Supervisor), Prof. M. Dong (Co-Supervisor), Prof. H.K. Lo (Chair), Prof. A. Leon-Garcia, Prof. B. Li |
| Date:24 July 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-7180 | Jaya Prakash Varma Champati | Task Scheduling on Parallel Processors: Semi-Online Settings and Job Placement Constraints Committee: Prof. B. Liang (Supervisor), Prof. D. Yuan (Chair), Prof. J. Liebeherr, Prof. B. Li |
| Date:20 July 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-1022 | Sandeep Chatterjee | Fast and Scalable Physics-Based Electromigration Checking for Power Grids in Integrated Circuits Committee: Prof. F. Najm (Supervisor), Prof. B. Liang (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date:13 July 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location: MB-101 | Nenad Vukadinovic | Low Power Multi-Level Flying Capacitor Converters - Modeling and Control Committee: Prof. A. Prodic (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. R. Iravani, Prof. Z. Tate |
| Date:11 July 2017 Time: 11:00am Location: BA-7180 | Ali Ramezani Kebrya | Resource Management in Distributed and Heterogeneous Networks Committee: Prof. B. Liang (Supervisor), Prof. M. Dong (Supervisor), Prof. L. Qian (Chair), Prof. S. Valaee, Prof. A. Khisti |
| Date: 5 July 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Joshua San Miguel | Reading Between the Bits: Leveraging Subtle Context Behind Data for Efficient Processor Design Committee: Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Supervisor), Prof. L. Scardovi (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. T. Abdelrahman |
| Date: 5 July 2017 Time: 11:00am Location: SF-2104 | Seyyed Mahmood Jafari Sadeghi | A 3D Ubiquitous Multi-Platform Localization and Tracking System for Smart Phones Committee: Prof. S. Valaee (Supervisor), Prof. J. Poon (Chair), Prof. E. Sousa, Prof. J. Liebeherr |
| Date: 4 July 2017 Time: 2:30pm Location: MC-331 | Misel-Myrto Papadopoulou | Address Translation Optimizations for Chip Multiprocessors Committee: Prof. A. Moshovos (Supervisor), Prof. A. Khisti (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. M. Stumm |
| Date: 23 June 2017 Time: 2:30pm Location: BA-7180 | Mohammad Fawaz | Power Grid Verification Committee: Prof. F. Najm (Supervisor), Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Chair), Prof. J.H. Anderson, Prof. A. Veneris |
| Date: 23 June 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: GB-173 | Farzad Salehisadaghiani | Nash Equilibrium Seeking in Networks Committee: Prof. L. Pavel (Supervisor), Prof. J.S. Aitchison (Chair), Prof. R. Kwong, Prof. W. Yu |
| Date: 20 June 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-3014 | Hazem Soliman | Performance Analysis and Optimization of Virtualized Cloud-RAN Systems Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. R. Kwong (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. L. Pavel |
| Date: 14 June 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-1022 | Timothy McRae | Analysis and Design of Hybrid Divided Power Converters Committee: Prof. A. Prodic (Supervisor), Prof. R. Adve (Chair), Prof. P. Lehn, Prof. R. Iravani |
| Date: 13 June 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Mario Milicevic | Thesis Title:Low-Density Parity-Check Decoder Architectures for Integrated Circuits and Quantum Cryptography Committee: Prof. G. Gulak (Supervisor), Prof. H.K. Lo (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. S. Draper |
| Date: 18 May 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-7180 | Sahar Javaher Haghighi | Thesis Title:Monitoring Depth of Anaesthesia through 40-Hz ASSR Committee: Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Supervisor), Prof. A. Veneris (Chair), Prof. B. Bardakjian, Prof. T. Chau |
| Date: 17 May 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Jun Li | Thesis Title:Efficient Erasure Coding in Distributing Storage Systems Committee: Prof. B. Li (Supervisor), Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Chair), Prof. F. Kschischang, Prof. C. Amza |
| Date: 11 May 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location: MB-101 | Behzad Dehlaghi Jadid | Thesis Title:Parallel Ultra-Short Reach Die-to-Die Links Committee: Prof. A. Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. V. Betz (Chair), Prof. A. Sheikholeslami, Prof. A. Liscidini |
| Date: 9 May 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Narges Norouzi | Thesis Title:Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome Assessment based on Tremor Time-Frequency Analysis Committee: Prof. P. Aarabi (Supervisor), Prof. J.H. Anderson (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. K. Plataniotis |
| Date: 8 May 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-7180 | Ramin Mirzahosseini | Thesis Title:FPGA-based Real-Time Simulation Platform for Power Grids Including Multiple Converters Committee: Prof. R. Iravani (Supervisor), Prof. P.R. Herman (Chair), Prof. Z. Tate, Prof. J.A. Taylor |
| Date: 25 April 2017 Time: 1:00pm Location: GB-173 | Melkior Ornik | Thesis Title:New Mathematical Tools in Reach Control Theory Committee: Prof. M.E. Broucke (Supervisor), Prof. J.A. Taylor (Chair), Prof. L. Pavel, Prof. L. Scardovi |
| Date: 24 April 2017 Time: 9:10am Location: BA-7180 | Alireza Sharif-Bakhtiar | Thesis Title:Low power high-speed optical links in CMOS Committee: Prof. T. Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. S.V. Hum (Chair), Prof. D.A. Johns, Prof. S. Voinigescu |
| Date: 20 April 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: MB-101 | Henry Wong | Thesis Title:A superscalar out-of-order x86 soft processor for FPGA Committee: Prof. J. Rose (Supervisor), Prof. V. Betz (Supervisor), Prof. J. Poon (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. N. Enright Jerger |
| Date: 19 April 2017 Time: 9:00am Location: BA-5281 | Wenbo Dai | Thesis Title:Network Imrpovement and Evaluation in Datacenters and Chip-Multiprocessors Committee: Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Supervisor), Prof. L. Pavel (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 13 April 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Yue Yang | Thesis Title:Analytical Modeling of Write Amplification for Garbage Collection in Solid State Drives Committee: Prof. J. Zhu (Supervisor), Prof. M. Wonham (Chair), Prof. A. Moshovos, Prof. P. Marbach |
| Date: 12 April 2017 Time: 12:30pm Location: BA-4287 | James Dou | Thesis Title:A Portable, Point-of-Care Blood Testing Platform Committee: Prof. J.S. Aitchison (Supervisor), Prof. L. Pavel (Chair), Prof. Y. Sun, Prof. A. Guenther |
| Date: 21 March 2017 Time: 11:00am Location: SF-B560 | Safeen Huda | Thesis Title:Circuits, Architectures and CAD for Low-Power FPGAs Committee: Prof. J. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. O. Trescases (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 13 March 2017 Time: 3:00pm Location: GB-173 | Raymond Chun Hing Lo | Thesis Title:Embodied Humanistic Intelligence: Design of Augmediated Reality Digital Eye Glass Committee: Prof. S. Mann (Supervisor), Prof. J. Poon (Chair), Prof. D. Kundur, Prof. K. Singh |
| Date: 9 March 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-3014 | Arnab Dewanjee | Thesis Title:Efficient Light Coupling Techniques for Integrated Photonics Committee: Prof. J.S. Aitchison (Supervisor), M. Mojahedi (Supervisor), Prof. A. Khisti (Chair), Prof. A. Helmy, Prof. P. Herman |
| Date: 2 March 2017 Time: 10:00am Location: GB-173 | Xiao Sun | Thesis Title:Augmented Low-Index-Guiding and Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguides: Properties and Applications for On-chip Polarization Control Committee: Prof. J.S. Aitchison (Supervisor), M. Mojahedi (Supervisor), Prof. M. Maggiore (Chair), Prof. A. Helmy, Prof. J. Poon |
| Date: 24 January 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Pirathayini Srikantha | Thesis Title:Distributed Optimization of Sustainable Power Dispatch and Flexible Consumer Loads for Resilient Power Grid Operations Committee: Prof. D. Kundur (Supervisor), Prof. R. Kwong (Chair), Prof. J. Taylor, Prof. R. Iravani |
| Date: 23 January 2017 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-B560 | WeiWei Li | Thesis Title:Quality of Experience of Over-The-Top Video Streaming Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. M. Chignell (Supervisor) Prof. H.A. Jacobsen (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. B. Li |
| Date: 20 December 2016 Time: 12:00pm Location: BA-3014 | Parisa Khadem Hamedani | Thesis Title:Improving Communication in Chip Multiprocessors Using Emerging Technologies and Machine Learning Committee: Prof. N. Enright Jerger (Supervisor), Prof. O. Trescases (Chair), Prof. P. Chow, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 15 December 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: MC-331 | Alhassan Khedr | Thesis Title: Accelerating Secure Computations Under Homomorphic Encryption Committee: Prof. G. Gulak (Supervisor), Prof. J. Anderson (Chair), Prof. P. Chow, Prof. S. Draper |
| Date: 14 December 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: BA-8227 | Sinisa Colic | Thesis Title: Prediction of Antiepileptic Drug Treatment Outcomes Using Machine Learning Committee: Prof. B. Bardakjian (Supervisor), Prof. S. Voinigescu (Chair), Prof. K. Plataniotis, Prof. L. Zhang |
| Date: 6 December 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Tina Saberi Safaei | Thesis Title: Nanostructured Microelectrodes for High-Activity Electrochemistry in Biosensing and CO2 Reduction Committee: Prof. E. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. P. Triverio (Chair), Prof. N. Kherani, Prof. A. Helmy |
| Date: 1 December 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: MC-331 | Jasmina Vasiljevic | Thesis Title: Memory Architecture Optimization for Stream Applications in High-Level Synthesis Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. N. Kherani (Chair), Prof. J. Anderson, Prof. J. Zhu |
| Date: 29 November 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: GB-173 | Jixian Xu | Thesis Title: Materials interface engineering in perovskite photovoltaics Committee: Prof. E. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. P. Yoo (Chair), Prof. N. Kherani, Prof. Z.H. Lu |
| Date: 22 November 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Joshua Liang | Thesis Title: On-Chip Jitter Measurement and Mitigation Techniques for Clock and Data Recovery Circuits Committee: Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. S. Hum (Chair), Prof. T. Chan Carusone, Prof. A. Liscidini |
| Date:16 November 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Jason Ng | Thesis Title: Fabrication and Characterization of Linear and Nonlinear 3D Photonic Devices in Fused Silica by Femtosecond Laser Writing Committee: Prof. L. Qian (Supervisor), Prof. P. Herman (Supervisor), Prof. P. Chow (Chair), Prof. S. Aitchison, Prof. J. Poon |
| Date:11 November 2016 Time: 10:30am Location: BA-4287 | Saber Amini | Thesis Title: A Variable Gain Direct Digital Readout System for Capacitive Inertial Sensors Committee: Prof. D. Johns (Supervisor), Prof. G. Eleftheriades (Chair), Prof. S. Voiginescu, Prof. A. Liscidini |
| Date:09 November 2016 Time: 8:30am Location: SF-B560 | Amirreza Kiani | Thesis Title: Colloidal Engineering for Infrared-Bandgap Solution-Processed Quantum Dot Solar Cells Committee: Prof. E. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. A. Prodic (Chair), Prof. N. Kherani, Prof. W.T. Ng |
| Date:03 November 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-7180 | Suhail Barot | Thesis Title: Aggregate load modeling for Demand Response via the Minkowski sum Committee: Prof. J. Taylor (Supervisor), Prof. N. Kherani (Chair), Prof. M. Broucke, Prof. R. Iravani |
| Date: 02 November 2016 Time: 1:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Christopher Blake | Thesis Title: Energy Consumption of Error Control Coding Circuits Committee: Prof. F. Kschischang(Supervisor), Prof. A. Prodic (Chair), Prof. G. Gulak, Prof. W. Yu |
| Date: 01 November 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Hamed Sadeghi | Thesis Title: Image-based localization for mobile and vehicular applications Committee: Prof. S. Valaee (Supervisor), Prof. R. Iravani (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. K. Plataniotis |
| Date: 25 October 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Wael Louis | Thesis Title: Online and Continuous Electrocardiogram (ECG) Biometric System Committee: Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Supervisor), Prof. P. Lehn (Chair), Prof. D. Kundur, Prof. S. Draper, Prof. A. Leon-Garcia |
| Date: 17 October 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Stefan Shopov | Thesis Title: Digital mm-Wave Transmitters Committee: Prof. S. Voinigescu (Supervisor), Prof. J. Poon (Chair), Prof. A. Liscidini, Prof. T. Chan Carusone |
| Date: 11 October 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Iliya Sigal | Thesis Title: Miniaturized, label free optical systems for imaging brain hemodynamics Committee: Prof. O. Levi (Supervisor), Prof. Z. Tate (Chair), Prof. S. Aitchison, Prof. B. Wilson |
| Date: 27 September 2016 Time: 3:00pm Location: BA-7180 | Brandon R. Sutherland | Thesis Title: Materials Engineering of Low-Temperature-Processed Hybrid Nanomaterials for Semiconductor Devices Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. A. Moshovos (Chair), Prof. N. Kherani, Prof. L. Qian |
| Date: 22 September 2016 Time: 9:00am Location: SF-B560 | Reza Mokhtari | Thesis Title: Methods for GPU Acceleration of Big Data Applications Committee: Prof. M. Stumm (Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), Prof A. Moshovos, Prof. D. Yuan |
| Date: 21 September 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-4287 | Dave Yan | Thesis Title: Macroscopic Modeling of Electrochemical Devices Committee: Prof. F. Dawson(Supervisor), Prof. M. Pugh (Supervisor), Prof. W.T. Ng (Chair), Prof H. Ruda, Prof. C. Sulem, Prof. A. Bazylak |
| Date: 8 September 2016 Time: 10:30am Location: BA-3014 | Edoardo Serpelloni | Thesis Title: Bang-Bang Practical Stabilization of Rigid Bodies Committee: Prof. M. Maggiore (Supervisor), Prof. C. Damaren (Supervisor), Prof. C. Sarris (Chair), Prof. L. Pavel, Prof. H. Liu |
| Date: 24 August 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Davor Capalija | Thesis Title: Architecture, Mapping Algorithms and Physical Design of Mesh-of-Functional-Units FPGA Overlays for Pipelined Execution of Data Flow Graphs Committee: Prof. T. Abdelrahman (Supervisor), Prof. K. Plataniotis (Chair), Prof. S. Brown, Prof. J. Rose |
| Date: 19 August 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-7180 | Vincent Mirian | Thesis Title: UT-OCL: An OpenCL Framework for Embedded Systems Using Xilinx FPGAs Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. R. Iravani (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. A. Moshovos |
| Date: 18 August 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: BA-7180 | Ali Shariatmadari | Thesis Title: Data Dissemination using Information-Centric Networking Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. B. Li (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. S. Valaee |
| Date: 17 August 2016 Time: 1:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Pisek Kultavewuti | Thesis Title: Integrated Sources of Polarization Entangled Photon Pair States via Spontaneous Four-Wave Mixing in AlGaAs Waveguides Committee: Prof. S. Aitchison (Supervisor), Prof. A. Liscidini (Chair), Prof. A. Helmy, Prof. J. Poon |
| Date: 17 August 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-4287 | Lilin Zhang | Thesis Title: Data Plane Traffic Engineering in Multimedia Communications using Software-Defined Networking Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. H.-A. Jacobsen (Chair), Prof. R. Kwong, Prof. E. Sousa |
| Date: 16 August 2016 Time: 12:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Mahla Poudineh | Thesis Title: On-chip Manipulation and Sorting of Cancer Cells for Next-Generation Diagnostic Technologies Committee: Prof. T. Sargent (Supervisor), Prof. W. Yu (Chair), Prof. S. Aitchison, Prof. S. Kelley |
| Date: 09 August 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-5281 | Arthur Montazeri | Thesis Title: Hyperespectral Light-Trapping within Graded Gratings Using Adiabatically-Coupled Plasmonic Waveguide-Resonators Committee: Prof. N. Khereani (Supervisor), Prof. L. Scardovi (Chair), Prof. S. Aitchison, Prof. H. Ruda |
| Date: 03 August 2016 Time: 3:00pm Location: BA-3014 | Jason Grenier | Thesis Title: Femtosecond laser inscription of optical circuits in the cladding of optical fibers Committee: Prof. P. Herman (Supervisor), Prof. T. Abdelrahman (Chair), Prof. J.S. Aitchison, Prof. O. Levi |
| Date: 02 August 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Ruediger Willenberg | Thesis Title: Heterogeneous Runtime Support for Partitioned Global Address Space Programming on FPGAs Committee: Prof. P. Chow (Supervisor), Prof. A. Helmy (Chair), Prof. T. Abdelrahman, Prof. V. Betz |
| Date: 27 July 2016 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-7180 | Jongsok Choi | Thesis Title: From Software Threads to Parallel Hardware with LegUp High-Level Synthesis Committee: Prof. J. Anderson (Supervisor), Prof. S. Brown (Supervisor), Prof. J. Poon (Chair), Prof. V. Betz, Prof. P. Chow |
| Date: 22 July 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Alireza Mohammadi | Thesis Title: Virtual Holonomic Constraints for Euler-Lagrange Systems Committee: Prof. M. Maggiore (Supervisor), Prof. J. Liebeherr (Chair), Prof. L. Pavel, Prof. L. Scardovi |
| Date: 06 July 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-5281 | Kevin Banovic | Thesis Title: Mixed-Signal Architectures for Spectrum Sensing Committee: Prof. A. Chan Carusone (Supervisor), Prof. E.S. Sousa (Chair), Prof. P.G. Gulak, Prof. A. Liscidini |
| Date: 27 June 2016 Time: 1:00pm Location: BA-5281 | Samira Karimelahi | Thesis Title: Silicon ring modulators for high-speed optical interconnects Committee: Prof. A. Sheikholeslami (Supervisor), Prof. D. Hatzinakos (Chair), Prof. J.S. Aitchison, Prof. A. Helmy |
| Date: 27 June 2016 Time: 1:00pm Location: GB-173 | Mohamed Abdelfattah | Thesis Title: Embedded Networks on Chip for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Committee: Prof. V. Betz (Supervisor), Prof. S. Draper (Chair), Prof. N. Enright Jerger, Prof. J. Rose |
| Date: 21 June 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: BA-7180 | Dohyoung Lee | Thesis Title: Towards a perceptual image quality assessment framework for color data Committee: Prof. K.N. Plataniotis (Supervisor), Prof. M.R. Iravani (Chair), Prof. R. Adve, Prof. C. Amza, Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. A. Leon-Garcia |
| Date: 20 June 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-B560 | Mahdi Marsousi | Thesis Title: Automated Kidney Segmentation in 3D Ultrasound Imagery, and its Application in Computer-Assisted Trauma Diagnosis Committee: Prof. K.N. Plataniotis (Supervisor), Prof. T. Abdelrahman (Chair), Prof. H.-L. Cheng, Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. D. Kundur, Prof. S. Stergiopoulos |
| Date: 20 June 2016 Time: 11:00am Location: BA-4287 | Agop Koulakezian | Thesis Title: Dynamic Route Guidance Algorithms for Robust Roadway Networks Committee: Prof. A. Leon-Garcia (Supervisor), Prof. M.R. Iravani (Chair), Prof. B. Liang, Prof. E.S. Sousa |
| Date: 20 June 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Xingyu Li | Thesis Title: Circular Probabilistic Based Color Processing: Applications in Digital Pathology Image Analysis Committee: Prof. K.N. Plataniotis (Supervisor), Prof. A. Veneris (Chair), Prof. D. Hatzinakos, Prof. D. Kundur, Prof. A. Martel, Prof. S. Stergiopoulos |
| Date: 26 May 2016 Time: 2:00pm Location: SF-2104 | Lei Zhang | Thesis Title: Analysis and Design of Staircase Codes for High Bit-Rate Fibre-Optic Communication Committee: Prof. F. Kschischang (Supervisor), Prof. S. Hum (Chair), Prof. S. Draper, Prof. E. Sousa |
| Date: 18 May 2016 Time: 11:00am Location: SF-B560 | Fahimeh Kazempour | Thesis Title: A Robust Hierarchical Control Structure for Virtual Power Plants Committee: Prof. M.R. Iravani (Supervisor), Prof. A. Yazdani (Co-supervisor, Ryerson U), Prof. L. Qian (Chair), Prof. A. Prodic, Prof. J. Taylor |
| Date: 16 May 2016 Time: 10:00am Location: SF-B560 | Siddarth Hari | Thesis Title: Fiber-optic Communication using Discrete Spectral Modulation Committee: Prof. F. Kschischang (Supervisor), Prof. V. Betz (Chair), Prof. R. Adve, Prof. S. Draper |