Twelve (12) students passed their Ph.D. Preliminary Exam
Nine (9) students passed their Qualifying Exam
We also offer our best wishes to these students in their future endeavors.
Fifteen (15) students completed their Ph.D. degree requirements:
Dr. Trevor Keith Chan
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Photonics)
Advisor: Professor Joseph Ford
Dissertation Title: Retro-Modulators and Fast Beamsteering for Free-Space Optical Communications
Dr. Maxim Abashin
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Photonics)
Advisor: Professor Shaya Fainman
Dissertation Title: Near-field Characterization of Photonic Nanodevices
Current Employment: Post-doc, NIST/University of Maryland
Dr. Paul Sterling Hammon
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Intelligent Systems, Robotics & Control)
Advisor: Professors Virginia de Sa and Kenneth Kreutz-Delgado
Dissertation Title: Adaptive Online Brain-Computer Interface for Interpretation and Visualization of Desired Reach
Current Employment: Analytic Science-Scientist II, FICO
Dr. Shay Shmuel Har-Noy
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Signal and Image Processing)
Advisor: Professor Truong Nguyen
Dissertation Title: Improved LCD Motion Picture Quality
Current Employment: Member of Technical Staff, ViaSat
Dr. Juan Ignacio Montojo-Bennassar
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems)
Advisor: Professor Larry Milstein
Dissertation Title: Adaptive OFDM-Based UWB
Current Employment: Principal Engineer and Manager, Qualcomm Inc.
Dr. Andrea Panigada
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits and Systems)
Advisor: Professor Ian Galton
Dissertation Title: Harmonic Distortion Correction in Pipelined Analog to Digital Converters
Current Employment: CTO (Design Engineer), Chocolate Chip Inc.
Dr. Paul Leo Roberts
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Applied Ocean Sciences)
Advisor: Professors Jules Jaffe and Mohan Trivedi
Dissertation Title: Multi-View, Broadband, Acoustic Classification of Marine Animals
Current Employment: Post-doc, University of California San Diego
Dr. Dung T Vo
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Signal and Image Processing)
Advisor: Professor Truong Nguyen
Dissertation Title: Spatio-Temporal Filtering for Images and Videos: Applications on Quality Enhancement, Coding, and Data Pruning
Current Employment: Senior Research Engineer, Samsung Information Systems; and Teaching Staff, Ho Chi Minh University of Technology
Dr. Sheldon Shao Quan Wu
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Photonics)
Advisor: Professor Paul Yu and Dr. Raymond Beach
Dissertation Title: Hydrocarbon-Free Resonance Transition 795nm Rubidium Laser
Current Employment: Post-doc, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Dr. Mohammad Farazian
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits and Systems)
Advisor: Professor Larry Larson
Dissertation Title: Fast Hopping High-Frequency Carrier Generation in Digital CMOS Technology
Current Employment: Senior Engineer, Qualcomm Inc.
Dr. Rahul Madhav Kodkani
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits and Systems)
Advisor: Professor Larry Larson
Dissertation Title: Silicon-Based Millimeterwave Integrated Circuits for Multi Giga Bits-per-second Wireless Data
Current Employment: RFIC Design Engineer, NXP Semiconductors Inc.
Dr. Zhou Zhou
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Photonics)
Advisor: Professor Sing Lee
Dissertation Title: An Advanced Gray-Scale Technology and Its Application to Micro-Devices
Current Employment: Senior Scientist, Triage Wireless Inc.
Dr. Arun Batra
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems)
Advisor: Dr. James Zeidler
Dissertation Title: Mitigation Techniques for Severe Narrowband Interference
Current Employment: Sr. Engineer, Adaptive Dynamics
Dr. Himanshu Khatri
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits and Systems)
Advisor: Professor Larry Larson
Dissertation Title: Interference Miligation Techniques for SAW-less CDMA Receivers
Current Employment: Senior Engineer, Qualcomm Inc.
Dr. Mohammed Ahmed El-Tanani
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits and Systems)
Advisor: Professor Gabriel Rebeiz
Dissertation Title: High Linearity 1.5-2.5 GHz RF-MEMS and Varactor Diodes Based Tunable Fitters for Wireless Applications
Current Employment: Analog Design Engineer, Intel Inc.
Twelve (12) students completed the Master of Science degree:
Pavel Vladi Kolinko
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits and Systems)
Timothy Edward Fair
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Signal and Image Processing)
Current Employment: Systems Engineer II, SAIC
Gil Edelman
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering)
Current Employment: Self-employed
Lelin Zhang
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Intelligent Systems, Robotics & Control)
Current Employment: Research Staff, Calit2
Ken Yu
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits and Systems)
Wei-Hao Lin
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits and Systems)
Current Employment: RF Engineer, Bravo Tech Inc.
Colin Michael Gage
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems)
Vladimir Ratkovic
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Communication Theory & Systems)
Sraavan R Mundlapudi
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits and Systems)
Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits and Systems)
James Bryan Coles
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Photonics)
Advisor: Professor Stojan Radic
Thesis Title: Advanced Phase Modulation Techniques for Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Suppression in Fiber Optic Parametric Amplifiers
Current Employment: Associate Engineer, Jet Propulsion Lab
Chi Shun Lo
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits and Systems)
And seven (7) students completed the Master of Engineering degree:
Gregory K Fleizach
Master of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Current Employment: Engineer, SPAWAR Pacific
Maryam Owrang
Master of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Current Employment: Associate Engineer, Verizon Wireless
Robert Ian Koch
Master of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Current Employment: Senior Electrical Engineer, Cubic Defense Applications
Chia-Chiunn HoMaster of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Joshua Yan Hang Ng
Master of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Current Employment: Programmer Analyst II, CalIT2
Marie Liza Lopez-Santana
Master of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Current Employment: Electrical Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Mark J Oleary
Master of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Current Employment: Systems Engineer, Entropic Communications
SP09 TA EXCELLENCE AWARD
TA Award: Seong Ho (Paul) Hur