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Defense Notices

EECS MS and PhD Defense Notices for

All students and faculty are welcome to attend the final defense of EECS graduate students completing their M.S. or Ph.D. degrees. Defense notices for M.S./Ph.D. presentations for this year and several previous years are listed below in reverse chronological order.

Students who are nearing the completion of their M.S./Ph.D. research should schedule their final defenses through the EECS graduate office at least THREE WEEKS PRIOR to their presentation date so that there is time to complete the degree requirements check, and post the presentation announcement online.

GIANPIERRE VILLAGOMEZ SALDANA - Exploration of Large Data Sets in Mobile Devices

MS Project Defense (CS)

When & Where:
May 29, 2012
3:00 pm
2001B Eaton Hall
Committee Members:
Jim Miller, Chair
Luke Huan
Brian Potetz

CENK SAHIN - Shaped Offset QPSK Capacity

MS Thesis Defense (EE)

When & Where:
May 22, 2012
3:00 pm
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Erik Perrins, Chair
Shannon Blunt
Jim Stiles

AVINDRA FERNANDO - Identification of Transposable Elements of the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda Melanoleura) Genome

MS Project Defense (CS)

When & Where:
May 18, 2012
9:00 am
129 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Luke Huan, Chair
Swapan Chakrabarti
Xue-Wen Chen

CARL CHESSER - A Regression Test Selection Technique for Graphical User Interfaces

MS Thesis Defense (IT)

When & Where:
May 4, 2012
10:00 am
135 BEST Conference Center
Committee Members:
Hossein Saiedian, Chair
Perry Alexander
Bo Luo

TYLER HERRMANN - Design and Implementation of a Gigabit Ethernet Node

MS Project Defense (EE)

When & Where:
April 17, 2012
1:30 pm
250 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Chris Allen, Chair
Glenn Prescott
Jim Stiles

QIAN WANG - Design and Experimental Characterization of a Erbium Doped GaN Waveguide

MS Thesis Defense (EE)

When & Where:
April 17, 2012
10:00 am
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Ron Hui, Chair
Chris Allen
Ken Demarest

CHRIS HEINTZELMAN - A Frequency Agile Microwave Subsystem through the Use of a Digital Signal Processor, Direct Digital Synthesizer, and High-Speed Analog-to-Digital Converter

MS Project Defense (EE)

When & Where:
April 13, 2012
12:10 pm
250 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Chris Allen, Chair
Shannon Blunt
Jim Stiles

RUOYI JIANG - A Family of Joint Sparse PCA Algorithms for Anomaly Localization in Network Data Streams

MS Thesis Defense (CS)

When & Where:
April 9, 2012
3:00 pm
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Luke Huan, Chair
Victor Frost
Bo Luo

CHRIS REDFORD - Evidentialist Foundationalist Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems

PhD Dissertation Defense (CS)

When & Where:
April 9, 2012
1:00 pm
317 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Arvin Agah, Chair
Swapan Chakrabarti
Luke Huan
Brian Potetz
Prajna Dhar*

HEMAIYER SANKARANARAYANAN - Source-to-Source Refactoring Framework for Local and Glogal Variables

MS Thesis Defense (CoE)

When & Where:
March 8, 2012
2:00 pm
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Prasad Kulkarni, Chair
Andy Gill
Xin Fu

DIVYA IYER - Exploring the Suitability of Existing Tools for Constructing Executable Java Slices

MS Thesis Defense (CS)

When & Where:
January 26, 2012
1:30 pm
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Prasad Kulkarni, Chair
Arvin Agah
Bo Luo

YUANYUAN ZHANG - Spectrally Efficient Multicarrier Systems for Fiber-optic Transmission

PhD Dissertation Defense (EE)

When & Where:
January 25, 2012
1:30 pm
250 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Ron Hui, Chair
Chris Allen
Victor Frost
Erik Perrins
Hui Zhao*

YAO HE - Characteristics of SOA-based Tunable Ring Laser for OCT Application

MS Project Defense (EE)

When & Where:
January 24, 2012
1:00 pm
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Ron Hui, Chair
Swapan Chakrabarti
Luke Huan

MARTIN KUEHNHAUSEN - A Framework for Knowledge Derivation Incorporating Trust and Quality of Data

PhD Comprehensive Defense (CS)

When & Where:
January 9, 2012
10:00 am
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Victor Frost, Chair
Luke Huan
Bo Luo
Gary Minden
Tyrone Duncan*