Recent Recipients of ECE PhD Degrees

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering currently has about 140 graduate students and between 80 and 100 undergraduate ECE students. More than a dozen students have received their PhD degrees from the Department during the last couple of years.

Sadeka Ali, Design of Low Power, Low Phase Noise, High Resolution RF CMOS Frequency Synthesizer - Advisor: Martin Margala; Current Employment: Intel

Quentin Diduck, Ultra High Performance Mixed Signal Design - Advisor: Martin Margala; Current Employment: University of Rochester post-doctoral researcher

John Liobe, Novel embedded testing methodology for mixed-mose integrated systems - Advisor: Martin Margala; Current Employment: University of Rochester post-doctoral researcher

Gordana Velikic, The Use of Phase in Automatic Music Transcription - Advisor: Mark Bocko; Current Employment: University of Rochester post-doctoral researcher

Guoqing Chen, Design and Modeling of HIgh Speed Global On-Chip Interconnects - Advisor: Eby Friedman; Current Employment: Intel

Michael Wieckowski, Testing Methodologies and Systems for Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers - Advisor: Martin Margala; Current Employment: University of Michigan post-doctoral researcher

Jingjing Zhang, Propagation Characteristics of Coplanar Waveguides at Subterahertz Frequencies - Advisor: Thomas Hsiang; Current Employment: Rochester Institute of Technology researcher

Xiaoxiao Dong, Musical Sound Synthesis and a New Music Representation Based on Empirical Physical Modeling of Musical Instruments - Advisor: Mark Bocko

Mikhail Popovich, High Performance Power Distribution Networks with On-Chip Decoupling Capacitators for Nanoscale Integrate Circuits - Advisor: Eby Friedman; Current Employment: Qualcomm

Thomas Okhi (Physics PhD), Experiments towards manipulation of quantum states of a Josephson junction using superconducting integrated circuits - ECE Ph.D. Advisors: Marc Feldman and Mark Bocko; Current Employment: Chalmers University post-doctoral researcher

Rajib U. Ahmed (Material Science/ECE PhD), Dispensing picoliter droplets on insulating substrates using liquid dielectrophoretic (DEP) microactuation - ECE PhD Advisor: Thomas Jones

Wei Sun (BME PhD), Porous Silicon Based Biomaterials for Bone Tissue Engineering, ECE PhD Advisor: Philippe Fauchet

Hui Chen (Physics PhD), Towards a Nanocrystalline Silicon Laser, ECE PhD Advisor: Philippe Fauchet

Mark Perillo, Role Assignment in Wireless Sensor Networks: Energy-Efficient Strategies and Algorithms - Advisor: Wendi Heinzelman; Current Employment: Syracuse Research Corporation

Stanislava Soro, Application-Aware Resource Management in Wireless and Visual Senor Networks - Advisor: Wendi Heinzelman

Daozhi Wang, Femtosecond Optical Characterization and Applications in Cd(Mn)Te Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors - Advisor: Roman Sobolewski

Dong Yang, Flat panel detector-based cone beam CT: reconstruction implementation and applications for dynamic imaging - Advisor: Ruola Ning

Kailiang Wang (Materials Science PhD), Timing-based dynamic control and optical sensing-based feedback control in DEP microfluidics - Advisor: Thomas Jones