Recent Ph.D. Defenses
Jun Wang Semi-Supervised Learning for Scalable and Robust Visual Search (advisor S. Chang)
Christine Elizabeth Smit Characterization of the singing voice from polyphonic recording (advisor D. Ellis)
Shih-An Yu Design Techniques for Frequency Synthesizers in Highly Scaled CMOS Technologies (advisor P. Kinget)
Congzhou Zhou Flow Control in Mobile Ad Hoc Network (advisor N. Maxemchuk)
Seyed Tajer Topics in MIMO Networks (advisor X. Wang)
Ajay Balankutty Architectures and Circuit Design Techniques for Ultra Low Voltage CMOS Receivers (advisor P. Kinget)
Junhua Shen Design Techniques for Ultra Low Voltage and Ultra Low Power Pipelined ADCs (advisor P. Kinget)
Ta-Chien Huang Biological Application Specific Integrated Circuits towards integrated genetic diagnosis (advisor K. Shepard)
Aaron Klein Externally LTI Discrete-Time Systems with Applications to companding Digital Signal Processors (advisor Y. Tsividis)
Yiping Feng Digitally Assisted Linearity Calibration Techniques for High Performance Direct Conversion Receivers (advisor P. Kinget)
Ashutosh Dutta Systems Optimization in Mobility Management (advisor H. Schulzrinne)
Shuzo Tarumi Analysis of Channel Fragmentation in Dynamic Spectrum Allocation (advisor G. Zussman)
Qi Shen IOn scalable Robust and Secure Signaling for Next Generation Internet Multimedia Services (advisor H. Schulzrinne)
Wei Jiang Advanced Technology in Semantic Multimedia Concept (advisor S. Chang)
Tianbai Ma Internet Economics and ISP Business Settlements (advisor D. Rubenstein)
Gahng-Seop Ahn Information-driven Tracking and Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks (advisor A. Campbell)
Alex Tsung-Liang Chen The Interfacial Physics and Growth of Nanoscale Metal Oxides (now with Oak Ridge National Lab; advisor R. Osgood)
Patrick Yee Him Cheung Pervasive Wireless Sensor Network for Real-Time Environmental Information Rendering (now a postdoc at Columbia; advisor N. Maxemchuk)
Shane Eisenman People-centric Mobile Sensing Networks (now with Harris RF Communications; advisor A. Campbell)
Xanadu Halkias Detection and Tracking of Dolphin Vocalizations (now with New York Office of Emergency Management; advisor D. Ellis)
Andy I-Wei Hsieh Silicon Photonics: Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of On-Chip Optical Interconnects (now with Intel; advisor R. Osgood)
Anuranjan Jha Current Steering Digital-to-Analog Converter Based Pulse Generation Techniques for Ultra Wideband Pulse Radio Transmitter (now with Silicon Laboratories; advisor P. Kinget)
Xiaozhu Kang Caching and Scheduling for Efficient Content Distribution (advisor P. Jelenkovic)
Lyndon Kennedy Advanced Techniques for Multimedia Search: Leveraging Cues from Content and Structure (now with Yahoo; advisor S.-F. Chang)
Gounyoung Kim Subjective Quality Enhancement in Video Coding Using Motion Vector and Texture Information (advisor A. Eleftheriadis)
Kyung Kwak Minimalist Detection and Counting Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks (advisor E. Coffman)
Kuoching Liang Applications of Monte Carlo Signal Processing in Bioinformatics (now with the Mayo Clinic; advisor X. Wang)
Jian Tan New Origins of Heavy Tails with Applications to Information Networks (now at the Ohio State University; advisor P. Jelenkovic)
Kai Yang Non-convex Optimizations in Wireless Communications (now with Alcatel Lucent; advisor X. Wang)