Recent Ph.D. Defenses
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)