I2S Masters/ Doctoral Theses
All students and faculty are welcome to attend the final defense of I2S 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.
Upcoming Defense Notices
Arin Dutta
Performance Analysis of Distributed Raman Amplification with Dual-Order Forward PumpingWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 250 (Gemini Room)
Degree Type:
PhD Comprehensive DefenseCommittee Members:
Rongqing Hui, ChairChristopher Allen
Morteza Hashemi
Alessandro Saladrino
Hui Zhao
Babak Badnava
Joint Communication and Computation for Emerging Applications in Next Generation of Wireless NetworksWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Degree Type:
PhD Comprehensive DefenseCommittee Members:
Morteza Hashemi, ChairTaejoon Kim
Prasad Kulkarni
Shawn Keshmiri
Arman Ghasemi
Task-Oriented Communication and Distributed Control in Smart Grids with Time-Series ForecastingWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246
Degree Type:
PhD Comprehensive DefenseCommittee Members:
Morteza Hashemi, ChairAlex Bardas
Taejoon Kim
Prasad Kulkarni
Zsolt Talata
Neel Patel
Near-Memory Acceleration of Compressed Far MemoryWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 250 (Gemini Room)
Degree Type:
MS Thesis DefenseCommittee Members:
Mohammad Allan, ChairDavid Johnson
Prasad Kulkarni
Durga Venkata Suraj Tedla
Block chain based inter organization file sharing systemWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Degree Type:
MS Project DefenseCommittee Members:
David Johnson, ChairDrew Davidson
Sankha Guria
Dang Qua Nguyen
Hybrid Precoding Optimization and Private Federated Learning for Future Wireless SystemsWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Degree Type:
PhD Comprehensive DefenseCommittee Members:
Taejoon Kim, ChairMorteza Hashemi
Erik Perrins
Zijun Yao
KC Kong
Past Defense Notices
Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi
Contrastive Learning of Temporal Distinctiveness for Survival Analysis in Electronic Health RecordsWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 250 (Gemini Room)
Degree Type:
MS Project DefenseCommittee Members:
Zijun Yao, ChairFengjun Li
Cuncong Zhong
Jarrett Zeliff
An Analysis of Bluetooth Mesh Security Features in the Context of Secure CommunicationsWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 1
Degree Type:
MS Thesis DefenseCommittee Members:
Alexadnru Bardas, ChairDrew Davidson
Fengjun Li
Daniel Johnson
Probability-Aware Selective Protection for Sparse Iterative SolversWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246
Degree Type:
MS Thesis DefenseCommittee Members:
Hongyang Sun, ChairPerry Alexander
Zijun Yao
Javaria Ahmad
Discovering Privacy Compliance Issues in IoT Apps and Alexa Skills Using AI and Presenting a Mechanism for Enforcing Privacy ComplianceWhen & Where:
LEEP2, Room 2425
Degree Type:
PhD Dissertation DefenseCommittee Members:
Bo Luo, ChairAlex Bardas
Tamzidul Hoque
Fengjun Li
Michael Zhuo Wang
Xiangyu Chen
Toward Efficient Deep Learning for Computer Vision ApplicationsWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246
Degree Type:
PhD Dissertation DefenseCommittee Members:
Cuncong Zhong, ChairPrasad Kulkarni
Bo Luo
Fengjun Li
Honguo Xu
Grace Young
Quantum Polynomial-Time Reduction for the Dihedral Hidden Subgroup ProblemWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246
Degree Type:
PhD Dissertation DefenseCommittee Members:
Perry Alexander, ChairEsam El-Araby
Matthew Moore
Cuncong Zhong
KC Kong
Daniel Herr
Information Theoretic Physical Waveform Design with Application to Waveform-Diverse Adaptive-on-Transmit RadarWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246
Degree Type:
PhD Comprehensive DefenseCommittee Members:
James Stiles, ChairChris Allen
Shannon Blunt
Carl Leuschen
Chris Depcik
Rachel Chang
Designing Pseudo-Random Staggered PRI SequencesWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246
Degree Type:
MS Thesis DefenseCommittee Members:
Shannon Blunt, ChairChris Allen
James Stiles
Fatima Al-Shaikhli
Fiber Property Characterization based on ElectrostrictionWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall 250 | Gemini Room
Degree Type:
MS Thesis DefenseCommittee Members:
Ron Hui, ChairShannon Blunt
Shima Fardad
Venkata Nadha Reddy Karasani
Implementing Web Presence For The History Of Black WritingWhen & Where:
LEEP2, Room 1415
Degree Type:
MS Thesis DefenseCommittee Members:
Drew Davidson, ChairPerry Alexander
Hossein Saiedian