ELEC 599: 2007-2008
First Year Projects - Abstracts


Faculty Projects: Spring 2008


Keyvan Amiri

Scalable Geographic Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

Advisor: Dave Johnson

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Ahmad Beirami

Efficient Optimization Techniques for Nanoscale System

Advisor: Yehia Massoud

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Brian Bue

Automatic Labeling of High Dimensional Remotely Sensed Imagery via Semantic Modeling

Advisor: Erzséebet Merényi

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Tingting Chang

Accurate Quantification of PET Imaging

Advisor: John W. Clark

Project Committee: Dr. Osama R. Mawlawi


Sangwoo Chung

Fluorescent Nanoshells as a Gain Medium for Laser

Advisor: Naomi Halas

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Hasan Huseyin Dumanli

Advisor: Lin Zhong

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Eva Dyer

Advisor: Richard Baraniuk

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Justin Fritz

Advisor: Behnaam Aazhang

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Siddharth Gupta

Architecture of a Parallel Long-Range Wireless Control and Measurement Network

Advisor: Ashutosh Sabharwal

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Cosmin Ionita

Model Order Reduction from Time Domain Data

Advisor: A.C. Antoulas

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Heidar Sobhani Khakestar

Extending Plasmon Hybridization in to the Plane Wave and Including Damping in Lagrangian

Advisor: Peter Nordlander

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Eugenio Magistretti

Gateway-based Inference in Wireless Mesh Networks

Advisor: Edward Knightly

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Manjari Narayan

Advisor: Richard Baraniuk

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Quang Nguyen

Synthesis and Characterization of 4nm-Pd Nanoparticles on Au Nanoshell

Advisor: Michael Wong

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Scott Novich

Advisor: Ashutosh Sabharwal

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Stephen Pfetsch

Subvocal Communication Systems

Advisor: Yehia Massoud

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Jasmin Shrestha

Uncertainty Analysis in Wireless Mesh Networks Management by Using Info-Gap Decision Theory

Advisor: Edward Knightly

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Stephen Schnelle

Advisor: Richard Baraniuk

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Samantha R. Summerson

Advisor: Behnaam Aazhang

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Michael Wu

Channel Estimation Algorithms and Architecture for MIMI-OFDM Systems

Advisor: Joseph Cavallaro

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Joseph K. Young

Utilizing Capillary Electrophoresis to Examine the Photothermal Heating of Gold Nanoshells with Surfaces Modified by Thiolated ssDNA

Advisor: Naomi Halas

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