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Congratulations to our 2009 ECE Graduates

96th Commencement for Rice University
Friday, May 8 - Doctoral Hooding Ceremony - (Webcast)
Saturday, May 9 - Commencement


Graduate Degree Candidates


Nicholas Berndsen
MEE (January 2009)
Bruce Brinson
PhD (May 2009)
Thesis: Nonresonant Surface Enhanced Raman Optical Activity
and Nanoshells Made Easy: a Nanopartical synthesis by the
Carbon-monoxide Reduction method

Joseph Camp
PhD (May 2009)
Thesis: Experimental and Analytical Evaluation of Embedded
Link Performance with Small-Scale Channel Fluctuations

Hieu Cao
MEE (January 2009)
Yuheng Chen MEE (January 2009)
Joseph Cole
PhD Applied Physics (January 2009)
Thesis: Photothermal Energy Conversion by Plasmonic Nanoparticles
Daniel Ford MEE (January 2009)
Anastasios Giannoulis
MS (January 2009)
Thesis: Supporting Vehicular Mobility in Urban Wireless
Multi-hop Networks

Bryan Grandy
MEE (January 2009)
Roxana Ionutiu
MS (January 2009)
Thesis: Passivity preserving model reduction in the context of spectral
zero interpolation

Marjan Karkooti
PhD (May 2009)
Thesis: Distributed partial decoding in cooperative communication systems
Brett Kaufman
MS (May 2009)
Thesis: Spectrum sharing techniques for next generation cellular networks
Sami Kirolos
PhD (January 2009)
Thesis: PVT variation-aware timing analysis and adaptive circuit
techniques for robust synchronous circuits

Mark Knight
MS (January 2009)
Thesis: Symmetry Breaking in Plasmonic Nanostructures
Patrick Kruse
MEE (May 2009)
Sanda Lefteriu MS (January 2009)
Thesis: New Approaches to Modeling Multi-Port Scattering Parameters
Zuzanna Lewicka
MS Applied Physics (May 2009)
Thesis: The characteristics of nanoscale sunscreen particles
Michael Lexa
PhD (January 2009)
Thesis: Sequential Quantization for Classification: The Impact of
Structure and Nonparametric Estimates

 Jiayang Liu MS (January 2009)
Thesis: Micro Power Management of Active 802.11 Interfaces
Lanyue Lu
MS (May 2009)
Thesis: Workload Shaping for QoS and Power Efficiency of Storage Systems
Mehrdad Majzoobi
MS (May 2009)
Thesis: Techniques for Design and Implementation of Physically
Unclonable Functions

Andrew Mayo PhD (January 2009)
Thesis: Generalized Realization
Arthur Nieuwoudt PhD (January 2009)
Thesis: Modeling and Design of Carbon Nanotube Interconnect for
Mixed-Signal VLSI Applications

Tamer Ragheb PhD (January 2009)
Thesis: Modeling and Variability Aware Design Techniques for
Mixed Signal Systems

Joshua Robinson
PhD (May 2009)
Thesis: Deployment and Assessment of Wireless Mesh Networks
Jasmin Shrestha
MEE (January 2009)
Ajit Srivastava
PhD Applied Physics (May 2009)
Thesis: Low temperature Micro-Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Probing the Exciton Physics

Jacob Ryan Stinnett
MEE (January 2009)
Ting Sun
MS Applied Physics (May 2009)
Thesis: Near-Infrared Imaging and Optical Microscopy by Compressive Sensing
Kadim Tasdemir PhD (January 2009)
Thesis: The Use of Data Topology in Unsupervised Clustering of
High-Dimensional Data with Self-Organizing Maps

Jeffrey Worne
MS (May 2009)
Thesis: Interfacial Charge Transfer in Nanoscale Polymer Transistors
Jun Zhang
PhD Applied Physics (January 2009)
Thesis: Studying Photonic Excitations of Carborane and Fullerene
Nanomachines by Probe Microscopy

Undergraduate Degree Candidates



Johnathan Broadway
BSEE (January 2009)
Computer Engineering
Narendra Anand
BSEE
Systems
Britt Antley
BSEE
Computer Engineering
Rohan P. Balsaver
BSEE
Systems
William B. Brogdon
BSEE / BA Econ
Systems
Kriti Charan
BSEE / BA Math
Photonics and Nanoengineering
Janice M. Chow
BSEE
Systems
Akshay Dayal
BSEE
Systems
Thomas J. Deitch
BSEE
Systems
Timothy M. Eastaway
BSEE
Computer Engineering
Taylor J. Goodhart
BSEE
Computer Engineering
Aaron T. Hallquist
BSEE / BA Math
Systems
Jason C. Holden
BSEE
Photonics and Nanoengineering
Trevor G. Holland
BA
Systems
Mohamed Badie A. Jalaly
BSEE
Systems
Ramy-Claude A. James
BSEE
Computer Engineering
Tianlai Lu
BSEE
Systems
Max R. Magee
BSEE
Systems
Tanwee Misra
BSEE / BA Math
Photonics and Nanoengineering
Alexander M. Mrozack
BSEE
Photonics and Nanoengineering
Justin L. Nording
BSEE
Computer Engineering
Oleg Pesok
BSEE
Computer Engineering
Angela C. Qian
BSEE
Systems
Jason D. Ryan
BSEE
Photonics and Nanoengineering
Chirag A. Sequeira
BSEE
Systems
John Steinbauer
BSEE
Systems
Brent E. Stephens
BSEE
Computer Engineering
C.J. Steuernagel
BSEE
Systems
Barron D. Stone
BSEE
Computer Engineering
Kanes Sutuntivorakoon
BSEE
Systems
Yiming Wang
BSEE
Systems
Keith D. Wilhelm
BSEE
Photonics and Nanoengineering
Thomas W. Yeh
BSEE / BA Econ
Systems

 
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