PhD Dissertation Defense

Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2025

Color-Converting Luminescent Devices for High-Speed Optical Wireless Communication

Yue Wang, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mar 20, 10:00 - 11:30

B3 L5 R5209

Free-space optical communications Underwater wireless optical communication luminescent optoelectronics fiber optics

Jan 26 - Feb 1, 2025

KAUST-CEMSE-ECE-PhD-Dissertation-Defense-Mritunjay-Kumar

Extreme Temperature Performance and Heterogenous Integration of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs for Power Electronics

Mritunjay Kumar , Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jan 28, 15:30 - 17:30

B2, L5, R5220

Jan 12 - Jan 18, 2025

RSS-based Cooperative Localization with Unknown Model Parameters

Yingquan Li, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jan 16, 10:30 - 12:00

B1, L3, R3119

Nov 24 - Nov 30, 2024

KAUST-CEMSE-AMCS-PhD-Dissertation-Defense-Zhanibek-Bizak

Cost-effective Large-area Digital Circuits via Adhesive Lithography

Zhanibek Bizak, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 25, 10:00 - 11:00

B3, R5, R5220

Jun 2 - Jun 8, 2024

Unlocking Spectrum Synergy: Seamless Radar-Communication Integration by Leveraging MIMO Beampattern Invariance

Sana Mazahir, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jun 4, 11:00 - 13:00

B1 L3 R3119

May 5 - May 11, 2024

Magnetically Controlled Printed Phase Shifters and Reconfigurable Beam Scanning Arrays

Ulan Myrzakhan, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 8, 15:00 - 17:00

B4 L5 5220

The impact of electrolyte swelling on the mixed conduction properties of n-type organic semiconductors

Jokubas Surgailis, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 8, 11:00 - 13:00

B5 L5 R5220

3D Smart Antenna-in-Package Designs with Orientation Awareness and Self-Reconfigurability for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications

Maria Bermudez Arboleda, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 6, 14:30 - 16:30

B2 L5 R5220

Apr 28 - May 4, 2024

Azimuthal Super-Resolution Imaging of Ferromagnetic Tubulars: Deep Neural Network-Based Electromagnetic Inversion

Guang An Ooi, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 2, 09:00 - 11:30

B4 L5 R5209

Millimeter-Wave Antenna-in-Package/Antenna-on-Chip Designs with High Gain, Wideband, and Wide Beam-scanning Features

Haoran Zhang, Ph.D. (former), Electrical and Computer Engineering

Apr 30, 10:00 - 12:00

B3 L5 R5220

Feb 25 - Mar 2, 2024

PhD Dissertation Defense - Interface engineering for GaN HEMTs

Chuanju Wang, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Feb 26, 17:00 - 19:00

B3 L5 R5209

GaN-based electronics Metal-GaN interfaces Dielectric-GaN interfaces

Nov 26 - Dec 2, 2023

Binary Diffractive Optical Elements for structured light applications

Redha Al Ibrahim, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 30, 14:00 - 15:00

B2 L5 R5209

Broadband Wireless Communication Using Free-space Optics and Radio Frequency

Ming-Cheng Tsai, Ph.D. (former), Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 29, 16:30 - 18:30

B1 L2 R2202

Analysis and Design of Linear Classifiers for High-Dimensional, Small Sample Size Data Using Asymptotic Random Matrix Theory

Lama Burhan Niyazi, Ph.D. (former), Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 26, 11:30 - 13:30

B1 L3 R3119

Nov 19 - Nov 25, 2023

Future Electronics Beyond the FinFET and GAA-FETs

Uttam Kumar Das, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 19, 16:00 - 18:00

B9 L2 H2322

Nov 5 - Nov 11, 2023

Atomic Layer Deposition Reaction Parameters Influence on ZnO's Electrical Properties on Cotton Fabric for Textile Electronics

Huda Badghaish, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 5, 16:00 - 18:00

KAUST

Oct 22 - Oct 28, 2023

Transient Numerical Schemes in Electromagnetics: From Electromagnetic Scattering to Multiphysics Simulation

Ming Dong, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 25, 13:00 - 15:00

B3 L5 R5220

Improvement of InGaN-based light-emitting diodes: hydrogen passivation - based device fabrication, LED structure optimization, and III-Nitride growth using different substrates

Pavel Kirilenko, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 22, 16:00 - 18:00

B3 L5 R5220

Oct 8 - Oct 14, 2023

Coverage Performance Analysis for the Full Connected Underwater Acoustic Communication Network

Jiajie Xu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 8, 13:00 - 14:30

B1 L3 R3119

Low-Coherence Surface-Emitting Lasers for Optical Wireless Communication and Low-Speckle Illumination

Omar Alkhazragi, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 8, 10:00 - 11:30

B2 L5 R5220

Sep 24 - Sep 30, 2023

Toward Sustainable Transportation: A Driver-Centric Approach to Deploying Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles

Duc Minh Nguyen, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sep 28, 10:00 - 11:30

B1 L4 R4214

Sep 3 - Sep 9, 2023

Model-Based Computational Cryo-Electron Tomography Joint Reconstruction with Awareness of Noise

Yuanhao Wang, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sep 4, 17:30 - 19:00

B1 L2 R2202

Jul 23 - Jul 29, 2023

Model-based and Learned, Inverse Rendering for 3D Scene Reconstruction and View Synthesis

Rui Li, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jul 24, 18:00 - 20:00

B1 L2 R2202

Jul 16 - Jul 22, 2023

Solutions for Perishables Shelf-life Extension and Spoilage Detection Towards Food Waste Reduction

Asrar Damdam, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jul 16, 16:00 - 18:00

B2 L5 R5220

Jul 9 - Jul 15, 2023

Cybersecure and Resilient Power Systems with Distributed Energy Resources

Ioannis (Yannis) Zografopoulos, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jul 10, 14:00 - 16:00

B5 L5 R5209

Jul 2 - Jul 8, 2023

Low-Power Edge-Enabled Sensor Platforms

Jose Ilton De Oliveira Filho, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jul 6, 15:00 - 17:00

B4 L5 R5220

Jun 4 - Jun 10, 2023

Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductors Modeling, Epitaxy, Processing, and Applications for Ultraviolet Emission and Detection

Yi Lu, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jun 8, 14:30 - 16:30

B5 L5 R5209

Contemporary Techniques in the Emerging Free Space Optical Communication Systems

Dmitrii Briantcev, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jun 4, 12:30 - 14:00

B1 L3 R3119

optical communication technology Free Space Optics Conditional Generative Adversarial Network Recurrent Neural Network

May 21 - May 27, 2023

Towards The Implementation of Reliable Hyperloop Communication Systems

Wafa Hedhly, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 24, 09:00 - 10:45

B1 L3 R3119

communications hyperloop communication systems

Apr 30 - May 6, 2023

Query Localization in Long-form Videos

Mengmeng Xu (Frost), Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 4, 07:30 - 09:00

KAUST

GNSS Localization and Attitude Determination via Optimization Techniques on Riemannian Manifolds

Xing Liu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 3, 16:00 - 18:00

B1 L3 R3119

GNSS localization attitude determination

Fabrication of metasurfaces operating in the visible via nanotechnology and artificial intelligence

Fedor Getman, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 2, 14:00 - 16:00

B3 L2

Apr 9 - Apr 15, 2023

Towards Designing Robust Deep Learning Models for 3D Understanding

Abdullah Hamdi, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Apr 10, 17:00 - 19:00

B3 L5 R5220

deep neural networks

Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2023

Electromagnetic Analysis of Plasmonic Nanostructures by Using a Coupled system Volume Integral and Hydrodynamic Equations

Doolos Aibek Uulu, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Feb 15, 14:30 - 16:30

B2 L5 R5220

Plasmonic Nanostructures Electromagnetic Analysis

Nanostructured Group-III Nitrides for Photoelectrocatalytic Applications and Renewable Energy Harvesting

Huafan Zhang, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Feb 14, 16:00 - 18:00

B4 L5 R5209

Photoelectrocatalytic Applications renewable energy

Feb 5 - Feb 11, 2023

Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic Computing Systems

Wenzhe Guo, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Feb 7, 15:00 - 17:00

B4 L5 R5209

neuromorphic computing

Dec 11 - Dec 17, 2022

Performance Analysis of Free Space Optical (FSO) Link with Pointing Errors

KugJin Jung, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dec 13, 10:00 - 12:00

B1 L3 R3119

Free Space Optics

Performance Analysis and Throughput Maximization of Satellite Communication Systems with Randomly Located Users

Dong Hyoun Na, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dec 11, 08:00 - 10:00

B1 L3 R3119

satellite communication

Nov 20 - Nov 26, 2022

Machine learning in hardware via trained metasurface encoders: theory, design and applications

Maksim Makarenko, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 23, 10:00 - 12:30

B2 L5 R5209

machine learning artificial intelligence photonics

Oct 30 - Nov 5, 2022

Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Device Design via Machine Learning

Rongyu Lin, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 2, 15:30 - 17:30

B2 L5 R5220

machine learning light gradient boosting machine extreme gradient boosting

Microstructural Analysis and Engineering of III-Nitride-Based Heterostructures for Optoelectronic Devices

Martín Velázquez Rizo, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 1, 10:00 - 11:30

B1 L3 R3119

photocatalytic energy conversion

Sep 18 - Sep 24, 2022

Pulse Shaped Waveform Characterization using the Schrödinger Operator's Spectrum

Peihao Li , Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sep 18, 14:00 - 16:00

B1 R4214

biomedical signal analysis MIMIC II database

Jul 17 - Jul 23, 2022

Liquid Metal-Based Inertial Sensors for Motion Monitoring and Human Machine Interfaces

Wedyan Babatain, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jul 19, 15:00 - 16:00

B2 B3 A0215

nanofabrication flexible electronics wearable devices sensors

Jun 19 - Jun 25, 2022

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Next-Generation Networks

Jia Ye, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jun 23, 16:00 - 18:00

B1 L3 R3123

Next-Generation Networks Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces 5G and beyond

Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2022

Contributions to Data-driven and Fractional-order Model-based Approaches for Arterial Haemodynamics Characterization and Aortic Stiffness Estimation

Mohamed Abdelwaheb Bahloul, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

Apr 26, 14:00 - 16:00

B1 L4 R4318

Arterial Haemodynamics Characterization Aortic Stiffness Estimation

Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2022

Energy-Efficient Devices and Circuits for Ultra-Low Power VLSI Applications

Ren Li, PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Apr 20, 15:00 - 17:00

KAUST

Mar 27 - Apr 2, 2022

Multifunctional Flexible Laser-Scribed Graphene Sensors for Resilient and Sustainable Electronics

Altynay Kaidarova, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mar 28, 13:00 - 15:00

KAUST

Laser-scribed graphene

Mar 20 - Mar 26, 2022

Underwater optical communication and sensing technology in silent ocean

Yujian Guo, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mar 20, 13:00 - 15:00

KAUST

underwater optical communications Underwater wireless optical communication

Jan 30 - Feb 5, 2022

Fully-integrated systems and self-powered gas sensors for sustainable environment monitoring

Mani Teja Vijjapu, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Feb 3, 13:30 - 15:00

B3 L5 R5209

Jan 16 - Jan 22, 2022

Miniaturized Drug Delivery Systems for Biomedical Applications

Khalil Moussi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jan 18, 18:15 - 20:00

KAUST