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2011 Ming Hsieh Institute Ph.D. Scholar Finalist Competition

Speaker: Each finalist will present a 12-minute talk about their research, Ming Hsieh Institute

Talk Title: MHI Ph.D. Scholar Finalist Presentation

Abstract: You are all invited to an exciting event being held for the first time in our department: talks by nine stellar Ph.D. students competing to become 2011 Ming Hsieh Institute Ph.D. Scholars. The Ph.D. Scholar Program is a venture of the newly-founded Ming Hsieh Institute, that aims to support senior Ph.D. students interested in pursuing an academic career. These finalists have been selected from nominations submitted by faculty. At the event each finalist will present a 12-minute talk about their research. It is anticipated that five MHI Scholars will be selected from this pool, based on an evaluation of their talks by a faculty panel.

All Electrical Engineering students and faculty are invited. Light refreshments will be served.

Please find below the list of finalists and the titles of their talks.

•Firooz Aflatouni- "Electronically Assisted Phase Control of Semiconductor Lasers"

•Chiranjib Choudhuri -"On the Capacity and State estimation of Networks"

•Prasanta Ghosh - "A computational framework for exploring the role of speech production in speech recognition"

•Longbo Huang -"Improving the Lyapunov Network Optimization Technique"

•Chih-ping Li - "Delay and Power-Optimal Control in Multi-Class Queueing Systems"

•Jason Sanders "Megawatts in Nanoseconds: Engineering New Pulsed Power Systems that Enable Scientific Discovery"

•Samir Sharma - "Accelerated Water-Fat MRI"

•Chuan Wang - "High-Performance Separated Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors for Macroelectronic Integrated Circuit and Display Electronic applications"

•Omer Yilmaz - "Advanced Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing Techniques for High Speed, Reconfigurable Optical Fiber Networks"


Host: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Co-Director - Ming Hsieh Institute

Location: Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Hall (of Philosophy) (MHP) - 106

Audiences: Department Only

Contact: Danielle Hamra