Larry Burton, Associate Dean Emeritus Lynn Carpenter, Associate Professor Emeritus Charles Croskey, Professor Emeritus L. Eric Cross, Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus Anthony Ferraro, Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dale Grimes, Professor Emeritus Paul Hulina, Associate Professor Emeritus Stewart Kurtz, Professor Emeritus Kwang Lee, Professor Emeritus John Lewis, Professor Emeritus George McMurtry, Professor Emeritus John Nisbet, Alumni Professor Emeritus Russell Philbrick, Professor Emeritus James Robinson, Professor Emeritus William Ross, Professor Emeritus Christopher Wronski, Professor Emeritus Francis Yu, Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus Visiting Scholars Chen, Ming-yuan – Lagoa Degiorgi, Marco - Mittra Dong, Tianyu – Mittra Gu, – Mittra Koo, Insoo – Yener Lin, Xiaoyan - Yin Wang, Weibo – Mittra Xiang, Yang – Kavehrad Yang, Caihong – Kavehrad Yuan, Chengxun - Yin Post-doctoral Scholars Basham, James – Jackson DasGupta, Sandeepan - Datta Deng, Peng – Kavehrad Ghosh, Ramkrishna – Datta Gregory, - Werner Jain, Sidharath – Mittra Jiang, Zhihao - Werner Kar, Ayan - Datta Kovtyukhova, Nina – Mayer Li, Jie – Mayer Liu, Xiaoming – Mayer Liu, Yinghui - Aydin Panaretos, Anastas – Werner Pogrebnyakov, Ale– Mayer Sarkhel, Sumanta – Mathews Staff Connie Burger, Facilities Assistant Marsha Church, Senior IT Systems Analyst Jennifer Colwell, Financial Assistant Julie Corl, Fixed Term and Visa Administrative Support Assistant Dave DeCapria, Engineering Lab Manager, Safety Officer
Abdullah Almahri “QR Signal Detection in the Presence of AM Noise” supervised by Lagoa, Constantino Dustin Fairchild “Classification and Modeling of Human Activities Using Empirical Mode Decomposition with S-Band and Millimeter-Wave Micro-Doppler Radars” supervised by Narayanan, Ram M. Aditya Kurve “Novel Task Decomposition and Aggregation Methods for Knowledge Discovery in Systems” supervised by Kesidis, George Li “Electrocaloric Effect in Relaxor Ferroelectric Materials” supervised by Zhang, Qiming Brian Thomson “Estimation and Reduction of Temporal Magnetic Field Fluctuations in Powered Magnets Using Inductive and NMR Feedback Control” supervised by Schiano, Jeffrey Zhou Zhou “Broadband Optical Wireless Communications” supervised by Kavehrad, Mohsen 5. Graduate Scholarships and Fellowships Paul F. Anderson Graduate Fellowship in Electrical Engineering Matthew Brandsema Idellyse Martinez Benjamin McPheron Sonny Smith Harry L. Bell Graduate Fellowship in Electrical Engineering Alyssa Brigeman Scott Wilson Luther B. and Patricia A. Graduate Fellowship Jared Price Sonny Smith Robert Sorbello Joseph R. and Janice M. Monkowski Graduate Fellowship in EE Christopher Clinton Scarborough Sonny Smith Chad Welsh R. and Barbara R. Palmer Fellowship in Electrical Engineering Travis Bufler Sonny Smith Jeremiah Turpin Pontano Family Scholarship in Electrical Engineering Clinton Scarborough Fred C. and M. Joan Thompson Graduate Fellowship in Electrical Engineering Matthew Scott Wilson Donovan Brocker
“Very High-Speed, Infrared VCSEL-Array Light Wireless Links” National Science Foundation, Grant Kavehrad, Mohsen, Principal Investigator “I/UCRC on Optical Wireless Applications” National Science Foundation, Kavehrad, Mohsen, Principal Investigator; Kane, Timothy J, Co-PI; Liu, Zhiwen, Co-PI; Yin, Shizhuo, Co-PI Membership: Oberon Wireless Communications Solutions, Inc., Airbus S.A.S., Boeing Company Airbus S.A.S., Membership Lockheed Martin Corporation, Inc., “NeTS Collaborative Research: Supporting unstructured peer-to-peer social networking” National Science Foundation, Kesidis, George, Principal Investigator “NetSE Small: Unsupervised Flow-Based Clustering” National Science Foundation, Grant Kesidis, George, Principal Investigator; Miller, David J, Co-PI “Nets:Small:Collaborative Research: Inter-provider dynamics in neutral and non-neutral networks” National Science Foundation, Grant Kesidis, George, Principal Investigator “Collaborative: GENI: EAGER: GENI Experiments to Explore Adoption of New Security Services” National Science Foundation, Grant Kesidis, George, Principal Investigator “TWC: Medium: Towards Securing Coupled Financial and Power Systems in the Next Generation Smart Grid” National Science Foundation, Grant Kesidis, George, Principal Investigator; Miller, David J, Co-PI “Nonlinear Electro-Optical Liquid Crystalline Materials for High Optical Switching and Signal Processing” Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Grant Khoo, Iam-Choon, Principal Investigator “Robust Control of Uncertain Switched Systems” National Science Foundation, Grant Lagoa, Constantino M, Principal Investigator “CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Digital Control of Hybrid Systems via Simulation and Bisimulation” National Science Foundation, Grant Lagoa, Constantino M, Principal Investigator
“Equatorial Vortex Experiment (EVEX): A Study of the Ionospheric Plasma Circulation and Sunset Layer from Kwajalein” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Subaward Urbina, Julio V, Principal Investigator “Collaborative Research: A New 50 MHz Radar for Meteor and Aeronomical Science” National Science Foundation, Grant Urbina, Julio V, Principal Investigator “HPM Antenna Modeling for Improved Effectiveness 2” Naval Sea Systems Command, Contract Werner, Douglas H, Principal Investigator “HPM Antenna Modeling for Improved Effectiveness” Naval Sea Systems Command, Contract Werner, Douglas H, Principal Investigator “FY13 BA2 Compact HPM Antenna Metamaterial Study” Naval Sea Systems Command, Contract Werner, Douglas H, Co-PI “RF Beam Steering” Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Company, Fixed Price Agreement Werner, Douglas H, Principal Investigator and Mayer, Theresa S, Co-PI “Multipath, Multi-frequency, and Small Form Factor Communications Antenna” Antenna Research Associates, Inc., Purchase Order Werner, Douglas H, Principal Investigator “Electromagnetic Modeling of the Radiation Parameters of Selected Radiator Designs” Naval Sea Systems Command, Contract Werner, Douglas H, Principal Investigator “EBG Metamaterials” Lockheed Martin Corporation, Inc., Sponsored Research Agreement Werner, Douglas H, Principal Investigator “Compact HPM Antenna Metamaterial Study” Naval Sea Systems Command, Contract Werner, Douglas H, Principal Investigator “Full-wave Modeling of Medium Frequency Propagation in Coal Mines” NIOSH-Pittsburgh Research Center, Contract Werner, Douglas H, Principal Investigator “Structural Acoustic and Metamaterial Modeling and Measurements” Office of Naval Research, Contract Werner, Douglas H, Co-PI