CEMSE Weekly Updates - June 16, 2026 Tue, Jun 16 2026 Newsletter Upcoming Events Stay informed about the upcoming events and the latest news from CEMSE. Millimeter-Wave Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Enhancing Bandwidth and 3D coverage with Limited Phase Quantization Levels Ruiqi Wang, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Jun 21, 15:00 - 17:00 B3 R5209 reconfigurable intelligent surface wireless communication RIS techniques This thesis establishes a systematic hardware-oriented framework for wideband RIS design, high precision phase control, and spatial EM wave manipulation, providing experimentally validated solutions for next-generation wireless communication systems. Early Versus Late Traffic Management for Autonomous Agents Salman Sarfaraz Ghori, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Jun 24, 16:00 - 17:00 B5 R5209; Zoom Meeting 98475516603 Autonomous Agent traffic engineering Automous Vehicles Distributed Robot Systems Model Predictive Control This dissertation investigates how the timing of centralized traffic management affects the performance of autonomous agents in autonomous vehicle and robotic fleets.