PhD Dissertation Defense | ECE | Electrical and Computer Engineering

Coverage Performance Analysis for the Full Connected Underwater Acoustic Communication Network

Jiajie Xu

Sunday, October 08, 13:00

- 14:30

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Omar Alkhazragi

Sunday, October 08, 10:00

- 11:30

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Duc Minh Nguyen

Thursday, September 28, 10:00

- 11:30

Building 1, Level 4, Room 4214

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Yuanhao Wang

Monday, September 04, 17:30

- 19:00

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Rui Li

Monday, July 24, 18:00

- 20:00

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Asrar Damdam

Sunday, July 16, 16:00

- 18:00

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Cybersecure and Resilient Power Systems with Distributed Energy Resources

Ioannis (Yannis) Zografopoulos

Monday, July 10, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 5, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Low-Power Edge-Enabled Sensor Platforms

Jose Ilton De Oliveira Filho

Thursday, July 06, 15:00

- 17:00

Building 4, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Yi Lu

Thursday, June 08, 14:30

- 16:30

Building 5, Level 5, Room 5209; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98737157935

PhD Dissertation Defense

Contemporary Techniques in the Emerging Free Space Optical Communication Systems

Dmitrii Briantcev

Sunday, June 04, 12:30

- 14:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

Towards The Implementation of Reliable Hyperloop Communication Systems

Wafa Hedhly

Wednesday, May 24, 09:00

- 10:45

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

Query Localization in Long-form Videos

Mengmeng Xu (Frost)

Thursday, May 04, 07:30

- 09:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/8868108577

PhD Dissertation Defense

GNSS Localization and Attitude Determination via Optimization Techniques on Riemannian Manifolds

Xing Liu

Wednesday, May 03, 16:00

- 18:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Fedor Getman

Tuesday, May 02, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 3, Level 2, Lobby Sea Side

PhD Dissertation Defense

Towards Designing Robust Deep Learning Models for 3D Understanding

Abdullah Hamdi

Monday, April 10, 17:00

- 19:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220

deep neural networks

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Doolos Aibek Uulu

Wednesday, February 15, 14:30

- 16:30

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Huafan Zhang

Tuesday, February 14, 16:00

- 18:00

Building 4, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic Computing Systems

Wenzhe Guo

Tuesday, February 07, 15:00

- 17:00

Building 4, Level 5, Room 5209

neuromorphic computing

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

KugJin Jung

Tuesday, December 13, 10:00

- 12:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

Free-space optical communication

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Dong Hyoun Na

Sunday, December 11, 08:00

- 10:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

satellite communication

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Maksim Makarenko

Wednesday, November 23, 10:00

- 12:30

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Device Design via Machine Learning

Rongyu Lin

Wednesday, November 02, 15:30

- 17:30

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Martín Velázquez Rizo

Tuesday, November 01, 10:00

- 11:30

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

photocatalytic energy conversion

PhD Dissertation Defense

Synergistic Multi-Source Ambient Radio Frequency and Thermal Energy Harvesting for IoT Applications

Azamat Bakytbekov

Tuesday, October 25, 15:00

- 16:00

Building 16, Level 3, Room 3101

PhD Dissertation Defense

Pulse Shaped Waveform Characterization using the Schrödinger Operator's Spectrum

Peihao Li

Sunday, September 18, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 1, Room 4214

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Wedyan Babatain

Tuesday, July 19, 15:00

- 16:00

Auditorium 0215 (between Building 2 and 3)

PhD Dissertation Defense

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Next-Generation Networks

Jia Ye

Thursday, June 23, 16:00

- 18:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3-123

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Mohamed Abdelwaheb Bahloul

Tuesday, April 26, 14:00

- 16:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/5701046454; Building 1, Level 4, Room 4318

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Ren Li, PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wednesday, April 20, 15:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/93429662866

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Altynay Kaidarova

Monday, March 28, 13:00

- 15:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98812052166

Laser-scribed graphene

PhD Dissertation Defense

Underwater optical communication and sensing technology in silent ocean

Yujian Guo

Sunday, March 20, 13:00

- 15:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/9555063071

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

Mani Teja Vijjapu

Thursday, February 03, 13:30

- 15:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95261438154

PhD Dissertation Defense

Miniaturized Drug Delivery Systems for Biomedical Applications

Khalil Moussi

Tuesday, January 18, 18:15

- 20:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91629656542

PhD Dissertation Defense

Control Design for Alignment Problem in Optical Wireless Communication

Thursday, December 23, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/5063529298

PhD Dissertation Defense

Signal Processing and Optimization Techniques for High Accuracy Indoor Localization, Tracking, and Attitude Determination

Mohammed Hussain AlSharif

Thursday, December 16, 14:00

- 15:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

Characterization of non-conventional methods for alignment relaxation in underwater wireless optical communication systems

Mohammed Sait

Thursday, November 11, 15:00

- 16:00

Building 3, Level 3, Room 5220. Zoom ID: 393 156 5261

PhD Dissertation Defense

Deep-Ultraviolet Optoelectronics Based on GaN Quantum Disks and Bio-Inspired Nanostructures

Ram Chandra Subedi

Wednesday, November 10, 18:00

- 19:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209, https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99936098680

PhD Dissertation Defense

On the Downlink Operation and Architecture Optimization of Multi-User VLC Systems

Amr M. Abdelhady

Tuesday, November 09, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97915131876

PhD Dissertation Defense

Hybrid inorganic heterostructures and methods of fabricating p-type semiconductors for optoelectronic devices

Jian Wei Liang

Monday, November 08, 14:00

- 16:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/8305796581

PhD Dissertation Defense

High-Bitrate Photodetection in Ultraviolet-to-Visible for Optical Wireless Communication

Chun Hong Kang

Thursday, October 28, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/8426647959

PhD Dissertation Defense

Asymmetric Signaling: A New Dimension of Interference Management in Hardware Impaired Communication Systems

Sidrah Javed

Monday, October 11, 17:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97634490362

PhD Dissertation Defense

End-to-end Optics Design for Computational Cameras

Qilin Sun

Wednesday, September 15, 16:20

- 18:10

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94131072784

PhD Dissertation Defense

Applications of Magnetic Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers to the Field of Spinorbitronics

Idris H. Smaili

Monday, August 16, 11:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94295229137

PhD Dissertation Defense

Stochastic Optimization in Target Positioning and Location-based Applications

Hui Chen

Tuesday, July 27, 17:00

- 19:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/3817617967

PhD Dissertation Defense

Computational Wavefront Sensing: Theory, Practice, and Applications

Congli Wang

Wednesday, May 26, 18:00

- 19:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/93887554721

PhD Dissertation Defense

Discriminant Analysis and Support Vector Regression in High Dimensions: Sharp Performance Analysis and Optimal Designs

Houssem Sifaou

Thursday, April 08, 11:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99702752439

PhD Dissertation Defense

Wireless Magnetic Sensors to Empower the Next Technological Revolution

Abdullah Almansouri, PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST

Thursday, April 01, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94736907194

PhD Dissertation Defense

Transient Analysis of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Scattering using Second-kind Surface Integral Equations

Rui Chen, PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST

Wednesday, March 31, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97237199129

PhD Dissertation Defense

Generation of Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) Modes with Spiral Phase Plate Integrated Laser Source

Edgars Stegenburgs

Wednesday, March 10, 12:00

- 14:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/93212598025

PhD Dissertation Defense

High-Dimensional Analysis of Regularized Convex Optimization Problems with Application to Massive MIMO Wireless Communication Systems

Ayed M. Alrashdi

Sunday, February 21, 17:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/96952307833

PhD Dissertation Defense

Control Theoretic Approaches to Computational Modeling and Risk Mitigation for Large Crowd Management

Mohammed M. Alrashed

Wednesday, November 11, 20:00

- 21:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/7906468541?pwd=RDBNZnFXcjZTbVQ2dmJkSUd5OXFqUT09

PhD Dissertation Defense

UAV Enabled IoT Network Designs for Enhanced Estimation, Detection, and Connectivity

Osama Bushnaq

Monday, November 09, 11:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/7245526297

PhD Dissertation Defense

Design and topological optimization of nanophotonic devices

Ronghui Lin

Monday, November 02, 10:30

- 12:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95073404140

PhD Dissertation Defense

3D Near Isotropic Antenna in Package for IoT Applications

SU Zhen

Wednesday, October 14, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/92772662132?pwd=bm81eFdEeW83cFd6Y0p4QUsrOG5CZz09

PhD Dissertation Defense

Post-processing and Feature Extraction Methods for Smart Biomedical Signal Monitoring: Algorithms and Applications

Abderrazak Chahid

Wednesday, October 14, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99212056184

PhD Dissertation Defense

High-Speed GaN-Based Distributed-Feedback Lasers and Optoelectronics

Jorge A. Holguin-Lerma

Thursday, September 17, 09:30

- 11:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95965631707

PhD Dissertation Defense

Low Power Micro-electromechanical Resonator-Based Logic Circuits

Sally Ahmed

Monday, August 31, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91515195700

PhD Dissertation Defense

Additively Manufactured Vanadium Dioxide (VO₂) based Radio Frequency Switches and Reconfigurable Components

Shuai Yang

Thursday, July 30, 18:00

- 20:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91824151108

PhD Dissertation Defense

Heterogeneous Integration Strategy for Obtaining Physically Flexible 3D Compliant Electronic Systems

Sohail Faizan Shaikh

Thursday, July 09, 15:00

- 16:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94675922617

PhD Dissertation Defense

Indoor 3D Scene Understanding Using Depth Sensors

Jean Lahoud

Thursday, May 28, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99582916945

PhD Dissertation Defense

Fabrication and Characterization of GaN-Based Superluminescent Diode for Solid-State Lighting and Visible Light Communication

Abdullah A. Alatawi

Thursday, April 02, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/4396782350

PhD Dissertation Defense

Efficient and Accurate Numerical Techniques for Sparse Electromagnetic Imaging

Ali Imran Sandhu

Wednesday, April 01, 15:30

- 17:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/966326183

PhD Dissertation Defense

Ultraviolet band based underwater wireless optical communication

Xiaobin Sun

Wednesday, April 01, 10:00

- 12:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/552120381

PhD Dissertation Defense

Understanding a Block of Layers in Deep Neural Networks: Optimization, Probabilistic and Tropical Geometric Perspectives

Adel Bibi

Monday, March 30, 18:00

- 20:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/279877360

PhD Dissertation Defense

Integration Strategy for Standalone Compliant Interactive Systems for Add-on Electronics

Sherjeel Khan

Tuesday, November 12, 16:30

- 18:00

Building 9, Level 3, Room 3125

PhD Dissertation Defense

Deep-Ultraviolet Optoelectronic Devices Enabled by the Hybrid Integration of Next-Generation Semiconductors and Emerging Device Platforms

Nasir Alfaraj

Monday, November 11, 18:00

- 20:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Additively Manufactured Conformal Microwave Sensors for Applications in Oil Industry

Muhammad Akram Karimi

Thursday, November 07, 16:30

- 19:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Magnetic Polymer Composite Transducers for Integrated Systems

Mohammed Asadullah Khan

Monday, October 21, 14:30

- 15:30

B3 L5 Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Study of III-nitride Nanowire Growth and Devices on Unconventional Substrates

Thursday, September 12, 09:30

- 11:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Compliant Electronics for Unusual Environments

Amani Almuslem

Sunday, August 25, 17:00

- 18:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Study of ultraviolet AlGaN nanowires light-emitting diodes

Davide Priante

Tuesday, July 30, 16:00

- 17:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Spectrum Management for Future Generations of Cellular Networks

Itsikiantsoa Randrianantenaina

Monday, July 08, 08:30

- 10:30

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202

PhD Dissertation Defense

Analysis and Optimization of Massive MIMO Systems via Random Matrix Theory Approaches

Ikram Boukhedimi

Monday, June 24, 12:00

- 14:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

Random Matrix Theory: Selected Applications from Statistical Signal Processing and Machine Learning

Khalil Elkhalil

Monday, June 24, 09:00

- 10:00

Building 1, Level 4, Room 4214

PhD Dissertation Defense

Efficient Localization of Human Actions and Moments in Videos

Victor Escorcia

Tuesday, June 11, 15:00

- 16:00

B3, L5, 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

High Precision Comb-Assisted Molecular Spectroscopy in the Mid-Infrared

Bidoor AlSaif

Monday, May 27, 10:00

- 11:00

B2 L5 Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Sim-to-Real Transfer for Autonomous Navigation

Matthias Mueller

Tuesday, May 14, 16:00

- 17:00

B2 L5 Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Advanced MTJ Sensory Devices for Industrial and Healthcare Applications

Yousof A. Mashraei

Thursday, April 25, 15:00

- 16:00

B3 L5 Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Paving the Way for Next Generation Wireless Data Center Networks

Amer AlGhadhban

Sunday, April 21, 13:00

- 14:00

B1 L4 Room 4214

PhD Dissertation Defense

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