Computer Engineering

Electromagnetics

Electronics

Power

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ECE Ph.D.s

ECE Patents

Fakhrul Alam

Dissertation: Space Time Processing for Third Generation CDMA Systems

Committee Chair:
B.D. Woerner

Song Hun Kim

Dissertation: Distributed Reconfigurable Simulation for Communication Systems

Committee Chair:
W.H. Tranter

Michael L. Picciolo

Dissertation: Robust Adaptive Signal Processors

Committee Chair:
L.M. Mili

Richard Mallory Allnutt

Dissertation: Small Scale Antenna Diversity as a Means of Reducing the Effects of Multipath fading for Handheld Satellite

Communications Systems Committee Chair:
T.L. Pratt

Suk Won Kim

Dissertation: Smart Antennas at Handsets for the 3G Wideband CDMA Systems and Adaptive Low-Power Rake Combining Schemes

Committee Chair:
D.S. Ha

Leila Zurba Ribeiro

Dissertation: Traffic Dimensioning for Multimedia Wireless Networks

Committee Chair:
L.A. DaSilva

Peter Barbosa

Dissertation: Three-Phase Power Factor Correction Circuits for Low-Cost Distributed Power Systems

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Jing Ma

Dissertation: Incremental Design Techniques with Non-Preemptive Refinement for Million-Gate FPGAs

Committee Chairs:
P.M. Athanas, M.T. Jones

Pablo Maximiliano Robert

Dissertation: Reduction in Coexistent WLAN Interference Through Statistical Traffic Management

Committee Chair:
J.H. Reed

David C. Elizondo

Dissertation: A Methodology to Evaluate and Rank the Impact of Hidden Failures in Protection Schemes based on Regions of Vulnerability and Index of Severity

Committee Chair:
J. de la Ree

Tanit Malakorn

Dissertation: Multidimensional Linear Systems and Robust Control

Committee Chair(ECE):
W.T. Baumann

Roger Ray Skidmore

Dissertation: A Comprehensive Method and System for the Design and Deployment of Wireless Data Networks

Committee Chairs:
L.A. Ferrari, T.S. Rappaport

John D. Hiemstra

Dissertation: Robust Implementations of the Multistage Wiener Filter

Committee Chair:
T.L. Pratt

Hossam H. Meshref

Dissertation: Modeling Autonomous Agents' Behavior Using Neuro-Immune Networks

Committee Chair:
H.F. VanLandingham

Seong-Youp Suh

Dissertation: A Comprehensive Investigation of New Planar Wideband Antennas

Committee Chair:
W.L. Stutzman

Surachet Kanprachar

Dissertation: Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Subcarrier Multiplexing on Multimode Fiber

Committee Chair:
I. Jacobs

Raqibul Mostafa

Dissertation: Feasibility of Smart Antennas for the Small Wireless Terminals

Committee Chair:
J.H. Reed

Jiann-An Tsai

Dissertation: Combined Space-Time Diversity and Interference Cancellation for MIMO Wireless Systems

Committee Chairs:
B.D. Woerner, R.M. Buehrer

Dimosthenis C. Katsis

Dissertation: Thermal Characterization of Die-Attach Degradation in the Power MOSFET

Committee Chair:
J.D. van Wyk

Ali Hussein Muqaibel

Dissertation: Characterization of Ultra Wideband Communication Channels

Committee Chairs:
S.M. Riad, B.D. Woerner

Virach Wongpaibool

Dissertation: Improvement of Fiber Optic System Performance by Synchronous Phase Modulation and Filtering at the Transmitter

Committee Chair:
I. Jacobs

Abdel Rahman Khatib

Dissertation: Internet-based Wide Area Measurement Applications in Deregulated Power Systems

Committee Chairs:
A. G. Phadke, Y. Liu

William George Newhall

Dissertation: Radio Channel Measurements and Modeling for Smart Antenna Array Systems Using a Software Radio Receiver

Committee Chair:
J.H. Reed

Qun Zhao

Dissertation: Performance Improvement of Power Conversion by Utilizing Coupled Inductors

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Byung-ki Kim

Dissertation: Smart Base Station Antenna Performance for Several Scenarios - an Experimental and Modeling Investigation

Committee Chair:
W.L. Stutzman

Hien Nhu Nguyen

Dissertation: Robust Steering Vector Mismatch Techniques for Reduced Rank Adaptive Array Signal Processing

Committee Chair:
T.L. Pratt

Dissertation: Design of Class-E Radio Frequency Power Amplifier.

Committee Chair:
S.M. Riad

Dissertation: Development of Re-duced-Order Flame Models for Prediction of Combustion Instability.

Committee Chair:
W.T. Baumann

Dissertation: Optimal Control for a Two Player Dynamic Pursuit Evasion Game: The Herding Problem.

Committee Chair:
P Kachroo

Dissertation:: Investigating Speaker Features From Very Short Speech Records.

Committee Chair:
A.A. Beex

Dissertation: Wireless ATM Networks Medium Access Control with Adaptive Parallel Multiple Substream CDMA Air-Interface.

Committee Chair:
N.J. Davis

Dissertation: Voltage Balancing Techniques for Flying Capacitors Used in Soft-Switching Multilevel Active Power Filters.

Committee Chair:
J.S. Lai

Dissertation: Robust Electric Power Infrastructures, Response and Recovery during Catastrophic Failures.

Committee Chair:
A.G. Phadke

Dissertation: Wavelet-Based Multiresolution Surface Approximation from Height Fields.

Committee Chair:
A.L. Abbott

Dissertation: Feature Identification in Wooden Boards Using Color Image Segmentation.

Committee Chair:
J.H. Reed

Dissertation: Design of a Broadband Array Using the Foursquare Radiating Element.

Committee Chair:
W.L. Stutzman

Dissertation: A Software Framework for Advanced Power System Analysis: Case Studies in Networks, Distributed Generations, and Distributed Computation.

Committee Chair:
R.P. Broadwater

Dissertation: Reduced Rank Adaptive Filtering Applied to Interference Mitigation in Wideband CDMS Systems.

Committee Chair: T. Pratt

Dissertation: Analysis and Design of Star Spiral Antenna with Application to Wideband Array with Variable Element Sizes.

Committee Chair:
W.A. Davis

Dissertation: Unified Zero-Current-Transition Techniques for High-Power Three-Phase PWM Inverters.

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Advanced High-Frequency Electronic Ballasting Techniques for Gas Discharge Lamps.

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Analysis of Inductor-Coupled Zero-Voltage-Transition Converters.

Committee Chair:
D. Boroyevich

Dissertation: Piezoelectric Transformer Characterization and Application of Electronic Ballast.

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Bogdan Tomescu

Dissertation: On the Use of Fuzzy Logic to Control Paralleled DC-DC Converters.

Committee Chair:
H.F. VanLandingham

Dissertation: Integrated Design of Electrical Distribution Systems: Phase Balancing and Phase Prediction Cast Studies.

Committee Chair:
R.P. Broadwater

Dissertation: Nonlinear Analysis and Control of Standalone, Parallel DC-DC, and Parallel Multi-Phase PWM Converters.

Committee Chairs:
D.Boroyevich, A. Nayfeh

Dissertation: Design of Switched Reluctance Motors and Development of a Universal Controller for Switched Reluctance and Permanent Magnet Brushless DC Motor Drives.

Committee Chair:
K. Ramu

Dissertation: Study of Power Transformer Abnormalities and IT Applications in Power Systems.

Committee Chair:
Y. Liu

Dissertation: State Estimation and Voltage Security Monitoring Using Synchronized Phasor Measurements.

Committee Chair:
A.G. Phadke

Dissertation: Multiphase Voltage Regulator Modules with Magnetic Integration to Power Microprocessors.

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Dynamic Code Sharing Algorithms for IP Quality of Service in Wideband CDMA 3G Wireless Networks.

Committee Chair:
N.J. Davis

Dissertation: The Folded Hypercube ATM Switches.

Committee Chair:
N.J. Davis

Dissertation: Physically-Based Realizable Modeling and Network Synthesis of Subscriber Loops Utilized in DSL Technology.

Committee Chair:
S.M. Riad

Ran Gozali

Dissertation: Space Time Codes for High Data Rate Wireless Communications.

Committee Chair:
B.D. Woerner

Bin Qiu

Dissertation: Next Generation Information Communication Infrastructure and Case Studies for Future Power Systems.

Committee Chair:
Y. Liu

Dissertation: Biologically Inspired Modular Neural Networks

Committee Chair:
H.F. VanLandingham

Dissertation: Selective Interference Cancellation and Frame Synchronization for Packet Radio

Committee Chair:
B.D. Woerner

Dissertation: A Near-Zone to Far-Zone Transformation for Spheroidal Near-Zone Geometry Utilizing an Eigenfunction Expansion

Committee Chair:
W.L. Stutzman

Dissertation: Control of Switched Reluctance Motors Considering Mutual Inductance

Committee Chair:
K. Ramu

Dissertation: Architecture-Independent Design for Run-Time Reconfigurable Custom Computing Machines

Committee Chair:
P.M. Athanas

Dissertation: A Bayesian Network Approach to the Self-Organization and Learning in Intelligent Agents

Committee Chair:
H.F. VanLandingham

Dissertation: Resource Allocation and Adaptive Antennas in Cellular Communications

Committee Chair:
T.S. Rappaport

Dissertation: Systematic Optimization Technique for MESFET Modeling

Committee Chair:
S.M. Riad

Dissertation: Improving Object Classification in X-ray Luggage Inspection

Committee Chair:
A.L. Abbott

Dissertation: Space Vector Modulation and Control of Multilevel Converters

Committee Chair:
D. Boroyevich

Dissertation: Optical Three-Dimensional Image Matching using Holographic Information

Committee Chair:
T.-C. Poon

Dissertation: Range Adaptive Protocols for Wireless Multi-Hop Networks

Committee Chair:
S.M. Midkiff

Dissertation: Numerical Simulation of Ion Waves in Dusty Plasmas

Committee Chair:
W.A. Scales

Dissertation: Linear Switched Reluctance Machine Drives With Electromagnetic Levitation and Guidance Systems

Committee Chair:
K. Ramu

Dissertation: Artificial Intelligence Applications in the Diagnosis of Power Transformer Incipient Faults

Committee Chair:
Y. Liu

Dissertation: Subsystem Design in Aircraft Power Distribution Systems using Optimization

Committee Chair:
D.K. Lindner

Dissertation: Innovative GTO Thyristor Based Switches Through Unity Gain Turn-Off

Committee Chair:
A. Huang

Dissertation: Performance Improvements of Multi-Channel Interleaving Voltage Regulator Modules with Integrated Coupling Inductors

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Satellite Rural Telephone Network Design: A Methodology for Performance Optimization

Committee Chair:
T. Pratt

Dissertation: A Taxonomy of Computer Attacks with Applications to Wireless Networks

Committee Chair:
N.J. Davis

Dissertation: Self-Calibrated Interferometric/ Intensity-Based Fiber Optic Pressure Sensors

Committee Chair:
A. Wang

Dissertation: Design Optimization of Fuzzy Logic Systems

Committee Chair:
H.F. VanLandingham

Dissertation: Control Strategies and Parameter Compensation for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives

Committee Chair:
K. Ramu

Dissertation: Modeling and Control of Parallel Three-Phase PWM Converters

Committee Chair:
D. Boroyevich

Dissertation: Propagation and Scattering of Waves by Terrain Features

Committee Chair:
G.S. Brown

Dissertation: Miniaturized 3--D Mapping System Using a Fiber Optic Coupler as a Young's Double Pinhole Interferometer

Committee Chair:
A. Wang

Dissertation: Advanced Integrated Single-Stage Power Factor Correction Techniques

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Theory of Stochastic Local Area Channel Modeling for Wireless Communications

Committee Chair:
T.S. Rappaport

Dissertation: Error Control in Wireless ATM Network

Committee Chair:
Y. Liu

Dissertation: A Study in Speaker Dependent Medium Vocabulary Word Recognition: Application to Human/Computer Interface

Committee Chair:
H.F. VanLandingham

Dissertation: High-Level Synthesis and Implementation of Built-In Self-Testable Data Path Intensive Circuit

Committee Chair:
D.S. Ha

Dissertation: Extraction of 3D Object Representations from a Single Range Image

Committee Chair:
A.L. Abbott

Dissertation: Electromagnetic Transient and Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of a StatCom/SMES Copensator in Power Systems

Committee Chair:
Y. Liu

Dissertation: A Power Conditioning System for Supercondutive Magnetic Energy Storage Based on Multi-Level Voltage Source Converter

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Iterative Detection and Decoding for Wireless Communications

Committee Chair:
B.D. Woerner

Dissertation: Improving the Real-time Performance of a Wireless Local Area Network

Committee Chair:
N.J. Davis

Dissertation: The Utility of X-ray Dual-Energy Transmission and Scatter Technologies for Illicit material Detection

Committee Chair:
R.W. Conners

Dissertation: Implementation of Parallel and Serial Concatenated Convolutional Codes

Committee Chair:
B.D. Woerner

Dissertation: Electronic Packaging Strategies for High Current DC to DC Converters

Committee Chair:
A. Elshabini

Dissertation: Development and Analysis of Adaptive Interference Rejection Techniques for Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access Systems

Committee Chair:
J.H. Reed

Dissertation: Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Distributed Power Electronics System Based on Building Block Concept

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Efficient Interference Cancellation Techniques for Advanced DS-CDMA Receivers

Committee Chair:
B.D. Woerner

Dissertation: MADM Framework for Strategic Resource Planning of Electric Utilities

Committee Chair:
S. Rahman

Dissertation: Terrestrial radio wave propagation at millimeter-wave frequencies

Committee Chair:
T.S. Rappaport

Dissertation: Adaptive Arrays and Diversity Antenna Configurations for Handheld Wireless Communication Terminals

Committee Chair:
W.L. Stutzman

Dissertation: Chebyshev Approximation of Discrete polynomials and Splines

Committee Chair:
L.A. Ferrari

Dissertation: Investigation of MoSFated Thyristors and Power Midodes

Committee Chair:
Q. Huang

Dissertation: Antenna Array Systems: Propagation and Performance

Committee Chair:
J.H. Reed

Dissertation: Monocular and Binocular Visual Tracking

Committee Chair:
A.L. Abbott

Dissertation: Cascade RLS with Subsection Adaptation

Committee Chair:
A.A. Beex

Dissertation: Switchmode Power Supply Miniaturization with Emphasis on Integrated Passive Components on Prefired High Performance Ceramic Substrates

Committee Chair:
A. Elshabini

Dissertation: On Ways to Improve Adaptive Filter Performance

Committee Chair:
A.A. Beex

Dissertation: Low-Voltage High-Efficiency Fast-Transient Voltage Regulator Module

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Code Division Multiplexing of Fiber Optic and Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Sensors

Committee Chair:
R.O. Claus

Dissertation: Time-Varying Autoregressive Model Based Signal Processing with Applications to Interference Rejection in Spread Spectrum Communications

Committee Chair:
A.A. Beex

Dissertation: A Class of Robust and Efficient Iterative Methods for Wave Scattering Problems

Committee Chair:
G.S. Brown

Dissertation: Effects of Input Power Factor Correction on Variable Speed Drive Systems

Committee Chair:
K. Ramu

Dissertation: New Techniques in the Design of Distributed Power Systems

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Electrostatic Self-Assembly of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Thin Films

Committee Chair:
R.O. Claus

Dissertation: Developing Modeling and Simulation Methodology for Virtual Prototype Power Supply System

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: High Performance Power Converter Systems for Nonlinear and Unbalanced Load/Source

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Real-Time Image Processing Using Acousto-Optic Bragg Diffraction

Committee Chair:
T.-C. Poon

Dissertation: Digital System Synthesis with Complex Functional Units

Committee Chair:
W.R. Cyre

Dissertation: Optimization Study of the Stripline Resonator Technique for Dielectric Characterization

Committee Chair:
S.M. Riad

Dissertation: High-Frequency Quasi-Single-Stage (QSS) Isolated AC-DC and DC-AC Power Conversion

Committee Chairs:
D. Boroyevich, F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Numerical Reconstruction and Applications of Acoustic and Electromagnetic Ultra-Wideband Localized Pulses Generated by Dynamic Aperture Antennas

Committee Chair:
I.M. Besieris

Dissertation: Simulation Studies of Parametric Processes Associated with Ionospheric Electromagnetic Radiation

Committee Chair:
W.A. Scales

Dissertation: Determination of Bragg Scatter in an Aircraft Generated Wake Vortex System for Radar Detection

Committee Chair:
W.A. Scales

Dissertation: Analysis, Design and Performance Evaluation of Optical Fiber Spectrum-Sliced WDM Systems

Committee Chair:
I. Jacobs

Dissertation: Active Library Resolution in Active Networks

Committee Chair:
S.F. Midkiff

Dissertation: Optical Fiber Fabry-Perot Interferometer based Sensor Instrumentation System for Low Magnetic Field Measurement

Committee Chair:
A. Wang

Dissertation: Rough Surface Scattering and Propagation over Rough Terrain in Ducting Environments

Committee Chair:
G.S. Brown

Dissertation: Design and Analysis of Piezoelectric Transformer Converters

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Advanced Single-Stage Power Factor Correction Techniques

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Designs for Zero Polarization-Mode Dispersion and Polarization-Maintaining Fibers

Committee Chair:
A. Safaai-Jazi

Dissertation: A Test Planning System for Functional Validation of VHDL DSP Models

Committee Chair:
J.R. Armstrong

Dissertation: TFDTLM: A New Computationally Efficient Frequency Domain TLM Based on Transient Analysis Techniques

Committee Chair:
S.M. Riad

Dissertation: Low Voltage High Current Power Conversion with Integrated Magnetics

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: A Heuristic Nonlinear Constructive Method for Electric Power Distribution System Reconfiguration

Committee Chair:
R.P. Broadwater

Dissertation: Three-Dimensional Fluorescence Microscopy by Optical Scanning Holography

Committee Chair:
T.-C. Poon

Dissertation: Adaptive Predictive Feedback Techniques for Vibration Control

Committee Chair:
W.T. Baumann

Dissertation: Rule-Based Approaches for Controlling on Mode Dynamic Systems

Committee Chair:
H.F. VanLandingham

Dissertation: Generic Adaptive Handoff Algorithms Using Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks

Committee Chairs:
J.H. Reed, H.F. VanLandingham

Dissertation: Robust Statistical Methods for Measurement Calibration in Large Electric Power Systems

Committee Chair:
L.M. Mili

Dissertation: CATER: An Opportunistic Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Local Area Networks

Committee Chair:
N.J. Davis

Dissertation: Low Nonlinearity Optical Fibers for Broadband and Long-Distance Communications

Committee Chair:
A. Safaai-Jazi

Dissertation: Real-Time Signal Processing and Hardware Development for a Wavelength Modulated Optical Fiber Sensor System

Committee Chair:
K.A. Murphy

Dissertation: Numerical Reconstruction and Applications of Acoustic and Electromagnetic Ultra-Wideband Localized Pulses Generated by Dynamic Aperture Antennas

Committee Chair:
I.M. Besieris

Dissertation: Simulation Studies of Parametric Processes Associated with Ionospheric Electromagnetic Radiation

Committee Chair:
W.A. Scales

Dissertation: Optical Fiber Fabry-Perot Interferometer based Sensor Instrumentation System for Low Magnetic Field Measurement

Committee Chair:
A. Wang

Dissertation: Analysis, Design and Performance Evaluation of Optical Fiber Spectrum-Sliced WDM Systems

Committee Chair:
I. Jacobs

Dissertation: Robust GMSK Demodulation Using Demodulator Diversity and BER Estimation

Committee Chair:
J.H. Reed

Dissertation: Advanced Single-Stage Power Factor Correction Techniques

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Wormhole Run-Time Reconfiguration: Conceptualization and VLSI Design of a High Performance Computing System

Committee Chair:
P.M. Athanas

Dissertation: Adaptive Self-Tuning Neuro Wavelet Network Controllers

Committee Chair:
H.F. VanLandingham

Dissertation: Two-Loop Controller for Maximizing Performance of a Grid-Connected Photovoltaic-Fuel Cell Hybrid Power Plant

Committee Chair:
S. Rahman

Dissertation: A New Digital Relay for Dispersed Storage and Generation (DSC) Units

Committee Chair:
A.G. Phadke

Dissertation: Design and Analysis of Piezoelectric Transformer Converters

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: TFDTLM: A New Computationally Efficient Frequency Domain TLM Based on Transient Analysis Techniques

Committee Chair:
S.M. Riad

Dissertation: Fixed-Point Implementation of a Multistage Receiver

Committee Chair:
B.D. Woerner

Dissertation: Rule-Based Approaches for Controlling on Mode Dynamic Systems

Committee Chair:
H.F. VanLandingham

Dissertation: Neural Fuzzy Techniques In Vehicle Acoustic Signal Classification

Committee Chair:
H.F. VanLandingham

Dissertation: Fundamentals of the Simplex communication Channel with Retransmissions

Committee Chair:
C. Bostian

Dissertation: CATER: An Opportunistic Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Local Area Networks

Committee Chair:
N.J. Davis

Dissertation: Three-Dimensional Fluorescence Microscopy by Optical Scanning Holography

Committee Chair:
T.-C. Poon

Dissertation: A Design Methodology for Creating Programmable Logic-Based Real-Time Image Processing Hardware

Committee Chair:
J.G. Tront

Dissertation: Real-Time Signal Processing and Hardware Development for a Wavelength Modulated Optical Fiber Sensor System

Committee Chair:
K.A. Murphy

Dissertation: Generic Adaptive Handoff Algorithms Using Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks

Committee Chairs:
J.H. Reed, H.F. VanLandingham

Dissertation: Robust Statistical Methods for Measurement Calibration in Large Electric Power Systems

Committee Chair:
L.M. Mili

Dissertation: Determination of Bragg Scatter in an Aircraft Generated Wake Vortex System for Radar Detection

Committee Chair:
W.A. Scales

Dissertation: Intelligent Navigation of Autonomous Vehicles in an Automated Highway System: Learning Methods and Interacting Vehicles Approach

Committee Chair:
J.S. Bay

Dissertation: Atomic Clock Augmentation For Receivers Using the Global Positioning System

Committee Chair:
T. Pratt

Dissertation: Novel Adaptive Array Algorithms and Their Impact on Cellular System Capacity

Committee Chair:
J.H. Reed

Dissertation: Electrical, Thermal, and EMI Designs of High-Density, Low-Profile Power Supplies

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: A Design Methodology for Physical Design for Testability

Committee Chair:
S.F. Midkiff

Dissertation: Analysis and Design of a 500 KHz Series Resonant Inverter for Induction Heating Applications

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Soft-Switching Techniques for High Power PWM Converters

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: The Application of Multiused Detection to Cellular CDMA

Committee Chair:
B.D. Woerner

Dissertation: Co-Channel Interference Rejection Techniques for Amps and their Impact on System Capacity

Committee Chair:
J.H. Reed

Dissertation: 3-D Strong Acousto-Optic Interaction Theory

Committee Chair:
T.-C. Poon

Dissertation: A Technique for Multi-Attribute Utility Expansion Planning under Uncertainty: With Focus on Incorporating Environmental Factors into the planning Process

Committee Chair:
S. Rahman

Dissertation: Modeling and Control of Three-Phase PWM Converters

Committee Chair:
D. Borojevic

Dissertation: High-Frequency Dimensional Effects in Ferrite-Core Magnetic Devices

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Twin-Image Problems in Optical Scanning Holography

Committee Chair:
T.-C. Poon

Dissertation: A New Method to Calculate and Wave Scattering From Rough Surfaces at Low Grazing Angles

Committee Chair:
G.S. Brown

Dissertation: Synthesis of Dual Offset Gregorian Reflector Antennas With Very Low Cross Polarization Under Practical Constraints for Mass Production

Committee Chair:
W.L. Stutzman

Dissertation: Optimization in Electrical Distribution Systems: Discrete Ascent Optimal Programming

Committee Chair:
R.P. Broadwater

Dissertation: A Position-Location System Utilizing Geosynchronous Communication Satellites

Committee Chair:
C.W. Bostian

Dissertation: Wavelength Compensation in Fused Fiber Couplers

Committee Chair:
R.O. Claus

Dissertation: Novel Methods for Short Term Load Forecasting Based on Machine Learning Techniques

Committee Chair:
S. Rahman

Dissertation: Analysis of Infinite Arrays of Arbitrarily Shaped Planar Radiating Elements Using a Floquet Mode Based method of Moments Approach

Committee Chair:
W.L. Stutzman

Dissertation: An Efficiency Rating Tool for Process-Level VHDL Behavioral Models

Committee Chair:
J.R. Armstrong

Dissertation: Nonreciprocal Effects and Their Applications in Fiber Networks

Committee Chair:
R.O. Claus

Dissertation: A Test Generation System for Behaviorally Modeled Digital Circuits

Committee Chair:
J.R. Armstrong

Dissertation: Integrated Optoelectonics Applications in Fiber Optic Receiver packaging

Committee Chair:
A.A. Elshabini-Riad

Dissertation: Small Signal Analysis of Nonlinear Systems with Periodic Operating Techniques

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Optical Fiber-Based Corrosion Sensor Systems

Committee Chair:
R.O. Claus

Dissertation: Implementation of Adaptive Out of Step Relaying with Phasor Measurement

Committee Chair:
A.G. Phadke

Dissertation: An RBFN-Based System for Speaker-Independent Speech Recognition

Committee Chair:
H.F. Vanlandingham

Dissertation: A Decision Making Tool for Evaluating Uncertainties in Electric Power System Planning

Committee Chair:
S. Rahman

Dissertation: A Methodology for Evaluating Energy Efficient Lighting Technologies for their Performance, Power Quality and Environmental Impacts

Committee Chair:
S. Rahman

Dissertation: Stability Analysis of Large-Scale Power Electonics Systems

Committee Chair:
B.H. Cho

Dissertation: High Power Shunt Regulation of Spacecraft Solar Arrays

Committee Chair:
B.H. Cho

Dissertation: Carrier Transport Study on Wide Bandgap Materials

Committee Chair:
D.J. Moore

Dissertation: Parameter Estimation for Exponential Signals in Colored Noise Using the Pseudo-Autoregressive (PAR) Model

Committee Chair:
A.A. Beex

Dissertation: Signal Decomposition for Nonstationary Processes

Committee Chair:
A.A. Beex

Dissertation: Optical Fiber Sensors for Advanced Civil Structures

Committee Chair:
R.O. Claus

Dissertation: Design of Monolithically Integrated Radio Receivers

Committee Chairs:
F.W. Stephenson, A.A. Elshabini-Riad

Dissertation: Peak Load Estimation Using Load Research Data

Committee Chair:
K. Ramu

Dissertation: Optimization in Electrical Distribution Systems: Discrete Ascent Optimal Programming

Committee Chair:
R.P. Broadwater

Joseph Charles Liberti, Jr.

Dissertation: Analysis of CDMA Cellular Radio Systems Employing Adaptive Antennas

Committee Chair:
T.S. Rappaport

Dissertation: Novel Methods for Short Term Load Forecasting Based on Machine Learning Techniques

Committee Chair:
S. Rahman

Dissertation: Analysis and Simulation of the Kerr Effect in Long Haul In-Line Fiber Amplifier Transmission Systems

Committee Chair:
I. Jacobs

Dissertation: Adaptive Intelligent Control of a Three Phase Voltage-Source Inverter

Committee Chair:
K. Ramu

Dissertation: Soft Switching Techniques for Pulse-Width Modulated Converters

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Average Current-Mode Control and Charge Control for PWM Converters

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Functionals in Electromagnetics — An Investigation into Methods to Eliminate Spurious Solutions in the Application of Finite Element Techniques

Committee Chair:
W.A. Davis

Dissertation: Development of Advanced Power Factor Correction Techniques

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: An Expert System for Protection System Design of Interconnected Electrical Distribution Circuits

Committee Chair:
R.P. Broadwater

Dissertation: Sources of Localized Waves

Committee Chair:
I.M. Besieris

Dissertation: Fault Simulation and Test Pattern Generation for Synchronous and Asynchronous Sequential Circuits

Committee Chair:
D.S. Ha

Dissertation: A Hybrid Approach to Speaker Verification

Committee Chair:
H.F. VanLandingham

Dissertation: Analysis and Design of Multiple-Output Forward Converter with Weighted Voltage Control

Committee Chairs:
M.M. Jovanovic, F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Power Transformer Magnetization Under GIC

Committee Chair:
Y. Liu

Dissertation: Segflow: A New Object-Oriented Load Flow Which Uses Trace Methods and Affiliation Objects

Committee Chair:
R.P. Broadwater

Dissertation: Real-Time Implementation of High Breakdown Point Estimators in Electric Power Systems Via System Decomposition

Committee Chair:
L.M. Mili

Dissertation: An Altimeter Waveform Model for Combined Surface and Volume Scattering

Committee Chair:
G.S. Brown

Dissertation: Three-Phase Power Conversion Using Soft-Switching PWM Techniques

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: A Formal Model for Behavioral Test Generation

Committee Chair:
J.R. Armstrong

Dissertation: A Decision making Tool for Evaluating Uncertainties in Electric Power System Planning

Committee Chair:
S. Rahman

Dissertation: Extended Describing Function Method for Small Signal Modeling of Resonant and Multi-Resonant Converters

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Nonlinear System Identification and Control Using a Neutral Network Approach

Committee Chair:
H.F. VanLandingham

Dissertation: Modal and Radiation Characeristics of the Cross-Septum Dielectric Loaded Waveguide for Wideband Applications

Committee Chair:
T. Pratt

Dissertation: Computer Relaying for EHU/UHV Transmission Lines and Series Compensated Lines

Committee Chair:
A.G. Phadke

Dissertation: The Ladder Load-Flow Method Extended to Distribution Networks

Committee Chair:
R.P. Broadwater

Dissertation: Performance Modeling and Analysis of parallel Processing and Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communication Systems

Committee Chair:
N.J. Davis

Dissertation: Implementation of Adaptive Out of Step Relaying With Phasor Measurement

Committee Chair:
A.G. Phadke

Dissertation: Finite Difference Time Domain Simulation of Subpicosecond Semiconductor Optical Devices

Committee Chairs:
S.M. Riad, A. Elshabini-Riad

Dissertation: Analysis of Power System Disturbances Due to Relay Hidden Failures

Committee Chair:
A.G. Phadke

Dissertation: Importance Sampling Simulation of Free-Space Optical Pulse Position Modulation

Committee Chair:
C.W. Bostian

Dissertation: State-Space LQG Self-Tuning Control of Flexible Structures

Committee Chair:
W.T. Baumann

Dissertation: Calibration of Time Domain Network Analyzers

Committee Chair:
S.M. Riad

Dissertation: Real-Time Phasor Measurements for Improved Monitoring and Control of Power System Stability

Committee Chair:
A.G. Phadke

Dissertation: The Electrodynamics of High Frequency Magnetics in Power Electronics

Committee Chair:
F.C. Lee

Dissertation: Robust Mahalanobis Distance in Power Systems State Estimation

Committee Chair:
A.G. Phadke

Dissertation: Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drive Systems

Committee Chair:
K. Ramu

Dissertation: Multicomputer Networks for Smart Structures

Committee Chair:
S.F. Midkiff

Dissertation: A Tri-Reflector Antenna Configuration for Wide Angle Beam Scanning

Committee Chair:
W.L. Stutzman

Dissertation: Time-Optimal Control with Application to Flexible Structures

Committee Chairs:
E.M. Cliff, W.T.