Research Festival

1:00pm - 3:00pm Poster Session 2 2012 Research Festival

Applied Electromagnetics

Bio-Electronics and Bio-Optics

Communications

Controls

Energy

Integrated Circuits and Systems

Nano-Science, Nano-Technology & Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems</h3

Networks

Photonics

VLSI

Ruzbeh Akbar
Poster title: Development of an integrated radar-radiometer estimation algorithm for retrieval of soil moisture for SMAP (PDF)
Category: Applied Electromagnetics
Advisor: Mahta Moghaddam
rakbar@usc.edu

Mariko Burgin
Poster title:A generalized radar scattering model for multispecies forests with multilayer subsurface soil (PDF)
Category: Applied Electromagnetics
Advisor: Mahta Moghaddam
mariko.burgin@usc.edu

Mark Harrison
Poster title: Silica suspended waveguide splitter-based biosensor (PDF)
Category: Bio-Electronics and Bio-Optics
Advisor: Andrea Armani
mark.harrison@usc.edu

Megasthenis Asteris
Poster title: Repairable Fountain Codes (PDF)
Category: Communications
Advisor: Alex Dimakis
asteris@usc.edu

Horia Vlad Balan
Poster title: Distributed Multiuser MIMO with Full Spatial Multiplexing (PDF)
Category: Communications
Advisor: Konstantinos Psounis
hbalan@usc.edu

Chien-Lun Chen
Poster title: Multi-layer Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Multi-path Relay Channel (PDF)
Category: Communications
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
chienlun@usc.edu

Sunav Choudhary
Poster title: Structured Sparse Channel Estimation (PDF)
Category: Communications
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
sunavch@gmail.com

Songze Li
Poster title: Jointly Cooperative Decode-and-Forward Relaying for Secondary Spectrum Access (PDF)
Category: Communications
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
songzeli@usc.edu

Milad Marvian
Poster title: Secure Quantum Carriers for Quantum State Sharing (PDF)
Category: Communications
Advisor: Daniel Lidar
marvianm@usc.edu

Dimitris Papailiopoulos
Poster title: Locally Repairable Codes for Data Clusters (PDF)
Category: Communications
Advisor: Alex Dimakis
papailio@usc.edu

Karthikeyan Shanmugam
Poster title: A Repair Framework for Scalar MDS codes (PDF)
Category: Communications
Advisor: Giuseppe Caire, Alex Dimakis
kshanmug@usc.edu

Morteza Ziaydi
Poster title: Digital Optical Computation (PDF)
Category: Communications
Advisor: Alan Willner
ziyadi@usc.edu

Daphney-Stavroula Zois
Poster title: Energy-Efficient, Heterogeneous Sensor Selection for Physical Activity Detection in Wireless Body Area Networks (PDF)
Category: Communications
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
zois@usc.edu

Harsha Honnappa
Poster title: The Networked Concert Queueing Game (PDF)
Category: Controls
Advisor: Rahul Jain
honnappa@usc.edu

Ningfeng Huang
Poster title: Periodic Semiconductor Nanowire Array for High Efficiency Solar Cells (PDF)
Category: Energy
Advisor: Michelle Povinelli
ningfenh@usc.edu

Yuan Yao
Poster title: Power Cost Reduction in Distributed Data Center (PDF)
Category: Energy
Advisor: Leana Golubchik
yuanyao@usc.edu

Mohammad Abdel-Majeed
Poster title: A Case doe 3D stacked Analog Circuits in High-speed Sensing Systems (PDF)
Category: Integrated Circuits and Systems
Advisor: Murali Annavaram
abdelmaj@usc.edu

Run Chen
Poster title: Software-Defined Radio (SDR) Receiver Using Sample Domain Signal Processing (PDF)
Category: Integrated Circuits and Systems
Advisor: Hossein Hashemi
runchen@usc.edu

Kunal Datta
Poster title: Watt-Level Efficient Linear Power Amplifier in Silicon (PDF)
Category: Integrated Circuits and Systems
Advisor: Hossein Hashemi
kdatta@usc.edu

Alireza Imani
Poster title: Analysis and Design of Low Phase-Noise Oscillators with Nonlinear Resonators (PDF)
Category: Integrated Circuits and Systems
Advisor: Hossein Hashemi
imani@usc.edu

Sushil Subramanian
Poster title: Wideband Frequency Synthesis with Rapid Frequency Hopping (PDF)
Category: Integrated Circuits and Systems
Advisor: Hossein Hashemi
sushilsu@usc.edu

Ko-Chung Tseng
Poster title: A Directionally-Selective Neuromorphic Circuit Based on Reciprocal Synapses in Starburst Amacrine Cells (PDF)
Category: Integrated Circuits and Systems
Advisor: Alice Parker
kochungt@usc.edu

Moh Amer
Poster title: Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors for The Next Generation of Interconnects (PDF)
Category: Nano-Science, Nano-Technology, and Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
Advisor: Steve Cronin
mohammra@usc.edu

Yue Fu
Poster title: Printed Display Electronics Based on Separated Carbon Nanotube Inks (PDF)
Category: Nano-Science, nano-Technology, and Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
Advisor: Chongwu Zhou
yuefu@usc.edu

Marco Levorato, Post-doc
Poster title: A Sparse Decomposition Framework for Complex System Design and Analysis (PDF)
Category: Networks
Advisor: Urbashi Mitra
levorato@usc.edu

Parisa Mansourifard
Poster title: Myopic sensing in Multi-channel Opportunistic Access (PDF)
Category: Networks
Advisor: Bhaskar Krishnamachari
parisama@usc.edu

Masoud Moshref Javadi
Poster title: vCRIB: Virtualized Rule Management in the Cloud (PDF)
Category: Networks
Advisor: Ramesh Govindan
moshrefj@usc.edu

Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy
Poster title: Novel Codes for Cloud Storage (PDF)
Category: Networks
Advisor: Bhaskar Krishnamachari
msathiam@usc.edu

Agnelo Silva
Poster title: A novel hybrid, asynchronous, and open architecture for highly-scalable and low duty-cycle Wireless Sensor Networks (PDF)
Category: Networks
Advisor: Mahta Moghaddam
agnelosi@usc.edu

Wenyuan Tang
Poster title: Auction Designs for Aggregating Stochastic Resources in Smart-Grid Networks (PDF)
Category: Networks
Advisor: Rahul Jain
wenyuan@usc.edu

Jing Ma
Poster title: Optical trapping via guided resonance modes in a Slot-Suzuki-phase photonic crystal lattice (PDF)
Category: Photonics
Advisor: Michelle Povinelli
jingm@usc.edu

Satsuki Takahashi
Poster title: Titanium-Indiffused Lithium Niobate Waveguide Fabry-Perot Modulator (PDF)
Category: Photonics
Advisor: William Steier
satsukit@usc.edu

Yinying Xiao Li
Poster title: Intersubband optical properties of GaAs/InGaAs nanopore superlattices (PDF)
Category: Photonics
Advisor: John O'Brien
yxiaoli@usc.edu

Siddharth Bhargav
Poster title: Method of Measuring Accurate Dynamic Power Consumption of Integrated Components and Sub-circuits (PDF)
Category: VLSI
Advisor: Young Cho
ssbharga@usc.edu