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Kate Gleason College of Engineering Graduates

Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D.

* cum laude    ** magna cum laude    *** summa cum laude    ยง Honors Program
DistinctionsNameDegreeCeremony
Zeina Bahij Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D.
Dissertation: Machine Learning Based Multi-Objective Operation of Microgrid with Renewable Uncertainty and Demand-side Management
Advisor: Bing Yan, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ

May 8, 5 p.m., GOR
Siddharth Shailesh Dongre Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D.
Dissertation: Fair and Secure Spectrum Sharing for 5G: Enabling Coexistence with Terrestrial and Satellite Communications
Advisor: Hanif Rahbari, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ

May 8, 5 p.m., GOR
Rahul Gulia Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D.
Dissertation: Toward Autonomous Wireless Networks: Spatio-Temporal Prediction via Physics-Aware Generative AI Models
Advisor: Amlan Ganguly, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ

May 8, 5 p.m., GOR
Hagar HossamEldin AbdElaziz Ah Hendy Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D.
Dissertation: Time-Domain Circuit Design Techniques for Neuromorphic Computing
Advisor: Cory Merkel , Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ

May 8, 5 p.m., GOR
Farhan Hyder Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D.
Dissertation: Efficient Energy Storage Modeling and Transmission Line Screening in Modern Power System Operation Through Synergistic Integration of Mathematical Optimization and Machine Learning
Advisor: Bing Yan, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ

May 8, 5 p.m., GOR
Prasanna Reddy Pulakurthi Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D.
Dissertation: Advancements in ML via Efficient Generative Modeling, Robust Domain Adaptation, and Explainable Multimodal Retrieval
Advisors: Majid Rabbani, Ph.D., and Sohail Dianat, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ

May 8, 5 p.m., GOR
Hector Alejandro Rubio Rivera Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D.
Dissertation: A Minimum-Phase Approach to Optical Signal Processing
Advisor: Stefan Preble, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ

May 8, 5 p.m., GOR
Geoffrey Duane Twardokus Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D.
Dissertation: Cross-Layer Security and Responsive Evaluation Architectures for Quantum Resistance in Connected Vehicles
Advisor: Hanif Rahbari, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ

May 8, 5 p.m., GOR