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Kate Gleason College of Engineering Graduates

Microsystems Engineering Ph.D.

* cum laude    ** magna cum laude    *** summa cum laude    § Honors Program
DistinctionsNameDegreeCeremony
Venkatesh Deenadayalan Microsystems Engineering Ph.D.
Dissertation: Advanced Photonic Integration and Packaging
Advisor: Stefan Preble, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ

May 8, 5 p.m., GOR
Michael J. Grant Microsystems Engineering Ph.D.
Dissertation: The Impact of Chiral Chain Conformations on the Self-Assembly of Helical Polymers
Advisor: Poornima Padmanabhan, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ

May 8, 5 p.m., GOR
Lilian Neim Microsystems Engineering Ph.D.
Dissertation: Hybrid Photonic–Electronic Neuromorphic Integrated Circuits
Advisor: Stefan Preble, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ

May 8, 5 p.m., GOR
Matthew Seitz Microsystems Engineering Ph.D.
Dissertation: Development of Blue and Near-UV III-Nitride Laser Diodes
Advisor: Jing Zhang, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ

May 8, 5 p.m., GOR
Vijay Soorya Shunmuga Sundaram Microsystems Engineering Ph.D.
Dissertation: Integrated Sources of Photon-Pairs for Quantum Networking
Advisor: Stefan Preble, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ

May 8, 5 p.m., GOR
Sami Amin Znati Microsystems Engineering Ph.D.
Dissertation: Heterogeneous Integration of Optoelectronics and Memory Devices Enabled by Advanced MacEtch Processing
Advisor: Parsian K. Mohseni, Ph.D.
Doctoral Hooding:
May 8, 1:30 p.m., LBJ

May 8, 5 p.m., GOR