Spring 2023 Recognition Ceremony Program

Congratulations to the electrical and computer engineering Class of 2023!

And a specialÌýthank you to all of the friends and family who have supported our graduates during their time at 91´«Ã½.Ìý

Table of Contents

Ìý ÌýToday's Ceremony

Ìý ÌýAwards and Honors

Ìý ÌýPhD Candidates

Ìý ÌýMaster's Candidates

Ìý ÌýBachelor's Graduates

Today's Ceremony

  • Processional
  • Welcoming Remarks
    Professor Chris Myers, Department Chair andÌýPalmer Leadership Chair in Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering
  • Acknowledgement of Award Winners
  • Holland Teaching Award Faculty Keynote
    Assistant Professor Joe Izraelevitz
  • Undergraduate Student Address
    Gala Bokhadour
  • Graduate Student Address
    Haley Ross
  • Presentation of the PhD Candidates
    Professor Sean Shaheen, Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Education
  • Presentation of Master’s Candidates
    Professor Sean Shaheen, Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Education
  • Presentation of BS Candidates
    Associate Teaching Professor Mona ElHelbawy, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education
  • Closing Remarks
    Professor Chris Myers
  • Reception
    Please join us to continue celebrating our graduates. Light refreshments will be provided.

​Awards and Honors

  • Best Thesis: Robert Streeter
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher: Tucker Travins
  • Undergraduate Academic Engagement: Alakh Patel and Gala Bokhadour
  • Undergraduate Service Award: Alakh Patel
  • Undergraduate Perseverance Award: Elisabetta Medici and Aziz Abdal
  • Outstanding ECEE Undergraduate: Adam Vitti and Giselle KooÌý

Doctor of Philosophy Candidates

Emily Dupre Caldwell
Advised by Dr. Nathan Newbury and Alfred T. and Betty E. Look Endowed Professor Juliet GopinathÌý
Dissertation: "Ultra-long distance free-space optical time transfer for future femtosecond ground-to satellite clock networks"

Jake Alexander Cazden
Advised by Professor Dejan Filipovic,ÌýHudson Moore Jr. Chair in Engineering​Ìý
Dissertation: "Antenna Systems for Wideband Direction Finding and Spectrum Sensing"

Janko Čeliković
Advised by Charles Victor Schelke Endowed ProfessorÌýDragan Maksimovic
Dissertation: "Modeling and Control Optimization of DC-DC Power Converters for Battery-Powered Mobile Applications"

Gregory Cusack
Advised by Associate Professor Eric Keller
Dissertation: Enabling Application-Specific Programmable Compute Infrastructure

Thomas Lee Dearing
Advised by AssistantÌýProfessor Xudong Chen
Dissertation: "Efficient Trajectory Optimization for Constrained Spacecraft Attitude Maneuvers using Momentum Exchange Devices"

Devon Donahue
Advised by Associate Professor Taylor Barton,ÌýLockheed Martin Junior Faculty Fellow
Dissertation: "Application of Multi-Port Reflectometry to Arbitrary Matching Networks for RF Power Amplifier-Integrated Load Impedance Sensing"

Gaeron Friedrichs
Advised by Professor Dejan Filipovic
Dissertation: "Machine Learning Enhanced Antenna Systems"

Kyle Jackson Goodrick
Advised by Professor Dragan Maksimovic
Dissertation: "Systematic Optimization of Multiple Voltage Domain DC Distribution Architectures"

Muhammad Umar Javed
Advised by Assistant Professor Xudong Chen
Dissertation: "Cooperative Estimation: Decentralized Gradient Flows, Acceleration and Synchronization"

Marija Marković
Advised by AssociateÌýProfessor Bri-Mathias Hodge
Dissertation: To be defended in summer 2023

Nicholas Nardelli
Advised by Dr. Tara Fortier and Assistant Professor Shu-Wei Huang
Dissertation: "Ultra-Precise Optical and Microwave Synthesis with an Er/Yb:glass Frequency Comb"

Vyjayanthni Narumanchi
Advised by Professor Todd Murray (Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: "Analysis and application of post-processing algorithms to enhance the performance of optical imaging systems"

Megan Robinson
Advised by Distinguished Professor Zoya Popovic,ÌýLockheed Martin Endowed Chair in RF Engineering
Dissertation: "GaN Technologies for Microwave Heating and Broadband Receiver Applications"

Raymond James Sprungle
Advised by Professor Emeritus Ed Kuester
Dissertation: "Design Studies for Tapered Transmission Line Matching Circuits"

Robert W. Streeter
Advised by Distinguished Professor Zoya Popovic
Dissertation: "High-resolution Deep-tissue Microwave Thermometry"

Master's Candidates

Master of Science with Thesis

Anne Barlas
Advised by Associate Professor Bri-Mathias Hodge
Dissertation: "The Last 10% Challenge in a Deeply Decarbonized Power System"

Swastik Bimal Bhattacharya
Advised by Professor Jade Morton (Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences)
Dissertation:Ìý"Remote Sensing Techniques for Surface Water Detection"

Trent Martin
Advised by Professor Dragan Maksimovic
Dissertation: "Modular Series-Stacked Bidirectional AC/DC Architecture"

Haley Allana Ross
Advised by Associate Professor Bri-Mathias Hodge
Dissertation: To be defended inÌýsummer 2023

Shivangi Sinha
Advised by Professor Dragan Maksimovic
Dissertation:Ìý"48V to 1V Active-Clamp Stacked Direct Forward Converter"

Aakriti Srivastava
Advised by Associate Professor Melinda Piket-May and Scholar-in-Residence Eric Bogatin
Dissertation: "Optimization of signal and return via in PCB for 20 GHz BW signal"

Muhy Eddin Za’ter
Advised byÌýAssociate Professor Bri-Mathias Hodge
Dissertation: "Machine Learning Framework for Power System Security Assessment"

Master of ScienceÌý

  • Abijith Ananda Krishnan
  • Kavin Ayyapparaj
  • Mason Bell
  • Tejas Bhuse
  • Siddarth Chintalapati
  • Liliaokeawawa Cothren
  • Paul Flaten
  • Grant Giesbrecht
  • Ayush Gupta
  • Alexander Ho
  • Seth Johannes
  • Subodh Khandelwal
  • Venkata Surya Teja Kanteti
  • Raunak Kelshiker
  • Sricharan Kidambi
  • Sean McKee
  • Alison McCall
  • Stuart McDonald
  • Jack Molles
  • Mohammed Adib Oumer
  • Enrique Najera
  • Kyle Nannig
  • Shubham Narula
  • Michelle Pirrone
  • Kedar Shrinivas Remane
  • Alec Russell
  • Cobi Sabo
  • Ananya Sairaj
  • Georgia Sandidge
  • Yeshu Sharma
  • Nagaraj Srinivasa Murthy
  • Timothy Sonnenberg
  • David Stockhouse
  • Stefan Stroessner
  • Andrew Hudson Thibeault
  • Henry Titus
  • Marena Trujillo
  • Jackson Wagner
  • Ella Rise Wawrzynek

Master of Engineering

  • Roberto Baquerizo
  • Peter Braganza
  • Visalakshmi Chemudupati
  • Erich Clever
  • Praneeth Daddala
  • Swapnil Ghonge
  • Venkata Janakirama
  • Pradyumna Gudluru
  • Noah Harper
  • Lucas Hall Spencer
  • Taher Ujjainwala

MasterÌýof Science, Professional Program

  • Santhosh
  • Sankalp Agrawal
  • Darshit Nareshkumar Agrawal
  • Dastan Akunzhanov
  • Manuel Ernesto Alva Hernandez
  • Bhavyasree Aruljothi
  • Nihar Ajay Bahirat
  • Sathya Balasubramaniam
  • Dhiraj Bennadi
  • Pranav Manjunath Bharadwaj
  • Prasun Biswas
  • Arjun Boddu
  • Kamini Budke
  • Shashank Chaubey
  • Bhargav Dharmendra Chauhan
  • Martin Chirayath
  • Chinmay Rajesh Chobe
  • Nathaniel Danigelis
  • Mukta Milind Darekar
  • Amey Sharad Dashaputre
  • Ananth Deshpande
  • Sumedh Mahesh Deshpande
  • Rajat Shridhar Devagiri
  • Shreyan Dhananjayan
  • Balapranesh Elango
  • Kishore Eswaran
  • Gautama Gandhi
  • Jaanavi Gopal
  • Bharath Raj Govindaraju
  • Mahesh Gudipati
  • Emma Harper
  • Dustin Horn
  • Sai Ram Abhishek Iruvanti
  • Rohit Pradeep Jadhavpatil
  • Sudarshan Jagannathan
  • Kenneth A. Jones II
  • Ganesh Kariganuru Mahabalesh
  • Akash Karmakar
  • Pratinav Kashyap
  • Sanish Sanjay Kharade
  • Tanmay Mahendra Kothale
  • Ashwin Kudmulwar
  • Suprita Kulkarni
  • Tejaswini Lakshminarayan
  • Nicholas Machemer
  • Raghav Maheshwari
  • Maanas Makam Dileep Kumar
  • Sachin Mathad
  • Malcolm McKellips
  • Varun Milind Mehta
  • Nanditha Reddy Moole
  • Martin Myszynski
  • Ruchit Naik
  • Bramhagjna Nama Ashwin
  • Hemanth Nandish
  • Mehulkumar Patel
  • Deekshith Reddy Patil
  • Gauriech Ishaan Pilla
  • Jahnavi Pinnamaneni
  • Nikolas Ryan Provost
  • Srikesh Pulluri
  • Vishal Raj
  • Raj Amit Rana
  • Gaurang Krishnakant Rane
  • Jason Humberto Regalado
  • Khyati Satta
  • Sunetra Shashikant Sawant
  • Mansoor Ahmad Shah
  • Saloni Vipulkumar Shah
  • Shlok Shah
  • Jasan Preet Singh
  • Harshwardhan Singh
  • Anshul Somani
  • Sai Anirudh Sriram
  • Sona Subair
  • Abhishek Rajkapur Suryawanshi
  • Maurice Takeda
  • Udit Pratap Singh Tanwar
  • Chaitanya Thakare
  • Nihal Thirunakarasu
  • Saket Tirpude
  • Kevin Tom
  • Yogitha Umasankar
  • Shrnjaykrishnan Venkitaramanan
  • Shuran Xu

Master of Science, Coursera

  • Lief Anderson
  • Adam Burrell
  • Kishore Bachu
  • Kyle Jay Albert Carey
  • Connor Cooper
  • Matthew Cramer
  • Marshall Folkman
  • Youhan Fu
  • Aaron Gupta
  • Nanditha krishnamurthy Haradana Halli
  • Cole Hinton
  • Troy Houchin
  • Joel Kellam
  • Kelsey Claire Louise Leeburg
  • Jonathan Lewis
  • Jacob Logue
  • Jordan Mares-Manton
  • Adam Miller
  • Brogan Miner
  • Skyhlar Davyn Myers
  • Saichetan Nalamolu
  • Ming Fai Brandon Ngai
  • Evan Osborn
  • Paul Perdomo
  • Venkata Pushpagiri
  • Jose Antonio Rosario
  • Kai Tam
  • Dante Renato Tolentino
  • Brian Wan
  • Stefan Wismer

Bachelor of Science Graduates

Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Abdulaziz Abdal
  • Hamad Al-Saleem
  • Molly Catherine Alvine
  • Mohit Bhat
  • Ethan Bishop
  • James Lowell Bohn
  • Gala Khaled Bokhadour
  • Justin Caro
  • Samuel Carruthers
  • John Carter-Gibb
  • Rustin Chang
  • Taylor Colety
  • Joshua Dinerman
  • Kyle Dorr
  • Mark Gautier
  • Chase Gordanier
  • Collin Graham
  • William Greeby
  • Garrett Hansen
  • Taighe Iacometti
  • Matthew Payton King
  • Tanner James Leise
  • Chengming Li
  • Ariana Martinez
  • Elisabetta Rose Medici
  • Marceline Milligan
  • Rylan Moore
  • Fares Sameer Naser
  • Alexis Palau
  • Alakh Patel
  • Yama Qasemi
  • Thomas James Ramirez
  • John Edward Ramsdale
  • Samuel Reyes
  • Justin Robert
  • Brian Ivan Rodriguez
  • Ryan Ruger
  • Noah David Schwartz
  • Iskandar Shoyusupov
  • William Snider
  • Cyrus Sowdaey
  • Sonal Tamrakar
  • Jiaqi Tao
  • Shambaditya Tarafder
  • Matthew Teta
  • Kyle Thompson
  • Bjorn Tingstad
  • Tucker Lee Travins
  • Adam Vitti
  • Nicholas Dean Whiting
  • Terence Valentino Williams
  • Hanzhang Yu

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

  • Faisal Almoghaiwli
  • James Blake Brennan
  • Nicholas DiPonzio
  • Fahad Gabgab
  • Santiago Chavez Garcia
  • Jason Esqueda
  • Jordan Christina Gates
  • William Harrington
  • Giselle Koo
  • Daniel Scott McCall
  • Greysen Shaw Mitchell
  • Garrett Nelson
  • Everett Oklar
  • Vinicius Pelissari
  • Michael Pogrebitskiy
  • Sabine Sho
  • Haley Smallwood
  • Ethan Smith
  • Arman Sohail
  • Wyatt Albert Stratmeyer
  • Logan Van Grinsven
  • Terry Peter Vis
  • Alexander Wu
  • Jinhua Zhang
  • Noah Yuanhang Zhao