ECE Names 2019-2020 Distinguished Dissertation Fellows

Graduate Program

The fellowships are awarded to outstanding students in the final stages of dissertation work in recognition of their research excellence. Each fellowship recipient will receive $3,000. The following authors’ dissertations were selected by a search committee. Professors Pamela Abbshire, Rama Chellappa, Yanne Chembo, Manoj Franklin, and Steve Marcus chose this year’s fellows:

Proloy Das
Dissertation: “Bayesian Modeling and Estimation Frameworks for Neuro-Imaging Data Analysis"
Advisor: Professor Behtash Babadi

Ioannis Demertziz
Dissertation: “Searchable Encryption with Bounded Locality”
Advisor: Professor Charalampos Papamanthou

Long Nguyen
Dissertation: “Fluxonium Qubit in the Metastable Regime”
Advisors: Professor Vladimir Manucharyan and Professor Thomas Antonsen

Shenli Zou
Dissertation: “A Gallium Nitride Integrated Onboard Charger”
Advisor: Professor Alireza Khaligh

Published May 6, 2020