ECE Graduate Studies Office @ UMD

Congrats, Caleb, on passing your research proposal! Caleb is a a student of Ankur Srivastava, and his research is on designing for performance and resilience in 3D integrated circuits. Joseph JaJa and Don Yeung were also on Caleb's proposal committee.

Tim participating in the TA Training and Development Workshop: How to Prepare for your Discussion Section as if You Were on a Job Interview, led by Sohil Shah. Ever try practicing for an interview or to teach in front of a mirror?

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Nazre Batool defending her dissertation, "Modeling and Analysis of Wrinkles on Aging Human Faces." Signal processing is better than botox, as Nazre showed in her defense. Nazre is advised by Professor Rama Chellappa.

English conversation group end-of-semester celebration.

Sahar Akram, James Ferlez, Devanarayanan Perinthatta Ettisserry, Sowmya Subramanian, Ryan Suess, and Daimeng Zhang were selected as ECE's newest Future Faculty Fellows. The Future Faculty Program helps prepare doctoral students for academic careers. 

Guannan Liu's TA Training and Development Workshop on grading. Are you a nice grader or mean grader? Guannan gave a quiz for the GTAs to find out.

Nuttiiya and Kota editing their papers at the writing workshop for third year ECE PhD students with Dr. Heather Blain Vorhies, director of the writing fellows. Whose writing do you admire in our department?

Women in ECE biweekly luncheon. Topics of discussion were studying for the qualifying exam and networking for post-graduation jobs.

"Apart from the standard text-book, a lot of times he also teaches from scientific papers, lecture videos and lecture notes/slides available online that explain the subject material in a more lucid and elaborate way as compared to the text-book. Also it familiarizes students with various conferences/journals held in the related area which enables them to refer to the papers published in them for their research or any other subject." Saurabh Sahu, PhD student in ECE

Kishan, Ming, Abbas, and Xin at Abbas Kazemipour's TA Training and Development Workshop, " Student Dishonesty and the Honor Code."

Evripidis and Berk listening to Professor Min Wu's Distinguished Scholar Teacher Lecture. This lecture was part of the Colloquium Seminar and the Booz Allen Hamilton Distinguished Colloquium in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor Wu's talk was on information forensics. 

Graduate Studies Office helped first year students organize a PhD written qualifying exam study group. Good luck and study hard!

Zhung-Han Wu speaking at the ECEGSA seminar on "Median Filter Anti-forensics." Zhung-Han is advised by Professor Liu.

Dr. Mohamed Hany smiling after his dissertation defense. Mohamed is a student of Prof. Anthony Ephremides, and his dissertation is entitled, "Utilization of Channel State Information in Transmission Control for Wireless Communication Networks."

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Vidya and Arthita studying for ENEE620: Random Processes in Communication and Control