Science and Engineering Research Symposium

April 2, 2007

Aerospace and Mechanical
Biomedical
Electrical and Computer
Manufacturing

Aerospace and Mechanical

Henri Aguesse Self-Organized Networks of Mobile Autonomous Agents.
Advisor: Hua Wang

Devrez Karabacack High-Frequency Nanofluidics: An Experimental Study Using Nanomechanical Resonators
Advisor: Kamil L. Ekinci

Puxiang Lai Acousto-Optic Imaging in the Near Infrared: Optimization and Quantitative Characterization of the System
Advisors: Ronald A. Roy, Todd W. Murray

Thomas Steen Inspection of Functionally Graded Coating Materials Using Frequency Domain Photoacoustic Microscopy
Advisor: Todd Murray (Provost’s Award)

Yingjie Sun Rendezvous and Flocking of Multi Agent Systems with Directed Connectivity Graph
Advisor: Hua Wang

Biomedical

Eric Berns Understanding Interferential Therapy: Comparison of Neuronal Thresholds and Responses to Sinusoidal Amplitude-Modulated and Interferential Current Stimulation
Advisor: Solomon Eisenberg

Arpita Bhattacharyya Disposable Labs-on-a-Chip: Isolation of Viral RNA on a Plastic Microfluidic Chip for Infectious Disease Diagnostic
Advisor: Catherine Klapperich

Matthew Crema An Electro-Anatomical Model of the Gerbil Cochlea (Dean’s Awards)
Advisor: David C. Mountain

Tara Deans A Tunable Genetic Switch Based on RNAi and Repressor Proteins for Regulating Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells
Advisor: James Collins

Emmanouela Filippidi Controlling Silk and Collagen Assembly Under Flow
Advisor: Joyce Wong

Lauren Hueser Effects of Variable Ventilation on Lung Structure-Function in Mice
Advisor: Bela Suki

Xiaojuan Khoo Multifunctional Peptides for Rapid Modification of Biomaterial Interfaces
Advisor: Mark Grinstaff

Prachi Kulkarni Regional Expression of Collagen Depends on Local Mechanical Forces in the Lung
Advisor: Bela Suki

Steven Meyers Interfacial Peptide Coatings Facilitate Biological Control on Material Surfaces
Advisor: Mark Grinstaff

Roberto Reif Design and Development of a Model that Extracts the Optical Properties in Small Volumes of Superficial Turbid Media Based on Reflectance Measurements (CenSSIS Award)
Advisor: Irving Bigio

Apiradee Thammanomai Variable Ventilation Can Minimize Atelectasis, Improve Oxygenation, and Increase Surfactant Release in Normal Mice
Advisor: Bela Suki

Jesse Wolinsky Fluorescent Nanoparticles from Novel Poly(carbonate-co-ester)s
Advisor: Mark Grinstaff

Anne Zavadil Response of Primary Pulmonary Fibroblasts to Cyclical Stretch in Culture
Advisor: Bela Suki

Jane Zhang Novel Optical Pharmacokinetic Spectroscopy for Real-Time Measurement of Brain Chemotherapy Drug Concentration
Advisor: Irving Bigio

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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sunmin Ahn The Maskless Microarray Fabricator: In situ DNA Synthesis on Specialized Substrates
Advisor: Selim Ünlü

Onur Azak Nanomechanical Displacement Detection Using Fiber Optic Interferometry
Advisor: Kamil Ekinci

Stephen Capozzi Estimating Energy Flux in the Earth’s Polar Ionosphere
Advisor: Joshua Semeter

Michael Coles A Parallel H.264 Decoder Model for Heterogeneous Multiprocessor System-On-Chip Architectures
Advisor: Wei Qin

Haitao Dai Substrate Noise Modeling and Suppression in RF/mixed Signal IC Technology
Advisor: Ronald W. Knepper

Ashraf Al Daoud Secondary Pricing of Spectrum in Cellular CDMA Networks (Center for Information and Systems Engineering Award)
Advisor: Murat Alanyali

Maxim Dashouk Occupancy Distribution of Queueing Systems with Opportunistic Scheduling in the Downlink
Advisor: Murat Alanyali

Marcos Diaz Particle-in-Cell Simulation of the Incoherent Scatter Advisor: Joshua Semeter

Krinistina Driscoll Closing the Terahertz Gap with III-Nitride Based Intersubband Light Emitting Devices (Photonics Center Berman Future of Light Prize)
Advisor: Roberto Paiella

Niloofar Fazollahi Advanced Channel Reservation Architectures: Performance Limits and On-Line Algorithms
Advisor: David Starobinski

Ning-Ning Feng Metal-Dielectric Slot Waveguide Structures for the Propagation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons at 1.55 µm
Advisor: Luca Dal Negro

David Freedman A Fully-Differential Current-Mode Analog Cochlea
Advisor: Allyn Hubbard

Karin Griffis Automatic Object-Level Change Interpretation for Multi-Spectral Remote Sensing Imagery
Advisor: Maja Bystrom

Ashwin Gopinath Giant Field Enhancement and Plasmon Localization in Two-Dimensional Deterministic Aperiodic Arrays of Metal Nanoparticles (Center for Nanoscience and Nanbiotechnology Award)
Advisor: Luca Dal Negro

Yongfeng Gu FPGA Acceleration of Molecular Dynaics Simulation
Advisor: Martin Herbordt

Andrew Hagedorn Rateless Codes for Data Dissemination in Sensor Networks
Advisor: Ari Trachtenberg

Mark Harrah Towards Measuring Exciton Lifetimes in Individual Suspended Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Advisor: Anna Swan

Rui Lee A Spatio-Temporal Rate Equation Model for Light Amplification in a Silicon Nanocrystals Gain Media
Advisor: Luca Dal Negro

Xia Li Design and Simulation of a Novel Weak-Capacitance CMOS Measurement Circuit for Micro Infrared Detector Arrays
Advisor: Allyn Hubbard

Yan Li Nonlinear Waveguides Based on Near-Infrared Intersubband Transitions in GaN/AlN Quantum Wells for Ultrafast All-Optical Switching
Advisor: Roberto Paiella

Tzu Yung Lin Study of Triple-Well CMOS Isolation Structure in RF/Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Technology
Advisor: Ronald W. Knepper

Nan Ma Delayed Sequential Coding of Correlated Sources: It Really Pays to Be Just a One Frame Patient!
Advisor: Prakash Ishwar

Marianne Nourzad Time Shared Architecture: A New Approach to Parallel Computation in a Real-Time Biomimetic Acoustic Localizing System
Advisor: Allyn Hubbard

Burkay Orten Estimation of Blood Flow and Blood Volume from CT Images
Advisor: W. Clem Karl

Yirong Pu DSP Implementations of a Biomimetic Acoustic Localizing System
Advisor: Allyn Hubbard

Rick Rosson Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
Advisor: Allyn Hubbard

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Yelena Rykalova Research on Latency and Saturation Phenomena in Interconnecting Networks
Advisor: Lev Levitin

Mohammed Saleh Optical Switching by Parametric Amplification in Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Microcavities
Advisor: Bahaa E. A. Saleh

Brendan Sever A New Architecture for the Coordinated Rotation Digital Computer Processor
Advisor: Allyn Hubbard

Angad Singh A Semi Markov-Based Analysis of Rate Adaptation Algorithms in Wireless LANs
Advisor: David Starobinski

Alvin Stern Superconducting Single-Photon Detectors (SSPDs) for OCT and QOCT
Advisor: Alex Sergienko

Bharat Sukhwani Environments for Implementing Scalable Families of High Performance Applications
Advisor: Martin Herbordt

Jonah Tower Characterization of Streaming Data in a Wireless Ad Hoc Network String
Advisor: Thomas Little

David Voss Boston University Student Nanosatellite for Application and Training
Advisor: Theodore Fritz

Ye Wang Distributed Field Reconstruction with Unreliable Randomly Deployed One-Bit Noisy Sensors
Advisor: Prakash Ishwar

Joseph Warga Magnetron Sputtering Deposition of Luminescent Silicon Nanocrystals in Oxide and Nitride-Based Dielectrics for Silicon Photonics
Advisor: Luca Dal Negro

Weiyao Xiao Asymptotically Optimal Data Dissemination Policies for Multi-Channel Single Radio Wireless Sensor Networks
Advisor: David Starobinski

Manufacturing

Onomitra Ghosh Modeling of Plasma Spray Distributions for Deposition Rate Control in Thermal Barrier Coatings
Advisors: Michael Gevelber, Donald Wroblewski

Dong Guo Robust and Distributed Localization in Sensor Networks
Advisor: Ioannis Paschalidis

Marius Kloetzer Control of Multi-Robot Teams Based on LTL Specifications
Advisor: Calin Belta

M. Dominika Kulinski Lysis of Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacteria on a Disposable Microfluidic Chip
Advisor: Catherine Klapperich

Tushar Kulkarni Functionally Graded CVD Mullite Coatings
Advisor: Vinod K. Sarin

I-kuan Lin Curvature Control of Microcantilever Based Infrared Detectors Using Thermal Loading Method
Advisor: Xin Zhang

Jianfeng Mao Dynamic Power Management in Energy Limited Systems with Real Time Constraints
Advisor: Christos Cassandras

Xu Ning Statistical Power Management of Wireless Sensor Networks
Advisor: Christos G. Cassandras

Yiling Qiu Electrical Monitoring of the Cardiomyocyte Adhesion to Extracellular Matrix on Micro-Fabricated Biosensors
Advisor: Xin Zhang

Xiangdong Song Optimal Transmission Scheduling Policies for Wireless Sensor Networks with Frequency Diversity
Advisor: Ioannis Paschalidis

Hu Tao Mems-Based Double-Cantilever Micro Infrared Detectors: Design Fabrication and Thermal Response Characterization
Advisor: Xin Zhang

Xuri Yan Real-Time Control for Electrospinning Nanofiber: Engineering Diameter Distribution for Advanced Applications
Advisor: Michael Gevelber

Boyan Yordanov Model Checking Discrete-Time Piecewise Affine Systems: Application to Gene Networks
Advisor: Calin Belta

Xiaoyu Zheng A MEMS Based Optical Moiré Biomechano-Sensing Platform for In situ Cellular Mechanical Force Study (President’s Award)
Advisor: Xin Zhang

Minyi Zhong Distributed Coverage Control in Environments with Polygonal Obstacles
Advisor: Christos Cassandras

Yaopeng Zhou In vivo Mouse Bone Marrow Imaging with Adaptive Optics
Advisor: Thomas Bifano

Shixin Zhuang A Joint Optimal Routing and Clustering Problem in Heterogenous Wireless Sensor Network
Advisor: Christos Cassandras

Peter Zink Refractory Cathode Investigation for Single-Step Co-fired Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs)
Advisor: Uday Pal

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10 September 2007
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