The University of Texas at Dallas

8 a.m.
Registration/Check-in, Continental Breakfast
Engineering and Computer Science Complex lobby

8:30 a.m.
Fearless Engineering Graduate Summit Welcome
Dr. Robert Helms, Dean, the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science

9 a.m.
Session I: From Prospect to Applicant to Admitted to Enrolled
Barry Samsula, assistant dean, will discuss the history of UT Dallas, the birth of the Jonsson School and the importance of our location in the Telecom Corridor. In addition, we will explain the admissions process, housing, financial aid/scholarships and orientation/registration.

10 a.m.
Break

10:30 a.m.
Session II: Okay, you have my attention. Now tell me more about the academic majors and areas of research.
Professors will explain the intricacies of each major, including degree plans, areas of concentration, research, qualifying exams, etc. This will be a perfect time for students to determine which professors they want to meet with and which labs they want to tour after lunch.

• 10:30 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.
  Computer Science, Software Engineering, Dr. Kang Zhang
• 10:40 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
  Telecommunications Engineering, Dr. Andrea Fumagalli
• 10:50 a.m. - 11 a.m.
  Materials Science and Engineering, Dr. Yves Chabal
• 11 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
  Electrical Engineering/Biomedical Engineering, Dr. John Hansen
• 11:20 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
  Computer Engineering, Dr. Bill Pervin

11:30 a.m.
Campus Tour
Includes a look at a model apartment in the Waterview Park Apartment Complex
or
Get Doc Program for current UTD students
Dr. Simmeon Ntafos, Assoc. Dean for Undergraduate Education & Director, Office of Student Services

12:30 p.m.
Lunch
Student Union, Regency Room

1:30 p.m.
Open House (see schedule below)
Faculty will provide students with a tour of their labs, explain their areas of concentration within the academic majors, review resumes and provide information and guidance regarding available assistantships. Students can visit as many areas of interest as they want from the options listed in the attached schedule. Be sure to plan your afternoon based on faculty availability.

4:30 p.m.
Pizza Party with Jonsson School Faculty
Turn in your evaluations and receive your free Fearless Engineering T-shirt.
ECS lobby

Open House Schedule

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

1:30 – 4:30 PM                        
Cochlear Implant Lab, ECSN 4.414           
Dr. Philipos Loizou, director of both the Speech Processing Lab and the Cochlear Implant Lab, will meet with students regarding his research, provide a tour of his labs and answer questions about how students can pursue a career in bioengineering research.

Philipos Loizou
www.utdallas.edu/~loizou/
loizou@utdallas.edu

1:30 – 4:30 PM                     
Bionanotechnology, ECSN 2.524           
We develop high sensitivity instrumentation, data analysis and image processing algorithms for the detection and tracking of bionanotechnology agents in living cells using highly sensitive microscopic techniques. The work is carried out in close collaboration with UT Southwestern Medical Center. A particular focus is the imaging at the single molecule level of the pathways that modern therapeutic and imaging agents, in particular antibodies take, in living cells. We also develop new image processing methodologies that allow classical resolution barriers to be overcome in microscopy techniques.

Raimund Ober
www.utdallas.edu/~ober/
ober@utdallas.edu

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COMPUTER SCIENCE

1:30 – 3:30 PM
Biomedical Computing, ECSS 4.612
Research here concerns discovering and implementing methods and algorithms for biomedical problems, including those appearing in structural biology and medical treatment planning, through the application of computational geometry and graph-based techniques coupled with efficient data structures.

Ovidiu Daescu
www.utdallas.edu/~daescu
daescu@utdallas.edu

1:30 – 4:30 PM
Speech and Language Processing, ECSS 4.415
Research involves modern speech processing and human language technology with an emphasis on fundamental engineering breakthroughs balanced with core foundations in speech and hearing sciences and linguistics.

Yang Liu
www.hlt.utdallas.edu/~yang1/
yangl@hlt.utdallas.edu

1:30 – 3:30 PM
Multi-Agent and Visualization Lab, ECSS 4.220
Emphasis on developing systems consisting of a large number of autonomous, intelligent software entities that interact with one another by negotiating and exchanging knowledge in order to achieve their own or some global goal. Applications include simulation systems, new generation games and bioinformatics. Also working on 3-D and graph visualizations.

Rym Mili
rmili@utdallas.edu

1:30 – 3:30 PM
Multimedia Systems and Networking Lab, ECSS 4.620
Research emphasis is on content-based retrieval of multimedia and streaming multimedia, with a current focus on 3-D models and 3-D motion databases.

B. Prabhakaran
www.utdallas.edu/~praba/
praba@utdallas.edu

3:30 – 4:30 PM
Motion Capture Lab, ATEC Building
Students who want to tour the Motion Capture Lab should meet with Dr. Prabhakaran in ECSS 4.620. They will be escorted to the ATEC Building and provided with information regarding research on 3-D human motion analysis and the handling of a large archive of 3-D human motions using indexing and related techniques.

B. Prabhakaran
www.utdallas.edu/~praba/
praba@utdallas.edu

2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Visual Computing Lab, ECSS 3.221
Research focuses on visual software engineering, data mining and information visualization.

Kang Zhang
http://viscomp.utdallas.edu
kzhang@utdallas.edu

1:30 –  4:30 PM
UTD Data Mining Laboratory, ECSS 3.614
Research involves data mining and multimedia information management, including 1) information integration emphasized on geospatial datasets and 2) intrusion detection that includes botnet and worm detection.

Latifur Khan
www.utdallas.edu/~lkhan
lkhan@utdallas.edu

1:30 –  4:30 PM
Distributed Systems Laboratory, ECSS 4.213
Our group conducts research in distributed and networked systems. One major area of research is Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (NANETs). Work centers around such problems as wireless channel allocation strategies, use of unidirectional links, location management, characterization of bursty traffic, medium access control, link level communication, adaptive routing protocols and transport layer issues. At the Distributed Systems Laboratory, we develop tools and conduct simulations to model the characteristics of the problems being dealt with, to suggest appropriate solutions and to analyze the effectiveness of those solutions.

Dr. Ravi Prakash
www.utdallas.edu/~ravip
ravip@utdallas.edu

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

1:30 – 4:30 PM                        
Signal and Image Processing Lab, ECSN 4.406
Established to conduct research in various aspects of signal and image processing in the application areas of digital/cell-phone cameras and functional magnetic resonance medical imaging.

Nasser Kehtarmavaz and Grad Students
www.utdallas.edu/~nxk019000
kehtar@utdallas.edu

1:30 – 2:30 PM                        
UTD-UTSW Acoustic Research Lab, ECSN 2.322
The lab focuses on acoustic signal processing and related biomedical applications employing digital signal processing, including adaptive filters, system identification and source separation, detection and estimation, active noise cancellation, and DSP architecture and system designs.

Issa Panahi
imp015000@utdallas.edu

1:30 – 4 PM                        
Multimedia Communications Lab, ECSN 4.206
Research concerns the application of information theory and coding theory to various challenges in the fields of communication and signal processing. Recent research has concentrated on the areas of wireless networks (relay and cooperative networks) and medical imaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI). Certain tools and insights from statistics and information theory are applicable to both these areas.

Aria Nosratinia
www.utdallas.edu/~aria
aria@utdallas.edu

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1:30 – 4:30 PM                        
SoC Design and Test Lab, ECSN 4.624
Aggressive scaling of technology toward 22 nm and beyond provides opportunities as well as challenges for the semiconductor industry. Our research explores methodologies and architectures that could have significant impacts on fundamental technology breakthroughs. On the system-on-chip (SoC) design side, we explore packet processing systems for various high-speed network applications, including forwarding, classification and content-inspections engines. On the SoC testing side, we target testing process variation and signal integrity within dies, which is the main contributor to yield loss for 90 nm and beyond.

Mehrdad Nourani
www.utdallas.edu/~nourani
nourani@utdallas.edu

3:30 – 4:30 PM                        
Optical Communications Lab, ECSN 3.510
Lab includes attenuators, optical power meters, lasers, optical lasers and couplers, supporting system-level research in optical communications. This lab also supports advanced wirelss communications research, including investigation of software-defined radio for emergency communications applications.

Kamran Kiasaleh
kamran@utdallas.edu

1:30 – 4:30 PM                        
Embedded Systems and Signal Processing Lab, ECSN 4.618
The Embedded Systems and Signal Processing lab formed to investigate how embedded processing and sensing systems employing advanced signal processing techniques can improve medical care and enhance lives.
Injuries, wounds, diseases, and learning disabilities deny people the freedom and opportunities they crave. By partnering with world class medical research teams, we have access to data and expertise which allows us to help return some of these freedoms. We develop platforms, so called distributed embedded systems, that can measure physical and physiological attributes, perform local computation and storage, and communicate within a short range. In general, distributed embedded systems enable ubiquitous presence of sensing, computing and communication capabilities and hence, enable a large number of application domains. Furthermore, we explore theoretical properties of our problems and platforms. These problems include power optimization techniques, developing compact models to represent our problems, new techniques for classification in resource constrained environments, and signal processing methodologies for reducing data and identifying key signals. Our ultimate objective is to bridge the gap between theory and implementation.

Roozbeh Jafari
www.essp.utdallas.edu
rjafari@utdallas.edu

MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

1:30 – 2 PM                        
NSERL Cleanroom Research Laboratory, NSERL Bldg. Main Lobby
In the absence of Dr. Robert Wallace, Dr. Jiyoung Kim will provide a tour of the Cleanroom Research Laboratory, which contains semiconductor processing tools including optical, e-beam and nanoimprint lithography, chemical processing hoods, evaporation, sputter and chemical vapor deposition systems, and a wide variety of material and processing diagnostics.
Dr. Wallace's research interests include advanced materials for device scaling, semiconductor materials, dielectric materials, surface science, ion beam characterization, molecular beam epitaxy, field-emission display materials, self-assembled monolayers and first-principles materials computations.

Dr. Robert Wallace
rmwallace@utdallas.edu

2 – 2:30 PM
Nano Integration Research Lab, NSERL Bldg. Room 0.524
Areas of research include hetero-X on Si, scaled MEMS/NEMS, nano-electronic materials, nano-scale fabrication and manipulation, ultra-low-K dialectrics, nano-scale strains in Si CMOS, the atomic structure and chemistry of materials, phase transformations in solids, heterogeneous materials integration by UHV wafer bonding, flexible electronics and advanced characterization using high-resolution TEM, analytical TEM/STEM and in-situ microscopy, FIB, XRD and surface analytical tools.

Dr. Moon Kim
www.utdallas.edu/~mjk034000
moonkim@utdallas.edu

2:30 – 3 PM
Nanoelectronic Materials Deposition Lab, NSERL Bldg. Room 4.436B
Dr. Jiyoung Kim and Dr. Manuel Quevedo will provide a tour of a unique ultra-high-vacuum multimodule cluster tool used for the fabrication and characterization of thin films. Wafers are transported throughout the system in a UHV transfer tube to a variety of deposition and characterization systems, including atomic-layer deposition, molecular beam epitaxy, sputtering and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
Dr. Kim's interests include nano-scale materials, process, characterization and device applications including scaled CMOS devices and processing (advanced gate stack structure and interconnections, SET, etc.), nonvolatile memory applications (FeRAM, PRAM, ReRAM, MRAM, etc.), atomic-layer deposition, ultra-thin inorganic and organic film coating and characteristics, applications of nanotubes, nano-particles, nano-dots and nano-patterning, flexible electronics, display devices and 3-D devices, self-assembled monolayer applications and molecular electronics.

Dr. Jiyoung Kim
jiyoung.kim@utdallas.edu

2:40 – 3:00 PM                        
Organic electronics, sensors and solar materials, NSERL Bldg. Room 4.436B
Dr. Quevedo helps manage Dr. Bruce Gnade's materials science research group. Research interests include materials development and process integration of organic-based devices for applications in flexible displays, photovoltaics and sensors. Current projects include the evaluation of alternate phosphorescent organic molecules for PLEDs and OLED applications, implementation of all organic-based circuits for RFID applications, modeling and fabrication of organic-based circuits, development of permeation barriers/encapsulation processes for OTFT/OLED/PLED devices, and development of woven-based architectures for sensor and display applications. Additional interests include alternate gate dielectrics and metals electrodes for CMOS devices and advanced materials characterization using XPS, UPS, Auger, RBS, FTIR-GATR, HRTEM, SEM-FIB and several electrical/optical characterization techniques.

Dr. Manuel Quevedo
mquevedo@utdallas.edu

3 – 3:20 PM
Electrical Characterization Lab, NSERL Bldg. Room 3.738
Dr. Eric Vogel will provide tours of the Electrical Characterization Lab and the cleanroom/electrical test area, and he'll visit with students, discuss their research and answer questions. Dr. Vogel's interests include silicon-based microelectronic devices and materials (e.g., high-k dielectrics, silicon nanowire transistors and metal gate electrodes), organic-based devices and materials for applications such as RFID and flexible electronics, and nanoelectronic devices and materials for going beyond CMOS (e.g., molecular electronics and nanowires).

Dr. Eric Vogel
www.utdallas.edu/~exv061000
eric.vogel@utdallas.edu

3:20 – 3:40 PM
Multiscale modeling and simulation of nanomaterials for electronic devices and clean energy applications., NSERL Bldg. Room 4.710
Dr. K.J. Cho will describe materials modeling studies that include metal nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, semiconductor nanowires, and high-k gate stack interface problems. The main application areas are nanoelectronic devices (graphene, nanotubes, nanowires, and high-mobility channel materials) and clean energy technology. Modeling methods include atomistic and quantum simulations, and the structure-property relationships of nanoparticles, nanowires, and nanoscale interfaces are the main focus of the modeling research. MSL simulator at nanoHUB (www.nanohub.org) illustrates the nanomaterial design concepts. The multiscale modeling framework developed in my group is applied to a rational design of Pt group metal nanocatalysts in a start-up company.

Dr. K.J. Cho
www.utdallas.edu/physics/faculty/cho.html
kjcho@utdallas.edu

3:40 – 4 PM
Nanoscale Integration Lab, NSERL Bldg. Room 2.740
Dr. Walter Hu will provide tours of the lab and the cleanroom/electrical test area, and he'll visit with students, discuss their research and answer questions. Dr. Hu's Interests include the combination of top-down lithography and bottom-up self-assembly approaches for biomedical, photonic, and molecular nanodevices and nanosystems. Projects include nanoimprint process development, diamond-like carbon stamp technology, angular scattering optical metrology, advanced biomaterials for tissue engineering, nanoscale OLEDs, polymeric solar cells and nanotubular capsules for drug delivery and MRI imaging.

Dr. Walter Hu
www.utdallas.edu/~walter.hu
wxh051000@utdallas.edu

4 – 4:20 PM
Laboratory for Surface and Nanostructure Modification
Dr. Yves Chabal will give a tour of the thin film growth and optical characterization laboratory where spectroscopic and imaging techniques are used to explore elementary processes at surfaces and interfaces of technologically important electronic, photonic, organic and more recently biological heterostructures. For instance, infrared absorption spectroscopy has been used to develop a detailed mechanistic understanding of semiconductor surface cleaning (both by wet and dry techniques), passivation, and chemical functionalization. In particular, sensitive, in-situ methods have been devised to probe the interaction of chemical species and the formation of thin dielectric films in a variety of environments, including liquids, ultra-high vacuum (UHV), and gaseous ambients. The interaction of hydrogen is also being studied in a variety of environment, most recently in storage materials for the hydrogen fuel economy. The work in this group has a direct impact on microelectronics, optoelectronics, H2 storage for hydrogen fuel economy, organic electronics, nanoelectronics, biosensors and biomedical applications.

Dr. Yves Chabal
www.utdallas.edu/~chabal
chabal@utdallas.edu

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4:20 – 4:30 PM
Wrap up and return to ECSN

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

1:30 – 4:30 PM
Modularization and Re-use in Requirements Engineering/Software Architecting, ECSS 3.618
Research activities involve component-based software engineering, aspect-oriented software development and product-line engineering.

Kendra Cooper
www.utdallas.edu/~kcooper
kcooper@utdallas.edu

1:30 – 4:30 PM
Applied Logic, Programming Languages and Systems Lab, ECSN 4.621
Research involves programming languages, software engineering, parallel and distributed computing, human computer interfaces and intelligent systems.

Gopal Gupta
guptal@utdallas.edu

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING

1:30 - 4 p.m.
Open Networking Advanced Research Lab,
ECSN 3.514, ECSN 3.520, ECSN 3.526
Established in March 2001, the Open Networking Advanced Research (OpNeAR) Lab at UTD brings together professionals and students who share an interest in the general area of networking. The main objective of the OpNeAR Lab is to conduct collaborative research and develop excellence in the field of wired and wireless networking. The lab hosts about 15 students, ranging from undergraduates to postdocs, majoring in EE, TE, and CS. A team of OpNeAR students won the TI Analog Contest this year by designing and building wireless sensor nodes, which will be used to test various wireless network protocols at UTD.

Part of the OpNeAR Lab, the Telecommunications Applied Research in Gigabit
and Emerging Technologies (TARGET) Lab provides additional applied research and testing using live equipment.

Andrea Fumagalli
http://opnear.utdallas.edu
andreaf@utdallas.edu

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