Undergraduate Research Program - Spring 2010

Sebastian Burke
Department: Computer Science
Project Title: Dynamic Local Remeshing Simulating Elastoplastic Materials
Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Shewchuk
Graduate Student Mentor: Daniel Ritchie

Nassim Farrokhzad
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Characterization and Mitigation of Charging Phenomena in Dielectric-coated Electrodes
Faculty Mentor: Roya Maboudian
Graduate Student Mentor: Ben Hsia

Kate Greenwood
Department: Philosophy
Project Title: Measuring the Success of the Principle of Least Privilege
Faculty Mentor: David Wagner
Graduate Student Mentor: Adrienne Felt

Alex Guo
Department: Electrical Engineering
Project Title: BackBias Assisted Band to Band Tunneling
Faculty Mentor: Tsu-Jae King Liu
Graduate Student Mentor: Peter Matheu

Judy Hoffman
Department: Electrical Engineering
Project Title: Automated Catheter Displacement Detection
Faculty Mentor: Ken Goldberg

Tuen Yin (Patrick) Kwong
Department: Electrical Engineering
Project Title: 4T/7T Relay Simulations
Faculty Mentor: Tsu-Jae King Liu
Graduate Student Mentor: Jaeseok Jeon

Michelle Lee
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Project Title: Electric Field Controlled Magnetism in Multiferroic Thin Films
Faculty Mentor: Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Graduate Student Mentor: Pu Yu

Cooper Levy
Department: Electrical Engineering
Project Title: Variability-Aware Standard Cell Timing Models
Faculty Mentor: Andy Neureuther
Graduate Student Mentor: Eric Chin

Rosanna Lim
Department: Chemical Engineering
Project Title: Harsh Environment Silicon Carbide Metallization
Faculty Mentor: Roya Maboudian
Graduate Student Mentor: Fang Liu

Andrew Mairena
Department: Electrical Engineering
Project Title: Analysis of the Relationship Between Random Signal and Negative Bias Temperature Instability
Faculty Mentor: Brivoje Nikolic
Graduate Student Mentor: Seng Oon Toh

Uppili Srinivasan Raghunathan
Department: Electrical Engineering
Project Title: Simulation and Characterization of Heterojunction TFETS
Faculty Mentor: Chenming Hu
Graduate Student Mentor: Anupama Bowonder

Dorsa Sadigh
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Project Title: Component Architectures for Interactive Media
Faculty Mentor: Edward Lee
Graduate Student Mentor: Isaac Liu

Kai Song
Department: Electrical Engineering
Project Title: Matlab Interface in C++
Faculty Mentor: Sayeef Salahuddin
Graduate Student Mentor: Kartik Ganapathi

Eduard Tuchfeld
Department: Electrical Engineering
Project Title: Nanomagnetic Computing Research
Faculty Mentor: Jeff Bokor
Graduate Student Mentor: David Carlton

Maxwell Zheng
Department: Electrical Engineering
Project Title: Metal-catalyzed crystallization of amorphous carbon for graphene formation
Faculty Mentor: Ali Javey
Graduate Student Mentor: Xiaobo Zhang