Spring 2023 Recognition Ceremony Program
Congratulations to the electrical and computer engineering Class of 2023!
And a special thank you to all of the friends and family who have supported our graduates during their time at CU Boulder.
Table of Contents
- Master of Science with Thesis
- Master of Science
- Master of Engineering
- Master of Science, Professional
- Master of Science, Coursera
Today's Ceremony
- Processional
- Welcoming Remarks
Professor Chris Myers, Department Chair and Palmer Leadership Chair in Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering - Acknowledgement of Award Winners
- Holland Teaching Award Faculty Keynote
Assistant Professor Joe Izraelevitz - Undergraduate Student Address
Gala Bokhadour - Graduate Student Address
Haley Ross - Presentation of the PhD Candidates
Professor Sean Shaheen, Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Education - Presentation of Master’s Candidates
Professor Sean Shaheen, Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Education - Presentation of BS Candidates
Associate Teaching Professor Mona ElHelbawy, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education - Closing Remarks
Professor Chris Myers - Reception
Please join us to continue celebrating our graduates. Light refreshments will be provided.
Awards and Honors
- Best Thesis: Robert Streeter
- Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher: Tucker Travins
- Undergraduate Academic Engagement: Alakh Patel and Gala Bokhadour
- Undergraduate Service Award: Alakh Patel
- Undergraduate Perseverance Award: Elisabetta Medici and Aziz Abdal
- Outstanding ECEE Undergraduate: Adam Vitti and Giselle Koo
Doctor of Philosophy Candidates
Emily Dupre Caldwell
Advised by Dr. Nathan Newbury and Alfred T. and Betty E. Look Endowed Professor Juliet Gopinath
Dissertation: "Ultra-long distance free-space optical time transfer for future femtosecond ground-to satellite clock networks"
Jake Alexander Cazden
Advised by Professor Dejan Filipovic, Hudson Moore Jr. Chair in Engineering
Dissertation: "Antenna Systems for Wideband Direction Finding and Spectrum Sensing"
Janko Čeliković
Advised by Charles Victor Schelke Endowed Professor Dragan Maksimovic
Dissertation: "Modeling and Control Optimization of DC-DC Power Converters for Battery-Powered Mobile Applications"
Gregory Cusack
Advised by Associate Professor Eric Keller
Dissertation: Enabling Application-Specific Programmable Compute Infrastructure
Thomas Lee Dearing
Advised by Assistant Professor Xudong Chen
Dissertation: "Efficient Trajectory Optimization for Constrained Spacecraft Attitude Maneuvers using Momentum Exchange Devices"
Devon Donahue
Advised by Associate Professor Taylor Barton, Lockheed Martin Junior Faculty Fellow
Dissertation: "Application of Multi-Port Reflectometry to Arbitrary Matching Networks for RF Power Amplifier-Integrated Load Impedance Sensing"
Gaeron Friedrichs
Advised by Professor Dejan Filipovic
Dissertation: "Machine Learning Enhanced Antenna Systems"
Kyle Jackson Goodrick
Advised by Professor Dragan Maksimovic
Dissertation: "Systematic Optimization of Multiple Voltage Domain DC Distribution Architectures"
Muhammad Umar Javed
Advised by Assistant Professor Xudong Chen
Dissertation: "Cooperative Estimation: Decentralized Gradient Flows, Acceleration and Synchronization"
Marija Marković
Advised by Associate Professor Bri-Mathias Hodge
Dissertation: To be defended in summer 2023
Nicholas Nardelli
Advised by Dr. Tara Fortier and Assistant Professor Shu-Wei Huang
Dissertation: "Ultra-Precise Optical and Microwave Synthesis with an Er/Yb:glass Frequency Comb"
Vyjayanthni Narumanchi
Advised by Professor Todd Murray (Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: "Analysis and application of post-processing algorithms to enhance the performance of optical imaging systems"
Megan Robinson
Advised by Distinguished Professor Zoya Popovic, Lockheed Martin Endowed Chair in RF Engineering
Dissertation: "GaN Technologies for Microwave Heating and Broadband Receiver Applications"
Raymond James Sprungle
Advised by Professor Emeritus Ed Kuester
Dissertation: "Design Studies for Tapered Transmission Line Matching Circuits"
Robert W. Streeter
Advised by Distinguished Professor Zoya Popovic
Dissertation: "High-resolution Deep-tissue Microwave Thermometry"
Master's Candidates
Master of Science with Thesis
Anne Barlas
Advised by Associate Professor Bri-Mathias Hodge
Dissertation: "The Last 10% Challenge in a Deeply Decarbonized Power System"
Swastik Bimal Bhattacharya
Advised by Professor Jade Morton (Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences)
Dissertation: "Remote Sensing Techniques for Surface Water Detection"
Trent Martin
Advised by Professor Dragan Maksimovic
Dissertation: "Modular Series-Stacked Bidirectional AC/DC Architecture"
Haley Allana Ross
Advised by Associate Professor Bri-Mathias Hodge
Dissertation: To be defended in summer 2023
Shivangi Sinha
Advised by Professor Dragan Maksimovic
Dissertation: "48V to 1V Active-Clamp Stacked Direct Forward Converter"
Aakriti Srivastava
Advised by Associate Professor Melinda Piket-May and Scholar-in-Residence Eric Bogatin
Dissertation: "Optimization of signal and return via in PCB for 20 GHz BW signal"
Muhy Eddin Za’ter
Advised by Associate Professor Bri-Mathias Hodge
Dissertation: "Machine Learning Framework for Power System Security Assessment"
Master of Science
- Abijith Ananda Krishnan
- Kavin Ayyapparaj
- Mason Bell
- Tejas Bhuse
- Siddarth Chintalapati
- Liliaokeawawa Cothren
- Paul Flaten
- Grant Giesbrecht
- Ayush Gupta
- Alexander Ho
- Seth Johannes
- Subodh Khandelwal
- Venkata Surya Teja Kanteti
- Raunak Kelshiker
- Sricharan Kidambi
- Sean McKee
- Alison McCall
- Stuart McDonald
- Jack Molles
- Mohammed Adib Oumer
- Enrique Najera
- Kyle Nannig
- Shubham Narula
- Michelle Pirrone
- Kedar Shrinivas Remane
- Alec Russell
- Cobi Sabo
- Ananya Sairaj
- Georgia Sandidge
- Yeshu Sharma
- Nagaraj Srinivasa Murthy
- Timothy Sonnenberg
- David Stockhouse
- Stefan Stroessner
- Andrew Hudson Thibeault
- Henry Titus
- Marena Trujillo
- Jackson Wagner
- Ella Rise Wawrzynek
Master of Engineering
- Roberto Baquerizo
- Peter Braganza
- Visalakshmi Chemudupati
- Erich Clever
- Praneeth Daddala
- Swapnil Ghonge
- Venkata Janakirama
- Pradyumna Gudluru
- Noah Harper
- Lucas Hall Spencer
- Taher Ujjainwala
Master of Science, Professional Program
- Santhosh
- Sankalp Agrawal
- Darshit Nareshkumar Agrawal
- Dastan Akunzhanov
- Manuel Ernesto Alva Hernandez
- Bhavyasree Aruljothi
- Nihar Ajay Bahirat
- Sathya Balasubramaniam
- Dhiraj Bennadi
- Pranav Manjunath Bharadwaj
- Prasun Biswas
- Arjun Boddu
- Kamini Budke
- Shashank Chaubey
- Bhargav Dharmendra Chauhan
- Martin Chirayath
- Chinmay Rajesh Chobe
- Nathaniel Danigelis
- Mukta Milind Darekar
- Amey Sharad Dashaputre
- Ananth Deshpande
- Sumedh Mahesh Deshpande
- Rajat Shridhar Devagiri
- Shreyan Dhananjayan
- Balapranesh Elango
- Kishore Eswaran
- Gautama Gandhi
- Jaanavi Gopal
- Bharath Raj Govindaraju
- Mahesh Gudipati
- Emma Harper
- Dustin Horn
- Sai Ram Abhishek Iruvanti
- Rohit Pradeep Jadhavpatil
- Sudarshan Jagannathan
- Kenneth A. Jones II
- Ganesh Kariganuru Mahabalesh
- Akash Karmakar
- Pratinav Kashyap
- Sanish Sanjay Kharade
- Tanmay Mahendra Kothale
- Ashwin Kudmulwar
- Suprita Kulkarni
- Tejaswini Lakshminarayan
- Nicholas Machemer
- Raghav Maheshwari
- Maanas Makam Dileep Kumar
- Sachin Mathad
- Malcolm McKellips
- Varun Milind Mehta
- Nanditha Reddy Moole
- Martin Myszynski
- Ruchit Naik
- Bramhagjna Nama Ashwin
- Hemanth Nandish
- Mehulkumar Patel
- Deekshith Reddy Patil
- Gauriech Ishaan Pilla
- Jahnavi Pinnamaneni
- Nikolas Ryan Provost
- Srikesh Pulluri
- Vishal Raj
- Raj Amit Rana
- Gaurang Krishnakant Rane
- Jason Humberto Regalado
- Khyati Satta
- Sunetra Shashikant Sawant
- Mansoor Ahmad Shah
- Saloni Vipulkumar Shah
- Shlok Shah
- Jasan Preet Singh
- Harshwardhan Singh
- Anshul Somani
- Sai Anirudh Sriram
- Sona Subair
- Abhishek Rajkapur Suryawanshi
- Maurice Takeda
- Udit Pratap Singh Tanwar
- Chaitanya Thakare
- Nihal Thirunakarasu
- Saket Tirpude
- Kevin Tom
- Yogitha Umasankar
- Shrnjaykrishnan Venkitaramanan
- Shuran Xu
Master of Science, Coursera
- Lief Anderson
- Adam Burrell
- Kishore Bachu
- Kyle Jay Albert Carey
- Connor Cooper
- Matthew Cramer
- Marshall Folkman
- Youhan Fu
- Aaron Gupta
- Nanditha krishnamurthy Haradana Halli
- Cole Hinton
- Troy Houchin
- Joel Kellam
- Kelsey Claire Louise Leeburg
- Jonathan Lewis
- Jacob Logue
- Jordan Mares-Manton
- Adam Miller
- Brogan Miner
- Skyhlar Davyn Myers
- Saichetan Nalamolu
- Ming Fai Brandon Ngai
- Evan Osborn
- Paul Perdomo
- Venkata Pushpagiri
- Jose Antonio Rosario
- Kai Tam
- Dante Renato Tolentino
- Brian Wan
- Stefan Wismer
Bachelor of Science Graduates
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Abdulaziz Abdal
- Hamad Al-Saleem
- Molly Catherine Alvine
- Mohit Bhat
- Ethan Bishop
- James Lowell Bohn
- Gala Khaled Bokhadour
- Justin Caro
- Samuel Carruthers
- John Carter-Gibb
- Rustin Chang
- Taylor Colety
- Joshua Dinerman
- Kyle Dorr
- Mark Gautier
- Chase Gordanier
- Collin Graham
- William Greeby
- Garrett Hansen
- Taighe Iacometti
- Matthew Payton King
- Tanner James Leise
- Chengming Li
- Ariana Martinez
- Elisabetta Rose Medici
- Marceline Milligan
- Rylan Moore
- Fares Sameer Naser
- Alexis Palau
- Alakh Patel
- Yama Qasemi
- Thomas James Ramirez
- John Edward Ramsdale
- Samuel Reyes
- Justin Robert
- Brian Ivan Rodriguez
- Ryan Ruger
- Noah David Schwartz
- Iskandar Shoyusupov
- William Snider
- Cyrus Sowdaey
- Sonal Tamrakar
- Jiaqi Tao
- Shambaditya Tarafder
- Matthew Teta
- Kyle Thompson
- Bjorn Tingstad
- Tucker Lee Travins
- Adam Vitti
- Nicholas Dean Whiting
- Terence Valentino Williams
- Hanzhang Yu
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
- Faisal Almoghaiwli
- James Blake Brennan
- Nicholas DiPonzio
- Fahad Gabgab
- Santiago Chavez Garcia
- Jason Esqueda
- Jordan Christina Gates
- William Harrington
- Giselle Koo
- Daniel Scott McCall
- Greysen Shaw Mitchell
- Garrett Nelson
- Everett Oklar
- Vinicius Pelissari
- Michael Pogrebitskiy
- Sabine Sho
- Haley Smallwood
- Ethan Smith
- Arman Sohail
- Wyatt Albert Stratmeyer
- Logan Van Grinsven
- Terry Peter Vis
- Alexander Wu
- Jinhua Zhang
- Noah Yuanhang Zhao