Visitors and Graduate Students of Professor Venkataramanan Balakrishnan

Current Graduate Students

Stephen Cauley
- Co-Major Ph.D. advisor with Professor C-K. Koh.
Miguel Hurtado
- Co-Major Ph.D. advisor with Professor M. Bell.
Past Graduate Students
- Kenneth Groom (currently with Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)
  - Co-Major Ph.D. advisor with Professor A. A. Maciejewski.
  - Graduated, December 1997.
  - Thesis title: ``Real-Time Failure-Tolerant Control of Kinematically Redundant Robotic Manipulators''
  - Winner, 1997 IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation Best Student Paper Award
- Tim Settle (currently with Thomson Consumer Electronics, Indianapolis, IN)
  - Co-Major Ph.D. advisor with Professor M. D. Zoltowski.
  - Graduated, December 1998.
  - Thesis title: ``Optimal Multi-Channel Equalization via LMI Optimization.''
- Manish Goel (currently with Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA)
  - Co-Major Ph.D. advisor with Professor A. A. Maciejewski.
  - Graduated, December 1998.
  - Thesis title: ``Tolerating Undetected Failures in Kinematically Redundant Robotic Manipulators''
- Fan Wang (currently with Motorola, Inc., Arlington Heights, IL.)
  - Graduated, December 1999.
  - Thesis title: ``Analysis, Estimation and Design of Parameter-Dependent Systems using Convex Optimization based on Linear Matrix Inequalities.''
  - Finalist, 1999 IEEE American Control Conference Best Student Paper Award .
- Qing Su (currently with Synopsis, Inc., Mountain View, CA)
  - Co-Major Ph.D. advisor with Professor C-K. Koh.
  - Graduated, August 2002.
  - Thesis title: ``Algorithms for Model Reduction of Large Scale RLC Systems.''
- Jitesh Jain (currently with Intel, Inc., Portland, OR)
  - Co-Major Ph.D. advisor with Professor C-K. Koh.
  - Graduated, December 2007.
  - Thesis title: ``Modeling and Simulation of VLSI Interconnects.''
- Hong Li (currently with Synopsis, Inc., Mountain View, CA)
  - Co-Major Ph.D. advisor with Professor C-K. Koh.
  - Graduated, December 2007.
  - Thesis title: ``Efficient Modeling and Analysis for Large Scale Circuits.''
- Ya-Chi Yang
  - Co-Major M.S. advisor with Professor C-K. Koh.
  - Graduated, August 2007.
  - Thesis title: ``Adaptive Admittance-based Conductor Meshing for Interconnect Analysis.''
- Charity Pettis
  - Co-Major M.S. advisor with Professor C-K. Koh.
  - Graduated, August 2008.
  - Thesis title: ``A Model for Population Firing in Neuronal Networks with Planar Lattice Topology.''
Past visitors
- Dr. Kwanho Lee (2004-05)
  - Ph.D., Seoul National University, 2004.
- SunEun Jo (March 2003 - February 2004)
  - Ph.D. candidate, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH).
- Professor Aurobinda Routray (May 2003 - March 2004)
  - Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
  - BOYSCAST Fellow.
- Dr. Ngai Wong (2003)
  - Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University
Professor Venkataramanan Balakrishnan

This document was last modified January 25, 2009.