GRADUATE RESEARCH FORUM WINNERS forum is an opportunity for students to showcase their research and creative projects and to receive valuable feedback from faculty judges.
Tanmay Bera, Materials Science and Engineering Surface Engineering of Liquid Crystal Droplets for Biosensing Applications Mentor/Co-author - Jiyu Fang, Ph.D.
At UCF’s 2012 Graduate Research Forum, Ph.D. candidates Tanmay Bera, Daeha Joung and Biddut Sarker each received best poster awards in the category of Engineering, Computer Science, Optics, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Modeling and Simulation. The Graduate Research Forum features poster displays representing UCF’s diverse colleges and disciplines. The
Daeha Joung, Physics Reduction Efficiency Dependent Electronic Transport Properties of Reduced Graphene Oxide Sheets Mentor: Saiful Khondaker, Ph.D. Biddut Sarker, Physics High-Performance Short Channel Organic Transistors Using Densely Aligned Carbon Nanotube Array Electrodes Mentor: Saiful Khondaker, Ph.D.
STUDENT NEWS Zhao Wang will graduate with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering this semester. He has found job placement as a Systems Engineer with Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. in Redford, MI. Zhao is the winner of the 2011-2012 University Award for Outstanding Master’s Thesis and a Ph.D. student with Dr. Aman Behal’s research group. His thesis, “LyapunovBased Control Design for Uncertain MIMO Systems,” was selected by the UCF Graduate Council from a group of finalists. This award recognizes the quality, content and exceptional contribution to the field of Electrical Engineering.
Two of Dr. Behal’s Research and Mentoring Program students were recently honored. Tyler Stigliano was inducted into the UPE (Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines). Christopher Echanique was awarded the Young Entrepreneur and Scholar (YES) Scholarship program.
Four of Dr. Khondaker’s students won awards at the 2012 AVS Florida chapter meeting: • Udai Bhanu received a grand award in the Computational and Experimental Material Science category • Edwards Jiminez (undergrad, Electrical Engineering) received a grand award in the Materials Characterization category • Biddut Sarker received second prize • Feras Alzubi received honorable mention The event was a joint symposium & exhibition held by the Florida Chapter of the AVS Science and Technology Society (FLAVS) and the Florida Society for Microscopy (FSM). It was held March 5-6 in the UCF Student Union.
The following students graduated in Spring 2012 with a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering: • Cheng Li (advised by Linan An) • Yaohan Chen (advised by Linan An)
Dr. Hickman’s student Craig Finch graduated in December 2011 with a Ph.D. from the College of Sciences in Modeling and Simulation. His dissertation is titled “Modeling transport and protein adsorption in microfluidic systems.”
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• Tanmay Bera (advised by Jiyu Fang) • Virendra Singh (advised by Sudipta Seal)
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