2025 Research Showcase Projects DRAFT PAGE

UW Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

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ADVANCED MODELING AND SENSOR NETWORK DESIGN FOR REAL-TIME CHARACTERIZATION OF THE IONOSPHERIC D-REGION

Zheng Liu, Xueyicheng Xu, Nicklaus Thompson, Tusty, Nicholas Rich, Mingcheng Yang, Taniish Agarwal, Osman Brown, Daikun Wu

Adviser: Alexander V. Mamishev

2

CONVEX CONTROL OF GRID-INTERFACING INVERTERS WITH CURRENT LIMITS

Lauren Streitmatter, Trager Joswig-Jones

Adviser: Baosen Zhang

3

Integrating Social Equity and Climate Vulnerability Considerations into Grid Resilience Planning: Insights from Accra

Kwame Donkor, June Lukuyu

Adviser: June Lukuyu

4

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF E-GAN FETS FOR HIGH POWER AND FREQUENCY WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION

Antara Banerjee

Adviser: Jungwon Choi

5

Powering the last mile: Distributed & Equitable Charging for Electric Three Wheelers in Kolkata, India

Ahana Mukherjee, June Lukuyu

Adviser: June Lukuyu

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ELECTRICITY DEMAND ESTIMATION FOR MINI-GRIDS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN A NOVEL GAME-BASED AND TRADITIONAL SURVEY-BASED APPROACH

Eliane Nirere, Romney Kellogg

Advisers: June Lukuyu, Nathan Johnson

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ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF PARALLELED CLASS-PHI CONVERTERS FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY AND HIGH-POWER APPLICATIONS

Manas Palmal

Adviser: Jungwon Choi

8

MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF MHZ SELF-RESONANT PLANAR COIL FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER

Ghovindo Siadari, Jungwon Choi

Adviser: Jungwon Choi

9

Online Voltage Regulation of Distribution Systems with Disturbance-Action Controllers

Peng Zhang, Baosen Zhang

Adviser: Baosen Zhang

10

“My WiFi is not working!”
Augmenting Wireless Awareness in Consumers via XR

Qiancheng Li, Xinghua Sun, Akshay Gadre

Adviser: Akshay Gadre

11

FlowRing: Integrating Microgestures and Surface Interaction for Seamless XR Input

Jiexin Ding, Ishan Chatterjee, Anandghan Waghmare, Joseph Breda, Yuquan Deng, Bo Liu, Yuntao Wang, Shwetak Patel

Advisers: Akshay Gadre, Shwetak Patel

12

TASK ASSIGNMENT STRATEGY OPTIMIZATION FOR POST-DISASTER SCHEDULING OF ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS

Ran Wei, Arindam Das, Daniel Kirschen, Payman Arabshahi

Adviser: Payman Arabshahi

Sponsored by: National Science Foundation

13

ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak Attacks against Aligned LLMs

Fengqing Jiang

Adviser: Radha Poovendran

14

SafeDecoding: Defending against Jailbreak Attacks
via Safety-Aware Decoding

Zhangchen Xu, Fengqing Jiang, Luyao Niu, Jinyuan Jia, Bill Yuchen Lin, Radha Poovendran

Adviser: Radha Poovendran

15

CleanGen: Mitigating Backdoor Attacks for Generation Tasks in Large Language Models

Yuetai Li, Zhangchen Xu, Fengqing Jiang, Luyao Niu, Dinuka Sahabandu, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Radha Poovendran

Adviser: Radha Poovendran

Sponsored by: National Science Foundation

16

EXPLORATION AND PRIORS IN A NOVEL REDUNDANT HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE

Victoria Pierce, Leo Scholl, Hayden Rundle, Brady Borchelt

Adviser: Amy Orsborn

Sponsored by: National Science Foundation

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The Synergistic Effects of Transcutaneous Spinal Stimulation and Exoskeleton Assisted Walking after Spinal Cord Injury

Richard Henderson, Soshi Samejima, Abigail Schreier, Haley Coen, Siddhi Shrivastav, Annika Pfister, Kim Ingraham, Chet Moritz

Adviser: Chet Moritz

18

INFLUENCING HUMAN GAIT DYNAMICS WITH AN ADAPTIVE SPLIT-BELT TREADMILL

Zijie Jin, Jason Isa, Sam Burden, Kim Ingraham

Adviser: Kim Ingraham

19

Heel-Strike Detection Algorithm For Exoskeleton Walking With Spinal Cord Injury

Annika Pfister, Rich Henderson, Chet Moritz, Kim Ingraham

Adviser: Kim Ingraham

20

Enhancing Co-Adaptive Myoelectric Interfaces with Eye Tracking

Amber Chou, Sam Burden, Amy Orsborn, Maneeshika Madduri, Si Jia Li

Adviser: Sam Burden

21

An Algorithm That Attains the Human Optimum in a Repeated Human-Machine Interaction Game

Jason Isa, Sam Burden, Lillian Ratliff

Advisers: Sam Burden; Lillian Ratliff

22

TACFAB: TACTILE SENSORS FABRICATION FOR ANY ROBOTS

Ray Song, Yuxuan Miao, Yiyue Luo

Adviser: Yiyue Luo

23

Multifunctional Human-Machine Interface Enabled
by Magnetoactive Textiles

Yuxuan Miao, Sen Zhang, Yiyue Luo

Adviser: Yiyue Luo

24

Multimodal Sensing Sleeve for Rehabilitation

Mingzhuo Ma, Qifeng Yang, Sen Zhang, Gaolin Ge, Jazlin Taylor, Yiyue Luo

Adviser: Yiyue Luo

25

BRIDGING EDUCATIONAL EQUITY GAPS IN ENGINEERING FOR STUDENTS WITH ATTENTION DISORDERS

Kevin Shao, Ruiqi Chen, Eric Cho, Hanlin Ma, Sophia Tang

Advisers: Denise Wilson, Sep Makhsous

26

Enhancing GNSS Resilience with AI: Single-Frequency TEC Estimation Using the Portable SDR-Based ÆtherLink System

Gokul Nathan, Aakash Namboodiri

Adviser: Sep Makhsous

27

FUSION FLIGHT: UNLOCKING HIGH-SPEED GPS ERROR CORRECTIONS FOR UAVS USING AI

Alperen Cucioglu, Gokul Nathan, Ernst Anderson

Adviser: Sep Makhsous

28

Towards Clean Aviation: SuperThermo Electric Motors
for Electric & Hybrid Aviation

Christina Sarieddine, Jackson Shepard, Hongrui Wu & Xiaoning Jing

Adviser: Sep Makhsous

29

Time Series Classification combining a Recursive Piecewise Linear Approximation Method with Machine Learning Algorithm

Yiren Wang, Hongning Wang, Arindam K. Das, and M. P. Anantram

Advisers: Arindam K. Das and M. P. Anantram

30

METAL COORDINATED DNA

Arpan De, Paritosh Singh, Olaiyan Alolaiyan, Will Livernois

Adviser: M. P. Anantram

31 NA

Julie Chen, Tommy Nguyen, Enrique Garcia, Victor Marcenac, Kai-Mei Fu, Max Parsons

Adviser: Max Parsons

Sponsored by: NIST, Sandia National Laboratories

32 NA

Booker Hu, Aarjav Jain, Arturo Lopez, Kevin Wu, Ohik Kwon, Robert Thomas

Adviser: Max Parsons

33

Optical Multi-beam Steering using Integrated Acousto-Optic Arrays

Yue Yu, Qixuan Lin, Shucheng Fang, Bingzhao Li

Adviser: Mo Li

34

Modulation and trapping of 2D excitons using surface acoustic wave resonators

Ameya Velankar, Adina Ripin, Hannah Boyer, Will Holtzmann, Xiaodong Xu, Mo Li

Adviser: Mo Li

35

A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING THE SCALABILITY OF ION TRAP GEOMETRIES

Minh Anh Nguyen

Adviser: Sara Mouradian

36

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION OF A METALENS WITH A SURFACE TRAP FOR EFFICIENT FLUORESCENCE COLLECTION OF TRAPPED IONS OVER A WIDE AREA

Hae Lim, Johannes Froech, Christian Pluchar, Arka Majumdar, Sara Mouradian

Adviser: Sara Mouradian

Sponsored by: National Science Foundation

37

A STUDY ON THZ PLASMONICS IN A CMOS CONTINUUM TRANSISTOR ARRAY

Shruti Chakraborty

Adviser: Hossein Naghavi

38

A 200-TO-257GHZ AUTODYNE FMCW PHASED-ARRAY RADAR WITH 2D BEAM-STEERING IN 55NM BICMOS

Xiangyu Zhao, Zi Zhang

Adviser: Hossein Naghavi

39

SUB-THZ RULER: SPECTRAL BISTABILITY IN A 235GHZ SELF-INJECTION-LOCKED OSCILLATOR FOR AGILE AND UNAMBIGUOUS RANGING

Zi Zhang, Xiangyu Zhao

Adviser: Hossein Naghavi

40

Antenna design to improve AUVs Docking Process

Yannan Liu, John M. Mower, Kedi Yan, Chuyang Peng, Arjun

Advisers: Hossein Naghavi, Yasuo Kuga

41 NA

Uthkarsh Keshav Adya, Rui Chen, I-Tung Chen, Sanskriti Joshi, Arka Majumdar, Mo Li and Sajjad Moazeni

Adviser: Sajjad Moazeni

42

A DSP-FREE CARRIER PHASE RECOVERY SYSTEM USING 16-OFFSET-QAM LASER FORWARDED LINKS FOR 400GB/S AND BEYOND

Marziyeh c, Dan Sturm, Alana Dee, Pengyu Zeng, Asha Rashmi, Hongyong (Scott) Li

Adviser: Sajjad Moazeni

43

A 2.4 GHz FREQUENCY SELECTIVE BACKSCATTER MODULATOR FOR BLUETOOTH AND WI-FI BACKSCATTER

Kevin Ho, Matt Reynolds

Adviser: Matt Reynolds

44

ZeroScatterBLE: Zero-Added-Component Backscatter Communication using Existing FPGA Digital I/O Pins

Sara Reyes, Chloe Fong, James Rosethal, Matt Reynolds

Adviser: Matt Reynolds

45

ISAR IMAGING OF NEAR-SHORE MARITIME VESSELS USING A LOW-COST X-BAND RADAR

Nicole Pham, Dylan Wesen, John Mower, Matthew S Reynolds

Adviser: Matt Reynolds

46

Closed-loop Brain Stimulation in NHPs Using Hardware Accelerated Machine Learning

Rajeev Bhavin Botadra, Scott Hauck, Amy Orsborn, Eli Shlizerman, Hao Fang, Trung Le, ChiJui Chen, Leo Scholl, Ryan Canfield

Adviser: Scott Hauck

Sponsored by: National Science Foundation

47

SAMURAI: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Zero-Shot Visual Tracking with Motion-Aware Memory

Cheng-Yen Yang, Hsiang-Wei Huang, Wenhao Chai, Zhongyu Jiang, Jenq-Neng Hwang

Adviser: Jenq-Neng Hwang

48

A Transformer-Based Deep Learning Approach to Anomaly Detection of High-Bandwidth Multivariate Time-Series Satellite Communications

Alexey Yermakov, Kyongsik Yun, Lillian Ratliff, Nathan Kutz

Advisers: Lillian Ratliff, Nathan Kutz

49

Sample Complexity Reduction via Policy Difference Estimation in Tabular RL

Adhyyan Narang, Andrew Wagenmaker, Lillian Ratliff, Kevin Jamieson

Advisers: Maryam Fazel, Lillian Ratliff

50

A 5-GHZ PHASE-LOCKED LOOP USING OVER-SAMPLING FEEDFORWARD PHASE NOISE CANCELLATION

Yi-Hsiang Huang, Po-Hao Cheng

Adviser: Chris Rudell

Sponsored by: Qualcomm Incorporated, Center for the Design of Analog-Digital Integrated Circuits

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A Highly Tunable RF Self-Interference Canceler with Machine-Learning Accelerated Adaptation for Full-Duplex Radios

Xichen Li, Elpida Karapepera, Ahmed Aboulsaad, Lucas Ritzdorf

Adviser: Chris Rudell

Sponsored by: Boeing, Intel, Creonex System

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A Millimeter-Wave Digital Beamforming Receiver using Low-Resolution ADCs

Deniz Dosluoglu

Adviser: Chris Rudell

Sponsored by: Boeing, Qualcomm, NSF, CDADIC