Doctoral and licentiate seminars

2014

Dissertation seminar Stefan Forström Doctoral Thesis: "Enabling Fully Distributed Global Services on the Internet-of-Things" Date: Thursday 27^th of November 2014 in room L111 Supervisors: Dr. Mikael Gidlund Opponent: Prof. Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy
Dissertation seminar Omeime Esebamen Doctoral Thesis: "Characterization of Interface States & Radiation Damage Effects in Duo-lateral PSDs Using SEM Microscopy and UV Beam Profiling Techniques" Date: June 17th at 10:30 in room O111 Supervisors: Doc. Göran Thungström and Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson. Opponent: Professor Harry J Withlow, University of Applied Sciences in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Dissertation seminar Khurram Shahzad Doctoral Thesis: "Energy Efficient Hardware Architecture for Data and Computation Intensive Wireless Monotoring" Date: June 11th at 10:15 in room M102 Supervisor: Prof. Bengt Oelmann. Opponent: Professor Teresa Riesgo, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain.
Dissertation seminar Sebastian Schwarz Doctoral thesis: "Gaining depth - Time-of-flight sensor fusion for three-dimensional video content creation" Date: June 4th at 10:00 in room L111 Supervisor: Prof. Mårten Sjöström, Dr. Roger Olsson. Opponent: Prof. Reinhard Koch, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany.
Licentiate seminar Reza Salim Doctoral Thesis: "Phase-Contrast and Spectroscopic X-ray Imaging for Paperboard Quality Assurance" Date: May 22nd at 10:15 in room M102 Supervisor: Assistant. Prof. Jan Thim, Assistant Prof. Börje Norlin, Prof. Christer Fröjdh Opponent: Associate Professor Anna Burvall, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Dissertaion seminar Meng Xiazhou Doctoral Thesis: "Technology driven obolescence management for embedded systems" Date: Thursday, May 15th at 13:15 pm in room O102 Supervisor: Dr. Benny Thörnberg Opponent: Prof. Jim Tørresen, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Dissertation seminar, Wei Shen Doctoral Thesis: "A Protocol Framework for Adaptive Real-Time Communication in Industrial Wireless Sensors and Actuator Networks" Date: Thursday, March 6th at 13:15 am in room L111 Supervisor: Prof. Tingting Zhang Opponent: Prof. Gerhard Hancke from City University of Hong Kong
Dissertation seminar, Waheed Malik Doctoral Thesis: "Real-time Optical Position Sensing on FPGA" Date: Wednesday, January 29th at 10:30 am in room M108 Supervisor: Prof. Mattias O´Nils and Dr. Benny Thörnberg Opponent: Prof. Daniel Crookes, Queen´s University, Belfast

Dissertation seminar, Naeem Ahmad

Doctoral Thesis: "Modelling, Optimization and Design of Visual Sensor Networks for Sky Surveillance"
Date: Tuesday December 17th at 8:30 am in room O102
Supervisor: Prof. Mattias O´Nils
Opponent: Prof. Arno Ruckelshausen, Hochschule Osnabrück, Germany

Dissertation seminar, Anzar Alam

Doctoral Thesis: "Development of embedded optical technique and device for real-time surface metrology using line of laser triangulation"
Date: Monday December 16th at 13:15 pm in room L111
Supervisor: Prof. Mattias O´Nils
Opponent: Prof. Consolatina Liguori, University of Salerno, Italy

Dissertation seminar, Majid Abdul

Doctoral Thesis: "Analysis and EMI Suppression of MHz frequency range Switch Mode Power Supplies"
Date: Wednesday November 20th at 10:30 am in room M108
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Kent Bertilsson
Opponent: Prof. Jorma Kyyrä, Aalto University, Finland

Dissertation seminar, Jawad Saleem

Doctoral Thesis: "Power Electronics for - and Modelling of - Resistance Welding Equipment"
Date: Thursday October 24th at 10:15 am in room O111
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Kent Bertilsson
Opponent: Prof. Drago Dolinar, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Dissertation seminar, Imran Muhammad

Doctoral Thesis: "Energy Efficient and Programmable Architecture for Wireless Vision Sensor Node"
Date: Tuesday October 22nd at 13:15 pm in room M108
Supervisor: Prof. Mattias O´Nils
Opponent: Prof. Bernhard Rinner, Alpen-Adria Universität, Austria

Dissertation seminar, Radhika Ambatipudi

Doctoral Thesis: "High Frequence (MHz) Planar Transformers for Next Generation Switch Mode Power Supplies"
Date: Friday October 4th at 10:30 am in room O102
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Kent Bertilsson
Opponent: Prof. Jesus Doval-Gandoy, University of Vigo, ESP

Dissertaion seminar, Sebastian Bader

Doctoral Thesis: "On the Lifetime and Usability of Environmental Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks"
Date: Wednesday October 2nd at 13:30 pm in room L111
Supervisor: Prof. Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Dr. Kirk Martinez - University of Southampton, GB

Dissertation semianar, Hari Babu Kotte

Doctoral Thesis: "High Frequency (MHz) Resonant Converters using GaN HEMTs and Novel Planar Transformer Thecnology"
Date: Thursday September 26th at 10:15 am in room L111.
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Kent Bertilsson
Opponent: Prof. Noel Shammas – Staffordshire University, GB

Dissertation seminar, Jinlan Gao

Doctoral Thesis: ”Antenna Based Passive UHF RFID Sensor Tags”
Date: Thuesday June 18th 2013 at 13:15 pm in room O102.
Supervisors: Dr. Johan Sidén and Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson.
Opponent:Prof. Emmanouil Tentzeris, School of ECE, Georgia Tech, USA.

Dissertation seminar, Johan Jason

Doctoral thesis: ”Fibre-optic displacement and temperature sensing using coupling based intensity modulation and polarization modulation techniques”
Date: Wednesday June 12^th2013 in room O111.
Supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson.
Opponent: Prof. Werner Daum, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany.

Licentiate seminar, Suryanarayana Muddala

Licentiate thesis: "View Rendering for 3DTV"
Date: Thuesday June 11 th 2013, in room L111.
Supervisor: Professor Mårten Sjöström and Dr. Roger Olsson.
Opponent: Associate Professor Klas Nordberg, Linköping University.

Dissertation seminar, Khursheed Khursheed

Doctoral thesis: ”Intelligence Partitioning and Data Reduction in Wireless Visual Sensor Networks”
Date: Monday June 10^th2013 in room O102.
Supervisor:Prof. Mattias O'Nils.
Opponent: Prof. Johan Lilius, Åbo Akademi, Finland.

Licentiate seminar, Yun Li

Licentiate thesis: "Coding of Three-dimensional Video Content – Depth Image Coding by Diffusion"
Date: Wednesday 5^th of June 2013 in room O102.
Supervisors: Prof. Mårten Sjöström, Dr. Ulf Jennehag and Dr. Roger Olsson.
Opponent: Associate Professor Markus Flierl, KTH, Stockholm.

Licentiate seminar, Mitra Damghanian

Licentiate thesis: "The Sampling Pattern Cube – A Framework for Representation and Evaluation of Plenoptic Capturing Systems"
Date: Tuesday 4^th of June 2013 in room O102.
Supervisors: Prof. Mårten Sjöström and Dr. Roger Olsson.
Opponent: Associate Professor Göran Manneberg, KTH, Stockholm.

Dissertation seminar, Kannan Thiagarajan

Doctoral thesis: "Monte Carlo simulation of electron transport in semiconducting zigzag carbon nanotubes”
Date: Monday 23 rd of May in room O111.
Supervisor: Prof.Ulf Lindefelt.
Opponent: Prof. Michele Goano, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy.

Licentiate seminar, Kung Wang

Licentiate thesis: "Stereoscopic 3D video quality of experience - impact of coding, transmission and display technologies"
Date: Friday May 17 ht 2013, in room M102.
Supervisors: Prof. Mårten Sjöström, Adj. Prof. Kjell Brunnström (Acreo), Dr. Ulf Jennehag and Dr. Roger Olsson.
Opponent: Prof.Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola.

Licentiate seminar, Sara Rydberg

Licentiate thesis: "Radiation induced losses in ytterbium doped laser materials"
Date: Thuesday February 26 th 2013, in room O111.
Supervisor: Dr. Magnus Engholm.
Opponent: Dr. Daniel Milanese, University of Torino.

2012

Licentiate seminar, Sebastian Schwarz

Licentiate thesis: "Depth Map Upscaling for Three-Dimensional Television - The Edge-Weighted Optimization Concept"
Date: Thursday November 22nd 2012, room O111.
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Mårten Sjöström.
Opponent: Adj. Prof. Atanas Gotchev, Tampere University of Technology.

Licentiate seminar, Omeime Esebamen

Licentiate thesis: “Simulation, Measurement and Analysis of the Response of Electron- and Lateral Position Sensitive Detector"
Date: Wednesday October 10th at 13:15, room O111. Supervisors: Doc. Göran Thungström and Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson.
Opponent: Technology Dr Uwe Zimmermann, Uppsala University.

Licentiate seminar, Abdul Majid

Licentiate thesis: “Analysis and implementation of Switch Mode Power Supplies in MHz frequency region"
Date: Thursday June 14^th at 10.15 pm, room O111.
Supervisors: Associate Prof. Kent Bertilsson and Prof. Bengt Oelmann.
Opponent:

Dissertation seminar, Winnie Wong

Doctoral thesis: ”A Hybrid Pixel Detector ASIC with Energy Binning for Real-Time, Spectroscopic Dose Measurements”
Date: Wednesday May 30^th, 13.00 pm, room O102
Supervisor: Prof. Christer Fröjdh.
Opponent: Dr. Roberto Dinapoli, Switzerland.

Licentiate seminar, Abdul Waheed Malik

Licentiate thesis: “Machine Vision Architecture on FPGA"
Date: Thursday May 31^st at 10.00 pm, room M108.
Supervisor:
Opponent:

Licentiate seminar, Xiaozhou Meng

Licentiate thesis: “Maintenance consideration for long life cycle embedded"
Date: Thursday May 24^th at 10.15 pm, room O102.
Supervisor:
Opponent:

Licentiate seminar, Jawad Saleem

Licentiate thesis: “Power electronics for resistance spot welding equipment"
Date: Tuesday May 22^nd at 10.15 pm, room O111
Supervisor:
Opponent:

Licentiate seminar, Xin Cheng

Licentiate thesis: “Hardware centric machine vision for high precision measurement of reference structures in optical navigation"
Date: Thursday Mars 8^th at 13.15 pm, room O102.
Supervisor:
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Licentiate seminar, Mohammad Anzar Alam

Licentiate thesis: "An Online Surface Topography Characterization Technique for Paper and Paperboard using Line of Light Triangulation"
Date: Februari 9, kl.10.00 i sal O102.
Supervisor: Prof. Mattias O'Nils
Opponent:

2011

Dissertation seminar, Peng Cheng

Doctoral thesis: "Applications of Embedded Sensors in Loader Crane Positioning and Rotor RPM Measurement".
Date: December 9, 09.00 in O111.
Supervisor: Prof. bengt Olmann
Opponent:Prof. Dr. Arno Ruckelshausen, Hochschule Osnabrück, Germany.

Licentiate seminar, Felix Dobslaw

Licentiate thesis: "Automated Instance-based Tailoring of Parameter Settings for Metaheuristics"
Date: October 14, 10.15 in room Q211.
Supervisor: Prof. Theo Kanter.
Opponent:Prof. Thomas Bartz-Beielstein from the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne.

Licentiate seminar, Patrik Jonsson

Licentiate thesis: "Intelligent networked sensors for increased traffic safety"
Date: October 12, 10.15 in room Q221, Östersund.
Supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson.
Opponent:Associate Professor Jörgen Bogren, Physical Geography, University of Gothenburgh.
Note: The seminar will be held in the Swedish language.

Dissertation seminar, Tomas Unander

Doctoral thesis: “System integration of electronic functionality in packaging application”
Date: September 23, 2011.
Head supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson.
Opponent: Prof. Shaofang Gong, Linköping University.

Licentiate seminar, Muhammad Imran

Licentiate thesis: "Investigation of Architectures for Wireless Visual Sensor Nodes"
Date: June 10, 10:30 AM in room O102.
Supervisors: Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Senior Lecturer Khaled Benkrid, University of Edinburgh.

Licentiate seminar, Khursheed Khursheed

Licentiate thesis: "Investigation of Intelligence partitioning in wireless visual sensor networks"
Date: June 9, 10:30 AM in room O102
Supervisors: Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Prof. Per Lindgren, Luleå University of Technology.

Licentiate seminar, Hari Babu Kotte

Licentiate thesis: "High Speed (MHz) Switch Mode Power Supplies (SMPS) using Coreless PCB Transformer Technology Date"
Date: May 27, 10:00 AM in room M102
Supervisors: Kent Bertilsson and Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Docent Per Henrik Karlsson from Lund University

Licentiate seminar, Radhika Ambatipudi

Licentiate thesis: "Multilayered Coreless Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Step-down Transformers for High Frequency Switch Mode Power Supplies (SMPS)"
Date: May 20, 1:00 PM in room O102
Supervisors: Kent Bertilsson and Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Professor Torbjörn Thiringer from Chalmers tekniska högskola.

Licentiate seminar, Stefan Forsström

Licentiate thesis: "Enabling Adaptive Context Views for Mobile Applications Negotiating Global and Dynamic Sensor Information"
Date: April 29, 2011
Supervisors: Theo Kanter
Opponent: Dr. Andreas Fasbender, Adjunct Professor at the University of Agder

Licentiate seminar, Victor Kardeby

Licentiate thesis: "Automatic Sensor Clustering: Connectivity for the Internet of Things"
Date: April 28, 2011
Supervisor: Theo Kanter
Opponent:

Licentiate seminar, Jamie Walters

Doctoral thesis: "Ripples Across The Internet of Things -- Context Metrics as Vehicles for Relational Self-Organization"
Date: April 26, 2011
Supervisor: Theo Kanter
Opponent:

Dissertation seminar, Rahim Rahmani

Doctoral thesis: "Active Queue Management for Quality of Service in Heterogenous Networks"
Date: March, 3rd. 10.00 am in room M108
Head Supervisor:
Opponent: Associate Professor Roch H.Glitho, Concordia University, Canada.

Licentiate seminar, Kannan Thiyagarajan

Licentiate thesis: "Tight-binding calculations of electron scattering rates in semiconducting zigzag carbon nanotubes"
Date: January 19 ht, 1.15 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Prof. Ulf Lindefelt
Opponent: Prof. Sven Öberg, Luleå University of Technology

Licentiate seminar, Sebastian Bader

Licentiate thesis: "Enabling Autonomous Environmental Measurement Systems with Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks"
Date: January 1o ht, 1.00 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Prof. Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Dr. Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, UK

2010

Licentiate thesis, Xin Huang

Licentiate thesis: "Sensor Application Privacy and Security"
Date: Monday November 13th, 10.00 am in room O111.
Head supervisor: Prof. Tingting Zhang
Opponent: Dr. Thijs Jan Holleboom

Licentiate seminar, Fredrik Linnarsson

Licentiate thesis: "Wireless Sensor Networks in Loader Crane Applications"
Date: Monday November 1st, 1.00 pm in room O102
Head supervisor: Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Dr Mikael Gidlund - ABB Corporate research

Dissertation seminar, Linda Karlsson

Doctoral thesis: "Coding for Improved Perceived Quality of 2D and 3D Video over Heterogeneous Networks"
Date: May 27, 10.00 am in room O111
Head Supervisor: Doc. Mårten Sjöström
Opponent: Dr. -Ing. Karsten Müller, Karsten -Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI)

Dissertation seminar, Qinghua Wang

Doctoral thesis: "Traffic Analysis, Modeling and Their Applications in Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks - on network optimization and anomaly detection"
Date: February the 3 rd, 10:00 am in room L111
Head Supervisor: Prof. Tingting Zhang, Mid Sweden University - ITM.
Co-Supervisors: Dr. Stefan Pettersson, Mid Sweden University and Prof. Youzhi Xu, Jönköping University
Opponent: Dr. Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway.

2009

Dissertation seminar, Najeem Lawal

Doctoral thesis: ”Memory Synthesis for FPGA Implementation of Real-Time Video Processing Systems"
Date: Wednesday January 7, 10.30 am, room O102
Head supervisor: Prof. Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Dr. Khaled Benkrid - University of Edinburgh.

Licentiate seminar, Lisa Nordin

Licentiate thesis: "Measurement and prediction of dewatering characteristics for mechanical pulps using optical fibre analysis"
Date: Wednesday June 17th, 10.00 am in room O102
Head supervisor: Per Engstrand
Assistant supervisor: Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Annikki Vehniäinen D.Sc ( Tech), Senior Advisor UPM Nanoncenter

Dissertation seminar, Claes Mattsson

Doctoral thesis: "Design, Fabrication and Optimization of Thermal Radiation Detectors Based on Thin Polymer Membranes"
Date: September 18, 13.15 pm in room O113
Head supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Assistant supervisor: Dr. Göran Thungström
Opponent: Prof. Ylva Bäcklund – Programme Manager ICT VINNOVA.

2008

Licentiate seminar, Johan Jason

Licentiate thesis: "Theory and Applications of Coupling Based Intensity Modulated Fibre-Optic Sensors"
Date: Wednesday December 17th, 1.15 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent: Dr Bernt Sundström.

Licentiate seminar, Tomas Unander

Licentiate thesis: "Characterization of Low Cost Printed Sensors for Smart Packaging"
Date: Thursday December 11th, 1.15 pm in room O102
Head supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent: Dr Mats Robertsson - Acreo AB

Dissertation seminar, Aron Larsson

Doctoral thesis: ”Essays on Theories and Applications of Decision Analysis in Imprecise Domains”
Date: October 24, 1.15 pm, room O102
Head supervisor:
Opponent: David Ríos Insua, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid

Dissertation seminar, Roger Olsson

Doctoral thesis: ”Synthesis, Coding, and Evaluation of 3D Images Based on Integral Imaging”
Date: June 12, 1.15 pm, room L111
Head supervisor:
Opponent: Dr. -Ing. Aljoscha Smolic, Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik Heinrich -Hertz-Institut (HHI), Berlin, Tyskland.

Dissertation seminar, Jon Alfredsson

Doctoral thesis: ”Limitations of Subthreshold Digital Floating-Gate Circuits in Present and Future Nanoscale CMOS Technologies”
Date: Thursday May 29, 1.15 pm, room O102
Head supervisor: Prof. Bengt Oelmann
Opponent is Dr. Markku Åberg - VTT

Dissertation seminar, Magnus Engholm

Doctoral thesis: ”Materials Optimization for Optical Fiber Amplifiers and Fiber Lasers”
Date: Thursday May 22, 1.15 pm, room L111
Head supervisor: Dr. Lars Norin
Opponent is Dr. Johannes Kirchhof - IPHT Jena

Dissertation seminar, Henrik Andersson

Doctoral thesis: ”Position Sensitive Detectors - Device Technology and Applications in Spectroscopy"
Date: Thursday May 15, 1.15 pm, room O102
Head supervisor is Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent is Prof. Jan Linnros - KTH

Licentiate seminar, Niklas Lepistö

Licentiate thesis: "FPGA based architectures for embedded video systems"
Date: Wednesday February 6th, 1.15 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Prof. Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Dr Peter Nilsson - Lund University

Licentiate seminar, Ulf Jennehag

Licentiate thesis: ”Bandwidth Efficient IPTV Distribution - On Error Resilience and Fast Channel Change”
Date: January, 17, 1.15 pm in room L111
Head supervisor:
Opponent: