ECSE 2020 Commencement Reception

Thursday, May 21, 2020 https://rensselaer.webex.com/meet/wenj Congratulations – ECSE Class of 2020!

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Program

• Welcome (ECSE Dept Head: John Wen) • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering • Bachelor of Science in Computer and Systems Engineering • Remarks by Class 2020 Advisors • ECSE Master’s Program Graduates • ECSE Doctoral Program Graduates • Remarks by ECSE Master’s and Doctoral Program Directors • ECSE Commencement Address Dr. Steven Sasson, ‘72, Inventor of Digital Camera • ECSE Awards • ECSE Photo Vignettes • ECSE Connection

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Congratulations - EE B.S. Graduates!

Summer 2019 Fall 2019 Chia, Alvin Bartlett, Gideon T. Collado, Adrian J. Calascione, Christopher T. Forman, Jade M. El-Mohandes, Zackery T. Garg, Ron Gao, Yunfan Gjini, Elizabeth A. Gold, Abigail V. Grey, Jordan Hallberg, Hewitt C. Halpern, Seth W. McBain, Liam R. Nikolayenko, Andriy Pasco, Angelo Perez, Anthony Rockwell, James V. Sobota, Ally N. St-Pierre, David R. Yale, Matt C.

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Congratulations - EE B.S. Graduates!

Spring 2020 Fillion, Carson L. Melkun, Justin F. Urbanski, Joey A. Agarwal, Ishita Fu, Yidong Mester, James J. Warne, Geoffrey C. Arpi, Lander M. Fultz, Isaac T. Miner, Jake K. Wen, Qijie Atchinson, Nick Goldberg, Hannah Moncayo, Elizabeth S. Williamson, Emmett A. Awad, Shauna M. Gutenmann, Kristian A. Munro, Isaac Wilson, Benjamin C. Beauchemin, Sam J. He, Zhaowen Murli, Sathvik Wong, Elissa Beninati, Steven Hong, Yun Napora, Danny P. Xia, Xavier Black, Emily R. Hunter, Shannon K. Nembhard, Taye Xue, Tong Cano, Steven Islam, Asef Nunez, Emily Zaw, Caroline P. Cao, Difei Jia, Xinlan Nwodo, Kene A. Zeng, Ting Carino, Salvador V. Klyuchnik, Diana Orth, Gavin L. Zeng, Yunyang Chen, Peiran Lambert, Bailey M. Pan, Noah Zhang, Alexander Cheng, Huajie Levine, Matthew R. Pleach, Kathryn K. Zhang, Elaine Choi, James Li, Qixin Saad, Tom Zhang, Yuyang Couceiro, Daniel Li, Shenwei Schaffter, Clara A. Zielinski, Nate J. Crooks, Savannah L. Li, Yi Shen, Harry Dibie, Danielle P. Liu, Haozhe Shen, Yifeng Dribusch, Garrett A. Liu, Lewei Shiltsev, Misha V. Du, Qinfeng Liu, Yueliang Soto, Cristian J. Du, Yiming Love, Patrick J. Szendro, Kyle N. Falatek, Austin E. Ma, Linsen Thomas, Justin Fan, Ruiyi Malanaphy, Devin N.

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Congratulations - CSE B.S. Graduates!

Summer 2019 Fall 2019 Batcher, Shane Bahs, Sydney T. Dineen, Matt M. Berry, James Jacob, Akhil Cai, Lizhou Osuma, Christine A. Chen, Jiongzhen Hallberg, Hewitt C. Hansell, Gregory J. Hong, Ji-hann N. Palazzo, David L. Patel, Dhruv S. Pianin, Eric A. Russell, Sean Stadler, Johnathan J. Wang, Junhe

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Congratulations - CSE B.S. Graduates!

Koepfer, Linus Schaffter, Clara A. Spring 2020 Kumar, Shreya Schmalz, Jonathon W. LaTourette, Hannah M. Bell, Tom R. Shadra, Rish Cabaleiro, Brandon J. Li, Jing Wei Shiltsev, Misha V. Lin, Jiangshan Cano, Steven Sibley, Isaac M. Liu, Haozhe Catalano, Joseph Steenstra, Ian S. Love, Patrick J. Cheng, Huajie Suri, Siddharth Luo, Zhepeng Cook, Zachary B. Tatum, Josh K. Cregin, Kristen N. Ma, Linsen Tesone, Jared P. Malanaphy, Devin N. Dawnkaski, David A. Tipnis, Zach Manchester, Maya S. Denham, Julia J. Torborg, John J. Mascari, Nathan P. Downing, Delaney Travers, Joe M. Melkun, Justin F. Dribusch, Garrett A. Van Alstyne, Benjamin P. Ettlinger, Jeremy M. Menendez, Matthew A. Montenieri, Jacob P. Vargas, Christian Gao, Yutong Veenhuis, Emily L. Mosley, Arthur C. Goode, Cameron M. Ward, Eric Murli, Sathvik Hayat, Mohammad F. Weatherbee, Kristen L. Murphy, Mike P. Herrada, Brandon M. Yang, Zhentao Hill, Maria C. Orth, Gavin L. Zhang, Alexander Plowman, Max E. Hong, Yun Zhang, Quinn Ramsay, Caoilin J. Huang, Minjia Zhang, Xu Rhie, Matthew S. Ji, Jiahong Zhou, Yi Rodriguez, Hector D. Jonson, Alex D. Zhu, Gary Saad, Tom Kauffman, Kael J. Zoner, Nick M. Sang, Skylar Zuniga, Giovanny Sanita, Kevin W. 7

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Class of 2020 Undergraduate Advisors

Ishwara Bhat Randolph Franklin David Nichols Birsen Yazici

Qiang Ji James Lu Paul Schoch Jian Sun

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Congratulations – ECSE Masters Graduates

Summer 2019 Spring 2020 Huaiyuan Chu Zhiyu Chai Yilin Zhu Christie Chen Earl Hughes III Pan Yuen Lau Janyun Li Conor Maddry Fall 2019 Hayley Roy Gill Jeremy Bornstein Ziyu Su Fangheng Sun Burak Varici Katie Clark Jianyu Yang Xuhao Jiang Yihao Zhu Kaixiang Jin Nicholas Corbett Everett McNair Robert Ryan Han Shen

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Congratulations – ECSE Ph.D. Graduates

Summer 2019

• Indrani Bhattacharya. Dissertation: “Unobtrusive Analysis of Human Behavior in Task- based Group Interactions” (Supervised by Dr. Richard J. Radke) • Md Hossain Toufiq Imam. Dissertation: “Integrated Modeling and Control of the Indoor Built Environment” (Supervised by Dr. Sandipan Mishra) • Di Lu. Dissertation: “Multi-Media Multi-Lingual Information Extraction, Summarization and Transfer” (Supervised by Dr. Heng Ji) • Yu Pin Hsu. Dissertation: "Analog Front-end Circuits for Health Monitoring Applications" (Supervised by Prof. Mona Hella) • Christoph Lackner. Dissertation: "Controls in Power Systems with Renewable Energy Penetration" (Supervised by Dr. Joe Chow) • Zemin Liu. Dissertation: "Power Management Circuits for Hybrid Energy Harvesting" (Supervised by Prof. Mona Hella)

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Congratulations – ECSE Ph.D. Graduates

Fall 2019

• Prateek Kumar Singh. Dissertation: “Reliable and Trustworthy Networking In Ad Hoc and Edge Networks” (Supervised by Koushik Kar) • Wenting Li. Dissertation: “Real-time and Agile Data-driven Approaches Enabling Power Grids to be Smart” (Supervised by Prof. Meng Wang) • Yuan Liu. Dissertation: “An Improved Video Compression Framework with Fine-grain Scalability” (Supervised by Prof. John Woods) • Ignacio Vieto Miranda. Dissertation: “Small-signal Modeling and Analysis of Type-III Wind Turbines Considering Coupling Through Dc Bus and Over Frequency” (Supervised by Prof. Jian Sun)

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Congratulations – ECSE Ph.D. Graduates

Spring 2020

• Sagnik Nath. Dissertation: “Development of a Methodology for Automatic Placement and Routing of SFQ Circuit Designs and an Associated Standard Cell Library (Supervised by Tong Zhang and John McDonald) • Meng Zhang. Dissertation: “Design of Real-world Person RE-Identification Systems” (Supervised by Richard J. Radke) • Alexander Derrickson. Dissertation: “A Contemporary Assessment of the Lateral Silicon- Germanium Bipolar Transistor" (Supervised by Prof. Rena Huang)

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 ECSE Master’s and Doctoral Program Directors

Alhussein Abouzeid Partha Dutta (ECSE Graduate Program Director) (ECSE Master’s Program Director)

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Steve Sasson, 73

Steven received his Bachelor and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in 1973. He changed the future of photography when he invented the world’s first digital camera. His groundbreaking invention revolutionized the way images are captured, stored, and shared, creating new opportunities for commerce and communication, and ultimately transforming an industry. Steven has received numerous recognitions for his work that includes his 2007 Induction into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame, 2011 election to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2009 Economist Magazine Consumer Products Innovation Award and the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation that he received in 2010 from President Obama.

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 ECSE Awards

Allen B. Dumont The Henry J. Nolte Memorial Prize Meng Zhang Steven Beinnati

The Harold N. Trevett The Ricketts Prize Linus Koepfer Patrick James Love Difei Cao Siddharth Suri

Charles M. Close ’62 Doctoral The Wynant James Williams Prize Prize Emily Lynn Veenhuis Maha Mahmoud Fadel Zohdy Justin Frank Melkun

Lt. Charles D. Dyce Award (1976) 4.0 GPA Zaki A. Quereshy Linus Koepfer Siddharth Suri Dr. Alireza Seyedi ’99, ’04 Teaching Assistant Award Yu Wang Christopher Wiederman

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 ECSE Faculty and Staff

Administrative Staff Priscilla Magilligan Laraine Michaelides Gina Moore

Technical Staff Steve Dombrowski Jerry Dziuba

Student Coordinators Rama Hamarneh Kelley Kritz

Financial Ginette Kirkpatrick

IT Randall Fitsik

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Farewell …

Jack McDonald: 1942-2020 Yannick LeCoz: Retiring (RPI: 1975-2020) 2020 (RPI since1989)

Mick Neal: Client Support Analyst New Job

Hayleigh Sanders: Academic Support Engineer ECSE Gradudate Student

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Our Graduating Students

Kristen Weatherbee Di Lu

Joseph Urbanski

Md Hossain Toufiq Imam Hayley Roy Gill

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Our Graduating Students Prateek Kumar Singh

Jeremy Bornstein

Christie Chen

Zhiyu Chai Fangheng Sun

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Our Graduating Students Earl Hughes III

Burak Varici

Pan Yuen Lau Ian Steenstra

Conor Maddry

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Our Graduating Students Jianyu Yang Meng Zheng

Ziyu Su

Yihao Zhu Sagnik Nath

ECSE Commencement Reception May 21, 2020 5/22/20 Our Graduating Students

Janyun Li

Kristian Gutenmann

Kene Nwodo

Indrani Nick Zoner Bhattacharya and Caoilin Ramsay