Doctoral and licentiate seminars

PhD Saad Muhammad Shaikh

Doctoral Thesis: Hyperspectral imaging for in-situ applications: Methods to improve the classification of materials using hyperspectral imaging

Date: January 25th, 2024 at 09:00

Main supervisor: Professor Benny Thörnberg

Opponent: Professor Jocelyn Chanussot, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France

Grading committee:

Dr. Jaime Zabalza, University of Strahclyde, Glasgow, UK

Professor Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Docent Jonas Örtegren, Mid Sweden University

Watch Saad's presentation on Youtube

PhD Thanh Tran

Doctoral Thesis: Enhancing Machine Failure Detection with Artificial Intelligence and Sound Analysis

Date: September 29th, 2023 at 09:00

Main supervisor: Associate Professor Jan Lundgren

Co-supervisor: Associate Professor Sebastian Bader

Opponent: Associate Professor Domenico Capriglione, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy

Grading committee:

Associate Professor Magnus Oskarsson, Lund University

Dr. Sepideh Pashami, Halmstad University

Associate Professor Daniel Jung, Linköping University

Watch Thanh's presentation on Youtube

PhD Yali Nie

Doctoral Thesis: Deep Learning Approaches Towards Skin Lesion Classification with Dermoscopic Images

Date: February 16, 2023 at 09:00

Main supervisor: Associate Professor Jan Lundgren

Co-supervisor: Prof. Mattias O'Nils

Opponent: Associate Professor Domenico Capriglione, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy

Grading committee:

Professor Marcus Liwicki, Luleå University of Technology

Professor Christopher Zach, Chalmers University of Technology

Professor Karl Åström, Lund University

Watch Yali's presentation on Youtube

Doctoral Thesis: Spectroscopic and Microscopic X-ray Fluorescence Analysis for Environmental and Industrial Applications.

Date: June 17, 2023 at 13:00

Supervisor: Associate Prof. Börje Norlin, Mid Sweden Univeristy

Co-supervisor: Associate Prof. Göran Thungström, Mid Sweden Univeristy and Dr. David Krapohl

Opponent: Professor Yuying Huang, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics

Chairman: Associate Prof. Benny Thörnberg, Mid Sweden University

Grading committee:

Professor Richard Brenner, Uppsala Universitet
Professor Anders Hallén, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
Dr. Gabriella Josefsson, Hamamatsu Photonics

Watch Siwen's presentation on Youtube

PhD Ye Xu

Doctoral Thesis: Rotational Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting Through Variable Reluctance

Date: March 23, 2022 at 09:00

Supervisor: Prof. Bengt Oelmann 

Co-supervisor: Associate Prof. Sebastian Bader

Opponent: Prof. Carlo Trigona, University of Catania, Italy

Grading committee:

Dr. Alex Weddell, University of Southampton, UK

Prof. Mustafa Arafa, American University in Cairo, Egypt

Prof. Kent Bertilsson, Mid Sweden University, Sweden

PhD Enkelda Balliu

Title: "Power Scaling of Highly Compact Single-Frequency Yb-Doped Fiber Amplifiers"

Date: 15 February 2022 at 09:30

Main supervisor: Professor Hans-Erik Nilsson

Co-supervisor: Associate Professor Magnus Engholm

Opponent: Associate Professor Pavel Peterka, UFE The Czech Academy of Sciences

Grading committee:

Professor Magnus Karlsson, Chalmers University of Technology

Professor Annamaria Cucinotta, University of Parma

Dr. Andrey Koptiug, Mid Sweden University

PhD Hiba Alqaysi

Doctoral thesis: Cost Optimization of Volumetric Surveillance for Sky Monitoring Towards Flying Object Detection and Positioning

Date: January 12, 2022 at 09:00

Main Supervisor: Prof. Mattias O'Nils

Opponent: Fabio Poiesi, Researcher at Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy

Grading committee: 

Prof. Bernhard Rinner, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Prof. Haibo Li, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Prof. Tingting Zhang, Mid Sweden University

Tech. lic. Thanh Tran

Licentiate thesis: "Drill Failure Detection based on Sound using Artificial Intelligence".

Date: December 16, 2021 at 13:00 

Main supervisor: Associate prof. Jan Lundgren

Opponent: Professor Karl Åström, Lund University

PhD Cristian Vilar

Doctoral thesis:"Semi-Autonomous Navigation of Power Wheelchairs, 2D/3D Sensing and Positioning Methods"

Date: December 9, 2021 at 09:00

Main supervisor: Professor Mattias O’Nils

Opponent: Dr. Nicolas Ragot, CESI Ecole d’Ingénieurs, Rouen

Grading committee:

Professor Amund Skavhaug, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Professor George Nikolakopoulos, Luleå University of Technology

Professor Tingting Zhang, Mid Sweden University

PhD Jawad Ahmad

Doctoral thesis: "Development and Characterization of Large Area Pressure Sensors and Sitting Posture Monitoring Systems"
Date: November 30, 2021 at 13:00 
Main supervisor: Associate Prof. Johan Sidén
Opponent: Professor Leena Ukkonen, Tampere University, Finland
Grading committee:
Associate Prof. Zhibin Zhang, Uppsala Universitet
Associate Prof. Sari Merilampi, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Professor Tingting Zhang, Mid Sweden University

PhD Elijs Dima

Doctoral Thesis: Augmented Telepresence based on Multi-Camera Systems: Capture, Transmission, Rendering, and User Experience
Date: May 17, 2021 at 14:00
Main supervisor: Prof. Mårten Sjöström
Co supervisor: Dr. Roger Olsson
Opponent: Associate Professor Charalambos Poullis, Concordia University, Canada
Grading committee:
Professor Patrick Le Callet, University of Nantes, Frankrike
Professor Aljosa Smolic, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Professor Ulf Assarsson, Chalmers University of Technology

PhD Irida Shallari

Doctoral Thesis: Intelligence Partitioning for IoT – Design Space Exploration for a Data Intensive IoT Node
Date: May 12, 2021 at 14:00
Main supervisor: Prof. Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Professor Andreas Gerstlauer, University of Texas at Austin
Grading committee:
Professor Johan Lilius, Åbo Akademi
Professor Tino Hutschenreuther, Institut für
Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme
Professor Tingting Zhang, Mid Sweden University

Tech. Lic. Johannes Lindén

Licentiate thesis: Extracting Text into Meta-Data - Improving machine text-understanding of news-media articles
Date: April 29, 2021 at 14:00
Main supervisor: Prof. Tingting Zhang
Co-supervisors: Dr. Stefan Forsström and Dr. Patrik Österberg
Opponent: Prof. Martin Holena, Czech Technical University, Prague.

Tech. Lic. Javier Bruges

Licentiate thesis: Surface characterization methods for quality assessment of polyethylene-coated paperboard
Date: April 27, 2021 at 13:00
Main supervisor: Associate Prof. Jan Lundgren
Opponent: Prof. Mikael Sjödahl, Luleå Tekniska Universitet

Tech. Lic. Yali Nie

Licentiate thesis: Automatic Melanoma Diagnosis in Dermoscopic imaging based on a Deep Learning System
Date: April 23, 2021 at 13:00
Main supervisor: Associate prof. Jan Lundgren
Opponent: Associate prof. Claes Lundström, Linköping University

PhD Waqas Ahmad

Doctoral Thesis: High Efficiency Light Field Image Compression: Hierarchical Bit Allocation and Shearlet-based View Interpolation
Date: April 22, 2021 at 09:00
Main supervisor: Prof. Mårten Sjöström
Co-supervisors: Dr. Roger Olsson
Opponent: Prof. Peter Schelkens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Grading committee:
Prof. Markus Flierl, KTH, Sweden
Prof. Thomas Wiegand, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz
Institute, TU Berlin, Germany
Prof. Jonas Unger, Linköping University, Sweden

PhD Javier Aranda

Doctoral Thesis: Towards Self-Powered Devices Via Pressure Fluctuation Energy Harvesting
Date: March 25, 2021 at 09:00
Main supervisor: Prof. Bengt Oelmann
Co-supervisors: Dr. Sebastian Bader
Opponent: Professor Meiling Zhu, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Grading committee:
Professor Ali Muhtaroglu, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, METU Northern Cyprus Campus
Professor Skandar Basrour, Polytech Grenoble – Université Grenoble Alpes - Grenoble, France
Associate. Professor: Göran Thungström, Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall

PhD Stefan Haller

Doctoral thesis: Towards Low-Voltage, High-Current: A pioneering drive concept for battery electric vehicles
Date: January 11, 2021, at 08:30
Main supervisor: Prof. Kent Bertilsson
Co-supervisors: Prof. Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Prof. Dieter Gerling, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Grading committee:
Prof. Yujing Liu, Chalmers, Gothenburg
Prof. Mats Alaküla, Lund University
Associate. Prof. Göran Thungström,
Mid Sweden University Sundsvall

PhD Xinyu Ma

Doctoral Thesis: Power Estimation for Indoor Light Energy Harvesting
Date: January 8, 2021 at 13:00
Main supervisor: Prof. Bengt Oelmann
Co-supervisors: Dr. Sebastian Bader
Opponent: Associate Prof. Alex Weddell
Grading committee:
Dr. Brendan O’Flynn
Prof. Olfa Kanoun
Prof. Kent Bertilsson

PhD Xiaotian Li

Doctoral Thesis: "Towards Large-Area Electronic Systems Using Non-Conventional Substrate and Conductor Materials"
Date: May 28, 2020 at 09:30
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Johan Sidén
Co-supervisor: Associate Professor Henrik Andersson
Opponent: Professor Leena Ukkonen, Tampere University, Finland
Examination committee:
Professor Daniel Rönnow, University of Gävle, Sweden
Associate Professor Jonny Johansson, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Dr. Sari Merilampi, Satakunta University of Applied Science, Finland

PhD Abu Bakar

Doctoral Thesis: "Wide Range Isolated Power Converters"
Date: June 9, 2020 at 9:30
Main supervisor: Professor Kent Bertilsson
Co-supervisor: Associate Professor Johan Sidén
Opponent: Associate Professor Jorge Garcia, University of Oviedo, Spain
Examination committee: 
Professor Torbjörn Thiringer, Chalmers University, Sweden
Professor Hans Bängsson, Professor, Lund University, Sweden
Docent Jonas Örtegren, Mid Sweden University

PhD Yongwei Li

Doctoral Thesis: "Computational Light Field Photography – Depth Estimation, Demosaicing, and Super-Resolution"
Date: June 10, 2020 at 9:00
Main supervisor: Prof. Mårten Sjöström
Co-supervisor: Dr. Roger Olsson
Opponent: Professor Paolo Favaro, Director of Computer Vision Group, Universitetet i Bern
Examination committee:
Professor Karl Åström, Lunds universitet
Professor Jonas Unger, Linköpings universitet
Professor Ulf Assarsson, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola

PhD Luca Beltramelli

Doctoral Thesis: "Random and Hybrid Medium Access for M2M Communication: Scalability and Energy Analysis”
Date: June 11, 2020 at 09:00
Main supervisor: Prof. Mikael Gidlund
Co-supervisor: Dr. Patrik Österberg och Dr. Aamir Mahmood
Opponent: Professor Preben E. Mogensen, Aalborg Universitet, Danmark
Examination committee:
Professor Fortunato Santucci, University of L'Aquila, Italien
Professor Erik Ström, Chalmers tekniska högskola
Docent Federico Tramarin, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

PhD Simone Grimaldi

Doctoral Thesis: "Towards Radio-Environment Aware IoT Networks Wireless Coexistence Methods for Low-complexity Devices”
Date: June 16, 2020 at 9:00
Main supervisor: Professor Mikael Gidlund
Co-supervisor: Professor Tingting Zhang och Dr. Aamir Mahmood
Opponent: Associate Prof. Georgios Z. Papadopoulos
Examination committee:
Professor Paul J.M. Havinga, Universitetet i Twente, Nederländerna
Docent Niclas Björsell, högskolan i Gävle
Dr. Kia Wiklundh, Qamcom Research and Technology

Tech Lic. Siwen An

Licentiate Thesis: X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry for Environmental Applications
Date: October 8, 2020, at 09:00
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Göran Thungström
Co-supervisor: Dr. Börje Norlin
Opponent: Professor Richard Brenner, Uppsala University

PhD Hossam Farag

Doctoral Thesis: "Enabling Industrial IoT Applications: Supporting Reliable and Real-Time Data Delivery"
Date: November 4, 2020, at 09:00
Supervisor: Prof. Mikael Gidlund
Co Supervisor: Dr. Patrik Österberg
Opponent: Prof. Dirk Pesch, University of Cork
Examination committee:
Prof Reza Malekian, Malmö University
Prof. Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa
Assoc. Prof. Per Hurtig, Karlstad University

Tech. lic. Bakhram Guynullin

Licentiate thesis: High accuracy low-cost NDIR sensing
Date: Tuesday October 8, 2019, at 10:15
Place: Skogforsk, Uppsala and broadcast live at Campus Sundsvall, S-building
Main supervisor: Associate Prof. Göran Thungström
Co-supervisor: Dr. Claes Mattsson
Industrial supervisors: Adjunct Prof. Henrik Rödjegård and Dr. Christine Hummelgård
Opponent: Prof. David Bastviken, Linköping University

Tech. lic. Stefan Haller

Licentiate thesis: MOSFET enabled Low-Voltage High-Current DC Traction Drive
Date: Monday June 17, 2019 at
Place: Campus Sundsvall, M building room M102
Main supervisor: Professor Bengt Oelmann
Co-supervisor: Dr. Peng Cheng
Opponent: Professor Yujing Liu, Chalmers University of Technology

Tech. lic. Raúl Rondón

Licentiate thesis: Low Power Wireless Technologies for IIoT Analysis and enhancement of communication delay, reliability and scalability
Date: Monday June 10, 2019 at 13:00
Place: Campus Sundsvall, M building room M102
Main supervisor: Professor Mikael Gidlund
Co-supervisor: Dr. Aamir Mahmood
Opponent: Professor Fortunato Santucci, University of L’Aquila, Italy

Tech. lic. Javier Aranda

Licentiate thesis: Interfaces in Hydraulic Pressure Energy harvesters
Date: Friday April 26, 2019 at 10.00
Place: Campus Sundsvall, O building room 0102
Main supervisor: Professor Bengt Oelmann
Co-supervisors: Assistant Professor Sebastian Bader
Opponent: Professor Olfa Kanoun, Chemnitz University of Technology

PhD Krister Hammarling

Licentiate thesis: Hydrogel based pH-sensors
Development and characterization of optical and electrical pH sensors based on stimuli-responsive hydrogels
Date: Tuesday March 19, 2019 at 13.15
Place: Campus Sundsvall, O-building room O102 (SCA)
Main supervisor: Prof. and Dean Hans-Erik Nilsson
Co-supervisors: Dr. Magnus Engholm and Dr. Henrik Andersson
Opponents and examination committee:
Prof. Guido Perrone, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Dr. Anne Andersson, SP technical research
Prof. Magnus Karlsson, Chalmers University of Technology

Tech lic. Teklay Gebremichael

Licentiate thesis: Lightweight Cryptographic Group Key Management Protocols for the Internet of Things
Date: Thursday March 7, 2019 at 11.00
Place: Campus Sundsvall, C-building room C326
Main supervisor: Prof. Mikael Gidlund
Co-supervisors: Dr. Ulf Jennehag
Opponent: Associate prof. Andreas Jacobsson, Malmö University

Tech. lic. Hossam Faraq

Licentiate thesis: Enabling Time- and Mission-Critical Applications in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks
Date: Wednesday January 30, 2019 at 08:30
Place: Campus Sundsvall, M building, room M102
Supervisor: Professor Mikael Gidlund
Co-supervisor: Assistant professor Patrik Österberg
Opponent: Prof. Shaofang Gong, Linköping Universitet

Tech. lic. Irida Shallari

Licentiate thesis: Intelligence Partitioning for IoT - Communication and Processing Inter-Effects for Smart Camera Implementation
Date: Thursday January 17, 2019 at 10:00
Place: Campus Sundsvall, O building, room O102
Supervisor: Professor Mattias O’Nils
Co-supervisor: Dr. Muhammad Imran
Opponent: Professor Axel Jantsch,
Technische Universität Wien

Tech Lic. Mehrzad Lavassani

Licentiate thesis: Reliable Information Exchange in Industrial Internet of Things, Investigation into the Role of Data
and Data-Driven Modelling
Date: Wednesday December 12, 2018 at 10:15
Place: Campus Sundsvall, L building room L111
Main supervisor: Professor Tingting Zhang
Co-supervisors: Professor Mikael Gidlund and Dr. Ulf Jennehag
Opponent: Professor Christer Åhlund, Luleå University of Technology

Tech. lic. Xiaotian Li

Licentiate thesis: Flexible Circuits and Materials for Creating Large-Area RFID Reader Antenna Systems
Date: Thursday November 15, 2018 at 10:00
Place: Campus Sundsvall, O building room O102s
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Johan Sidén
Co-supervisor: Dr. Henrik Andersson
Opponent: Associate Professor Jonny Johansson, Luleå University of Technology

Tech lic. Elijs Dima

Licentiate thesis: Multi-Camera Light Field Capture Synchronization, Calibration, Depth Uncertainty, and System Design
Date: Friday June 15, 2017 at 13:00
Place: Campus Sundsvall, L-building room L111
Main supervisor: Prof. Mårten Sjöström
Co-supervisor: Dr. Roger Olsson
Opponent: Prof. Ulf Assarsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg

Phd Shakeel Ashraf

Doctoral thesis: Thermal Detector with Integrated Absorber Structure for MID-IR Gas Detection
Date: Monday May 21, 2018 at 10:00
Place: Campus Sundsvall, L-building room L111
Main supervisor: Associate Prof. Göran Thungström
Opponent: Prof. Peter Enoksson, Chalmers University of Technology

Tech lic. Staffan Rydblom

Licentiate thesis: Measuring Water Droplets to Detect Atmospheric Icing
Date: Wednesday November 1, 2017 at 10:00
Place: Campus Sundsvall, O-building room O102
Main supervisor: Prof. Mattias O´Nils and Associate Prof. Benny Thörnberg
Opponent: Prof. Anssi Mäkynen, University of Oulu, Finland

Tech lic. Muhammad Abu Bakar

Licentiate thesis: Design and Optimization of Soft Switched Power Converters for Low and Medium Power Applications
Date: Monday December 12, 2016 at 13:15
Place: Campus Sundsvall, C-building room C306
Main supervisor: Associate Prof. Kent Bertilsson
Opponent: Prof. Hans Bängtsson, University of Lund

Dr. Reza Salim

Doctoral thesis: Advanced X-ray Detectors for Industrial and Environmental Applications
Date: Thursday December 1, 2016 at 10:15
Place: Campus Sundsvall, M-building room M108
Main supervisor: Prof. Christer Fröjdh
Co-supervisors: Assistant Prof. Börje Norlin and Prof. Heinz Graafsma
Opponent: Prof. Fulvia Arfelli, University of Trieste, Italy

Dr. Muhammad Nazar Ul Islam

Doctoral thesis: Method of torque measurement based on volumetric strain
Date: Friday October 21, 2016 at 10:15
Place: Campus Sundsvall, M-building room M102
Main supervisor: Prof. Bengt Oelmann
Co-supervisors: Dr. Peng Cheng
Opponent: Professor Jukka Lekkala from Tampere university of technology, Finland.

Dr. Filip Barac

Doctoral thesis: Error Mitigation in Industrial Wireles Sensor Networks: Corrupted Packet Forensics and Recovery
Date: Wednesday March 2, 2016 at 10:15
Place: Campus Sundsvall, L-building room L111
Main supervisor: Prof. Tingting Zhang
Co-supervisors: Prof. Mikael Gidlund
Opponent: Prof. Mário Alves, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal.

Dr. Victor Kardeby

Doctoral thesis: ”Resource Consumption in Distributed Internet of  Things”
Date: Wednesday November 25, 2015 at 10:15
Place: Campus Sundsvall, L-building room L111
Main supervisor: Prof. Mikael Gidlund
Co-supervisors: Assistant prof. Ulf Jennehag
Opponent: Associate Prof. Luigi Atzori from The University of Cagliari, Italy.

Dr. Felix Dobslaw

Doctoral thesis: ”End-to-end Quality of Service Guarantees for Wireless Sensor Networks”
Date: Friday December 11, 2015 at 10:15
Place: Campus Sundsvall, L-building room L111
Main supervisor: Prof. Tingting Zhang
Co-supervisors: Prof. Mikael Gidlund
Opponent: Dr. Song Han, University of Connecticut, USA

Tech lic. Nazar Ul Islam Muhammad

Licentiate thesis: Reference Setup for Characterization and Calibration of Low-range Differential Pressure Sensors
Date: Thursday October 8, at 13:15
Place: Campus Sundsvall, O102
Main supervisor: Prof. Bengt Oelmann
Co-supervisors: Dr. Peng Cheng
Opponent: Docent Cristina Rusu
Abstract as PDF

Tech lic. Shakeel Ashraf

Licentiate Thesis: Design and Integration of Infrared Absorber Structure Into Polymer Membrane Based Thermal Detectors.
Date: Thursday September 17, 2015 at 10:00
Place: Campus Sundsvall, O-building room O111
Main supervisor: Doc. Göran Thungström
Co-supervisors: Associate Professor Claes Mattsson
Opponent: Professor Frank Niklaus KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Dr. Erik Fröjdh

Doctoral Thesis: Hybrid Pixel Detector, Characterization and Optimization
Date: Tuesday September 8, 2015 at 13:00
Place: Campus Sundsvall, O-building room O102
Main supervisor: Doc. Göran Thungström
Co-supervisors: Assistant Professor Börje Norlin and Michael Campbell.
Abstract as PDF

Dr. Suryanarayana Murthy Muddala

Doctoral Thesis: "Free view rendering for 3D Video – Edge-Aided Rendering and Depth-Based Image Inpainting"
Date: Thursday June 18, 2015 at 10:15 am
Place: Campus Sundsvall, L-building room L111
Main supervisor: Prof. Mårten Sjöström
Co-supervisor: Dr. Roger Olsson
Opponent: Prof. Christine Guillemot, National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), France

Dr. Yun Li

Doctoral Thesis: "Coding of Three-Dimensional Video Content – Diffusion-based Coding of Depth Images and Displacement Intra-coding of Plenoptic contents"
Date: Tuesday June 9, 2015 at 10:00
Place: Campus Sundsvall, L-building room L111
Main supervisor: Prof. Mårten Sjöström
Co-supervisors: Dr. Ulf Jennehag and Dr. Roger Olsson
Opponent: Professor Touradj Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

Dr. Patrik Jonsson

Doctoral Thesis: "Surface Status Classification Utilizing Image Sensor Technology andComputer Models"
Date: Tuesday May 5, 2015, at 10.15
Supervisors: Doc. Benny Thörnberg
Opponent: Torbjörn Eltoft, Department of Physics and Technology Earth Observation Laboratory, Tromsø

Dr. David Krapohl

Doctoral Thesis: "Monte Carlo and Charge Transport Simulation of Pixel Detector Systems"
Date: Wednesday April 8, 2014, at 10.00
Supervisors: Doc. Göran Thungström and Prof. Christer Fröjdh
Opponent: Doc. Cinzia Da Vià, School of Physics and Astronomy, Manchester, UK

Dissertation seminar Stefan Forsström

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

Licentiate 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

Dissertation 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 

Dissertation 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 seminar, Hari Babu Kotte

Doctoral Thesis: "High Frequency (MHz) Resonant Converters using GaN HEMTs and Novel Planar Transformer Technology"
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^th  2013 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^th  2013 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.

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:
Opponent:

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:

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 Oelmann
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 Gothenburg.
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

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.

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:

Licentiate seminar, Rahim Rahmani

Licentiate thesis: “Models for quality of service in heterogenoeous networks.”
Date: 2007
Head supervisor:
Opponent:

Dissertation Seminar, Patrik Österberg

Doctoral thesis: “Fair Treatment of Multicast Sessions and Their Receivers: Incentives for more efficient bandwidth utilization”
Date: December 15, 2007
Head supervisor: Prof. Tingting Zhang
Opponent: Dr. Kirk Martinez from university of Southampton, UK

Licentiate seminar, Claes Mattsson

Licentiate thesis: "Fabrication and Characterization of Photon Radiation Detectors"
Date: Monday December 17, 1.15 pm in room O102
Head supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent: Dr. Mikael Lindeberg - Uppsala Universitet

Dissertation seminar, Cao Cao

Doctoral thesis: ”Automatic Synthesis of Partitioned FSMs Based on Mixed Synchronous/Asynchronous State Memory"
Date: Friday June 15, 1.15 pm, room O111
Head supervisor is Prof. Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Prof. Peeter Ellervee - Tallinn Technical University

Dissertation seminar, Börje Norlin

Doctoral thesis: ”Characterisation and application of photon counting X-ray detector systems"
Date:Friday June 1, 10.15 am, room O102 (SCA-salen)
Head supervisor: Doc. Christer Fröjdh
Opponent: Prof. Sherwood Parker - University of Hawaii

Dissertation seminar, Jan Lundgren

Doctoral thesis: ”Simulating Behavioral Level On-Chip Noise Coupling"
Date: Wednesday May 30, 10.00 am, room O102 (SCA-salen)
Head supervisor is Prof. Mattias O'Nils
Opponent is Prof. Mark Vesterbacka - Linköping University

Dissertation seminar, Torbjörn Olsson

Doctoral thesis: ”Antenna Robustness Modelling"
Date: Tuesday May 29, 1.15 pm, room O102 (SCA-salen)
Head supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent: Prof. Manos Tentzeris - Georgia Institute of Technology

Dissertation seminar, Johan Sidén

Doctoral thesis: ”On the Design, Characterization and Optimization of RFID Tag Antennas"
Date: Friday May 25, 1.15 pm, room M108 (Lubbe-salen)
Head supervisor is Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent is Prof. Heikki Seppä - VTT, Finland

Dissertation seminar, Xavier Llopart

Doctoral thesis: ”Design and characterization of 64K pixels chips working in single photon processing mode"
Date: Friday May 25, 10.15 am, room M102
Head supervisor: Doc. Christer Fröjdh
Opponent is Prof. Christian Broennimann - SLS Detector Group

Licentiate seminar, Suliman Abdalla

Licentiate thesis: "Architecture and Circuit Design of Photon-Counting Readout for X-Ray Imaging Sensors"
Date: Tuesday May 22, 1.00 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Doc. Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Prof. Kenway Smith - Glasgow University.

Licentiate seminar, Linda Karlsson                                

Licentiate thesis: “Spatio-Temporal Pre-Processing Methods for Region-of-Interest Video Coding”
Date: April 27, 2007
Head supervisor: Prof. Tingting Zhang
Assistant supervisor: Dr. Mårten Sjöström and Prof. Youzhi Xu
Opponent: PhD. Apostolos Georgakis, Applied Physics and Electronics, Umeå University

Licentiate seminar, Jon Alfredsson

Licentiate thesis: "Performance of Digital Floating-Gate Circuits Operating at Subthreshold Power Supply Voltages"
Date: Monday January 22, 1.15 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Doc. Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Associate Prof. Dag Wisland - Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo

Licentiate seminar, Henrik Andersson

Licentiate thesis: "Development of Process Technology for Photon Radiation Measurement Applications"
Date: Friday January 19, 1.15 pm in room O102
Head supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent: Doc. Per-Erik Hellström - KTH

Licentiate seminar. Aron Larsson

Licentiate thesis: ”Graph decision models in a computational decision analytic framework.”
Date: 2006.
Head supervisor:
Opponent:

Dissertation seminar, Håkan Norell

Doctoral thesis: ”Development, Analysis and Implementation of Pre-Processing Video Filters"
Date: Friday December 15, 8.30 am, room Fälldinsalen
Head supervisor: Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Prof. Danny Crookes - Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Licentiate seminar, Najeem Lawal

Licentiate thesis: "Memory Synthesis for FPGA Implementation of Real-Time Video Processing Systems"
Date: Wednesday November 22, 10.30 am in room M102
Head supervisor: Prof. Mattias O'Nils
Opponent: Prof. Petru Eles - Linköping University.

Dissertation seminar, Benny Thörnberg

Doctoral thesis: ”Memory Modeling and Synthesis for Real-Time Video Processing Systems”
Date: Thursday May 18, 13.15 at Mid Sweden University, Campus Sundsvall, in room O102
Opponent: Dr. Erwin de Kock from Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Dissertation seminar, Shang Xue

Doctoral thesis: "Alternating Coding and its Decoder Architectures for Unary-Prefixed Codes"
Date: Wednesday June 8, 1.15 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Doc Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Prof Jukka Teuhola - University of Turku, Finland.

Licentiate seminar, Cao Cao

Licentiate thesis: "Automatic Synthesis of Partitioned FSMs Based on Mixed Synchronous/Asynchronous State Memory"
Date: Monday May 30, 1.15 pm in room O111
Head supervisor: Doc Bengt Oelmann
Opponent: Prof Per Larsson-Edefors - Chalmers Technical University.

Licentiate seminar, Jan Lundgren-Thim

Licentiate thesis: “Behavioral Level Simulation Methods for Early Noise Coupling Quantification in Mixed-Signal Systems”
Date: February 10, 2005
Head supervisor: Prof. Mattias O’Nils
Opponent: Prof. Li-Rhong Zheng, KTH

Licentiate seminar, Håkan Norell

Licentiate thesis: “Pre-Processing Video Filters and Automated Implementation of Memory Architectures”
Date: 2005
Head supervisor: Prof. Mattias O'Nils
Opponent:

Licentiate seminar, Börje Norlin

Licentiate thesis: “Photon Counting X-ray Detector Systems”
Date: February 11, 2005
Head supervisor: Prof. Christer Fröjdh
Assistant supervisor: Prof. Hans-Erik Nilsson
Opponent: Prof. Kenway Smith, University Glasgow