Winners of 2024-25 ECE Research Symposium Announced
October 7, 2024
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering would like to announce the winners of its 2024-25 ECE Research Symposium, held September 25, 2024.
ECE PhD student, Sultan Mohammad Manjur won first place for his presentation “Detecting Seafloor Gas Seeps in Multibeam Echosounder Images with an Attention-Guided Convolutional Neural Network.”
Abdelmoula El Yazizi won second place for his presentation “Comparison of D-Wave Quantum Annealing and Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Sampling from a Probability Distribution of a Restricted Boltzmann Machine.”
Hossein Mohammadi won third place for his presentation “AI-Assisted Network Slicing in O-RAN Architecture Using Federated Learning.”
Congratulations to all students for your work and presentations. Thank you to the faculty and staff serving as mentors in their research work.
Full list of presentations:
Managing Equality and Equity in Load Shedding for Wildfire Mitigation Authors: Fasiha Zainab, Dr. Yong Fu
Multi-Criteria Distribution Energy Management Considering Consumer Behavior Authors: Komal Naz, Dr. Yong Fu
HRSpecNet: Deep Learning Based High-Resolution Time Frequency Analysis Authors: Sabyasachi Biswas, Dr. Ali Cafer Gürbüz
Learning Optimal Binary Color Filter Arrays with Trainable Hard Thresholding Authors: Cemre Ömer Ayna, Dr. Bahadır Kürşat Güntürk, Dr. Ali Cafer Gürbüz
Detecting Seafloor Gas Seeps in Multibeam Echosounder Images with an Attention-Guided Convolutional Neural Network Authors: Sultan Mohammad Manjur, Dr. Adam Skarke, Dr. Ali Cafer Gürbüz
AI-Assisted Network Slicing in O-RAN Architecture Using Federated Learning Authors: Hossein Mohammadi, Dr. Vuk Marojevic
Comparison of D-Wave Quantum Annealing and Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Sampling from a Probability Distribution of a Restricted Boltzmann Machine Authors: Abdelmoula El Yazizi, Dr. Samee U. Khan, Dr. Yaroslav Koshka
Data-priority Aware Fair Task Scheduling for Stream Processing at the Edge Authors: Faiza Akram, Dr. Peng Kang, Dr. Palden Lama, Dr. Samee U. Khan
Advancing Invasive Aquatic Plant Classification Through Deep Learning and Cost-Effective Hardware Authors: Swarup Bhattarai, Dr. Sathish Samiappan, Dr. Gray Turnage, Daniel McCraine, Max Gebhart
Secure Authentication of Digitally Recorded Media in the Age of Deepfakes Author: Eric Scott Sisson Jr.
Many thanks to Drs. Jenny Du, Masoud Karimi, Yu Luo, and Prateek Shantharama, who served as symposium judges.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University consists of 27 faculty members (including seven endowed professors), seven professional staff, and over 700 undergraduate and graduate students, with approximately 100 being at the Ph.D. level. With a research expenditure of over $14.24 million, the department houses the largest High Voltage Laboratory among North American universities.