Ph.D Students

Aaron Harmon

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. Daryl Beetner

Estimated Graduation Date: Dec 2023

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• Primary research interest:  tmodeling and prediction of RF susceptibilities for components and complex systems.

• Secondary research interest: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Mixed material filters, and High-Power Electro-Magnetics (HPEM)

• Other lab focuses are on contract EMC testing for external customers and the repair / maintenance of test equipment.

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Anfeng Huang

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. Chulsoon Hwang

Estimated Graduation Date: Dec 2021

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• EMI in power converters

• Transient-simulation modeling technique for power converters

• Wireless power transmission.

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Chaofeng Li

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. DongHyun (Bill) Kim

Estimated Graduation Date: Dec 2023

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• TM-mode Resonator Method for Permittivity and Loss tangent Extraction of Inhomogeneous Dielectric

• Physic-Based Equivalent Modeling of Vias and Traces for High-Speed Link Simulation

• Crosstalk Simulation and Optimization of Package System and SI Design and Measurement for High-Speed Channels

• Chip-PDN Impedance Modeling based on PEEC and Layered Greens’ Function

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Hanyu Zhang

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. Chulsoon Hwang

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2025

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• Modeling and measurement of passive components.

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Haran Manoharan

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. Chulsoon Hwang

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2025

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• Study on the effect of Conformal Coating on Emission from PCB

• PRBS Based Comb Noise generator for Chamber Calibration

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James Hunter

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. Daryl Beetner

Estimated Graduation Date: Dec 2023

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• Statistical Characterization of Electromagnetic Coupling to Segmented Electronic Devices and Wire Harnesses

• Modeling and Simulation of Ultra-Wide-Band (UWB) Communication in Presence of Material and Obstructions

• Simulation Modeling and Design of UWB Circularly Polarized Antennas for Sensing Applications

• Prediction of System Level EMI due to Near Magnetic Field Radiation Interference

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Jiahuan Huang

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. Chulsoon Hwang

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2026

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• Modeling and measurement of passive components

• Power Integrity Optimization on Machine Learning

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Junho Joo

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. Chulsoon Hwang

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2023

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• Modeling and Analysis of DC-DC Converters for Power Distribution Network Design

• Extraction and Measurement of Complex Permittivity

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Muqi Ouyang

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. Chulsoon Hwang

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2022

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• USB Type-C cable design and high-speed signal channel optimization

• High-speed channel optimization on DDR and SerDes linkpath

• Study on EMI reduction and active EMI filter for automotive application

• ​Accuracy improvement on cable harness modeling for automotive application

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Ruijie He

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. Chulsoon Hwang

Estimated Graduation Date: Dec 2021

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• EMI filter design guided by 3D full wave modeling and material property extraction

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Shengxuan Xia

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. Chulsoon Hwang

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2023

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• Crosstalk mitigation in DDR routings.

• Digital mic Desense issue study in cellphone for RF interference control.

• Passive Inter-modulations modeling and practical applications.

• Reciprocity based Dipole-moment modeling for RF coupling quantifications and mitigations

• Intentional microwave injections for EM attacks to smart audio devices.

• RF susceptibility modeling and statistical analysis using 3-port cascading S-parameters segmentation method

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Wei Zhang

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. DongHyun (Bill) Kim

Estimated Graduation Date: Aug 2022

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• Analysis on Power and Signal Integrity of 2.5D and 3D IC Systems with Through-silicon Vias (TSVs) under Different Bias-voltage and Temperature.

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Xiangrui Su

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. Chulsoon Hwang

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2025

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• Antenna measurements using a hemispherical near field scanning

• Analysis of root-cause radiation structure for EM emission in SSD board

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Xin Yan

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. Daryl Beetner

Estimated Graduation Date: Dec 2022

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• EMI and desense

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Xu Wang

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. DongHyun (Bill) Kim

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2022

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• Chip PDN modeling for 2.5D/3D IC

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Yifan Ding

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. Chulsoon Hwang

Co-Advisor: Dr. James L. Drewniak

Estimated Graduation Date: Dec 2024

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• PDN modeling and analysis

• IBIS model simulation accuracy improvement

• Machine learning for stack up optimization

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Yuandong Guo

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. DongHyun (Bill) Kim

Estimated Graduation Date: Dec 2021

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• Material Characterization

• EMI Modeling and Debugging

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Yuanzhuo Liu

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. DongHyun (Bill) Kim

Estimated Graduation Date: Dec 2022

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• Dielectric dissipation factor and dielectric constant extraction for PCB material

• Far-end crosstalk and jitter analysis for SerDes output

• Noise interference analysis of near field scan and total radiated power

• Dipole moment modeling for radio frequency interference         

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Ze Sun

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. DongHyun (Bill) Kim

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2023

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• Effect of PCB Material and Fabrication on SI Performance 

• Extraction of dielectric factor, dielectric constant, foil surface roughness 

• Radiated noise source modeling using equivalent dipole source 

• Estimation of electromagnetic emissions from data center 

• Dissertation title: Monte Carlo Particle simulation of semiconductor device behaviors under ESD attack 

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Zhekun Peng

Ph.D Student at Missouri S&T

Advisor: Dr. DongHyun (Bill) Kim

Estimated Graduation Date: Sep 2024

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Projects at Missouri S&T:

• Measurement-based Characterization and Full-wave Modeling of ESD to Displays

• On-chip ESD Protection Structure Modeling

• Noise interference analysis of near field scan and total radiated power

• Radiated Emission Tests for High-frequency Router Systems    

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Ananya Nandikanti

Ph.D Student at University of Houston

Advisor: Dr. Ji Chen

Estimated Graduation Date: March 2027

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Jiajun Chang

Ph.D Student at University of Houston

Advisor: Dr. Ji Chen

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2022

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Projects at University of Houston:

• AIMD MRI safety evaluation

• Data-driven fast prediction of MRI RF-induced hazards

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Lijian Yang

Ph.D Student at University of Houston

Advisor: Dr. Ji Chen

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2025

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Projects at University of Houston:

• Clinical Implantable Medical Device modeling and development under MRI environment

• MRI safety evaluation of Active Implantable Medical Device

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Mahir Foysal

Ph.D Student at University of Houston

Advisor: Dr. Ji Chen

Estimated Graduation Date: 2026

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Projects at University of Houston:

• MRI safety , Machine Learning, Signal Processing

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Md Zahidul Islam

Ph.D Student at University of Houston

Advisor: Dr. Ji Chen

Estimated Graduation Date: Dec 2024

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Meiqi Xia

Ph.D Student at University of Houston

Advisor: Dr. Ji Chen

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2022

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Projects at University of Houston:

• MRI safety

• RF-induced heating for passive device

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Mir Khadiza Akter

Ph.D Student at University of Houston

Advisor: Dr. Ji Chen

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2027

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Projects at University of Houston:

• MRI device safety

• Modeling & simulation

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Nayan Das

Ph.D Student at University of Houston

Advisor: Dr. Ji Chen

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2027

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Projects at University of Houston:

• MRI safety, simulation, modeling, and measurement 

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Wei Hu

Ph.D Student at University of Houston

Advisor: Dr. Ji Chen

Estimated Graduation Date: April 2022

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Projects at University of Houston:

• Dual leads RF safety evaluation

• Broken leads and abandoned leads analysis

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Xiaolin Yang

Ph.D Student at University of Houston

Advisor: Dr. Ji Chen

Estimated Graduation Date: May 2024

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Projects at University of Houston:

• Radio frequency shimming for MRI

• Posture related MRI RF heating hazards

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