On Tuesday, March 8th, 2016, the AY 2015 Spring Doctoral Dissertation Presentations were held.

Three students gave presentations on the achievements of their doctoral research at the Graduate School of Computer Science and Engineering. After the introduction of the students, each student gave a presentation as the culmination of his research. Faculty and administrative personnel, and current UoA students in attendance listened to the presentations with great interest.

Following the presentations, there was a lively exchange of questions and answers. The students expressed their desire to further develop the knowledge and research achievements they have obtained at the University to contribute to the society, etc. At the end, their research advisors honored the students' research achievements, and gave them words of encouragement expecting their success in the future as researchers.

The names of the students to be conferred a doctoral degree and the titles of their dissertations are listed below. The degree conferment ceremony will be held on Friday, March 18th, 2016.

Student NameResearch AdvisorDissertation Title
HEWAWASAM RANAWEERAGE, Rasika Amil Ranaweera Michael Cohen Narrowcasting-Enabled Groupware Music Archive Exploration and Gestural Interfaces for Orchestral Control in Cyberworlds
BEN AHMED, Achraf Ben A. Abderazek High-performance, Scalable Photonics On-chip Network for Many-core Systems-on-Chip
KHELCHANDRA, Thongam Jie Huang Robot motion planning using a novel neural-fuzzy-genetic algorithm in static and dynamic environments

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HEWAWASAM RANAWEERAGE, Rasika Amil Ranaweera

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BEN AHMED, Achraf

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KHELCHANDRA, Thongam