Student Project Symposium

Spring 2026 Student Project Symposium

Welcome to this semester's EE Student Project Symposium page. The Student Project Symposium will be on Monday, May 11, 2026 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM at SJSU Student Union Ballroom. Look below to find all the projects from the graduating BSEE and MSEE classes.

Visit our Student Project Symposium Archive if you wish to find a project's posters or see projects from past semesters.

Graduate Projects

5G NR LDPC Decoder: Hardware RTL Implementation and UVM based verification

Project Member(s): Yatish Chandra Sai Vemulapalli and Umakanth Gorthy

MSEE Project Advisor: Juzi Zhao

A 60 GHz LNA in 45nm CMOS for WiGig/802.11ad RF Frontends

Project Member(s): Siddharth Somala

MSEE Project Advisor: Mai-Khanh (Mike) Nguyen

A Cryogenic Broadband Sub-1-dB NF CMOS Low Noise Amplifier for Quantum Applications

Project Member(s): Yerdea Dawit

MSEE Project Advisor: Hiu-Yung Wong

Adaptive Decision-Block Integration for Power-Efficient CNN Accelerators

Project Member(s): Prajwal Shashidhar Chavadi and Madan Girish

MSEE Project Advisor: Shrikant Jadhav

ASIC Acceleration for Graphical Convolutional Neural Network (GCNs)

Project Member(s): Veena Munnurukapu and Kiran Shidramshettar

MSEE Project Advisor: Nader F Mir

AXI3 Verification IP (VIP) Development using UVM

Project Member(s): Harshvardhan Dnyaneshwar Urane and Nandish Parag Joshi

MSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Correlating VQE Performance with Hardware Properties

Project Member(s): Lucas Mendez

MSEE Project Advisor: Hiu-Yung Wong

Coverage driven verification of axi lite design using uvm

Project Member(s): Navya Surabhi and Vaishnavi Chadaram

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Beamforming in 5G/6G Networks

Project Member(s): Katherine Sarna and Soubhik Majumdar

MSEE Project Advisor: Birsen Sirkeci

Design and Implementation of a Low-Power SAR ADC

Project Member(s): Yu-Heng Huang

MSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Design and Implementation of L3 Cache with MESI Protocol

Project Member(s): Jenish Chodavadiya

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

Design and Performance Simulation of Last-Level Cache Memory

Project Member(s): Sweeti Anilbhai Padariya

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

Design and Verification of AMBA AXI Protocol

Project Member(s): Devanshu Sanjiv Gajjar

MSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Design and Verification of AXI Lite protocol for integration into Modern SoC Systems

Project Member(s): Sumanth Gandepelly

MSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Design of 3-Way Superscalar Out-of-Order RV32IM IP Core

Project Member(s): Kruti Santhosh and Shiva Swaroop Kumaraswamy

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

Design of a 20.3-28 GHz CMOS VCO with Frequency Doubler for mm-Wave Sensing Applications

Project Member(s): Juan Salvador

MSEE Project Advisor: Mai-Khanh (Mike) Nguyen

Design of a Switchable Integer/Floating-Point ALU for a RISC-V Processor with LLM-Assisted UVM Verification

Project Member(s): Weidian Kuang

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

Design, Layout, and Verification of an FPGA PCB

Project Member(s): Shreyan Juvvadi

MSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Development of an Efficient Image Autofocusing DNN System

Project Member(s): William Peng

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

Evaluating Data Strategies for Cross-Dataset Generalization in Diabetic Retinopathy Classification

Project Member(s): Joanne Shen

MSEE Project Advisor: Birsen Sirkeci

Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation for HDL Design: A TPU Case Study

Project Member(s): Jahan Rassouli

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

Federated Learning for Acoustic Echo Cancellation with Neural Kalman Filters

Project Member(s): Tzu-Ting Hsu

MSEE Project Advisor: Birsen Sirkeci

Financial Decoupling Investor Sentiment and Market State via Multi-Split-Step Quantum Walks

Project Member(s): Roy Amador

MSEE Project Advisor: Hiu-Yung Wong

FPGA Based Handheld Game Console

Project Member(s): Sri Ganesh Manthena and Sai Deepak Reddy Mannem

MSEE Project Advisor: Nader F Mir

FPGA based Object Detection using YOLO

Project Member(s): Soumya Guruvenkatesh Katti

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

FPGA-Based AI Accelerator For Efficient Computer Vision Model

Project Member(s): Yu-Kuan Lin and Henry Lo

MSEE Project Advisor: Thuy T Le

Functional Verification of an AMBA AHB Bus Arbiter

Project Member(s): Rajdeep Gordhanbhai Dholariya

MSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Fungal Bioelectrical Signal Processing System

Project Member(s): Anthony Contreras and Alex Wong

MSEE Project Advisor: Juzi Zhao

GEMM Systolic RTL Accelerator with LLM-Aided Coverage-Directed Verification

Project Member(s): Jiange Huang and Aashi Modi

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

Generative AI based Hardware Verification and SVA Generation

Project Member(s): Padmini Hosur and Rohit Perumal Chidhambara Babu

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

Hardware Implementation of CNN for Image Classification

Project Member(s): Ravi Kiran Paruchuri

MSEE Project Advisor: Nader F Mir

Hyperdimensional Computing for Privacy-Preserving Facial Identity Verification on TinyML Microcontrollers with Revocable Cryptographic Key Derivation

Project Member(s): Aman Sharma

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

Implementation and Verification of a Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) Synchronizer using Asynchronous FIFO

Project Member(s): Brian Vong

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

IoT Smart Home System

Project Member(s): Quan Tran and Thien Tran

MSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Low Latency FPGA Fire Detection Using Programmable Logic Pixel Thresholding in a MIPI to HDMI AXI-Stream Pipeline

Project Member(s): Jake Stimson and Michael Pitta

MSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Low-Power and Wideband CMOS Mixer for 28GHz 6G Applications

Project Member(s): Anish Sathaye and Christian Leon

MSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

MobileNetV2 Accelerator on FPGA: Hardware-Optimized Depthwise Separable Convolution for Edge AI

Project Member(s): Jainil Rao and Amogha Srinivas Rotti Venkatesh Murthy

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

Noninvasive RF Magnetic Probe for Security and Safety Applications

Project Member(s): Hung Nguyen and Devon King

MSEE Project Advisor: Mai-Khanh (Mike) Nguyen

Objective evaluation of Speaker's subjective Quality using Machine Learning perceptual models

Project Member(s): Sue Burrough

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

Optimizing Transformer Inference on the RTX 3050 Ti Using FlashAttention 2 and KV Cache Quantization

Project Member(s): Jay Darji and Karma Patel

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

PA Wideband Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) at 66GHz CMOS Technolo

Project Member(s): Tuan Ngo and Thi Nguyen

MSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Parallelizing Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks

Project Member(s): Lawrence Nguyen

MSEE Project Advisor: Hiu-Yung Wong

PCIe PHY PIPE Interface Emulator

Project Member(s): Swathi Raghu and Mithun Kote Lingaraju

MSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

Phyical Design and Verification of Meemory using System Verilog,UVM and Semi Custom Design Methodologies

Project Member(s): Meghana Nayasinganahalli Madhukumar and Veda Mouktika Boddanapalli

MSEE Project Advisor: Juzi Zhao

Regression Test Automation and Optimization for RTL Designs

Project Member(s): Trinh Le

MSEE Project Advisor: Thuy T Le

RTL to GDSII Implementation and Verification of a Systolic Array for an AI Accelerator using UVM and OpenROAD

Project Member(s): Sharat Hiremath and Nishan Varghese

MSEE Project Advisor: Birsen Sirkeci

SAR ADC with Digital Error Correction

Project Member(s): Yi-Chun Hsieh and Felipe Pasquel

MSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Speech Denoising with a Quantized Autoencoder Network

Project Member(s): Justin Lee

MSEE Project Advisor: Birsen Sirkeci

Undergraduate Projects

Aerial Object Tracking System

Project Members: Anusha Damle, Connie Ly, and Benjamin Tran

BSEE Project Advisor: Shrikant Jadhav

Arduino-Based Flight Control for an Aerial Vehicle

Project Members: Po-Cheng Cheng, Wells Lin, Gabriel Martinez, and Jorge Salas

BSEE Project Advisor: Juzi Zhao

Battery Powered Vitals Monitor (HR/ECG/Temp)

Project Members: Isaac Cadenas Gomez, Tanner Fehrmann, Sebastian Gomez Valdez, and Minh Pham

BSEE Project Advisor: Juzi Zhao

Custom Motor Controller for FSAE High Power Motor

Project Members: Laura Assao, Charvi Polisetty, and John Wu

BSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Development of a Door Lock System with AI-Based Face Detection Capabilities

Project Members: Soumya Bandaru and Vidushi Saxena

BSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

Flashflood Early-Warning System

Project Members: Adrian Gomez Cuevas, Alton Lee, William Pangayan, and Jack Wu

BSEE Project Advisor: Robert Morelos-Zaragoza

Folded Cascode Gain-Boosted OTA Achieving 100dB+ for High-Resolution SoC Applications

Project Members: Seena Khosrowbeygi Borchlooei and Judit Kontra

BSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Human Controller Prosthetic Hand

Project Members: Jonah Aziz, Ahmad Barati, Muneeb Muqtadir, and Juan Navarro Mendoza

BSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Indoor Location Detector

Project Members: David De La Luz, Anthony Garcia, Tommy Huynh, and Kevin Nguyen

BSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Mini Robot

Project Members: Tien Bui and Nguyen Tran

BSEE Project Advisor: Juzi Zhao

Outdoor Portable Charger With Solar Charger Capabilities

Project Members: Kirissa Alicia Chang Freitas and Victoria Eichhorn

BSEE Project Advisor: Juzi Zhao

Pre Amp + Multi-Channel Graphic EQ + Post Amp All-in-One Device

Project Members: Andrew Bag-Ao, Rodrigo Castro-Ruiz, Samuel Meier, and Vincent Vien

BSEE Project Advisor: Robert Morelos-Zaragoza

Radio Wave Power Harvesting

Project Members: Mark Monroe and James Stephenson

BSEE Project Advisor: Juzi Zhao

Realtime Linux Based Flight Computer

Project Members: Joshua Moon, David Munoz, Johnny Trac, and Sahar Waseem

BSEE Project Advisor: Chang Choo

RF Power Scavenger

Project Members: Leah Corbett Arroyo, Ethan Goodman, and Wyatt Munsch

BSEE Project Advisor: Mai-Khanh (Mike) Nguyen

RFID Use to Determine Speed

Project Members: Ezra Chen, Eden Daniel, Jarrett Laron, and Jeffrey Ma

BSEE Project Advisor: Robert Morelos-Zaragoza

Solar Power Harvesting and Storage

Project Members: Andres Cervantes, Juan Orozco, Pablo Quiroz-Manriquez, and Phillip Phi Hai Tran

BSEE Project Advisor: Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh

Wearable Battery Powered Heart Rate and Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor

Project Members: Jason Luu, Trang Mai, Brendan Nhan, and Duc Pham

BSEE Project Advisor: Juzi Zhao

Wireless Glove Interface for Real-Time Robotic Hand Mimicry

Project Members: Raul Hernandez-Solis, Matthew Men, and Antonio Rojas

BSEE Project Advisor: Junaid Anwar