Dyan Ali

Graduate Student

Dept. of ECE

University of Maryland, College Park

Contact Information

School Address:

Department of Electrical Engineering

University of Maryland, College Park

Maryland 20742

U.S.A.(Where else?)

Phone:

301-474-6114(Home)

301-935-6420(Work)

E-mail: dyanali@umd.edu (oh, I so hate having to give that away!)

Click here for more private information (bank account numbers, credit card numbers, SSN etc. – proceed with caution!)

Personal Information

Well, let’s get the basics taken care of first.

Education

I’m Dyan Ali (to be perfectly honest you are interacting with one of the University of Maryland’s servers, not Dyan Ali personally, but you get the picture, don’t you?). I’m a graduate student at the Dept. of ECE (since Fall 2004) and am here for my PhD. I am currently working with Dr. Julius Goldhar at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences just outside the University campus. I shall try and keep updates on the work I’m doing up at LPS posted here whenever they reach significant levels. I graduated in 2004 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur where I obtained a B.Tech.(Hons.) in Instrumentation Engineering which is a stream offered by the Dept of Electrical Engineering there. I’d post a link to the dept website but it’s in pretty poor shape right now.

At IIT KGP, I worked on my B.Tech thesis project (which took 3 semesters) under Prof. A.K. Sinha (Dept of EE) on artificial neural networks. I also worked with Dr. P.K. Dutta (Dept of Physics) on a number of small projects - simulating optical propagation through optical fibers with nonlinear effects taken into consideration, performing Z-Scan experiments to characterize nonlinear optical samples and developing a reasonably competent system for automated data collection from the sensors we had. In addition, I interned at Instruments Research and Development Establishment, Dehradun in the summer of 2003. During that period, I performed simulations to determine how well a Cobalt-doped spinel would serve the purpose of a passive Q-switch for a Erbium-doped glass laser. The work I did during my undergrad education was presented at a couple of conferences – contact me if you need to.

That is all the serious stuff – stuff you might need to know if you want to contact me on technical details. Now onto more about me here! I would also like it to be known that the single most impressive thing I came across in 2004 is “Occasus” by The Amenta. Tied for the 2^nd spot are The Dillinger Escape Plan’s “Miss Machine” and Mastodon’s “Leviathan”. Of course, there were impressive movies and impressive books. But these 3 albums, a collective 2 hours brought me close to 100 hours of pleasure that is difficult to come close to.

Photos

You can find photos I’ve taken here. (Updated February 8 , 2005!!!!)

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