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TA Office Hours

Held weekly in the senior design lab (ECEB 2070/2072). NOTE:

Blue names are office hours held online via zoom.

Names highlighted in orange are additional office hours available up to the due date of the soldering assignment.

There are no office hours during the weeks of board reviews or final demos.

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Spring 2025 Instructors

Name Area
Prof. Arne Fliflet (Instructor)
3056
afliflet@illinois.edu
microwave generation and applications
Prof. Viktor Gruev (Instructor)

vgruev@illinois.edu
Prof. Rakesh Kumar (Instructor)

rakeshk@illinois.edu
Prof. Michael Oelze (Instructor)
ECEB 2056
oelze@illinois.edu
Biomedical Imaging, Acoustics, Nondestructive Testing
Prof. Yang Zhao (Instructor)

yzhaoui@illinois.edu
Maanas Sandeep Agrawal (TA)

msa17@illinois.edu
Haocheng Bill Yang (TA)

hy38@illinois.edu
Kaiwen Cao (TA)
CSL 403
kaiwenc2@illinois.edu
Hardware systems
Michael Gamota (TA)

mgamota2@illinois.edu
Rui Gong (TA)

ruigong5@illinois.edu
Jason Jung (TA)

jasondj2@illinois.edu
Imaging Systems, Circuit design, Signal Processing, Computer Vision
John Li (TA)

johnwl2@illinois.edu
Shengyan Liu (TA)

sl90@illinois.edu
Michael Molter (TA)
CSL 425
molter2@illinois.edu
Aishee Mondal (TA)

aisheem2@illinois.edu
Machine Learning, Data Science
Sanjana Pingali (TA)

pingali4@illinois.edu
Machine Learning Systems
Eric Tang (TA)

leweit2@illinois.edu
IC, EM, proficient with PCB and soldering
Surya Vasanth (TA)

vasanth4@illinois.edu
Data Science and Analytics, Internet of Things, Human Centric Design
Jiankun Yang (TA)

jiankun3@illinois.edu
Machine learning, FPGA
Chi Zhang (TA)

czhng110@illinois.edu
Microwave design, computational methods
Jason Zhang (TA)

zekaiz2@illinois.edu
AR, Robot and human interactions

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RFI Detector

Jamie Brunskill, Tyler Shaw, Kyle Stevens

RFI Detector

Featured Project

Problem Statement:

Radio frequency interference from cell phones disrupts measurements at the radio observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Many visitors do not comply when asked to turn their phones off or put them in airplane mode.

Description:

We are planning to design a handheld device that will be able to detect radio frequency interference from cell phones from approximately one meter away. This will allow someone to determine if a phone has been turned off or is in airplane mode.

The device will feature an RF front end consisting of antennas, filters, and matching networks. Multiple receiver chains may be used for different bands if necessary. They will feed into a detection circuit that will determine if the power within a given band is above a certain threshold. This information will be sent to a microcontroller that will provide visual/audible user feedback.

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