Who we are

The EECE Ph.D. Club welcomes Ph.D. students across Marquette in engineering, computer science, and related STEM fields. We connect peers, share research, and build skills through talks, workshops, and socials, often during the department colloquium hour.

Mission
• Build a supportive research community
• Share tools for coding, writing, presenting, and career prep
• Host interdisciplinary events and student-led conferences

2025–2026 Leadership and Advisors

  • President: Shamiha Binta Manir
  • Vice President: Omar Farghaly
  • Faculty Advisors: Dr. Priya Deshpande, Dr. Majeed Hayat
  • Volunteers: Pouya Zolfi, Eman Soliman, Ecem Kasagga, Nehpal Shekhawat, Jonathan Torres, Jamir Jyoti

Upcoming Events

Fall 2025

  • Movie + Pizza Social (colloquium hour, date and time TBD)

Spring 2026

  • NDAC 2026. Minimum 4-page papers, interdisciplinary focus, keynote presentations. Date TBD
  • Game Day Social (colloquium hour, date and time TBD)

Past Events

Fall 2025

  • NDAC 2025 poster session
    Date: September 30, 2025
    Session: EECE Ph.D. Club Poster Session
    Posters and presenters:
    1. SHAP-Guided Feature Filtering to Improve Multi-Source Water Quality Prediction (Nehpal S. Shekhawat, Sarah Instenes)
    2. Real Time Classification of Brain Tumors from Stimulated Raman Histology Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks (Joshua Hubble)
    3. Computer Vision-Based Framework for Data Extraction from Heterogeneous Financial Tables: A Comprehensive Approach to Unlocking Financial Insights (Iftakhar Ali Khandokar)
    4. Context-Aware Sentence Completion and QA on AphasiaBank with BERT (Shamiha Binta Manir)
    5. Laminar-Resolved Cortico-Spinal Functional Connectivity for Somatotopically Guided Neuromodulation (Omar Farghaly)

Spring 2025

  • Social event during the colloquium hour (pizza and conversation)

Fall 2024

  • NDAC 2024 one-day research conference
    Date: November 5, 2024
    Venue: AMU Room 227
    About 35 attendees, 11 presentations, 5 external presenters (University of Arizona; Pace University NY; Salesforce SF; SRM University AP India; Algoverse AI Research USA).
    Best presentation awards: Jamir Shariar Jyoti, Timothy Goodwin, Shamiha Binta Manir.
    Organized by the EECE Ph.D. Club with support from the department and Dr. Deshpande’s group.
  • Social event during the colloquium hour

Spring 2024

  • EECE lab guest speaker session plus a social event (colloquium hour)

Fall 2023 

  • Python coding seminar for undergraduates
  • Social and movie night (colloquium hour)

Spring 2023

  • Ph.D. 101 panel
  • Social and movie night (colloquium hour)

Earlier Highlights

  • Feb 16, 2023: Seminar by Wenkai Guan, “Algorithm-Architecture-Hardware Co-Design in Computing Systems: From Chip Multicore to the Cloud” (2:00–3:00 pm)
  • Feb 14, 2023: Happy Hour (3:00–5:00 pm)
  • Nov 15, 2022: Ph.D. 101 Panel Discussion, in person or Teams (3:30–5:00 pm)

Get Involved

Interested in volunteering, presenting, or proposing a workshop? Students from any STEM Ph.D. program are welcome. Bring a friend; our socials are beginner-friendly and casual.

 

Last updated: September 30, 2025