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Author:

Liu, Huacong

Title:

How do Affirmative Action Bans Affect Student Racial and Socio-economic Composition?

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

affirmative action
student-body composition
low-income students
synthetic control analysis

File:

Download Liu_072017.pdf

Committee Members:

Liang Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Liang Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Jesse Cheslock, Committee Member
Alicia C Dowd, Committee Member
Mark John Roberts, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Shih Hsien

Title:

Shape-Selective Syntheses of Gold and Copper Nanostructures: Insights from Density-Functional Theory and Molecular Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

hexadecylamine
copper
nanostructure
force field
molecular dynamics
hexadecylamine
copper
nanostructure
density-functional theory
force field
molecular dynamics
polyvinylpyrrolidone
gold
reconstruction

File:

Download Shih-Hsien_Liu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Yuqin

Title:

Lattice Structure: Modeling, Design, and Simulation

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Lattice structure
Homogeneous
Safety Factor
Truss

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sanjay Joshi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Wenpeng

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED ALGORITHMS FOR DETECTION OF JOINTS AND ESTIMATION OF ROCK STRENGTH IN ROCK STRUCTURES BY USING DRILLING PARAMETERS OF THE INSTRUMENTED ROOF BOLTER

Graduate Program:

Mining Engineering

Keywords:

Joint Detection
Rock Strength Estimation
Drilling Parameters
Roof Bolter
Pattern Recognition Algorithms
Wavelet Analysis
Ground Support Optimiztion
Ground Control
Composite Parameters
Mining Health and Safety
Roof Bolts

File:

Download PhD_THESIS-Wenpeng_Liu.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Jeremy M. Gernand, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Outside Member
Jamal Rostami, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Sha

Title:

A PRIVACY-RESPECTING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE CAMERAS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

mobile cameras
privacy protection
Bluetooth
BLE broadcast
face matching

File:

Download Sha_Liu-Thesis-Graduation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Qi

Title:

Quantum Engineering of Fractional Hall Physics in an Atom-Optical Laughlin-Pump Oscillator

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Quantum Simulation
Topological Order
Laughlin's Quantum Pump
Driven Oscillator
Sagnac Interferometer

File:

Download QiLiu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nathan David Gemelke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nathan David Gemelke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Scott Weiss, Committee Member
Kenneth O'Hara, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Yunzhi

Title:

Magnetic and Metallic Metalattices: A Transferrable Nanocasting by Confined Supercritical Fluid Chemical Deposition

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

3D artificial lattices
inverse opal
supercritical fluid chemical deposition
chemical fluid deposition
spin-engineered meta-materials
plasmonic meta-materials
metalattices
nanocasting

File:

Download Y.Liu_PhD_Thesis_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

John V Badding, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John V Badding, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Shushu

Title:

SENSING MECHANISM AND REAL TIME (SMART) COMPUTING FOR GRANULAR MATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Railroad
Geotechnical Engineering
Ballast
SmartRock

File:

Download Shushu_PhD_Dissertation_1031.pdf

Committee Members:

Hai Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hai Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Xiao, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Yaru Grace

Title:

A GIS Imagery Based Woody Biomass Biorefinery Location Model for Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Woody biomass
Pennsylvania
Facility location
GIS
NAIP imagery
Mixed integer linear programming

File:

Download Yaru_Liu_Dissertation_2019_v9.pdf

Committee Members:

Evelyn Ann Thomchick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Alexander Novack, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Saurabh Bansal, Committee Member
Thomas Lehman Richard, Committee Member
Thomas Lehman Richard, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Meng

Title:

Design Anywhere Manufacture Anywhere: A Novel Distribution Manufacturing Framework

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Manufacturing process
Shape descriptor
Do-It-Yourself

File:

Download Liu_Meng_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Jing

Title:

THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHER EMPOWERMENT ON TEACHER INTENTION TO LEAVE: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

TEACHER EMPOWERMENT
INTENTION TO LEAVE
TEACHER ATTRITION

File:

Download 190311_Jing_Liu_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah L. Schussler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah L. Schussler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald K. LeTendre, Committee Member
Soo-yong Byun, Committee Member
Bernard J. Badiali, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Ke

Title:

Cellulose nanocomposites production through co-culture fermentation

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Bacterial cellulose
Exopolysaccharides
Escherichia coli
Hyaluronic acid
Lactococcus lactis
Co-culturing
Bioreactor
Biofilm
Ribbon assembly
Crystallinity

File:

Download Dissertation_Ke_Liu_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey M Catchmark, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Demirci, Committee Member
Cibin Raj, Committee Member
Edward G Dudley, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Yushuang

Title:

When Adults Learn Novel Word With Meanings: The Role Of Consolidation In Word Learning And Memory Retention

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

word learning
ERP
semantic integration

File:

Download MS_Thesis_submitted_for_format_review_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Adriana Van Hell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ping Li, Committee Member
Rick Owen Gilmore, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Pei Hsuan

Title:

Understand the link between early exposure to family violence and later involvement in school bullying: How can school connectedness help?

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

Family Violence
Domestic Violence
Child Maltreatment
Bullying
Peer Victimization
Trauma
FFCWS
Moderation
Counselor Education
School Connectedness
Trauma-Informed School

File:

Download Patty_s_dissertation_final_update_071719.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. SeriaShia J. Chatters, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. SeriaShia J. Chatters, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. JoLynn V. Carney, Committee Member
Dr. Carlomagno Panlilio, Committee Member
Dr. Amy Marshall, Outside Member
Dr. Peggy Lorah, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Rui

Title:

Production Data Analysis in Complex Fractured Gas Reservoirs: Reserves Estimation and Diagnostics

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

production data analysis
rate transient analysis
reserve estimation
density-based approach

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Luis F. Ayala H, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Wanjun

Title:

New Statistical Tools for High-dimensional Data Modeling

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

High-dimensional data
Hypothesis testing
Feature screening
Regularized method

File:

Download Wanjun_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
Tao Yao, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Xi

Title:

Quantifying cities through user-generated geosocial content with GeoAI

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

GIScience
GeoAI
Cities
Computational Social Science
Machine Learning
Data Mining

File:

Download Xi_Liu_dissertation_revised_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Clio Maria Andris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clio Maria Andris, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan M Mac Eachren, Committee Member
Donna Peuquet, Committee Member
Bruce A Desmarais, Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Peng

Title:

Monostatic and Bistatic Ice-Penetrating Radars Based on Software-Defined Radio Technology

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Bistatic Ice-Penetrating Radar
Software-Defined Radio

File:

Download PengLiu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
John Mathews, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Ning

Title:

DATA-DRIVEN MODELING AND INTERPRETABLE MACHINE LEARNING WITH APPLICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Data-Driven Modeling
Interpretable Machine Learning
Healthcare Analytics
Drug-Drug Interactions
Patient Satisfaction

File:

Download NingLiu-Dissertation-FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Terry Harrison, Outside Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Chang

Title:

THE STATIC CO-OCCURRENCE AND DYNAMIC CO-DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN EXTERNALIZING AND INTERNALIZING BEHAVIORS FROM AGES 1.5 TO 8 YEARS AT BETWEEN-PERSON AND WITHIN-PERSON LEVELS: DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES AND HERITABLE AND REARING ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

externalizing and internalizing behaviors
between-person and within-person perspectives
co-occurrence
dynamic co-development
parent-offspring adoption design
integrative data-analytic techniques
heritable and rearing environmental influences

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Committee Members:

Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ginger A Moore, Committee Member
Koraly Elisa Perez-Edgar, Committee Member
Sy-Miin Chow, Outside Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Xiao

Title:

Neural Program Synthesis for Compiler Fuzzing

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

compiler testing
fuzz testing
neural program synthesis

File:

Download phd_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dinghao Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Clyde Lee Giles, Committee Member
Danfeng Zhang, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Keru

Title:

Permeability and Capillary Pressure Relationship in Porous Media

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Permeability
Capillary Pressure
Correlation

File:

Download Liu_Elswoth_2019_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Gregory R King, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Zhe

Title:

MULTISCALE MODELING OF LITHIUM METAL ANODE FOR NEXT-GENERATION BATTERY DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Lithium ion battery
Lithium metal anode
Dendrite growth
Phase-field modeling
Electrodeposition
Density functional theory

File:

Download Zhe_Liu_PhD_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Long-Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chao-Yang Wang, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Bingjie

Title:

Effects of Agency Locus And Transparency of Artificial Intelligence: Uncertainty Reduction and Emerging Mind

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

agency locus
transparency
uncertainty reduction
emerging mind
human-machine communication

File:

Download Dissertation_Liu_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

S. Shyam Sundar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Committee Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Outside Member
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Shen

Title:

Quantitative Privilege Separation with Pointer Supports

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Privilege Separation
Program Analysis
Software Security

File:

Download Quantitative_Privilege_Separation_with_Pointer_Supports.pdf

Committee Members:

Gang Tan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gang Tan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Yi Hsuan

Title:

Diet quality, mortality, and Parkinson disease in older adults: results from the Geisinger Rural Aging Study

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Diet quality
Dietary pattern
Dietary screening tool
Diet assessment
Mortality
Parkinson disease
Older adults
Oldest old
Geriatric nutrition
Healthy aging
Prospective study
Meta-analysis

File:

Download Dissertation_v6_final_upload.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiang Gao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiang Gao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Penny Margaret Kris-Etherton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Muzi Na, Committee Member
Martin John Sliwinski, Outside Member
Gordon Jensen, Special Member
A Catharine Ross, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Runsang

Title:

Self-organizing network modelling of 3D objects

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Computer-aided design
Shape matching
Network modelling
object recognition

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Hui Yang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Andrew

Title:

An Information Elasticity Framework For Constant False Alarm Rate Detection

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Information Elasticity
Constant False Alarm Rate
Radar Detection Theory
Space Time Adaptive Processing
Multi Objective Optimization
Information Overload
Information Value

File:

Download Andrew_Liu_Masters_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Muralidhar Rangaswamy, Special Signatory
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Pengchong

Title:

Interpreting High-Resolution Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Images

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Gap Plasmonics
Raman Polarizability Density
Frozen Density Embedding
Atomistic Electrodynamics
Near Field

File:

Download PengchongLiu-PSUThesis-submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Lasse Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lasse Jensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William George Noid, Committee Member
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Adri C.T. van Duin, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Tianning

Title:

Thin-film PZT on polymer and glass substrates: breaking the rules

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

flexible devices
flexible electronics
piezoelectrics
ultrasonic transducers
PZT
PZT thin films
microfabrication
anisotropic conductive film

File:

Download final_dissertation_Tianning_Liu.pdf

Committee Members:

Tom Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tom Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Yikang

Title:

Computational Methods for Neuroscience Discovery with Neuroimaging Data

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

rsfMRI
rat
computational methods
data analysis
deep learning
high-dimensional data mining
image segmentation
systems neuroscience
rsfMRI denoising
spatiotemporal dynamics

File:

Download Yikang_Liu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nanyin Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nanyin Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiao Liu, Committee Member
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Kevin Douglas Alloway, Outside Member
Daniel J Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Bingyuan

Title:

Topics on Nonconvex Learning

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Nonconvex optimization
machine learning
statistical learning
deep learning

File:

Download Thesis_BingyuanLiu.pdf

Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Yanyuan Ma, Committee Member
Zihan Zhou, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Liu, He

Title:

Functionalization of two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

chemical functionalization
single atom synthesis
2D materials
coordination chemical functionalization

File:

Download thesis_He_Liu-V9.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Yi

Title:

Opaque Selling and Product Introduction

Graduate Program:

Business Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

Opaque Selling
Product Introduction
Revenue Management
Product Quality

File:

Download Yi_Liu_Disseration_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Saurabh Bansal, Major Field Member
Nicholas Petruzzi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gary Lilien, Outside Unit & Field Member
Aydin Alptekinoglu, Major Field Member
Brent Ambrose, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Chun Yi

Title:

Performance and Lifetime Management Strategies for High-density 3D NAND Flash Storage

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

3D NAND flash
3D NAND SSD
Garbage Collection
SSD characterization
SSD management
Write amplification

File:

Download Chun-Yi.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Yingying

Title:

Multiword constructions in published and student mechanical engineering research articles

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics (PHD)

Keywords:

multiword constructions
academic writing
corpus-based genre analysis

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Committee Members:

Ning Yu, Outside Field Member
Catherine Berdanier, Outside Unit Member
Kevin McManus, Major Field Member
Xiaofei Lu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karen E Johnson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Shangbin

Title:

Non-enzymatic Glucose Sensors based on Laser-induced Graphene integrated with Skin-interfaced Microfluidic component for On-body measurement

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

biosensor
glucose
mircofludic

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Larry Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Hsu, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Chuyu

Title:

Local Government and Ethnic Violence in Authoritarian Regime

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Ethnic Conflict
Authoritarian Regime
China
Xinjiang

File:

Download Chuyu_Liu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xun Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xun Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bumba Mukherjee, Committee Member
Glenn Palmer, Committee Member
David Atwill, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Ang

Title:

Multi-mechanistic Transport Behavior of Multi-phase Fluids in Unsaturated Reservoir Rocks

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Sorption; Diffusion; Matrix swelling; Permeability; Time-Dependent Rock-Fluid-Geomechanics Model; Gas-water two phase flow

File:

Download Dissertation_draft_Ang_Liu_final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
William Arthur Groves, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Qiao

Title:

TWO PROBLEMS IN DYNAMICS ON TORI

Graduate Program:

Mathematics (PHD)

Keywords:

Group action
Hausdorff dimension
Local rigidity
Dynamical system

File:

Download Qiao_Liu-Dissertation_final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Major Field Member
Zhiren Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Martin Bojowald, Outside Unit & Field Member
Boris Kalinin, Major Field Member
Carina Curto, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Shuo Shuo

Title:

Statistical Learning on High-Dimensional Multi-Source Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Transfer Learning
Multi-View Clustering
High-Dimensional Data
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xiang Zhu, Major Field Member
Lan Kong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Liu, Chang

Title:

A Fluorescence-Based Investigation into the Mechanisms of Biomimetic-Membrane Component Translocation

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

chemotaxis
lipid flip-flop
membrane component translocation
microfluidics
lipid bilayer

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Hancock, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tae-Hee Lee, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Jieru

Title:

Optimization and Commercialization of IV Catheter in Low-Temperature Plasma Treatment

Graduate Program:

Engineering Design (MS)

Keywords:

Intravenous Catheter
Low-Temperature Plasma
Medical Device
LTP
Commercialization
FDA Approval Requirements

File:

Download FABRICATION_AND_COMMERCIALIZATION_PATHWAY_-_Thesis_-_Jieru.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven G Bilén, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean David Knecht, Committee Member
Nicholas Meisel, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Liu, Shiqi

Title:

Contributions to the analytic theory of the Hypoelliptic Laplacian

Graduate Program:

Mathematics (PHD)

Keywords:

hypoelliptic
nilpotent groups
elliptic regularity

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Committee Members:

Ping Xu, Major Field Member
Nigel Higson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alexei Novikov, Major Field Member
Eugenio Bianchi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Heting

Title:

Machine Learning in Mobile Edge Computing: Enhancing Efficiency in Inference and Training

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Edge Computing
Resource Allocation
Machine Learning
Federated Learning

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Committee Members:

Fenglong Ma, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Major Field Member
Jing Yang, Major Field Member
Guohong Cao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Xiaoming

Title:

Mechanisms of resistance to anti-GD2 immunotherapy in neuroblastoma

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Neuroblastoma
Small extracellular vesicles
Tumor microenvironment
NK cells
anti-GD2 immunotherapy
CRISPR screen

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Committee Members:

Vladimir Spiegelman, Major Field Member
Jeffrey Sundstrom, Outside Unit Member
Hong-Gang Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Todd Schell, Major Field Member
Edward Harhaj, Outside Field Member
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Wenbo

Title:

A Single-Print Additively-Manufactured Wideband Beamforming Network and Antenna Array

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

waveguide
electroless silver plating
beamforming
antenna array

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Qiming Zhang, Major Field Member
Abdalla Nassar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gregory Huff, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tim Kane, Major Field Member

Author:

Liu, Shuyuan

Title:

Navigating Linguacultural Diversity in Online and Offline Global Higher Education: International Students' Employment and Development of English as a Lingua Franca Pragmatic Strategies during Study Abroad

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics (PHD)

Keywords:

English as a lingua franca
study abroad
pragmatic strategies
international students
global competence

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Committee Members:

Ning Yu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Schrauf, Major Field Member
Kevin McManus, Major Field Member
Celeste Kinginger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tommaso Milani, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Meng

Title:

Leveraging Machine Learning for Analyzing Individual and Aggregate-Level Healthcare Data

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Healthcare
data analtics

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Paul Griffin, Major Field Member
Kamesh Madduri, Outside Unit & Field Member
Swaminathan P. Iyer, Special Member
Qiushi Chen, Major Field Member
Kartik Ramakrishna, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Yizhi

Title:

Worker-Centric Human-Robot Co-adaptation in Construction

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Construction Robotics
Human-Robot Collaboration
Human-Robot Interaction
Construction Safety and Productivity
Artificial Intelligence in Construction
Construction Automation

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Committee Members:

Somayeh Asadi, Major Field Member
John Messner, Major Field Member
Houtan Jebelli, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Lu

Title:

Understanding the dynamical patterns and hot streaks for creative careers

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

the science of science
hot streaks
creative careers
exploration and exploitation

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Committee Members:

David Hunter, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Rajtmajer, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dashun Wang, Special Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member

Author:

Liu, Zizhong

Title:

Adsorption-Controlled Gas Transport in Nanoporous Media

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Nanoporous media
Nonlinear governing equation
Piecewise constant coefficients
Apparent diffusion coefficient
Adsorption-controlled diffusion model
Simplified local density method
Modified Peng-Robinson equation of state

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Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Luis Ayala H, Major Field Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eugene Morgan, Major Field Member
Mort Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Liu, Yiming

Title:

The development of photoactivated nanoparticles for therapeutic miRNA delivery to selectively induce apoptosis in cancer cells

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

microRNAs
retro-Diels-Alder
Immunomodulation
Nanoparticle
Cancer therapy

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Committee Members:

Adam Glick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Pak Kin Wong, Major Field Member
Jian Yang, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Mingzu

Title:

MODIFICATION OF TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES’ OPTICAL, ELECTRICAL, AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES THROUGH ALLOYING

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

2D materials
transition metal dichalcogenides
2D magnetism
chemical vapor deposition
semiconductors
doping
alloying
defect engineering

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Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Hudson, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jorge Sofo, Major Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Yushuang

Title:

Listening to a foreign friend in a noisy restaurant: Neural correlates of listening to foreign-accented speech in noisy conditions in children and adults

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

accent
background noise
ERP
Time frequency analysis
children
speech processing
semantics

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Committee Members:

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Major Field Member
Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Anne Olmstead, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tessa Bent, Special Member
Janet van Hell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Yangyang

Title:

Perceived Social Support and Well-Being among International Students in the United States: Hopeful Career State and Career Engagement as Mediators

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education (PHD)

Keywords:

International students
Well-being
Social support
Hopeful career state
Career engagement

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Committee Members:

Julia Green Bryan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Kristen Nadermann, Major Field Member
Jolynn Carney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Liza Conyers (she/her), Major Field Member
Hyung Joon Yoon, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Liu, Jiayang

Title:

Tissue Oxygenation Dynamics During Seizure to Spreading Depression Transition in Rat Brain

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Tissue oxygenation
spontaneous seizure
spreading depolarization
extracellular space volume
effective diffusion coefficient

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Committee Members:

Bruce Gluckman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce Gluckman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member
Patrick James Drew, Committee Member
Mehdi Kiani, Outside Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Pan

Title:

Rapid maneuvers in insects and hummingbirds and their applications to robots

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

inverted landing
visual mediation
rotational maneuvers
neural delay
biomechanics
bio-inspired robotics
neural delays
biomechanics

File:

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Committee Members:

Rudolf Schilder, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jean-Michel Mongeau, Major Field Member
Qian Wang, Major Field Member
Bo Cheng, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Teng

Title:

Fast Charging of High-energy Lithium-ion Batteries via Thermal Stimulation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Li-ion battereis
fast charging
numerical model
heat transfer
lithium plating

File:

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Committee Members:

Donghai Wang, Major Field Member
Serguei Lvov, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christopher Rahn, Major Field Member
Chao-Yang Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Liu, Hongshen

Title:

Surface analysis of silicate glass in understanding mechanochemical wear process, corrosion behavior and vibrational properties

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Silicate glass
Mechanochemical wear
Vibrational properties
Corrosion behavior

File:

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Committee Members:

Phillip Savage, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christian Pester, Major Field Member
Phillip Savage, Program Head/Chair