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Author:

Zhang, Kuangyuan

Title:

Essays on Mining Economics and System Modeling

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Mining Economics
Real Option Evaluation
Mean-reverting of Commodity Price
Material Criticality
Yttrium
China’s Rare Earth P

File:

Download Kuangyuan_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Nathan Kleit, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonio Nieto, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Nathan Kleit, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Antonio Nieto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Young, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yi

Title:

One-dimensional Fermi Gases with Rapid Control of Interactions: Toward the Observation of Dicke States and Exotic Superfluid Pairing

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

One-Dimensional Fermi Gases
Entangled Dicke States
Exotic Superfluid Pairing
FFLO Phase
Rapid Interaction Control.

File:

Download YiZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth O'hara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Weiss, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Tao

Title:

A Study of DRAM Optimization to Break the Memory Wall

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

DRAM
Memory Wall
3D-stacked DRAM
Wide IO
Activation
Precharge
Refresh
Sub-array Level Parallelism

File:

Download TaoZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Fangfang

Title:

Toward Obfuscation-resilient Plagiarism Detection

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Plagiarism detection
Smartphone app repackaging
Program birthmark
Obfuscation

File:

Download Fangfang_Zhang_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
David Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yisi

Title:

Neural mechanisms of vocal sequence generation in songbirds

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Motor sequence
songbird
neural circuitry
syntax
temperature
auditory feedback
hemisphere

File:

Download thesis_yisizhang_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexay Kozhevnikov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexay Kozhevnikov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Weizhi

Title:

Indoor Optical Positioning System

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Light emitting diode
visible light communications
indoor positioning
Kalman filter
sensor fusion

File:

Download Rev_7_Weizhi_Zhang_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mohsen Kavehrad, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mohsen Kavehrad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Xian

Title:

The Teachability Hypothesis and Concept-based Instruction: topicalization in Chinese as a Second Language

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

Processability Theory
Teachability Theory
Sociocultural Theory
Concept-based teaching

File:

Download Xian_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

James Lantolf, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ning Yu, Committee Member
Ping Li, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Meng

Title:

Self-assemblies of Metal Cross-Linked Artificial Oligopeptides Substituted with Hydroxyquinoline Ligands

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

inorganic chemistry
self-assembly
metallic oligopeptide
electron and energy transfer
cooperativity
heterometallic complex

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_Meng_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Elizabeth Williams, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Elizabeth Williams, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yu

Title:

discrete distribution clustering in big data and a method for storm prediction leveraging large historical archives

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

discrete distribution
clustering
parallel computing
image annotation
protein clustering
storm prediction

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James Z Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jia Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jia Li, Committee Member
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Dongmei

Title:

CONTROL PROBLEMS IN INFECTIOUS DISEASE MANAGEMENT

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

control theory
PDE
infectious disease management
economic epidemiology
optimization

File:

Download Dissertation_Dongmei_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Alberto Bressan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Reluga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alberto Bressan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Reluga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jinchao Xu, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Special Member
Yuxi Zheng, Special Member