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Author:

Bhattacharjee, Debapriya

Title:

Periodic Cross-Flow Trajectory Optimization for an Experimentally-Parameterized Model of a Tethered Energy Harvester

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

periodic optimal control
airborne wind energy systems
buoyant air turbine
optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Bo Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Hosam Fathy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lee, Eunwoo

Title:

Approximaion of MAX-2-local Hamiltonian

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Quantum
quantum algorithm
optimization
mean field
quantum computing
approximation
SDP

File:

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Committee Members:

Sean Hallgren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Hallgren, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Antonio Blanca Pimentel, Committee Member
Martin Furer, Committee Member
Kirsten Eisentraeger, Outside Member
Thomas F La Porta, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Broyles, Jonathan

Title:

Structural-Acoustic Optimization of Shaped Concrete Floors in Buildings

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

architectural engineering
structural engineering
building acoustics
optimization
design space exploration
shaped concrete slabs

File:

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Committee Members:

Nathan Brown, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Micah R Shepherd, Committee Member
Michelle Celine Vigeant, Committee Member
Ryan Levi Solnosky, Committee Member
Gregory Scott Pavlak, Committee Member
Sez Atamturktur, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ng, Matthew

Title:

Optimization of Central Pattern Generator Parameters in a Simulated Undulatory Fish Robot

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

central pattern generation
reinforcement learning
physical simulator
optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Bo Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne Elizabeth Martin, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sarkar, Debolina

Title:

Integrated Modeling of Phototrophic Metabolism Leveraging Multi-Omics Datasets

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

flux balance analysis
metabolic engineering
SNPs
poplar
arabidopsis
cyanobacteria
constraints based analysis
optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Major Field Member
Phillip Savage, Major Field Member
Costas Maranas, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Seong H. Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sally Mackenzie, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Decerio, Dalton

Title:

Benefits of Parallel Hybrid Electric Propulsion for Aircraft and Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hybrid
electric
aircraft
rotorcraft
conceptual design
optimization
propulsion

File:

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
David K Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Mc Cormick, Cameron

Title:

Optimization of Acoustic Black Holes for Vibration Reduction

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (PHD)

Keywords:

acoustics
optimization
vibration
acoustic black hole

File:

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Committee Members:

Julianna Simon, Major Field Member
Micah Shepherd, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Frecker, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Conlon, Major Field Member
Victor Sparrow, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cummings, Christine

Title:

Using a Gaussian based model to upcycle seaweed waste into bioplastics with tunable mechanical and material properties

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

bioplastic
gaussian process
regression
optimization
seaweed
mechanical property
water absorption
elastic modulus

File:

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Committee Members:

Tak Sing Wong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiang Yang, Committee Member
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Vargas Venegas, Carlos

Title:

Physics-Infused Reduced-Order Modeling of Aerothermal Loads for Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hypersonic
fluid-thermal-structural
aerothermoelasticity
data-driven
physics-driven
physics-based
reduced-order modeling
machine learning
field inversion
aerothermal
turbulent viscous-inviscid interactions
neural ordinary differential equations
direct collocation
optimization
kriging
proper-orthogonal decomposition
latin hypercube sampling
thermoelastic
hypersonic vehicle
RANS
skin-panel
two-dimensional
gaussian process regression
computational fluid dynamics
supported panel
augmentation
augmented
model augmentation
surrogate
POD-kriging
POD
algebraic
differential
algebraic augmentation
differential augmentation
NODE
PIROM
analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Daning Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

Author:

Hossain, Ayaan

Title:

Advanced algorithms for the design and analysis of synthetic genetic parts

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)

Keywords:

automated
design
synthetic
genetic
parts
combinatorial
optimization
machine
learning
algorithm
promoter
mRNA
transcription
translation
decay
repression
CRISPR
repeats
interference
graph
theory
path
finding
nonrepetitive
repetitive
gene
synthesis
assembly
oligopool
discovery
barcodes
primers
counting
NGS
reads
classifier
classification
regressor
regression
random
forest
LASSO
ridge
homologous
recombination
instability
tuning
efficiency
plasmids
genome
engineering
degenerate
IUPAC
vertex
cover
independent
set
initiation

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Committee Members:

Paul Babitzke, Outside Unit Member
Howard Salis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Costas Maranas, Major Field Member
Reka Albert, Outside Field Member
George Perry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Traore, Abdelmoumine

Title:

Essays on the Mitigation of Climate-Related Stochastic Losses through Investment and Insurance

Graduate Program:

Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)

Keywords:

Crops(Corn and Soybeans)
Crop Insurance
typical risk
short-term risk
weather
factors
heterogeneity
discrete choice
panel data
fixed effects
unit structure level
Investment
insurance
expected utility
robust optimization
long (short)-term risk vs. long (short)-term uncertainty
risk aversion
climate change
prosocial
green bond
conventional bond utility
optimization
risk aversion
environmental regulation
green default

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Committee Members:

Douglas Wrenn, Program Head/Chair
Robert Weaver, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Katherine Zipp, Major Field Member
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Unit & Field Member
Douglas Wrenn, Major Field Member

Author:

Radwan, Noriana

Title:

Investigating the Impact of Cognitive Style and Coping in Engineering Design: Insights from Computational Modeling and Cognitive Experiments

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

cognitive style
coping
engineering design
agent-based modeling
computational modeling
design
problem solving
collaboration
teams
robustness
cognitive gap
cognitive effort
cognition
engineering
organizational psychology
optimization
cognitive experiments
KABOOM
KAI

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Kathryn Jablokow, Outside Unit & Field Member
Yiqi Zhang, Major Field Member
Steven Landry, Major Field Member
Christopher McComb, Special Member
Jessica Menold, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Lipski, Michael

Title:

Optimization of Combined Transmit and Receive Collaborative Beamforming in Coherent Distributed Arrays

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Distributed arrays
collaborative beamforming
coherent arrays
mobile ad hoc networks
optimization
Distributed arrays
collaborative beamforming
coherent arrays
mobile ad hoc networks
optimization
chip scale atomic clocks

File:

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Committee Members:

Gregory Huff, Major Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Jenkins, Major Field Member
David Swanson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sastry Kompella, Special Member
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chaky, Ryan

Title:

Rethinking RF Metasurface Design and Analysis via Optimization

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

electromagnetics
antennas
metasurfaces
optimization
radar cross section
transmitarray
reflectarray
coding metasurface

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Douglas Werner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gregory Huff, Major Field Member
Sawyer Campbell, Major Field Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Jenkins, Ronald

Title:

New Multi-Objective Inverse-Design Techniques for Functionalized Metasurfaces

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

metasurface
multi-objective
optimization
nanophotonics
topology optimization
optics
nanofabrication

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Committee Members:

Thomas La Porta, Program Head/Chair
Douglas Werner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xingjie Ni, Major Field Member
Sawyer Campbell, Major Field Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Whiting, Eric Ben

Title:

Advanced Electromagnetic Metamaterial Design

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

metasurface
optimization
gradient index
lens
dielectric resonator antenna
adjoint sensitivity

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Committee Members:

Douglas Werner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gregory Huff, Major Field Member
Julio Urbina, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Thomas La Porta, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stearns, Aaron J

Title:

Design of an Active Adaptable Acoustic Metamaterial Perforated Plate for Structural Vibration Reduction

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

acoustic metamaterial
structural acoustics
vibration
piezoelectric
optimization
finite element method
Floquet-Bloch
vibration control
plate
shunted piezoelectric
adaptable
active

File:

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Committee Members:

Alok Sinha, Major Field Member
Stephen Hambric, Outside Field Member
Robert Campbell, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Benjamin Beck, Special Member
George Lesieutre, Outside Unit Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Tran, Thu

Title:

Computational Epidemiology of Large Multi-Dimensional Data Streams in Malaria and COVID-19

Graduate Program:

Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

malaria
plasmodium
falciparum
mathematical model
public health
epidemiology
fitness
evolution
infectious disease
antimalarial
kelch13
sub sahara africa
bayesian
rhode island
massachusetts
connecticut
drug resistance
vaccine
vaccination strategy
optimization
population immunity
attack rate
pandemic
USA
doubling time
covid 19
sars cov 2
differential equation
artemisinin

File:

Download ThuTran_dissertation_230905.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Schaeffer, Co-Chair of Committee
Justin Pritchard, Co-Chair of Committee
Manuel Llinas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair
Maciej Boni, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Jin, Lan

Title:

Design of a "B2B" Telemedicine Network: Pricing, Staffing, and Funding Policy Implications

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

telemedicine
B2B network
pricing
optimization
Stackelberg game

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Committee Members:

Eunhye Song, Major Field Member
Hui Zhao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Qiushi Chen, Major Field Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Uday Shanbhag, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Graybill, Philip

Title:

Embedded biomedical systems for assistive technology and state-of-vigilance forecasting

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

embedded systems
biomedical
microcontroller
FPGA
assistive technology
unscented Kalman filter
state of vigilance
sleep
forecasting
eyelid
optimization
wearable
epilepsy

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Major Field Member
Minghui Zhu, Major Field Member
Bruce Gluckman, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew Geronimo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair