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Author:

Park, Yoonsang

Title:

Partial Electrode Configuration for Loss and Physical Parameter Determination of Piezoelectric Ceramics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

loss
mechanical quality factor
piezoelectric device
piezoelectric ceramics
high-power piezoelectrics

File:

Download Final_Ph.D_Thesis_Yoonsang_Park.pdf

Committee Members:

Wenwu Cao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Major Field Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Kenji Uchino, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gonzalez-Valle, Carlos

Title:

Implications of the Interface Modelling approach on the Heat Transfer across Solid-Liquid Interfaces and Thin-Film Evaporation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Solid-liquid interfaces
Nanoscale heat transfer
Molecular dynamics simulations
Surface wettability
Thermal transport

File:

Download Thesis_F_R1.pdf

Committee Members:

Bladimir Ramos Alvarado, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Scott Milner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zoubeida Ounaies, Major Field Member
Adri van Duin, Major Field Member
Karen Thole, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ditty, Mackenzie

Title:

Nanomaterial-Integrated Devices, Systems, and Platforms for Extracellular Vesicle Enrichment and Clinical Applications

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

extracellular vesicles
carbon nantoubes
lipid nanoprobes
devices
nanomaterials

File:

Download M.Maurer_Ditty_Dissertation_FINAL_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Outside Unit Member
Jian Yang, Major Field Member
Justin Pritchard, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Weihua Guan, Outside Field Member

Author:

Roitman, Sofia

Title:

The microbiome and coral health: resilience and susceptibility in the face of a changing ocean

Graduate Program:

Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

microbiome
coral reef
NGS
metagenomics
amplicon
sequencing
bioinformatics
bioindicators

File:

Download SRoitman_FinalDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Schaeffer, Major Field Member
Carolee Bull, Outside Unit & Field Member
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Chair of Committee
Monica Medina, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dedeoglu, Yasar Nur

Title:

The Role of Nonfamilial Factors in Predicting Academic Performance Among Maltreated and At-risk Teens

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education (PHD)

Keywords:

child maltreatment
LONGSCAN
nonfamilial factors
academic performance

File:

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Committee Members:

Julia Green Bryan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenneth Levy, Outside Unit Member
Jolynn Carney, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Liza Conyers (she/her), Major Field Member
Jonna Kulikowich, Outside Field Member
Jolynn Carney, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Matthews, Stephen

Title:

Investigating the Wnt/MYC axis in the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Wnt
rs6651252
MYC
IBD
Crohn's Disease
WRE
Enhancer

File:

Download MatthewsDissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Degraff, Major Field Member
Vladimir Spiegelman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gregory Yochum, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Walter Koltun, Major Field Member
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khademi, Aria

Title:

Excursions in Causal Data Science: Fairness, Causal Attribution, and Applications

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Causal Inference
Interpretable Machine Learning
Fairness
Health Care
Causal Attribution

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Aria_Khademi.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Susser, Major Field Member
Sarah Rajtmajer, Major Field Member
Vasant Honavar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Binion, John

Title:

Optimization of Metamaterial-enabled Antennas

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Metamaterials
Metasurface
Antenna
Global Optimization

File:

Download Binion_dissertation_vsubmit4.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Douglas Werner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julio Urbina, Major Field Member
Victor Pasko, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yang, Bi

Title:

"I like it but cannot have it": desired yet unavailable products lead to negative WOM

Graduate Program:

Hospitality Management (PHD)

Keywords:

product unavailability
defense mechanisms
self-esteem
negative WOM
ownership

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Tews, Major Field Member
Seoki Lee, Major Field Member
Anna Mattila, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lisa Bolton, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anna Mattila, Program Head/Chair

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:

Download Liu__Hongshen_Dissertation_final_v3.pdf

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

Author:

Nigl, Thomas

Title:

Measurements of Thermochemical Properties of Alloys for Applications in Energy Systems

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Thermodynamics
Electromotive force measurements
Electrochemical separation
Electrorefining
Sr-Pb
Alkaline-earth metals
Ni-Al
Hot corrosion
Combustion

File:

Download Dissertation_ThomasNigl_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Hickey, Major Field Member
Arthur Motta, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hojong Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Ruimin

Title:

Data-driven Service Optimization and Quality Management in Cyber-physical Manufacturing Systems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Quality Management
Machine Learning
Service Optimization

File:

Download Ruimin_Dissertation_FINAL_0730.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Reutzel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Soundar Kumara, Major Field Member
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Hui Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Yan Lu, Special Member

Author:

Neupane, Bikalpa

Title:

HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP APPROACH TO INVESTIGATE ALGORITHMIC JUSTICE IN AI AND MACHINE LEARNING ENABLED TALENT ACQUISITION SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

algorithmic justice
algorithmic equity
underprivileged
marginalized
AI bias
AI fairness
video based hiring systems
HRTech
hiring
interviewing
perceptions of AI
human-in-the-loop
diversity in hiring
equity in hiring
DEI

File:

Download BikalpaNeupane_FinalDissertation_Aug5_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Susser, Major Field Member
Timothy Brick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lynette Yarger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Fred Fonseca, Major Field Member
Jordan Beck, Special Member

Author:

Cai, Zhanrui

Title:

New Statistical Tools for Independence and Conditional Independence

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Online leaerning
dimension reduction
test of independence
test of conditional independence
causal discovery

File:

Download Zhanrui.pdf

Committee Members:

Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Major Field Member
Yanyuan Ma, Major Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Ming Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bhang, In Young

Title:

Self-Reported Memory Problems, Depressive Symptoms, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and Age of Depression Onset in Older Adults with a History of Depression

Graduate Program:

Nursing (PHD)

Keywords:

MCI
mild cognitive impairment
self-reported memory problems
age of depression onset
history of depression
depressive symptoms
older adults
cognitive impairment

File:

Download In_Young_Bhang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrea Sillner, Major Field Member
Jacqueline Mogle, Outside Unit Member
Alyssa Gamaldo, Outside Field Member
Nikki Hill, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lisa Kitko, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jao, Nicholas

Title:

Non-Volatile Memory Design Based On Crossbar Architecture Towards Low Power Systems and Processing In-Memory

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Emerging Non-Volatile Memory
Computing In-Memory
Modelling
in-situ computing
ferroelectric tunnel junction
magnetic tunnel junction
device-circuit codesign
circuit-architecture codesign
phase change memory

File:

Download Dissertation_Jao_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Swaroop Ghosh, Major Field Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Outside Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Prabhu, Sudheer Sudhakaran

Title:

Mechanical behavior of sand subjected to impact loading

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Impact Loading
Sand
DEM
Particle Crushing
Equation of State
SHPB

File:

Download Dissertation_Sudheer_S_Prabhu.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Outside Field Member
Tong Qiu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ming Xiao, Major Field Member
Todd Palmer, Outside Unit Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Peeler, Jamie

Title:

The Role of Landscape Context in Forests Recovering from Fire

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

regeneration
stand-replacing fire
scale
pattern
dispersal
forest
resilience

File:

Download Peeler_Dissertation_28May21.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan Taylor, Major Field Member
Laura Leites, Outside Unit & Field Member
Douglas Miller, Major Field Member
Erica Smithwick, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Cynthia Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Zihao

Title:

Computational Investigations into the Shape-Controlled Syntheses of Copper and Silver Nanocrystals

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

density functional theory
interfacial phenomena
nanocrystal growth
halides
capping agents

File:

Download thesis-Zihao-Chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Seong Kim, Major Field Member
Jorge Sofo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Janik, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Kristen Fichthorn, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Idriss, Zacharie

Title:

Statistical and Computational Electromagnetic Approaches for the Feature Extraction of Buried Targets in Ground Penetrating Radar Imaging

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Radar
Radar Imaging
Ground Penetrating Radar
Computational Electromagnetics
Feature Extraction
Waveform Design
Mutual Information
Matched Illumination
Compound Gaussian

File:

Download PhD_Disseration_Rev.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tim Kane, Major Field Member
Raghu Raj, Special Member
Jesse Barlow, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gu, Yameng

Title:

Investigating the role of brain arousal fluctuations in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

resting-state fMRI
arousal modulations
functional connectivity
head motion
cortical hierarchy
infra-slow propagating activity
multimodal neuroimaging
global signal
autonomic activity

File:

Download Dissertation-Yameng-Gu-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Drew, Major Field Member
Rick Gilmore, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiao Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nanyin Zhang, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Xinyue

Title:

Account for Rater Effects with Bayesian Rater IRT Model in Disjoint Rating Design

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Rater Effect
Rater IRT Model
Bayesian Estimation
Nested Rating Desgin

File:

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Committee Members:

James Diperna, Outside Field Member
Scott Roths, Outside Unit & Minor Member
Pui-Wa Lei, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jonna Kulikowich, Major Field Member
Matthew McCrudden, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Ying

Title:

Supporting college students' metacognitive monitoring in a biology course through practice and timely monitoring feedback

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

self-regulated learning
metacognitive monitoring
timely feedback

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_YingWang.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexandra List, Major Field Member
Rayne Sperling, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Simon Hooper, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew McCrudden, Major Field Member
Matthew McCrudden, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Singh, Roopali

Title:

Statistical Methods in Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Single cell
Spatial Transcriptomics
Missing Data
Reproducibility
Bayesian NMF
Variational Inference
EM Algorithm

File:

Download RoopaliSingh_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dajiang Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiang Zhu, Major Field Member
Qunhua Li, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Ephraim Hanks, Chair of Committee
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Cui, Mingkun

Title:

Escaper, Fighter and Exam-taking Master: An Educational Autoethnography of A Rural Student in China

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership (PHD)

Keywords:

rural education
China
rural student
educational journey
autoethnography

File:

Download Final_Draft_Dissertation_Mingkun_11-11.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Valente, Outside Field Member
Xiaoye You, Outside Unit Member
Kai Schafft, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gerald Letendre, Major Field Member
Rebecca Tarlau, Outside Field Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ryoo, Jihyun

Title:

Architecture-Centric Bottleneck Analysis for Machine Learning and Deep Learning Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Computer architecture
Architecture profiling
Machine learning
Deep learning
Analysis model
High performance computing
Manycore systems
Parallel computing

File:

Download Jihyun_Ryoo_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Sampson, Major Field Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kauffman, Joshua

Title:

Understanding and Controlling Motion at Small Scales

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Active Matter
Microfluidics
Atomic Force Microscopy
Enzymes
Nanoparticles
Colloids
Nanomotors
Micropumps

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas Mallouk, Major Field Member
Igor Aronson, Major Field Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ayusman Sen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cheng, Christopher

Title:

Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers Using Lead Zirconate Titanate Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

PMUT
Piezoelectrics
Acoustics
Ultrasound
Transducers
MEMS
Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan Trolier-Mckinstry, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tom Jackson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Outside Field Member
Clive Randall, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Frieben, Emily

Title:

Dopamine D1-like receptors: Structure, function, and role in cancer therapeutics

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

dopamine receptors
dopamine
GPCRs
neuropharmacology
functional selectivity
biased agonism
Parkinson's disease
cancer
chemotherapy
drug discovery

File:

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Committee Members:

Richard Mailman, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Elizabeth Proctor, Outside Unit Member
Kent Vrana, Major Field Member
Daniel Morgan, Special Member
Nikolay Dokholyan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Victor Ruiz-Velasco, Outside Field Member
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Freed, Sara Ann

Title:

Person-Environment Interactions and Older Adult Mobility

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

aging
development
transportation
mobility
driving
older adults
environment
gerontology

File:

Download Freed_Dissertation_Final_3Nov2021_V2.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacqueline Mogle, Major Field Member
Alyssa Gamaldo, Major Field Member
Yiqi Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lesley Ross, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charles Geier, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jung, Kwan Ho

Title:

Fluorescence Imaging Methods to Probe Folding States of RNA-Binding Proteins with Prion-Like Domains in Nuclear Bodies

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

TDP-43
FUS
TAF15
PML nuclear bodies
Nucleolus
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Molecular rotor
Solvatochromic fluorophore
SNAP-tag
BODIPY

File:

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Committee Members:

Xin Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yong Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hsiung, Chia Heng

Title:

The Investigation of Biophysical Properties of Biomolecular Condensates and Aggregates in Live Cells

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

Biomolecular Condensates
Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation
Polarity
Viscosity
AggTag

File:

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Committee Members:

Lorraine Santy, Major Field Member
Xin Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Moriah Szpara, Major Field Member
Ken Keiler, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lauren Zarzar, Outside Field Member
Emily Weinert, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Gomez Sanchez, Michael Josue

Title:

Resilience, Vulnerability, and Fragility of the United States Supply Chains

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Resilience
Supply chain
Food systems
Network cascade model
Input-Output model
Food security

File:

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Outside Field Member
James Shortle, Outside Unit Member
Alfonso Mejia, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Caitlin Grady, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xu, Fangcao

Title:

Multi-Geometry Atmospheric Correction and Target Spectra Retrieval from Hyperspectral Images via Deep Learning

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

hyperspectral image
Longwave Infrared
Visible and Near Infrared
Atmospheric Correctioin
Target Detection
Deep Learning
Convolutional Neural Network

File:

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Committee Members:

Douglas Miller, Major Field Member
Guido Cervone, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew Carleton, Major Field Member
Christelle Wauthier, Outside Unit & Field Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cruz, Santina

Title:

Conduction Electron Spin Resonance of Small Metallic Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

metallic nanoparticles
electron spin resonance
nuclear magnetic resonance
magnetic susceptibility
plasmon
morphology
ligands
electron paramagnetic resonance
Evans Method
conduction electron spin resonance
surface chemistry
solvent
electronic properties

File:

Download SCruz_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Mallouk, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
Raymond Schaak, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
John Golbeck, Committee Member & Related Areas Repres
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Benjamin Lear, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Ye, Songtao

Title:

Developing and Employing the Environmental Sensitive Fluorophores for Protein Aggregation and Phase Separation Study

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Environmental Sensitive Fluorophores
Protein Aggregation
Protein Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation
Multi-Layered Protein Droplets

File:

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Committee Members:

Xin Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ying Gu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tae-Hee Lee, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ganeshan, Karthik

Title:

Modeling and understanding surface/electrolyte interactions in MXene supercapacitors

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Energy storage
Supercapacitors
ReaxFF
Atomic-scale simulations
Finite Element Method
Boltzmann Transport Equation
Rarefied flow
MXene
Birnessite
Nuclear Quantum Effects
Path-Integral Molecular Dynamics

File:

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Committee Members:

Bladimir Ramos Alvarado, Major Field Member
Donghai Wang, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
David Williams, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Adri van Duin, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Noor Elahi, Asim

Title:

ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL STUDIES ON MODELING AND FABRICATION OF GALLIUM NITRIDE (GaN) BASED OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

GaN Optoelectronic devices
GaN microLED
Colorful microLED
GaN based Schottky Diode
GaN based MESFFET
Colloidal Quantum Dots
Nanoporous
Vertical GaN based MESFET
MESFET on LEDs
Schottky diodes on LEDs

File:

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Committee Members:

Jerzy Ruzyllo, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jian hsu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Osama Awadelkarim, Major Field Member
Wenwu Cao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tim Kane, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Garrett, Grant Robert

Title:

Experimental and Numerical Studies of the Droplet Sizes and Velocities near the Quench Front for Transient Reflood Conditions

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Thermal Hydraulics
Core Reflood
TRACE
Nuclear Reactor Safety Analysis
Entrained Droplet Size Measurements
Entrained Droplet Velocity Measurements
Two-Phase Thermal Non-Equilibrium
Post-CHF Flow

File:

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Committee Members:

Justin Watson, Major Field Member
Robert Kunz, Outside Field Member
Fan-Bill Cheung, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Elia Merzari, Outside Unit Member
Stphen Bajorek, Special Member
Asok Ray, Major Field Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kozhakhmetov, Azimkhan

Title:

MOCVD Synthesis and Doping of FRONT-END-OF-LINE (FEOL) and BACK-END-OF-LINE (BEOL) Compatible Two-Dimensional WSe2

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

two-dimensional materials
2D materials
Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
TMDCs
Chemical Vapor Deposition
CVD
Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition
MOCVD
Doping
WSe2
Rhenium doping
Vanadium doping
Front-end-of-line compatible
Back-end-of-line compatible
Re-WSe2
V-WSe2

File:

Download Azimkhan_Kozhakhmetov_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Outside Unit & Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Field Member
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Duan, Qiuhua

Title:

Energy Performance Analysis of Photothermal Building Windows

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

building windows
solar infrared radiation
thermodynamics
condensation
low-e coating
energy performance

File:

Download Energy_Performance_Analysis_of_Photothermal_Building_Windows.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Memari, Major Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Major Field Member
Julian Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sez Atamturktur, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Huaibin

Title:

Different layered materials for anion or cation uptake by ion exchange

Graduate Program:

Soil Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Layered double hydroxide
Nickel-Zinc layered phase
SnP
ZrP

File:

Download Huaibin_Zhang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Watson, Major Field Member
Dinesh Agrawal, Outside Field Member
Sridhar Komarneni, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick Joseph Drohan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Yin, Xinyang

Title:

Hierarchical metal-organic frameworks and membranes for energy-related separations

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Hierarchical MOF
MOF
morphology control
gas separation
liquid separation
pore environment

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Xinyang_Yin_final_revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Xueyi Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jian Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Darrell Velegol, Major Field Member
Seong Han Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Hee Jeung Oh, Major Field Member

Author:

Cai, Yuzhe

Title:

ON COUPLED FLUID FLOW AND GEOMECHANICS MODELING FOR UNCONVENTIONAL WELLS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Flowback
dfit
diagonostic fracture injection test
infill well
parent well
Fracture driven interaction
FDI
Fracture closure

File:

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Committee Members:

Gregory King, Major Field Member
Ali Borhan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Major & Minor Field Member
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Boghossian, Mirna

Title:

The Economic Consequences of Supplier of the Year Awards

Graduate Program:

Business Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

supplier awards
best suppliers
supplier of the year
proprietary costs
economic consequences of voluntary disclosures
proprietary information
supplier identity
supply chain
costs and benefits
costs and benefits of proprietary information

File:

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Committee Members:

Laura Wellman, Major Field Member
Samuel Bonsall, Major Field Member
Karl Muller, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Moran, Outside Unit & Field Member
Brent Ambrose, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Saltarella, Michael

Title:

From Industrial Wasteland to Italian Garden: Peter and Anneliese Latzes' Approach to Postindustrial Landscapes and the Grotesque Language of Bomarzo

Graduate Program:

Landscape Architecture (MS)

Keywords:

Peter Latz
Bomarzo
Postindustrial Landscapes
Grotesque
Italian Gardens
Anneliese Latz

File:

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Committee Members:

Roxi Thoren, Program Head/Chair
Paul Daniel Marriott, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Denise Rae Costanzo, Committee Member
Peter Aeschbacher, Committee Member

Author:

Murphy, Sam

Title:

Simulating Complex CO2 Background Conditions for Indianapolis, IN, with a Simple Ecosystem CO2 Flux Model

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

land-atmosphere interactions
ecosystem modeling
atmospheric boundary layer
eddy covariance
carbon cycle
urban greenhouse gas
carbon dioxide

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul Markowski, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth James Davis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Natasha Lynn Miles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Armen R. Kemanian, Committee Member

Author:

Crouch, Uma

Title:

Hidden in the Weeds: Verticillium dahliae Kleb. molecular detection in the symptomatic and asymptomatic hosts of potato agroecosystems

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology (MS)

Keywords:

Verticillium dahliae
Potato
Weeds
Endophyte
Clonal Lineages
VCGs

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Committee Members:

Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Program Head/Chair
Sharifa G Crandall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carolyn Lowry, Committee Member
Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Committee Member
Paul David Esker, Committee Member

Author:

Bashir, Aamer

Title:

Conceptual Study of a Calibrated Radon Source and a Portable Radon Detector

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Radon Detection
Alpha Particle Detector
Photodiode Amplifier

File:

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Committee Members:

Dipanjan Pan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Marek Flaska, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Spearly, Katie

Title:

Doing Fine or In Decline? A Look at Housing in the Historic Rust Belt Region

Graduate Program:

Sociology (MA)

Keywords:

housing
rust belt
socioeconomic status
wealth inequality
housing inequality
population decline
economic decline

File:

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Committee Members:

Scott Yabiku, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jonathan Kyle Daw, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Committee Member
Theodore Roberts Alter, Committee Member

Author:

Sizer, Jackson

Title:

RoachRunner: A Design Methodology For A Novel Insect-Scale Instrumented Treadmill

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

force treadmill
hexapod
cockroach
adaptive control
terrestrial locomotion
mechatronics
Insect Gait
Force Treadmill
Hexapod
Cockroach
Adaptive Control
Terrestrial Locomotion
Robotics
Mechatronics

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Committee Members:

Jean-Michel Mongeau, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne Elizabeth Martin, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Boynton, Karen

Title:

LGBTQ+ Identity Disclosures in the Workplace: Exploring the Relationships Between Organizational Support, Interpersonal Justice, and Intention to Quit

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (MA)

Keywords:

self disclosure
workplace
LGBTQ+ identity
identity disclosure
organizational support

File:

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Committee Members:

Kirt Wilson, Program Head/Chair
Brian Manata, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Dillard, Committee Member
Andrew High, Committee Member

Author:

Chidekel, Philip

Title:

The Performance of a Competition Sailplane with Variable-Toe Winglets

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

sailplane
winglets
variable geometry

File:

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James George Coder, Committee Member
Sven Schmitz, Committee Member

Author:

Gobel, Trenton

Title:

An Explicit Construction of Optimized Interpolation Points on the 4-Simplex

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Interpolation
space-time
four dimensions
finite element methods
Lebesgue constant
symmetry
Interpolation
Spacetime
four dimensions
finite element methods
Lebesgue Constant
Symmetry

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Committee Members:

Mary Frecker, Program Head/Chair
David M Williams, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Grauer, Committee Member

Author:

Houston, Ezra

Title:

HABITAT MODELING OF GOLDENSEAL (HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS L.) AND RAMPS (ALLIUM TRICOCCUM AIT.): IMPLICATIONS FOR IN SITU CONSERVATION AND GUIDANCE FOR FOREST CULTIVATION

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources (MS)

Keywords:

Species distribution modeling
Maxent
habitat suitability
indicator species
forest community types

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric Paul Burkhart, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Joseph Drohan, Committee Member
Patrick Drohan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xin Chen, Committee Member
Matthew R. Marshall, Committee Member

Author:

Walz, Kirstin

Title:

Study of Utilizing Induction Heating to Modulate the Burning Rate of Solid Fuels and Propellants

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Burning Rate
Induction Heating
Sold Fuel
Solid Propellant

File:

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Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline Antonia O'Connor, Committee Member
Mary Frecker, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Karli, Geoffrey

Title:

Development and Testing of a Full Scale eVTOL Rotor Test Stand

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

eVTOL
icing
rotorcraft
helicopter
wind tunnel
experimental
AERTS

File:

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Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark A Miller, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Eric Greenwood, Committee Member

Author:

Russ, Chelsea

Title:

Barriers and Opportunities in Implementing Natural and Nature-based Features for Adaptive Coastal Resilience

Graduate Program:

Landscape Architecture (MS)

Keywords:

Natural and Nature-Based Features
Nature-Based Solutions
Coastal Resilience
Adaptation
Climate Change
Mitigation

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Committee Members:

Peter Stempel, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andy Cole, Committee Member
Roxi Thoren, Program Head/Chair
Stephen Paul Mainzer, Committee Member
Trevor Birkenholtz, Committee Member

Author:

Crognale, Michael

Title:

Formation and Transport of Large Oil-Mineral Aggregates

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

oil-mineral aggregate
particle-laden flow
aggregation

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Committee Members:

Margaret Louise Byron, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Samuel Grauer, Committee Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Arguijo, Juan

Title:

Vision system for the detection of apples in the green fruit stage

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

apple
green fruit
vision system
machine learning
detections

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul Heinz Heinemann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long He, Committee Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Shirin Ghatrehsamani, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member

Author:

Vogel, Elisa

Title:

'Hears' the thing: A meta-analytic systematic review of the effects perceived listening

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (MA)

Keywords:

listening
meta-analysis
attitude change
organizational behavior

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Committee Members:

John W Gastil, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Dillard, Committee Member
Kirt Wilson, Program Head/Chair
Shannon Cruz, Committee Member

Author:

Brundage, Amanda

Title:

The Effects of Incubation, Presented Examples, and Working Memory Capacity on Design Fixation

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Engineering Design
Fixation
Fixation Stimuli
Working Memory Capacity
Incubation

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Committee Members:

Jessica Dolores Menold, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Jablokow, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Perkinson, Kyle

Title:

Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Applications to Capture the Flag-Style Scenarios

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Roan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alfred Scott Lewis, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Program Head/Chair
Sara B Noss, Committee Member

Author:

Nachnani, Rahul

Title:

Weeding out the truth: Cannabinoid Pharmacology, Risks and Benefits

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

THC
CBD
CBG
delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol
cannabinoid
cannabis
clinical pharmacology
chronic use
physiology
pharmacokinetics
pharmacodynamics
drug-drug interactions
cisplatin-induced neuropathy
analgesia
cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome
CHS
hypophosphatemia
cannabigerol
cannabidiol
delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol

File:

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Committee Members:

Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Andras Hajnal, Outside Unit Member
Erika F H Saunders, Outside Field Member
Kirsteen Browning, Major Field Member
Kent Vrana, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patricia Grigson Kennedy, Major Field Member

Author:

Park, Mingean

Title:

POLICY AND POPULATION: INSTITUTIONS AND FERTILITY BEHAVIOR

Graduate Program:

Public Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

Population Policy
Family Policy
Fertility Behavior
Birth Rate
Pregnancy
Abortion Bans
Policy Bundles
Polycentricity
Causal Inference
Spatiotemporal Models

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Committee Members:

Goktug Morcol, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Shugo Shinohara, Special Member
Lilliard Richardson, Outside Unit Member
Sungwoog Choi, Outside Field Member
Younhee Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dan Mallinson, Major Field Member

Author:

Baxter, Ryan

Title:

Multi-Scalar Drivers and Patterns of Abandoned Cropland in the United States: Implications for Renewable Energy

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Energy
Landuse
Landscape
GIS
Cropland
Landscape Ecology
Agriculture
Geography
Spatial Modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Tom Richard, Outside Unit & Field Member
Douglas Miller, Major Field Member
Erica Smithwick, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Helen Greatrex, Major Field Member

Author:

Sadique, Farhan

Title:

Exploration of salesperson competencies for customer engagement in selected home improvement retail organizations in the USA

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development (PHD)

Keywords:

Salesperson
Competencies
Delphi
Customer Engagement
USA
Home Improvement
competency framework for salesperson
competency inventory
Retail Organization
Workforce Education and Development

File:

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Committee Members:

Rama Radhakrishna, Outside Unit & Field Member
Wesley Donahue, Major Field Member
William Rothwell, Major Field Member
Mark Threeton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Parasrampuria, Harshita

Title:

Developing a Scheduling System for a Shared Resource for a Synchronous Line using Discrete Event Simulation

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Synchronous Lines
Discrete Event Simulation
Resource Scheduling
Downtime
Crane
Scheduling System
Statistical Analysis
Simio
Failures

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Committee Members:

Russell Richard Barton, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Catherine Harmonosky, Committee Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rademacher, Emily

Title:

Enhancing Pellet Quality and Return on Investment for Small Hop Enterprises in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Biorenewable Systems (MS)

Keywords:

hops
pellet
techno-economic analysis
TEA
pelleting

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Committee Members:

Juliana Vasco-Correa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Edward Ciolkosz, Committee Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Ryan John Elias, Committee Member

Author:

Fickett, Meghan

Title:

Monitoring Across Human-Autonomy Teams in Advanced Air Mobility Operations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Human Factors
Human-Autonomy Teaming
Monitoring
Advanced Air Mobility
Automation
Aviation
Distributed Team

File:

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Committee Members:

Amy Ruth Pritchett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Richard Wagner, Committee Member
Jacob Langelaan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Saxena, Manan

Title:

Scalable Bayesian Inference for Generalized Multivariate Dynamic Linear Models

Graduate Program:

Informatics (MS)

Keywords:

Bayesian Statistics
Multinomial Time Series
Generalized Multivariate Dynamic Linear Models
Optimization
Microbiome

File:

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Committee Members:

Justin Silverman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Romit Maulik, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Aron Laszka, Committee Member

Author:

Song, Jiwoo

Title:

Modal Analysis of Spatiotemporal Data via Multivariate Gaussian Process Regression

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Modal analysis
Gaussian process
System identification
Correlation

File:

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Committee Members:

Daning Huang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Aguilar, Morris

Title:

“Omics of Disease”: Automation, Weaving, and Capturing

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)

Keywords:

Multi-Omic Analysis
Genomics
Metabolomics
Small RNA
Precision Medicine
Bioinformatics
Disease Pathogenesis
Biomarker Discovery
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Computational Biology
Cardiovascular Disease

File:

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Committee Members:

David Koslicki, Program Head/Chair
Andrew Patterson, Major Field Member
Dajiang Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Broach, Major Field Member
Dokyoon Kim, Special Member
Molly Hall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Rusk, Zane

Title:

Perceptual and Quantitative Comparison of Headphone-Based Spatial Audio Techniques With Applications in Spatial Enhancement of Music and Binaural Panning

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

virtual acoustics
acoustics
spatial audio
3D audio
3D sound
surround sound
audio
audio signal processing
binaural rendering
panning
perceptual evaluation
listening tests

File:

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Committee Members:

James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Dorukalp Durmus, Major Field Member
John Messner, Major Field Member
Michelle Vigeant-Haas, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Victor Sparrow, Minor Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Scott Roths, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Sankhe, Chinmay

Title:

Regulation of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition via Matrix Stiffness and Histone Methyltransferases

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Hyaluronic acid
atomic force microscopy
cytoskeleton
integrin-linked kinase
apoptosis
hydrogels
Hyaluronic Acid
Atomic Force Microscopy
Cytoskeleton
Apoptosis
Hydrogels
epigenetics
H3K9Me2
chromatin
Hippo Signaling
nuclear localization
biosensor

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Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Major Field Member
Esther Gomez, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amir Sheikhi, Major Field Member
Sergei Grigoryev, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Hernandez Bejarano, Manuel

Title:

Density estimation for some semiparametric models

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Density estimation
Functional convergence
Nonparametric kernel den- sity estimator
Nonparametric regression
Specification testing
Density estimation
Functional convergence
Nonparametric kernel density estimator
Nonparametric regression
Specification testing
ARCH models
Quantile regression

File:

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lingzhou Xue, Major Field Member
Andres Aradillas-Lopez, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Major Field Member

Author:

Jiang, Panwei

Title:

Multi-scale computational modeling of the effects of defects and microstructural anomalies on mechanical response of parts resulting from additive manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Crystal plasticity model
Fatigue Indicator Parameter
DAMASK
Microstructure-sensitive
Lattice strutcture
Gibson-Ashby model
Texture
Grain morphology

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Saurabh Basu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Todd Palmer, Major Field Member
Darren Pagan, Major Field Member
Amrita Basak, Outside Unit Member
Ed De Meter, Outside Field Member

Author:

Xu, Cheng

Title:

Systematic dissection of sequence features affecting the binding spcificity of a pioneer factor

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Gene regulation
Transcription factor
Pioneer factor
Binding specificity
synthetic oligonucleotide library
FOXA1
AP-1
TF cooperativity
ChIP-ISO

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Committee Members:

Robert Paulson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiaojun Lian, Major Field Member
Shaun Mahony, Major Field Member
Lu Bai, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kumar, Pavan

Title:

SEMI-ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS FOR SINGLE-PHASE THERMAL CONDUCTION AND STRESS PROBLEMS OF FINITE-DOMAIN SLAB AND CYLINDER WITH A GROWING OR RECEDING BOUNDARY

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Moving Boundary Problem
Thermal Conduction
Semi-Analytical Solution
Finite Element Analysis
Laplace Transform
Inverse Problems
Additive Manufacturing

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Corina Drapaca, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christopher Kube, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alok Sinha, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Kennedy, Megan

Title:

Gender, Identity and Candidate Quality in Statewide Elections

Graduate Program:

Political Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Gender
Statewide Elections
Executive Office
Legislative Office
Judicial Office

File:

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Committee Members:

Lee Banaszak, Program Head/Chair
Michael Nelson, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lee Banaszak, Co-Chair of Committee
Melissa Wright, Outside Unit & Field Member
Erin Heidt-Forsythe, Major Field Member

Author:

Andersen Tuttle, Karlin

Title:

Your Trusted Friend: Untold Histories of Five Christian Women's Magazines, 1974-2023

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications (PHD)

Keywords:

Christian women's magazines
women's magazines
Brio Magazine
Daughters of Sarah
Just Between Us
Christian Womanhood

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Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
James Risley, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matt Tierney, Outside Field Member
Cathleen Cahill, Outside Unit Member
Matt McAllister, Co-Chair, Major Member & Dissertation Advisor
Sara Liao, Major Field Member

Author:

Gharpure, Akshay Pradip

Title:

GRAPHITIZATION SYNERGIES BETWEEN COAL TAR PITCH, WASTE PLASTICS AND GRAPHENE FORMS: A STUDY OF MIXTURE COMPOSITIONS, PROCESS CONDITIONS AND CHEMICAL COMPATIBILITY

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Graphitization
Carbon Materials
Characterization
Pitch
Waste Plastics
Upcycling
Graphene
Graphene Oxide
TEM
XRD
Raman Spectroscopy
FTIR
Crystallite Size
Nanostructure
TGA DSC
Mesophase

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Sarma Pisupati, Major Field Member
Randy Vander Wal, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Barbara Arnold, Major Field Member

Author:

Tuttle, Joshua

Title:

Excavating the Castle: Toward a New Historiography of the Gothic

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

Gothic
Gothic novel
Robert Chambers
W & R Chambers
Literary History
George Moir
Literary Historiography
Cyclopaedia of English Literature
Encyclopaedia Britannica
George Lillie Craik
Thomas B. Shaw
William Spalding
John Dunlop
David Masson

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Committee Members:

Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Scott Smith, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Carla Mulford, Major Field Member
Lisa Sternlieb, Major Field Member
Daniel Purdy, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Special Member

Author:

Hendrick, Christopher

Title:

Model-Scale Evaluation of Autonomous Ship Landing Guidance and Control Modes for Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

VTOL
Rotorcraft
Ship Landing
Autonomous
Froude Scaling
Model-Scale
UAV
Guidance
Control

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Joseph Horn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chris Rahn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eric Johnson, Major Field Member

Author:

Chakraborty, Debopriya

Title:

THE ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR MAINTAINS INTESTINAL HOMEOSTASIS

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology (PHD)

Keywords:

Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor
Gut microbiome
Intestinal homeostasis
Goblet cells
Antimicrobial peptides
Chemotherapy
Drug-receptor interactions
Dietary activation of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Patterson, Major Field Member
C Okafor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Adam Glick, Major Field Member
Gary Perdew, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kumble Prabhu, Major Field Member
Anthony Schmitt, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Varghese, Sushant

Title:

Addressing Flexibility Needs in Electricity Markets

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Real-time market
market design
ramp products
future scenario
investment incentives
Real-time market
Electricity market
Flexibility
Market design
future scenario
Investment incentives

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Paul Griffin, Outside Unit Member
Mort Webster, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Seth Blumsack, Outside Field Member
Uday Shanbhag, Major Field Member

Author:

Wehr, Katrina

Title:

Designing for Belonging: How Instructional Designers Support Online Learners’ Sense of Belonging

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

instructional design
online learning
belonging
higher education

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan Land, Program Head/Chair
Scott Mcdonald, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ty Hollett, Major Field Member
Susan Land, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tanner Vea, Major Field Member

Author:

Alrashidi, Essa

Title:

HIGHER EDUCATION PRIVATIZATION IN SAUDI VISION 2030: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROSPECT AND IMPACT ON NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Program:

Public Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

Privatization
Higher Education
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Vision 2030
National Development

File:

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Committee Members:

Goktug Morcol, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Triparna Vasavada, Major Field Member
Glenn McGuigan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michele Tantardini, Major Field Member
Younhee Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Dawuda, Ismael

Title:

Geologic Modeling and Data Assimilation for CO2 Sequestration in Point Bar Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Geologic Modeling
Geostatistical Simulation
Data Assimilation
Reservoir Simulation
History Matching
CO2 Sequestration
Grid Transformation
Point Bar Reservoir
Lateral Accretions
Inclined Heterolithic Stratifications
Heterogeneities
Rock Physics Modeling
Bayesian Model Selection
Value of Information

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Sanjay Srinivasan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gregory King, Major Field Member
Eugene Morgan, Major Field Member
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Major Field Member
Charles Ammon, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rui Zhang, Special Member

Author:

Alnasser, Shehab

Title:

MAKING SENSE OF OPEN GOVERNMENT: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF ITS DEFINITIONS, INTELLECTUAL ROOTS, AND CONTINGENCY FACTORS

Graduate Program:

Public Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

Open Governments
E-government
National Culture
Conceptualization
Intellectual Roots
Contingencies

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Committee Members:

L. Marvin Overby, Program Head/Chair
Bing Ran, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michele Tantardini, Major Field Member
Glenn McGuigan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dan Mallinson, Major Field Member

Author:

Schwab, David

Title:

Engineering Applications of Perturbation Theory Applied to the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

three-body problem
cislunar space situational awareness
Hamiltonian mechanics
perturbation methods
action-angle coordinates
cislunar orbit determination
optimal cislunar transfer
cislunar station-keeping

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Joseph Cusumano, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Jill Bruer, Special Member
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Robert Melton, Major & Minor Field Member

Author:

Acevedo, Tarik

Title:

Post-Reclamation Management of Mined Land Soils and their Impacts on Microbial Activity

Graduate Program:

Ecology (PHD)

Keywords:

Mined Land Restoration
Microbial Activity
MicroResp
Tea Bag Index
Restoration Ecology

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Committee Members:

Sharifa Crandall, Outside Unit Member
Charlie White, Outside Field Member
Patrick Drohan, Major Field Member
Mary Ann Bruns, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Corbett, Thomas

Title:

Exploration of Internal Cooling Schemes Enabled Through Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Heat Transfer
Fluid Dynamics
Internal Cooling
Gas Turbines

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karen Thole, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Lynch, Major Field Member

Author:

Wang, Xuelin

Title:

Artificial Receptor Display for Cell Surface Engineering

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Cell surface engineering
Cell recognition
polyvalency
Aptamer

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Committee Members:

Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Yuguo Lei, Major Field Member
Yong Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaojun Lian, Major Field Member
Girish Kirimanjeswara, Outside Unit & Field Member
Justin Pritchard, Major Field Member

Author:

Pfaff, Sarah

Title:

Unraveling Plant Cell Wall Assembly: From Cellulose Synthesis and Xylan Patterning to Lignification

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

plant cell wall
cellulose
xylan
lignin
microscopy
cryoEM
X-ray scattering
NMR
CBM
cellulose synthase
xylem vessels
primary cell wall
secondary cell wall
cryoET
microtubules
actin
golgi
protoplasts
FIB milling
tomography

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Committee Members:

Ying Gu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Cosgrove, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gabriele Monshausen, Major Field Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair
B Nixon, Major Field Member

Author:

Bentley, Christopher

Title:

Deployable and Reconfigurable Structures with Multiphysics Integrations

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Deployable Structures
Reconfigurable Structures
Deployment Routines
Origami-inspired Structures
Origami-inspired Acoustic Arrays
Self-Adaptive Reconfigurable Structures

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Michael Roan, Major Field Member
Amanda Hanford, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jared Butler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Frecker, Major Field Member

Author:

King, Carli

Title:

Investigating the Role of TCF7L1 in Colorectal Cancer

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

colorectal cancer
TCF7L1

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Committee Members:

Gregory Yochum, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zhonghua Gao, Major Field Member
Kristin Eckert, Major Field Member
Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Vladimir Spiegelman, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Garborg, Christopher

Title:

Understanding the nature and drivers of brain motion in a behaving mouse model

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Brain Motion
Two-photon Microscopy
Intra-abdominal Pressure
Cerebrospinal Fluid

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Committee Members:

Patrick Drew, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Spencer Szczesny, Major Field Member
Jean-Michel Mongeau, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Major Field Member
Nanyin Zhang, Major Field Member
Yuguo Lei, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Doty, Christopher

Title:

Crisis Media - Discovering Social Media's Role in the Emergency Management Process

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Social Media
Data Mining
Interviews
Emergency Management
Crisis
Disaster

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Prasenjit Mitra, Major Field Member
Timothy E. Kohler, Special Member
Stephanie Madden, Outside Unit & Field Member
Andrea Tapia, Major Field Member
Nick Giacobe, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

De Jeronimo Diaz, Cesar

Title:

The Cardiac Inflammatory Response in Sterile and Viral Inflammation

Graduate Program:

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology (PHD)

Keywords:

Left Ventricle
Hypertension
Flow Cytometry
NLRP3
SARS-CoV-2
Inflammation
Inflammasome
Salt Sensitivity
Macrophage

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Committee Members:

Vishal Singh, Outside Unit & Field Member
Connie Rogers, Major Field Member
Matam Kumar, Special Member
Donna Korzick, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kumble Prabhu, Major Field Member
Gregory Shearer, Program Head/Chair