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Author:

Li, Qiyuan

Title:

Examining the Effects of Learners’ Background and Social Network Position on Content-Related Interaction via the MOOC Platform

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

MOOCs
Interaction
Machine Learning
SEM
Social Network Analysis
Online Learning

File:

Download QL_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Priya Sharma, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Priya Sharma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roy Clariana, Committee Member
Simon Hooper, Committee Member
Runze Li, Outside Member

Author:

Nandy, Debmalya

Title:

COVARIATE INFORMATION: A NOVEL APPROACH TO SUFFICIENT DIMENSION REDUCTION & FEATURE SCREENING FOR ULTRAHIGH-DIMENSIONAL COVARIATES IN SUPERVISED PROBLEMS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Fisher information
Density information
Supervised problems
Sufficient dimension reduction
Feature screening
Ultrahigh dimension
Bootstrap

File:

Download PennState_StatisticsPhDDissertation_Final_eTD_081619.pdf

Committee Members:

Francesca Chiaromonte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Outside Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Weixin Yao, Special Member

Author:

Subramanian, Anita

Title:

THE EFFECT OF PRENATAL VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION ON MATERNAL BLOOD PRESSURE AND PLACENTAL ANGIOGENESIS IN BANGLADESH

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Pregnancy
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
Placental Growth Factor
Angiogenic Factors
Vitamin D
Placental Villi
Systolic Blood Pressure
Diastolic Blood Pressure

File:

Download Effect_of_vitamin_D_Supplementation_on_Maternal_Blood_Pressure_and_Placental_Angiogenesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Alison Diane Gernand, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alison Diane Gernand, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiang Gao, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Francisco Javier Diaz, Outside Member
Daniel E. Roth, Special Member
Laura E Murray-Kolb, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Brashear, Awtum

Title:

Next Generation Sequencing In the Understanding of Neglected Malaria Parasites

Graduate Program:

Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Keywords:

Malaria
Genomics
Transcriptomics
RNA Sequencing
Southeast Asia
China
Myanmar
Thailand
Border
Plasmodium vivax
Plasmodium ovale
Antigenic Variation
Drug Resistance
Anti-Malarial Resistance

File:

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Committee Members:

Runze Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margarita Maria Lopez-Uribe, Committee Member
Maciej F Boni, Committee Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Outside Member
Liwang Cui, Special Member
Margherita Teresa-Anna Cantorna, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Chixiang

Title:

Statistical Models for Recovering Dynamic Gene Networks from Static Data

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics

Keywords:

The Genotype-Tissue Expression
Disease progression
Network learning
Ordinary differential equations
Quasi-dynamic network

File:

Download CCX_Penn_State_University_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Rongling Wu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rongling Wu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ming Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vernon Michael Chinchilli, Committee Member
Joanna Floros, Outside Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Xiang Zhan, Committee Member
Arthur Steven Berg, Program Head/Chair
Ming Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Moysidis, Ilias

Title:

Joint Estimation of Multiple Graphical Models From Heterogeneous Subpopulations

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Graphical Models
Joint estimation
heterogeneous subpopulations
neighborhood selection
variable selection
nonsmooth optimization
functional graphical models

File:

Download Ilias_Moysidis_-_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bing Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bing Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Alexei Novikov, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, 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:

Wu, Min Chun

Title:

Convex Sensing: Topological Approaches to Nonlinear Dimension Inference

Graduate Program:

Mathematics (PHD)

Keywords:

convex sensing
nonlinear dimension inference
topological data analysis
persistence homology
applied topology
Dowker complex
probabilistic model
directed complex
linear complex
complex of injective words
neuroscience
olfactory systems
Betti curves
convex sensing
nonlinear dimension inference
topological data analysis
persistence homology
applied topology
Dowker complex
probabilistic model
directed complex
linear complex
complex of injective words
neuroscience
olfactory systems
Betti curves

File:

Download minchunwu-diss.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Case, Major Field Member
Carina Curto, Major Field Member
Vladimir Itskov, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Carina Curto, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Srinivasan, Arun

Title:

Topics on High-Dimensional Statistical Methods for Compositional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

compositional data analysis
robust statistics
human microbiome
high-dimensional statistics
covariance estimation
knockoff filter
variable selection
tyler's m-estimator
huber's m-estimator

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiang Zhan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Major Field Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Major Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Dou, Nan

Title:

FOOD INSECURITY AND MENTAL HEALTH DISPARITIES AMONG VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

food insecurity
Hispanic minorities
depression
stress
social support
longitudinal study
Food insecurity
Mental health
Heart rate variability
Vulnerable populations

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Committee Members:

Laura Murray-Kolb, Major Field Member
Xiang Gao, Major Field Member
Muzi Na, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Gregory Shearer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies