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Author:

Tzamaras, Haroula

Title:

Transforming medical education through simulation design: The development and validation of a central line training system

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

medical simulation
central venous catheterization
gender-confidence gap
medical education
simulation-based training
simulator validation

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Jason Moore, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ling Rothrock, Major Field Member
Scarlett Miller, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yiqi Zhang, Major Field Member
Lisa Sinz, Special Member

Author:

Field, Cassandra

Title:

Evaluation of Coronavirus Re-infection and the Transmissibility of Emerging Influenza Viruses

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

virology
influenza virus
coronavirus
pandemic
respiratory virus
viral transmission
ferret
hamster
emerging viruses

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Committee Members:

Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair
Anthony Schmitt, Major Field Member
Moriah Szpara, Outside Unit & Field Member
Girish Kirimanjeswara, Major Field Member
Troy Sutton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Gao, Linying

Title:

Microphysical Mechanisms Behind the Nonlinear Elastic Response of Granular Media

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Nonlinear acoustics
granular media
ultrasonics
DAET
geophysics
relative humidity
grain shape

File:

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Chris Marone, Outside Unit & Field Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Major Field Member
Clifford Lissenden, Major Field Member
Jacques Riviere, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Luo, Junyu

Title:

Advancing Predictive Models in Healthcare: From Single to Multi-Modality

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Healthcare Data
Predictive Model
Deep Learning

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sharon Huang, Major Field Member
Fenglong Ma, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rui Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lu Lin, Major Field Member

Author:

Asson, Sarah

Title:

Rezoning educational opportunities: A mixed methods study of school attendance zone boundaries, racial segregation, and educational inequality in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership (PHD)

Keywords:

school attendance zones
rezoning
racial segregation
access to educational opportunity
metropolitan segregation

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Committee Members:

Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair
Matthew Kelly, Major Field Member
Erica Frankenberg, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Christopher Fowler, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Kai Schafft, Major Field Member

Author:

Flanagan, Caitlin

Title:

Moving without a Care in the World: A Care Approach to Migration Studies

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Migration
Care
Skilled Migrants
Gender
Iran
Feminist Demography

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Committee Members:

Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Bronwen Powell, Major Field Member
Lorraine Dowler, Major Field Member
Stephen Matthews, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Christopher Fowler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Lacopo, Francesco

Title:

The Papal States in the Mediterranean World: Conversion to Catholicism in Rome and Ancona

Graduate Program:

History (PHD)

Keywords:

Papal States
conversion
missions
Jesuits
Mediterranean World
Rome
Ancona
Adriatic
Jewish History
Religious History
Social History
Cultural History
Urban History
Papacy
Catholic Church

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Committee Members:

Faisal Husain, Major Field Member
Matthew Restall, Major Field Member
Ronnie Hsia, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robin Thomas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kathryn Merkel-Hess Mcdonald, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Amanda Scott, Major Field Member

Author:

Reger, David

Title:

On the Use of Large Eddy Simulation and Direct Numerical Simulation to Improve Near-Wall Modeling in Porous Media Models of Pebble Bed Reactors

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Pebble Bed Reactor
Wall Chanelling
Porous Media
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Large Eddy Simulation
Direct Numerical Simulation
Correlation Devleopment
Pressure Drop
Interphase Heat Transfer

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Committee Members:

Jon Schwantes, Program Head/Chair
Elia Merzari, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Paolo Balestra, Special Member
Saya Lee, Major Field Member
Bladimir Ramos Alvarado, Outside Unit & Field Member
William Walters, Special Member
Xing Wang, Major Field Member

Author:

Ying, Ziyu

Title:

Improving Performance and Energy Efficiency for Visual Computing on Resource-Constrained Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Visual Computing
Resource-Constrained Device
Optimization
Energy-Efficiency

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sharon Huang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member

Author:

Yan, Yue

Title:

Personalized Intravesical Immunotherapy for Bladder Cancer

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

cancer
bladder cancer
immunotherapy
cancer immunotherapy
personalized medicine

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Committee Members:

Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
David Degraff, Outside Unit & Field Member
Pak Kin Wong, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yong Wang, Major Field Member
Justin Pritchard, Major Field Member
Yuguo Lei, Major Field Member

Author:

Matu, Jeffrey

Title:

An exploratory comparative case study on the effectiveness of multi-level governance frameworks in promoting inclusive and equitable practices in technical and vocational education and training

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development (PHD)

Keywords:

sustainability education
cultural diversity
lived experience
identity
culturally relevant pedagogy
thematic analysis
community college
African Philosophies
CBET
TVET
Leadership
Teacher Preparedness
Sustainable Development Goals
Kenya
Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Voluntary Local Reviews
Voluntary National Reviews
Governance Frameworks
Comparative Analysis
Community College
Competency-based Education and Training (CBET)
Cultural Diversity
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP)
Identity
Lived Experience
Sustainability Education
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
Thematic Analysis
United States

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Committee Members:

William Rothwell, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Brennan, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Cynthia Pellock, Major Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Mark Threeton, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joey Fleck, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Ruoheng

Title:

Schweinfurthins And Immunogenic Cell Death

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Schweinfurthins
Immunogenic Cell Death (ICD)
calreticulin (CRT)
ER stress
apoptosis

File:

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Committee Members:

Jong Yun, Major Field Member
Hong Zheng, Major Field Member
Todd Schell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Raymond Hohl, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jeffrey Neighbors, Major Field Member
Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kurpiel, Allison

Title:

Hate At School: Assessing The Role of Bias Motivation In Adolescent Peer Victimization

Graduate Program:

Criminology (PHD)

Keywords:

Bias
School Violence
Bullying
Victimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Michelle Frisco, Program Head/Chair
Jennifer Frank, Outside Unit & Field Member
Pamela Wilcox, Major Field Member
David Ramey, Major Field Member
Jeremy Staff, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Isaacson, Aaron

Title:

Microstructural Evolution Under Loss of Lubriction Conditions in Aerospace Gear Steels

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Aerospace Gear Steel Failure
Friction
Surface Oxidation
Hot Hardness
Loss of Lubrication Gear Failure
Microstructural Evolution
Scuffing

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Tarasankar Debroy, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
Todd Palmer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Voigt, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Boyer, Katy

Title:

“Fair Creature of an Hour”: Romantic Ballet and Its Affects of Disfigurement

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

Romanticism
British Romanticism
European Romanticism
ballet
Romantic ballet
second-generation Romantics
second-generation British Romantics
2nd-generation British Romantics
2nd-generation Romantics
Gautier
Lord Byron
Byron
Marie Taglioni
Fanny Elssler
Fanny Cerrito
Emma Livry
ballerina
ballerino
Romantic poetry
sublime
embodiment
affect
affect theory
Paul de Man
de Man
deconstruction
French deconstruction
affect studies
visual studies
visual culture
disfigurement
inscription
mourning
death
loss
Sara Ahmed
disfiguration
Clara Webster
Livry
Cerrito
Elssler
Taglioni
spectatorship
empathy
speculative
imaginative
The Rhetoric of Romanticism
rhetoric
anatomy
body
bodies

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Committee Members:

Claire Colebrook, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Elizabeth Kadetsky, Major Field Member
Janet Lyon, Major Field Member
Sabine Doran, Outside Unit & Field Member
Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Hua, Weiyun

Title:

Development of a precision heating strategy for smart frost management in apple orchards

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Frost management
Heating
Numerical simulation
Path planning
Cyber-physical systems

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Minghui Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Long He, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Paul Heinemann, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Armen Kemanian, Major & Minor Field Member

Author:

Zhou, Dongqin

Title:

Deep Reinforcement Learning Approaches to Perimeter Metering Control Problems

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Macroscopic fundamental diagram
Perimeter metering control
Deep reinforcement learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
S. Ilgin Guler, Major Field Member
Satadru Dey, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vikash Gayah, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Kostas Papakonstantinou, Major Field Member

Author:

Eckert, Scott

Title:

Studying risk factors for antibiotic resistance from population-scale microbiome data and machine learning

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)

Keywords:

Microbiome
bioinformatics
antibiotic resistance
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
statistical genetics
machine learning

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Committee Members:

Dajiang Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Broach, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Leslie Parent, Outside Unit & Field Member
Emily Davenport, Major Field Member
David Koslicki, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Xinyi

Title:

Application of sSNOM and Multidimensional Characterization to Reveal Nanoscale Properties of 2D Materials and Their van der Waals Heterostructures

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

sSNOM
multidimensional imaging
2D materials
van der Waals Heterostructures
polaritons

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Michael Lanagan, Major Field Member
Slava Rotkin, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saptarshi Das, Major Field Member
Tetyana Ignatova, Special Member
Joan Redwing, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Gerhard, Ethan M

Title:

Development of Citrate – Based Biomaterials for Orthopedic Tissue Regeneration and Ocular Drug Delivery

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

citrate
citric acid
biomaterials
ophthamology
fluorescent biomaterials
ocular biomaterials
metabonegenesis
orthopedic biomaterials

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Committee Members:

Xiaojun Lian, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sulin Zhang, Major Field Member
Yong Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jian Yang, Special Member

Author:

Ahn, Hannah

Title:

Three Essays in Population Health, Health Economics and Outcomes Research

Graduate Program:

Health Policy and Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

systematic review
alcohol use disorder
oral health disparity
dental services use
population health
health economics
health outcomes research
Bayesian multivariate network meta-analysis
Bayesian network meta-analysis
natural unit cost-effectiveness analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Chris Hollenbeak, Program Head/Chair
David Vanness, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joel Segel, Major Field Member
Sarah Kawasaki, Outside Unit Member
Stephen Matthews, Outside Field Member

Author:

Sahraei Joubani, Ali

Title:

Development of a new fatigue performance test using the Hamburg Wheel Tracking Device

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Asphalt Mixture
Fatigue Performance
Hamburg Wheel Tracking Test

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Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
Reuben Kraft, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Mansour Solaimanian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shihui Shen, Major Field Member
Aleksandra Radli¿ska, Major Field Member
Behnam Jahangiri Koohbanani, Special Member

Author:

Cirilo, Joseph

Title:

The Role of Class III Myosins in Actin Protrusion Length Regulation

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

myosin
actin
actin cytoskeleton
actin protrusion
filopodia
stereocilia
molecular motor
MYO3A
cell biology

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Committee Members:

Thomas Spratt, Major Field Member
Christopher Yengo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Maria Bewley, Outside Unit Member
Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Nikolay Dokholyan, Outside Field Member

Author:

Jurgensen, Marius

Title:

Emergent Quantization in Interacting Thouless Pumps

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Topology
Thouless Pump
Quantization
Interactions
Nonlinearity
Solitons
Fractional
Integer

File:

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Committee Members:

Mikael Rechtsman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chaoxing Liu, Major Field Member
Xingjie Ni, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jorge Sofo, Major Field Member
Mauricio Terrones, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kidder, Katie

Title:

Investigations of Coarse-Grained Representations

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Coarse-graining
Information loss
Representations

File:

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Committee Members:

William Noid, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lasse Jensen, Major Field Member
Mark Maroncelli, Major Field Member
Jorge Sofo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yuan, Zhenyuan

Title:

Safe machine learning for intelligent multi-robot systems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine learning
Multi-robot systems
distributed learning
reinforcement learning
safe machine learning
Gaussian process regression
motion planning
generalization
learning and control

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Minghui Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alan Wagner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Constantino Lagoa, Major Field Member
Ying Sun, Major Field Member

Author:

Vajjiravelu Baskaran, Saambhavi

Title:

Distributed execution model for near-data accelerators

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

near-data accelerator
execution model
accelerator abstraction
accelerator interfaces

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Major Field Member
Linhai Song, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Liu, Yilin

Title:

Finger Motion Analysis for Interactive Applications using Wearable and Wireless IoT devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Finger motion tracking
Machine learning
Deep learning
Wearable sensing
Human behavior sensing
Wireless sensing

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Bin Li, Major Field Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amulya Yadav, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Mc Clymonds, Austin

Title:

Facilitating the Information Exchange Between A BIM and Construction Robot

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Robots
Information Exchange
Parametric Modeling
Computational Modeling
Masonry
Construction
Robotic Construction
System Architecture
Photogrammetry
Reality Capture

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Committee Members:

James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Jose Pinto Duarte, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rob Leicht, Major Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Messner, Major Field Member

Author:

Lundburg, Evan

Title:

Heat Transfer Augmentation in the Entry Region of Circular Channels

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Heat Transfer
Pin Fin
Fin
Turbulator
Entry Region
Circular Channel
Pipe
Inlet
Flow-field
Boundary layer development
Distortion
Inlet distortion
Thermal Performance
Total pressure loss
Infrared thermography
Heat transfer augmentation

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
David Hall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tamy Guimaraes, Major Field Member
Karen Thole, Major Field Member
Stephen Lynch, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
M Eric Lyall, Special Member

Author:

Lowrey, Kendal

Title:

Intergenerational Poverty, Public Assistance Use, and Earnings Among Second Generation Immigrants

Graduate Program:

Sociology (PHD)

Keywords:

socioeconomic status
poverty
public assistance
earnings
second generation
immigrants
intergenerational mobility

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Committee Members:

Michelle Frisco, Program Head/Chair
John Iceland, Major Field Member
Leif Jensen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jennifer Van Hook, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michelle Frisco, Major Field Member

Author:

Horisk, Kaitlyn

Title:

Plants, Precipitation, and People in Dhofar, Oman: Dryland Ecosystem Resilience in a Changing World

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Paleoecology
climate change
vegetation
Arabia
pastoralism
taxonomic turnover
isotopes
pollen
Agent-based model

File:

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Erin DiMaggio, Major Field Member
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Ivory, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joy McCorriston, Special Member
Kate Freeman, Major Field Member

Author:

Cong, Weilin

Title:

Fundamental problems in graph learning: optimization, generalization, privacy, and model design

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Graph representation learning
Optimization
Generalization

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Chache, Frederick

Title:

Implementation of an Age of Information Aware Wireless Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Age of Information
Wireless Sensor Networks
LoRa
Internet of Things

File:

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Karl Reichard, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Cullina, Major Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member
Ramesh Bharadwaj, Special Member

Author:

Lentes, Julie

Title:

Seeds of Empathy, Rooted in Critical Reflection: Nurturing Cultural Humility in Global Health Trainees

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education (DED)

Keywords:

cultural humility
critical reflection
transformative learning
global health
adult education
health professions education

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Committee Members:

Karin Sprow Forte, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Betsy Aumiller, Outside Field Member
Karin Sprow Forte, Major Field Member
Kristin Sznajder, General Studies & Outside Unit Member
Elizabeth Tisdell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Petty, Raya

Title:

"I said what I said": Black women narratives on identity, communication, and refusal at historically white institutions

Graduate Program:

Higher Education (PHD)

Keywords:

Black women
Black girlhood
Higher education
Refusal

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Committee Members:

Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair
Tiffany Nyachae, Outside Field Member
Janice Byrd, Outside Unit Member
Wilson Okello, Major Field Member
LaWanda Ward, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Li, Zheyu

Title:

Accelerating Data-intensive Bioinformatic Workloads

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Bioinformatic
Genome sequencing
FPGA
In-memory computing
Whole Silde Imaging
Max Cut
Nanopore Sequencing
Sorting

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Mathur, Jayant

Title:

The role of immersive virtual reality in developing design and process intuition for additive manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

additive manufacturing
virtual reality
immersive user experiences
design for additive manufacturing
engineering education
digital simulation

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Committee Members:

Nicholas Meisel, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Scarlett Miller, Major Field Member
John Messner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Sebastian, Aswathy

Title:

Advancing Genomic and Transcriptomic Knowledge Through Reproducible Bioinformatics Workflows

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)

Keywords:

Bioinformatics
Workflows
Genomics
Transcriptomics
Metabarcoding

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Committee Members:

Andrew Patterson, Major Field Member
Shaun Mahony, Chair of Committee
Istvan Albert, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Reka Albert, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Koslicki, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Siefert, Jacob

Title:

Reachability Analysis of Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems Using Hybrid Zonotopes and Graphs of Functions

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Verification
Control
Set-Theoretic Methods
Reachability Analysis
Estimation
Hybrid Zonotopes

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Committee Members:

Herschel Pangborn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Constantino Lagoa, Outside Field Member
Jacob Langelaan, Outside Unit Member
Brandon Hencey, Special Member
Sean Brennan, Major Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Dinunno, Nadia

Title:

overcoming limitations of Icosahedral reconstructions of viruses

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

structural biology

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Committee Members:

Jianming Hu, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Aron Lukacher, Major Field Member
Matthew Swulius, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joseph Wang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lynch, Danielle Monique

Title:

THE EXPLORATION OF BLACK MALE PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES AND THEIR LIVED EXPERIENCES IN LIGHT OF THE CURRENT SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS 2013-2023

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education (DED)

Keywords:

critical race theory
public pedagogy
intersectionality
Black male professional athletes
social justice
activism
narrative
storytelling
qualitative
adult education
lifelong learning

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Committee Members:

Karin Sprow Forte, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Zaborskis, Outside Field Member
Charles Kupfer, General Studies & Outside Unit Member
Elizabeth Tisdell, Committee Member
Karin Sprow Forte, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kelly, Colin

Title:

NONUNIFORM APERTURE SAMPLING AND CENTER FREQUENCY RANDOMIZATION FOR 3-DIMENSIONAL RADAR IMAGING WITH SPARSE APERTURES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Synthetic Aperture Radar
3-D Radar Imaging
Sparse Apertures
Recursive Sidelobe Minimization
RSM-ACF
RSM
Ultra-Wideband Radar
Grating Lobe Suppression
Sidelobe Suppression

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Committee Members:

Sven Bilén, Major Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brian Phelan, Special Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Traian Dogaru, Special Member
Soundar Kumara, Outside Unit & Field Member
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gencavage, Lisabeth Eames

Title:

Navigating Complexity: The Military Veteran Re-entry Experience into a Satisfying Civilian Career

Graduate Program:

Adult Education (DED)

Keywords:

Veterans
Military Transition
Complexity Theory
Systems Theory
Successful Military Transitions
Adult Education
Self-directed Learning
Civilian Re-entry
Civilian Transition
Military Veterans
Post-911
Successful Veterans

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Committee Members:

Charles Kupfer, General Studies & Outside Field Member
Triparna Vasavada, Outside Unit Member
Elizabeth Tisdell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karin Sprow Forte, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Tisdell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Fernandez Flores, Miguel

Title:

Cosmic veiling and pre-inflationary initial conditions in R+R2 gravity

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

quantum gravity
inflation
cosmology

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Committee Members:

Sarah Shandera, Major Field Member
Eugenio Bianchi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Donghui Jeong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Irina Mocioiu, Major Field Member
Irina Mocioiu, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Pang, Ren

Title:

Understanding and Mitigating Neural Backdoors

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

backdoor attack
deep learning
backdoor defense
AutoML
Neural Architecture Search

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Committee Members:

Xiang Zhang, Major Field Member
Fenglong Ma, Major Field Member
Ting Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Yang, Mingyao

Title:

Roles of Pramex1 and Pramel1 during spermatogenesis

Graduate Program:

Animal Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Transgenic mouse
Single/double Knockout
Spermatogenesis
Prame gene family
Synergistic genetic enhancement
Sertoli cell-only phenotype
Retinoic acid signaling

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Committee Members:

Adele Turzillo, Program Head/Chair
Joy Pate, Major Field Member
Francisco Diaz, Major Field Member
Jon Oatley, Special Member
Wansheng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Margherita Cantorna, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Schrecengost, Jonathon

Title:

Magneto-Optics of Plasmas, Bipolarons in Organic Semiconductors, and Electro-Optics of 2D Metals

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Faraday Rotation
Magneto-Optic
Transparent Conducting Oxides
Plasmonics
Organic Electronics
Bipolarons
Magnetoresistance
OLED
2D Polar Metals
Confinement Heteroepitaxy
Electric-Double-Layer Gating

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
Noel Giebink, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Sahin Ozdemir, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Chung, Taejung

Title:

Comparative Genomic and Phenotypic Analyses of Bacillus cereus sensu stricto biovar Thuringiensis and Non-Thuringiensis

Graduate Program:

Food Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Food Microbiology
Food Safety
Bacillus cereus
Bacillus thuringiensis
Food borne pathogen

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Committee Members:

Jasna Kovac, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Istvan Albert, Outside Unit & Field Member
Edward Dudley, Major Field Member
Josephine Wee, Major Field Member
Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Daily, Richard

Title:

Locked In: Intimacy, Incarceration, and HIV/AIDS in the Black Gay Arts Movement During the Long 1980’s

Graduate Program:

History (PHD)

Keywords:

Black Studies
Carceral Studies
Queer Studies
Queer of Color Critique
Affect Theory
U.S. History
HIV/AIDS
incarceration
Black Gay Men
Black Gay Artist
Joseph Beam

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Committee Members:

Lori Ginzberg, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hil Malatino, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cathleen Cahill, Major Field Member
Ellen Stroud, Major Field Member
Michael West, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amy Greenberg, Program Head/Chair