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Author:

Traore, Abdelmoumine

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)

Keywords:

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

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Radwan, Noriana

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

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

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Lipski, Michael

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

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

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Chaky, Ryan

Title:

Rethinking RF Metasurface Design and Analysis via Optimization

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

electromagnetics
antennas
metasurfaces
optimization
radar cross section
transmitarray
reflectarray
coding metasurface

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Jenkins, Ronald

Title:

New Multi-Objective Inverse-Design Techniques for Functionalized Metasurfaces

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

metasurface
multi-objective
optimization
nanophotonics
topology optimization
optics
nanofabrication

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Whiting, Eric Ben

Title:

Advanced Electromagnetic Metamaterial Design

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

metasurface
optimization
gradient index
lens
dielectric resonator antenna
adjoint sensitivity

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Stearns, Aaron J

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

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

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Tran, Thu

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

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

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Jin, Lan

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

telemedicine
B2B network
pricing
optimization
Stackelberg game

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Graybill, Philip

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

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

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Committee Members:

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