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Author:

Yin, Qin

Title:

Understanding Construction Safety: Exploring Relationships between Individual-level Perceptions of Team Construct

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

construction safety
teamwork

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Committee Members:

Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Susan Simkins, Outside Field Member
James LeBreton, Outside Unit Member
Yuqing Hu, Major Field Member
Esther Obonyo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Wang, Haizhou

Title:

Using AI Technologies To Solve Software Security Challenges

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Large Language Model
Artificial Intelligence
Software Security
Reverse Engineering
Deep Learning
Information Security

File:

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Peng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sharon Huang, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member

Author:

Yang, Fuhan

Title:

Understanding respiratory disease seasonality: quantitative characterization, mechanistic interpretation, and future projection

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Respiratory disease dynamics
Seasonality
Stochasticity
Forecast
Infectious disease modeling

File:

Download FuhanYang_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair
Ephraim Hanks, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Jessica Conway, Chair of Committee
Ottar Bjornstad, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Maciej Boni, Dissertation Co-Advisor

Author:

Howells, Callie Lynn

Title:

Studies of Allergic Diseases: Exploring Predictors of Asthma Treatment Superiority and Food Allergy Associations with Dietary Patterns and Metabolic Syndrome

Graduate Program:

Epidemiology (PhD)

Keywords:

cardiovascular disease
metabolic syndrome
asthma
food allergy
diet quality
dietary patterns
corn allergy
allergic asthma

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Committee Members:

Cheryl Thompson, Program Head/Chair
Vernon Chinchilli, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dave Mauger, Outside Field Member
Djibril M Ba, Special Member
Timothy Craig, Outside Unit Member
Cheryl Thompson, Major Field Member

Author:

Singh, Parmveer

Title:

Understanding Researchers’ Positionality in Integrating and Designing the Transdisciplinary Research Process and Outcomes: A Case Study of Thriving Agriculture Project

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

Stakeholder participation
co-production of knowledge
conceptual clarity
transdisciplinary research wicked problems
Delphi study
consensus
program evaluation

File:

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Committee Members:

Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Emily Pakhtigian, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Ewing, Major Field Member
Mark Brennan, Major Field Member
Mark Brennan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kemmerling, Jesse

Title:

The Development of Gallium Nitride Super-Heterojunction Transistors for 10-kV Blocking and 3-kV Switching

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

GaN
wide-bandgap
high voltage switch
MOSFET
HEMT
semiconductor switch
breakdown voltage
current collapse
on-resistance
transistor
super-heterojunction
superjunction
dynamic performance
electric field distribution
charge balance
charge balance technique
Schottky barrier diodes
dynamic on-resistance
gallium nitride
III-V semiconductor
semiconductor fabrication
TCAD
simulation
2DEG
AlGaN/GaN
high electron mobility transistors
metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors
SHJ
capacitance
field-plate
p-n junction
fast-switching
10-kV
3-kV switching
3-kV
analytical model
derivation
Ron-BV relationship

File:

Download Dissertation_Kemmerling_GaN_SHJ_Transistors_10kV_11052024.pdf

Committee Members:

Tom Jackson, Major Field Member
Rongming Chu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Yue

Title:

Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on kidney diseases: insights from real-world data

Graduate Program:

Epidemiology (PhD)

Keywords:

COVID-19
Kidney Diseases
Long COVID
Real-World Evidence

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Committee Members:

Kathryn Risher, Major Field Member
Vernon Chinchilli, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leslie Parent, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nasrollah Ghahramani, Special Member
Djibril M Ba, Special Member
Duanping Liao, Major Field Member
Kathryn Risher, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Brown, Avery

Title:

Vibromechanical Performance of Carbon/Epoxy Stiffened Panels with Acoustic Black Hole Features

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Carbon/Epoxy
Vibration Reduction
Stiffened Panel

File:

Download AveryBrown_PhDDissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Bakis, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Christopher Kube, Major Field Member
Ben Beck, Outside Unit Member
Matthew D Waller, Special Member
Edward Smith, Dissertation Co-Advisor
George Lesieutre, Outside Field Member
Laura Cabrera, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bernhard, Katie

Title:

Risk, Livelihood Decisions, and Resilience in the Greater Virunga Transboundary Landscape

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

conservation social science
park-adjacent communities
tropics
East Africa
household resilience
conservation social science
risk preferences
decision making
survey methods
East Africa
mixed methods
livelihoods
tropics

File:

Download Bernhard-2024-PhD_Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derrick Taff, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Edwin Sabuhoro, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Erica Smithwick, Outside Field Member
Katherine Zipp, Outside Unit Member
Carter Hunt, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Hart, Tricia

Title:

Cardiometabolic Effects of Pecans as a Snack: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

cardiometabolic diseases
metabolic syndrome
tree nuts
pecans
lipids
lipoproteins
flow mediated dilation
HEI-2020

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Committee Members:

Meg Bruening, Program Head/Chair
Gregory Shearer, Major Field Member
Michael Russell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alison Gernand, Major Field Member
Kristina Petersen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor