Search

Author:

Ren, Xuan

Title:

Development of Fabrication Methods for Porous Hydrogel

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

Porous hydrogel
Pore structure
Fabrication methods
Cryogelation
Particle templating

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Yong Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaojun Lance Lian, Committee Member
Yuguo Lei, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Sturniolo, Nathaniel

Title:

Shedding Light on Interference from Microscale Concave Interfaces and Their Unique Iridescent Properties

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Fourier microscopy
Ray tracing
Far field
Iridescence
Structural Coloration
Microscale Interfaces
Total internal reflection
Interference
Angularly resolved
Spectral analysis
Edge diffraction
Optical path lengths
Extended ray analysis
Full wave simulations
Region selective illumination

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Kenneth Knappenberger, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Knappenberger, Major Field Member
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Joan Redwing, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Samson, David

Title:

Enabling Genetically Encoded Bioluminescent Reporting for Studying Begomovirus Movement in Plants

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Bioluminescence
Gene Therapy
Geminivirus
Crop Protection
Agrobacterium
Reporter Genes

File:

Download MS_Thesis_-_David_Samson_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Wayne Roger Curtis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Phillip Savage, Program Head/Chair
Amir Sheikhi, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Jack

Title:

Time-Frequency Analysis for Long-Term Propagation in the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Astrodynamics
Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem
Time-Frequency Analysis
Dynamical Systems Theory
Cislunar Travel
Continuous Wavelet Transform
Differential Corrections
Poincare Maps

File:

Download JackLiThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Roshan Thomas Eapen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Adam

Title:

Elucidating the influence of k-mer sizes in k-mer-based objects

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

k-mer
de Bruin graph
Bray-Curtis dissimilarity
BWT
Borrow-Wheeler transform
suffix tree
metagenomics
pangenomics

File:

Download Adam_thesis_2025.pdf

Committee Members:

David Koslicki, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Member
Antonio Blanca, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Snyder, Krystal

Title:

Increasing Profit Margins in Hydroponic Lettuce by Reducing Fertilizer Inputs

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science

Keywords:

plant nutrition
hydroponics
controlled environment agriculture

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Elsa Sánchez, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alyssa Anne Collins, Committee Member
Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair
Carla D. Garzon, Committee Member

Author:

O'Connor, Taylor

Title:

Sick, Savage, Citizen- Vegetarian Propaganda and French Revolution

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

French Revolution
eighteenth century
vegetarianism
jacobin
revolutionary
france
Republic

File:

Download SICK_SAVAGE_CITIZEN__TAO_DISSERTATION_FINAL_MARCH_25.pdf

Committee Members:

Adlai Murdoch, Program Head/Chair
Emmanuel Jean-Francois, Major Field Member
Tracy Rutler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Benedicte Monicat, Major Field Member
Sarah Miller, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Dulam, Swapnika

Title:

Computational Cognitive Modeling to understand the effects of racializing AI on Human-AI cooperation with Pig Chase task

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Human-AI interaction
ACT-R
Cognitive modeling
Socio culturally competent AI
Ethical AI

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Christopher Dancy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frank Ritter, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kao, Wing Him

Title:

Projecting Future Changes in Extratropical Transition of Atlantic Hurricanes in Earth System Models

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

Hurricane
Tropical Cyclone
Extratropical Cyclone
Extratropical Transition
Climate Modeling
Climate Change
Global Warming

File:

Download KAO_Wing_Him_Thesis_Official_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Colin M. Zarzycki, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xingchao Chen, Committee Member
Paul Markowski, Program Head/Chair
Kevin Andrew Bowley, Committee Member

Author:

Landon, Edward

Title:

Addressing Issues of Degeneracy and Phase Transition in Exponential-Family Random Graph Models via Tapering

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

ERGM
maximum entropy
Ising model
bimodality
maximum likelihood estimation

File:

Download EdwardLandon_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

David Hunter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Schweinberger, Committee Member
Runze Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Aleman, Max

Title:

Disease Impact on Aerial Surface Microbiomes and Chemistry

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

Phylloplane microbiome
Leaf surface metabolites (LSMP)
Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 (DC3K)
Agaricus bisporus
Bacterial blotch
Metagenomics
Untargeted metabolomics
Jasmonic acid defense response
Salicylic acid signaling
Systemic induced susceptibility (SIS)
Polyamines
Hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives
Coronatine
Type III secretion system
Plant-pathogen interactions
Microbiome disruption
Surface chemistry
Biocontrol
Aerial surface microbiota
Host-microbe-pathogen interactions

File:

Download Max_Aleman_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Carolee Bull, Major Field Member
Joshua Kellogg, Outside Unit & Field Member
Beth Gugino, Major Field Member
Kevin Hockett, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Armendarez, Nicholas

Title:

Brain-Inspired Physical Reservoir Computing Architectures Using Biomolecular Memristors

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Reservoir Computing
Memristors

File:

Download Nicholas_Armendarez_Final_With_Revision.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Herschel Pangborn, Major Field Member
Joseph Najem, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jean-Michel Mongeau, Major Field Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Hosur, Sujay Sheshagiri

Title:

Magnetoelectric-based Wireless Power and Data Transmission to Small Biomedical Implants

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Magnetoelectric transducers
Wireless power transfer
Magnetic field
Efficiency
Wireless interrogation
Low-frequency operation
Biomedical implants
Inductive coils
Ultrasound
Magnetic-ultrasound (MagSonic)
Miniaturization
Wireless energy
Implantable medical devices
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) coating
Integrated circuit
Neural Stimulation
Neural Recording

File:

Download Sujay_Hosur_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
Mehdi Kiani, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Weihua Guan, Major Field Member
Xiaogang Hu, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Wang, Spencer Han

Title:

Essays on Central Bank Profits

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

foreign exchange intervention
central bank profit concerns
central bank balance sheet
real earnings management
liquidity trap.
central bank profits
liquidity trap
monetary policy
interest rate

File:

Download Spencer_Doctoral_Thesis_Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry Ickes, Program Head/Chair
Qi LI, Major Field Member
Jiro Yoshida, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kai-Jie Wu, Major Field Member
Ruilin Zhou, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
David Argente, Special Member & Co-Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Narayanan Venkit, Pranav

Title:

Society and Bias: Uncovering Automated Prejudices in Sociotechnical Natural Language Processing Systems

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Natural Language Processing
Ethics in AI
Social Informatics
Algorithmic Fairness
Bias and Harms in NLP
Human Language Technology
Language Model Evaluation
Responsible AI

File:

Download Pranav_Venkit_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair
Dongwon Lee, Major Field Member
Shomir Wilson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amulya Yadav, Major Field Member
Rebecca Passonneau, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Prajapati, Abhishek Kumar

Title:

Large Scale Pavement Maintenance Planning

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Pavement Maintenance Planning
Traffic Dynamics
Optimization
Link Transmission Model
Congestion modeling
Genetic Algorithm
Infrastructure Management
Machine Learning

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation-Abhishek_Kumar_Prajapati.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
Xianbiao Hu, Major Field Member
Anirudh Subramanyam, Outside Unit & Field Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vikash Gayah, Major Field Member

Author:

Abu Aridah, Sara

Title:

Modeling an Integrated Approach to Promote Well-being: Culturally Inclusive Healthcare and Harm Reduction Initiative for Increasing Access to Services

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Harm Reduction
Opioid Overdose
Health Equity
Health Disparities
Access to Healthcare

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Saurabh Basu, Program Head/Chair
Soundar Kumara, Major Field Member
Paul Griffin, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vittaldas Prabhu, Major Field Member
Scarlett Miller, Major Field Member
Jessica Myrick, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Kaylor, Liam

Title:

Cryogenic Electron Microscopy for Rotavirus-like Particle Characterization

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

rotavirus
cryo-em
single particle analysis
virus-like particle

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair
C Okafor, Outside Unit Member
Adam Glick, Outside Field Member
Moriah Szpara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joyce Jose, Major Field Member
Katsuhiko Murakami, Special Signatory
Sarah McDonald Esstman, Special Member
Jennifer Gray, Special Member

Author:

Morrissey, Alexis

Title:

Computational methods to characterize the role of genomic repeats and duplicated genes in gene regulation

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)

Keywords:

transposable element
te
multi-mapped
chip-seq
atac-seq
dnase-seq
repetitive element
segmental duplication
duplicated gene
gene regulation
transcription factor binding

File:

Download Dissertation_morrissey_final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Koslicki, Program Head/Chair
Qunhua Li, Outside Unit Member
Shaun Mahony, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lu Bai, Outside Field Member
Kateryna Makova, Major Field Member

Author:

Lu, Tong

Title:

Molecular mechanisms affecting tumor necrosis in glioblastoma

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Tumor Necrosis
LC3-associated Phagocytosis
Neutrophil
Ferroptosis
Glioblastoma
Ischemia
Statins
Cancer Immunology

File:

Login to Download

Committee Members:

Hong-Gang Wang, Co-Chair of Committee
Wei Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amanda Nelson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Lisa Shantz, Major Field Member