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Author:

Hosie, Michael Patrick

Title:

Emotional immunity? Emotion recognition, empathic concern, and leadership

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Leadership
Emotion recognition
Empathy
Empathic Concern
Wellbeing

File:

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Committee Members:

Rick R Jacobs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alicia Ann Grandey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rick R Jacobs, Committee Member
Samuel Todd Hunter, Committee Member
David Manuel Almeida, Outside Member

Author:

Webb, Christina Eileen

Title:

Are false memories universal? Individual differences in susceptibility to false memories in older adults

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

aging
cognition
memory
false memory

File:

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Committee Members:

Nancy Anne Coulter Dennis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy Anne Coulter Dennis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michele Theresa Diaz, Committee Member
Koraly Elisa Perez-Edgar, Committee Member
Lesley Anne Ross, Outside Member

Author:

Ludwig-Dehm, Sarah Marie

Title:

Ethnic Diversity and Its Effects on Social Capital in Germany and the United States

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Ethnic Diversity
Social Capital
Generalized Trust
Segregation
Germany
United States

File:

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Committee Members:

John David Iceland, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Iceland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Committee Member
Barrett Alan Lee, Committee Member
Christopher Stiles Fowler, Outside Member

Author:

Baldys, Emily Marie

Title:

Narrative Rehabilitation: Disability and Ideology in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

disability
ideology
Victorian literature
Charlotte Bronte
Charles Dickens
Elizabeth Gaskell
Emily Bronte

File:

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Committee Members:

Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Robert E. Lougy, Committee Member
Greg Eghigian, Outside Member
Robert E. Lougy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert E. Lougy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Contrino, Domenic

Title:

An Investigation Into Domestic Biomass Feedstocks For a Sustainable Replacement of Fossil Cokes and Coals

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Carbon
Coke
Coal
EAF Steel
Emissions
Biochar

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Committee Members:

David William Mazyck, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William D Burgos, Committee Member
Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Whisler, Committee Member

Author:

Robert, Bibian

Title:

Inequalities in Birth Registration in Kenya: A Geospatial Analysis of Regional Disparities and Contributing Factors.

Graduate Program:

Spatial Data Science

Keywords:

Birth registration
Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System (CRVS)
Inequalities
Determinants
Logistic regression
Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR)
Similarity and Geographically Weighted Regression (SGWR)
Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)
Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
Kenya

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Committee Members:

Zhenlong Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Louisa Holmes, Committee Member
Anthony Robinson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Preissman, Zack

Title:

Safe Trajectory Planning and Control for Autonomous Close-Proximity Spacecraft Operations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rendezvous
Proximity Operations
Optimal Control
Regularization
Optimization
Shooting Method
Differential Corrections
Van der Pol
Nonlinear Dynamics
Trajectory Planning
Least Squares
Feedback Control
Sparse Regression
Conjugate Unscented Transform
Open-loop
Closed-loop
Control Input
Spacecraft dynamics
Docking

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Myers, Robert Michael

Title:

Embedding Ethics in the Spatial Data Science Curriculum

Graduate Program:

Spatial Data Science

Keywords:

Spatial Data Science
Ethics
Online Geospatial Program
Embedded Ethics

File:

Download Myers_Thesis_SDS-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Fritz Connor Kessler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Todd Smith Bacastow, Committee Member
Anthony Robinson, Program Head/Chair
David Di Biase, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lane, Molly

Title:

Exploring visitor experience with night sky programs in Yosemite National Park-Tuolumne meadows: A mixed methods approach

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

National Park
Interpretation
Mixed Methods
Night Sky
Theory of Planned Behavior
Elaboration Liklihood Model
Behavioral Spillover

File:

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Committee Members:

Derrick Taff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lucy R. Mc Clain, Committee Member
Andrew Mowen, Program Head/Chair
Peter Newman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bhala, Aayush

Title:

The Great Divide: Work Partitioning of database joins between CPU and GPU to bridge the great divide

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CUDA
Hybrid CPU-GPU processing
Workload partitioning
Unified Virtual Memory
Hash Join on GPU
GPGPU

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Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dong Xie, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Panda, Sourav

Title:

Toward Explainable Reinforcement Learning and a Custom RL Benchmark for Strategic Decision Making

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Reinforcement Learning
Explainable AI
Explainable RL
Sequential Domain
Decision Making

File:

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Dodge, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aron Laszka, Committee Member
Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Abhinav Verma, Committee Member

Author:

Foltz, Thomas

Title:

Video Anomaly Detection with Structured Keywords

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Anomaly Detection
Machine Learning
Foundational Model
Binary Classification
TF-IDF

File:

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Committee Members:

Huijuan Xu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wenpeng Yin, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Milcsik, Christopher

Title:

Aerial Package Delivery Path Planning in Winds

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

A*
UAV Path Planning
Monte Carlo Simulations
Urban Path Planning

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric Norman Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack Langelaan, Committee Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Junyi Geng, Committee Member

Author:

Chakraborty, Karmabir

Title:

When Milliseconds Matter: Evaluating the Vulnerability of High Frequency Trading Models to Adversarial Manipulation

Graduate Program:

Data Analytics

Keywords:

High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
Deep Learning
Adversarial Attacks
Algorithmic Trading
Limit Order Book (LOB)
FI-2010 Dataset
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)
Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM)
Projected Gradient Descent (PGD).
High Frequency Trading
Limit Order Books
FI-2010
Convolutional Neural Networks
Long Short-Term Memory
Fast Gradient Sign Method
Projected Gradient Descent
Finance
DeepLOB

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Committee Members:

Hajime Shimao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chengfei Wang, Committee Member
Raghu Sangwan, Program Head/Chair
Warut Khern-am-nuai, Committee Member

Author:

Mishra, Garvit

Title:

Passive Matching Network Guidelines for Performance Enhancement of Electrically Small Antennas

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Chu-Harrington Limit
Passive Network Tuner
Interdigital Capacitor (IDCap)
Meander Inductor
Electromagnetics (EM)
Bandwidth Enhancement
VHF
Reactance
Ground Plane
Electrically Small Antenna (ESA)
Microwave Integrated Circuit (MIC)
Folded Spherical Helix Antenna (FSH)
CMA-ES
BORG MOEA
Quality Factor
Computational Electromagnetics (CEM)
S-Parameters

File:

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Committee Members:

Douglas Henry Werner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sawyer Duane Campbell, Committee Member
John Doherty, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Shevade, Rahul

Title:

Probabilistic Analysis of Time to Discover Paths in Fuzzing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Fuzzing
Software Security
Probability

File:

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Committee Members:

G. Gary Tan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Saeid Tizpaz Niari, Committee Member

Author:

Wei, Yuchen

Title:

Balancing Generative and Supervised AI: The Trade-off Between LLMs and PLMs in Formative Assessment

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Formative Assessment
Automated Answer Assessment
Large Language Model
Pretrained Language Model

File:

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Committee Members:

Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wenpeng Yin, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rui Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Vasudeva Sarma, Abhiram

Title:

Formal Verification of Probabilistic Models

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

probabilistic programs
verification
cybersickness
Mixed Reality
Bayesian Networks

File:

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Committee Members:

G. Gary Tan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abhinav Verma, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Izurieta, Louis

Title:

Trajectory Planning in an Urban Scenario with Heuristic Guided Reinforcement Learning

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Reinforcement Learning
Support Vector Machine
Autonomous Vehicle

File:

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Committee Members:

Truong Xuan Tran, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldo W Morales, Committee Member
Sedig Agili, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Kiana Karami, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Xu, Yijia

Title:

Examine the use of shadow education under the “Double Reduction” policy: Evidence from China Family Panel Studies

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy (MA)

Keywords:

Shadow education
Family SES
Double Reduction policy
Chinese panel studies
Private tutoing

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Committee Members:

Soo-Yong Byun, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David P Baker, Committee Member
Adrienne Dixson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Han, Jiahang

Title:

hydrogel microtubes for tissue modeling

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

IDC model
Collagen microtube
Cell invasion
Matrigel

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Committee Members:

Yuguo Lei, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yong Wang, Committee Member
Yuguo Lei, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Pak Kin Wong, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Xiaotian

Title:

Verified ASN.1 UPER Parser

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

asn.1
domain specific language
Logic and verification
Computer Security

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Committee Members:

Syed Rafiul Hussain, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
G. Gary Tan, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sarma, Rhea

Title:

BEHAVIORAL INHIBITION IS NEGATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH EATING IN THE ABSENCE OF HUNGER AMONG CHILDREN WITH LOW RISK OF OBESITY

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Eating in the absence of hunger
EAH
childhood obesity
BIs
BAS
reward sensitivity
punishment sensitivity
personality traits
maternal BMI
familial risk of obesity
susceptibilty
food intake
behavioral inhibition
food approach
food avoidant

File:

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Committee Members:

Kathleen Loralee Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barbara Jean Rolls, Committee Member
Meg Bruening, Program Head/Chair
Travis D Masterson, Committee Member

Author:

Ben Mabrouk, Amira

Title:

The Role of Physical Barrier Functions of Polyethylene Glycol Modified Nanoparticles in Modulating Their Blood Circulation

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

drug delivery
PEGylation
liver endothelial cells
nanoparticle clearance.
Nanoparticles Clearance
Liver Endothelial cells
NMR Relaxometry
Drug Delivery

File:

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Committee Members:

Urara Hasegawa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Scott H Medina, Committee Member

Author:

Samaan, Fadi

Title:

Preoperative History of Gabapentinoids Use is Associated with Longer Length of Hospital Stay in Patients Undergoing Lower Extremity Bypass Surgery for Severe Peripheral Arterial Disease

Graduate Program:

Clinical Research

Keywords:

gabapentin
pregabalin
length of stay
peripheral artery disease
bypass
peripheral arterial disease
lower extremity bypass
Length of Stay

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Committee Members:

Terrence Edward Murphy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Faisal Aziz, Committee Member
Li Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Faisal Aziz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ghodousi, Maryam

Title:

Development of Field Deployable Spray-on Array Transducers for High-Temperature Applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Ultrasonic Transducers
Phased Array Ultrasonics
Field-Deployable Transducers
Ultrasonic Imaging
Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE)
Full Matrix Capture (FMC)
Bismuth Titanate (BIT)
Total Focusing Method (TFM)
High-Temperature Ultrasonics
Piezoelectric Materials
Ultrasonic Signals
Array Transducers

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Committee Members:

Clifford Jesse Lissenden, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacques Rivière, Committee Member
Laura Cabrera, Program Head/Chair
Andrea P. Arguelles, Committee Member

Author:

Farhadi, Farzan

Title:

Exploring the relationship between belonging and persistence among undergraduates: A mixed methods study

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

Sense of belonging
University Belonging
Persistence
Mixed methods

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew T Mc Crudden, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carlomagno Del Carmen Panlilio, Committee Member
Pui-Wa Lei, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Ghasemi, Elnaz

Title:

Automation Of Urban Building Parameter Data Extraction: Zero-Shot Object Detection For Window-To-Wall Ratio Estimation

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Urban data
Data-driven method
Object detection
UBEM (Urban Building Energy Modeling)

File:

Download MS_Elnaz_Ghasemi_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Rahman Azari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lisa Domenica Iulo, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Wangda Zuo, Committee Member
Julian Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Irizarry Gonzalez, Natalia

Title:

Bifunctional Catalyst as a Novel Platform for Reaction Development

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Catalysts
Nickel
Iridium
Organic Synthesis

File:

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth A Elacqua, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexey Silakov, Committee Member
Kenneth Knappenberger, Program Head/Chair
Eric Nacsa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Kuo, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Serena

Title:

The effect of discrimination on suicidal ideation in college counseling: A multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

suicidal ideation
discrimination
minority stress
intersectionality
psychotherapy outcome

File:

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Committee Members:

Louis Georges Castonguay, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Hayes, Committee Member
Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair
Stephen Jeffrey Wilson, Committee Member

Author:

All, Katherine

Title:

Evaluating Joint Models of Psychopathology and Personality

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

p factor
factor analysis
personality
psychopathology

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Committee Members:

Cynthia L Huang-Pollock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Linn Bierman, Committee Member
Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair
Jenae Neiderhiser, Committee Member

Author:

Parnell, Matthew

Title:

Mein Country 'Tis of Thee: A Rhetorical History of the German American Bund's 1939 "Free America" Rally

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Fascism
Civil Religion
Antisemitism
Public Memory

File:

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Committee Members:

Kirt Wilson, Program Head/Chair
Mary Stuckey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bradford Vivian, Major Field Member
Kirt Wilson, Major Field Member
Debbie Hawhee, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Cottle, Rachel

Title:

Progressive Heat Stress and Aging: Responses and Interventions

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

heat stress
aging
cardiovascular strain
core temperature

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Dingwell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lynn Martire, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lacy Alexander, Major Field Member
William Kenney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason D Fragin, Special Member
David Conroy, Major Field Member

Author:

Dewing, Sophia

Title:

Development and Implementation of Methods to Study Lysine Acetylation in Intrinsically Disordered Regions of Chromatin Associated Proteins

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

NMR
IDR
chromatin
acetylation
acetyllysine
acylation
propionylation
p300
histone
SAXS
intien
beta cell

File:

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Committee Members:

Santhosh Girirajan, Program Head/Chair
Janine Kwapis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shaun Mahony, Major Field Member
Ross Hardison, Major Field Member
Scott Showalter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Song Tan, Major Field Member

Author:

Mohamed, Ahmed

Title:

Design and Applications of Bio-Molecular Memelements in Neuromorphic Computing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Memristor
Memcapacitor
Nonlinear Dynamics
Reservoir Computing
Artificial Intelligence
Neuromorphic Computing
Short-term Memory
Machine Learning
Neuristor
Mem-Impedence

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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:

Wei, Wei

Title:

Extending UniFrac for Metagenomic Studies: overcoming methodological challenges, developing new applications, and solving a related problem

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)

Keywords:

Metagenomics
UniFrac
L2UniFrac
branch-lengths assignment
FunUniFrac
WGSUniFrac
phylogenetic beta-diversity

File:

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Committee Members:

David Koslicki, Program Head/Chair
Erika Ganda, Outside Unit Member
David Koslicki, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
hyebin song, Outside Field Member
Mingfu Shao, Major Field Member
Wenrui Hao, Minor Field Member

Author:

Guo, Winters

Title:

Aqueous Separation of Lithium Using Porous Materials

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Lithium separation
Ion exchange
Porous materials
Ion separation
Computational Chemistry (DFT)

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Phillip Savage, Major Field Member
James Hodges, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Janik, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Darrell Velegol, Major Field Member
Gina Noh, Dissertation Co-Advisor

Author:

Prestby, Tim

Title:

Evaluating Trust In Cartographic Representations: Theory, Methods, And Design.

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

trust
misinformation
maps
visualization
geography

File:

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Committee Members:

Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Cynthia Brewer, Major Field Member
Anthony Robinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Helen Greatrex, Major Field Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Zhu, Shuofei

Title:

Memory and Thread Safety in Modern System Programming Languages: Challenges and Solutions

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Go
Rust
Concurrency Programming
Static Analysis
Empirical Study
User Study
Software Engineering
Programming Languages
Software Security
System Programming

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Committee Members:

Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair
Peng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Taegyu Kim, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tanusree Sharma, Major Field Member

Author:

Mirabito, Timothy

Title:

METALORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF ALGAN AND GAN NANOSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MOCVD
III-Nitrides

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Joan Redwing, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Snyder, Major Field Member
Luke Lyle, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Huot, Sovanneary

Title:

Gender Aspects of Wild Food Plant Production and Utilization In Northwestern Cambodia

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Gender
Feminist political ecology
Wild food plant production and utilization
Mixed methodology
Wild food plant knowledge
Cambodia

File:

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Committee Members:

Brian Thiede, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Leif Jensen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leland Glenna, Major Field Member
Ricky Bates, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kathleen Sexsmith, Major Field Member
David R. Ader, Special Member

Author:

Chu, Liang Kai

Title:

Advancements in Membrane-based Separation and Purification Progress for Bioprocessing Applications

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

downstream processing
ultrafiltration
surfactant
host cell proteins
clarification
depth filtration

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Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Andrew Zydney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Esther Gomez, Major Field Member
Ali Demirci, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amir Sheikhi, Outside Field Member

Author:

Mukherjee, Sanchay

Title:

Relative Permeability Modeling: A Synergy of Machine Learning, Pore Network Modeling, and Field Data Analysis

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Relative Permeability
Fluid flow in porous media
Petrophysics
Neural Network
Fluid-fluid interfacial area
Phase connectivity
State function

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Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Program Head/Chair
Zuleima Karpyn, Major Field Member
Corina Drapaca, Outside Unit & Field Member
Yashar Mehmani, Major Field Member
Russell Johns, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Baumler, Katelyn

Title:

Topochemical Manipulation of MoAlB

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

topochemistry
etching
MAB phase
refractory
synthesis
solid state chemistry
materials chemistry

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Zhiqiang Mao, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenneth Knappenberger, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sennett, Mackenzie

Title:

Transcriptomic Insights into Acne Pathogenesis and Isotretinoin Effects in Human Skin

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

isotretinoin
transcriptomics
dermatology
acne
mtorc1

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Committee Members:

Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Edward Gunther, Outside Unit Member
Amanda Nelson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ryan Hobbs, Major Field Member
Prashant Nighot, Outside Field Member
Andrew Kowalczyk, Major Field Member

Author:

Anderson, Jude

Title:

CONSTRAINED HYPERVOLUME BOUNDARY MESHING TECHNIQUES FOR FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACE-TIME APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Thesis
Dissertation
Surface meshing
Hypersurface meshing
Hypervolume meshing
Boundary recovery
Bistellar flips
Intersection detection
Space time
Four dimensions
Mesh generation
Finite element methods
Thesis
Dissertation
Surface Meshing
Hypersurface Meshing
Hypervolume Meshing
Boundary Recovery
Bistellar Flips
Intersection Detection
Space Time
Four Dimensions
Mesh Generation
Finite Element Methods

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Melissa Brindise, Major Field Member
Robert Kunz, Major Field Member
David Williams, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenneth Brentner, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Cardwell, Gabrielle

Title:

Parents’ Cardiac Arousal During a Multiple Demand Task With Their Young Child

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Parenting
Physiological Arousal
Early Childhood

File:

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair
Lisa Kopp, Outside Unit & Field Member
Erika Lunkenheimer, Major Field Member
Pamela Cole, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Soto, Major Field Member

Author:

Fest Carreno, Andres

Title:

Mechanical activation of van der Waals materials at cryogenic temperature

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Mechanical activation
cryomilling
van der Waals materials
hydrogen evolution reaction
graphite
molybdenum disulfide

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bert Chandler, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member

Author:

Kim, Soo Yeon

Title:

Molecular mechanisms of tumor necrosis in glioblastoma under metabolic stress

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

KRAS
PI3K
Tumor necrosis
Glioblastoma
Inflammation
p38-MK2
ER stress

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Tang, Miaolu

Title:

Disulfidptosis in Glioblastoma: Disrupting redox homeostasis as a novel therapeutic approach

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Glioblastoma
redox balance
thioredoxin reductase
tumor microenvironment
animal model

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Committee Members:

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