Dissertations Completed for Doctor of Philosophy, 2024–2025

Mitchell Z. Abrams
“Head Injuries in Multiple Domains.”
Biomedical Engineering
Cameron Bass, Advisor(s).

Faris Maher Albarghouthi
“Addressing Scalability, Stability, and Sensitivity in Nanomaterial-based Electronic Biosensors.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aaron Franklin, Advisor(s).

David M. Anderson
“Analyzing the Impact of State Policy Discretion on Risk, Enrollment, and Plan Offerings in the ACA Individual Health Insurance Markets.”
Population Health Sciences
Gillian Sanders Schmidler, Advisor(s).

Achal Awasthi
“Stochastic Modeling and Applications to Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems.”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Jason Xu and Cliburn Chan, Advisor(s).

Youngsoo Baek
“Theory and Practice of Bayesian Methods in Inverse Problems and Related Nonparametric Models.”
Statistical Science
Sayan Mukherjee, Advisor(s).

Lindsay Anne Ballengee
“Opening the Implementation Blackbox for Non-Pharmacologic Pain Interventions.”
Population Health Sciences
Steven George and Leah Zullig, Advisor(s).

Luke Curtis Bartelt
“Purkinje Cell Nuclear Purification and Enrichment: A Single-Nucleus Exploration of Pathomechanisms in Polyglutamine Ataxias.”
Genetics and Genomics
Albert La Spada and Craig Lowe, Advisor(s).

Katrina Barth
“Quantifying Microscale Interictal Activity from High-Resolution Cortical Recordings in Patients with Epilepsy.”
Biomedical Engineering
Jonathan Viventi, Advisor(s).

Jonathan Richard Behrens
“Energetic Opportunities and Chemical Risks in Urban and Forested Stream Ecosystems.”
Ecology
Emily Bernhardt and Martin Doyle, Advisor(s).

Avrati Bhatnagar
“Disobedient Women in a Consumer City: Picturing Swadeshi Culture in Interwar Bombay.”
History
Sumathi Ramaswamy, Advisor(s).

Pratistha Bhattarai
“Allegories of History: The Aesthetic of Critical Redemption in Post-1980 Postcolonial Novels.”
Literature
Ranjana Khanna and Fredric Jameson, Advisor(s).

Xiaoke Bi
“Engineering Protein Sensors and Actuators at Multiple Scales for Neuroscience.”
Biomedical Engineering
Yiyang Gong, Advisor(s).

Olivier Binette
“Statistical Advances in Data Linkage and Model Evaluation.”
Statistical Science
Jerome Reiter, Advisor(s).

Robin Blazing
“Investigating Cortical Readout of Temporal Codes for Olfaction.”
Neurobiology
Kevin Franks, Advisor(s).

Alexey Bondarev
“Chiral Andreev Reflections at Graphene-Superconductor Interfaces.”
Physics
Harold Baranger, Advisor(s).

Bradley Barrier Bondurant
“Scalable Control Architectures for Quantum Computing.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kenneth Brown, Advisor(s).

Jessica Joyce Borsellino
“"To Take Care of My People": Healing Work in Kiowa Communities, ca. 1867-1920.”
History
Margaret Humphreys, Advisor(s).

Benjamin Andrew Broman
“Shepherds From Among the Enemy: Essays on the Political Economy of Cooptation.”
Political Science
Georg Vanberg, Advisor(s).

Fernanda Chardulo Dias De Andrade
“Finding the Context in Self-Regulation: Definition, Applications, and Implications of a Context-Based Organizational Framework.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Rick H. Hoyle, Advisor(s).

Xue Wen Chen
“Development of Compact and High Throughput Quantitative Phase Imaging Device for Diseased Single-cell Screening.”
Biomedical Engineering
Adam Wax, Advisor(s).

Michael Fredrick Christensen
“Utilizing Network Structure to Flexibly Model Areal Data.”
Statistical Science
Peter Hoff, Advisor(s).

Benjamin Laurence Crais
“Disintegration Narratives: Crisis and Transition in the Literary 1970s.”
Literature
Michael Hardt and Fredric Jameson, Advisor(s).

Suseendrakumar Duraivel
“Quantifying Spatio-temporal Features of Neural Activity for Human Speech Production.”
Biomedical Engineering
Jonathan Viventi, Advisor(s).

Ian Keith Eldridge-Allegra
“Computational Studies of Transonic Buffet and Related Phenomena.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Earl Dowell, Advisor(s).

Jacqueline Noel Foody
“Application of Dynamic Multimodal Imaging for Identification of Risk Factors Predictive of ACL Injury.”
Biomedical Engineering
Louis DeFrate, Advisor(s).

Brittany Nikole Forniotis
“The Architecture of Healing: Hospitals in the Mediterranean (600–1700).”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Sara Galletti, Advisor(s).

Suzanne Michelle Frisbee
“Associations Between Perceived Stress, Mental Distress, and Susceptibility to Multiple Tobacco Product Uptake Among U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults Who Have Never Smoked.”
Nursing
Isaac Lipkus, Advisor(s).

Laura Ann Givens
“Characterizing Genetic and Ecological Consequences of Shellfish Aquaculture.”
Marine Science and Conservation
Thomas F. Schultz, Advisor(s).

Tayzhaun Dondre Glover
“Freedom on the Horizon: Transmarine Marronage and the Abolition of Slavery in Dominica, Martinique, and St. Lucia, 1824-1848.”
History
David Gaspar and Laurent Dubois, Advisor(s).

Sophia Louise Goodfriend
“Algorithmic Dispossession: Automating Warfare in Israel and Palestine.”
Cultural Anthropology
Rebecca Stein, Advisor(s).

Junyao Gu
“The Balance of Bottom-up and Top-down Processes in Regulating the Phenology of Closely Related Populations of Marine Cyanobacteria.”
Marine Science and Conservation
Zackary Johnson, Advisor(s).

Sjur Måseide Hamre
“Political Consumers: Who They Are and How They Impact Firms.”
Political Science
Edmund Malesky, Advisor(s).

Keqi He
“Climate-Driven Wetland Degradation and Carbon Emissions in the Southeastern United States.”
Earth and Climate Sciences
Wenhong Li, Advisor(s).

Ye He
“Harnessing Micro/Nano Acoustics for Mechanobiological Cell Manipulation.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Tony Huang, Advisor(s).

Madeline Grace Hemmingsen
“Dissecting the Effect of BCATm Inhibition in Novel Model Systems of Methylmalonic Acidemia.”
Genetics and Genomics
Karl-Dimiter Bissig and Gregory Crawford, Advisor(s).

Matthew Thomas Huber
“Temporal SNR Guided Adaptive B-mode and Color Doppler Transmit Parameter Selection.”
Biomedical Engineering
Gregg Trahey, Advisor(s).

Matthew Joseph Inkawhich
“From Adversaries to Anomalies: Addressing Real-World Vulnerabilities of Deep Learning-based Vision Models.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yiran Chen, Advisor(s).

Xiaoxuan Jian
“Material Properties and Mechanosensing in Cells and Organs Under Extreme Forces.”
Physics
Christoph Schmidt, Advisor(s).

Zehao Jin
“From Coal Consumption to Ash Composition: Predictive Modeling for Sustainable Coal Fly Ash Management.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Heileen Hsu-Kim, Advisor(s).

Adrienne Creola Jones
“Fee to Drive: How Poverty, Punishment, and Policy Shape the Lives of Suspended Drivers.”
Public Policy and Sociology
Anna Gassman-Pines and Jessi Streib, Advisor(s).

Elisha Keith Keenan
“Identification and Characterization of the Novel Post-Translational Modification Cysteine S-Acetylation.”
Molecular Cancer Biology
Matthew Hirschey, Advisor(s).

Jaebin Kim
“From Synapse to Behavior: Dissecting the Role of Presynaptic Rac 1 in the Regulation of Synaptic Vesicles and Memory.”
Cell Biology
Scott Soderling, Advisor(s).

Yeon Ji Kim
“Navigating Inflammatory Response and Microbiome Signatures: Three Case Studies.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Claudia Gunsch, Advisor(s).

Bokyung Kim
“Processing-in-Memory Accelerators Toward Energy-Efficient Real-World Machine Learning.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hai Li and Yiran Chen, Advisor(s).

Robin Susannah Klaus
“Making and Being Made: Children’s Art, Anarchism, and Prefigurative Politics in the Modern School (1911-53).”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Mark Antliff, Advisor(s).

Gabrielle Alena Koknat
“Electronic Structure and Doping Processes in Novel Semiconductor Materials.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Volker Blum, Advisor(s).

Alyssa May Kuchinski
“Economic Development at What Cost?  The Fantus Company, Financial Incentives, and Working-Class Communities, 1926-1996.”
History
Nancy MacLean, Advisor(s).

Joseph Michael Lawson
“Ensembling and Coordination Methods for Sequential Decision Making Under Uncertainty.”
Statistical Science
Eric Laber, Advisor(s).

Claudia Yejin Lee
“Mechanisms Underlying Gαi and β-Arrestin Complex Formation at GPCRs.”
Biochemistry
Sudarshan Rajagopal, Advisor(s).

Liam Steven Connor Lewis
“Compartmental Differences in the Retinal Ganglion Cell Mitochondrial Proteome.”
Pharmacology
Vadim Arshavsky, Advisor(s).

Charles Edward Lewis III
“Navigating Heroic Expectations: How Positive Stereotypes Impact Veterans’ Occupational Outcomes.”
Business Administration
Aaron Kay and Grainne Fitzsimons, Advisor(s).

Xincheng Lin
“Effective Field Theory and Approximate Symmetries for Low-Energy Few-Body Systems.”
Physics
Roxanne Springer, Advisor(s).

Lu Liu
“Reconsider Machine Learning Method for Variable Selection and Validation with High Dimensional Data.”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Sin-Ho Jung, Advisor(s).

Jiachang Liu
“Discrete and Continuous Optimization for Interpretable Machine Learning in High Stakes Decision Making.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cynthia Rudin, Advisor(s).

Rafaella Lobo
“Western Superwhales or Ballenas Hermanas? Agency, Power, and Identity in the International Politics of Whaling & Whale Conservation.”
Marine Science and Conservation
Lisa Campbell, Advisor(s).

Matthew Loring
“Functional Development of Brain-Scale Neural Circuits Underlying Vertebrate Visuomotor Transformations.”
Neurobiology
Eva Naumann, Advisor(s).

Selena Joanne Lorrey
“Intracranial Tumors Elicit Systemic Sympathetic Hyperactivity that Limits Immunotherapeutic Success.”
Immunology
Peter Fecci, Advisor(s).

Jia Lu
“Pattern Formation: Engineering, Evolution, and Applications.”
Biomedical Engineering
Lingchong You, Advisor(s).

Junlan Lu
“Towards Comprehensive Mapping of Lung Function Using Hyperpolarized ¹²⁹Xe MRI: Developments and Applications.”
Medical Physics
Bastiaan Driehuys, Advisor(s).

Ramon Andres Lujan
“Exploring Antiviral Activities of Barrier Tissue-Resident Lymphocytes.”
Nursing
Julia Walker and Heather Hickman, Advisor(s).

Austin Ogechukwu Maduka
“Subcellular Localization and Regulation of Ubiquitin Signals During Oxidative Stress.”
Genetics and Genomics
Gustavo Silva, Advisor(s).

Akanksha Manghrani
“Measuring Hoogsteen Base Pairs : From Test Tubes to Cells.”
Biochemistry
Hashim Al-Hashimi and Maria Schumacher, Advisor(s).

Miguel Angel Martinez
““It Be Your Own People Sometimes”: Mestizaje, Color-Blindness, and Republican Partisanship Among Mexican Immigrants.”
Political Science
Paula McClain and Candis Watts Smith, Advisor(s).

Lisvel Alexandra Matos Belilla
“Promoting Health Equity in HIV Prevention and Sexual Health Promotion for Latinx Sexually Minoritized Men: PrEP, Sexual Health, and the Potential Threat of Online Bots.”
Nursing
Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, Advisor(s).

Leann Marie Mclaren
“Strategic Invisibility: How Candidates with "Invisible Identities" Strategize in Political Campaigns.”
Political Science
Paula McClain and Candis Watts Smith, Advisor(s).

Akira S. Min
“Studying Anxiety Behavior in Mice Using Cell Type-Specific Diazepam.”
Neurobiology
Michael Tadross, Advisor(s).

Raphaël Nicolas J. Morsomme
“Exact Bayesian Inference for High-dimensional Latent Variable Stochastic Models with Complex, Discrete Structures.”
Statistical Science
Jason Xu, Advisor(s).

Emily Hudson Myers
“Three Essays on the Mobilization and Transformation of Social Ties During Civil War.”
Political Science
Kyle Beardsley and Livia Schubiger, Advisor(s).

Maria Josephine Nagawa
“Aiding or Failing the Bureaucracy? Foreign Aid in Uganda's Central Government.”
Public Policy
Anirudh Krishna and Erik Wibbels, Advisor(s).

Ty Naquin
“Integrated Acoustofluidic Biosensors.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Tony Huang, Advisor(s).

Naveen R. Natesh
“Engineered Multicellular Tumor Models for Preclinical Therapeutic Testing.”
Biomedical Engineering
Shyni Varghese, Advisor(s).

Alexandria Katerina Niebergall
“Exploring Net Community Production Estimates and Drivers in the North Pacific and North Atlantic.”
Earth and Climate Sciences
Nicolas Cassar, Advisor(s).

Anna Elizabeth Nordseth
“Fruiting, Frugivory, and Fieldwork: Ecological Interactions and Actors in a Changing World.”
Ecology
Justin Wright, Advisor(s).

Katherine Sutton Norman
“Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Inform Health Care Research and Practice.”
Population Health Sciences
Heather King and Adam Goode, Advisor(s).

Ryan Daniel O'Connell
“Modeling Realities: Towards an Improved Understanding of Population Responses to Changes in Complex Environmental Drivers.”
Ecology
William Morris, Advisor(s).

Trent Maslin Ollerenshaw
“Essays on the Moderating Role of Political Engagement in Political Preference Formation.”
Political Science
Christopher Johnston, Advisor(s).

Taylor Catherine Outlaw
“Elucidating the Role of Metal-Protein and Metal-Peptide Interactions in Microbial Cellular Stress.”
Chemistry
Katherine Franz, Advisor(s).

Julia Rose Palmucci
“Novel Targets and Therapeutic Strategies for the Treatment of Cryptococcus neoformans.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
John Perfect, Advisor(s).

Kieop Park
“Invasive Protrusion Formation and Damage during Basement Membrane Invasion.”
Genetics and Genomics
David Sherwood, Advisor(s).

Renata Elizabeth Lee Poulton Kamakura
“Urban Tree Stress in Socio-Ecological Systems.”
Ecology
James Clark, Advisor(s).

Ashleigh Simone Rawls
“Microglial MyD88 Dependent Pathways are Regulated in a Sex Specific Manner in the Context of HMGB1 Induced Anxiety.”
Pharmacology
Staci Bilbo, Advisor(s).

Evan Charles Reed
“Demonstration of Dipole-Phonon Quantum Logic with Optimized Sideband Cooling.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kenneth Brown, Advisor(s).

Alvin Justin Rucker
“Understanding the Role of Tumor-Intrinsic RIPK3 Signaling in Anti-Tumor Immunity.”
Immunology
Ashley Moseman, Advisor(s).

Charles Jacob Sheehan
“Development and Application of a Novel Method for the In Situ Visualization of N⁶-methyladenosine (m⁶A) Modified RNAs.”
Biochemistry
Kate D. Meyer, Advisor(s).

Fanghong Shen
“Computational Modeling of Ultrasound Impulse Induced Wave Velocities in the Fibrotic Atria.”
Biomedical Engineering
Patrick Wolf, Advisor(s).

Dror Shvadron
“Essays on Corporate Science and Firms’ Interactions with Academia.”
Business Administration
Ashish Arora and Wesley Cohen, Advisor(s).

Anita Simha
“History is not the Past: Exploring Historical Contingency in Ecological Theory, Community Assembly, and Post-disturbance Recovery.”
Ecology
Justin Wright, Advisor(s).

Brittany Nicole Smith
“Carbon-based Inks and Printing Processes for Environmentally Friendly Sensors and Transistors.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aaron Franklin, Advisor(s).

Imari Z. Smith
“Applications of Latent Class Analysis to Discrimination and Health Studies.”
Sociology
Tyson Brown and William Darity, Advisor(s).

Kevin Richard Standridge
“Market Reactions as Macroeconomic Barometer: Quantifying the TCJA's Effect on GDP and Wages.”
Business Administration
Scott Dyreng, Advisor(s).

Lorenza Starace
“Gender, Genre, and the Novel.”
Romance Studies
Roberto Dainotto and Anne Garreta, Advisor(s).

Ke Sun
“Quantum Simulation of Electron Transfer Dynamics Using a Trapped-Ion System.”
Physics
Jungsang Kim, Advisor(s).

Jane Singleton Swart
“Rewiring of an Early Developmental Gene Regulatory Network in Lecithotrophic Sea Urchins.”
Biology
Gregory Wray, Advisor(s).

Mollie Irene Sweeney
“Alterations in Macrophage Motility Underlying Disseminated Mycobacterial Infection.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
David Tobin, Advisor(s).

Jonti Talukdar
“Preventing IP Theft in Heterogeneous 2.5D/3D Integrated Circuits.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Krishnendu Chakrabarty and Kishor Trivedi, Advisor(s).

Edric Cheuk Yin Tam
“Graphical and Isoperimetric Perspectives on Sampling and Regularization.”
Statistical Science
David Dunson, Advisor(s).

Cameron Nathan Tilley
“Obedience to the Unenforceable.”
Political Science
Michael Munger, Advisor(s).

Leo Zachary Trotz-Liboff
“Esoteric Philosophy in Rome.”
Classical Studies
Jed Atkins, Advisor(s).

Sara Maria Tuck
“Investigating the Reactivity of Marine Bacteria with Copper and other Heavy Metals.”
Chemistry
Katherine Franz, Advisor(s).

Ali Kaan Tuna
“Essays on Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chains.”
Business Administration
Robert Swinney, Advisor(s).

Stephanie Rene Valdez
“Variable Responses to Consumer and Nutrient Availability in Coastal Wetland Plants.”
Marine Science and Conservation
Brian Silliman, Advisor(s).

Anastasia Kristine Varanko
“Avidity as a Tool for Cancer Drug Delivery Systems.”
Biomedical Engineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Advisor(s).

Michael Veldman
“Force, Cause, and Explanation: Euler and the Metaphysics of Science.”
Philosophy
Katherine Brading and Andrew Janiak, Advisor(s).

Maria Katarina Velopolcek
“Copper-Catalyzed, Aminofunctionalization of Pi-Systems via O-benzoylhydroxylamines.”
Chemistry
Qiu Wang, Advisor(s).

Santiago Mateo Villamizar Chaparro
“Electoral Markets on the Move: Essays about the Political Economy of Migration in Latin America.”
Political Science
Erik Wibbels and Pablo Beramendi, Advisor(s).

Edward Ginter Wilkinson
“Temperature and Force as Modulators of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR Condensation and Stability.”
Biology
Lucia Strader, Advisor(s).

Leonie Friederike Wilms
“Writing Hate/Performing Hate: Embodied Affect in Contemporary German Theater.”
Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies
Richard E. Langston, Advisor(s).

Jinjin Wu
“Understanding and Targeting Fatty Acid-CoA Ligase ACSL4 in Advanced Human Prostate Cancer.”
Pathology
Ming Chen, Advisor(s).

Ruth McCloud Wygle
“Folsom Jail Blues: Understanding the Practice of Jail Leasing and its Effects.”
Sociology
Scott Lynch and Christopher Wildeman, Advisor(s).

Tingzhong Michelle Xue
“Dynamics of Multimorbidity and Physical Resilience in Persons with Dementia After Hip Fracture in Long-Term Care Facilities.”
Nursing
Eleanor McConnell, Advisor(s).

Masaya Yamamoto
“Unfolding Structure Formation in the Dark Universe via Weak Gravitational Lensing: from Pixels to Cosmology in the Dark Energy Survey and Roman Space Telescope.”
Physics
Michael Troxel, Advisor(s).

S. Aryana Yousefzadeh
“The Cholinergic Interneurons in the Nucleus Accumbens Mediate the Rewarding Properties of Opioid Drugs.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Michael Tadross, Advisor(s).

Stephen Werner Zaksewicz
“The Ends of the World: Figures of Planetarity in Contemporary Austrian Prose.”
Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies
Richard E. Langston, Advisor(s).

Xiaojun Zheng
“Online Change-point and Anomaly Detection for Complex and High-dimensional Data.”
Statistical Science
Simon Mak, Advisor(s).

Mo Zhou
“Optimization Dynamics in Mildly Overparametrized Models.”
Computer Science
Rong Ge, Advisor(s).

James Anthony Alatis
“Mechanisms of Charge Transfer Reactions in Rylene-Based Polymer-Wrapped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Superstructures.”
Chemistry
Michael Therien, Advisor(s).

Hamad Almahmoud
“Evolutionary Design with Freedom and Rhythm for Heat Transfer, Strength, and Power Utilization.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Adrian Bejan, Advisor(s).

Blake Karsten Beaver
“Residues of the Televisual Family: Technological Allegory in the U.S. Family Drama, 2001–2023.”
Literature
Rey Chow and Markos Hadjioannou, Advisor(s).

Cora Lacinda Bright
“Investigating the Role of the Mitochondrial Protein Armcx1.”
Genetics and Genomics
Jeremy Key and Debby Silver, Advisor(s).

Kelsey Brod
“Computational Performance: A Praxis of Doing as Knowing.”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Luciana Parisi and Mark Olson, Advisor(s).

Torie Marie Broer
“Formation of the Satellite Cell Niche in Engineered Human Skeletal Muscle: The Roles of Vascularization and Notch Signaling.”
Biomedical Engineering
Nenad Bursac, Advisor(s).

Antonia J. Bruce
“Interrogating the Small Molecule Modulation of Viral RNA Secondary Structures.”
Chemistry
Amanda Hargrove, Advisor(s).

Jana Marie Cable
“Defining the Role of EBNA-LP in Epstein-Barr Virus Infection and Transformation of B Cells.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Micah Luftig, Advisor(s).

Brian Kwong-Kai Chan
“Nonequilibrium Active Loop Extrusion Model of Chromatin Organization in Interphase.”
Biomedical Engineering
Michael Rubinstein, Advisor(s).

Ting-Hsuan Chen
“Infrared Electrochromic Conducting Polymers for Wearable and Nanophotonic Applications.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Po-Chun Hsu and Stafan Zauscher, Advisor(s).

Yunran Chen
“Nonparametric Mixture Models for Covariance Matrix Estimation and Hypothesis Testing with Applications in Neuroscience.”
Statistical Science
Surya Tokdar, Advisor(s).

Kirill Chesnov
“Towards a Biohybrid Device: Engineering Gap Junctions and Induced Neurons.”
Neurobiology
Kafui Dzirasa, Advisor(s).

Muthuraman Chidambaram
“Understanding Feature Learning and Calibration of Machine Learning Models Through Simple Data Distributions.”
Computer Science
Rong Ge, Advisor(s).

Laura Hughart Childers
“Protein Absorption in the Zebrafish Gut is Regulated by Interactions between Lysosome Rich Enterocytes and the Microbiome.”
Cell Biology
Michel Bagnat, Advisor(s).

Benjamin Cossette
“Engineering Hypoallergenic Allergen Vaccine Immunogens Based on Self-Assembling Supramolecular Peptide Nanofibers.”
Biomedical Engineering
Joel Collier, Advisor(s).

Rebecca Daniels
“Three Empirical Investigations of Informal Work and Public Policy in the U.S..”
Public Policy
Matthew Johnson, Advisor(s).

David Smith De La Mater III
“Functional Biogeography: Leveraging Trait-Based Methodologies to Study Species Form and Function Across Scales.”
Ecology
Justin Wright and Brian Silliman, Advisor(s).

Sophia DeLuca
“Discovery and Delivery of Cardiac Mitogens for Heart Regeneration.”
Cell Biology
Nenad Bursac, Advisor(s).

Yang Deng
“Machine Learning for Next-Generation Metamaterials.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Willie Padilla, Advisor(s).

Patrick Austin Dome
“Development of Anti-Infectives Targeting Bacterial LpxH or Fungal FKBP12-Calcineurin.”
Chemistry
Jiyong Hong, Advisor(s).

Shannon Elizabeth Dougherty
“Context-specific ubiquitination of ribosomes regulates translation under oxidative stress.”
Biology
Gustavo Silva and Amy Schmid, Advisor(s).

Fabiola Duarte Ortiz
“Prediction and Evaluation of Vocal Performance in the Songbird Auditory Cortex.”
Neurobiology
Richard Mooney, Advisor(s).

Ian Erickson-Kery
“Contested Territories: The Aesthetics and Politics of Urban Design in Mexico and Brazil, 1963-88.”
Romance Studies
Esther Gabara, Advisor(s).

Kevin Erning
“Angiogenic Granular Biomaterials for Brain Repair after Ischemic Stroke.”
Biomedical Engineering
Tatiana Segura, Advisor(s).

Roman Gilmintinov
“Socialist Valuation of Nature: Political Economy, Environmental Regulation, and Coal Mining in the Soviet Union.”
History
Anna Krylova, Advisor(s).

Emily Isabel Shipley Granados
“Understanding and Enhancing Pediatric Obesity Interventions: A Focus on Dose and Sustainability.”
Population Health Sciences
Asheley Skinner, Advisor(s).

Nikolai M. Hay
“Investigating Phylogenetic Relationships, Hybridization, and Evolutionary Origins  in Boechera and Related Genera (Brassicaceae).”
Biology
Kathleen Pryer, Advisor(s).

Mauricio Hernandez Hernandez
“Essays on Residential Electricity Consumption and Heuristics to Solve the Unit Commitment Problem.”
Environment
Dalia Patino-Echeverri, Advisor(s).

Taylor Dianne Hinnant
“Mechanical Regulation of Intestinal Morphology and Function.”
Cell Biology
Terry Lechler, Advisor(s).

Taylor Elizabeth Schronce Hoxie
“Assessing Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the Indoor and Ambient Environment Utilizing Silicone Wristbands.”
Environment
Heather Stapleton, Advisor(s).

Yul Daniel Huh
“Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Regenerative Pain Medicine.”
Cell Biology
Ru-Rong Ji, Advisor(s).

Shiyi Jiang
“Towards Personalized, Privacy-preserving, and Explainable AI for Healthcare.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Krishnendu Chakrabarty and Anru Zhang, Advisor(s).

Ziyang Jiang
“Making Model Aware: Pattern Recognition and Analysis in Environmental and Healthcare Data with Machine Learning Models.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
David Carlson, Advisor(s).

Tyler Ellis Johnson
“The First Indication of Neutrino-Induced Nuclear Fission.”
Physics
Philip Barbeau, Advisor(s).

Xinhao Kong
“Towards Large-Scale RDMA Networks without Performance Anomalies.”
Computer Science
Danyang Zhuo, Advisor(s).

Brian Alexander Kundinger
“Advances in Efficient and Scalable Bayesian Record Linkage.”
Statistical Science
Rebecca Steorts, Advisor(s).

Rebecca Ann Leonard
“Approaches for Improved Interventions Against RNA Viruses with Pandemic Potential.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Nicholas Heaton, Advisor(s).

David J. Leonhardt
“Knowing Nicodemus: Understanding the Role of Nicodemus in the Gospel of John.”
Religion
Mark Goodacre, Advisor(s).

Emily Claire Lerner
“The NKG2D/NKG2DL Pathway in CD8+ T Cell-Mediated Anti-Tumor Immunity and Immunotherapy.”
Biomedical Engineering
Peter Fecci, Advisor(s).

Kelsey Ann Lieberman
“The Effects of Metric Alignment on Computer Vision Models.”
Computer Science
Carlo Tomasi, Advisor(s).

Jiayue Liu
“Hidden Hearing Loss: Perception, Neural Signature and Clinical Implications.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Tobias Overath, Advisor(s).

Mengyi Liu
“Characterizing Brain Tumor Microenvironments Using Novel Methods for Spatial Transcriptomics and Multi-omics Data.”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Simon Gregory and Zhicheng Ji, Advisor(s).

Siyan Liu
“Development of Computational Methods for the Analysis of CRISPR Experiments.”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Charles Gersbach and William Majoros, Advisor(s).

Wei-Kai Liu
“Algorithms and Architectures for Resilient Hardware Design.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Krishnendu Chakrabarty and Kishor Trivedi, Advisor(s).

Yangyuanchen Liu
“A Computational Framework for Simulating Crack Nucleation and Growth in Materials Subjected to Dynamic Loads.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
John Dolbow, Advisor(s).

Lan Luo
“Rapid adaptation in visual cortex and its impact on population coding.”
Neurobiology
Lindsey Glickfeld and Stephen Lisberger, Advisor(s).

Katherine Savannah Morton
“Mitochondrial Mechanisms of Toxicant Induced Dopaminergic Neurodegeneration in Caenorhabditis elegans.”
Environment
Joel Meyer, Advisor(s).

Kevin Singkit Moyung
“Unraveling the Chromatin-Mediated Mechanisms of Gene Regulation.”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
David MacAlpine, Advisor(s).

Arthy Narayanan
“Chromatin Regulatory Mechanisms of Bdnf expression During Cocaine Abstinence.”
Neurobiology
Anne West, Advisor(s).

Erik Mark Patton
“Climate change impacts on the U.S. Army basic combat training program.”
Environment
Martin Doyle, Advisor(s).

Robin Morgan Perelli
“TAX1BP3 Loss Is an Autosomal Recessive Cause of Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy and TRPV4-mediated Arrhythmogenesis.”
Cell Biology
Andrew Landstrom, Advisor(s).

Alexandra Prado Mantilla
“Molecular and Mechanical Signatures in Epidermal Development and Differentiation.”
Cell Biology
Terry Lechler, Advisor(s).

Joshua Prince
“Theoretical, Simulation, and Experimental Approaches to Understanding Periphery Sequestration of Diffusing Chemical Species in Bacterial Biofilms as a Mechanism for Antibiotic Recalcitrance.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andrew Jones, Advisor(s).

Aritra Ray
“Applications of Predictive Analytics for Machine Learning as a Service.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Krishnendu Chakrabarty and Kyle Lafata, Advisor(s).

Alan Rosales
“Evolving Adeno-Associated Virus for Kidney Gene Transfer.”
Biomedical Engineering
Aravind Asokan, Advisor(s).

Daria Semeniak
“Empowering Point-of-Care Diagnostics through Nanotechnologies: Enhanced Sensitivity at Diminished Cost.”
Biomedical Engineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Advisor(s).

Madeleine Janette Sitton
“CRISPR Technology to Treat Complex Genetic Disorders.”
Biomedical Engineering
Charles Gersbach, Advisor(s).

Arpine Sokratian
“Structure and function of α-synuclein fibril polymorphs in Lewy body dementia.”
Pharmacology
Andrew West, Advisor(s).

Alexander Martin Strecker
“A Church, A Sculpture, A Score: Unsettling the Ground of Modern Athens with Three Compositional Figures.”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Mark Olson, Advisor(s).

Rickard Carl Vilhelm Stureborg
“Towards the Use of Language Models in Interventions of Vaccine Concerns.”
Computer Science
Jun Yang and Bhuwan Dhingra, Advisor(s).

Enakshi Devi Sunassee
“Exploiting Optical Imaging for the Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Response to Cancer Therapies.”
Biomedical Engineering
Nimmi Ramanujam, Advisor(s).

Yixuan Tan
“Graph-based Learning of Manifold Diffusion and Time-Series Modeling.”
Mathematics
Xiuyuan Cheng, Advisor(s).

Yun Tang
“Characterization of Mouse Models of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease using Protein Stability Measurements.”
Chemistry
Michael Fitzgerald, Advisor(s).

Ke Wang
“Sleep Health and Wearable Technology:  Algorithmic Development towards Field-based Sleep Monitoring.”
Biomedical Engineering
Jessilyn Dunn, Advisor(s).

Yingfan Wang
“Understanding Dimension Reduction for Data Visualization.”
Computer Science
Cynthia Rudin, Advisor(s).

Zhuoqun Wang
“Tree-based Generative Models with Applications to Microbiome Compositional Data.”
Statistical Science
Li Ma, Advisor(s).

Justin David Naggar Weltz
“Advances in Adaptive Sampling.”
Statistical Science
Eric Laber and Alexander Volfovsky, Advisor(s).

Felicia Nicole Williams
“Investigating Protein Aggregation in Dictyostelium discoideum Biology and Stress Response.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Matthew Scaglione, Advisor(s).

Jacob Zachariah Williams
“LOSC in Translation: Or, The Localized Orbital Scaling Correction for Materials in Periodic Boundary Conditions.”
Chemistry
Weitao Yang, Advisor(s).

Yongji Wu
“Optimizing Distributed Workloads with Infrastructure-managed Communication and Deployment.”
Computer Science
Danyang Zhuo and Matthew Lentz, Advisor(s).

Meng Xia
“Overcoming Data Constraints in Applying Deep Learning to Healthcare.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ricardo Henao, Advisor(s).

Ceyu Xu
“Artificial Intelligence for Intelligent Computer Architecture.”
Computer Science
Lisa Wills, Advisor(s).

Yitong Xu
“Scaling of Spindle Length and Chromosome Segregation in Drosophila Embryos.”
Cell Biology
Stefano Di Talia, Advisor(s).

Ziyun Yang
“Inter-pixel Modeling Framework for Deep Learning-based Image Understanding.”
Biomedical Engineering
Sina Farsiu, Advisor(s).

Eric Christopher Yeats
“Advancing Regularization Methods for Interpretable and Robust Deep Learning.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hai Li, Advisor(s).

Kelsey Lynn Zavelo
“Apartheid Diplomacy: South Africa and the U.S. Conservative Movement, 1945-1980.”
History
Dirk Bonker, Advisor(s).

Jingyang Zhang
“Investigating Distribution Shifts for Deep Learning Models.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hai Li, Advisor(s).

Boning Zhou
“Revisiting Assumptions in Microeconomic Theory: Preferences, Rationality, and Choice Sets.”
Economics
Todd Sarver and Philipp Sadowski, Advisor(s).

Jin Zhou
“Integration of Hand-Crafted Features and Deep Learning for Imaging Application in Precision Medicine.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kyle Lafata and Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Advisor(s).

Jiaqi Zhu
“Manipulating Spin States, Spin Transmission, and Charge Transfer Using Optical and Electrical Fields.”
Chemistry
Michael Therien, Advisor(s).

Victor Andres Amaya Carvajal
“Tangential CLT on Stratified Manifolds and Nonstationary Gaussian Process Modeling.”
Mathematics
Sayan Mukherjee, Advisor(s).

Alisha D. Anaya
“Evolutionary Processes of Limb Diversification Evidenced Through Comparisons of Carpal and Tarsal Morphology.”
Evolutionary Anthropology
Doug Boyer, Advisor(s).

Faisal Anees
“Nanoparticles and the DNA Corona: Biophysical Characterization and Immunological Implications.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Christine Payne, Advisor(s).

Ammara Aqeel
“Dietary Genomics as a Complementary Tool in Childhood Malnutrition Intervention.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Lawrence David, Advisor(s).

Andrea Aveni
“Uniform Large Sample Theory of Generalized Fréchet Means.”
Statistical Science
Sayan Mukherjee, Advisor(s).

Luiz Carlos Bacelar, Sr.
“Bridging High-Resolution Runoff Simulations with Large-Scale Hydrological Models.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Nathaniel Chaney, Advisor(s).

Alexander Jacob Bahnick
“Photochemical 3D Printing of Bioresorbable Copolyesters for Applications in Transdermal Drug Delivery and Soft Tissue Repair.”
Chemistry
Matthew Becker, Advisor(s).

Yucheng Bai
“American City on a Chinese Hill: American Fundamentalism in Contemporary Chinese Christianity.”
Religion
Xi Lian, Advisor(s).

Benjamin Rogers Bauchwitz
“Methods, Models and Metrics for Annotation Error Assessment in Image Segmentation.”
Computer Science
Mary Cummings, Advisor(s).

M. Makenzie Beaman
“Expansion of Sequencing Technologies in Clinically Undiagnosed Genetic Disease.”
Genetics and Genomics
Gregory Crawford, Advisor(s).

Caroline Stewart Blount
“Race & Space in 19th Century German-American Literature.”
Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies
Johan J. Norberg, Advisor(s).

Elizabeth Anne Brown
“Theaster Gates, the Artist as Collector: Historic Glass Lantern Slides, the Edward J. Williams Collection of “Negrobilia,” and the Johnson Publishing Company Library Installed in the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago.”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Kristine Stiles, Advisor(s).

Layla Francis Butler
“Musical Modernism and the Émigré Experience in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Music of Priaulx Rainier, Mátyás Seiber, and Erika Fox.”
Music
Philip Rupprecht, Advisor(s).

Faraz Ahmed Butt
“In toto Live Imaging of Erk Signaling Dynamics in Developing Zebrafish Hepatocytes.”
Cell Biology
Kenneth Poss, Advisor(s).

Trivius Gerard Caldwell
“Beyond Trope and Into Speculative Space: The Music of Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Nasir “Nas” Jones.”
English
Jarvis McInnis and, Advisor(s).

Emily Grace Cannistraci
“Structural and Molecular Insights into the Transcription Activation Mechanism of the WYL Domain-Containing Activator, DriD.”
Biochemistry
Maria Schumacher, Advisor(s).

Gabrielle Carmine
“‘Right to Fish’ for Whom?: A Geospatial Study of High Seas Fisheries and their Governance for Ocean Conservation.”
Marine Science and Conservation
Patrick Halpin, Advisor(s).

William Edgar Carson IV
“Determining the Functional Neural Relation Between Autism and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children through Machine Learning Analysis of Electroencephalography.”
Biomedical Engineering
David Carlson and Kafui Dzirasa, Advisor(s).

Devon Alexander Carter
“Constructing the Self: European Vocal Techniques and Aesthetics, 1825–1850.”
Music
Jacqueline Waeber, Advisor(s).

Chen-Chia Chang
“Advancing ML for EDA: From Secure Data to Generative AI.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yiran Chen, Advisor(s).

Jingrong Chen
“Flexible and Efficient Application-Networking Co-Design in Cloud Datacenters.”
Computer Science
Danyang Zhuo, Advisor(s).

Jingxian Chen
“Genetic and Genomic Regulation of Starvation Response.”
Biology
Larry Baugh, Advisor(s).

Jui-Lin Chen
“Essays on Housing and Credit Markets.”
Economics
Andrea Lanteri, Advisor(s).

Junqin Chen
“Redefining the Role of Vapor Bubble Dynamics in Laser Lithotripsy.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Pei Zhong, Advisor(s).

Tianyi Chen
“Simplifying Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing Control: Automated Lasers and Single-Tone Two-Qubit Gates.”
Physics
Kenneth Brown, Advisor(s).

Peter Jaeho Cho
“Leveraging Wearables Data to Understand Behavioral Patterns and Predict Influenza-like Illnesses.”
Biomedical Engineering
Jessilyn Dunn, Advisor(s).

Rena Bei Ge Chu
“Character Sums and Their Applications.”
Mathematics
Lillian Pierce, Advisor(s).

Oliver Chung
“Genomic Transformation by  Mobile Genetic Elements.”
Pharmacology
Zhao Zhang, Advisor(s).

Larisa Cristina Cioaca
“The Role of Government Procurement in American Innovation.”
Business Administration
Ashish Arora and Sharon Belenzon, Advisor(s).

Ashley Nicole Colemon
“Investigating the Role of ABL Kinases in Epigenetic Reprogramming in Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.”
Molecular Cancer Biology
Ann Marie Pendergast, Advisor(s).

Liangze Cui
“Machine Learning Methods for Electromagnetic Inverse Problems.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
David Smith and Qing Liu, Advisor(s).

Christian Allen Culton
“Primitivism and Nature, Entangled: An Intellectual History of D.H. Lawrence's Writing (1907-1930).”
History
James Chappel, Advisor(s).

Beyza Dabak
“Embracing Interference: Signal Processing Methods for Next-Generation Data Storage and Wireless Communications.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robert Calderbank, Advisor(s).

Aniket Sudeep Dalvi
“Optimizing Compilation and Software Architectures for Quantum Computers.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kenneth Brown, Advisor(s).

Briana Renee Davis
“The Role of Epithelial Transcription Factor Elf3 in Mediating Transcriptional Programs in Zebrafish.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
John Rawls, Advisor(s).

Camille DeSisto
“Plant-Animal Interactions in a Changing World.”
Ecology
Charles Nunn, Advisor(s).

Kelsey Desir
“Discursive Bodies: Black Women, Healing, and the Poetics of Care.”
English
Tsitsi Jaji, Advisor(s).

Benjamin Adam Devlin
“Excitatory Neuron-Derived Cytokine Interleukin-34 Influences Microglia Function in Development and Disease.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Staci Bilbo, Advisor(s).

Alexander Conrad Dombowsky
“Bayesian Inference for Discrete Structures.”
Statistical Science
David Dunson, Advisor(s).

Judith Dominguez
“Interaction of Nanomaterials with Biological Systems: From Inhalation of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes to the Treatment of Kidney Stones.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Christine Payne, Advisor(s).

Chengcheng Du
“The Effect of Social Experience on Gene Regulation, Neural Activity and Behavior of Drosophila melanogaster.”
Biology
Pelin Volkan, Advisor(s).

Addison Matthew Duda
“Design of β-lactam Prodrugs to Selectively Suppress β-lactam Resistant, Pathogenic Bacteria in Microbial Mixtures.”
Chemistry
Katherine Franz, Advisor(s).

Katherine Elizabeth Duncker
“Quantitative Design of Perceptive Microbial Communities for Sensing and Biomanufacturing.”
Biomedical Engineering
Lingchong You, Advisor(s).

Shannon Marie Dupont
“Epigenetic Regulation of Sex Determination in the Mouse.”
Cell Biology
Blanche Capel, Advisor(s).

Catherine Isabelle Ehrhart
“Rational Design of Multivalent Synthetic Binders for the Development of Ultrasensitive Ebola Virus Diagnostics.”
Biochemistry
Bruce Donald, Advisor(s).

Hala Galal El-Nahal
“Oculomotor Roles of the Claustrum and its Projection to Frontal Cortex in Primates.”
Biomedical Engineering
Marc Sommer, Advisor(s).

Brianna Wilcke Elliott
“Overfished and Understudied: The Critical Conservation Threat of Cetacean Bycatch in Indian Ocean Tuna Gillnet Fisheries.”
Marine Science and Conservation
Andrew Read, Advisor(s).

Matthew Ennis
“Investigating the Magnetic Properties of Frustrated Spin Systems: Triangular and Square Lattices.”
Physics
Sara Haravifard, Advisor(s).

Robin Elizabeth Fail
“Discourse, Values, and Contested Futures for Maine Aquaculture.”
Marine Science and Conservation
Grant Murray, Advisor(s).

Christiana Fauci
“Vertebrate Conservation from the Perspective of the Non-Coding Genome.”
Genetics and Genomics
Craig Lowe, Advisor(s).

Morgan G. Ferrans
“Temperament as a Window to Dogs’ Past and Future: Individual Differences in Behavior and Physiology Across the Lifespan.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Brian Hare and Jenna McHenry, Advisor(s).

John Barratt Finlay
“Mechanisms of Olfactory Pathobiology – Post-Viral Damage and Neoplasia.”
Cell and Molecular Biology
Bradley Goldstein, Advisor(s).

Shaza Gaballah
“Exposure to Legacy and Alternative Brominated Flame Retardants During Pregnancy and Associations with Placental Thyroid Hormones.”
Environment
Heather Stapleton, Advisor(s).

Ainan Geng
“Using Dynamic Ensembles to Quantitatively Model Sequence-Specific RNA Cellular Activity.”
Biochemistry
Hashim Al-Hashimi, Advisor(s).

Zhijia Geng
“Plasmonic Photocatalysis: Is There a Limit in Total Light Enhancement?.”
Chemistry
Jie Liu, Advisor(s).

George Rafael Georgiou
“Post-translational Regulation of the Early Secretory Pathway.”
Biochemistry
Michael Boyce, Advisor(s).

Joshua David Ginzel
“Tracing Tumor Progression Illuminates Occult Cellular Behaviors Underlying Cancer Lethality.”
Cell Biology
Joshua Snyder, Advisor(s).

Nicholas Scott Giroux
“Precision Genomics from Gene-Regulatory Dynamics: Immunity, Prognosis, and Pharmacogenomics.”
Biomedical Engineering
Timothy Reddy, Advisor(s).

Bhavna Gopal
“Optimizing Deep Neural Networks: Leveraging Structural Characteristics for Enhanced NAS and Adversarial Robustness.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yiran Chen, Advisor(s).

Brittany Joelle Green
“That I Might Be: Lessons from Julius Eastman’s Black Queer Experimentalism &  gLitchED dreams//invisible BEINGS.”
Music
John Supko, Advisor(s).

Haotian Gu
“On Large Values of Non-Gaussian Logarithmically Correlated Fields.”
Mathematics
Nicholas Cook, Advisor(s).

Zachary William Gude
“Spatial and Material Resolution in Coded-Aperture Volumetric X-ray Diffraction Imaging for Biomedical Applications.”
Medical Physics
Dean Darnell, Advisor(s).

Muhammet Nurullah Gulec
“Essays on Knowledge Transfer and Worker Mobility.”
Economics
Allan Collard-Wexler, Advisor(s).

Jaeyong Han
“Essays in Environmental Economics.”
Economics
Michael Pollmann, Advisor(s).

Kiersten Hasenour
“Gendered Associations: How Congruity Shapes Expectations, Perceptions, and Decision-making in Interaction.”
Sociology
Lynn Smith-Lovin, Advisor(s).

Caleb Hazelwood
“Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Models.”
Philosophy
Alex Rosenberg and Robert Brandon, Advisor(s).

Abbigail Delphinia Helfer
“Effects of Time-Varying Mechanical Preload and Afterload in Engineered Cardiac Tissues: Studies Using a Novel Bioreactor.”
Biomedical Engineering
Nenad Bursac, Advisor(s).

Jesse Herche
“Characterizing Correlates of Eye-Movement Related Eardrum Oscillations in Human Sound Perception and the Macaque Inferior Colliculus.”
Neurobiology
Jennifer Groh, Advisor(s).

Nathaniel Paul Hernandez
“Tiny but Mighty: The Role of Adipose-derived microRNAs in Chronic Primary Pain Conditions.”
Pharmacology
Andrea Nackley, Advisor(s).

Genesis Mariana Higueros
“Nanofabrication Etching Techniques for Advanced Energy Transport Materials.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Po-Chun Hsu, Advisor(s).

Mackenna James Hill
“Designing Current Sensing Systems for Multiplexed Neural Interfaces.”
Biomedical Engineering
Jonathan Viventi, Advisor(s).

Hansel Alexander Hobbie
“Lathe-based Printing for Versatile Fabrication of Thin-film Electronics.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aaron Franklin and Paolo Maccarini, Advisor(s).

Alexis Hope Ligon Holloway
“Composing Erasure: Race, Visuality, and the American Orchestra.”
Cultural Anthropology
Lee Baker, Advisor(s).

Zachary Austin Holmes
“A Foundation Model for Microbial Growth Dynamics.”
Biomedical Engineering
Scott Soderling, Advisor(s).

Kazi Shehab Hossain
“Dissecting the Molecular Mechanism Underlying Epilepsy Aphasia Syndrome.”
Cell Biology
Cagla Eroglu, Advisor(s).

Cortney Megan Howard
“Neural Dynamics and Determinants of Mnemonic Representations.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Roberto Cabeza, Advisor(s).

Clara Rudi Howell
“Bird Song as an Honest Signal of Sickness.”
Biology
Stephen Nowicki and Susan Alberts, Advisor(s).

Ching Lung Hsu
“Biodiversity Estimation and Joint Species Distribution Modeling.”
Mathematics
David Dunson, Advisor(s).

Jimin Hu
“O-GlcNAc Regulation of the KLHL and WNK Kinase Protein Families.”
Biochemistry
Michael Boyce, Advisor(s).

Zhongtian Hu
“Regularity and Small-Scale Creations in Chemotaxis and Incompressible Fluids.”
Mathematics
Alexander Kiselev, Advisor(s).

Haiyang Huang
“From Concepts to Efficiency: Advancing Interpretable and Scalable Machine Learning Systems.”
Computer Science
Cynthia Rudin, Advisor(s).

Shenyang Huang
“Hippocampal and Cortical Contributions to Human Episodic Memory.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Felipe De Brigard, Advisor(s).

Yupei Huang
“Steady States in Hydrodynamics.”
Mathematics
Tarek Elgindi, Advisor(s).

Denny Ho Huynh
“Accessible Signals: Affordable Consumption Strategies for Impression Management.”
Business Administration
Keisha Cutright and Tanya Chartrand, Advisor(s).

Shewit Weldense Jaynes
“A Socioecological Analysis of Risk and Protective Factors for High-Risk Pregnancies Among Black Women.”
Nursing
Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, Advisor(s).

Elizabeth Ann Johnson
“Sexual Harassment, Gender Harassment, and Workplace Aggression in the Church: Comparing the Experiences of Mennonite and Episcopal Clergywomen.”
Sociology
Mark Chaves, Advisor(s).

Hannah Ann Jorgensen
“Somebody's Story: Character After the Digital.”
English
Aarthi Vadde, Advisor(s).

Jennifer Paige Kades
“Risk, Norms, and Soft Skills: Non-Standard Drivers of Labor Market Outcomes.”
Economics
Robert Garlick Peter Arcidiacono, Advisor(s).

Mingyu Kang
“Towards Quantum Advantage with Trapped Ions.”
Physics
Kenneth Brown, Advisor(s).

Melissa Suzanne Karp
“An Enemy Within: Imagining the Collaborator in Transwar France and Korea.”
Literature
Rey Chow and Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Advisor(s).

Kaleb Gregory Kassaw
“Visual Recognition Models for Scenes of Partial Object Occlusion.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Leslie Collins, Advisor(s).

Zekican Ryan Kazan
“Bayesian Strategies for Differential Privacy and Risk Assessment.”
Statistical Science
Jerome Reiter, Advisor(s).

Crystal Candace Kennedy
“The Effects of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome on Gene Expression in Vascular Cells.”
Genetics and Genomics
George Truskey, Advisor(s).

Shane Thomas Killarney
“Targeting Non-Genetic Mechanisms of Therapy Resistance in Cancer.”
Molecular Cancer Biology
Kris C. Wood, Advisor(s).

Kanghyun Kim
“Computational Microscopy Methods for High-Throughput 3D Imaging and Analysis.”
Biomedical Engineering
Roarke Horstmeyer, Advisor(s).

Seohee Kim
“Essays on Housing Supply.”
Economics
Daniel Yi Xu, Advisor(s).

Matthew James Klauer
“Spatial Encoding of Translational Regulation by GPCRs.”
Pharmacology
Nikoleta Tsvetanova, Advisor(s).

Filip Klein
“Three Essays in Energy Economics.”
Economics
James Roberts and, Advisor(s).

Tiffany Bokyoung Ko
“Regulation of Olfactory Epithelial Cell Fate Determination by Polycomb Repressive Complex 2.”
Neurobiology
Bradley Goldstein, Advisor(s).

Nikita Kohli
“Essays on Labor Markets in Developing Countries.”
Public Policy
Marcos Rangel, Advisor(s).

Patrick Kendal Kuiper
“Neural Networks for Robust Extreme Event Forecasting: Theory and Applications.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vahid Tarokh, Advisor(s).

Andrea Jarosch Larson
“Defective Media: The Function of the Feminine in German Lyric Poetry After 1900.”
Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies
Sarah Pourciau, Advisor(s).

Conner Lester
“Synthesizing Theory and Observations to Understand Sediment Deposition Patterns: Sand Ripples and Salt Marshes.”
Earth and Climate Sciences
Brad Murray, Advisor(s).

Mingru Li
“Experimental Studies of the Mechanics of Animal Cells and Their Components, and Interpretation Using a Shell Model.”
Physics
Christoph Schmidt, Advisor(s).

Yupeng Li
“Matroidal Combinatorics Intersecting with Algebra and Geometry.”
Mathematics
Ezra Miller, Advisor(s).

Bryan Jian Wei Lim
“Heterogeneity of Tumor-Infiltrating CD8+ T Cells: Implications for Systemic Immunity and Therapy.”
Immunology
Xiao-Fan Wang, Advisor(s).

Shihan Lin
“Securing Web Content Distribution in the Presence of Third-Party Content Delivery Networks.”
Computer Science
Xiaowei Yang, Advisor(s).

Xinyan Lin
“Mobilizing Ocean Equity: Global and Chinese Assemblages, Onto-epistemological Possibilities, and Gongyi Agency.”
Marine Science and Conservation
Xavier Basurto Guillermo and Lisa Campbell, Advisor(s).

Randolph Linderman
“Exploiting Interclass Relationships for Improved Deep Neural Network Generalization in Open-world Environments.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yiran Chen, Advisor(s).

Sejiro Sashasen King Littleton
“The Cornea Harbors a Tricellular Neuro-Immune Niche that Underpins Touch Sensation.”
Immunology
Daniel Saban, Advisor(s).

Bo Liu
“Causal Inference Theory and Methods for Design and Analysis of Observational Studies.”
Statistical Science
Fan Li, Advisor(s).

Hongbin Liu
“Towards Safe and Secure Generative AI Systems.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Neil Gong, Advisor(s).

Warren Robert Lowell
“Essays on Housing Insecurity, Real Estate, and Urban Inequality.”
Public Policy
Anna Gassman-Pines, Advisor(s).

Kehan Lu
“Index-Based Yield Protection for Smallholder Farmers: Insights and Data-Driven Policies.”
Business Administration
Jing-Sheng Song and Can Zhang, Advisor(s).

Guillermo Andrés Luppi
“Juan del Encina’s Ideal Cancionero: Music, Ekphrasis, and Intermediality in the Art of a Converso Renaissance Polymath.”
Music
Roseen Giles, Advisor(s).

Francesco Luzi
“Measuring the Impact of Architecture and Training for Model Performance and Robustness in Image Detection.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Leslie Collins, Advisor(s).

Zhehao Ma
“Amyloid Precursor Protein Promotes Lung Cancer Growth Through Remolding the Tumor Microenvironment.”
Molecular Cancer Biology
Xiao-Fan Wang and Tso-Pang Yao, Advisor(s).

Goda Baddage Rakitha Dilshan Malewana
“Mechanisms of Enhancement of Antibody Responses by Escalating Dose Immunization in Mice.”
Immunology
Kevin Saunders and Barton Haynes, Advisor(s).

Jillian Roberts Marcantonio
“Embodying a Quiet but Pervasive Presence: The Holy Spirit in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry.”
Religion
J. Warren Smith, Advisor(s).

Robert D. Marek
“Vaccines to Immunologically Target Cancers: Androgen Receptor Splice Variants as Antigens in Prostate Cancer Vaccines & Vector Directed Responses in Self-Replicating RNA Based HER2 Breast Cancer Vaccines.”
Pathology
Zachary Hartman, Advisor(s).

Sarah Boston Marion
“The Genetic Basis of Lethal Mutations and How They Persist in Nature.”
Biology
Mohamed Noor, Advisor(s).

Sydney Paige Marshall
“Sisters of Struggle: Left Feminism, Transnational Networks, and the Frente Continental de Mujeres Contra la Intervención, 1945-1990.”
History
Jocelyn Olcott, Advisor(s).

Alexandra Masgras
“Biopolitical Architecture: Right-Wing Politics and the Design of Healthy Bodies in Romania, 1920-1944.”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Paul Jaskot, Advisor(s).

Ian Duncan McArthur
“Confession and Authority: Negotiating Voice, Identity, and Power in Early Modern Women's Autobiography.”
Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies
Aleksandra Price, Advisor(s).

Samantha Marie McDonald
“Independent Control of Barrier Properties in Thiol-Yne Click Polymers.”
Chemistry
Matthew Becker, Advisor(s).

Teresa Kaza McDonald
“Leveraging a Biomarker-Based Dietary Assessment to Interrogate the Impacts of Global Complementary Feeding Diets on Gut Microbiome Development.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Lawrence David, Advisor(s).

Elisabetta Menini
“Knowledge Exchange in Seabed Mining Governance: Barriers, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned..”
Marine Science and Conservation
Patrick Halpin, Advisor(s).

Gregory Bruce Merrill, Jr.
“Drivers and Consequences of Ingesting Plastic Marine Debris for Marine Mammals.”
Ecology
Douglas Nowacek, Advisor(s).

Weiting Miao
“Essays on Firm Dynamics, Innovation, and Policy Evaluation.”
Economics
Yi (Daniel) Xu, Advisor(s).

Samar Miled
“The Representation of Resistance and Revolution in Francophone Tunisian Literature.”
Romance Studies
Felwine Sarr, Advisor(s).

John Joshua Miller
“Adaptive Experimentation and Decision-Making: From Bayesian Optimization to Multi-Armed Bandits.”
Statistical Science
Simon Mak, Advisor(s).

Shane B. Morrissy
“The Art of the Commodity: Print Culture, Postcards, and Politics in Progressive Era America.”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Paul Jaskot, Advisor(s).

Xingrui Mou
“A Next-Generation Organ-on-a-Chip System for Tissue-Specific Morphogenesis and Function.”
Biomedical Engineering
Samira Musah, Advisor(s).

Danielle R. Nettere
“Vaccines and Viral Infections Impact Immune Landscaping for Future Immune Challenges.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Guido Ferrari and Justin Pollara, Advisor(s).

Stephen Ni-Hahn
“Machine Learning and Music Theory: Models for Hierarchical Music Generation and Analysis.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cynthia Rudin and Simon Mak, Advisor(s).

Junsuke Nohara
“Characterizing the Functional Profile of NK Cells Engaged by Antibodies.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Guido Ferrari, Advisor(s).

Ely Aaron Novakoski
“Entanglement of Remote Ion Memories with Cavity Enhanced Matter-Light Interactions.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jungsang Kim, Advisor(s).

Demilade Samuel Oba
“Anthropomorphic Brand Voice in Brand-Consumer Interactions.”
Business Administration
Gavan Fitzsimons, Advisor(s).

Arinze Emmanuel Okafor
“Functional Genomics Analysis of Gene Regulation and Cell State Dynamics.”
Cell Biology
Yarui Diao, Advisor(s).

Matthew Oliver
“ISR-Dependent Regulation of Translation in Neurons During Synaptic Plasticity.”
Cell Biology
Nicole Calakos, Advisor(s).

Devon Karl Overson
“Use of Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Detection of Early Neurodegeneration in Asymptomatic Individuals with Early Alzheimer's Disease.”
Medical Physics
Trong-Kha Truong and Bastiaan Driehuys, Advisor(s).

Elise Nicole Paietta
“Madagascar as a Hotspot for Viral Discovery: The Oral DNA Viromes of Lemurs and Rodents from Captive to Natural Populations.”
Biology
Anne Yoder, Advisor(s).

Carlos Jose Pardo De la Hoz
“Eco-evolutionary Drivers of Symbiotic Network Assembly: A Case Study with Cyanolichens.”
Biology
François Lutzoni, Advisor(s).

GaYoung Park
“Evaluating Health Policies: Impacts on Health Outcomes and Expenditures.”
Economics
Ryan McDevitt and Matthew Masten, Advisor(s).

Ava Xanthe Parker
“Advances in Energy Sensitive X-ray Phase Contrast Measurements.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michael Gehm, Advisor(s).

Swapnil Dharmendrabhai Patel
“Cold Chemistry and Precision Spectroscopy of CaH+ Molecular Ions.”
Physics
Kenneth Brown, Advisor(s).

Jacob Evans Peloquin
“Accelerating the Mechanical Characterization of Hierarchical Materials via Machine Learning.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Ken Gall, Advisor(s).

Erik Robert Peterson
“Improving the Supernova Hubble Diagram on Both Axes.”
Physics
Daniel Scolnic, Advisor(s).

Uyen NG Pham
“Location-Biased β-Arrestin Conformations Direct G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling.”
Biochemistry
Sudarshan Rajagopal, Advisor(s).

Prajakta Vinayak Prabhune
“Data Centric Modeling and Design of Polymer Nanocomposites for Mechanical and Dielectric Properties.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
L. Catherine Brinson, Advisor(s).

Ernest Pujol Leon
“Karl Marx, Philosopher of Technics: Critique, Alienation, and the Materiality of Social Power.”
Literature
Michael Hardt and Mark Hansen, Advisor(s).

Ishaan Puranam
“Developing Molecular Tools to Study N-Cadherin Mediated Adherens Junction Mechanobiology.”
Biomedical Engineering
Brenton Hoffman, Advisor(s).

Iakov Rachinskiy
“Advancing Design and Fabrication of High-Density Neural Interfaces for Long-Term Neural Recordings.”
Biomedical Engineering
Jonathan Viventi, Advisor(s).

Paige Susan Randall
“Exploring Resilience Experiences Among Newly Graduated Nurses Transitioning to Professional Practice.”
Nursing
Jennie De Gagne, Advisor(s).

Matthew Reale-Hatem
“Three Essays on the Economics of Conservation Policy.”
Environmental Policy
Jeffrey Vincent, Advisor(s).

Charlesa Redmond
“Roots to Routes: Black Intellectual Labor and the Politics of Higher Education in North Carolina, 1790-1891.”
History
Reeve Huston, Advisor(s).

Muyang Ren
“Essays in Microeconometrics.”
Economics
Matthew Masten, Advisor(s).

Estefany Yamilet Reyes
“Host Cell Responses in the Brain During Cryptococcal Meningoencephalitis.”
Immunology
Mari Shinohara and Michael Krangel, Advisor(s).

Erica Ann Ridderman
“When We Say ‘God is Love’: A Study on the Centrality of Love in the Doctrine of God & Its Ramifications.”
Religion
Edgardo Colón-Emeric, Advisor(s).

Lucille Elizabeth Right
“Opposition Participation in Authoritarian Governance: Evidence from Cambodia.”
Political Science
Edmund Malesky, Advisor(s).

Maria Pia Rodriguez Salazar
“Mitochondrial Regulation of Cortical Astrocyte Morphogenesis and Organization.”
Cell Biology
Cagla Eroğlu, Advisor(s).

Ryan Eduardo Rodriguez
“Identification of CHMP2B as a Substrate Adaptor for the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase CHIP.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Kenneth Scaglione, Advisor(s).

Dahlia Frances Ida Rohm
“CRISPR/dCas9-Based Tools for Epigenome Editing.”
Biomedical Engineering
Charles Gersbach, Advisor(s).

Nasanin Rosado DeRodes
“Monstrous Mothers: The Womb as Grammar in the Francophone Black Atlantic.”
Romance Studies
Annette Joseph-Gabriel and Felwine Sarr, Advisor(s).

Rohit Roy
“Exploring the Hidden World of Conformational Penalties in Nucleic Acid Recognition.”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Hashim Al-Hashimi, Advisor(s).

Veronica Russell
“Exploration of Viral and Host Gene Expression Dynamics in Hematologic Malignancies.”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Sandeep Dave, Advisor(s).

Alexandre Sac--Morane
“Numerical Analysis of Chemo-Mechanical Couplings in Geomaterials at the Microscale.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Manolis Veveakis and Hadrien Rattez, Advisor(s).

Srishti Sadhir
“Maternal Energetic Strategies During Pregnancy.”
Evolutionary Anthropology
Herman Pontzer, Advisor(s).

Ben Sarbey
“Dying Well and the Role of Palliative Care.”
Philosophy
Gopal Sreenivasan, Advisor(s).

Hannah Morgan Schmidt
“Defining the Role of the Post-Translational Modification UFMylation in Orthoflavivirus Infection.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Stacy Horner, Advisor(s).

Allie Elizabeth Schrock
“Comparative Neuroanatomy and Neuroendocrinology of Strepsirrhines.”
Evolutionary Anthropology
Christine Drea, Advisor(s).

Erin Ashley Schroeder
“Investigating Host-Parasite Interactions Supporting Plasmodium Liver Stage Nutrient Acquisition.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Emily Derbyshire, Advisor(s).

George Schwartz
“Developing the Tools for Effective Quantum Simulation with Trapped Ions.”
Physics
Jungsang Kim, Advisor(s).

Divya Sebastian
“Essays on Invention Value: Firm Capabilities and the Location of R&D.”
Business Administration
Ashish Arora and Wesley Cohen, Advisor(s).

Renzo Cristhyan Enrique Severino Muñoz
“Essays in Education Economics.”
Public Policy
Marcos Rangel, Advisor(s).

Shamitha Ramakrishna Shetty
“Nanofiber-Based Active Immunotherapy:  A Multimodal Approach Targeting Chronic Inflammation.”
Biomedical Engineering
Joel Collier, Advisor(s).

Karim Rida Moh Shikh Khalil
“Ill-Posedness and Loss of Regularity in Models of Incompressible Fluids.”
Mathematics
Tarek Elgindi, Advisor(s).

David Dongyoon Shin
“Essays on Global Inefficiencies and Externalities.”
Economics
Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Advisor(s).

Hyun Moh Shin
“Essays on Firm Dynamics Across High-Technology Specialized Markets.”
Economics
Allan Collard-Wexler, Advisor(s).

Gabriella Marie Shull
“Design and Testing of a Low-Noise, Low-Power, Scalable, Actively-Multiplexed Neural Interface.”
Biomedical Engineering
Jonathan Viventi, Advisor(s).

Ho Pan Shum
“Essays on Network Games.”
Economics
Attila Ambrus, Advisor(s).

Emily May Shyr
“The Romantic Sublime in the Late Works of Franz Schubert.”
Music
R. Larry Todd, Advisor(s).

Kirit Singh
“Adoptive Lymphocyte Transfer as an Adjunct to T Cell Activating Therapies when Treating Brain Tumors.”
Biomedical Engineering
Peter Fecci and Mustafa Khasraw, Advisor(s).

Niven Singh
“Crossing Between Normal and Inverted Potentials: Design Constraints and Principles for Tuning Between One-and-Two Electron Transfer Reactions.”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
David Beratan, Advisor(s).

Anna Pauliina Smith
“The Roles of Explicit and Implicit Memory on Aesthetic Experiences of Visual Art.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Elizabeth Marsh Felipe de Brigard, Advisor(s).

Alma Solis
“Investigating Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases in Rural Madagascar.”
Evolutionary Anthropology
Charles Nunn, Advisor(s).

Arjun Sridhar
“Improving the Efficiency and Performance of Neural Architecture Search for the Modern Machine Learning Landscape.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yiran Chen, Advisor(s).

Laura Rose Stilwell
“Three Essays on Investments in the Well-being of Children and Families.”
Public Policy
Lisa Gennetian, Advisor(s).

Grace Rixie Sturrock
“Large-Scale Proteomic Analysis of Metal-Protein Interactions.”
Chemistry
Michael Fitzgerald, Advisor(s).

Chang Su
“Dissecting Mechanisms of Sarcoma Response to Immunotherapy and Radiotherapy in Primary Tumor Mouse Models.”
Molecular Cancer Biology
David Kirsch and Mari Shinohara, Advisor(s).

Jonathan Chen Su
“Leveraging Intrinsically Disordered Polypeptides for Biotechnology Applications.”
Biomedical Engineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Advisor(s).

Jeremy Kelly Sunshine
“Leadership Decapitation in Interstate War.”
Political Science
Peter Feaver, Advisor(s).

Kendal Marie Swanson
“Essays in Gender and Development Economics.”
Public Policy
Manoj Mohanan, Advisor(s).

Minxue Tang
“Efficiency in Security-preserving Training of Artificial Intelligence.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hai Li, Advisor(s).

Brady Garland Taylor
“CMOS and Emerging Device Circuits for Biologically-Plausible Learning.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hai Li, Advisor(s).

Andrew R.L. Trexler
“Public Demand for a More Informative Press.”
Public Policy
Philip Napoli and D. Sunshine Hillygus, Advisor(s).

Tiffany Tu
“Bias Corrections for Genetic Association Studies with Applications in Pediatric Nephrotic Syndrome.”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alejandro Ochoa, Advisor(s).

Mavzuna Ramazonovna Turaeva
“Essays in the Economics of Education: Inequities in Educational Outcomes, Resource Disparities, and Deficiencies..”
Public Policy
Sarah Komisarow, Advisor(s).

Gianna Grace Tutoni
“Microfluidic Fabrication of Fully-Resorbable Stereocomplex Crosslinked Hydrogel Microparticles with Tunable Material Properties.”
Chemistry
Matthew Becker, Advisor(s).

Sarah Nicole Van Dierdonck
“Characterization of the SHORTROOT Regulatory Hub for Root Development.”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Greg Wray and Xinnian Dong, Advisor(s).

Gabriel Varela
“Three Papers on the Relational Foundations of Self-Diagnosis: Social Influence, Medical Authority and Implications.”
Sociology
James Moody, Advisor(s).

Anna Michelle Villalobos Santeli
“Characterization of Leachable and Bioaccessible Polymer Additives in Microplastics.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
P. Lee Ferguson, Advisor(s).

Lucas Paul Wachsmuth
“Elucidating Mechanisms of Intracranial Tumor-Driven Systemic Immunosuppression.”
Pathology
Peter Fecci, Advisor(s).

Changxin Wan
“Database and Computational Methods Development for Multi-Modal Single-Cell Data.”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Zhicheng Ji, Advisor(s).

Xiangtian Wang
“Development and Applications of Novel Exposure Biomarkers for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) Reflecting Long-term Exposures or Wood Smoke Exposure.”
Environment
Junfeng Zhang, Advisor(s).

Yitu Wang
“Near Data Processing for Data-Intensive Machine Learning Workloads.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yiran Chen, Advisor(s).

Peter J. Weng
“A Gut Sense for Dietary Amino Acids.”
Neurobiology
Diego Bohórquez, Advisor(s).

Jacob Henry Holt Whitlow
“Engineering Spin-Motion Interactions in Trapped Ions for Quantum Simulation and Computation.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jungsang Kim, Advisor(s).

Carly Sciandra Williams
“Impact of Translesion DNA Synthesis on Cancer Therapy and Cellular Metabolism.”
Biochemistry
Pei Zhou, Advisor(s).

Wenxi Xiao
“Peri-Head Distance Coding in the Mouse Brainstem.”
Neurobiology
Fan Wang and Lindsey Glickfeld, Advisor(s).

Chengcheng Xu
“Improving Soil Properties Mapping and Parameterization for Land Surface Modeling.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Nathaniel Chaney, Advisor(s).

Kai Xu
“The Weak Inverse Mean Curvature Flow: Existence Theories and Applications.”
Mathematics
Hubert Bray, Advisor(s).

Lalit Yadav
“Investigating the Magnetic Properties of Frustrated Spin Systems: Square and Breathing Pyrochlore Lattices.”
Physics
Sara Haravifard, Advisor(s).

Shiv Akshar Yadavalli
“Quantum Information in a Noisy World.”
Physics
Iman Marvian, Advisor(s).

Mengying Yan
“Outcome Observability in Electronic Health Record-Based Clinical Prediction Models.”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Doctor of Philosophy
Benjamin Goldstein, Advisor(s).

Sravya Pallavi Yandamuri
“Efficient and Adaptively Secure Consensus.”
Computer Science
Kartik Nayak, Advisor(s).

Jichen Yang
“Machine Learning Methods for the Analysis of Thyroid Nodule Ultrasound Images.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Maciej Mazurowski and Galen Reeves, Advisor(s).

Benda Yin
“Judgment-based Accounting Standards and Stock Price Information.”
Business Administration
Qi Chen Rahul Vashishtha, Advisor(s).

Jincheng Yu
“Theoretical Advances in Density Functional Theory for Strongly Correlated Systems and Excited States.”
Chemistry
Weitao Yang, Advisor(s).

Jianyi Zhang
“Advancing Deep Learning through Probability Engineering: A Pragmatic Paradigm for Modern AI.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yiran Chen, Advisor(s).

Jingkai Zhang
“Development of Coherent LiDAR for Mesoscopic-Scale Applications.”
Biomedical Engineering
Roarke Horstmeyer, Advisor(s).

Xiaodong Zhang
“Leveraging Publicly Available Data and Production Cost Models for Risk Assessment and Enhanced Operational Strategies in Electric Power Systems.”
Environment
Dalia Patino-Echeverri, Advisor(s).

Yuren Zhou
“Bayesian Deep Discrete Latent Structures.”
Statistical Science
David Dunson, Advisor(s).