Dissertations Completed for Doctor of Philosophy, 2025–2026

Alex Jeffrey Allphin
“Development, Assessment, and Applications of Novel Micro-CT Imaging Devices”
Biomedical Engineering
Cristian T. Badea and Kyle Lafata, Advisor(s). 

Fatemah Alqabandi
“Partisan Pressure and Algorithmic Promises: Exploring Political Discourse, Self-censorship, and Perceptions in Online Spaces”
Sociology
Christopher Bail, Advisor(s). 

Jaleesia D. Amos
“An Informatics Toolkit for the Risk Assessment of Nano-scaled Materials and Contaminants”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Wiesner and Christine Hendren, Advisor(s). 

Taylor Daniel Anglen
“Insights into Cardiomyocyte Biology and Gene Regulation through CRISPR-based Assays”
Cell Biology
Charles A. Gersbach, Advisor(s). 

Sarah Staley Arthur
“Developing a Conceptual Model and Measure of Postpartum Sexual Well-Being”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Rebecca Shelby and Francis Keefe, Advisor(s). 

Hunter James Augeri
“How to Save America: The Art and Culture of Hoarding”
English
Priscilla Wald, Advisor(s). 

Suhyen Bae
“Three Essays on the Political Consequences of Loneliness”
Political Science
John Aldrich and D. Sunshine Hillygus, Advisor(s). 

Mary Olivia Balmert
“Intracranial Tumors Skew Bone Marrow Hematopoiesis”
Integrative Immunobiology
You-Wen He, Advisor(s). 

Leah Jo Bontreger
“At the Crossroads of Histidine and Copper: Structures, Mechanisms, and Scope of Oxidative Reactivity of Biologically-Relevant Peptides”
Chemistry
Katherine J. Franz, Advisor(s). 

Katherine Renee Brooks
“Exploring Risk Factors for Pressure Injury Development among Nursing Home Residents”
Nursing
Tracey Yap, Advisor(s). 

Charles Preston Cervi
“Interrogating the Configuration Space of Slender Structures”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Lawrence Virgin, Advisor(s). 

Chongyao Chen
“Hodge Theory of Calabi-Yau Varieties”
Mathematics
Colleen Robles, Advisor(s). 

Rebecca Chingmei Chen
“Next-Generation Measurements of Dark Energy: Leveraging Photometric Redshifts for Type Ia Supernova Cosmology”
Physics
Daniel Scolnic, Advisor(s). 

Eduardo Antonio Cisternas Jiménez
“Investigation of Automatic Treatment Planning (ATP) Optimization Using an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy AI System”
Medical Physics
Fang-Fang Yin and Mark Oldham, Advisor(s). 

Jonathan Zachary Colen
“Investigating How the Color Allele in Ipomoea cordatotriloba Resists Introgression via Epistatic Selection”
Ecology
Mark Rausher, Advisor(s). 

Edgar Valentine Cook
“Group Status and Social Dominance in American Politics”
Political Science
John Aldrich and Christopher Johnston, Advisor(s). 

Paul Marston Copeland
“Applications of Effective Field Theory to the Transverse Momentum Dependent Framework”
Physics
Berndt Mueller, Advisor(s). 

Marie Elizabeth Cronin
“Functional Consequences of the Piezo1 Membrane Footprint”
Neurobiology
Jorg Grandl, Advisor(s). 

Victoria Winter D'Agostino
“A Multi-modal Optical Toolkit to Characterize Spatiotemporal Metabolic Heterogeneity of Breast Cancer and its Microenvironment”
Biomedical Engineering
Nirmala Ramanujam, Advisor(s). 

Alec Ernst D'Alessandro
“Desmosomes Regulate Translation and mRNA at the Cell Cortex”
Cell Biology
Terry Lechler, Advisor(s). 

Katrina DeWitt
“Abiotic and Biotic Drivers of Microbial Community Structure and Function”
Biology
Jean-Philippe Gibert, Advisor(s). 

James Louis Doherty
“Encapsulating and Interfacing with Atomically Thin Nanomaterials for Integration in Transistors and Displays”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aaron D. Franklin, Advisor(s). 

Jessica Milhomem Doyle
“The Arts of Remediation: Seeing the Amazon Otherwise”
Romance Studies
Gustavo Furtado, Advisor(s). 

Lukas du Plooy
“The Effect of Rsp5-mediated Ubiquitination on the Pathogenesis of the Human Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Andrew Alspaugh, Advisor(s). 

Ivan Bayer Falsztyn
“Physiological Responses to Early Life Stress During Development and Adulthood in Caenorhabditis Elegans”
Biology
L. Ryan Baugh, Advisor(s). 

Carina Fowler
“Children's Everyday Chemical Contaminant Exposure: Associations with Demographic Disparities and the Developing Basal Ganglia”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Eve Puffer and Michael S. Gaffrey, Advisor(s). 

Michael Gao
“From Bench to Bedside: Advancing the Evaluation and Alignment of Machine Learning and Large Language Models for Clinical Impact in Healthcare”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Ricardo Henao, Advisor(s). 

Natasza Stanislawa Gardner
“Cultivating Community: Redefining Notions of Collectivity through Romani-Centered Literature, Theater and Film”
Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies
Stefani Engelstein and Priscilla Layne, Advisor(s). 

Noah Gibson
“Essays on Food Insecurity in the United States”
Sociology
Martin Ruef and Mallory SoRelle, Advisor(s). 

Iris Gilad
“Maps and Mapping Dislocation: The Art of Contemporary Middle Eastern Women Émigré Artists”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Kristine Stiles, Advisor(s). 

Hanxue Gu
“AI for Medical Imaging: Foundation Models, 2D-to-3D Reconstruction, and Clinical Applications”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Maciej A. Mazurowski, Advisor(s). 

Rachel Eliza Guetta-Weiss
“Characterizing the Nature and Features of Misophonia: A Mechanistic Approach”
Psychology and Neuroscience
M. Zachary Rosenthal, Advisor(s). 

Weilun Guo
“Contributions of Guanylate-Binding Proteins and the Very Large Inducible GTPase in the Restriction of Actin-Based Motility of Burkholderia thailandensis”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Jorn Coers, Advisor(s). 

Yuanchi Ha
“Exploring the Temporal Dynamics of Mobile Genetic Elements in Microbial Communities”
Biomedical Engineering
Lingchong You, Advisor(s). 

Robert Spencer Hallyburton
“Security-Aware Sensor Fusion in Autonomy”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Miroslav Pajic, Advisor(s). 

Ze-Yi Han
“Rapid Trait Changes and Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks Mediate Microbial Food Web Thermal Responses”
Biology
Jean-Philippe Gibert Masayuki Onishi, Advisor(s). 

Ashleigh B. Harlow
“Understanding Associations between Social Determinants of Health, Parental Participation, and Development of Parenting Confidence in Congenital Heart Defect Care”
Nursing
Debra Brandon, Advisor(s). 

Samuel Edward Peter Horewood
“Rebel Empire: Subjecthood and Rebellion in Britain’s Early Empire”
History
Philip Stern, Advisor(s). 

Abbie Shaye Ireland
“Identifying the Origins of Heterogeneity and Plasticity in Small Cell Lung Cancer and Other Neuroendocrine Tumors”
Molecular Cancer Biology
Trudy Oliver, Advisor(s). 

Ann-Marie Margaret Jacoby
“Past to Present: Multidisciplinary Insights into Tamanend’s Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops erebennus) in the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, U.S.”
Marine Science and Conservation
Andy Read, Advisor(s). 

Jihyun Jeong
“The Ethics of Victimhood: How Victimhood Can Be a Positive Political Resource”
Political Science
Alexander Kirshner, Advisor(s). 

Yongze Jia
“Ionospheric Remote Sensing Using MF Radio Signals and Software-Defined Radio”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Steven Cummer, Advisor(s). 

Pingcheng Jian
“Robot Learning with Prior Knowledge: Leveraging Small Network Modules and Large Foundation Models”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michael Zavlanos and Boyuan Chen, Advisor(s). 

Savannah Lynn Johnson
“Adolescent Mental Health and Intimate Partner Violence: Development and Pilot of the PREvention Program for Adolescent Relationship and Emotional Development (PREPARED)”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Eve Puffer, Advisor(s). 

Ejuerleigh Shonice Jones
“Confessing on Impulse(s): Surveying Hawthorne's Veil, Thoreau's Ornaments, and Northup's Violin”
English
Michael D'Alessandro, Advisor(s). 

Stephanie Jordan
“Three Essays on U.S. State Public Service Expenditures and Population Health”
Sociology
Scott Lynch, Advisor(s). 

Jennifer Noelle Kampe
“Advances in Bayesian Latent Factor Interaction Models for Ecological and Environmental Health Applications”
Statistical Science
David Dunson, Advisor(s). 

Heidi Violet Kastenholz
“Applications of Nonlinear, Femtosecond Laser Systems for Understanding Artists’ Historical Pigments”
Chemistry
Warren Warren, Advisor(s). 

Rachel Marie Keener
“Human Genetic Variation Reveals Novel Regulators of Yersinia pestis Cellular Infection”
Genetics and Genomics
Dennis Ko, Advisor(s). 

Andrew Michael Kenealy
“Voice of the Congress and of the People on Foreign Relations, 1945-2022”
Political Science
Peter Feaver and Rachel Myrick, Advisor(s). 

Elizabeth Irene Keys
“Fluorescent Light Collector for Underwater Applications”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
David Smith, Advisor(s). 

Omid Khosravani
“Heterogeneous Quantum Information Processing”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kenneth R. Brown, Advisor(s). 

Michael Hunter Klein
“Machine Learning for Interpretable Decoding of High-Dimensional Time Series: Toward the Discovery of a Neural Biomarker for Anxiety”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
David Carlson, Advisor(s). 

Quinn Michael Lanners
“Domain-Guided Machine Learning: Trustworthy Methods for Causal Inference and Rare Event Prediction”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Cynthia Rudin and Charles Page, Advisor(s). 

Amelia Hill Lawrence
“From Survival to Selection: The Genomic Landscape of Serpentine Adaptation in Monkeyflowers”
Biology
John Willis, Advisor(s). 

Youran Lee
“The Influence of Social Determinants of Health, Diet, and Symptom Experiences in Patients with Colorectal Cancer”
Nursing
Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, Advisor(s). 

Anya A. Lewis-Meeks
“Spectacular Chaos: The Future of Folklore in Caribbean Fiction”
English
Tsitsi Jaji, Advisor(s). 

Di Li
“Structural and Mechanistic Characterization of MoaA and MoaC in Molybdenum Cofactor Biosynthesis”
Biochemistry
Kenichi Yokoyama, Advisor(s). 

Joy Qiaoyi Li
“Nanoplasmonic Platforms for Machine Learning-enabled Sensing and Diagnostics”
Biomedical Engineering
Tuan Vo-Dinh, Advisor(s). 

Chenghuai Li
“Technology and Operations Management for Sustainability and Social Responsibility”
Business Administration
N. Bora Keskin and Jing-Sheng Jeannette Song, Advisor(s). 

Hengming Li
“Optical Control of Color Centers in Nanoscale Diamond”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Maiken Mikkelsen, Advisor(s). 

Yuxin Lin
“Enriched Spatiotemporal Mapping of Single-Virus Dynamics in Cellular and Complex Environments via High-Speed 3D Tracking Microscopy”
Chemistry
Kevin Welsher, Advisor(s). 

Jason Liu
“Development, Validation, and Deployment of a Portable, Automated Fluorescence Microarray Scanner for Point of Care Diagnostics”
Biomedical Engineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Advisor(s). 

Yiling Liu
“Robust and Scalable Causal Analysis: Domain Alignment, Time-series Counterfactuals, Multi-Treatment & Multi-Outcome Causal Effects, and LLM-Integrated Causal Discovery”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
David Carlson, Advisor(s). 

Telmo Llanga
“Directed Evolution and High Throughput Evaluation of the CRISPR sgRNA”
Pharmacology
Bruce Sullenger, Advisor(s). 

Elana Rose Lockshin
“Differences in Intrinsic ISR Activation Determine the Susceptibility of Dopamine Neurons to Degeneration in Parkinson’s Disease”
Neurobiology
Nicole Calakos, Advisor(s). 

Andrea Leann Ludwig
“Lymphotropic Virotherapy Engages High Endothelial Venule and Dendritic Cell Inflammation in Tumor Draining Lymph Nodes to Mediate Cancer In Situ Vaccination”
Pharmacology
Matthias Gromeier, Advisor(s). 

Xiaoxiao Ma
“The Development of Palladium-Catalyzed Regio- and Enantioselective Difunctionalizations of Conjugated Dienes and Enynes”
Chemistry
Steven J. Malcolmson, Advisor(s). 

Xinyi Ma
“Macrophage Regulation of Mesenchymal Subpopulations During Healing”
Pharmacology
Benjamin Alman and Xiao-Fan Wang, Advisor(s). 

Amber Ryan Manning
“Penelope’s Daughters: Seizing the Means of Reproduction in 20th Century Art, Literature, and Film”
English
Priscilla Wald, Advisor(s). 

Chengjie Mao
“Phase Transitions, Structural Fluctuations and Temperature Dependent Thermal Conductivities of Energy Materials from Phonon Anharmonicity”
Chemistry
Olivier Delaire, Advisor(s). 

Sarah K. Markert
“Maternal Fetal Attachment as a Multidimensional Process: Implications for Depression, Attachment, and Caregiver-Infant Interaction Across the Postpartum Year”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Michael Gaffrey and Nancy Zucker, Advisor(s). 

Fernando Martin
“Three Essays on the Political Economy of Housing”
Political Science
Pablo Beramendi and Daniel Stegmueller, Advisor(s). 

Joseph Ray Mathews
“Advances in Sequential Monte Carlo Methods and Site-Dependent DNA Evolution Models”
Statistical Science
Scott Schmidler, Advisor(s). 

Ran Ming
“Molecular Mechanisms that Regulate the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase CHIP”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Kenneth Scaglione, Advisor(s). 

Hae Sol Moon
“Integrative Modeling of Alzheimer’s Disease Risk: A Multimodal Imaging and Computational Framework”
Biomedical Engineering
Alexandra Badea and Cristian T. Badea, Advisor(s). 

Charles Adrian Muirhead
“Hearing in Cheloniid Sea Turtles: Thresholds, Effects of Body Temperature, and Auditory Masking”
Marine Science and Conservation
Douglas Nowacek, Advisor(s). 

Amit Milind Narawane
“Self-Aligning and Handheld Optical Coherence Tomography for Ophthalmic Imaging”
Biomedical Engineering
Cynthia A. Toth, Advisor(s). 

Reshma Nargund
“Uncovering Temporal Windows of Susceptibility: The Role of Temperature in Shaping Birthweight and Epigenetic Patterns During Pregnancy”
Environment
William Pan and Susan Murphy, Advisor(s). 

Jake Adam Nash
“Temporal Dynamics and Molecular Functional Profiling of Poplar Root Fungal Communities”
Ecology
Rytas Vilgalys, Advisor(s). 

Hanggai Nuomin
“Numerical Methods for Quantum Dynamics and Their Applications in Chemistry”
Chemistry
David Beratan, Advisor(s). 

Elizabeth Anne O'Gorman
“Flexible, Real-Time Shaping of Zebra Finch Vocal Learning”
Neurobiology
John M. Pearson, Advisor(s). 

Rihui Ou
“Scalable Bayesian Inference and Multiple Hypothesis Testing for Tree-structured Data”
Statistical Science
David Dunson, Advisor(s). 

Kaylie Grace Page
“Between God and Man: Augustine, Bede, Catherine, and Calvin on Christ the Mediator”
Religion
Peter Casarella, Advisor(s). 

Jingyu Pan
“Intelligent Electronic Design Automation through Machine Learning Methods”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yiran Chen, Advisor(s). 

Claudia Angelina Petrucco
“Mechanisms of Nuclear Segregation in the Multinucleate and Multibudding Yeast, Aureobasidium pullulans”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Daniel Lew and Amy Gladfelter, Advisor(s). 

Luisa Piccolo Serafim
“Dynamically Linearized Time-domain Approach for Nonlinear Aeroelastic Theoretical/Computational Model Using Unsteady Aerodynamics”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Earl H. Dowell, Advisor(s). 

Lauren V. Prox
“Modelling and Assessing PM2.5 Exposure in Support of Ongoing Air Pollution Research in Mongolia”
Environment
Junfeng (Jim) Zhang, Advisor(s). 

Joseph Terrell Rich
“Acoustofluidic Manipulation of Gels for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications”
Biomedical Engineering
Tony Jun Huang, Advisor(s). 

Mitch Rivers
“Mechanistic Analysis of Protodeauration and Gold(I) and Palladium(II) Catalyzed Carbene Transformations”
Chemistry
Ross Widenhoefer, Advisor(s). 

Yasmin Roye
“Uncovering the Roles of Extracellular Matrix Homeostasis and YAP Signaling in the Podocyte Injury Response”
Biomedical Engineering
Samira Musah, Advisor(s). 

Sarah Danielle Ruiz
“Asymmetric Illumination X-ray Differential Phase Contrast Imaging”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michael Gehm, Advisor(s). 

Sagnik Saha
“High Fidelity Quantum Networking of Trapped Atomic Ions”
Physics
Christopher Monroe, Advisor(s). 

Natalie Schulte
“The Biophysical Characterization of Extracellular and Intracellular Metalloprotein Complexes”
Chemistry
Katherine J. Franz, Advisor(s). 

Daniel Joseph Schuster
“Immunomodulating Factors of Host Response to Infectious Disease and Vaccination”
Integrative Immunobiology
Georgia Tomaras, Advisor(s). 

Wan Ning Seah
“Regimes of Pluralism: Tolerance Beyond Liberal Democracy”
Political Science
Michael Gillespie, Advisor(s). 

Ke Shan
“Elucidation of Unknown Signaling Roles Mediated by Lipid Scramblase TMEM16F”
Biochemistry
Huanghe Yang, Advisor(s). 

Daniel Mark Shapiro
“Biotechnology Applications of Engineered Intrinsically Disordered Protein Condensates”
Biomedical Engineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Advisor(s). 

Yi Shen
“Risk-Averse and Distributionally Robust Optimization for Online and Offline Decision-Making”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Michael Zavlanos, Advisor(s). 

Eunso Shin
“Ultrafast Metasurface-Integrated Pyroelectric Photodetectors”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Maiken Mikkelsen, Advisor(s). 

Saman Sotoudeh Paima
“Improving the Reliability of Lung Densitometry in CT Studies”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ehsan Abadi, Advisor(s). 

Amy Tiqvah-Rose Robison Springfield
“Analysis of the Effects of Copper Ions on Protein Precipitation”
Chemistry
Katherine J. Franz, Advisor(s). 

Madison Claire Strain
“Decoding the Missing Heritability: Insights into the Complex Genetic Architecture of Spina Bifida”
Genetics and Genomics
Allison Ashley-Koch, Advisor(s). 

Jingwei Sun
“Advancing the Efficient and Trustworthy AI on the Edge”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yiran Chen, Advisor(s). 

Justin Edgar Sylvers
“Characterizing and Increasing Nuclear Entry of Electrotransfected Plasmid DNA”
Biomedical Engineering
Fan Yuan, Advisor(s). 

Cyrus Tanade
“Cardiovascular Hemodynamic Digital Twins for Diagnostics, Continuous Monitoring, and Real-Time Intervention Planning”
Biomedical Engineering
Amanda Randles, Advisor(s). 

Kiriko Terai
“Structure-Function Relations and Kinetic Principles Underlying Multiscale Electron Transfer in Biology”
Chemistry
David Beratan, Advisor(s). 

Daniel Joseph Tobin
“Three Essays on Sustainable Development Interventions: Can Projects Catalyze Better Systems for People and Planet?”
Environment
Alexander Pfaff and William Pan, Advisor(s). 

Lauren Ann Tracy
“Retrotransposon Dynamics: Control in the Germline and Functional Activation During Development”
Genetics and Genomics
Zhao Zhang, Advisor(s). 

Jacqueline Nelson Trumbull
“Self vs. Other-Referential Mentalization in Individuals with Borderline Features and the Possible Role of Shameful Early Maladaptive Schemas”
Psychology and Neuroscience
M. Zachary Rosenthal, Advisor(s). 

Ashley Thi Truong
“Transcriptional Fine-Tuning of Adipocyte Metabolism”
Cell Biology
Rana Gupta, Advisor(s). 

Anna Truong
“Interrogation of Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzyme 13 in Plasmodium Parasites”
Chemistry
Emily R. Derbyshire, Advisor(s). 

Anna Daisy Umano
“Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of the E3 Ligase CHIP (STUB1): Insights Into CHIP’s Role in the Nervous System and in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 48 (SCA48)”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Nina Sherwood, Advisor(s). 

Yifei Wang
“Advancing Electrotransfection in Nucleic Acid Delivery from Mechanistic Understanding to Therapeutic Innovation”
Biomedical Engineering
Fan Yuan, Advisor(s). 

Noah Hunter Watkins
“Selective Aminofunctionalization of 1,3-Dienes and Aryl Cyclopropanes Enabled by Copper Catalysis”
Chemistry
Qiu Wang, Advisor(s). 

Nicholas Lee White
“The Sophiology of Sergei Bulgakov: Divine Self-Revelation and the Grammar of Love”
Religion
Jeremy Begbie, Advisor(s). 

Steven Winter
“Scalable Multi-Stage Bayesian Inference in Constrained and Structured Models”
Statistical Science
David Dunson, Advisor(s). 

Jianping Xia
“Acoustic Separation of Viruses and Small Extracellular Vesicles for Diagnostic Applications”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Tony Jun Huang, Advisor(s). 

Danjie Xu
“The Weighted Shifted Boundary Method for Moving-Boundary Flow Simulations”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Guglielmo Scovazzi, Advisor(s). 

Xingzi Xu
“Improving Deep Learning with Dynamical System”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vahid Tarokh, Advisor(s). 

Jingyi Yan
“Response-Adaptive Resource Allocation with Many Treatments”
Business Administration
David R. Brown, Advisor(s). 

Xi Yang
“Computational Microscopy Methods to Image at High Resolution Over Large Areas”
Biomedical Engineering
Roarke Horstmeyer, Advisor(s). 

Yunxin Yao
“Network Toughening Strategies: Interplay of Mechanophore Reactivity, Polymer Chemistry and Network Topology”
Chemistry
Stephen L. Craig, Advisor(s). 

Yifan Yu
“Harnessing the Full Solar Spectrum: Leveraging Both Thermal and Nonthermal Pathways in Plasmonic Catalysis for Net-Zero Carbon Fuel Production”
Chemistry
Jie Liu, Advisor(s). 

Jingxuan Zhang
“Statistical Analysis and Deep Learning Models for Immunoprofiling Based on Single-cell Data in Clinical Trials”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Lin Lin, Advisor(s). 

Wenhan Zhang
“Quality of Life Outcomes for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment Across Different Living and Care Arrangements”
Population Health Sciences
Courtney Van Houtven, Advisor(s). 

Kathryn Elizabeth Anderson
“Signaling Components of Adventitious Root Development”
Biology
Lucia Strader, Advisor(s). 

Minel Arinel
“Functional Encoding of Gut-to-Brain Signals in Larval Zebrafish”
Neurobiology
Eva Naumann, Advisor(s). 

Garrett Tod Baker
“Family Dynamics and Social Inequality in an Era of Mass Incarceration”
Public Policy
Anna Gassman-Pines and Christopher Wildeman, Advisor(s). 

Thea Rose Payne Ballard
“Among Voices: Conversation, Performance, and Media in American Contemporary Art”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Kristine Stiles, Advisor(s). 

Tyler Michael Barrett
“Social Networks and Infectious Disease Ecology in Northeast Madagascar”
Evolutionary Anthropology
Charles Nunn, Advisor(s). 

Christina Michelle Bergemann
“Microbial, Mitochondrial, and Mucosal Impacts on Chemical Susceptibility in Caenorhabditis elegans”
Environment
Joel Meyer, Advisor(s). 

Mary Spears Dance Berry
“"The Heavens and the Earth Shake": Reconsidering Nonhuman Creation in Conversation with African, Evangelical, and Mainline Hermeneutics”
Religion
Ellen F. Davis, Advisor(s). 

Mridul Bhattarai
“In-silico Modeling, Optimization, and Harmonization of Photon-Counting Detector Computed Tomography”
Medical Physics
Ehsan Samei, Advisor(s). 

Kairi Giovanna Black
“A Refinement of the Stark Conjectures over ATR Fields”
Mathematics
Samit Dasgupta, Advisor(s). 

Ryan Bouabid
“Tests of the Effective Weak Interaction with the World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector”
Physics
Phillip Barbeau, Advisor(s). 

Cade Bourne
“The Vibe Industry: Music, Affect, and Materiality at EDM Festivals”
Music
Louise Meintjes, Advisor(s). 

Kelsey McKenzie Bowman
“Counting Every Cycle: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Period Product Insecurity in the United States”
Public Policy
Anna Gassman-Pines, Advisor(s). 

Aitor Bracho
“Fission Product Yields for Reactor Antineutrino Monitoring”
Physics
Phillip Barbeau, Advisor(s). 

Patrick Bradley
“The Development and Application of Automated Tools for Evaluating Tibiofemoral Cartilage Health in Populations at Risk of Developing Osteoarthritis”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Louis E. DeFrate, Advisor(s). 

Madison Meta Bradley-Cronkwright
“Integrated Macroevolutionary Investigation of Strepsirrhine Jumping Performance and its Morphological Correlates”
Evolutionary Anthropology
Douglas Boyer, Advisor(s). 

Paige Elizabeth Burrell
“GRP94 is a Novel ATM Interactor and Putative Substrate which Regulates Oncogenic Receptor Expression and Microglial Activation”
Pharmacology
Michael Kastan and Donald P. McDonnell, Advisor(s). 

Damon Tyler Burrow
“Engineering Innovations for Small Molecule and Protein Point-of-Care Tests Towards Home-Health Applications”
Biomedical Engineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Advisor(s). 

Cole Charles Campton
“PorteManet: Parameter Identification for Expert Neural Ordinary Differential Equations”
Computer Science
Xiaobai Sun, Advisor(s). 

Aidan James Canning
“Development of Advanced Nanostar-Based Technologies for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications”
Biomedical Engineering
Tuan Vo-Dinh, Advisor(s). 

Lisa Rae Carnago
“Exploring Opioid-Related Transitions for Patients with Pain and Clinicians who Prescribe Opioids”
Nursing
Mitchell Knisely, Advisor(s). 

Yin Mei Chan
“Schwann Cell Migration and Elucidation of Sex-based Differences using Peptide-functionalized Aligned Fiber Scaffolds for Peripheral Nerve Reconstruction”
Chemistry
Matthew L. Becker, Advisor(s). 

Hengji Chen
“Model-Based Design of Subthalamic Nucleus Neurons”
Biomedical Engineering
Cameron McIntyre, Advisor(s). 

Brian Matthew Cole
“Printed Nanomaterial-based Devices for Programmable Thermal and Mechanical Actuation”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aaron D. Franklin, Advisor(s). 

Clare Beth Cook
“High Throughput Fourier Light Field Imaging of 3D Biological Dynamics”
Biomedical Engineering
Roarke Horstmeyer, Advisor(s). 

Erin Renee Curtis
“Mating Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Detecting Your Partner Through Chemical and Mechanical Cues”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Daniel Lew, Advisor(s). 

Evon Michelle DeBose-Scarlett
“Genetic Alterations Underlie Hereditary Arteriovenous Malformation Pathogenesis”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Douglas Marchuk, Advisor(s). 

Lin Duan
“Adaptive, Context-Aware Assessment and Guidance for Augmented Reality”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Maria Gorlatova, Advisor(s). 

Julia Elizabeth Dziabis
“Innate Immune Signaling in Microglia Regulates Inhibitory Circuit Maturation and Behavioral Outcomes”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Staci Bilbo, Advisor(s). 

Sarah Sangjun Eom
“Extended Reality in Medical Applications: From Surgical Guidance to Patient Rehabilitation”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Maria Gorlatova, Advisor(s). 

Blake Daniel Fauskee
“RNA Editing in Fern Plastomes Evolves Through Neutral Accumulation and Adaptive Co-option”
Biology
Kathleen Pryer, Advisor(s). 

Yihui Ge
“Susceptibility to Air Pollution by Sex in Populations with Different Age Ranges”
Environment
Junfeng Zhang, Advisor(s). 

Kacey Godwin
“Investigation of Poly(ester urea) Properties and Their Use Towards Infection Control in Medical Devices”
Chemistry
Matthew Becker, Advisor(s). 

Michael Diego Green
“Getting to the Heart of Discrimination in Healthcare: Measures and Risks”
Population Health Sciences
Matthew Dupre, Advisor(s). 

Dana Irene Grieco
“Applying Systems Thinking and Synthesis Approaches to Understand Climate and Conservation Impacts on Coral Reef Social-Ecological Systems”
Marine Science and Conservation
David Gill, Advisor(s). 

Rebecca Pauline Horan
“Conservation Capacity Development’s Ripples of Change and Challenging Undercurrents: Learning from Fishing Community Experiences with Long-term Collaborations for Equitable, Sustainable Coastal Resource Management in Tanzania”
Marine Science and Conservation
David Gill, Advisor(s). 

Apoorva KalyaniIyengar
“Identification of Novel and Targetable Pathogenic Non-coding Variants”
Genetics and Genomics
Gregory Crawford, Advisor(s). 

Whitney Sylvan Jacobs
“Functional Organization of Visual Motion-Processing Neurons in the Zebrafish Pretectum”
Neurobiology
Eva Naumann, Advisor(s). 

Trisha Katz
“Young Children Make Use of Reputational Knowledge for Their Own and Others’ Benefit”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Michael Tomasello, Advisor(s). 

Christopher Mattias Kjellqvist
“Methodologies for the Design of High-Performance, Scalable Hardware Accelerators”
Computer Science
Lisa Wu Wills, Advisor(s). 

Nicholas Clayton Konz
“Deep Learning for Breast Image Analysis: Current Progress and Future Work”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Maciej A. Mazurowski, Advisor(s). 

Sage Emily Lachman
“Psychosocial and Neurocognitive Outcomes of Children in and Beyond the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Nancy Zucker and Melanie Bonner, Advisor(s). 

Hyejin Lee
“Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of 4α,9α,10α-Trihydroxyguaia-11(13)en-12,6α-olide”
Chemistry
Jiyong Hong, Advisor(s). 

Shengyu Li
“A Computational Framework for Understanding Transcription Factor-DNA Binding and Effects of Non-coding Variants”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Raluca Gordân, Advisor(s). 

Sze-Xian Lim
“Subcellular Control of Dopamine-mediated Behavior”
Biomedical Engineering
Michael Tadross, Advisor(s). 

Ezra Joseph Loeb
“Flying Under the Radar: Engineering Avian Adeno-Associated Virus for Immune-Evasive Gene Therapy”
Biomedical Engineering
Aravind Asokan, Advisor(s). 

Augustus John Lowry
“Ion and Lipid Transport in the TMEM16 and OSCA/TMEM63 Families”
Biochemistry
Huanghe Yang, Advisor(s). 

Hsiu-Yi Lu
“Decoding Smell: Structural Insights and Molecular Mechanisms of Olfactory Receptors”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Hiroaki Matsunami, Advisor(s). 

Yunhan Ma
“Engineering Therapeutics for Glutaric Aciduria Type I”
Biomedical Engineering
Karl-Dimiter Bissig, Advisor(s). 

Braydon Wade Madson
“Trapped in Transit: How Irregular Migration Shapes International Relations in Transit States”
Public Policy
Sarah Bermeo, Advisor(s). 

Weijia Mai
“Analysis of Two-Stage Seamless Adaptive Design in Clinical Development and Its Applications”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Shein-Chung Chow, Advisor(s). 

Aaron James May
“Characterization of Novel and Diverse Henipavirus Glycoproteins”
Biochemistry
Priyamvada Acharya, Advisor(s). 

Trevor Dean McKeown
“Computationally Efficient Method for Estimating the Impact of Cardiorespiratory Motion on Patients Undergoing Stereotactic Arrhythmia Radioablation”
Medical Physics
Deshan Yang, Advisor(s). 

Schuyler Melore
“Towards Highly Multigenic Manipulation of Gene Expression”
Genetics and Genomics
Timothy Reddy, Advisor(s). 

Elizabeth Almerinda Mendes
“RUNX2 Inhibition Disrupts a PAX3::FOXO1-RUNX2 Feed-Forward Loop and Dismantles Oncogenic Gene Programs in Fusion-Positive Rhabdomyosarcoma”
Pharmacology
Corinne Linardic and Kris C. Wood, Advisor(s). 

Ilaria Rose Merutka
“Nephrotoxic Effects of Glyphosate and Metals: From Mechanisms of Chronic Renal Dysfunction to Complex Mixture Interactions”
Environment
Nishad Jayasundara, Advisor(s). 

Joshua David Miller
“Wristband Passive Samplers as Tools for Quantifying Chemical Exposure: Elucidating Mechanisms of Uptake and Expanding Target Chemicals”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Heileen Hsu-Kim, Advisor(s). 

Joshua James Milligan
“A New Phase for Immunotherapy: Rationally Designed, Thermally Responsive Biomaterials to Sustain Radiation and Immunotherapy within Tumors”
Biomedical Engineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Advisor(s). 

Remi Leah Misiewicz
“Navigating Survivorship: Exploring Self-Management and Developmental Processes in Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors”
Nursing
Sharron Docherty, Advisor(s). 

Isaac Godwin Musaazi
“Evaluating the Impact of Extreme Wet Weather Events on Biological Wastewater Processes Using Modeling”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jeseth Delgado Vela, Advisor(s). 

Max Raymond Ney
“From Droplets to Fibers: Sequence-Encoded Phase Transitions of Synthetic Proteins for Oral Drug Delivery”
Biomedical Engineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Advisor(s). 

Abraham Joseph Offen
“Addressing the Key Challenges of Light Penetration and Charge Separation for Plasmonic Catalysis”
Chemistry
Jie Liu, Advisor(s). 

Roza Ogurlu
“Functionalizing RNA with Structural Elements”
Biomedical Engineering
Aravind Asokan, Advisor(s). 

Yunju Oh
“Development of DART (Drugs Acutely Restricted by Tethering) Probes for Targeting Opioid Receptors and Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels”
Chemistry
Jiyong Hong, Advisor(s). 

Yunxin Ouyang
“Engineering Injectable Glycan-Functionalized Biomaterials to Enhance Neuroimmune Regeneration after Ischemic Stroke”
Biomedical Engineering
Tatiana Segura, Advisor(s). 

Glenn Andrew Palmer
“Innovations in Bayesian Latent Structure Modeling with Biomedical Applications”
Statistical Science
David Dunson, Advisor(s). 

Samuel Phiri
“Engineering Cryogenic Trapped-Ion Systems for Stable Quantum States”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kenneth R. Brown, Advisor(s). 

Abigail Jane Poff
“In vivo Modeling of Pathogenic DDX3X Missense Variants During Corticogenesis Underscores Cellular and Molecular Heterogeneity of DDX3X Syndrome”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Debra Silver, Advisor(s). 

Rick David Presman
“Geometry-Informed Sampling and Estimation for Constrained Statistical Inference”
Statistical Science
Jason Xu and Galen Reeves, Advisor(s). 

Charles Gregory Prior
“Characterizations of Future Low-Energy Neutrino Experiments at the Spallation Neutron Source”
Physics
Phillip Barbeau, Advisor(s). 

Yen Peng Quek
“Stochastic Reduced-Order Representations for Parametric and Model-Form Uncertainties, with Applications to Fracture and Molecular Dynamics Simulations”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Johann Guilleminot, Advisor(s). 

Michelle M. Ramirez
“Mind Matters: Pain-Associated Psychological Distress Phenotypes and Machine Learning-Based Predictive Models in Osteoarthritis and Total Joint Arthroplasty”
Population Health Sciences
Maggie Horn, Advisor(s). 

Grayson Alexander Rice
“High Throughput Combinatorial CRISPRa Screening to Identify Regulators of Neuronal Maturation”
Biomedical Engineering
Charles A. Gersbach, Advisor(s). 

Christian Richardson
“Quantitative Bioimage Analysis of Tissue Morphogenesis”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Stefano Di Talia, Advisor(s). 

Emily Fietta Roe
“Self-Assembling Peptide Biomaterials Enable Vaccines Against Global Infectious Diseases”
Biomedical Engineering
Joel Collier, Advisor(s). 

Daniel Santana
“Design and Evaluation of Azobenzene-Based Photoswitches for Light-Responsive RNA Recognition”
Chemistry
Amanda Hargrove and Kevin Welsher, Advisor(s). 

Sarah Rene Scott
“From Orbit to Microscope: Using Machine Learning to Translate Pixels to Patterns for Anomaly Detection Across Environmental and Manufacturing Domains”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
David Carlson, Advisor(s). 

Karnika Singh
“Developing and Validating Digital Biomarkers of Glycemic Health through the Creation of a Benchmark Dataset”
Biomedical Engineering
Jessilyn Dunn, Advisor(s). 

Parul Sirohi
“Design of Non-Immunogenic PEG-like Polymers for Applications in Medicine”
Biomedical Engineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Advisor(s). 

Erica Michelle Skerrett
“Bridging the Digital Divide in Cervical Cancer Detection: Integrating Deep Learning Diagnostic Algorithms into Low-Resource Clinics”
Biomedical Engineering
Nimmi Ramanujam, Advisor(s). 

Adriana Marie Stohn
“Leveraging Optical Scatter for Complex Imaging Goals”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michael E. Gehm, Advisor(s). 

Joseph Perry Sweitzer
“The Talk of Silent Meditation”
Religion
Joseph Winters, Advisor(s). 

Alan Sze
“Nonlinear Finite Element Modeling of Soft Tissue Cavitation and Dynamic Brittle Fracture”
Biomedical Engineering
David Katz, Advisor(s). 

Yuan Tian
“Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Image Guidance of Anterior Disease Assessment and Surgical Assistance”
Biomedical Engineering
Anthony Kuo and Roarke Horstmeyer, Advisor(s). 

Dmitrii Tsvetkov
“Stability of Optical Vortex Knots and Flower Beams in Turbulence”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Natalia Litchinitser, Advisor(s). 

Fakrul Islam Tushar
“Bridging the Gap: Integrating Clinical Knowledge, Simulation, and Generative AI for Lung Cancer Diagnosis”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Joseph Lo, Advisor(s). 

Jafer Rashad Vakil
“Structure Activity Relationships in Reactive Strand Extension Mechanophores”
Chemistry
Stephen L. Craig, Advisor(s). 

Yuqi Wang
“Towards AI Trustworthiness in Healthcare: Prediction, Interpretability, and Uncertainty Quantification”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kyle Lafata, Advisor(s). 

Hana Isadora Wasserman
“Exploring the Effects of Transcription Factor Binding on DNA Damage Formation and Repair at Single-Nucleotide Resolution”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Raluca Gordân, Advisor(s). 

Jiaxin Ye
“Nanometer-scale Material Processing and Characterization for Emerging Information Technologies: Studies of InAs and Diamond”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
April Brown and Jeffrey Glass, Advisor(s). 

Mika Agnes Zalewski
“Ion-Photon Entanglement Across a City-Scale Quantum Network”
Physics
Norbert Linke, Advisor(s). 

Siyuan Zhang
“Telecommunication Wavelength Single Photon Sources with Plasmonic Nanostructures”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Maiken Mikkelsen, Advisor(s). 

Karim Abdelaal
“Internal Brain States of Opioid Addiction”
Neurobiology
Kafui Dzirasa, Advisor(s). 

Cole Gabriel Adams
“Critical Exhaustion: Lyric Attachments in Contemporary Literary Studies”
Literature
Robyn Wiegman, Advisor(s). 

Anshu Agarwal
“Dynamic Self-Assembly Behavior of Degradable, Thermally Responsive Polymers as a Versatile Drug Delivery Platform”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Matthew L. Becker, Advisor(s). 

Karen Leigh Alderfer
“The Urban Supplement: Formality and Informality in Cairo”
Literature
Luciana Parisi, Advisor(s). 

Maryam Al-Mujtaba
“Assessing Multilevel Determinants of HIV Acquisition among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Nursing
Marta I. Mulawa and Michael Relf,, Advisor(s). 

Njood Alsaihati
“The Influence of Categorization, Metrology, and Analysis Methods on the Quality and Variability Characterization of Clinical Imaging”
Medical Physics
Ehsan Samei, Advisor(s). 

Yasemin Diba Altun
“The Second Hand: Rethinking Women Artists and Collaboration in Paris, 1650-1800”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Susanna Caviglia, Advisor(s). 

Connor Douglas Amelung
“Exploring Endothelial-Matrix Dynamics: Organization, Viscoelasticity, and Remodeling”
Biomedical Engineering
Sharon Gerecht, Advisor(s). 

Preston James Anderson
“β-arrestin Condensates Regulate G Protein-coupled Receptor Function”
Cell and Molecular Biology
Sudarshan Rajagopal, Advisor(s). 

Paulo Vitor Antonacci Moura
“Essays on Tax Policy Optimization under Heterogeneous Treatment Effects”
Economics
Peter Arcidiacono and Kate Bundorf,, Advisor(s). 

Aaron Bennett Appelle
“Multimodal Sensing and Algorithms to Monitor, Model, and Predict Human Interactions With the Built Environment”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jerome P. Lynch, Advisor(s). 

Emily Kathleen Augustine
“Designing for Degradation: Strategies for Resorption in 3D Printed Medical Devices”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Matthew L. Becker, Advisor(s). 

Boyang Bai
“Essays on Firm Behavior and Market Dynamics under Supply and Technology Shocks”
Economics
Yi Daniel Xu, Advisor(s). 

Yun Bai
“Digitally Reprogrammable Materials for Adaptive Mechanical Behavior”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Xiaoyue Ni, Advisor(s). 

Christopher Remsen Behrer
“Essays in Health Economics”
Public Policy and Economics
Manoj Mohanan, Advisor(s). 

Lucas Michel Bellaiche
“Conceptualizing the Human Affective Experience via Creativity”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Kevin S. LaBar, Advisor(s). 

Minu-Tshyeto Klisto Bidzimou
“The D801N Variant in ATP1A3-encoded Na/K-ATPase Alpha 3 causes Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis through Sodium-Calcium Exchanger-mediated Calcium Overload”
Cell Biology
Andrew Landstrom, Advisor(s). 

Leonardo Pietro Angelo Biral
“Machine Learning in Complex Hierarchical Domains: Navigating the Genomic Landscape to Unravel the Biology of Blood Cancers”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Sandeep Dave, Advisor(s). 

Olivier Boivin
“Competition Between Transcription Factors and Pol-δ During Okazaki Fragment Maturation Drives Site-Specific Mutagenesis”
Genetics and Genomics
Raluca Gordan, Advisor(s). 

Chainey Alexandria Boroski
“Effects of Environmental Variation and Stand Development on Water Use and Production of Five Structurally-diverse Pinus Species”
Environment
Ram Oren, Advisor(s). 

Arthur Craig Braswell
“Building The Forever Fort: Race and Militarization in South Carolina, 1917-1980”
History
Nancy MacLean, Advisor(s). 

Anvita Budhraja
“What is a New Yorker?: A Social History of the City Through its Literary Protagonists”
English
Corina Stan, Advisor(s). 

Allyson Rose Caldwell
“Placenta-Derived Organoids as an Evolutionary Model of the Maternal-Fetal Interface”
Genetics and Genomics
Carolyn Coyne, Advisor(s). 

Julie Abigail Campos Carrera
“Tailoring Quantum Error Correcting Protocols to Biased Noise Models”
Physics
Kenneth R. Brown, Advisor(s). 

Gongyuan Cao
“Investigating the Evolutionary Dynamic of Threonine Deaminase 2’s

Novel Function in Solanaceae, and How Selfing Affects Transposable

Element Dynamics in Ipomoea”
Biology
Mark D. Rausher, Advisor(s). 

Eleanor Louise Parkin Caston
“Investigating the Impact of Biomaterial Chirality on Host-Material Interactions”
Biomedical Engineering
Tatiana Segura, Advisor(s). 

Andrés Castro Araújo
“Discretion and the Authority of Rules”
Sociology
Kieran Healy, Advisor(s). 

Ruoxu Cen
“New Algorithms for Network Connectivity and Reliability”
Computer Science
Debmalya Panigrahi, Advisor(s). 

Ann Chapman Price
“Vernacular Mysticism Among the Sisters of the Common Life”
Religion
Ronald K. Rittgers, Advisor(s). 

Wanyi Chen
“Assessing Human Decisions in Tabular Machine Learning Model Creation”
Computer Science
Mary Cummings, Advisor(s). 

Chun-Yu Chiou
“Molecular Reactivity in Responsive Polymers”
Chemistry
Stephen L. Craig, Advisor(s). 

Michael Edward Chirgwin
“Exploring Trafficking Mechanisms During the Plasmodium Liver Stage”
Chemistry
Emily R. Derbyshire, Advisor(s). 

Jonathan Juno Choi
“Migratory Shorebirds & Wind Energy Development near the Gulf of Mexico”
Marine Science and Conservation
Patrick N. Halpin, Advisor(s). 

Migon Choi
“Bridging Experimental Materials Science and Machine Learning: A Data-Centric Study of Hybrid Metal Halides”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
L. Catherine Brinson, Advisor(s). 

Hong (Amy) Chung
“Machine Learning Guided Discovery of Microbiome Metabolite Bioactivities”
Biomedical Engineering
Daniel Reker, Advisor(s). 

Madeline Joanne Clark
“A Role for Microglia as Integrators of Social Experience: Impact of Adolescent Social Isolation on Dopamine System Development”
Neurobiology
Staci Bilbo, Advisor(s). 

Emily Anne Craig
“Effects of Air Pollution Exposure on Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, and DNA Methylation Pathways in the Placenta”
Environment
Junfeng Jim Zhang, Advisor(s). 

Allison Cruikshank
“Mathematical Models of Metabolic Sex Differences and Oxidative Stress in Health and Disease”
Mathematics
Michael C. Reed, Advisor(s). 

Jahrane Antonio Dale
“Mechanisms and Clinical Applications of Deep Brain Stimulation Local Evoked Potentials”
Biomedical Engineering
Warren M. Grill, Advisor(s). 

Niusha Yolien Daneshdoost
“Sterilization Effects and Reuse Potential of Additively Manufactured Material Systems: a Multiscale Thermo–Mechanical, Surface–Sterility Evaluation Framework”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Ken Gall, Advisor(s). 

Daniela Frank De Albuquerque
“Latent Representation Inference for the Biomedical Sciences Through the Lens of Deep Generative Modeling”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
John M. Pearson, Advisor(s). 

Camilo De Los Rios Rueda
“Nature Based Solutions for Conservation and Development”
Public Policy
Alexander Pfaff and Subhrendu Pattanayak, Advisor(s). 

Hunter Seth DeHaan
“Targeting Trafficking Defects in Parkinson's Disease: A Chemical Biology Approach to Modulating Protein Networks”
Chemistry
Dewey G. McCafferty, Advisor(s). 

Christopher David Delaney
“FANCM is Required for the PAX3::FOXO1-Driven Oncogenic Program in Rhabdomyosarcoma”
Molecular Cancer Biology
Kris C. Wood, Advisor(s). 

Kevin Heinrich Dembski
“Singularity and Regularity in Active Scalar Equations”
Mathematics
Tarek M. Elgindi, Advisor(s). 

Tulio Salvio Dias de Sousa
“Essays on Market Design and Information Provision in Digital Advertising”
Economics
Allan Collard-Wexler, Advisor(s). 

Miriam Elizabeth Dilts
“Depletion of Donor Macrophages Permits Post-Transplant Tolerance Induction in a Pancreatic Islet Transplant Model”
Pathobiology and Translational Biosciences
Xunrong Luo, Advisor(s). 

Elizabeth Denise Dimbath
“Mechanics, Recovery, and Injury Risk of the Intervertebral Disc in Repeated Loading”
Biomedical Engineering
Jason F. Luck and Cameron Bass, Advisor(s). 

Anthony DiSpirito III
“Deep Learning Applications in Light-based Ultrasound Imaging: Photoacoustic Microscopy, Photoacoustic Tomography, and Passive Cavitation Mapping”
Biomedical Engineering
Junjie Yao, Advisor(s). 

Juncheng Dong
“Efficient Learning from Weak Supervision: From Data and Model Reuse to Agentic Autonomy”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vahid Tarokh, Advisor(s). 

Jonathan Claude Donnelly
“Many Near-Optimal Interpretable Models for High-Stakes Machine Learning Deployment and Discovery”
Computer Science
Cynthia Rudin, Advisor(s). 

Richard William Doty
“Modeling, Analysis, and Interpretation of High-Throughput Genomic Perturbation Assays”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Doctor of Philosophy
Andrew Allen, Advisor(s). 

Lucy Michelle Driver
“Investigating the Cellular Responses and Mitigation of Injury in the Small Intestinal Epithelia After High Dose Radiation”
Pathobiology and Translational Biosciences
Chang-Lung Lee, Advisor(s). 

Adrienne Reynolds Duke
“A Welfarist Account of Mental Disorder”
Philosophy
Jennifer Hawkins, Advisor(s). 

Tyler Allen Dunstan
“Seeing the King of the Judaeans: Reading the Gospel of John in the Shadow of the Flavian Roman Imperial Dynasty”
Religion
J. Ross Wagner, Advisor(s). 

Katherine Dura
“Creation and Optimization of Functional Annotation Models to Identify Gene Regulatory Effects of Genetic Variation.”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
William Majoros, Advisor(s). 

Courtney Shea Dziewior
“Controlled, Tailorable Release of Therapeutics from Poly(ester urea) Matrices for Pain Management”
Chemistry
Matthew L. Becker, Advisor(s). 

Maroun El Houkayem
“Gathering the Orient: Manuscripts, Collectors, Religion”
Religion
Jennifer Knust, Advisor(s). 

Orlando Ferrer
“Topological Fingerprints in Complex Networks: From Pathway Scoring to Heuristics for Longest Simple Paths”
Mathematics
Jichun Xie, Advisor(s). 

Zoe Renee Finiasz
“Costly Social Commitments in Early Childhood”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Tamar Kushnir, Advisor(s). 

Kinsey Christmas Fisher
“Genetic and Epigenetic Responses to Nutrient Stress in Caenorhabditis elegans”
Biology
L. Ryan Baugh, Advisor(s). 

Margaret Shilling Fletcher
“Medication Use and Related Outcomes in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder”
Nursing
Karin Reuter-Rice, Advisor(s). 

Zachary Fralish
“Design of Safer Prodrugs Powered by Machine Learning”
Biomedical Engineering
Daniel Reker, Advisor(s). 

Robert Michael Fusco
“Engineering Adeno-Associated Virus Biology for Improved Vector Production”
Biomedical Engineering
Aravind Asokan, Advisor(s). 

Erin Victoria Fykes
“BDNF-AS Regulates Genes Related to Cell Migration and Neuronal Function in Mature Human Neurons”
Cell Biology
Anne E. West, Advisor(s). 

Aygul Azatovna Galimova
“Independent Trivariate Bicycle Codes and Hyperbolic Codes”
Mathematics
Robert Calderbank, Advisor(s). 

Emily Suzanne Gebhardt
“The King's Matter: Text, Flesh, and Political Performance in the Reign of Edward IV (1461-1483)”
History
Jehangir Y. Malegam and John J. Martin, Advisor(s). 

Ziyi Gong
“Local Mechanisms of Sequence Learning in Biologically Plausible Neural Circuit Models”
Neurobiology
John M. Pearson, Advisor(s). 

Hrshita Gowda
“Machine Learning Guided Prediction of Drug Microbiome Interactions”
Biomedical Engineering
Daniel Reker, Advisor(s). 

Liam Gracia
“Phase Variable Surface Polysaccharides Modulate Akkermansia muciniphila Intestinal Mucus Colonization and Host Immune Responses”
Cell Biology
Raphael Valdivia and John F. Rawls, Advisor(s). 

Emily M. Green
“Host–Microbiome Interactions as Modulators of Embryogenesis and Developmental Toxicity in Teleost Fish: Implications for Evolved Chemical Resistance”
Environment
Nishad Jayasundara, Advisor(s). 

Zhicheng Guo
“Interpretable Machine Learning for Medical Applications”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cynthia Rudin, Advisor(s). 

Zhiyuan Guo
“Large-Scale Structure Cosmology with Rubin’s Large Survey of Space and Time and Roman Space Telescope in the Near-Infrared”
Physics
Christopher Walter, Advisor(s). 

Ankita Gupta
“Ecological Drivers of Biodiversity in Small Agricultural Wetlands”
Environment
Brian R. Silliman and Tong Qiu, Advisor(s). 

Tayfun Gur
“Interpreting Ethical Dialogue”
Philosophy
Gopal Sreenivasan, Advisor(s). 

Emma So Ra Shin Haithcock
“Accounting Standard Updates and Retail Trading Activity”
Business Administration
Scott Dyreng, Advisor(s). 

Aaron Thomas Halvorsen
“Viral and Transgenic CRISPR Epigenomic-Editing Tools to Investigate Consequences of Arc Modulation”
Neurobiology
Anne E. West, Advisor(s). 

Evan Thomas Hare
“Neural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Flexible Speech Perception”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Tobias Overath, Advisor(s). 

Jane Bailey Harwell
“The Ovidian Eighteenth Century: Authorship, Desire, and Education in Augustan-Era England”
English
Charlotte Sussman, Advisor(s). 

Lauren Haynes
“Investigating the Heterogeneity of Epstein-Barr Virus Lytic Reactivation”
Genetics and Genomics
Micah Luftig, Advisor(s). 

Shuyu He
“Social Landscape and Genetic Variation Shape Gene Regulation in a Natural Primate Population”
Evolutionary Anthropology
Jenny Tung and Susan Alberts, Advisor(s). 

Emma Michele Heckenberg
“The Neonatal Liver as a Gateway for Echovirus Disease: Tropism and Antiviral Immune Responses”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Carolyn Coyne and Nicholas Heaton, Advisor(s). 

Reina Mae Alexandra Henderson
“Embers Burning on the Mountainside: Enslaved People and Political Negotiation in Martinique, 1752-1815”
History
Mélanie Lamotte and Laurent Dubois, Advisor(s). 

Yooseong Heo
“Rationalizing Socialism: Management, Information, and Technocracy in East Germany, 1953-1990”
History
Dirk Bönker, Advisor(s). 

Gregory Mark Angel Hernandez
“Tuning the Sound Field of an Electrodynamic Loudspeaker Using a Horn-like Acoustic Metamaterial Lens”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Steven A. Cummer, Advisor(s). 

Robert C. Hill
“Geochemistry of Phosphate Rocks and Fertilizers: Implications for Origin and Environmental Impact”
Earth and Climate Sciences
Avner Vengosh, Advisor(s). 

Jooyoung Hong
“A Church For Many: Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan and the Transformation of Korean Catholicism in the 20th Century”
Religion
Xi Lian, Advisor(s). 

Zhuoran Hou
“Biases in Association Studies and Heritability Estimation for Structured Populations”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Doctor of Philosophy
Alejandro Ochoa, Advisor(s). 

Yihao Hu
“From Formal Specification to Intent: A Progressive Framework for Semantically Correct SQL”
Computer Science
Jun Yang, Advisor(s). 

Ningjie Hu
“Coupled Coastal and Fluvial Controls on River-Delta Avulsion Dynamics”
Earth and Climate Sciences
Brad Murray, Advisor(s). 

Zonghao Huang
“Anytime-Valid Detection of Unauthorized Data Use in Authentication and Machine Learning Systems”
Computer Science
Michael K. Reiter, Advisor(s). 

Lun Huang
“Advancing Multimodal Generative Models via Structured Representation Learning and Semantic Planning”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Guillermo Sapiro, Advisor(s). 

Shih-Han Huang
“Fun and the Good Life: On Being Outmatched by a World Not on Our Side”
Philosophy
David Wong, Advisor(s). 

Shin-fung Hung
“Chiang Kai-shek's Bishops: The Methodist Church and the Chinese Nationalist State, 1930–1975”
Religion
Xi Lian, Advisor(s). 

Samuel Hunnicutt
“Weaving Worlds: Indigenous Film, Poetry, and Photography in Quincentennial Mesoamerica”
Romance Studies
Esther Gabara, Advisor(s). 

Sungjin Im
“From Mahatma to Saint-Hero: The Global Icon of Gandhi in Korea, 1920-1950”
Religion
Richard Jaffe, Advisor(s). 

Sarah Elise Janek
“Intersectional Discrimination and Sexual Health among Young Black Sexual Minoritized People Assigned Male at Birth in the United States”
Nursing
Marta I. Mulawa, Advisor(s). 

Yunsol Jo
“Early Drivers of Lineage Plasticity in Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer Identify Key Molecular Pathways and Potential Therapeutic Targets”
Pathobiology and Translational Biosciences
Jung Wook Park, Advisor(s). 

Angela Grace Jones
“The Role of Biological Sex in Modulating Human Gene Expression and Immune Responses to Infection and Autoimmune Risk”
Genetics and Genomics
Dennis Ko, Advisor(s). 

Karthikeyan K
“Interpretable and Trustworthy AI Systems for Healthcare”
Computer Science
David Carlson, Advisor(s). 

Carson Marie Key Taylor
“High-Throughput In Vivo Screening of Tissue-Specific Regulatory Elements for Next-Generation Gene Therapy Vectors”
Biomedical Engineering
Charles A. Gersbach, Advisor(s). 

Christopher R. Keys
“Solid State Heat Throttle for Pyroelectrics”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Krishnendu Chakrabarty and Martin Brooke, Advisor(s). 

Michael Won Seob Kim
“Enhancing Bladder Permeability to Enable a Single-Dose Vaccine Against Urinary Tract Infection”
Pathobiology and Translational Biosciences
Soman Abraham, Advisor(s). 

Kuei-Yueh Ko
“Modeling Gene Regulatory Activity and the Effects of DNA Sequence Variants”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
William Majoros and Timothy Reddy, Advisor(s). 

Shao-Heng Ko
“Computing Students' Help-Seeking Approaches and Behavior Throughout the Curriculum: 2021--2025”
Computer Science
Kristin Stephens-Martinez, Advisor(s). 

Preethi Krishnan
“Characterizing Critical Illness Through Irregular Clinical Time Series and Continuous Multiscale Entropy of Physiological Waveforms”
Biomedical Engineering
Rishikesan Kamaleswaran, Advisor(s). 

Rohit Kumar
“The Irregular Elliptic Stark Conjecture in the Cubic Unramified Case”
Mathematics
Samit Dasgupta, Advisor(s). 

Tye Evan Landels
“Blush, Britannia: Collective Shame and the Moral Anguish of Empire, 1776–1807”
English
Thomas Pfau, Advisor(s). 

Pin-Chian Lee
“Experimental Design and Partial Identification for Ordinal Outcomes”
Statistical Science
Alexander Volfovsky, Advisor(s). 

Suphachart Leewiwatwong
“Advancing Multi-Center 129Xe Gas Exchange MRI Through Advanced Segmentation, Artifact Mitigation, and Establishing Reference Distributions”
Biomedical Engineering
Bastiaan Driehuys, Advisor(s). 

Elaona Lupetu'ulelei Lemoto
“Bayesian Hierarchical Models for the Combination of Data from Heterogeneous Sources”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Doctor of Philosophy
Hwanhee Hong, Advisor(s). 

Julie Michelle Leyva
“The Faith of Abraham and the Patient Perseverance of the Saints in Hebrews”
Religion
C. Kavin Rowe, Advisor(s). 

Tianqing Li
“Advancing Computational Frameworks for Animal Behavioral Quantification and Understanding”
Biomedical Engineering
Timothy W. Dunn, Advisor(s). 

Zijun Li
“Immersed Exact Lagrangian Fillings and Augmentations to Arbitrary Fields”
Mathematics
Lenhard Ng, Advisor(s). 

Chenhang Li
“Wearable Electronics for Mechanical and Acoustic Assessment of Deep Tissues”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Xiaoyue Ni, Advisor(s). 

He Li
“Without Form, the Intellect Cannot Judge and the Eye Cannot Comprehend: Philosophy, Theology, and the Artistic Method of Piero della Francesca”
Religion
Peter Casarella, Advisor(s). 

Kevin Li
“Advances in Gaussian Process Computation, Modeling, and Optimization”
Statistical Science
Simon Mak and, Advisor(s). 

Siqi Liang
“Mapping β-Diversity and Developing Biodiversity-Friendly Tea in the Eastern Himalayas”
Environment
Stuart Pimm and Binbin Li, Advisor(s). 

Jennifer Liu
“Oxidative Stress Induces Nuclear DNA Damage and PARP1 Activation in LRRK2 Parkinson’s Disease Models”
Pathobiology and Translational Biosciences
Laurie H. Sanders, Advisor(s). 

Botian Liu
“A Developmental Approach to Virtue and Virtue Ethics”
Philosophy
David Wong, Advisor(s). 

Yanting Luo
“Highly Divergent Genomic Regions Underlying Human-Unique Traits”
Genetics and Genomics
Craig Lowe, Advisor(s). 

Xingru Ma
“Beyond Intended Mechanisms: Immune Interactions of Trop2-Directed Antibody-Drug Conjugates and a HER2-Directed Self-Replicating RNA Vaccine in Breast Cancer”
Pathobiology and Translational Biosciences
Zachary Hartman, Advisor(s). 

Ethan Alexander Mancil
“Compton Scattering from Liquid ³He with 61.5-MeV Photons”
Physics
Calvin Howell, Advisor(s). 

Carl John Manner
“Using and Adapting the Functional Genomic Toolkit for Exploration of Environmental Stress Responses”
Biology
Gregory A. Wray, Advisor(s). 

Paul James Markakis
“Engineering Robust Geospatial Prediction Under Spatial Data Constraints”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Leslie Collins and Kyle Bradbury, Advisor(s). 

Aristotle Xavier Martin
“Parallel Adhesive Dynamics with Adaptive Physics Refinement for Large-Scale Tracking of Circulating Tumor Cells”
Biomedical Engineering
Amanda Randles, Advisor(s). 

Miles Daniel Martinez
“Latent Variable Modeling and Analysis of Vocalizations”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
John M. Pearson, Advisor(s). 

Gregory Alexander Matousek
“Measurements of Beam Spin Asymmetries in π+ π0 and π- π0 Dihadron Production at CLAS12”
Physics
Anselm Vossen, Advisor(s). 

Cindy MarieMcCabe
“The Interplay of Patient and Imaging Variabilities on Quantitative Imaging Outcomes through Virtual Imaging Trials”
Medical Physics
Ehsan Samei, Advisor(s). 

Ryan Katherine McCord Capron
“Diverse Dimensions of Energy Access: Insights from Three Essays on Energy Interventions in the Global South”
Environmental Policy
Marc Jeuland, Advisor(s). 

Jordan Thomas McCourt
“Superconductivity in 2D Gate-Tunable Heterostructures”
Physics
Gleb Finkelstein, Advisor(s). 

Matthew Francis McEneaney
“Spin Transfer to Λ Hyperons and Dihadron Spin Asymmetry Projections in Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering with CLAS12”
Physics
Anselm Vossen, Advisor(s). 

Jacob McErlean
“Functional Estimation of Manifold-Valued Diffusion Processes with Applications”
Mathematics
Hau-Tieng Wu, Advisor(s). 

Paul Charles McKee
“The Structure of Moral Motivation”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Scott Huettel and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Advisor(s). 

Eric McLaren
“Copper-Catalyzed Electrophilic Amination Reactions of Alkenes by O-Acyl-N-Hydroxyamines for the Synthesis of C(sp3)-N(sp3) Bonds in Allylic Amines and Vicinal Diamines”
Chemistry
Qiu Wang, Advisor(s). 

Christian McRoberts Amador
“Reprogramming Exhausted Cytotoxic T Cells Through Transcription Factor Overexpression”
Pharmacology
Charles A. Gersbach, Advisor(s). 

Katherine MacLean McVay
“Evolutionary Genomics of Brazilian Howler Monkeys”
Evolutionary Anthropology
Charles Nunn, Advisor(s). 

Luca Andrea Menozzi
“Diffractive Acoustic Tomography: Theory, Preclinical Applications, and Clinical Translation”
Biomedical Engineering
Junjie Yao, Advisor(s). 

Madeline Ann Merriman
“Prochelators with Metal-Dependent Antifungal Activity against Candida albicans”
Chemistry
Katherine J. Franz, Advisor(s). 

Alexander Arsenio Mestre
“Chemical Modulation and Enzymatic Characterization of MESH1”
Biochemistry
Jen-Tsan Ashley Chi, Advisor(s). 

Eni Minerali
“Development of (15N)2-Diazirine-Tagged Molecular Probes for Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Cancer Biomarkers”
Chemistry
Qiu Wang, Advisor(s). 

David Andrew Moenning
“Discourses of Race, Nation, and Style in the Works of Ulysses Kay, 1941–1966”
Music
Philip Rupprecht, Advisor(s). 

Sarah Katherine Monroe
“CGRP Reception Potentiates Anxiety in an Influenza A Derived Immune Engram”
Neurobiology
Staci Bilbo, Advisor(s). 

Carlos Rodrigo Monteagudo
“Investigating the Consequences of Protein Stability Disruptions from Copper in Candida albicans”
Chemistry
Katherine J. Franz, Advisor(s). 

Mina Gardner Moon-Black
“Iulianus Occidentalis: Julian the Apostate in Latin Christian Historical Texts”
Classical Studies
Jennifer C. Woods, Advisor(s). 

Margaret Morash
“Intestinal Enteroendocrine Cell Differentiation and Hormone Production in Zebrafish”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
John F. Rawls, Advisor(s). 

Federica Mosti
“Human Specific Genomic Changes in Brain Development and Disease”
Neurobiology
Debra L. Silver, Advisor(s). 

Mercedes A. Muñoz
“U.S. Latine Racial Ethnic Identification and Demographic Form Presentation Preferences Across Development”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Sarah Gaither, Advisor(s). 

Rohan Nadkarni
“Photon-Counting Micro-CT: Algorithm Development and Application in Mouse Models of Disease”
Biomedical Engineering
Cristian T. Badea, Advisor(s). 

Gabriela Esther Nagle Alverio
“Climate Migration Justice: From Individual Decisions to Legal Protection”
Environmental Policy
Erika Weinthal and Sarah Bermeo, Advisor(s). 

Benjamin Charles Neubert
“Molecular and Automated Biomarkers of Human Diet and Physiology”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Lawrence David, Advisor(s). 

Emily Engeman Neville
“Heterogeneous Neutrophil Influx and Osteopontin Signaling Promote Repair During Skin Infection”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Soman Abraham, Advisor(s). 

Max Nezdyur
“Advanced Finite Element Methods for Geometrically Complex Engineering Problems”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Wilkins Aquino, Advisor(s). 

Jaelyn Mi'Shae Nixon
“Perceptions and Ground Truths: How Subjective Interpretations and Objective Realities Impact Student Academic Aspirations and Parental Decision Making”
Public Policy
Anna Gassmann-Pines and Sarah Gaither, Advisor(s). 

Christian Masa Noval
“Effects of Social Determinants of Health on Outcomes of Older Patients in a Long-term Acute Care Hospital and Experiences of their Family Members”
Nursing
Donald F. Bailey, Jr., Advisor(s). 

Brenda Ndanu Onyango
“Race and Gender Differences in Patient-Centered Communication and Diabetes Management Across the Life Course”
Sociology
Tyson Brown and Mallory SoRelle, Advisor(s). 

Jongwan Park
“Comprehensive Framework for Machine Learning-Enabled Adaptive Optics Scanning Light Ophthalmoscopy”
Biomedical Engineering
Sina Farsiu, Advisor(s). 

Jinyoung Park
“The Hypo-Egoic Self: Pathways from Self-Compassion, Intellectual Humility, and Adaptive Suffering Beliefs to Resilience and Intergroup Goodwill”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Rick Hoyle, Advisor(s). 

Daniel Parr
“Affect, Learning, and Choice”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Kevin S. LaBar, Advisor(s). 

Balint Pato
“Design and Evaluation of Quantum Error Correction Protocols for Fault Tolerance, Coherent Noise, and Applications”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kenneth R. Brown, Advisor(s). 

Connor Michael Pecar
“Beam Spin Asymmetry in Dihadron Final States with Kaons in Semi-inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering”
Physics
Anselm Vossen, Advisor(s). 

Nhi Van Phan
“Bioengineering Strategies to Modulate Inflammation, Synaptogenesis, and Extracellular Vesicle Production for Ischemic Stroke Repair”
Biomedical Engineering
Tatiana Segura, Advisor(s). 

Krista Pipho
“A New Genome Assembly to Support Analysis of Rare Sexual Chimeras in Butterflies”
Biology
Gregory A. Wray, Advisor(s). 

Hillel Benjamin Price
“Combined Low-Cost Balanced Detection Optical Coherence Tomography and Angle-Resolved Low Coherence Interferometry Towards Alzheimer’s Disease Screening”
Biomedical Engineering
Adam Wax, Advisor(s). 

Siddharth Prusty
“Enhancing Position Auctions in Retail Media”
Business Administration
Carl F. Mela, Advisor(s). 

Nicolas Gabriel Ramos
“Leveraging Metaplasticity and Physical Constraints for Reliable AI”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hai Li, Advisor(s). 

Christopher Lee Redmon
“Possessing Jesus: The Human Bodies of God in Luke-Acts”
Religion
Brittany E. Wilson, Advisor(s). 

Samuel Joseph Reisman
“Epigenome Engineering for Direct Neural Cell Reprogramming”
Cell Biology
Charles A. Gersbach, Advisor(s). 

Meghan Kathleen Reynolds
“Unbiased Discovery and Functional Analysis of Mechanosensitive Protein Interactions”
Biomedical Engineering
Brenton D. Hoffman, Advisor(s). 

Tara Elizabeth Richbourg
“Rab Proteins Are Mediators of Mitochondrial Quality Control in Parkinson’s Disease”
Pathobiology and Translational Biosciences
Laurie H. Sanders, Advisor(s). 

Samuel Rosen
“Convex Optimization Methods for Structured Statistical Problems”
Statistical Science
Jason Xu and Peter Hoff, Advisor(s). 

Claire Rostov
“Enchanting the Home: Rituals of Disposal”
Religion
David Morgan, Advisor(s). 

Tomer Rotstein
“Decoding the Determinants of T Cell States: From Systematic Genetic Screens to Scalable Tissue Models”
Biomedical Engineering
Charles A. Gersbach, Advisor(s). 

Shaolin Ruan
“Basal Ganglia Output Dynamically Controls Skilled Forelimb Kinematics in Real Time”
Neurobiology
Henry Yin, Advisor(s). 

Helen Elizabeth Rueckert
“Pdgfra+ Non-myogenic Mesenchymal Cells in the Rotator Cuff and Specific Subpopulations' Role in Massive Rotator Cuff Tear Pathologies”
Cell Biology
Matthew J. Hilton, Advisor(s). 

Hanjoon Ryu
“Essays on Firm Dynamics Under Financial Frictions”
Economics
Adriano Rampini and Gregor Jarosch, Advisor(s). 

Sohini Saha
“Domain-centric Methods for Robust Speech Enhancement Models in Cochlear Implants in Dynamic Acoustic Environments”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Leslie Collins and Boyla Mainsah, Advisor(s). 

Fernando Gabriel Santos Valencia
“Climbing Fibers Selectively Recruit Disinhibitory Interneurons to Enhance Dendritic Calcium Signals in Cerebellar Purkinje Cells”
Neurobiology
Court Hull, Advisor(s). 

Hannah Grace Scanlon
“Mechanistic Modeling and Analysis of Microtubule Dynamics Supporting Neuronal Function and Regeneration”
Mathematics
Veronica Ciocanel, Advisor(s). 

Maddison Segal
“Poly(Allyl Glycidyl Ether Succinate) (PAGES) for Solvent Free Vat Photopolymerization 3D Printing of Degradable Medical Devices”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Matthew L. Becker, Advisor(s). 

Yasaman Setayeshpour
“Investigation of Ascites’ Protection of Ovarian Cancer Cells Against Ferroptosis”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Jen-Tsan Ashley Chi, Advisor(s). 

Hema Shah
“Three Essays on Investments in Children and Families”
Economics
Peter Arcidiacono, Advisor(s). 

Agastya Sharma
“Interactions Between Akkermansia Species and Gastrointestinal Mucins”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Raphael H. Valdivia, Advisor(s). 

Yiheng Shen
“Facilitating Fairness in Societal Decision Making and Markets”
Computer Science
Kamesh Munagala, Advisor(s). 

Yasin Simsek
“Essays in Financial Econometrics”
Economics
Andrew Patton, Advisor(s). 

Julia Slack
“The Human Microbiome and Fatigue in Individuals with Breast Cancer”
Nursing
Sharron Docherty, Advisor(s). 

Matthew Adam Slayton
“The Neural Bases of Object Memory: Neuromodulation and Hemodynamic Modeling in Mild Cognitive Impairment”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Simon W. Davis, Advisor(s). 

Andrew Lynn Soborowski
“Bayesian Multi-Species Approaches for Gene Regulatory Network Inference in Halophilic Archaea”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Doctor of Philosophy
Amy Schmid, Advisor(s). 

Vasishta Somayaji
“Energy-Efficient Chemical Production: Exploring Nonthermal and Thermal Processes in Plasmonic Catalysis”
Materials Science and Engineering
Jie Liu, Advisor(s). 

Sandhya Srinivasan
“Compositional Diversity and Regulation of Type IV Collagen”
Genetics and Genomics
David R. Sherwood, Advisor(s). 

Kara Michelle Stark
“Matters of Life and Death: Mechanisms of Spermatogonial Stem Cell Selection in the Mouse”
Genetics and Genomics
Blanche Capel, Advisor(s). 

Summer Steenberg
“Getting Out: Mixing Outdoor Recreation, Place-making, and War in Iraqi Kurdistan”
Cultural Anthropology
Orin Starn, Advisor(s). 

Riley Stephenson
“Structurally Homogeneous Hybrid Carbon Superstructures Enable Nanoscale Control of Energy, Charge, and Spin”
Chemistry
Michael J. Therien, Advisor(s). 

Samuel Strader
“LRRK2 Shapes Myeloid-T Cell Responses in Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease.”
Pharmacology
Andrew West, Advisor(s). 

Helen Laura Streff
“Deciphering Transcription Factor Function to Engineer Mature and Functional iPSC-derived Hepatocytes”
Biomedical Engineering
Charles A. Gersbach, Advisor(s). 

Govind Subash Sankar
“Probabilistic Separation and Fairness in Graph Partitioning and Assignment”
Computer Science
Kamesh Munagala, Advisor(s). 

Jeongsoo Suh
“Essays on the Economics of Child Welfare and Institutional Design”
Economics
Peter Arcidiacono, Advisor(s). 

Matias Daniel Sur
“The Modern Shadow of Dante Alighieri: Political Appropriations in Italy, the United States, and Argentina”
Romance Studies
Martin Eisner, Advisor(s). 

Caroline Marie Teddy
“Genetic Dependencies Associated with Chromosomal Instability in Cancer Metastasis”
Molecular Cancer Biology
Kris C. Wood, Advisor(s). 

Nana Charlene Elfreda Adubea (Dubie) Toa-Kwapong
““You Are Always Welcome Home”: Examining the Longue Durée of Black Diasporic Return Migration to Accra, Ghana in the Era of the Year of Return (2019-2026)”
Cultural Anthropology
Lee D. Baker, Advisor(s). 

Haoqi Tong
“Essays on Microeconomic Theory and Matching”
Economics
Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Advisor(s). 

David Esteban Torres
“A Phase-Field Method for Dynamic Ductile Fracture with Lie-Group-Preserving Remeshing”
Materials Science and Engineering
John E. Dolbow, Advisor(s). 

Skye Y Tracey
“The Blood Olfactory Barrier and Consequences of Neurotropic Viral Infection in the Olfactory System”
Integrative Immunobiology
E. Ashley Moseman, Advisor(s). 

Trung Quoc Tran
“Time-Series Deconvolution Methods and Predictive Models to Link Chromatin Dynamics and Transcriptional Regulation”
Computer Science
Alexander J. Hartemink, Advisor(s). 

Robert Michael Trout
“Enhancement of Microscope-Integrated Optical Coherence Tomography (MIOCT) Guidance in Ophthalmic Surgery”
Biomedical Engineering
Cynthia A. Toth, Advisor(s). 

Yiu Hing Barron Tsai
“Essays on Trade and Market Power”
Economics
Rafael Dix-Carneiro and Daniel Yi Xu, Advisor(s). 

Cagin Uru
“Essays in Sequential Search”
Business Administration
David B. Brown, Advisor(s). 

Vennesa Anneita Valentine
“Generation of Diffuse Midline Glioma-Derived Oncogenic Mutations in Primary Mouse Models”
Pharmacology
Zachary Reitman, Advisor(s). 

Shyam Venkatasubramanian
“Advancing Deep Learning for Data and Signal Processing Applications”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vahid Tarokh, Advisor(s). 

Luke William Vrotsos
“Bayesian Dynamic Modeling of Multivariate Time Series”
Statistical Science
Mike West, Advisor(s). 

Sarisht Wadhwa
“Security of Blockchains with Strategic Entities”
Computer Science
Kartik Nayak and Fan Zhang, Advisor(s). 

Rong Wang
“Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing”
Business Administration
Paymon Khorrami and Anna Cieslak, Advisor(s). 

Siyao Wang
“Genome Wide Transcriptional Changes Underlie Gradual and Recurrent Adaptation to Protein Malnutrition in Zebrafish”
Cell Biology
Michel Bagnat, Advisor(s). 

Sijia Wang
“Towards Sustainable Machine Learning Systems”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ricardo Henao, Advisor(s). 

Dingyue Wang
“The Multidimensionality of Caregiving Appraisal in Chronic Illnesses”
Nursing
Cristina Hendrix, Advisor(s). 

Xueying Wang
“Tumor-derived Extracellular Vesicles Induce ER Stress to Drive Tolerogenic Dendritic Cell Development in the Tumor Microenvironment”
Pharmacology
Brent A. Hanks and Donald P. McDonnell, Advisor(s). 

Houjie Wang
“Statistical Methods for Networked Agent Systems: Inference, Design, and Monitoring”
Statistical Science
Alexander Volfovsky and Mike West, Advisor(s). 

Seth Dyck Weaver
“Understanding Regulatory Logic in Evolution and Disease With High Throughput Screening”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Craig B. Lowe, Advisor(s). 

Madelynn Claire Wellons
“Network Effects on Health Behaviors: Examining the Effects of Norms, Social Support, and Social Capital”
Sociology
James Moody, Advisor(s). 

Gordon Dale Zipf Williams
“The Aqueous Geochemistry of Lithium Deposits and Environmental Effects of Lithium Mining”
Earth and Climate Sciences
Avner Vengosh, Advisor(s). 

John Garland Winn
“Excavating an Image: Cinema and the American West”
Literature
Markos Hadjioannou and Gregory Flaxman, Advisor(s). 

Derek Joel Witten
“The Sign of Labour: Craft, Symbol, and Theology in Late Medieval England, 1348–1470”
English
David Aers, Advisor(s). 

Xin Wu
“From Dose Engine to Machine Learning in Radiation Therapy: Frameworks, Insights, and Clinical Applications”
Medical Physics
Q. Jackie Wu and Qiuwen Wu, Advisor(s). 

Haibo Xiu
“Towards Robust Query Optimization”
Computer Science
Jun Yang and Sudeepa Roy, Advisor(s). 

Chenxi Xu
“Managing Incentives in Drug Development”
Business Administration
Peng Sun, Advisor(s). 

Serda Ariyel Yalkin
“Diasporic Visions: Nuyorican Photography in the 1970s and 1980s”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Esther Gabara, Advisor(s). 

Clariss Ann Limso Yamamoto
“Investigating Mechanisms Underlying Staphylococcus aureus Extracellular Membrane Vesicle Biogenesis”
Biochemistry
Meta Kuehn, Advisor(s). 

Haoming Yang
“Incorporating Data Interaction in Deep Learning Architecture, Training, and Applications”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vahid Tarokh, Advisor(s). 

Kaichun Yang
“Precision Acoustofluidics for Life Science”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Tony Jun Huang, Advisor(s). 

Dongrong Yang
“Developing Intelligent Reinforcement Learning Bots for Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning”
Medical Physics
Q. Jackie Wu and Yang Sheng, Advisor(s). 

Keegan Tse-Chieh Yao
“Efficient Algorithms for Optimal Transport in Geometric Settings”
Computer Science
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Advisor(s). 

Elizabeth Yoder
“The Future of Energy: Three Essays on the Renewable Transition, Energy Conservation, & Electricity Planning”
Environmental Policy
Marc Jeuland, Advisor(s). 

Yaming You
“Syringe Assemblage: A Biography of Injection in Modern China, 1920s-1970s”
History
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes and Prasenjit Duara, Advisor(s). 

Christina SuMin Yu
“Memory Representations and Functional Brain Networks Supporting Adaptive Decision-Making Across Tasks and Age”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Roberto Cabeza and Simon Davis, Advisor(s). 

Jun Zeng
“Genomic Reconstruction of Dietary History in Retrospective Clinical Research”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Lawrence David, Advisor(s). 

Zilu Zhang
“Data-Driven Nanoparticle Design for Drug Delivery”
Biomedical Engineering
Daniel Reker, Advisor(s). 

Rui Zhang
“Sparse and Accurate Models Towards Interpretable Machine Learning”
Computer Science
Cynthia Rudin, Advisor(s). 

Baiyu Zhang
“Printed Low-dimensional Materials for Thin-film Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aaron D. Franklin, Advisor(s). 

Jikai Zhang
“Harnessing Multimodal Data with Deep Learning in Radiology: Dataset Curation Strategies and Clinical Applications”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Maciej A. Mazurowski and Galen Reeves, Advisor(s). 

Junyao Zhang
“Toward Practical Quantum Computing Systems with Electronic Design Automation”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yiran Chen and Hai Li, Advisor(s). 

Luoshu Zhang
“Temptations of the End: Embracing the Apocalypse in Contemporary Speculative Fictions”
English
Michael F. D'Alessandro, Advisor(s). 

Yakun Zhang
“Systemic Integration of Retrospective Analysis for Optimizing CT Imaging Practice”
Medical Physics
Ehsan Samei and Ehsan Abadi, Advisor(s). 

Lin Zhao
“Essays on Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization”
Business Administration
Alon Brav, Advisor(s). 

Haoyang Zhao
“Essays on Theories of Information Economics and Industrial Organization”
Economics
Attila Ambrus, Advisor(s). 

Jingtong Zhao
“Explainable AI and Advanced Mathematical Modeling for Radiotherapy Outcome Assessment”
Medical Physics
Chunhao Wang and Deshan Yang, Advisor(s). 

Jingyi Zhou
“Compton Scattering on 3He at HIΓγS and Neutron Polarizabilities”
Physics
Haiyan Gao, Advisor(s). 

Jiaqi Zhu
“Transition Metal-Catalyzed Diastereo-, Enantio-, and Z/E-Selective Allylation and Alkylation of Azatrienes for the Preparation of Chiral Amine Derivatives”
Chemistry
Steven J. Malcolmson, Advisor(s). 

Nicole Zimmer
“Utilizing Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Quantify Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Mechanics and Composition in Participants with and without Low Back Pain”
Biomedical Engineering
Louis E. DeFrate, Advisor(s). 

Marek Dominick Zorawski
“Investigating the RNA Structural Mechanism of AR-V7 Splicing in Prostate Cancer”
Biochemistry
Amanda Hargrove, Advisor(s).