Below you will find the dissertation titles, departments, and advisers for 2022–2023 Ph.D. graduates, separated by graduation date. If you notice information that needs to be updated, please email Scott Behm at scott.behm@duke.edu

Fatih Serkant Adiguzel
“Essays on the Political Economy of Media and Information Manipulation.”
Political Science
Erik Wibbels and Pablo Beramendi Alvarez, Advisers.

Scott Raymond Allen
“Codon Usage Biases Differ between Tissues and Can Confer Tissue-Specific Gene Expression in Drosophila.”
Cell Biology
Donald Fox, Adviser.


Keerti Anand
“Online Algorithms with Learned Predictions.”
Computer Science
Debmalya Panigrahi and Rong Ge, Advisers.


Naoki Awaya
“Tree-based Methods for Learning Probability Distributions.”
Statistical Science
Li Ma, Adviser.


Sanmitra Banerjee
“Modeling and Optimization of Emerging Technology-Based Artificial Intelligence Accelerators Under Imperfections.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Adviser.


Yaas Bigdeli
“Fluorescent Detection of Chromatin Using Functionalized Magnetic Beads on a Digital Microfluidic Device.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Richard Fair, Adviser.


Robert Charles Bingle
“Anger Eliminativism: Stoic and Buddhist Perspectives.”
Philosophy
Owen Flanagan, Adviser.


Hannah Borenstein
“Running to Labor: Ethiopian Women Distance Runners in Networks of Capital.”
Cultural Anthropology
Orin Starn, Adviser.


Andrew Michael Boyce
“Control of Optical Processes in Diamond Using Plasmonic Nanogap Cavities.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Maiken Mikkelsen, Adviser.


Taylor Jack Brooks
“Variable-dose Support in an Online Mental Health Intervention: A Randomized, Controlled Exploratory Study.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Gary Bennett, Adviser.


Joanna Tsuhuei Chang
“Probing the Brahmsnebel, 1875-1910.”
Music
R. Larry Todd, Adviser.


Pawel Charasz
“Essays on the Political Economy of City Status.”
Political Science
Pablo Beramendi Alvarez and Timur Kuran, Advisers.


Shayna Melody Cheek
“The Relationship between Cognitive Inflexibility, Social and Physical Pain Processing, and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Among Adolescents and Young Adults.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Bonner, Melanie J. Bonner, Adviser.


Shuyu Chen
“Design and Performance Prediction for Supply Chain Systems with Graphical Structures.”
Business Administration
Jing-Sheng Song and Yehua Wei, Advisers.


Yu-Hsiu Chen
“Developing a Senomorphic Treatment Strategy in Osteoarthritis.”
Pathology
Virginia Kraus, Adviser.


Jared Kennedy Clemons
“The Privatization of Racial Responsibility: A Materialist Analysis of Contemporary White Antiracism Under Neoliberal Capitalism.”
Political Science
Paula McClain and Ismail White, Advisers.


Sarah Jean Cunningham
“Maternal and Fetal Genetic Contributions to Preterm Birth.”
Genetics and Genomics
Timothy Reddy, Adviser.


Cameron M Darwin
“Aspects of Quadratically Enriched Enumerative Geometry of Complete Intersections in Projective Space.”
Mathematics
Kirsten Wickelgren, Adviser.


John Sharp Decker
“Advancements in Low-Cost, non-Conventional Bioprocessing Methods for Therapeutic Proteins.”
Biomedical Engineering
Michael Lynch, Adviser.


Anders Benton Dohlman
“Computational Tools and Resources for Pan-Cancer Analyses of Host-Microbe Interactions.”
Biomedical Engineering
Lingchong You, Adviser.


Mahmoud Elfar
“Modeling and Design of Assured and Adaptive Cyber-Physical Systems.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Miroslav Pajic, Adviser.


Maxwell Lorenz Elliott
“Midlife as a Window Onto the Aging Brain: Surrogate Biomarkers, Exposures, and Biological Aging.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Ahmad R. Hariri and Terrie E. Moffitt, Advisers.


Wenkai Fan
“Multi-Stage Heavy Quark Transport in Ultra-relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions.”
Physics
Steffen Bass, Adviser.


Fei Fang
“Essays on Adaptive Methods for Inference and Prediction Under Dependence.”
Business Administration
Alexandre Nogueira Belloni and Alessandro Arlotto, Advisers.


Jiyuan Fang
“Evaluating and Interpreting Machine Learning Outputs in Genomics Data.”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Jichun Xie, Adviser.


Madeline Joan Farber
“Normative Range Parenting and the Developing Brain: Investigating the Functional and Structural Neural Correlates of Parenting in the Absence of Trauma.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Ahmad R. Hariri and Timothy J. Strauman, Advisers.


Kobi Natan Finestone
“Making Models Work.”
Philosophy
Kevin Hoover, Adviser.


Heather Marie Froggatt
“Combating Respiratory RNA Viruses with Adaptable Tools and Innate Host Defenses.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Nicholas Heaton, Adviser.


Nicole Ying Yee Gaglia
“Visualizing Bodies: Public Health and the Medicalized Everyday in Modern Japan.”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Gennifer Weisenfeld, Adviser.


Aastha Garde
“The Metabolic Regulation of Anchor Cell Invasion Through Basement Membrane in C. elegans.”
Cell Biology
David Sherwood, Adviser.


Valerie Anne Gartner
“An Evolutionary Genomics Approach towards Understanding Plasmodium vivax in Central Africa.”
Genetics and Genomics
Gregory Wray, Adviser.


Jason Goldfarb
“Science Fiction Without a Future: Imagination in the Age of Post-productive Capitalism.”
Graduate Program in Literature
Antonio Viego and Fredric Jameson, Advisers.


Veronica Gough
“Advanced Genome Editing Strategies for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.”
Biomedical Engineering
Charles Gersbach, Adviser.


Aram Grigoryan
“Essays on Allocation Problems.”
Economics
Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Adviser.


Samantha Marie Hall
“Characterizing Environmental Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) Exposure and Effects in North Carolina Communities.”
Environment
Heather Stapleton, Adviser.


Jacob Saunders Harrison
“The Development of Spring-Actuated Mechanisms in Mantis Shrimp (Stomatopoda) and Snapping Shrimp (Alpheidae).”
Biology
Sheila Patek, Adviser.


Eric Zhihong He
“The Effect of 2004 8-K Expansion on Information Asymmetry among Investors.”
Business Administration
Katherine Schipper and Rahul Vashishtha, Advisers.


Xing He
“Phonon Anaharmonicity and Phase Transitions in Perovskites.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Olivier Delaire, Adviser.


Jennifer Noel Hennigan
“Improved Strains and Bioprocesses for Redox Sensitive Recombinant Protein Production in E. coli Using Two-Stage Dynamic Control.”
Chemistry
Michael Lynch, Adviser.


Nathan Hershberger
“Tending Scripture's Wounds: Suffering, Moral Formation, and the Bible.”
Graduate Program in Religion
Luke Bretherton, Adviser.


Ethan Conley Hicks
“Applying Classical Particle Aggregation Modeling Techniques to Investigate the Heteroaggregation of Environmental Biocolloids.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Wiesner, Adviser.


Graham Thomas Holt
“Ensemble-based Computational Protein Design: Novel Algorithms and Applications to Energy Landscape Approximation, Antibiotic Resistance, and Antibody Design.”
Graduate Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Bruce R. Donald, Adviser.


Christina M. Hopkins
“Reduction of Internalized Weight Bias via Mindful Self-compassion: Theoretical Framework and Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Gary Bennett, Adviser.


Holly Samantha Howe
“Consumers Seeking Connection: Essays on When and Why Consumers Connect with Others.”
Business Administration
Gavan Fitzsimons and Jordan Etkin, Advisers.


Michael James Hoy
“Development of Novel Antifungal Compounds for the Treatment of Systemic Fungal Infections.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Joseph Heitman, Adviser.


Jinyuan Jia
“Privacy Protection via Adversarial Examples.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Adviser.


Geonsoo Jin
“Development of Acoustofluidic Scanning Nanoscope.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Tony Jun Huang, Adviser.


Patricia Nicole Johnson
“A Model Elastomer with Modular Metal-Ligand Crosslinking.”
Chemistry
Stephen Craig, Adviser.


Vardhman Kumar
“Development of Novel in vitro Platforms to Model the Lung.”
Biomedical Engineering
Shyni Varghese, Adviser.


Yungeun Kwon
“Copper-Catalyzed 1,2-Aminocarbonation of Unactivated Alkenes Utilizing O-Benzoylhydroxylamines.”
Chemistry
Qiu Wang, Adviser.


Gregory D Larsen
“Advancing Drone Methods for Pinniped Ecology and Management.”
Marine Science and Conservation
David Johnston, Adviser.


Matthew Asher Lawson
“Stable Individual Differences in Overconfidence.”
Business Administration
Richard Larrick, Adviser.


Claire Le Barbenchon
“Essays on Migration, Social Networks and Employment.”
Public Policy
M. Giovanna Merli, Adviser.


Yuexing Li
“Data-driven Decision Making with Dynamic Learning Under Uncertainty: Theory and Applications.”
Business Administration
Nuri Bora Keskin and Jing-Sheng Song, Advisers.


Jiachen Li
“Connecting Density Functional Theory and Green's Function Theory.”
Chemistry
Weitao Yang, Adviser.


Ang Li
“Enable Intelligence on Billion Devices with Deep Learning.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yiran Chen, Adviser.


Yihan Liao
“The Role of Interleukin-6 Signaling in Osteoarthritis Associated Cartilage Degradation and Pain.”
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Matthew Hilton, Adviser.


Qiu Lin
“Three Essays About Problems of Space in the Early Modern Period.”
Philosophy
Katherine Brading, Adviser.


Jinge Liu
“Essays on Investor Inattention and Strategic Communication.”
Business Administration
S. Viswanathan and Simon Gervais, Advisers.


Heng Liu
“Telomere, Replication Stress and Cancer Stem Cell.”
Pathology
Yiping He, Adviser.


Hanqing Liu
“Quantum Critical Phenomena of Relativistic Fermions in 1+1d and 2+1d.”
Physics
Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Adviser.


Jessica Hsing Wen Loo
“Deep Learning Image Analysis Framework for Clinical Management of Retinal and Corneal Diseases.”
Biomedical Engineering
Sina Farsiu, Adviser.


Ke Lu
“Deep Learning-based CBCT Projection Interpolation, Reconstruction, and Post-processing for Radiation Therapy.”
Graduate Program in Medical Physics
Fang-Fang Yin and Lei Ren, Advisers.


Shiheng Lu
“Control and Reproducibility in Aerosol Jet Printed Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors: From Print-in-Place to Water-Based Processes.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aaron Franklin, Adviser.


Yixin Ma
“Capturing Characteristic Features in the Human Cortical Gray Matter and Hippocampus in vivo Using Submillimeter Diffusion MRI.”
Graduate Program in Medical Physics
Trong-Kha Truong and Dean Darnell, Advisers.


Nicolas Jorge Madan
“The Development and Resolution of Conflict among Federal Appellate Courts.”
Political Science
Georg Vanberg, Adviser.


Collin R Malone
“Photodisintegration of ³H and Supporting Experiments.”
Physics
Calvin Howell, Adviser.


Elliot Jacob Mamet
“Confining the Demos: Incarceration in Democratic Political Thought.”
Political Science
Alexander Kirshner, Adviser.


Michael Christopher McGurk
“Out of Service: The Work of Character in the Novel of Post-Industrial Society.”
English
Nancy Armstrong, Adviser.


Se Hee Min
“Symptom Clusters of Midlife Menopausal Women with Metabolic Syndrome.”
Nursing
Qing Yang and Sharron Docherty, Advisers.


Abraham Viet Nguyen
“Elucidating the Role of TTBK2 in Primary Cilia Stability.”
Molecular Cancer Biology
Sarah Goetz and Ann Marie Pendergast, Advisers.


Sarah Elizabeth Nolan
“Measuring Upward Mobility in Times of Change.”
Public Policy
Anirudh Krishna, Adviser.


Julia Claire Notar
“Vision and Light-Guided Behavior in Sea Urchins and Brittle Stars.”
Biology
Sönke Johnsen, Adviser.


Siobhan Rigby Oca
“Development, Safety, and Patient Trust of Autonomous Robotic Medical Ultrasound Diagnostics.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Daniel Buckland, Adviser.


Ngoc Tuan Phan
“The Political Determinants of Corruption.”
Political Science
Edmund Malesky, Adviser.


Shruti Preetam
“Enhanced Biomolecular Binding to Beads on a Digital Microfluidic Device.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Richard Fair, Adviser.


Yunjiao Pu
“Radio Remote Sensing and Imaging of Lightning.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Steven Cummer, Adviser.


Baiyi Quan
“Development and Application of Complementary Protein Stability Profiling Techniques for Protein Target Identification and Biomarker Discovery.”
Chemistry
Michael Fitzgerald, Adviser.


Joseph Ren
“The Ends of the World-System: Resource Cultures and Population Panics From Chesney to London.”
Graduate Program in Literature
Fredric Jameson, Adviser.


Aaron Samuel Reuben
“The Early Life Environment and Adult Cognitive and Mental Health.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Terrie E. Moffitt, Adviser.


Virginia Cary Ritter
“Mechanochromism and Strain-Induced Crystallization in Thiol-yne-derived Stereoelastomers.”
Chemistry
Stephen Craig, Adviser.


Kimberly Ellen Roche
“Relative Sequence Count Data and its Application: Assessing the Consistency of Gut Microbial Patterns in Wild Baboons.”
Graduate Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Sayan Mukherjee, Adviser.


Nicholas Michael Kang Rogers
“Investigation of the Colloidal Properties of Extracellular Vesicles From Yeast and Bacteria: Implications for Environmental Transport.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Wiesner, Adviser.


Christoph Schmitz
“Chaos and Control: Indexicality and the Human Voice in Contemporary German Fiction.”
Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies
Richard Langston, Adviser.


Simranjit Singh
“Treating MTAP-Deficient Brain Tumors with Purine Synthesis Inhibition.”
Pathology
Yiping He, Adviser.


Jasmine Smith
“Electability Politics: How and Why Black Americans Vote in Primary Elections.”
Political Science
Paula McClain and Ismail White, Advisers.


Sarah Elizabeth Solie
“Behavioral Measures and Ecological Correlates of Vision in Poeciliid Fishes.”
Biology
Sönke Johnsen, Adviser.


Hanyu Song
“New Tools for Bayesian Clustering and Factor Analysis.”
Statistical Science
David Dunson, Adviser.


Kevin Gaylen Spencer
“Existential Realism: Modernism and the Ethics of Agency in the Franco-American Existentialist Tradition, 1937-1955.”
English
Toril Moi, Adviser.


Robert Fulton Spivey III
“A Compact Cryogenic Package Approach to Ion Trap Quantum Computing.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jungsang Kim, Adviser.


Adam Walter Stanaland
“Fragile Masculinity: Operationalizing and Testing a Novel Model of Identity Fragility.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Sarah Gaither and Anna Gassman-Pines, Advisers.


Kimberly Anne Stanton
“Role of Subfunctionalized MYB Paralogs in the Evolution of Pigmentation Patterning in Clarkia.”
Biology
Mark Rausher, Adviser.


Brenda Corina Straka
“On the Outside Looking in: Exclusion, Belonging, and Self-Identification.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Sarah Gaither, Adviser.


Kevin Tang Sun
“Online Algorithms with Predictions.”
Computer Science
Debmalya Panigrahi, Adviser.


Becky Tang
“Bayesian Modeling for Annual Abundance in Ecological Communities Incorporating Zero-Inflation.”
Statistical Science
Alan Gelfand, Adviser.


Yuchao Tao
“Answering and Explaining SQL Queries Privately.”
Computer Science
Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Adviser.


Gwenaelle Thomas
“Characterizing Antipsychotic Drug Behavioral and Neurophysiological Responses to Psychotomimetic Challenge.”
Neurobiology
Kafui Dzirasa, Adviser.


Nathan Spencer Tilley
“Human Perfection in the Thought of Bābai the Great: Tradition and Development in East Syrian Theology.”
Graduate Program in Religion
J. Warren Smith, Adviser.


William Henry Tomaszewski
“Stromal CaMKK2 Promotes Immunosuppression and Checkpoint Blockade Resistance in Glioblastoma.”
Immunology
John Sampson and Michael Gunn, Advisers.


Ryan Collin Tsoi
“Advancing Tools for Quantifying and Engineering Microbial Consortia.”
Biomedical Engineering
Lingchong You, Adviser.


Shiran Vaknin Froymovich
“Aggregate Deferred Tax Asset Valuation Allowance and GDP Growth.”
Business Administration
Scott Dyreng and William Mayew, Advisers.


Michael James Valerino
“The Impact of Dust and Air Pollution to Solar Photovoltaic Energy: Assessment and Methods for Global Mitigation of Soiling.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Michael Bergin, Adviser.


Shu Wang
“Bridging Molecular Mechanochemistry and Network Fracture Mechanics.”
Chemistry
Stephen Craig and Michael Rubinstein, Advisers.


Ergang Wang
“Non-genetic Alterations in Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastasis and Patient-derived Models.”
Biomedical Engineering
Lingchong You, Adviser.


Kangning Wang
“Approximations for Economic Efficiency and Fairness.”
Computer Science
Kamesh Munagala, Adviser.


Christopher Matthew Webb
“Fighting for Life: War Trauma, Healing, and Ritual Communities in the American Pacific Northwest.”
Cultural Anthropology
Harris Solomon, Adviser.


Ashley Jerri Williams
“Analysis of μECoG Design Elements for Optimized Signal Acquisition.”
Biomedical Engineering
Jonathan Viventi, Adviser.


Chi Wut Wong
“Glycerate from Fat-modulating Fructose Metabolism as a Mediator of Diabetes.”
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Jatin Roper, Adviser.


Nicholas J Wright
“Structure, Function, and Pharmacology of Human Nucleoside Transporters.”
Biochemistry
Seok-Yong Lee, Adviser.


Kun Xiang
“Exploring the Non-Genetic Reprogramming of Colorectal Cancer and Tumor Microenvironment.”
Biomedical Engineering
Lingchong You, Adviser.


Yuanfan Yang
“Polio Virotherapy of Malignant Glioma Engages the Tumor Myeloid Infiltrate and Triggers Global Microglia Activation.”
Pathology
Matthias Gromeier and  Darell D. Bigner, Advisers.


Yichen Yu
“Mechanical Force Modulated Organometallic Transformations.”
Chemistry
Stephen Craig and Ross Widenhoefer, Advisers.


Jingwei Zhang
“Weakly Coupled Stochastic Dynamic Programs with Shared Signals.”
Business Administration
David Brown, Adviser.


Jinxin Zhang
“Manipulating Small Model Animals and Biological Nanoparticles via Acoustofluidics.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Tony Jun Huang, Adviser.


Jiacheng Zhao
“Towards Hydrogel-Capped Metal Implants for Cartilage Repair.”
Chemistry
Benjamin Wiley, Adviser.


Tianhui Zhou
“Machine Learning for Uncertainty with Application to Causal Inference.”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
David Carlson, Adviser.


Yilong Zhou
“Interface-Mediated Assembly of Nanoparticles into Tunable Anisotropic Architectures.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Gaurav Arya, Adviser.


Hongshen Zhu
“Agents with Agency: How Subnational Officials Exercise Their Autonomy Under Authoritarianism.”
Political Science
Melanie Manion, Adviser.


Yujing Zou
“Harnessing T Cell Generation and Metabolism to Modulate T Cell Recovery Following Radiation Exposure and Bone Marrow Transplantation.”
Pathology
Nelson Chao, Adviser.

 

Annamarie Elizabeth Allen
“Investigating Metabolism-Based Pharmacologic and Dietary Strategies of Nutrient Restriction to Impact Health and Disease.”
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Jason Locasale, Adviser.


Christopher Barrett Ames
“Towards Efficient and Robust Robot Planning.”
Computer Science
George Konidaris, Adviser.


Peibo An
“Studies of the Electron Neutrino Charged-current Interaction on ¹²⁷I.”
Physics
Phillip Barbeau, Adviser.


Anne Margaret Bara
“Maf Proteins in the Intestinal Epithelium.”
Cell Biology
Terry Lechler, Adviser.


Federico Roberto Bennett
“Essays on Ambiguity Aversion and Externalities.”
Economics
Cosmin Ilut, Adviser.


Nathaniel Aaron Berndt
“Descendants of Zabarkan, Citizens of the World: A History of Cosmopolitan Imagination in Decolonizing Niger, 1958-1974.”
History
Malachi Hacohen and Bruce Hall, Advisers.


Kimberly Diane Bourne
“Supporting Landscape-Level Risk Assessment and Decision-Making in Managed Ecosystems Using Novel Modeling Methods.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Borsuk, Adviser.


William Jared Brewer
“Cellular Signaling Mechanisms Underlying the Angiogenic Response to Mycobacterial Infection.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
David Tobin, Adviser.


Nicole Ashley Bryant
“Genetics and Genomics of LRRK2 Linked-disease.”
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Andrew West and Christopher Counter, Advisers.


James Robert Budinich
“Third-Millennium Heart, for Soprano and Ten Instruments, and "Constructing Postmodern Objects: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's New Simplicity".”
Music
Scott Lindroth, Adviser.


Katherine Heather Burgett
“In Slavery with God's Children: The Law as Enslaved Agent in Galatians.”
Graduate Program in Religion
J. Ross Wagner, Adviser.


Korie Blade Bush
“The Interrogation of Cas9 Aptamers and sgRNA Structures Through SELEX.”
Genetics and Genomics
Bruce Sullenger, Adviser.


Yueqian Cao
“Fingerprinting Meteorologic, Topographic, and Vegetation Controls on Microwave Behavior of Seasonal High-Elevation Snowpacks.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ana Barros, Adviser.


Arjun Chaudhuri
“Fault Modeling, Design-for-Test, and Fault Tolerance for Machine Learning Hardware.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Adviser.


Seung Ho Choi
“Identification of Novel N⁶-methyladenosine (m⁶A) Reader Proteins and the Characterization of their Molecular and Physiological Functions.”
Biochemistry
Kate Meyer, Kate, Adviser.


Shanshan Chu
“Stochastic Modeling of Physical Parameters on Complex Domains, with Applications to 3D Printed Materials.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Johann Guilleminot, Adviser.


Sumin Chun
“Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics.”
Economics
David Berger, Adviser.


Tianyu Dai
“Light Parton Energy Loss in a Hard-soft Factorized Approach.”
Physics
Steffen Bass, Adviser.


Hannah Kate D'Ambrosio
“Investigation of Polyketide Synthase Secondary Metabolic Pathways in the Apicomplexan Parasite Toxoplasma gondii.”
Chemistry
Emily Derbyshire, Adviser.


Ishak Darryl Irwan
“Reversal of Epigenetic Silencing by the SMC5/6 Complex Rescues Integrase-Deficient HIV-1 Replication and Prevents the Establishment of a Latent Reservoir.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Bryan Cullen, Adviser.


Kelsey Elaine Deaton
“Engineering of Microbioreactors and Microbiomes for the Biodegradation of Volatile Organic Compounds.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Marc Deshusses, Adviser.


Harlan W. Downs-Tepper
“Risks and Rewards: Three Essays on Political Economy of Indian Democracy During Crises.”
Public Policy and Political Science
Manoj Mohanan and Erik Wibbels, Advisers.


Arielle Sarine Fogel
“Genomic and Phenotypic Consequences of Hybridization in Wild Baboons.”
Genetics and Genomics
Jenny Tung, Adviser.


Daniel Fu
“Design Optimization of Encapsulating 3D DNA Nanostructures with Curvature and Multi-layers.”
Computer Science
John Reif, Adviser.


Claire Alexandra Gianakas
“Basement Membranes Link Together and Stretch to Withstand Mechanical Forces.”
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
David Sherwood, Adviser.


Patrick Clifton Gray
“Submesoscale Biophysical Interactions on the Gulf Stream: Eddies, Fronts, and New Observational Methods.”
Marine Science and Conservation
David Johnston, Adviser.


Daniel Alan Grigsby
“AAV Delivery of CFH Constructs for Complement Regulation in the Murine Eye.”
Genetics and Genomics
Catherine Bowes Rickman, Adviser.


Mariah Faith Hazlett
“Structural, Functional, and Behavioral Outcomes of Stimulus-Dependent Transcription in Nucleus Accumbens Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneurons.”
Neurobiology
Anne West, Adviser.


Jacob T. Heggestad
“A “Zero-Background” Multiplexed, Point-Of-Care Testing Platform for Disease Diagnosis, Management, and Surveillance.”
Biomedical Engineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti, Adviser.


Kathleen Louise Horvath
“Design and Qualification of a Coded Aperture Cycloidal Mass Spectrometer to Detect Perfluorocarbon Tracer Molecules for Environmental Applications.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jason Amsden and Jeffrey Glass, Advisers.


Yuze Hou
“High-throughput Characterization of the Mismatch Binding Specificity of DNA Repair Enzymes.”
Biochemistry
Raluca Gordan, Adviser.


Bingyin Hu
“Data Curation of a Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable Polymer Nanocomposites Data Resource - Materialsmine.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
L. Catherine Brinson, Adviser.


Qian Huang
“Physical Designs in Artificial Neural Imaging.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
David Brady and Michael Gehm, Advisers.


William James Huffman
“Engineering Solutions for Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Minimize Invasiveness and Reduce Side Effects.”
Biomedical Engineering
Warren Grill, Adviser.


Dalton Hughes
“A Data-Driven Approach to Uncovering the Neural Dynamics of Anxiety.”
Neurobiology
Kafui Dzirasa, Adviser.


Woonyung Hur
“Organization Principles of the Early Drosophila embryo.”
Cell Biology
Stefano Di Talia, Adviser.


Zhubing Jia
“Quantum Information Processing with Spin and Motional States of Trapped Ions.”
Physics
Kenneth Brown, Adviser.


Na Young Jun
“Understanding the Diversity of Retinal Cell Types and Mosaic Organizations through Efficient Coding Theory.”
Neurobiology
Greg Field, Adviser.


Yi-Hong Ke
“Population Genomics of an Introduced Ectomycorrhizal Fungus Suillus luteus.”
Biology
Rytas Vilgalys, Adviser.


Hannah Halin Kim
“Motion Boundary and Occlusion Reasoning for Video Analysis.”
Computer Science
Carlo Tomasi, Adviser.


Rachel Kositsky
“Profiling Blood Cancer Drivers through Large-Scale Genomics.”
Graduate Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Sandeep Dave, Adviser.


Achint Kumar
“Joint Data Modeling Using Variational Autoencoders.”
Physics
John Pearson, Adviser.


Kitae Kwon
“Sulfamate Esters Guide Remote C–H (Hetero)arylation Reactions and Target Disease-Relevant Non-coding RNAs.”
Chemistry
Amanda Hargrove, Adviser.


Christina LaChapelle
“Polarizing Platforms: How Campaigns Advertise on Social Media.”
Political Science
D. Sunshine Hillygus, Adviser.


Mohammad Reza Lavaei Mashhadi
“Switched Controller Synthesis for Constrained Nonlinear Systems.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Leila Bridgeman, Adviser.


Jane R. Leer
“Diversity and Inequality in Context: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Adolescent Development.”
Public Policy and Psychology and Neuroscience
Anna Gassman-Pines and Sarah Elizabeth Gaither, Advisers.


Abigail Preston Leinroth
“Examining the Roles of Resident Non-myogenic Mesenchymal Cell Populations in Skeletal Muscle Development and Injury.”
Cell Biology
Matthew Hilton, Adviser.


Jeffrey Letourneau
“Variation and Stability in Gut Microbial Ecology Assessed Through Multi-Omics Time-Series Analysis.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Lawrence David, Adviser.


Yining Liu
“Modulating Macrophage Response with Microporous Annealed Particle Scaffolds.”
Biomedical Engineering
Tatiana Segura, Adviser.


Benjamin Jacob Mayro
“The Characterization of ABL Tyrosine Kinase-Regulated Transcriptional Networks.”
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Ann Marie Pendergast, Adviser.


Garrett Dale McKinnon
“Automating Violence: A History of United States Drone Warfare, 1900-1970.”
History
Dirk Bönker, Adviser.


Nikhil Mehta
“Towards Efficient Continual Learning in Deep Neural Networks.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lawrence Carin, Adviser.


Omar Emlen Melikechi
“Random Splitting of Fluid Models Ergodicity, Convergence, and Chaos.”
Mathematics
Jonathan Mattingly, Adviser.


Zhengjie Miao
“Simplifying Human-in-the-loop Data Science Pipeline: Explanations, Debugging, and Data Preparation.”
Computer Science
Sudeepa Roy, Adviser.


Qiang Miao
“Eigenstate Entanglement Scaling and Quantum Simulation of Many-body Systems by Entanglement Renormalization.”
Physics
Thomas Barthel, Adviser.


Andrew Paul Middleton
“Recovery of Rare Earth Elements From Waste Materials: Leaching and Separation Using Supported Liquid Membranes.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Heileen Hsu-Kim, Adviser.


Melyssa St Claire Minto
“Systematic Examination of Epigenomic Regulation of Neuronal Plasticity.”
Graduate Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Anne West, Adviser.


Daniel Allen Needs
“Augmentations vs. Restoration: A Computational Study of the Effects of Bacterial Sodium Channels on Cardiac Conduction.”
Biomedical Engineering
Graig Henriquez, Adviser.


Kaitlin Sloane Nelson
“Evaluation of Stress State on the Mechanical Properties of 3D Printed Metallic Lattice Structures Fabricated via Laser Powder Bed Fusion for Orthopedic Applications.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Ken Gall, Adviser.


Eunchong Park
“Th17 Cell Pathogenicity Promoted by Integrin α3 During Autoimmune Neuroinflammation.”
Immunology
Maria Ciofani, Adviser.


Peng Peng
“Pen and Sword: Meritocracy, Conflicts, and Bureaucratic Appointments in Imperial China.”
Political Science
Melanie Manion and Pablo Beramendi Alvarez, Advisers.


Brianna Claire Peskin
“Uncovering the Patterning Mechanisms Governing Notochord Segmentation and Spine Evolution.”
Cell Biology
Michael Bagnat, Adviser.


David Anthony Pujol
“Fairness in Differentially Private Data Release.”
Computer Science
Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Adviser.


Daniel Franklin Puleri
“Multiphysics Framework for the Study of Cancer Cell Transport.”
Biomedical Engineering
Amanda Randles, Adviser.


Jeremy Joseph Ratiu
“Zfp335-Mediated Regulation of T cell Development.”
Immunology
Mari Shinohara, Adviser.


Nicolas Restrepo Ochoa
“Three Papers on Beliefs: on their Measurement, their Transmission, and its Implications for Large-scale Change.”
Sociology
Stephen Vaisey, Adviser.


Leon Riesebos
“Software Architectures for Real-Time Quantum Control Systems.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kenneth R. Brown, Adviser.


Taylor Campbell Wooten Ross
“Minding the Gap: Gregory of Nyssa, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the Hermeneutics of Historical Theology.”
Graduate Program in Religion
J. Warren Smith, Adviser.


Matthew Tyler Sacco
“Cytoplasmic N6-Methyladenosine Deposition on Hepatitis C Viral RNA.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Stacy Horner, Adviser.


Thomas John Sauters
“Utilizing Natural Variation and De Novo Mutation to Understand Cryptococcus Evolution.”
Genetics and Genomics
Paul Magwene, Adviser.


William Bradford Sharman
“Moral Politics: Global Humanitarianism, Africa, and West Germany, 1960-1985.”
History
Dirk Bönker, Adviser.


Jeanne Michelle Shearer
“The Influence of Environment on the Foraging Strategies of Cetaceans.”
Ecology
Andrew Read, Adviser.


Marcelo Simoes Nogueira
“Sound Matters in Poetry, Music, and Arts Under Dictatorship in Brazil.”
Romance Studies
Esther Gabara, Adviser.


Erika May Smull
“The Municipal Bond Market and Water Utilities: The Impact of Capital Markets on Local Communities and their Water Services.”
Environment
Martin Doyle, Adviser.


Caroline Patricia Stow
“Investigation of Gold α-Oxo Carbene/Carbenoid Complexes as Key Intermediates in Gold(I) Catalysis.”
Chemistry
Ross Widenhoefer, Adviser.


Dhanasekar Sundararaman
“Structure and Feedback-based Natural Language Processing.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lawrence Carin, Adviser.


Matthew Taft
“Labored Romance: The Contemporary Novel and the Culture of Late Capitalism.”
English
Nancy Armstrong, Adviser.


Xiaochen Tan
“Advances in Real-time 3D Single Particle Tracking Microscopy for Particle-by-Particle in-situ Characterization of the Nanoparticle Protein Corona.”
Chemistry
Kevin Welsher, Adviser.


Arnold Tao
“Developing Approaches to Identify Mechanosensitive Protein Recruitment and Interactions.”
Biomedical Engineering
Brenton Hoffman, Adviser.


Nathan David Titus
“Investigating Potential Mechanisms of Subperception Spinal Cord Stimulation.”
Biomedical Engineering
Warren Grill, Adviser.


Kenneth Parker Trofatter
“Microwave Imaging for Walk-While-Scan Security Screening.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
David Smith, Adviser.


Jake Charles Ulrich
“Using Mass Spectrometry to Examine the Link between Chemical Water Quality and Kidney Disease in Rural Sri Lanka.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
P. Lee Ferguson, Adviser.


Paige Marie Varner
“Evaluating the Impact of Ecological Growth Strategies of Bacteria on Plasmid Transfer and Function for Bioremediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Claudia Gunsch, Adviser.


Mariana Madelen Vasquez Sanchez
“Chemical and Electrochemical Processes at Solid/Liquid Interfaces in Materials for Sanitation and Neural Stimulation.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jeffrey Glass, Adviser.


Teng Wang
“The Principles and Applications of Plasmid Transfer in Microbial Communities.”
Biomedical Engineering
Lingchong You, Adviser.


Xiang Wang
“Understanding Deep Learning via Analyzing Training Dynamics.”
Computer Science
Rong Ge, Adviser.


Isaac A. Weaver
“Electrogenetics: Genetically Encoded Electrophysiology.”
Biomedical Engineering
Michael Tadross, Adviser.


Caroline Grace Webster
“I. Synthetic Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Rhodojaponin III II. Design and Synthesis of Novel ENT Inhibitors.”
Chemistry
Jiyong Hong, Adviser.


Katrina Lian Wilson
“Bioengineering Microporous Annealed Particle Scaffolds to Recruit Neural Progenitor Stem Cells and Promote Angiogenesis in the Stroke Core.”
Biomedical Engineering
Tatiana Segura, Adviser.


Zollie Ann Yavarow
“Deciphering the Proteomic Signatures of the Optic Nerve Glial Lamina in Healthy and Glaucomatous Conditions.”
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Romain Cartoni, Adviser.


Michael Nakamura Young
“The Energetics of Rapid Cellular Mechanotransduction.”
Neurobiology
Jorg Grandl, Adviser.


Pan Zhang
“Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning for Small Molecules and Proteins.”
Chemistry
Weitao Yang, Adviser.


Haozhe Zhang
“Essays on Volatility Forecasting.”
Economics
Andrew Patton, Adviser.


Shuaiguo Zhao
“Engineering Micro-Vortex Streaming via Acoustofluidics.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Tony Jun Huang, Adviser.


Lingfei Zhao
“Andreev Conversion in the Quantum Hall Regime.”
Physics
Gleb Finkelstein, Adviser.


Yang Zhong
“Efficient Simulations of Electromagnetic Induction Tool in a Deviated Borehole for Resistivity Inversions.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Qing Huo Liu, Adviser.

Bijan Masood Abar
“Optimizing the Surgical Treatment of Large Orthopaedic Injuries.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Ken Gall, Adviser.


Elise Adamson
“Dissecting Network-Level Consequences of Anhedonia in Reward Approach.”
Biomedical Engineering
Kafui Dzirasa, Adviser.


Taha Ahsin
“Collateral Enforcement and the Secondary Market.”
Business Administration
Manuel Adelino, Adviser.


Yuhi Aikyo
“System Integration of Trapped Ion System and Sympathetic Cooling With Multi-isotope Ions.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jungsang Kim, Adviser.


Jonathan Ian Ark
“Evolving Adeno-Associated Virus for Editing T-Lymphocytes.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Aravind Asokan, Adviser.


Benjamin Donald Arnson
“Novel AAV Based Genome Editing Therapies for Glycogen Storage Disease Type Ia.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Dwight Koeberl and Bryan Cullen, Advisers.


Serge Assaad
“Principled Deep Learning for Healthcare Applications.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lawrence Carin, Adviser.


Ke Bai
“Learning in the Open World: Techniques for Identifying and Adapting to the Unknown.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lawrence Carin, Adviser.


Bradley Brigham Barth
“A Bidirectional Switch to Treat Colonic Dysmotility.”
Biomedical Engineering
Warren Grill, Adviser.


Connor Patrick Beck
“Traditional and Computational Engineering of Genetically Encoded Indicators and Actuators for Neuroscience Applications.”
Biomedical Engineering
Yiyang Gong, Adviser.


Stuart Clifford Behling
“Revealing Parallel Modulation on the Sensory-Motor Decoder for Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements.”
Neurobiology
Stephen Lisberger, Adviser.


Carolin Benack
“Haunted by the Other Life: Choice and Subjectivity in U.S. Economics and Fiction, 1870-1920.”
English
Priscilla Wald, Adviser.


Amanda Khalia Stone Bennett
“Developing a Vocabulary of Feeling: The Spirituality of Black Feminist Self-Repair.”
Graduate Program in Literature
Markos Hadjioannou and Joseph Winters, Advisers.


Karlee Anna Bergendorff
“Diplomatic Gifts and Cold War Strategies: The Role of North Korea’s Overseas Art Studios in Egyptian Memorial Culture.”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Kristine Stiles, Adviser.


Luca Bertuzzi
“Unintended Consequences of Reimbursement Schemes in Health Care.”
Economics
Allan Collard-Wexler, Adviser.


Cody Black
“Analog Optimism: Voice, Digitalized Life, and the Aural Labor of Becoming in South Korea.”
Music
Louise Meintjes, Adviser.


Ashley Marie Blawas
“A Multi-Modal Approach for Investigating the Physiological Responses to Breath-Holding in Diving Mammals.”
Marine Science and Conservation
Douglas Nowacek, Adviser.


Shree Bose
“Investigating the Metabolic Reprogramming of Ovarian Cancer.”
Molecular Cancer Biology
Christopher Kontos, Adviser.


Curtis Glenn Bram
“The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime.”
Political Science
Christopher Johnston, Adviser.


William Erickson Bridges
“Rereading Lucretius: The Plague of Athens and Epicurean Attachment in De Rerum Natura.”
Classical Studies
Jed Atkins, Adviser.


Natasha Caterina Brigham-Stinson
“Extended, Localized, and Tailorable Delivery of Therapeutics From Poly(ester urea) Systems.”
Chemistry
Matthew Becker, Adviser.


Jordan Grey Bryan
“Advanced Topics in Introductory Statistics.”
Statistical Science
Peter Hoff, Adviser.


Morgan Alexandra Burt
“A Stem Cell-Based Strategy for Modeling Human Kidney Disease and Discovering Novel Therapeutics.”
Biomedical Engineering
Samira Musah, Adviser.


William Anthony Butler
“Glycans and Glycoconjugates as Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets for Therapy-Resistant Prostate Cancer.”
Pathology
Jiaoti Huang, Adviser.


Jovita Kokwesiga Byemerwa
“Elucidation of the Role(s) of Estrogens in Regulating Natural Killer Cell Biology in Breast Cancer Metastasis.”
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Donald McDonnell, Adviser.


Joanna Xianzhen Campbell
“Insights Into the Role of Copper and Zinc on the Uptake and Antifungal Activity of the Salivary Peptide Histatin-5.”
Chemistry
Katherine Franz, Adviser.


Christopher Brian Cannella
“Stochastic Latent Domain Approaches to the Recovery and Prediction of High Dimensional Missing Data.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vahid Tarokh, Adviser.


Cristina Carnemolla
“South as a Method: From the “Southern Question” to the “Southern Thoughts”.”
Romance Studies
Roberto Dainotto and Walter Mignolo, Adviser.


Jessica Marie Centers
“Applied Millimeter Wave Radar Vibrometry.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jeffrey Krolik, Adviser.


Derek Yu Xuan Chan
“A 3-D Multiparametric Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging System for Targeted Prostate Biopsy Guidance.”
Biomedical Engineering
Kathryn Nightingale, Adviser.


Minjun Chang
“Information Design in Controlling Epidemics.”
Business Administration
Peng Sun and Ali Makhdoumi, Advisers.


Camille Chanod
“The Sound and the Flurry of 1970s French and Italian Cinema.”
Romance Studies
Anne Garreta and Roberto Dainotto, Advisers.


Steven Paul Chavez, Sr.
“Characterization and Modeling of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions toward the Improvement of Rainfall Estimation in High Mountains.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ana Barros, Adviser.


Erika Marie Chelales
“Injectable Ablation Technique for Cancer Treatment Across Clinical Settings.”
Biomedical Engineering
Nimmi Ramanujam, Adviser.


Zhi Chen
“Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning System via Model Interpretability.”
Computer Science
Cynthia Rudin, Adviser.


Ziang Chen
“Mathematical Analysis of High-Dimensional Algorithms and Models.”
Mathematics
Jianfeng Lu, Adviser.


Mark Jia Yan Chen
“Damage Detection and Sensor Placement Strategies for Structures under Frequency-Domain Dynamics.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Wilkins Aquino, Adviser.


Jieun Cho
“Anxious Care: Radioactive Uncertainty and the Politics of Life in Post-Nuclear Japan.”
Cultural Anthropology
Anne Allison, Adviser.


James Koya Chu
“Nobilette, for Orchestra, Rouge, for Chamber Ensemble and Electronics, and "On Simplicity in Music".”
Music
John Supko, Adviser.


Erin Elizabeth Conley
“The Low-Energy Charged-Current Electron Neutrino Cross Section on Argon at the Spallation Neutron Source.”
Physics
Kate Scholberg, Adviser.


Devin James Cornell
“Social Cohesion in the Fat Liberation Community on Twitter.”
Sociology
Christopher Bail, Adviser.


Daniel Sam Costa
“Ribosomal Biogenesis and Endomembrane Expansion Precede Cell Invasion.”
Cell Biology
David Sherwood, Adviser.


Vanessa Karen Cupil-Garcia
“Plasmonic Nanoplatforms and Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for in vivo Sensing: From Plants to Animals.”
Chemistry
Tuan Vo-Dinh, Adviser.


Michael Patrick D'Addario
“Crisis: Masculinity and an Ethic of Care in American Literature.”
English
Thomas Ferraro and Marianna Torgovnick, Advisers.


Brooke R. D'Arcy
“Characterization of Basal Endfeet Reveals Roles for Local Gene Regulation in Radial Glia and Cortical Development.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Debra Silver, Adviser.


Lifu Deng
“Age-related Differences in the Neural Mechanisms of Episodic Memory: Representational and Network Analyses.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Roberto Cabeza, Adviser.


Hannah Rose Devens
“Genetic and Environmental Mechanisms Affecting Gene Expression in the Evolution and Development of Two Heliocidaris Sea Urchin Species.”
Biology
Gregory Wray, Adviser.


Zoie Taylor Diana
“Multisector Mitigation of Plastic Pollution: Approaches From Biology, Policy, Law and Industry.”
Marine Science and Conservation
Daniel Rittschof, Adviser.


Anna Maria Diané
“Digital Health for Diabetes Self-Management Among Black Men: Barriers, Facilitators, and User Preferences.”
Nursing
Ryan Shaw, Adviser.


Paul Benjamin Diegert
“Essays in Labor Economics.”
Economics
Arnaud Maurel and V. Joseph Hotz, Advisers.


Jason Phanliem Dinh
“Tradeoffs and Benefits of Extreme Animal Weapons in Snapping Shrimp (Alpheus spp.).”
Biology
Sheila Patek, Adviser.


Dylan Scott Eiger
“Mechanisms of Biased Signaling at the Chemokine Receptor CXCR3.”
Biochemistry
Sudarshan Rajagopal, Adviser.


Chao Fang
“Improving Scalability of Trapped-Ion Quantum Computers Using Gate-Level Techniques.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jungsang Kim, Adviser.


Leonard Faul
“Examining Multiple Routes to Emotional Memory Bias.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Kevin LaBar and Felipe De Brigard, Advisers.


Luke Franklin Fesko
“Essays in Public Economics.”
Economics
Erica Field and Christopher Timmins, Advisers.


Julien Eli Fischer
“The Lure of Origins: Sexology and the Trans Autobiographical Mandate.”
Graduate Program in Literature
Robyn Wiegman, Adviser.


Craig Joseph Fratrik
“Essays on Monetary Theory.”
Economics
Attila Ambrus, Adviser.


Michael Abraham Freeman
“The Hands That Write: Life and Training of Greco-Roman Scribes.”
Classical Studies
William A. Johnson, Adviser.


Graden Zane Lambert Froese
“Paraecology for Community Bushmeat Hunting Monitoring, Modelling, and Management.”
Environment
John Poulsen, Adviser.


Hao Fu
“On Impact of Network Architecture for Deep Learning.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yiran Chen, Adviser.


Eva Gjorgieva
“Interactions between Attention and Memory.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Marty Woldorff and Roberto Cabeza, Advisers.


Victoria Z. Goldenshtein
“GRIP Display: A One-Pot Library Display Platform for the Directed Evolution of Proteins.”
Biomedical Engineering
Michael Tadross, Adviser.


Trevor John Gonzalez
“Cross-Species Evolution of New AAV Variants.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Aravind Asokan, Adviser.


Mikella Alexis Green
“Integrating Psychology and Neuroscience Approaches to Optimize Physical Activity Behavior Change.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Gregory Samanez-Larkin, Adviser.


Jessica Lynn Gronniger
“Microbiome-centered Approaches to Marine Disturbance Ecology.”
Marine Science and Conservation
Dana Hunt, Adviser.


Miao Gu
“Automorphic-twisted Summation Formulae for Pairs of Quadratic Spaces.”
Mathematics
Jayce Getz, Adviser.


Yuan Guo
“Customer Choice Models in Emerging Retail Markets.”
Business Administration
Fernando Bernstein, Adviser.


Holly Noelle Haver
“Investigating the Protein Quality Control Pathways that Prevent Protein Aggregation in the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Matthew Scaglione, Adviser.


Dulcemaria Hernandez
“Proximal and Distal Cell Autonomous Immune Responses to Intracellular Pathogens.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Jörn Coers, Adviser.


Sven Hirsch
“Intermediate Curvature, Spacetime Harmonic Functions and the Monotonicity of the Hawking Energy.”
Mathematics
Hubert Bray, Adviser.


Lukas Hoffman
“Faithful Form: on Religion and Politics in German Modernist Lyric.”
Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies
Gabriel Trop, Adviser.


Abigail Hsiung
“Motivational States Shape the Process of Information Seeking.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
R. Alison Adcock and Scott Huettel, Advisers.


Jiyao Hu
“Characterizing and Detecting Physical Layer Issues in Cable Broadband Networks.”
Computer Science
Xiaowei Yang, Adviser.


Jingzhen Hu
“Designing Quantum Channels Induced by Diagonal Gates.”
Mathematics
Robert Calderbank, Adviser.


Rui Huang
“ZFP36L2 in Development and Adulthood: A Critical Regulator of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Homeostasis.”
Biochemistry
Perry Blackshear, Adviser.


Shilin Huang
“Fault-Tolerant Quantum Measurement of Error Syndromes and Logical Operators.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kenneth Brown, Adviser.


Christopher Richard Huebner
“Out of Time: Alternative Temporalities from Victorian Literature.”
English
Kathy Psommiades, Adviser.


Kelly Hunter
“The Political Economy of Gender in Global Health: How International Actors Shape Women’s Outcomes.”
Public Policy and Political Science
Sarah Bermeo and Livia Schubiger, Advisers.


Kelly Huynh
“Discovery and Characterization of Novel Thanatin Orthologs Against Escherichia coli LptA and Pseudomonas aeruginosa LptH.”
Biochemistry
Bruce Donald, Adviser.


Dmitry Isaev
“Use of Machine Learning and Computer Vision Methods for Building Behavioral and Electrophysiological Biomarkers for Brain Disorders.”
Biomedical Engineering
Guillermo Sapiro, Adviser.


Alan Jacob Jaske
“Dynamic Models of Innovation and Learning.”
Economics
Attila Ambrus, Adviser.


Felix Qiaochu Jin
“Deep Learning Based Uncertainty Quantification for Improving Clinical Diagnostic Tools.”
Biomedical Engineering
Mark Palmeri, Adviser.


Shuyang Jin
“Context-Dependent Modulation of Cerebellar Climbing Fiber Activity Enables Flexible Teaching Signals to Guide Behavior.”
Neurobiology
Court Hull, Adviser.


Bora Jin
“Advances in Bayesian Hierarchical Models Motivated by Environmental Applications.”
Statistical Science
Amy Herring, Adviser.


Aaron Douglas Jones
“Extending the Weighted Generalized Score Statistic for Comparison of Correlated Means.”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Andrzej Kosinski, Adviser.


Patrick Kennedy Juras
“The Role of CaMKK2 in Natural Killer Cell Anti-Tumor Immunity.”
Molecular Cancer Biology
Donald McDonnell and Kris Wood, Advisers.


Quran Mikal Karriem
“From Error to Event: Decision in the Age of Generative Aesthetics.”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Mark Hansen and Thomas DeFrantz, Advisers.


Rachel Runya Katz
“Tunable Poly(ethylene glycol)-based Hydrogels for Reductionist Models of the Tumor Microenvironment.”
Biomedical Engineering
Jennifer L. West and Joel Collier, Advisers.


Wesley Yoo Kendall
“Novel Low Coherence Interferometric Tools for Early Detection of Cancer.”
Biomedical Engineering
Adam Wax, Adviser.


Amir Khazraei
“Vulnerability Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Miroslav Pajic, Adviser.


Yonggyun Kim
“Essays on Information and Dynamic Incentives.”
Economics
Curtis Taylor and Fei Li, Advisers.


Dongyoung Kim
“Essays on Economics of Man-Made Disasters.”
Economics
Duncan Thomas, Adviser.


Yongshin Kim
“Vacuum Deposition, Characterization and Property Engineering of Cu₂BaGe₁₋xSnxSe4 Films and Their PV Applications.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
David Mitzi, Adviser.


Taylor Rae Klein
“Photochemical 3D Printing of Prototype Medical Devices from Poly(Propylene Fumarate)-Based Copolyesters.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Matthew Becker, Adviser.


La'Kita M.J. Knight
“Stroke and Neurodevelopmental Delays in Sickle Cell Disease.”
Nursing
Paula Tanabe and Nancy Crego, Advisers.


Arvind Konkimalla
“Cellular Ensembles in Alveolar Homeostasis and Repair.”
Cell Biology
Purushothama Rao Tata, Adviser.


Paula Dianne Koppel
“Nurse-Patient Rapport During Videoconferencing Visits in Oncology Ambulatory Care.”
Nursing
Jennie De Gagne and Sharron Docherty, Advisers.


Arvind R. Krishnamurthy
“The Democratic Deficit in American Policing.”
Political Science
John Aldrich, Adviser.


Anna Marie Kudla
“Development and Evolution of the Membracid Pronotum.”
Biology
H. Frederik Nijhout, Adviser.


Cat Phuoc Le
“Task Affinity and its Applications in Machine Learning.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vahid Tarokh, Adviser.


Riley Jackson League
“Administrative Burdens in the US Health Care Sector.”
Economics
James Roberts and Ryan McDevitt, Advisers.


Patrick Michael LeBlanc
“Topics in Applied Statistics.”
Statistical Science
David Banks and Li Ma, Advisers.


Catherine Ji Won Lee
“Romantic Humility: Literature, Ethico-Politics, and Emotion, 1780-1820.”
English
Robert Mitchell, Adviser.


Xinyi Li
“Artificial Intelligence-Driven Planning Agents for Real-Time IMRT Plan Generation.”
Graduate Program in Medical Physics
Q. Jackie Wu and Yaorong Ge, Advisers.


Shuolin Li
“Energetics of Turbulence Explains Physical Transport Processes in the Environment.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Gabriel Katul, Adviser.


Shirley Yueling Li
“Never God-bereft: Allegory and Agency in Late Medieval Literature.”
English
David Aers, Adviser.


Xiaoqing Li
“New Approaches to Boost SABRE Signals.”
Physics
Warren Warren, Adviser.


Qingzhong Liang
“Mitigating Coherent Noise.”
Mathematics
Robert Calderbank, Adviser.


Zibu Liu
“Pseudo-differential Operators, Online PCA Flows and the Linear Response Theory.”
Mathematics
Jian-Guo Liu, Adviser.


Siqi Liu
“Context-Specific Adjustments of Cognitive Flexibility.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Tobias Egner, Adviser.


Omar Magaña Lopez
“Dissecting Mechanisms of Transformation Following Loss of p53 and RB.”
Molecular Cancer Biology
David Kirsch, Adviser.


Dongye Lu
“General Anesthesia Activates an Anxiolytic Neuronal Group in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis.”
Neurobiology
Fan Wang, Adviser.


Bianca Marie Lupan
“The Exon-junction Complex Component EIF4A3 is Essential for Mouse and Human Cortical Progenitor Mitosis and Neurogenesis.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Debra Silver, Adviser.


Farrah Lynn Madanay
“Examining How Patients Judge Their Physicians in Online Physician Reviews.”
Public Policy
Peter Ubel, Adviser.


Swarnadeep Majumder
“Characterizing and Mitigating Errors in Quantum Computers.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kenneth Brown, Adviser.


Francesco Antonio Mastrocinque
“Engineering Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Assemblies for Chiro-Optic Applications.”
Chemistry
Michael Therien, Adviser.


Kara Elaine McCormack
“Exposomic Modeling Approaches for Social and Environmental Determinants of Health.”
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Terry Hyslop and David Page, Advisers.


Andrew McCormack
“Geometric Methods for Point Estimation.”
Statistical Science
Peter Hoff, Adviser.


Zachery Eugen Mielko
“K-mer Based Methods for Measuring and Predicting DNA-Binding Specificity of Transcription Factors.”
Genetics and Genomics
Raluca Gordân, Adviser.


David H Min
“Essays in Currency Markets.”
Economics
Craig A. Burnside, Adviser.


Chindu Mohanakumar
“DGA Maps Induced by Decomposable Fillings with Z-coefficients.”
Mathematics
Lenhard Ng, Adviser.


Danielle Elyse Montagne
“Three Papers on the Moral Perceptions of Scientific Misconduct.”
Sociology
Kieran Healy, Adviser.


Amnazo Muhirwa
“Stress, the Superwoman Schema, and Cardiovascular Wellbeing Among Rural and Medically Underserved African American Women.”
Nursing
Devon Noonan, Adviser.


Joanna Epling Murdoch
“Lines of Relation: Devotional Verse and Active Reading in Late Medieval English Books.”
English
Sarah Beckwith and Julianne Werlin, Advisers.


Eric David Musselman
“Development and Validation of Software for Modeling Vagus Nerve Stimulation across Species.”
Biomedical Engineering
Warren Grill, Adviser.


Mazen Nakad
“Sucrose Transport in Osmotically Driven Laminar Flow: Going From Slender Tubes to Plant Phloem.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Gabriel Katul, Adviser.


Koffi Amegbo Nomedji
“Configuring Local Resilience to Coastal Erosion in Togo.”
Cultural Anthropology
Charles Piot, Adviser.


Ren Abelard Arriola Odion
“Development of Methods for Biomedical Diagnostics and Therapy Using Plasmonic Nanoplatforms.”
Biomedical Engineering
Tuan Vo-Dinh, Adviser.


Vittorio Dominic Orlandi
“Modeling Heterogeneity With Bayesian Additive Regression Trees.”
Statistical Science
Alexander Volfovsky, Adviser.


Jessica Lynn Orzulak
“Photography Otherwise: Denaturing Colonial Visualities in Contemporary Native American Art.”
Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Kristine Stiles, Adviser.


Harsh Jigisshbhai Parikh
“Causal Inference for High-Stakes Decisions.”
Computer Science
Cynthia Rudin and Sudeepa Roy, Advisers.


Xiuyuan Peng
“Application of Acoustic Metamaterials in Audio Systems.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Steven Cummer, Adviser.


Sarah Elizabeth Petry
“Medicaid and the Life Course: An Intersectional Mixed-Methods Approach.”
Public Policy
Donald Taylor, Adviser.


Niara Elyssa Phillips
“Investigation of 2D Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Thin Films Deposited by RIR-MAPLE for Heterostructure Integration.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Adviser.


Emily LaFrance Phillips Longley
“Weak Lensing Cosmology Analysis With Stage-III Cosmic Shear Surveys.”
Physics
Christopher Walter, Adviser.


James David Pinnington
“Essays on Shareholder Voting.”
Business Administration
Alon Brav, Adviser.


Brodie Aleksandar Popovic
“Cosmology Using Photometric Samples of Type Ia Supernovae: The First Joint Photometric Light Curve Analysis.”
Physics
Daniel Scolnic, Adviser.


Ximing Qiao
“Toward Trustworthy Machine Learning with Blackbox and Whitebox Methods.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hai Li, Adviser.


Jayasai Ram Rajagopal
“Task-informed Metrologies for Characterization and Optimization in Spectral CT.”
Graduate Program in Medical Physics
Ehsan Samei and Cristian Badea, Advisers.


Zeni Elizia Ramirez
“Exploiting Ruminococcus gnavus and Limosilactobacillus reuteri to Strengthen Host Immunity and Treat Infections.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Neeraj Surana, Adviser.


Allison G. Raven
“Separate but “Equitable”: Colorblind Progressivism and Resegregation in Austin Schools.”
History
Adriane Lentz-Smith, Adviser.


Sarah Raviola
“Essays on the Economics of Affordable Housing.”
Economics
Christopher Timmins, Adviser.


Nathan Thomas Rayens
“Characterizing and Influencing Intracellular Transport.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Christine Payne, Adviser.


Simiao Ren
“Deep Learning for the Modeling and Design of Artificial Electromagnetic Materials.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Leslie Collins, Adviser.


Lesley Cates Rink
“An Exploration of Resilience and Burnout among Healthcare Workers in the United States.”
Nursing
Tolu Oyesanya, Adviser.


Jeovanna Rose Rios
“Coordinated Two-Stage Dynamic Deregulation of Central Metabolism Improves Malonyl-CoA Biosynthesis.”
Chemistry
Michael Lynch and Katherine Franz, Advisers.


Corey Jay Roach
“Investigating the Origin and Role of Catecholamines in the Visual Cortex of the Macaque Monkey.”
Neurobiology
Anita Disney, Adviser.


Kevin A. Roberts
“Essays on Firm Behavior.”
Economics
Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, Adviser.


Laura Beth Robinson
“Mission, Jews, and Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew.”
Graduate Program in Religion
Mark Goodacre and Joel Marcus, Advisers.


Elia Romera Figueroa
“Gendering Anti-Francoism: Cantautoras in Spain (1952-1986).”
Romance Studies
Stephanie Sieburth and  José María Rodríguez García, Advisers.


Joseph Charles Roso
“Trends in the Practices and Rhetoric of Religious Organizations and Leaders in 21st Century America.”
Sociology
Mark Chaves, Adviser.


Harunobu Saijo
“Building Coercive Capacity: Three Essays.”
Political Science
Timur Kuran and Edmund Malesky, Advisers.


Hannah Salomons
“Testing the Self-Domestication Hypothesis: How Convergent are Dogs' Cooperative Communicative Abilities With Those of Humans?.”
Evolutionary Anthropology
Brian Hare, Adviser.


Austin Mayhew Sarfan
““A Subject Becomes a Heart”: The Therapeutic Style of the Heart of Darkness Novel Tradition.”
Graduate Program in Literature
Rey Chow, Adviser.


Taishi Sassano
“Essays on Constrained Information Acquisition.”
Economics
Philipp Sadowski, Adviser.


Thomas Justin Sauer
“Development and Application of High-Resolution Physiological Features of Computational Human Models for Use in Virtual Clinical Trials.”
Graduate Program in Medical Physics
Ehsan Samei and Paul Segars, Advisers.


Amelia Urquhart Schirmer
“Illuminating the Non-Canonical, Pro-Tumorigenic Role of Hippo Tumor Suppressor Kinase STK3 and its Mechanism of Action in Prostate Cancer.”
Pathology
Everardo Macias, Adviser.


Benjamin Huston Schott
“Novel Methods and Mechanisms of Human Genetic Susceptibility to Infectious Disease.”
Genetics and Genomics
Dennis Ko, Adviser.


Jihye Kim Scroggins
“Postpartum Symptom Clusters in Birthing Individuals.”
Nursing
Karin Reuter-Rice and Debra Brandon, Advisers.


Khairunnisa Mentari Semesta
“Discovering Novel G Protein-Coupled Receptor (GPCR) / Cyclic AMP (cAMP) Pathway Regulators and Their Physiological Relevance.”
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Nikoleta Tsvetanova, Adviser.


Eleanor Caldwell Semmes
“Fc-mediated Immunity in Congenital Human Cytomegalovirus Infection.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Sallie R. Permar, Adviser.


Hananiel Setiawan
“Modeling and Optimization of Individualized Liver Contrast-enhanced CT Imaging.”
Graduate Program in Medical Physics
Ehsan Samei, Adviser.


Shamatree Shakya
“Structural, Biological, and Psychosocial Determinants of Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older Adults in the US.”
Nursing
Michael Cary, Adviser.


Joshua David Shelly
“Writing a Future State: Spatial Imaginaries of German Jewish Literature, 1885-1932.”
Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies
Kata Gellen, Adviser.


Steven Hao-Cheng Shen
“IL-12 CAR T Cell Immunotherapy for Heterogeneous Brain Tumors.”
Pathology
John Sampson, Adviser.


Charles Tyler Shoemaker
“The Regulation of Effort Exertion by the Nucleus Accumbens Core.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Henry Yin, Adviser.


Alyssa Hannah Sinclair
“Pre-Learning Interventions Modulate Learning from Error.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
R. Alison Adcock and Gregory Samanez-Larkin, Advisers.


Jordan Sjol
“Cash Flows: A Media Archeology of Financial Engineering, 1958-1987.”
Graduate Program in Literature
Mark Hansen and Robyn Wiegman, Advisers.


Brittany Lee Snyder
“Functions and Specificities of Tristetraprolin (TTP) Family Members.”
Biochemistry
Perry Blackshear, Adviser.


Adam Karim Soliman
“Essays on the Economics of Drug Abuse, Criminal Activity, and Enforcement.”
Economics
Christopher Timmins, Adviser.


Ruyi Song
“Electronic Structure Based Investigations of Hybrid Perovskites and Their Nanostructures.”
Chemistry
Volker Blum, Adviser.


Gregory Paul Spell
“Deep Learning for Applications in Inverse Modeling, Legislator Analysis, and Computer Vision for Security.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Leslie Collins, Adviser.


Allison Stolte
“The Structural and Social Determinants of Intergenerational Health Inequities: How State Policy Contexts and Discrimination Shape Birth Outcomes.”
Sociology and Public Policy
Scott Lynch and M. Giovanna Merli, Advisers.


Langxuan Su
“Absolute Continuity of Singular SPDEs and Bayesian Inference on Dynamical Systems.”
Mathematics
Jonathan Mattingly and Sayan Mukherjee, Advisers.


Pei-Chun Su
“Denoise High Dimensional Dataset with Complicated Noise and its Clinical Applications.”
Mathematics
Hau-Tieng Wu, Adviser.


Sheridan Leigh-Carroll Swan
“Enhancing Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy in Mouse EGFRvIII Heterogeneous Glioblastoma.”
Biomedical Engineering
Ravi Bellamkonda, Adviser.


Chin Yee Tan
“The Host and Microbial Determinants of Activity by Commensal Clostridium immunis.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Neeraj Surana, Adviser.


Morgan Kendall Taylor
“Flipping the Narrative: Highlighting the Positive Aspects of Healthy Aging.”
Psychology and Neuroscience
Elizabeth Marsh and Gregory Samanez-Larkin, Advisers.


Luka Lila Thornton
“Machine Learning to Estimate Exposure and Effects of Emerging Chemicals and Other Consumer Product Ingredients.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Wiesner, Adviser.


Graham Tierney
“Causal Inference for Natural Language Data and Multivariate Time Series.”
Statistical Science
Alexander Volfovsky, Adviser.


Courtney Trutna Paley
“Ultrasonic Rotational 3D Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging of In vivo Skeletal Muscle.”
Biomedical Engineering
Kathryn Nightingale, Adviser.


Liann Sasha Tucker
“Adolescent Friendship Stability.”
Sociology
James Moody, Adviser.


Hwai-Ray Tung
“Two Problems in Mathematical Biology.”
Mathematics
Richard Durrett, Adviser.


Prabhava Upadrashta
“Private Equity and Product Quality in Healthcare.”
Business Administration
John Graham and David Robinson, Advisers.


Hanna Fanni Varga
“Investigations Into the Adhesion and Detachment of Dust Particles to Characterize the Reversibility of Photovoltaic Panel Soiling.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Wiesner, Adviser.


Stephen Charles Walsh
“Components of the Host-Pathogen Interface and Their Role in Chlamydial Intracellular Pathogenesis.”
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Jörn Coers, Adviser.


Shuyan Wang
“Information Transparency and Risk Sharing in Commodity Futures Markets.”
Business Administration
Qi Chen and Rahul Vashishtha, Advisers.


Roujia Wang
“Leveraging Surface Hsp90 Expression for Rapid-On-Site Breast Cancer Diagnosis.”
Biomedical Engineering
Nimmi Ramanujam, Adviser.


Zhen Wang
“Tracing Anthropogenic Metal(loid) Contaminants in the Environment Using Geochemical, Radiogenic, and Radioactive Isotopic Tools.”
Earth and Climate Sciences
Avner Vengosh, Adviser.


Zichang Wang
“Essays on Decision Theory and Information Economics.”
Economics
Todd Sarver, Adviser.


James Cyrus Wheeler
“Investigations on Black Holes, Cosmic Censorship, and Scalar Field Dark Matter Cosmology.”
Physics
Hubert Bray, Adviser.


Andrew Edward Whiteley
“The Circuitous Journey of Cancer Cells to the Leptomeninges.”
Molecular Cancer Biology
Dorothy Simpkins, Adviser.


Zachary Xavier William Widel
“Modulating the Dynamics of Charged and Photoexcited-States in Nanoscale Systems.”
Chemistry
Michael Therien, Adviser.


Blair Kristene Anderson Willette
“Getting Up Close and Personal: What Makes an Endosome Special in GPCR Signaling.”
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Nikoleta Tsvetanova, Adviser.


Jillian Hope Wisse
“Steroid Hormone Variation and Stress Responses in Short-finned Pilot Whales.”
Ecology
Douglas Nowacek, Adviser.


Thomas Wolff
“Three Papers on Peer Sanctioning, its Evaluation, and its Justification.”
Sociology
James Moody, Adviser.


Chenwei Wu
“Theoretical Understanding of Neural Network Optimization Landscape and Self-Supervised Representation Learning.”
Computer Science
Rong Ge, Adviser.


Suya Wu
“Score-based Approach to Analysis of Unnormalized Models and Applications.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vahid Tarokh, Adviser.


Yezi Xiang
“Translation Regulation During Pattern-Triggered Immunity.”
Biology
Xinnian Dong, Adviser.


Heng Xu
“The Roles of Capping Agents and Defects in the Anisotropic Growth of Ag Nanocrystals.”
Chemistry
Benjamin Wiley, Adviser.


Yuewei Yang
“From Labeled to Unlabeled Data: Understand Deep Visual Representations Under Causal Lens.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yiran Chen, Adviser.


Zhenyu Yang
“Explainable Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Medical Imaging Analysis.”
Graduate Program in Medical Physics
Fang-Fang Yin, Adviser.


Sophie H. Yu
“Matching in Networks: Fundamental Limits and Efficient Algorithms.”
Business Administration
Jiaming Xu and Yehua Wei, Advisers.


Shuzhi Yu
“Video Motion Analysis With Limited Labeled Training Data.”
Computer Science
Carlo Tomasi, Adviser.


Zeyu Zhang
“CBCT Image Enhancement for Improving Accuracy of Radiomics Analysis and Soft Tissue Target Localization.”
Graduate Program in Medical Physics
Fang-Fang Yin and Lei Ren, Advisers.


Jingchi Zhang
“Software-Hardware Co-design for Deep Learning Model Acceleration.”
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hai Li, Adviser.


Yicheng Zhao
“Acoustic Resonators With Integrated Microfluidic Channels for Ultra-High Q-Factor: A New Paradigm for In-Liquid Gravimetric Detection.”
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Stefan Zauscher, Adviser.


Lingrui Zhou
“Essays on How Consumers Respond to Positive Brand-to-Brand Interactions.”
Business Administration
Keisha Cutright and Tanya Chartrand, Advisers.


Mo Zhou
“Deep Learning Method for Partial Differential Equations and Optimal Problems.”
Mathematics
Jianfeng Lu, Adviser.


Siyuan Zhu
“Optimizing Adsorption Energies of Reaction Products and Intermediates on Metal/Metal Oxide Catalysts to Achieve High Activity and Tunable Selectivity in Solid-Gas Phase Reactions.”
Chemistry
Jie Liu, Adviser.


Yichen Zhu
“Some Advances in Nonparametric Statistics.”
Statistical Science
David Dunson, Adviser.


Erin Leigh Zoutendam
“Word and Presence: The Role of Scripture in the Formation and Reformation of Mystical Theology, 1200–1580.”
Graduate Program in Religion
G. Sujin Pak and J. Warren Smith, Advisers.