DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED
Applied Mathematics
Martin, Zane. The interaction of the Madden-Julian oscillation and the quasi-biennial oscillation in a hierarchy of models. Sponsor: Adam Sobel.
Applied Physics
Chen, Shaowen. Transport measurements of correlated states in Graphene flat band. Sponsor: Cory Dean.
Biomedical Engineering
Mosher, Christopher. Interface scaffold design principles for integrative cartilage regeneration. Sponsor: Helen Lu.
Tu, Tao. Machine learning methods for fusion and inference of simultaneous EEG and fMRI. Sponsor: Paul Sajda.
Biomedical Informatics
Averitt, Amelia. Machine learning methods for casual inference with observational data. Sponsor: Adler Perotte.
Chemical Engineering
Dou, Yong. Colloidal robotics: Autonomous propulsion and navigation of active particles. Sponsor: Sanat Kumar.
Chemistry
Ravetz, Benjamin. Harnessing photophysical processes to improve photoredox catalysis. Sponsor: Tomislav Rovis.
Xiong, Hanqing. Stimulated Raman excited fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy. Sponsor: Wei Min.
Yablon, Lauren. Controlling singlet fission in pendent acene polymers. Sponsor: Luis Campos.
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Alrassy, Patrick. Map data integration technique with large-scale fleet telematics data as road-safety surrogate measures in the New York metropolitan area. Sponsor: Andrew Smyth.
Classics
Combatti, Maria. Somatic landscapes: Affects, percepts, and materialities in Euripides' select tragedies. Sponsor: Nancy Worman.
Electrical Engineering
Arnold, Todd. Understanding cloud network performance. Sponsor: Ethan Katz-Bassett.
Gutterman, Craig. Learning for wireless and optical network control. Sponsor: Gil Zussman.
Genetics and Development
van Soldt, Benjamin. Proximal-distal patterning of the lung: Molecular determinants in lung development and evolution. Sponsor: Wellington Cardoso.
History
Sarwate, Rahul. Reimagining the modern Hindu self: Caste, untouchability and Hindu theology in colonial South Asia, 1899-1948. Sponsor: Manan Ahmed.
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Quintero Mächler, Alejandro. Bleeding nations: Blood discourses and the interpretation of violence in mid-nineteenth century Spanish America (1838-1870). Sponsor: Graciela Montaldo.
Mathematics
Kravets, Oleksandr. Homotopy coherent actions on A-infinity categories. Sponsor: Mohammed Abouzaid.
Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection
Berger, Julian. Bone and the physiology of danger. Sponsor: Gerard Karsenty.
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Shmookler, Max. The maqama before the Levantine Nahda and beyond the novel, 1770's-1850's. Sponsor: Gil Anidjar.
Music
García Molina, Andrés. Aural economies and precarious labor: Street-vendor songs in Cuba. Sponsor: Aaron Fox.
Neurobiology and Behavior
Birdsall, Veronica. Neuronal activity enhances the axonal motility of ESCRT-0 endosomes to facilitate synaptic vesicle protein turnover. Sponsor: Clarissa Waites.
Physics
Tu, Xiao. Measurement of long-range correlations in small systems with ATLAS detector. Sponsor: Brian Cole.
Political Science
Soboleva, Irina. Efficacy, openness, ingenuousness: Micro-foundations of democratic engagement. Sponsor: Donald Green.
Social Work
Kim, Soohyun. The effects of paid leave policies on work and elder care. Sponsor: Jane Waldfogel.
Sociology
Brown, Bailey. Kinder panic: Parent decision-making, school choice, and neighborhood life. Sponsor: Thomas DiPrete.
Statistics
Fang, Guanhua. Latent variable models in educational assessment: Theory and application. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying.
Ling, Hok Kan. Statistical analysis of complex data in survival and event history analysis. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying.
TC / Anthropology and Education
Burnside, Bruce. Inclusive national belonging - Intercultural performances in the "World-Open" Germany. Sponsor: Katherine Ewing.
TC / Cognitive Science in Education
Mao, Yaoli. Making the implicit explicit: The effects of summarizing knowledge on behavior in repeated decisions from experience. Sponsor: James Corter.
TC / Economics and Education
Allende Santa Cruz, Claudia. Essays in the industrial organization of education markets. Sponsor: Peter Bergman.
Wen, Qiao. Three essays on the college expansion in China. Sponsor: Judith Scott-Clayton.
TC / English Education
Aboali, Nora. A banned identity: Interviews with Muslim urban high school students. Sponsor: Janet Miller.
TC / School Psychology
Kangas Dick, Kayleigh. Elevated attention problems and observed parenting in a sample of preschoolers with ASD. Sponsor: Marla Brassard.
TC / Science Education
Parker, Jamie. The use of battle rap as a way to engage students in STEM. Sponsor: Christopher Emdin.
TC / Teaching of Social Studies
Kim, Yeji. Troubling and re-imagining citizenship: Narrative inquiries into immigrant teachers’ positionalities and citizenship education. Sponsor: Sandra Schmidt.
DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED
Anthropology
Liberatore, Benjamin. 'World without end': Imagining national continuity, loss, and break in the voices of England's choristers.
Tynes, Brendane. "I can't die. I won't.": Fear and the reimagination of the (after) lives of Black women and girls.
Applied Mathematics
Huang, Kuang. Traffic flow modeling in a nonlocal world.
Applied Physics
Tao, Songsheng. Solving nano-structures on the surface using x-ray pair distribution function.
Business
Phan, Minh. Consumer response to reduced processing costs: Evidence from truth in lending laws.
Chemical Engineering
Maeng, Do Young. Hydrolysis reactions of man-made esters on indoor surfaces.
Vainstein, Salomon. Engineering protein activity with non-canonical cofactors.
Willett, Emma. Membrane-less ATP regeneration enzyme cascade using a reversible NAD kinase and NADH oxidation.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Oryan, Bar. Deviation from the standard subduction earthquake cycle model and its effect on upper plate deformation.
Zhou, Yuxin. Episodic deposition and glacial instability during the last glacial cycle in the North Atlantic.
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Bruner, Sarah. Biodiversity and stability of ecosystem functioning: The portfolio effect in forests.
Economics
Koh, Paul. Essays on game theory and econometrics.
Romero Fonseca, Dario Alberto. Trade & innovation: The effect of TNO trade shocks on early textile innovation in Spain.
Rosenkranz, David. Essays on the economics of health care markets.
Sung, Yeji. Macroeconomic applications of a limited human memory.
History
Hawk, Emily. American concert dance at midcentury: Processes and products of embodied thought, 1964-1976.
Jakubczak-Gabay, Aleksandra. "Protecting the Jewish daughters:" Sex work, mobility, and belonging between the 1870s and 1939.
Shah, Rohan. A world to win: Contested visions of globalization during the 1970s US economic crisis.
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Blanco, Elvira. Imaginaries of the common in contemporary Venezuela.
Mechanical Engineering
Chang, Biing-Chwen. Study of stairmill ascent with tethered pelvis assist device.
Conlon, Terence. The effects of latent demand on electricity system planning.
Fobi Nsutezo, Sally Simone. The impact of residential electricity demand prediction & uncertainty in demand prediction models on electricity access planning.
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Radwan, Basma. The politics of eating well.
Political Science
Feldman, Nathan. A liberal science: The Chicago style and the formation of contemporary American political science.
Paci, Simone. Civilization at a discount tax compliance, state capacity, and the political economy of redistribution.
Slavic Languages
Wilson, Elaine. Communist exodus: A Jewish reading of time in the shape and substance of early Soviet Russian and Yiddish narratives.