DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED
Communications
de Nadal Alsina, Lluis. Lenin hiding behind an empty signifier: The making of a left-wing populist party in the digital age. Sponsor: Todd Gitlin.
Computer Science
Ball, Maynard. On resilience to computational tampering. Sponsor: Tal Malkin.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Gruenburg, Laura. Indonesian throughflow heat transport, and spreading within the eastern tropical Indian Ocean. Sponsor: Arnold Gordon.
Russell, Joshua. Structure and evolution of the oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere system from high-resolution surface-wave imaging. Sponsor: James Gaherty.
Electrical Engineering
Kim, Sung. Integrated and distributed digital low-drop-out regulators with event-driven controls and side-channel attack resistance. Sponsor: Mingoo Seok.
History
Hidalgo Garza, Sara. The small universe of social protection: Labor, underemployment and assistance in Mexico's welfare state, 1917-1970. Sponsor: Pablo Piccato.
Mechanical Engineering
Kim, Bumho. Synthesis and characterization of high-quality transition metal dichalcogenides. Sponsors: James Hone and Katayun Barmak Vaziri.
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Ziai, Hengameh. Ploughing for the hereafter: Debt, time and Mahdist resistance in Sudan, 1821-1935. Sponsor: Timothy Mitchell.
Nutritional and Metabolic Biology
Agrawal, Rishi. Neurometabolic alterations after traumatic brain injury: Links to mitochondria-associated ER membranes and Alzheimer's disease. Sponsor: Estela Area-Gomez.
Urban Planning
Park, Jung. Cost overruns and schedule delays of major projects. Sponsor: Lance Freeman.
DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED
Biomedical Engineering
Swanberg, Kelley. Optimization of sensitivity to disease-associated cortical metabolic abnormality by evidence-based quantification of in vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy data from 3 T and 7 T.
Biomedical Informatics
Kang, Tian. Neural-symbolic approaches for delivering medical evidence from literature to practice.
Rogers, James. Using real-world data to enhance clinical trials.
Computer Science
Yang, Zixiaofan. Identifying speaker state from multimodal cues.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Stubblefield, Aaron. Dynamics of glacial lakes and channels.
Italian
Wyatt, Andrew. Conflicts of imagination: Literary geographies in the northern Adriatic.
Political Science
Gomez-Espinal, Jose. Essays on Latinx early political socialization and electoral engagement.