DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Revells, Tristan. Mobilizing microbes: The path to China's first renewable energy industry. Sponsor: Madeleine Zelin.
Physics
Zeng, Yihang. Study of two-dimensional correlated quantum fluid in multi-layer graphene system. Sponsor: Cory Dean.
Social Work
Spencer-Suarez, Kimberly. Reintegration in the red: Navigating child support arrears after prison. Sponsor: Craig Schwalbe.
Statistics
Li, Tong. On the construction of minimax optimal nonparametric tests with kernel embedding methods. Sponsor: Ming Yuan.
TC / Applied Anthropology
Colburn, Shana. Youth web radio: Our story (a dissertation poem). Sponsor: Myron Cohen.
Kuganathan, Prashanth. Learning, language, and life: War, migration, and cultural transformation at the juncture of English speech practices in northern Sri Lanka. Sponsor: E. Valentine Daniel.
TC / Behavioral Nutrition
Cadenhead, Jennifer. Evaluating eating patterns and the relationship of diet quality and level of processing to quality of life among adults and teenagers with Celiac. Sponsor: Randi Wolf.
TC / Clinical Psychology
Anderson, Micheline. Enhancing spiritual awareness among undergraduate students: Improving physiological reactivity to and recovery from everyday stressors. Sponsor: Lisa J. Miller.
TC / Cognitive Science in Education
Fusella, Paul. Structural priming and the mental representation of agentive and temporal by-phrase constructions: An eye-tracking study. Sponsor: Peter Gordon.
TC / Economics and Education
Zander, Sabine. Three essays in the economics of education: Equal changes for all? Social inequalities in the German education system. Sponsor: Judith Scott-Clayton.
TC / English Education
Novack, Richard. Rambling and wobbling in English: Ecocriticism in outdoor classrooms. Sponsor: Sheridan Blau.
DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED
Biomedical Engineering
Liu, Xueqing. Deep learning for fusing simultaneously acquired EEG-fMRI.
Computer Science
Repetti, Thomas. Designing, implementing and programming a massively multithreaded general purpose spatial accelerator architecture.
Computer Science
Sinha, Sandip. Trace reconstruction and its generalization in various settings.
Tian, Yuchi. Detect and repair bugs/errors in DNN-based software.
Vlatakis Gkaragkounis, Emmanouil. The role of noise in optimization, game theory, and machine learning.
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Borgonjon, David. Nanyang media and the cultural politics of economic nationalism.
Foster, Emily. Unfinished forms: The 19th century novel, interrupted.
Penman-Lomeli, Andrea. Debt and the manufacture of consent in Latinx immigration literature.