DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED
Biomedical Engineering
Yuan, Jiayao. Dynamic modeling and system ID of the respiratory system. Sponsor: Nicolas Chbat.
Chemical Engineering
Song, Ruobing. Spot-beam annealing of thin silicon films on silicon dioxide. Sponsor: James Im.
Computer Science
Yuan, Jie. Beyond summary statistics: Extracting etiological insights from genome-wide association cohorts. Sponsor: David Knowles.
Zareian, Alireza. Learning structured representations for understanding visual and multimedia data. Sponsor: Shih-Fu Chang.
Earth and Environmental Engineering
Atia, Adam. Technical and economic modeling for sustainable desalination: Renewable-powered, adaptive reverse osmosis desalination with load flexibility and pathways to zero liquid discharge. Sponsor: Vasilis Fthenakis.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Boghosian, Alexandra. Ice shelf stability: New insights into rivers and estuaries using remote sensing and advanced visualization. Sponsor: Robin Bell.
Tian, Xiaochuan. Structural and climatic effects of large-scale basaltic magmatism: Constraints and insights from geodynamic models. Sponsor: W. Buck.
Economics
Weiner, Scott. Essays on development economics. Sponsors: Suresh Naidu and Eric Verhoogen.
Electrical Engineering
McLean, James. Multidimensional data processing for optical coherence tomography imaging. Sponsor: Christine Hendon.
English and Comparative Literature
Glovinsky, Will. Unfeeling empire: The realist novel in imperial Britain. Sponsor: Nicholas Dames.
Mechanical Engineering
Chen, Tianjian. On the interplay between mechanical and computational intelligence in robot hands. Sponsor: Matei Ciocarlie.
Haas-Heger, Maximilian. Grasp stability analysis with passive reactions. Sponsor: Matei Ciocarlie.
Physics
Zhang, Yun. The cryogenic infrastructure of the XENON1T dark matter experiment: From design to performance during the one ton-year WIMP search. Sponsor: Elena Aprile.
DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED
Biomedical Engineering
Thakoor, Kaveri. Robust and interpretable deep learning systems for detection of ophthalmic disease.
Computer Science
Bernstein, Ryan. Semantic transformations of probabilistic programs.
Mechanical Engineering
Hidayah, Rand. Modular exoskeleton architectures for assistance of functional rehabilitative movements.
Music
Shahmehri, Demetrius. Romanticism's children: Childhood and role-play from Schumann to Final Fantasy VII.
Philosophy
Branscum, Olivia. Recovering matter's 'most noble attribute': Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, and neutral monist solutions to the mind-body problem.
Political Science
LaBelle, James. Democracy in redistricting and gerrymandering: A critical analysis.