2015-2016 doctoral degrees awarded
Fall 2015 total: 45
Spring 2016 total: 82
Summer 2016 total: 67
| Semester | Year | School | Department | Last Name | First Name | Degree | Major | Supervising Professor | Dissertation Title | Outside Chair |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Bland | Marilyn | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Charles Hatfield/Michael L. Wilson | Jan F. E. Celliers and Afrikaans: The Evolution of a New Language and Culture Explored Through Translation | Tomislav V. Kovandzic | |
| Fall | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Burnett | Lora Dawn | PhD | History of Ideas | Daniel B. Wickberg | Canon Wars: The Standford “Western Culture” Debates and the Neoliberal Assault on American Higher Education | John J. Wiorkowski | |
| Fall | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Culver | Jennifer Lynn | PhD | Studies in Literature | John C. Gooch/Thomas Riccio | No Longer Only in the Woods Rhetoric and Ritualized Structure in Fairy Tales | Xin Li | |
| Fall | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Keeth | Sara Louise | PhD | Studies in Literature | Jessica C. Murphy | Crowning: Maternity as Agency, Language, and Legitimacy in Shakespeare’s English History Plays | Sven Kroener | |
| Fall | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Rosen | Michele Felice | PhD | Humanities | Ranier Schute/Frank O. Dufour | Translation in the Digital Age: Reconstructing Montaigne’s ‘DU Repentir’ | Nina Baranchuk | |
| Fall | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Savant | Carroll Clayton | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Pamela Gossin | The Harmony of the Homeland Mapping the Soundscapes of Victorian England in the Novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and George Gissing | Denise Paquette Boots | |
| Fall | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Tinnen | Lupita Murillo | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Marilyn A. Waligore | Representations of Latin American Immigrant Laborers: Documentary in the Digital Age | Randy Paul Battaglio, Jr. | |
| Fall | 2015 | Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication | Ounekeo | Phonesury Lily | PhD | Monica Evans/R. Clay Reynolds | Evolving Elements of Fiction in Digital Game Stories: Games as Literary Entities | Donald A. Hicks | ||
| Fall | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | DeLaRosa | Bambi Lynn | PhD | John Hart, Jr. | Electrophysiological Dynamics During Visual Threat Processing in Combat-Related Post-Tramatic Stress Disorder | John H.L. Hansen | |
| Fall | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Sundarrajan | Madhu | PhD | Emily Tobey | Consonant Production Abilities of Children with Cochlear Implants | Rosanna Guadagno | |
| Fall | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Psychological Sciences | Peredo | Tatiana Nogueira | PhD | Margaret Tresch Owen | Verbal Ability, Bilingualism, and Executive Function Skills in Hispanic Preschoolers | John Wiorkowski | |
| Fall | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Political Science | Kirby | Barbara E. | PhD | Anthony M. Champagne | Neighborhood Justice: Non-Lawyer Judges, Repeat Players and Institutional Reform in Texas Justice of the Peace Courts | Kyle Hyndman | |
| Fall | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public and Nonprofit Management | Jones | Bruce L. | PhD | L. Douglas Kiel | An FMRI Study of the Reward Preferences of Government and Business Leaders | Matthew J. Brown | |
| Fall | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public and Nonprofit Management | Scott | James A. | PhD | Richard K. Scott | US Telehealth State Policies: A Forecast of Texas Telehealth Trends to Medicaid Beneficiaries | Zhiqiang Zheng | |
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Misganaw | Burook S. | PhD | Mathukumalli Vidyasagar | Predictive and Prognostic Models for Cancer Applications | Sam Efromovich | |
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Singh | Nitin K. | PhD | Mathukumalli Vidyasagar | New Machine Learning Algorithms to Infer Gene Interactions Networks | ||
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Engineering | Liang | Jun | PhD | Ding-Zhu Du | Studies on Influence Diffusion in Social Networks | Duane D. Winkler | |
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Arai | Hiromasa | PhD | Haim Schweitzer | Accuracy and Speed of Selecting Features from Data for Data Analytics | Steven O. Nielsen | |
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Ulusoy | Huseyin | PhD | Murat Kantarcioglu | Towards Accountable Bigh Data Management Systems | Pankaj Choudhary | |
| Fall | 2012 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Xia | Rui | PhD | Yang Liu | Robust Feature Learning for Acoustic Emotion Recognition | Qiongxia Song | |
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Jin | Jingfu | PhD | Nicholas R. Gans | Unified Formation Control, Heading Consensus and Obstacle Avoidance for Heterogeneous Mobile Robots with Nonholonomic Constraints | Joseph M. Izen | |
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Li | Xiong | PhD | Bilal Akin | Investigation of Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation Strategies for Three-Level T-Type Converters with Solar Power Applications | Lindsay King | |
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Mu | Baojie | PhD | Yaoyu Li/Nicholas R. Gans | Self-Optimizing Control for Building Ventilation and Air Conditioning Systems | Lloyd Lumata | |
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Narayanaswamy | Anand Subramanian | PhD | Mehrdad Nourani | A Wireless and Battery-Less System for Monitoring Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts | Amy Walker | |
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Shu | Wen | PhD | Rashaunda M. Henderson | Study of Silicon Substrate Properties at MM-Wave and THZ Frequencies and Their Impact on Passive and Active Devices | ||
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Sridharan | Akshay | PhD | Carl Sechen | STARK:Synchronous to Asynchronous Redesign Kit | Yifei Lou | |
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Zhang | Jing | PhD | Microelectronics | Kenneth K. O | Ultra-Wide Tuning Range Signal Generation in CMOS for Millimeter Wave Rotational Spectroscopy | Quongxia Song |
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Chopra | Tatiana Peixoto | PhD | Yves J. Chabal | Surface Chemical Functionalization of Oxide-Free SI(111) Surfaces and Silicon Nitride | Li Zhang | |
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Wang | Jian | PhD | Julia W.P. Hsu | Nanomaterials as Interfacial Contact Layers for Organic Photovoltaic Devices | Carlos Aiken | |
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Telecommunications Engineering | Hasan | Md Rakibul | PhD | M. Saquib | Spectrum Sensing Schemes for Dynamic Spectrum Access in Cellular Environment | Yuri Gartstein | |
| Fall | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Telecommunications Engineering | Lee | Joong-Lyul | PhD | Ding-Zhu Du | Efficient Algorithms on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Social Networks | Michael Kesden | |
| Fall | 2015 | Management | Management Science | Cesaret | Bahriye | PhD | Elena Katok | Behavioral Issues in Revenue Management and Resource Allocation | Farokh Bastani | |
| Fall | 2015 | Management | Management Science | Kim | Jongmin | PhD | B.P.S. Murthi | Online Word-of-Mouth and Management Response | Murray Leaf | |
| Fall | 2015 | Management | Management Science | Li | Jingyun | PhD | Indranil R. Bardhan/Suresh P. Sethi | Essays in Health Care Operations: Impact on Patient Health Outcomes | Jason Jue | |
| Fall | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Batchelor | Benjamin | PhD | Bruce M. Novak | Melt-Processing, Kinetics, and Composites of Polyacrylonitrile Copolymers | Jonathan Ploski | |
| Fall | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Senevirathne | Suchithra Anuradhini | PhD | Mihaela C. Stefan | Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Conjugated Poly (Caprolactone)s Prodrugs for Drug Delivery | Robert Ackerman | |
| Fall | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Gong | Ting | PhD | George A. McMechan | Modeling and Inversion of Elastic Seismic Reflection Data | Alain Bensoussan | |
| Fall | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Hooda | Jagmohan | PhD | Li Zhang | HEME Function and Mitochondrial Respiration in Lung Cancer Progression | Austin J. Cunningham | |
| Fall | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Kulkarni | Ashwinikumar Arvind | PhD | Michael Q. Zhan/Gang Yu | FUS Regulates Transcriptomic Landscape Causing Cardiac Muscle Remodeling | Ramaswamy Chandrasekaran | |
| Fall | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Mehta | Heer Hemant | PhD | Stephen Spiro | Novel Aspects of Stress Response and Metabolism in Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli CFT073 | Jason P. Jue | |
| Fall | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Murali | Vasanth Siruvallur | PhD | Rockford K. Draper | Surfactant Sonolysis and the Use of Carbon Nanotubes in Hyperthermia Based Therapies | William Frensley | |
| Fall | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Smith | Chad Christopher | PhD | Santosh R. D’Mello | Functional Analysis of the Regulation of Neuronal Apoptosis by the HSP40 Protein DNAJB6 | Manuel Quevedo-Lopez | |
| Fall | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Dick Jr. | Don DeWayne | PhD | Yves J. Chabal | Selected Vapor Phase Deposition on Clean and Hydrogen Passivated Silicon | Yu Chung Ng | |
| Fall | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Mayo | Nathanael K. | PhD | Ray H. Baughman | Improving Efficiency and Performance of Carbon Nanotube Based Thermophones | Orlando Auciello | |
| Fall | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Chen | Ming | PhD | Qiongxia Song | High Dimensional and Functional Time Series Analysis with Applications in Finance | Amy V. Walker | |
| Spring | 2016 | Arts and Humanities | Kelley | Erin | PhD | Studies in Literature | Jessica C. Murphy | The Law Shall Bruise Her: Discrimination Against Women in Shakespeare, Webster, and U.S. Law | Sheryl Skaggs | |
| Spring | 2016 | Arts and Humanities | Arnold | Leigh | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Charissa N. Terranova | Robert Smithson’s Utopias: Unfinished Works in Texas and Other (No–)Places | Juan Gonzalez | |
| Spring | 2016 | Arts and Humanities | Nichols | Allene | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Charissa N. Terranova/Shilyh Warren | Representations and Contestations of the Witch from Second-Wave Feminist Poetry to Twenty-First Century Popular Culture | Sheryl Skaggs | |
| Spring | 2016 | Arts and Humanities | Vouitsis | Elpida | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Richard Brettell | The Disruptions of Meanings in Paul Gaugin’s Texts and Works of Art | Larry Ammann | |
| Spring | 2016 | Arts and Technology | Bradbury | Judd D. | PHD | Maximilian Schich | The Data Narrativist: Leading Analytics Organizations in Value Creation Using Data Driven Communication | Sumit Sarkar | ||
| Spring | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Pruitt | David | PhD | Robert L. Rennaker | Pairing Vagus Nerve Stimulation with Motor Training Enhances Functional Recovery After Traumatic Brain Injury | Heather Hayenga | |
| Spring | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Underwood | Erica | PhD | Lucien T. Thompson | Sex-Dependent Effects of a High-Fat Diet on Spatial Memory, Peripheral Metabolism, Hippocampal Intrinsic Excitability, and Neuronal Insulin Sensitivity | Sheena D’Arcy | |
| Spring | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Assmann | Sophie | AUD | Andrea Warner-Czyz | |||
| Spring | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Fiorentino | Kimberly | AUD | Carol Cokely | |||
| Spring | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Frank | Jennifer | AUD | Ross Roeser | |||
| Spring | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Jordan | Nicole | AUD | Jeffrey Martin | |||
| Spring | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Khan | Anum | AUD | Jackie Clark | |||
| Spring | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Kuykendall | Kathryn | AUD | Carol Cokely | |||
| Spring | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Oexmann | Joan | AUD | Phillip Lee Wilson | |||
| Spring | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Post | Brittany | AUD | Phillip Lee Wilson | |||
| Spring | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Wallace | Sarah | AUD | Linda Thibodeau | |||
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Criminology | Barbieri | Nina | PhD | Nadine M. Connell/Nicole Leeper Piquero | Examining General Strain Theory: Using Subjective and Objective Measures of Academic Strain to Predict Delinquency and Substance Use | Amy Pinkham | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Criminology | Clipper | Stephen | PhD | Alex R. Piquero/Robert G. Morris | Predicting Failure To Appear: A Comparison of Statistical Techniques | Qiongxia Song | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Criminology | Harper | Alexis | PhD | Nicole Leeper Piquero/Timothy M. Bray | Doctoring Disorganization: Assessing Crime and Hospitalizations in Dallas, Texas | Austin J. Cunningham | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Criminology | Milzcik | Erik | PhD | Nicole Leeper Piquero | Group Differences in Cybercrime Victimization from a Routine Activities Perspective | Kyle Hyndman | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Criminology | Saber | Mark | PhD | Tomislav Kovandzic | Understanding the Individual & Contextual Determinants of Protective Gun Ownership: Analysis of Data from the National Survey of Private Ownership of Firearms | Amy Pinkham | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Criminology | Zettler | Haley | PhD | Robert G. Morris | Exploring the Role Between Dual Diagnosis and Recidivism | Toyah Miller | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Economics | Kappiaruparampil | Justin George | PhD | Todd Sandler | Contributions in the Political Economy of Political Violence | Peter Park | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Geospatial Information Science | Hughes | Amy | PhD | Daniel A. Griffith | Residential Mobility and CRC Screening: A Spatial Analysis of CRC Screening in an Urban Safety-Net Clinic | Zhenyu Xuan | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Political Science | Kamau | Casper | PhD | Linda Camp Keith | National Level Tolerance for “Customary” Neo-Autogenous Sub-Saharan (NAS) Law | W. J. Dowling | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Political Science | Kapti | Engin | PhD | Clint Peinhardt | Chinese Official Assistance into Africa: Determinants and Consequences | Surya N. Janakiraman | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Political Science | Larue | Patrick | PhD | Jennifer S. Holmes | Investigating Transnational Terrorism: Three New Looks | Thomas Linehan | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Cantarelli | Paola | PhD | R. Paul Battaglio, Jr. | Setting an Agenda for Exploring the Causes of Unethical Behavior in Government Workplace: a Meta-Analysis of Experiments on the Roots of Unethical Behavior | Jane Salk | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Roome | Anna | PhD | Euel Elliott/Donald R. Arbuckle | An Examination of the Characteristics and Determinants of At-Risk and Non-At-Risk Students in a Texas Independent School District | David Channell | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Havewala | Ferzana | PhD | Richard K. Scotch | The Dynamics Between the Food Environment and Residential Segregation: Separate Menus in Metros, Counties and Neighborhoods | Ganesh Janakiraman | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Krone | Ryan | PhD | Donald A. Hicks | Human Organization, Democratic Rule of Law and Presumptive Legitimacy: A Cross-Country Examination of a Global Dataset | Christian von Drathen | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Robbins | Roy | PhD | Euel Elliott | An Inquiry into the Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement upon Four Texas Counties on the Texas-Mexico Border | Michael Wilson | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Tso | Yi En | PhD | Brian J.L. Berry/Dohyeong Kim | Locations for Emergency Shelters in Taiwan: A Policy Issue in Disaster Preparedness | Ming Gu | |
| Spring | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Wardhana | Irwanda | PhD | Brian J.L. Berry | Business and Social Efficiency of the Indonesian State-Owned Enterprises: Evidence from Data Envelopment Analysis | Gil Sadka | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Engineering | Holcomb | Jeffrey | PhD | Jorge A. Cobb | Computing Generalized Voronoi Diagrams | Yulia Gel | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Chen | Chen | PhD | Vincent Ng | Beyond Entity Coreference: New Models for Resolving Zero and Event Anaphora | Stefano Leonardi | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Fu | Yangchun | PhD | Zhiqiang Lin | Bridging the Semantic Gap in Virtual Machine Introspection via Binary Code Reuse | Oleg Makarenkov | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Li | Chen | PhD | Yang Liu | Improving Summarization in the Integer Linear Programming Framework | Robert Glosser | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Ramachandran | Arunmoezhi | PhD | Neeraj Mittal | Concurrent Binary Search Trees: Design and Optimizations | Massimo Fischetti | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Yuan | Jinwei | PhD | Farokh B. Bastani | A Hybrid Model Approach for Real-Time Visual Object Tracking | Ram C. Rao | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Aghyarian | Shant | PhD | Danieli C. Rodrigues | Development and Characterization of Bioactive Bone Cements for the Treatment of Vertebral Compression Fractures | Lloyd Lumata | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Ehrhardt | Kristina | PhD | Leonidas Bleris | Mammalian Synthetic Biology: From Discovery to Therapy | Julia Chan | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Rodriguez | Lucas | PhD | Danieli C. Rodrigues | Design and Development of a New Dental Abutment System for Cement-Retained Crowns | Yexiao Xu | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Taha | Mohammed | PhD | Hyun-Joo Nam | Structural Studies of FC Receptor Neonatal (FCRN) and Ewing’s Sarcoma-Associated Transcript-2 (EAT2) Proteins | Nikki Delk | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Taruvai Kalyana Kumar | Rajeshwari | PhD | Shalini Prasad | Development of Label-Free Methodology Towards Non-Invasive Profiling of Cellular Dynamics | Michael Biewer | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Ziraldo | Riccardo | PhD | Lan Ma/Leonidas Bleris | A Quantitative Study of Drosophila Apoptosis within and Across Single Cells | John Zweck | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Ali | Hussnain | PhD | John H. L. Hansen | Customized Sound Processing and Fitting Paradigms for Cochlear Implant Users | Robert Stillman | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Cai | Wen | PhD | Babak Fahimi | Topology Derivation and Performance Optimization of Multiport Power Electronics Interfaces | Mieczyslaw Dabkowski | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Chang | Chih-Hsiang | PhD | Nasser Kehtarnavaz | Making 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Computationally Efficient | Marilyn Waligore | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Chen | Chen | PhD | Nasser Kehtarnavaz/Roozbeh Jafari | Fusion of Depth and Inertial Sensing for Human Action Recognition | Duane Winkler | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Cogan | Diana | PhD | Mehrdad Nourani | Multi Extracerebral Biosignal Analysis for Epileptic Seizure Monitoring | John H. Hoffman | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Hu | Yuan | PhD | John P. Fonseka | Applications of Improved Constrained Interleaving in Wireless Communications | Jianqing Chen | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Jha | Amit | PhD | Kenneth. K. O | Design Approaches for Signal Generation Circuits in Nano-Scaled CMOS Processes | Lunjin Chen | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Kim | Dae Yeon | PhD | Kenneth. K. O | Terahertz Detectors in CMOS | John Hoffman | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Li | Minghua | PhD | Dian Zhou | Global Optimization with Yield Enhancement Framework for Analog Circuits | Julia Hsu | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Ma | Jin Seock | PhD | Moon J. Kim | Investigation of Normally-Off Mode Algan/Gan Mos Hemt Device Utilizing Gate Recession and P-Gan Gate Structure with ALD High K Gate Grown Insulators for High Power Application | John Wiorkowski | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Pourreza Shahri | Reza | PhD | Nasser Kehtarnavaz | Computationally Efficient Optimization Framework for Deblocking and Exposure Fusion Image Enhancements | Frank Konietschke | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Ramirez Paredes | Juan Pablo | PhD | Nicholas R. Gans | Mobile Sensor Guidance for Optimal Information Acquisition Under Out-Of-Sequence and Soft Measurements | David Lary | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Sharma | Navneet | PhD | Kenneth K. O | Transmitter Design for 180-300ghz CMOS Spectrometer | Robert Glosser | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Uprety | Sandip | PhD | Hoi Lee | Design of Integrated Photovoltaic Energy Harvesters for Portable and Standalone Applications | Vladimir Dragovic | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Wu | Bo | PhD | Yun Chiu | High-Efficiency and Wide-Bandwidth Continuous-Time Band-Pass Filters and Delta-Sigma Converters | Michael Biewer | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Xue | Jing | PhD | Hoi Lee | Design Techniques for High-Frequency High-Efficiency High-Voltage Soft-Switched Power Converters | Yan Can | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Yella | Anitha | PhD | Carl M. Sechen | Power Optimization in Integrated Circuits | Stephen Spiro | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Zhou | Yuan | PhD | Yun Chiu | High Speed SAR A/D Conversion with Digital Calibration | Lindsay King | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engin | Fang | Jingtian | PhD | Massimo V. Fischetti | Quantum Transport and Dielectric Response of Nanometer Scale Transistors Using Empirical Pseudopotentials | Xiaoyan Shi | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engin | Lucero | Antonio | PhD | Jiyoung Kim | Semiconductor/Dielectric Interface Engineering and Characterization | Marion Underwood | |
| Spring | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engin | Vega Zendejas | Abraham | PhD | Yves J. Chabal | Chemical Modification of Silicon Surfaces for Shallow Doping and Growth of Thin Films | Zalamon Balanav | |
| Spring | 2016 | Management | Management Science | Bhattacharjee | Anwesha | PhD | Vijay S. Mookerjee | Analyzing New Trends in Information Technology: Search Behavior on a GDS and Advertising on Social Media | Rosanna Guadagno | |
| Spring | 2016 | Management | Management Science | Sun | Zhen | PhD | Vijay Mookerjee/Milind Dawande | Digital Advertising Ecosystem: Prescriptive Analytics for Novel Operational and Strategic Challenges | Mohammad Akbar | |
| Spring | 2016 | Management | Management Science | Wang | Weiwei | PhD | William M. Cready | Individual Investors’ Trading Responses to Accounting Disclosures: A Re-Examination | Clint Peinhardt | |
| Spring | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Manandhar | Bikash | PhD | Jung-Mo Ahn | Development of Orthogonal Peptide Bioconjugation Methodology for Application in Targeting GLP-1R | Stephen Spiro | |
| Spring | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Sun | Shasha | PhD | Jie Zheng | Renal Clearable Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles Conjugated with Organic Dyes | Hyunjoo Nam | |
| Spring | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Vinluan | Rodrigo | PhD | Jie Zheng | Bioconjugation Chemistry in Luminescent Gold Nanoparticles | Lev Gelb | |
| Spring | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Dunham | Jeffery | PhD | John S. Oldow | Reorganization and Superposition of Late Eocene to Holocene Extension and Late Cenozoic Displacement Field Conservation on A Kinematically Linked Array of Basin-Bounding Faults, North-Central Great Basin | Jason Slinker | |
| Spring | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Edwards | William | PhD | Carlos L.V. Aiken | River Channel Monitoring of the Red River of the Texas and Oklahoma State Boundary, U.S.A., Using Remote Sensing Techniques and the Legal Implications on Riparian Boundaries | Michael Tiefelsdorf | |
| Spring | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Jackson | Jacob | PhD | John W. Geissman | Neogene Crustal Rotations in the Western Great Basin, Cyclo-Stratigraphy of the Eocene Wind River Formation, and Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy Across the End Permian Extinction Event | Rod Heelis | |
| Spring | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Naquin | Clint | PhD | Mark Lee | Transport Properties of Silicon Complementary-Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Quantum Well Field-Effect Transistors | Dong Qian | |
| Spring | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Sampat | Siddharth | PhD | Anton V. Malko | Exploring Ultrafast Dynamics of Excitons and Multiexcitons in “Giant” Nanocrystal Quantum Dots | Luis Felipe Pereira | |
| Spring | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Smith | Jessica | PhD | Fabiano S. Rodrigues | Radar and Satellite Studies of Equatorial Electric Fields and Spread F | Kamran Kiasaleh | |
| Spring | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Wijenayake | Tharake | PhD | Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki | Studies into the Averaging Problem: Macroscopic Gravity and Precision Cosmology | Tomoki Ohsawa | |
| Spring | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Chu | Jufen | PhD | Sam Efromovish | Nonparametric Hazard Rate Estimation with Left Truncated and Right Censored Data | Donggyu Sul | |
| Summer | 2016 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Salam | Wael Juma | PhD | Studies in Literature | Milton A. Cohen | The Application of Trauma Theory to the Post-World War I Writing of Ernest Hemingway, Laurence Stallings and Harry Crosby | Herve Abdi |
| Summer | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Chan | Micaela Yunchee | PhD | Denise C. Park, Gagan S. Wig | Age-Related Desegregation of Functional Systems in Healthy Adults: The Underlying Patterns of Connections and Protective Life-Course Factors | Heng Du | |
| Summer | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | DeWitt | Samuel James | PhD | Francesca M. Filbey | The Neural Underpinnings of Adolescent Emotion Regulation in the Context of Reward Pursuit | Jung-Whan Kim | |
| Summer | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Holehonnur Sudarshanprasad | Roopashri | PhD | Jonathan E. Ploski | Examining the Role of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Subunit Composition in Mnemonic Processing | Robert Lowry | |
| Summer | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Hubbard | Nicholas A. | PhD | Bart Rypma | Physiological Mechanisms of Blood-Oxygen-Level Dependent Signal Changes in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis | Jessica Murphy | |
| Summer | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Meltzer | Mitchell Andrew | PhD | James C. Bartlett | Recognizing Wholes: An Investigation of the Holistic-Familiarity Hypothesis | Hyuntae Yoo | |
| Summer | 2016 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Perez | Alison M. | PhD | Sandra B. Chapman | The Cognitive and Neural Underpinnings of Risky-Choice Framing Biases in Healthy Adults | Richard Scotch | |
| Summer | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Economics | Kass | Malcolm | PhD | Daniel G. Arce M. | Three Essays on Conflict and Conflict Resolution Between Organizations | Heidi Kane | |
| Summer | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Economics | Wang | Shidi | PhD | Kurt J. Beron/Daniel A. Griffith | Three Essays on the Geographic Impacts of the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan | Xiaofei Zhao | |
| Summer | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Political Science | Finch | Paula | PhD | Linda Camp Keith/Jennifer S. Holmes | The Cycle of Violence Between Terrorism and Repression | Andrea Warner-Czyz | |
| Summer | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Political Science | Min | Bennet B. | PhD | Robert C. Lowry | How Attorneys Think: Political Giving in Judicial Elections as a Hiring Decision | Robert Ackerman | |
| Summer | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Clark | Anna Fountain | PhD | Sheryl L. Skaggs/Young-joo Lee | Uncertainty, Threat, and Opportunity: Examining the Risk Preferences and Perceptions of Public Employees | Jessica Murphy | |
| Summer | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Spencer | Thomas B. | PhD | Richard K. Scotch/Donald R. Arbuckle | Research Administrative Burden: Policy Analysis into the Components and Definitions | Atanu Lahiri | |
| Summer | 2016 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Hashmi | Ayesha Tahir | PhD | Brian J.L. Berry | Islamic Finance in the United States: Adoption and Adaptation | Michael Rebello | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | De Mello Gindri | Izabelle | PhD | Danieli C. Rodrigues | Design of Multifunctional Ionic Liquids for Surface Modification of Dental Implants | Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Kanneganti | Aswini | PhD | Mario I. Romero-Ortega | Technology for Small Nerve and Fascicular Interfacing Towards Neuromodulation Applications | Qingwen Hu | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Radha Shanmugam | Nandhinee | PhD | Shalini Prasad | Design and Characterization of ZnO Electrode/Electrolyte Interfaces Towards Biosensing Applications | Andrew Scott | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Reit | Radu | PhD | Walter E. Voit | High Glass Transition, Low Crosslink Density Thiol-Ene Networks for Flexible Bioelectronics | Min Chen | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Engineering | Baran Pouyan | Maziyar | PhD | Mehrdad Nourani | Single Cell Expression Data Analysis Using Advanced Machine Learning Techniques | Shouqiang Wang | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Engineering | Pham | Trung | PhD | Lakshman S. Tamil | Automated Sleep Assessment Tools For Mobile Health | Shilyh Warren | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Gu | Yufei | PhD | Zhiqiang Lin | Extracting Invariants from Binaries and its Applications | Janos Turi | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Hong | Sang Jin | PhD | Jason P. Jue | Virtual Optical Network Design in Multi-Domain Optical Networks | Joseph Sloan | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Jayabal | Yamini Navaratna | PhD | Andrea Fumagalli | Advanced Optical Network Architectures: A Study on Provisioning, Signaling Protocols and Algorithms | Alessio Saretto | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Zhou | Guang | PhD | Farokh B. Bastani | Swarm Robotic Systems and Their Application in Power Line Industry | Nir Yehuda | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Bennett | Terrell | PhD | Roozbeh Jafari, Nicholas Gans | Algorithms for Enabling Wearable Sensors in the Internet of Things | Austin J. Cunningham | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Dusmez | Serkan | PhD | Bilal Akin | State of Health Monitoring for Silicon Power Devices | Nicole Piquero | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Hintz | Andrew | PhD | Kaushik Rajashekara | Integrated Design of Energy Storage System, Conversion, and Management in Micro Grids | John Gooch | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Khansefid | Amin | PhD | Hlaing Minn | Performance Analysis, Pilot Designs and Algorithms for Massive MIMO Systems | Seth Giertz | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Lee | Jaeyeon | PhD | Wooram Park | Novel Design, Stochastic Motion Planning, and Control of Robot Systems Supporting Medicine | Zhenyu Xuan | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Nair | Anish | PhD | Kamran Kiasaleh | Applications of Chaotic Maps in Communications and Biomedical Signal Processing | Alain Bensoussan | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Paduvalli | Vikas | PhD | Poras T. Balsara/Dinesh K. Bhatia | Techniques for Efficient Control of Power Converters | Michael Kesden | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Poulose | John | PhD | Matthew J. Goeckner/Lawrence J. Overzet | Temporally, Spatially and Spectrally Resolved Studies of Pulsed Capacitively Coupled Plasmas | Srinivasan Raghunathan | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Song | Min Kyu | PhD | Dongsheng Brian Ma | HF/VHF Multiphase DC-DC Conversion for Next Generation Integrated Power Management | Neeraj Mittal | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Yan | Shuyi | PhD | Andrea Fumagalli/Marco Tacca | Analytical Frameworks to Evaluate Performance in Both Traditional and Elastic Optical Networks | Young-joo Lee | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Yoo | Jun Hyeon | PhD | Jeong-Bong Lee | A Study on Polymeric Microfluidic and Implantable Neural Devices | Adrienne McLean | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Zhan | Qi | PhD | Hlaing Minn | Estimation of Large-Scale Carrier Frequency Offset and Timing Mismatch Between In-Phase and Quadrature Branches | Malcom Wardlaw | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Mireles Ramirez | Marcela | PhD | Manuel Quevedo-Lopez | Nontraditional Thin Film Resistor Materials for Si-Based Technology | Seth Hays | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Reeder | Jonathan | PhD | Walter E. Voit | Thermally-Responsive Soft Bioelectronics | Yuri Gartstein | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Girard | Adam | PhD | Seung M. You | The Effect of Wettability On Boiling Heat Transfer Performance with Water on Copper Surfaces | Jun Li | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Software Engineering | Moreno Cubillos | Laura | PhD | Andrian Marcus | Software Documentation Through Automatic Summarization of Source Code Artifacts | Nicholas Gans | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Software Engineering | Silva De Araujo | Frederico | PhD | Kevin W. Hamlen | Engineering Cyber-Deceptive Software | Danieli Rodrigues | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Telecommunications Engineering | Devasigamani | Thyagaraj | PhD | Lakshman S. Tamil/John F. McCracken | Integrating Telemedicine in Outpatient Scheduling to Maximize Clinic Resource Utilization | Asli Leblecicioglu | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Telecommunications Engineering | Khandaker | Fahim | PhD | Jason P. Jue | Statistical Capacity Sharing and Virtualization in Survivable Elastic Optical Networks | Shayla Holub | |
| Summer | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Telecommunications Engineering | Kim | Joobum | PhD | Andrea Fumagalli/Marco Tacca | Analytical Study of Spectral Resource Management in Optical Networks | Cong Liu | |
| Summer | 2016 | Management | International Management Studies | Changphao | Miss Pawinee | PhD | Seung-Hyun Lee | Essays On Interorganizational Relationships and Corporate Strategies: Product Recalls, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Strategic Alliances | Monica Deza | |
| Summer | 2016 | Management | International Management Studies | Lebedev | Sergey | PhD | Mike W. Peng | Institutions, Relations, and Firm-Level Outcomes | James Harrington | |
| Summer | 2016 | Management | International Management Studies | Miller | Carliss | PhD | Orlando C. Richard | Interpersonal Competitive Dynamics in the Workplace: The Dark Side of Demographic Similarity | Julia Chan | |
| Summer | 2016 | Management | International Management Studies | Shin | Howook | PhD | Seung-Hyun Lee | Essays on Firm Behaviors and Performance Under Information Asymmetry and Uncertainty | Jonas Bunte | |
| Summer | 2016 | Management | Management Science | B C | Bishal | PhD | Umit G. Gurun | Strategic R&D Expense Classification and Cost of Debt | Rodney Andrews | |
| Summer | 2016 | Management | Management Science | Chou | Shih-Chu | PhD | William M. Cready | The Role of Industry Centrality in Using Accounting Information for Macro Forecasting | Yongwan Chan | |
| Summer | 2016 | Management | Management Science | Gupta | Shivam | PhD | Ganesh Janakiraman/Milind Dawande | Operational Considerations in Purchasing Management | Shalini Prasad | |
| Summer | 2016 | Management | Management Science | Hejazi Nia | Meisam | PhD | Brian T. Ratchford, Ozalp Ozer | Social Big Data Analytics of Consumer Choices: A Two Sided Online Platform Perspective | Banks Miller | |
| Summer | 2016 | Management | Management Science | Quan | Ying | PhD | William M. Cready | Annual Goodwill Impairment Test Date Choice | Euel Elliott | |
| Summer | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Braun | Elizabeth | PhD | Paul Pantano | Characterization, Nanosafety, and Cellular Imaging of Carbon Nanotubes | Monica Rankin | |
| Summer | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Smith | Lindsey | PhD | Bruce E. Gnade | Improvements in Thin Film Solid State Neutron Detectors for Cost Effective Applications | Yaoyu Li | |
| Summer | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Wilson | Blake | PhD | Steven O. Nielsen | Development and Implementation of Atomic/Molecular Simulation Methods Based on Nested Sampling | Walter Voit | |
| Summer | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Herzig | Emily | PhD | Viswanath Ramakrishna | Spin Groups and Exponentiation | Nicholas Gans | |
| Summer | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Beck | Simon | PhD | Heng Du | Deregulation of Mitochondrial FoF1-ATP Synthase Via Oscp in Alzheimer’s Disease | Peter Assmann | |
| Summer | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Chhabra | Shivani | PhD | Stephen Spiro | Novel Aspects of the Response to Nitric Oxide in Escherichia Coli | Jeremiah Gassensmith | |
| Summer | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Srivastva | Pallevi | PhD | Hyuntae Yoo | Branched Chain Amino Acids: A Metabolic Vulnerability of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer | Ronald Smaldone | |
| Summer | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Titsworth | Matthew | PhD | Chuanwei Zhang/Tobias J. Hagge | Arithmetic Data for Anyonic Systems and Topological Phases | Yifei Lou | |
| Summer | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Acosta-Mejia | Cesar | PhD | Michael Baron | Pseudolikelihood Methods in Multichannel Change-Point Detection | Rebecca Files | |
| Summer | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Cao | Yujing | PhD | Min Chen | Graphical Modeling of Biological Pathways in Genomic Studies | B Murthi | |
| Summer | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Datta | Ananda | PhD | Swati Biswas | Detecting Rare Haplotype Disease Association: Comparison of Existing Population-Based Methods and a New Family-Based Quantitative Bayesian Lasso Method | Xin Li | |
| Summer | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Rathnayake | Lasitha | PhD | Pankaj K. Choudhary | Modeling and Analysis of Functional and Longitudinal Data with Biomedical Applications | Seth Giertz | |
| Summer | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Wang | Yunfei | PhD | Robert J. Serfling | Connections Among Multivariate Rank Functions, Depth Functions, and Sign and Signed-Rank Statistics | Bernhard Ganglmair | |
| Summer | 2016 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Zhang | Yuan | Swati Biswas | Detecting Rare Haplotype-Environment Interaction Under Uncertainty of Gene-Environment Independence Assumption with an Extension to Complex Sampling Data | Wonjae Choi |