2016-2017 doctoral degrees awarded
Fall 2016 total: 50
Spring 2017 total: 94
Summer 2017 total: 55
| Semester | Year | School | Department | Last Name | First Name | Major | Supervising Professor | Dissertation Title | Outside Chair | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | 2016 | Arts and Humanities | Norman | Susan | Humanities-Aesthetic Studies | R. Clay Reynolds | True for Bees: A Creative Dissertation | Murray Leaf | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Arts and Humanities | Salazar | Monica | Humanities-Aesthetic Studies | Charles Hatfield and Charissa N. Terranova, Co-Chairs | Death and the Invisible Hand: Contemporary Mexican Art, 1988- Present | Catrina Coleman | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Arts and Humanities | Daniels | Rebecca | Humanities-Aesthetic Studies | Richard Brettell | Teen Programs in Twenty-First Century Art Museums: A Critical Analysis of Nine American Programs | Tyler Summers | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Arts and Humanities | Riley | Kristin | Humanities | R. Clay Reynolds | Government Issue and the Face of War: The Representation of Servicemen in American Literary and Visual Culture of the Second World War | Robert Lowry | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Arts and Humanities | Surmiller | Jason | Humanities-History of Ideas | Nils Roemer, Peter K. J. Park, Chair and Co-Chair | The Conflicted Relationships of the American Catholic Church with European Fascism | Zhiang Lin | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Arts, Technology & Emerging Communications | Arts and Technology | Evans | Kathryn | Roger Malina | Does Studying Music and Sound Design Enhance Academic Abilities in Undergraduate Non-Music Majors? A Phenomenological Approach | Jackie Nelson | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Hossain | Shaikat | Peter F. Assmann | The Relationship Between Spatial Hearing Abilities and Speech Segregation in Bilateral Cochlear Implant Users | Mario Romero-Ortega | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Hubbard | Daniel | Peter F. Assmann | Production and Perception of Affective Prosody by Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder | Lawrence Reitzer | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Wong | Jenny | Michael D. Rugg | The Neural Correlates of Encoding Memory Associations | Richard Scotch | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Young | Leanne | Daniel Krawczyk | Neural Correlates of Trustworthiness Evaluations in Cross-Cultural Interactions | Gabriele Meloni | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Comm Sciences and Disorders | Fitzharris | Katharine | Ross J. Roeser | Speech Understanding in Noise: An Auditory Event-Related Potentials Study | Elizabeth Rugg | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Comm Sciences and Disorders | Miller | Blair | Christine A. Dollaghan | The Impact of Word-Based and Situation-Based Knowledge on Reading Speed in Adults and Children: A Self-Paced Moving Window Study | Richard Harrison | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Comm Sciences and Disorders | Mueller | Jana | Christine Dollaghan | Reaction Time and the Task Evoked Pupil Response as Measures of Non-Volitional and Volitional Cognitive Effort | Tomislav Kovandzic | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Psychological Sciences | Faso | Daniel | Noah J. Sasson | How Social Others Form First Impressions of Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders | Sarah Maxwell | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Economics, Political & Policy Sciences | Criminology | Russell | Amanda | Robert G. Morris and John L. Worrall, Co-Chairs | Returning to Court: A Multi-Paper Dissertation on Failure to Appear and Commercial Bail Bonds | Majid Minary-Jolandar | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Economics, Political & Policy Sciences | Criminology | Wong | Ivan | John L. Worrall | Predicting Arrest Trajectories in Micro-Places: A Test of Social Disorganization Theory | Theodore Day | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Economics, Political & Policy Sciences | Geospatial Information Science | Ni | Feng | Fang Qiu | High Performance Computing with Remotely Sensed Spatial Big Data Using Many-Core Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) | Zhiqiang Lin | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Economics, Political & Policy Sciences | Geospatial Information Science | Najian | Amir | Denis J. Dean | Simulation of Human Wayfinding Uncertainties: Operationalizing A Wandering Disutility Function | Sven Kroener | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Economics, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Anestaki | Aikaterini Ioanna | R. Paul Battaglio, Jr. | Organizational Conflict in Public Service: Conflict Management, Contextual Factors, and Employee Outcomes | Gregory Dess | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Munje | Rujuta | Shalini Prasad | Optimized Assembly and Utilization of Functional Materials Towards Designing Stable and reliable Affinity Based Biosenisng | Paul Diehl | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Cem | Emrah | Kamil Sarac | Sampling and Estimation on Large Online Social Networks | Anthony Cummings | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Sarkhel | Somdeb | Vibhav Gogate | Scalable, Lifted Maximum a Posteriori Inference | Anyan Qi | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Rahman | Tahrima | Vibhav Gogate | Scalable Learning Approaches for Sum-Product-Cutset Networks | Sumit Majumdar | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Cai | Yiqi | Xiaohu Guo | Variational Tessellation Optimization for Graphics Applications | Elizabeth Rugg | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | ElSamadouny | Ahmed | Naofal Al-Dhahir | Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for Smart Grid Communications | Eric Farrar | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Gu | Lei | Babak Fahimi | Modeling of Permanent Magnet Machines Using Field Reconstruction Method | Dohyeong Kim | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Maldonado Garcia | Maribel | Siavash Pourkamali, Chair and Bruce E. Gnade, Co-Chair | Chip-Scale Cascade Aerosol Impactor with Integrated Microelectromechanical Resonant Mass Balance for Real Time Mass Concentration Monitoring | Naim Ozel | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Heidarpour Roshan | Meisam | Carl Sechen | A MEMS-Assisted Dual-Resonator Temperature-to-Digital Converter | Serdar Simsek | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Sundaram | Nandini | Gil S. Lee | Study of PECVD Films Containing Fluorine and Carbon and Diamond Like Carbon Films for Ultra Low Dielectric Constant Inter Layer Dielectric Applications | Nina Baranchuk | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Rahman | Nasim | Babak Fahimi | Thermal Analysis and Management of Switched Reluctance Machines | Amit Mehra | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Anwar | Sarkar | Christopher L. Hinkle | Comprehensive Capacitance-Voltage Analysis Including Quantum Effects for High-K Interfaces on Germanium and Other Alternative Channel Materials | Jessica Murphy | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Ghaffarzadegan | Shabnam | John H. L. Hansen | Analysis and Modeling for Robust Whispered Speech Recognition | Victor Valcarcel | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Jia | Yijiang | Kaushik Rajashekara | Induction Generator Based More Electric Architectures for Commercial Transport Aircraft | Stephen Spiro | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Ahmad | Zeshan | Kenneth K. O | Millimeter-Wave to Far-Infrared Generation and Detection in Complementary Metal-Oxide Silicon (CMOS) Technologies | Bing Lv | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Hua | Zhe | Hoi Lee | Design of Area- and Power-Efficient Dual-Output Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converters | David Channell | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Azcatl Zacatzi | Angelica | Robert M. Wallace | Surface Engineering of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Two-Dimensional Electronic Device Applications | Lucien Thompson | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Mohammed | Shakil | Stuart F. Cogan | Silicon Nanocrystals and Defect States in Silicon-Rich Silicon Nitride for Optoelectronic Applications | Yibin Zhou | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | An | Xudong | Fatemeh Hassanipour | Analysis of Air Vortex Interaction with Porous Screens | Nathan Goldman | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Software Engineering | Urbina Fuentes | David | Alvaro A. Cárdenas | Deep Packet Inspection for Physics-Based Anomaly Detection in Industrial Control Systems | Dong Li | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Software Engineering | Cui | Lei | Weili Wu | Community Detection in Social Networks | Zhe Zhang | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Software Engineering | Ghaderi | Mohammad Ali | Gopal Gupta, Lakshman S. Tamil, Chair and Co-Chair | A Flexible Comprehensive Software Platform for Disease Management | Nikki Delk | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Jindal School of Management | Management Science | Bakhtiari | Ali | B. P. S. Murthi | Essays on Consumer Credit Card Profitability and Risk | Jonas Bunte | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Jindal School of Management | Management Science | Chen | Shaokuan | Suresh P. Sethi and Alp Muharremoglu, Co-Chairs | Dynamic Stochastic Inventory and Stackelberg Game Models | Robert Gregg | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Jindal School of Management | Management Science | Luo | Ting | Suresh P. Sethi | How to Use Dynamic Information and Incentives in Supply Chains | Bobby Alexander | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Natural Sciences & Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Pfister | Jason | Santosh R. D’Mello | The Regulation of Neuronal Survival Through the Modulation of Aberrant Cell Cycle Re-Entry | Robert Glosser | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Natural Sciences & Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Alam | Md Maksudul | Li Zhang | Mitochondrial Respiration Promotes Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cell Proliferation and Function | Metin Cakanyildirim | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Natural Sciences & Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Liu | Yuxuan | Michael Q. Zhang | Understanding Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes from NsrR and Tp53 Mediated Regulation | Zhenpeng Qin | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Natural Sciences & Mathematics | Mathematics | Skaaning | Sonny | Alain Bensoussan and Janos Turi, Co-Chairs | Inventory Control with Pricing Optimization in Continuous Time | Suresh Radhakrishnan | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Natural Sciences & Mathematics | Geosciences | Wang | Wenlong | George A. McMechan | Elastic and Acoustic Wavefield Decompositions and Application to Reverse Time Migrations | Xiaoyan Shi | ||
| Fall | 2016 | Natural Sciences & Mathematics | Chemistry | Huang | Yu | Inga H. Musselman | Immiscible Polymer Blend Membranes for High Pressure, High Temperature H2/Co2 Separation | Mike Peng | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Dixon | Lauren | Studies in Literature | R. Clay Reynolds | Throaways: A Young Adult Novel | Richard Golden | |
| Spring | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Duan | Guozhong | Studies in Literature | Ming Dong Gu | The Mirror and the Eye: Visual Subjectivity in Chinese and American Literary Representations | William Katz | |
| Spring | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Moore | Sarah | Studies in Literature | Patricia Michaelson | Daughters of the Church: Women’s Place and Religious Practice in Victorian Women’s Religious Novels | Nadine Connell | |
| Spring | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Rascoe | Krista | Studies in Literature | Tim Redman | Medicine and Modernism: Diagnosing and (Re)imaging Paralysis | Meghna Sabharwal | |
| Spring | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Simpson | Amy | Studies in Literature | Rainer Schulte | Remaking Poems: Combining Translation and Digital Media to Interest High School Students in Poetry Analysis | Umit Gurun | |
| Spring | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Beck | Kathryn | Thomas Riccio | Fort Griffin Fandangle: Three Perspectives on Performing History on the Texas Plains | Robert Pearson | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Braccio | Jessica Patrice | Aesthetic Studies | Nils Roemer | Removing the Glitch: Finding the Hidden Meaning Behind Trauma | Kelsey Wei | |
| Spring | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | DeWitte | Debra | Aesthetic Studies | Richard Brettell | Public Exhibitions of Drawing in Paris, France (1860-1890): A Study in Data-Driven Art History | John Wiorkowski | |
| Spring | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Jenkins | Mark | Aesthetic Studies | Frederick Turner | Zanesville & Western: A Creative Dissertation | Seth Giertz | |
| Spring | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | McVay | Melinda | Aesthetic Studies | Richard Brettell | The Politics of Display — Architects and Museums: John Yeon, A. James Speyer, and Lina Bo Bardi | Theodore Price | |
| Spring | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Naler | Erin | Aesthetic Studies | R. Clay Reynolds | The Aesthetic of Place in the American Play-Cycle | Joseph Friedman | |
| Spring | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Gavran | Julie | History of Ideas | Eric Schlereth | The War Against Nature: Benton Mackaye’s Regional Planning Philosophy and the Pursuit of Balance | Faruck Morcos | |
| Spring | 2017 | Arts, Technology & Emerging Communication | Arts and Technology | Andreen | Michael | Monica Evans | Choice in Digital Games: A Taxonomy of Choice Types Applied to Player Agency and Identity | Robert Ackerman | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Arts, Technology & Emerging Communication | Arts and Technology | Howard-Hughes | Terri | Adrienne McLean | Coming Attractions: Immersive Digital Technologies In Cinema And Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality in Head Mounted Displays in the Twenty-First Century | Sven Kroener | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Arts, Technology & Emerging Communication | Arts and Technology | Joyce | Lindsey | Monica Evans | Essential Elements of Narrative and Agency in Digital Interractive Narrative Games | Euel Elliott | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Arts, Technology & Emerging Communication | Arts and Technology | Naz | Asma | Mihai Nadin | An Interactive Living Space For Neo-Nomads: An Anticipatory Approach | Paul Battaglio | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Audiology | Crawford | Lauren | Linda Thibodeau | ||||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Audiology | Flores | Judith | Jackie Clark | ||||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Audiology | Mattice | Evan James | Ross Roeser | ||||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Audiology | Palumbo | Devon | Carol Cokely | ||||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Audiology | Racca | Jordan | Jackie Clark | ||||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Audiology | Shonebarger | Brett | Linda Thibodeau | ||||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Audiology | Sweatman | Margaret | Carol Cokely | ||||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Audiology | Tchen | Stephanie | Carol Cokely | ||||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Audiology | Thomas | Brenna | Lee Wilson | ||||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Audiology | Wiseman | Kathryn | Andrea Warner-Czyz | ||||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Alvarez-Dieppa | Amanda | Christa McIntyre | Molecular Mechanisms of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Enhancement of Extinction in an Impaired Animal Model | Ben Wright | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Beaton | Derek | Hervé Abdi | Implementing Appropriate Multivariate Methods for Higher Quality Results from Genetic Association Studies in Substance Abuse Populations | Shashank Sirsi | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Burgos Vega | Carolina | Gregory Dussor | Meningeal Afferent Signaling and the Pathophysiology of Migraine | Oleg Makarenkov | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Chin Fatt | Cherise | Hervé Abdi | Unraveling Alzheimer’s Disease: Relations between Neuroimaging and Neuropsychological Measures | Chadwin Young | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Moy | Jamie K. | Theodore Price | Translation Regulation in Central and Peripheral Pain Plasticity | Marilyn Waligore | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Middleton | Anna E. | Mandy Maguire | Evoking Automated Word Reading | Robert Pearson | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Criminology | Cardwell | Stephanie | Alex R. Piquero | The Longitudinal Relations between Religiosity, Moral Disengagement, and Offending in Serious Adolescent Offenders | Herve Abdi | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Criminology | Meitl | Michele | Nicole Piquero | U.S. Supreme Court Use of Social Science Research to Inform Constitutional Criminal Law and Procedure Opinions throughout the 2001 – 2015 Terms | James Harrington | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Criminology | Ozkan | Turgut | Alex R. Piquero | Predicting Recidivism Through Machine Learning | Mark Rosen | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Criminology | Riner | Richard | Nadine Connell | Race, Class, and Procedural Justice During Traffic Stops | Larry Ammann | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Economics | Muehlenbein | Sara | Rodney Andrews | Three Essays on the Economics of Education Choice | Heidi Kane | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Political Science | Childress | Curt | Anthony Champagne | Understanding Lochner: Testing Three Rival Theoretical Perspectives | Eric Schlereth | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Jackson | Laura | Doug Goodman | Toward A Theory of Local Elections: Building A Theoretical Framework By Analyzing School Bond Elections | Francesca Filbey | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Cai | Xiang | Brian J.L. Berry | Affordable Housing Policies in China: A Comparative Case Study | Xianjun Geng | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | McDonough | Matthew | Lloyd Dumas | The Effects of Defense R&D on Technological Progress: Resource Diversion Versus Spillover Benefits | William Katz | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Anand | Sanjay | Mario Romero-Ortega | Guidance of Regenerating Peripheral Axon Subtypes Using Molecular Cues | David McPhail | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Meyers | Eric | Seth Hays | Enhancing Plasticity Using Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Recovery Following Neurological Injury | Gregory Dussor | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Villarreal Suarez | Dario | Robert D. Gregg | Investigation of a Unified Phase Variable in Human Locomotion for Applications in Powered Prostheses | John Wiorkowski | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Balasubramanian | Arvind | Balakrishnan Prabhakaran | Mining Patterns in Sensor Data for Personalized Healthcare | Mohammad Akbar | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Beshay | Joseph | Ravi Prakash | Transport Protocols for Next-Generation Networks and Applications | Midori Kitagawa | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Persing | Isaac | Vincent Ng | Automated Essay Analysis | Shengqi Ye | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Raghuraman | Suraj | Balakrishnan Prabhakaran | i3DTI: Interactive 3D Tele-Immersion | John Burr | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Smith | David | Vibhav Gogate | Advances in Message-Passing Algorithms in Propositional and Lifted Graphical Models | Dmitri Kuksov | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Ugirumurera | Juliette | Zygmunt Haas | On the Planning and Operation of Completely Green Microgrids | Simon Fass | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Zhu | Wei | I-Ling Yen | Enhancing Planning Based Automated Service Composition Models and Techniques | Mark Lee | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Ahmadi | Ali | Yiorgos Makris | Applications of Machine Learning in Test Cost Reduction, Yield Estimation and Fab-of-Origin Attestation of Integrated Circuits | Surya Janakiraman | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Allen | Trevor | Naofal Al-Dhahir | Signal Processing Advances for Physical Layer Security in Communication Networks | Faruck Morcos | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Huang | Hai | Yun Chiu | High-Speed and Low-Power Pipelined SAR ADCs with Passive Residue Transfer and Dynamic Amplifier | Gregg Dieckmann | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Lee | Jae Wook | John H. L. Hansen | Lombard Effect in Speech Production by Cochlear Implant Users: Analysis, Assessment and Implications | Matthew Goeckner | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Liu | Yu | Yiorgos Makris | Hardware Trojans in Wireless Cryptographic ICs | Bin Li | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Mohamed | Ahmed | Naofal Al-Dhahir | Enabling Technologies for Next Generation Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) | Maximilian Schich | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Sujeet | Patole | Murat Torlak | Algorithms for Millimeter Wave Imaging and Sensing | Heng Du | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Saki | Fatemeh | Nasser Kehtarnavaz | Classification of Sound Signals via Computationally Efficient Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Schemes | Jeff Weekly | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Shokouhi | Navid | John Hansen | Automatic Speaker Recognition and Diarization in Co-Channel Speech | B.P.S. Murthi | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Srinivasan | Sharath | Poras T. Balsara | Low-Power Techniques for Resolution and Diarization in Co-Channel Speech | Phillip Hall | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Wang | Dongmei | John H. L. Hansen | Speech Analysis and Single Channel Enhancement to Improve Speech Intelligibility for Cochlear Implant Recipients | Noah Sasson | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Wang | Shiliang | Babak Fahimi | Vibration Analysis and Mitigation in Switched Reluctance Machine Drives | Zalman Balanov | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Hua | John H. L. Hansen | Advancements in Statistical Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Speech Enhancement | Syam Menon | |||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Xu | Hongda | Yun Chiu | The Sequence Detection Algorithm and Error-Tolerant ADC for High-Precision Detection in High-Energy Physics Experiment | Mieczyslaw Dabkowski | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Zang | Pengyuan | Walter Hu | Study of silicon nanowire field effect transistor for analog and digital biosensing | Anh Tran | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Zhang | Qingxue | Dian Zhou | Machine Learning-empowered Smart Health Wearables for Long-term High-resolution Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Tracking | William Cready | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Zhu | Shuang | Yun Chiu | Time-Domain Analog-to-Digital Conversion and Gigahertz Time-Domain Folding/Flash ADC | Robert Pearson | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Barrera Mendez | Diego | Julia W.P. Hsu | Synthesis and Characterization of Transition Metal Oxides and Dichalcogenides and Their Application in Organic Photovoltaics | Pamela Rollins | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Kong | Fantai | Kyeongjae Cho | Multi-Scale Simulation and Experimental Study of High Voltage High Capacity Cathode Materials for Lithium Ion Battery | Kimberly Hill | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Xu | Liang | Julia W.P. Hsu | Charge Dynamics and Device Physics in Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics | Frederick Turner | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Baniasadi | Mahmoud | Majid Minary-Jolandan | Investigation of Mechanical and Thermal post-processing on Morphology and Electro-Mechanical Properties of Electrospun Piezoelectric Nanofibers | Sumit Sarkar | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Sobhansarbandi | Sarvenaz | Fatemeh Hassanipour | Evacuated Tube Solar Collector Integrated with Multifunctional Absorption-Storage Materials | Pankaj Choudhary | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Xu | Tingge | Hongbing Lu | Characterization and Modeling of Mechanical Behavior of Polymers and Composites at Small Scales by Nanoindentation | Emily Choi | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Software Engineering | Park | Eunjung | Lawrence Chung | IRIS: A Goal-oriented Big Data Business Analytics Framework | Jane Salk | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Telecommunications Engineering | Askarian | Ahmad | Andras Farago | Traffic and Topology Engineering in Networks: Algorithms, Models and Optimization | Orlando Richard | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Telecommunications Engineering | Fei | Yue | Andrea Fumagalli | Impacts of Physical Layer Impairments on Optical Network Performance | Dorothee Honhon | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Management | Management Science | Liang | Lantian | Harold Zhang | Essays on Financial Intermediaries | Nicholas Gans | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Management | Management Science | Zia | Mohammad | Ram Rao | Multi-Platform Search-Based Advertising | Carlos Busso | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Abeykoon | Nimali | John Ferraris | Supercapacitor Electrode Materials from Highly Porous Carbon Nanofibers with Tailored Pore Distributions | Carlos Aiken | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Du | Jia | Mihaela Stefan | Donor-Acceptor Organic Semiconductors: Investigations of optical, electronic, and morphological Properties | Jason Slinker | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Ellsworth | Ashley | Amy Walker | Electroless Deposition of Nanostructures on Micropatterned Substrates | Justin Ruths | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Karunathilake | Arosha | Ronald Smaldone | Expanded Aromatic Monomers for Functional Porous Polymers | Tae Hoon Kim | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Perananthan | Sahila | John P. Ferraris | Preparation of Free Standing Carbon Nanofiber Electrodes for Supercapacitor Applications | Lloyd Lumata | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Perera | Wijayantha | Kenneth J. Balkus, Jr | Metal Oxide-Carbon Nanocomposites for Energy Storage and Conversion | Homer Montgomery | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Siriwardane | Dumindika | Bruce M. Novak | Unique Architectures Built on Chiral Polycarbodiimides | Jig-When Kim | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Wang | Xiaojing | Dean Sherry | PH-Responsive MRI Agents that can be Activated Beyond the Tissue MT Window | Xianming (Simon) Dai | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Wang | Zijie | Kenneth J. Balkus, Jr | Nanostructured and Nanoporous Materials for Heterogeneous Catalysis | Lunjin Chen | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Alhumimidi | Mansour | Carlos Aiken | Hyperspectral Imagery and Terrestrial Laser Scanning Integrated with Surface and Subsurface data sets for the Geologic Analysis of the Permian Carbonates of the Khuff Formation – Saudi Arabia | Giacomo Iungo | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Chen | Yanping | John Zweck and Matthew Goeckner (co-chairs) | Deterministic computation of the low probability tail of the velocity distribution due to particle collisions in spatially homogeneous plasmas | Nicholas Ruozzi | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Boyd | Stefanie | Duane Winkler | Molecular Mechanisms of Copper Delivery by Copper Chaperone for Sod1 (Ccs1) | Issa Panahi | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Huo | Wenwen | Michael Zhang | Enterococcus Faecalis Genome Defense Systems and Their Impact on Conjugative Antibiotic Resistance Plasmid Transfer | Evgenia Gorina | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Sathe | Adwait Amod | Michael Zhang | Study of the effect of epigenetic control on cell fate through diverse mechanisms in multiple organisms | Jung-Mo Ahn | ||
| Spring | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Jyotishmati | Susmita | XinChou Lou | Simulation Study of Invisible Decays of the Higgs Boson with the Circular Electron Positron Collider | William Manton | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Carpenter | Charles | David Patterson | A Re-Appropriation of Jerzy Kosinski’s Moral Universe in Light of Emmanuel Levinas’ Ethical Demand for the Stranger | Yulia Gel | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Chen | Hui Jung | Aesthetic Studies | Kim Knight | New Media Approaches to Presidential Campaigning: Barack Obama’s Centralized Control and Ron Paul’s Spontaneous Organization in 2008 and 2012 | Wonjae Choi | |
| Summer | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Johnson | Evan | Aesthetic Studies | Shilyh Warren | But the Crowd was not Satisfied: Blackface Minstrelsy and Lynching as Fandoms of the Remediated Black Body | Atanu Lahiri | |
| Summer | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Ranieri | Elizabeth | Aesthetic Studies | Mark Rosen | The Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples: The Art, Tradition, and Power of a Sacred Space | Rashaunda Henderson | |
| Summer | 2017 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Hamilton | Cristen | Studies in Literature | Rene Prieto | The Role of Space, Money, and Travel in O. Henry’s New York Stories | Brian J.L. Berry | |
| Summer | 2017 | Arts, Technology & Emerging Communication | Arts and Technology | Kay | John | Margorie Zielke | Virtual Environments as Communication Technologies of Faith | Jorge Cobb | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Arts, Technology & Emerging Communication | Arts and Technology | Senita | Jeffrey | Linehan, Thomas | The Disruptive Impact of Game Design, Mobile Technology, Social Networks and Emerging Media on Theme Parks | Vito D’Orazio | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Teed | Adam | Daniel Krawczyk | Investigating the Neural Mechanisms of Social Values Via Hormones and Neuroimaging | Siavash Pourkamali | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Psychological Sciences | Pacheco | Daniel | Margret Owen | Developmental Trajectories of Physical Aggression in Low-Income African American and Hispanic Children: Relations to Household Risk and Child Inhibitory Control | Yuri Gartstein | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Psychological Sciences | Shirvani | Forouz | Karen Prager | Sexual Intimacy, Mood, and Relationship Satisfaction after Couple Conflict: An Attachment Prespective | Wooram Park | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Economics | Roby | Christopher | Xin Li | Three Essays in Economics: Competition, Coordination, and Health | Heidi Kane | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Political Science | Albanna | Razan | Linda Keith | The Judicialization of Repression: Abuse of Physical Integrity and the Administration of Justice through Exceptional Courts, 1990-2005 | B.P.S. Murthi | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Moshier | Jeffrey | Doug Goodman | Sticky Policy: The Effectiveness of Policy Diffusion for a Federal Block Grant in Texas | Michael Kesden | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Palao Mendizabal | Agustin | Brian J.L. Berry | Mexico’s Credit Guarantees Program: Financial Inclusion and the Promotion of Rural Development | David Patterson | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Kamakoti | Vikramshankar | Prasad, Shalini | Evaluation of Molybdenum as an Electrode Material for Affinity Based Urine Dipstick Biosensing | Julia Chan | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Armaselu | Bogdan Andrei | Ovidiu Daescu | On the Geometric Separability of Bichromatic Point Sets | William Katz | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Mills | Kenneth | Mittal, Neeraj | Algorithms for Optimal Replica Placement in Data Centers | Vijay Mookerjee | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Mojica De La Vega | Luis Gerardo | Sudborough, Ivan | Permutation Arrays with Large Hamming Distance | Anton Malko | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Tran | Tien | Huynh, Dung | Connectivity Problems in Wireless Sensor Networks with Directional Antennas | Daniel Wickberg | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Wang | Nannan | Jue, Jason | Dynamic Resource Scheduling and Optimization in Elastic Optical Networks | Paul Diehl | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Wang | Xue | Fumagalli, Andrea | Cross-Layer Design Approaches Accounting for Optical Physical, Network, and Application Layers | Lynne Vieraitis | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Abdullah | Syed | Lakshman, Tamil | ECG Pre-Processing Algorithm for Reliable Transmission and Recovery over AWGN Channel | Gregg Dieckmann | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Hindy | Ahmed | Nosratinia, Aria | Approaching the Ergodic Capacity of Wireless Networks with Lattice Codes | Jennifer Holmes | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Khatri | Krishan | Tamil, Lakshman | Machine Learning-Based Techniques for Forecasting Emergency Department Peak Load Due to Respiratory Disease Patients | Amy Pinkham | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Tang | Zhuangyao | Akin, Bilal | Investigation of Optimized Control Methods for Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives | Lucien Thompson | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Xu | Benwei | Chiu, Yun | Calibration Techniques for High Speed Time-Interleaved SAR ADC | George McMechan | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Yi | Fan | Fahimi, Babak | Power Decoupling Methods for Reduced Capacitance Switched Reluctance Motor Drive | Srinivasan Raghun | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Yu | Chengzhu | Hansen, John | Robust Speaker Modeling in Non-Neutral Environments with Application to Large Scale Multi-Speaker Audio Streams | Andrew Wheeler | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Zhang | Qian | Hansen, John | Advancements in Acoustic Based Language Identification/Recognition | Kevin Siqueira | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Ellson | Gregory | Voit, Walter | Polythiourethanes for Advanced Applications | Zalman Balanov | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Shafiq | Natis | Chabal, Yves | Design approaches for enhancing photovoltaic performance of Silicon solar cells sensitized by proximal nanocrystalline quantum dots | John Sibert | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Xu | Zhe | Minary-Jolandan, Majid | Bio-Inspired Metal/Polymer-Matrix Ceramic-Reinforcement Composite | John Gooch | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Software Engineering | Gao | Ruizhi | Wong, W. Eric | Advanced Software Fault Localization for Programs with Multiple Bugs | Ganesh Janakirama | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Software Engineering | Li | Yihao | Wong, W. Eric | Applying Social Network Analysis to Software Fault-Proneness Prediction | Jason Slinker | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Management | International Management Studies | Kim | Jinsil | Lee, Seung-Hyun | Essays on Business-Government Relationship and Foreign Market Entry Decision in Transition Economies | Lunjin Chen | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Management | International Management Studies | Kim | Soo Jung | Lee, Seung-Hyun | Essays on Individual Judgment, Stakeholders and Firm Performance: Microfinance, Firm Reputation and Industry Competition | Jie Zhang | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Management | Management Science | Bo | Yang | Dawande, Milind | Essays on Inventory Management, Capacity Management, and Resource-Sharing Systems | Ashley Barnes | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Management | Management Science | Ertan | Ilhan | Stecke, Kathryn | Analyses on Strategic Consumers’ Forward Looking Behavior | Andrew Scott | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Management | Management Science | Li | Lusi | Raghunathan, Srinivasan (Chair);Chen, Jianqing (Co-Chair) | Economics of Recommender Systems in Online Marketplaces | John Burr | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Management | Management Science | Li | Yiyi | Xie, Ying | Essays on Consumer Response to User Generated Content and Online Advertising | Nicholas Gans | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Management | Management Science | Liu | Bo | Cready, William | Shareholder Value Implications of the Internal Audit Function | Monica Rankin | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Management | Management Science | Ray | Jyotishka | Mookerjee, Vijay (Chair); Menon, Syam (Co-Chair) | Essays on Commercialization of Information Technology Products | Clay Reynolds | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Kekunawela Pathiranage | Taniya | Stefan, Mihaela | Semiconducting Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers of Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) | James Harrington | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Oswald | Iain | Chan, Julia | Properties-Driven Synthesis, Structural Insights, and Discovery of Complex Intermetallics and Alloys | Alex Piquero | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Washington | Katherine | Stefan, Mihaela | Linear and Star-like Substituted Polycaprolactones for Enhanced Delivery of Doxorubicin | David Springate | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Zhang | Lei | Sherry, Dean | Responsive Agents Detecting Biomarkers with Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Gil Sadka | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Guo | Peng | McMechan, George | Seismic full waveform modeling and imaging in attenuating media | Richard Scotch | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Adjei | Francis | Ramakrishna, Viswanath | Inversion of the Covering Map for Indefinite Spin Groups | Babak Fahimi | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Kwame | Eyram | Rachinskii, Dmitrii | Dynamics of macroeconomics models with hysteresis operators | Jessica Murphy | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Adams | Hannah | Palmer, Kelli | Mechanisms of resistance to lipopeptide antibiotics in Gram-positive pathogens | Patrick Brandt | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Bhardwaj | Pooja | Palmer, Kelli | Transcriptional and Adaptive Responses of Enterococcus Faecium to the Antiseptic Chlorhexinine | Michael Wilson | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Bastatas | Lyndon | Slinker, Jason | Ionic Additives in Light Emitting Electrochemical Cells from Ionic Transition Metal Complexes | Rebecca Files | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Chen | Yun-Ju | Heelis, Roderick | The Characterization of Ionospheric Convection Reversal Boundaries in the High-Latitude Region Using DMSP Data | Sean Cotter | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Zhang | Liang | Tinsley, Brian | Scavenging of Particles by Cloud Droplets with Varying Particle Density and Relative Humidity | Euel Elliott | ||
| Summer | 2017 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Tian | Yahui | Gel, Yulia | Nonparametric and Robust Methods for Community Detection in Complex Networks | Zsuzsanna Ozsvath | ||