2020-2021 doctoral degrees awarded
Fall 2020 total: 68
Spring 2021 total: 120
Summer 2021 total: 69
| Semester | Year | School | Department | Last Name | First Name | Major | Degree | Supervising Professor | Dissertation Title | Outside Chair |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | 2020 | School of Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Amaro Martinez | Edgard | PHD | Charles Hatfield/Manuel Martinez | The Diversity of the Human Experience in LatinX Literature | Malina, Roger | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Fletcher | Ryan | Studies in Literature | PHD | Michael Wilson | Meaning in the Margin: The Letters and Works of David Garnett | Gooch, John |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication | Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication | Bernfeld | Luke | PHD | Monica Evans | Peering into The Blackbox The Role of Digital Game Development in Game Studies | Hatfield, Charles | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication | Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication | Eubanks | James | PHD | Paul Fishwick/Ryan McMahan | Effects of Full-Body Tracking on Embodiment in Virtual Reality | Hill, Kimberly | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Das | Namrata | PHD | Sandra Chapman | Relationship of Brain Phosphate Metabolism and Cognition Using 31Phosphorus Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Alzheimer’s Disease | Solodkin, Ana Josefa | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Gunal | Mehmet | PHD | Daniel Krawczyk | fNIRS and Pupillometry Correlates of Attentional States | Evans, Julia | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Evans Delaney | PHD | Andrea Warner-Czyz/Julia Evans | Facial Emotion Perception and Recognition in Adolescents with Cochlear Implants | Nelson, Jackie | ||
| Fall | 2020 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Hiebert | Lindsey | PHD | Raúl Rojas | Spanish Language Growth and Deceleration and its Impact on English Language Growth and English Reading Skills in Bilingual | Warner-Czyz, Andrea | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Mehta | Sonya | PHD | William Katz | Effects of Visual Feedback on the Production and Perception of Second Language Speech Sounds: A Comparison of Articulatory and Auditory Instruction | Spence, Melanie | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Peskova | Olga | PHD | Peter Assmann | Evaluation of Consonant Error Patterns in Speech Perception and Production of Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users | Abdi, Herve | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Wiseman | Kathryn | PHD | Andrea Warner-Czyz | Multidimensional Evaluation of Daily Device Use, Communication, and the Family System in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users | Rugg, Michael | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Psychological Sciences | Cavazos | Jacqueline | PHD | Alice O’Toole | Does Race Matter? Testing Parameters for Collaboration Benefits on Face Identification Accuracy | Owen, Margaret | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Criminology | Hernandez | Richard | PHD | Lynne Vieraitis | Perspective Bias and Attitudes Toward the Police – An Analysis of Video-Recorded Citizen and Police Interactions | Ratliff Santoro, Lauren | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Economics | Kwak | Jihun | PHD | Donggyu Sul | Three Essays on Panel Data Analysis | Cummings, Anthony | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Economics | Montenegro Arana | Sebastian | PHD | Rodney Andrews | Three Essays on the Economics of Financial Aid | Jacobs, Bruce | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Geospatial Information Science | Liau | Yan-Ting | PHD | Daniel Griffith | The Use of Spatially Imputed Variables: Four Papers Addressing Implications of Imputation-based Measurement Error in A Spatial Context | Vieraitis, Lynne | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Geospatial Information Science | Shi | Fan | PHD | Fang Qiu | Remote Sensing Videography: Potentials, Methods, and Applications | Elliot, Euel | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Alpert | Jeanine | PHD | Richard Scotch | Continued Education for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Phenomenological Study of Post High School Programming | Ho, Karl | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Latiolais | Jasmine | PHD | Donald Hicks | Exogenous Responses and Endogenous Recovery: How Federal Disaster Relief Affects Disaster Recovery | McCaskill, John | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Martin | Rafael | PHD | Patrick Brandt | The Taxonomic Examination of the Determinants of University Licensing Revenue | Siqueira, Kevin | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Stanaland | Leslie | PHD | Jonas Bunte | Black Gold or Black Hole?: The Effects of Oil on the Informal Economy | Tiefelsdorf, Michael | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Zaychik | Danielle | PHD | Richard Scotch | Where They Die of the Unknown: A Study of United States Medicolegal Death Investigation Systems and Mortality Data Quality | ||
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Ambulo | Cedric | PHD | David Schmidtke/Taylor Ware | 4D Printing Liquid Crystalline Actuators toward Assistive Devices | Nourani, Mehrdad | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Soltantabar | Pooneh | PHD | Mihaela Stefan | Microfabrication of an Organ-On-A-Chip Device to Model Cardiotoxicity Induced by Chemotherapies for Cancer Nanomedicine Evaluation | Farago, Andras | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Anindya | Imrul | PHD | Murat Kantarcioglu | Understanding and Mitigating Privacy Risks Raised By Record Linkage | Walker, Amy | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Das | Srijita | PHD | Sriraam Natarajan | Sample Efficient Cost-Aware Active Learning | Auciello, Orlando | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | De | Partha | PHD | Ramaswamy Chandrasekaran | Robust and Adaptive Optimization | Li, Yaoyu | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Guo | Yuanzhen | PHD | Nicholas Ruozzi | Variational Inference Methods for Continuous Probabilistic Graphical Models | Young, Chadwin | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Kaur | Navdeep | PHD | Sriraam Natarajan | Efficient Combination of Neural and Symbolic Learning for Relational Data | Griffith, Todd | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Mahzari | Anahita | PHD | Ravi Prakash | Exploiting Mobile Edge Computing to Improve Efficiency of 360° Video Streaming | Prasad, Shalini | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Mai | Kelvin | PHD | Murat Kantarcioglu/Alvaro Cardenas | Anomaly Detection in SCADA Networks Using Expert Models and Machine Learning Based Techniques | Wallace, Robert | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Ramanan | Nandini | PHD | Sriraam Natarajan | Efficient and Effective Structure Learning of Graphical Models | Hsu, Julia | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Chen | Jianqi | PHD | Benjamin Carrion Schaefer | Leveraging the Advantages of High-level Synthesis: From Hardware Security to Low-Power Design | Moheimani, Reza | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Cong | Lin | PHD | Hoi Lee | Design Techniques for Volume-Efficient Soft-Switched Power Converters with Enhanced Power Efficiency and Reliability | Hays, Seth | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Marzban | Mohamed | PHD | Naofal Al-Dhahir | Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms for Security and Safety in Vehicular Applications | Kumar, Golden | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Quayum | Ayon | PHD | Hlaing Minn | Signal Design and Processing for Grant-Free Access | Cobb, Jorge | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Wei | Haoran | PHD | Nasser Kehtarnavaz | Deep Learning Solutions for Continuous Action Recognition Using Fusion of Inertial and Video Sensing and for Far Field Video Surveillance | Zalila-Wenkstern, Rym | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Laturia | Akash | PHD | William Vandenberghe | Study of the Electrical Properties of Low-Dimensional Materials Using Plane-Wave Computational Methods | Daescu, Ovidiu | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Nandagopala Krishnan | Siddartha Srinivasan | PHD | Manuel Quevedo-Lopez | Scalable Low-Cost Large-Area Micro-Structured Thermal Neutron Detectors | Cogan, Stuart | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Wijesinghe | Udumbara | PHD | Mark Lee | Integrated Circuit “Astrolabe” Angular Displacement Sensor Using On-Chip Pinhole Optics | Busso-Recabarren, Carlos | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Guo | Yi | PHD | Tyler Summers | Stochastic Optimization and Optimal Control for Complex Networked Infrastructures | Guo, Xiaohu | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Horn | Jonathan | PHD | Robert Gregg/Tyler Summers | Nonholonomic Virtual Constraints for Bipedal Locomotion | Balsara, Poras | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Narayan | Meenakshi | PHD | Ann Majewicz Fey | Data-Driven Models for Real-Time Prevention of Adverse Events in Robotic Needle Interventions | Chiu, Yun | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Yeatman | Mark | PHD | Robert Gregg/Mark Spong | Energy and Passivity Based Control for Bipeds and Assistive Walking Devices | Gupta, Gopal | |
| Fall | 2020 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Zhang | Rui | PHD | Dong Qian | Multiscale Methods for Fatigue and Dynamic Fracture Failure and High-Performance Computing Implementation | Makris, Georgios | |
| Fall | 2020 | Jindal School of Management | Management Science | Feng | Zhichao | PHD | Milind Dawande/Ganesh Janakiraman | Essays in Operations Management | Lahiri, Atanu | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Gamage | Prabhath Lakmal | PHD | Michael Biewer/Mihaela Stefan | Pyrrole Based Donor-Acceptor Building Blocks for Organic Field Effect Transistors | Lv, Bing | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Lin | Jason | PHD | Kenneth Balkus | Wrinkled Mesoporous Silica Synthesis and Applications | Rugg, Elizabeth | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Luzuriaga | Michael | PHD | Jeremiah Gassensmith | A New Biomaterial for Vaccination: An Aqueous ZIF-8 Crystal Growth to Preserve Antigens and Enhance the Immune Activation | Winkler, Duane | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Namal Arachchilage | Chamni | PHD | Bruce Novak | The Transition Metal Catalyzed Polymerization of Heteroallenes: Cholesteric Gels and Cyclopolymerizations | Zhang, Chuanwei | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Talukder | Md Muktadir | PHD | Mihaela Stefan/Michael Biewer | Alpha-Diimine Nickel (II) and Palladium (II) Complexes in Cross-Coupling Reactions | Dragovic, Vladimir | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Wunch | Melissa | PHD | Duck Joo Yang | Preparation of Functionalized Graphenes and Their Performance for Corrosion Resistance and Synthesis of Vanadium Nitridecarbon Nanofiber Mats and their Application for Asymmetric Supercapacitor Electrodes | Cao, Yan | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Nichols | Naomi Ty Asha | PHD | Thomas Brikowski | Saharan Dust and Pediatric Asthma: A Multinational, Multiyear Assessment in the Caribbean | Campbell, Zachary | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Wu | Yulang | PHD | Hejun Zhu | Full Wavefield Reconstruction and Full Waveform Inversion | Minkoff, Susan | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Burnett | Joseph | PHD | Wieslaw Krawcewicz/Zalman Balanov | Global Bifurcation of Periodic Solutions in Symmetric Reversible Second Order Systems with Delays | Smaldone, Ronald | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Stuart | Georgia | PHD | Susan Minkoff/Felipe Pereira | Computationally Efficient Methods for Uncertainty Quantification in Seismic Inversion | Ferraris, John | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Chen | Hao | PHD | Heng Du | Mitochondria-Dependent Local Caspase Activation and Mitofusin 2-Mediated Mitophagy in Neurodegeneration | Biswas, Swati | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Joyce | Luke | PHD | Kelli Palmer | Lipidomic Analysis of the Streptococcal Cellular Membrane | Akbar, Mohammad | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Tandon | Neha Ramesh | PHD | Lucien Thompson | Linking Insulin Signaling to Age-Related Cognitive Decline: Insulin-Dependent Regulation of Intrinsic Excitability in Aging Hippocampus | Lumata, Lloyd | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Thomas-Jardin | Shayna | PHD | Nikki Delk | Interleukin-1 Regulation of Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer | Chen, Min | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Tian | Jing | PHD | Heng Du | Ghrelin System Deficiency and Hippocampal Lesions in Alzheimer’s Disease | Viswanath, Ramakrishna | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Ullrich | Morgan | PHD | Duane Winkler | The Functions and Roles of the Copper Chaperone of Superoxide Dismutase 1 | Rodrigues, Fabiano | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Maisberger | Matthew | PHD | Chuanwei Zhang | Quantum Phases of Time-Reversal Invariant Bose-Einstein Condensates | Makarenkov, Oleg | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Wang | Qing | PHD | Lloyd Lumata | Production and NMR Characterization of Dynamic Nuclear Polarization-Enhanced Yttrium-89 Complexes and Carbon-13 Organic Compounds | Meloni, Gabriele | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Bu | Yashi | PHD | Min Chen | A Bayesian Modeling for Paired Data in Genome-wide Association Studies with Application to Breast Cancer | Novak, Bruce | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Gunawardana | Kalupahana Liyanage | PHD | Frank Konietschke | Nonparametric Multiple Comparisons and Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for General Multivariate Factorial Designs | Stefan, Mihaela | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Yuan | Xiaochen | PHD | Swati Biswas | Bivariate Logistic Bayesian LASSO for Detecting Rare Haplotype Association with Two Correlated Phenotypes | Nielsen, Steven | |
| Fall | 2020 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Zhang | Cong | PHD | Min Chen/Michael Zhang | Tracking Dissemination of Plasmids in the Murine Gut Using Hi-C Sequencing and Baysian Landmark-Based Shape Analysis of Tumor Pathology Images | Yang, Duck | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Negron | Linda | PHD | Nils Roemer/David Patterson | The Value of Life and Moral Courage: How Jewish Prisoner Physicians Practiced Medicine Behind Barbed Wire | Pomara, John | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Sengupta | Karl | PHD | David Patterson | Otherwise, Then Being: Kenosis in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas | ||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Yokoyama | Akira | PHD | Adrienne McLean | Camp in Literary Modernism: Reading the Performance of Gender and Race | Wright, Ben | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Guyot | Natacha | Aesthetic Studies | PHD | Adrienne McLean | Dr. Dana Scully of The X-Files: A Feminist Scientist Navigating Patriarchies | Greer, Erin |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Thompson | Harolyn | Aesthetic Studies | PHD | Mark Rosen/Bonnie Pitman | African Art on View: Mediating Histories in Four American Art Museums | Fishwick, Paul |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Gotham | Briana | History of Ideas | PHD | Nils Roemer/Mark Rosen | The Venetian Ghetto: An Experiment in Containment, 1516-1867 | Gooch, John |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Townsend | Richard | History of Ideas | PHD | Daniel Wickberg | Reconsidering Bryan: William Jennings Bryan’s Advocacy of Causes Using Rights-Based Arguments | Hatfield, Charles |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Johnson | Ryan | Studies in Literature | PHD | Erin Smith/Matthew Brown | Making the (Super) Man: The Moral Code in Superhero Comics | McComber, Sean |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Tehan | Terin | Studies in Literature | PHD | David Patterson | Forbidden Games: Representations of the Holocaust in Videogames | Warren, Shilyh |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Arts and Humanities | Literature | Munoz-Hunt | Toni | PHD | Manuel Luis Martinez | Double Hybridization and Bordercanx Literary Works: How the United States Turned Mexican Americans into the Forgotten People | ||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Arts and Humanities | Visual and Performing Arts | Brunetti | Francesca | PHD | Marilyn Waligore | Post-Terrona. A Drawing Project About an Imaginative Reconfiguration of the Southern Italian Woman | Wilson, Michael | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Arts, Technology & Emerging Communications | Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication | Mallory | Stephen | PHD | Monica Evans | Playful History: Games, Liberation Pedagogy, and Historical Thinking | Stewart, Whitney | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Arts, Technology & Emerging Communications | Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication | Miller | Eric | PHD | Monica Evans | Toward the Design of Interactive Storytelling Games that Teach Computational Thinking | Brown, Matthew | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Adcock | Katherine | PHD | Michael Kilgard/Seth Hays | Evaluating Targeted Plasticity Therapy for New Indications | Rugg, Michael | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Baragchizadeh | Asal | PHD | Alice O’Toole | The Role of Biological Motion in Identity Representations: Mechanism of the Integration of Body Form and Body Motion in Person Identification | Rollins, Pamela | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Hu | Ying | PHD | Alice O’Toole | First Impressions: Integrating Faces and Bodies in Personality Trait Perception | Assmann, Peter | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Morrison | Robert | PHD | Michael Kilgard | Vagus Nerve Stimulation Intensity Regulates Targeted Plasticity | Rodrigue, Karen | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Paige | Candler | PHD | Theodore Price | Mechanistic Sex Differences Underlying the Development of Chronic Pain | ||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Wangzhou | Andi | PHD | Theodore Price | Identification of Novel Pharmacological Targets for Pain Treatment Using Computational Analysis of RNA-SEQ Data | Lobarinas, Edward | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Fazel | Vedad | PHD | William Katz | Lingual Speech Motor Control Assessed by a Novel Visuomotor Tracking Paradigm | Maguire, Mandy | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Fowler | Stephanie | PHD | Andrea Warner-Czyz | The Effect of Auditory Device, Onset of Hearing Loss, and Chronologic Age on Music Perception and Appreciation in Adult Listeners | Prager, Karen | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Doctor of Audiology | Campbell | Christina | AUD | Edward Lobarinas | |||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Doctor of Audiology | Flannagan | Morgan | AUD | Carol Cokely | |||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Doctor of Audiology | Gittleman | Sarah | AUD | Colleen Le Prell | |||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Doctor of Audiology | Golden | Rene | AUD | Carol Cokely | |||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Doctor of Audiology | Han | Josephine | AUD | Laura Parnell | |||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Doctor of Audiology | Holcomb | Hunter | AUD | Jackie Clark | |||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Doctor of Audiology | Iola | Arielle | AUD | Carol Cokely | |||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Doctor of Audiology | Joy | Tatum | AUD | Jackie Clark | |||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Doctor of Audiology | Kao | Tz-Ching | AUD | Ross Roeser | |||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Doctor of Audiology | Quinley | Elizabeth | AUD | Jackie Clark | |||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Doctor of Audiology | Swanner | Hannah | AUD | Edward Lobarinas | |||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Doctor of Audiology | Tittle | Stephanie | AUD | Linda Thibodeau | |||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Doctor of Audiology | Tolstyka | David | AUD | Ross Roeser | |||
| Spring | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Criminology | Yim | Haneul | PHD | Lynne Vieraitis | Getting Inside the “Black Box” of Deterrence: Does Communication of Focused Deterrence Deter Crime? | Diehl, Paul | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Economics | Ahmadi | Maryam | PHD | Daniel G. Arce | Experimental Studies on Individual Decision-Making and Game Theory | D’Orazio, Vito | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Economics | Colunga Ramos | Luis Fernando | PHD | Victor Valcarcel | Three Essays on the Monetary Policy in Mexico | Kim, Dohyeong | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Economics | Han | Minyu | PHD | Donggyu Sul | Three Essays on Panel Data Analysis | Taylor, Robert | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Political Science | Millard | Christine | PHD | Brian Berry | Christianity in Politics: Churches, Congregations and the Role of Ministers | Morales, Camila | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Political Science | Sackett | Brent | PHD | Clint Peinhardt | NATO Burden-Sharing and Keeping the Peace: Crisis Response and the Military Capabilities Gap | Searing, Elizabeth | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Noor | Muhammad Zeeshan | PHD | Sarah Maxwell/Elizabeth Searing | Digital Media Use by Nonprofit Organizations: Relationships, Causations, and Comparisons | Miller, Trey | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Stocks | Dhriti | PHD | James Harrington | Beyond Tiebout: Towards a Theory of Philanthropic Engagement in Education in Local Communities | Harris, Michelle | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Upoma | Shahrin | PHD | Meghna Sabharwal | Through a Gender Lens: Leadership and Philanthropy in Faith-based Nonprofit Organizations | Cordell, Rebecca | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Arazgeldiyeva | Ogulsoltan | PHD | Richard Scotch | Factors Affecting the Shingles Vaccination Rate in Seniors: the Shingles (Zostavax) and Tetanus Vaccination Comparison | Giertz, Seth | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Callenes | Mercedez | PHD | Jennifer Holmes/Brian Berry | Gender Disparities in Decision Making in Agriculture: A Case of Study of Small Producers in Peru | Miller, Banks | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Brown | Katherine | PHD | Kenneth Hoyt | Super-Resolution Ultrasound Imaging of Microvascular Networks | Kiasaleh, Kamran | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Bucksot | Jesse | PHD | Seth Hays | The Impact of Electrode Design on Nerve Stimulation | Bhatia, Dinesh | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Frederick | Rebecca | PHD | Stuart Cogan | Chronic Wireless Stimulation in Rat Sciatic Nerve for Selective Control of Hindlimb Movements | Lee, Jeong-Bong | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Hernandez Reynoso | Ana Guadalupe | PHD | Stuart Cogan | Neuromodulation of the Pelvic Floor for the Treatment of Female Stress Urinary Incontinence | Nguyen, Tien | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Ozdemir | Ipek | PHD | Kenneth Hoyt | Novel Ultrasound Imaging Methods for the Characterization of Tissue Microvascular Networks | Ng, Vincent | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Sanchez | Camilo | PHD | Catherine Thorn | Towards Vagus Nerve Stimulation for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease | ||
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Engineering | Hu | Yanke | PHD | Weili Wu | Healthcare Information Platform in AI Era | Anderson, William | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Engineering | Wang | Zi | PHD | Benjamin Schafer | Efficient High-Level Synthesis Design Space Exploration | Jue, Jason | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Desai | Takshak | PHD | Dan Moldovan | Discourse Parsing and its Application to Question Generation | Hansen, John | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Duan | Jun | PHD | Kevin Hamlen | Securing Computations with GPUs | Vandenberghe, William Gerard Hubert | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Fan | Zhenbao | PHD | Kang Zhang | Aesthetic Measurement of Paintings | Gelb, Lev | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Gao | Yang | PHD | Latifur Khan | Enhancing Classification and Retrieval Performance by Mining Semantic Similarity Relation from Data | Malik, Arif | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Guo | Jianxiong | PHD | Ding-Zhu Du/Weili Wu | Several Practical Models and Their Approximate Solutions in Social Networks | Overzet, Lawrence | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Lu | Jing | PHD | Vincent Ng | Knowledge-Rich Event Coreference Resolution | Henderson, Rashaunda | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Tao | Hemeng | PHD | Latifur Khan/Bhavani Thuraisingham | Transfer Learning and Distance Metric Learning in Non-stationary Environments | Quevedo-Lopez, Manuel | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Van Buskirk | Gregory | PHD | Benjamin Raichel | Finding Features via Hull Approximation | Fahimi, Babak | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Arjona Angarita | Ricardo Javier | PHD | Andrea Fumagalli/Miguel Razo-Razo | An Internet of Things Platform for Improved Water Management Using Underground Soil Moisture Sensing | Fei, Baowei | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Babu | Sachin | PHD | Jeong-Bong Lee | Studies on Improving Quality Factor of 2D GMR Gratings and on Nonwetting Properties of Plasma- Treated Polymer Surfaces Towards Liquid Metal Microfluidics | Chung, Lawrence | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Chen | Ziyu | PHD | Jeong-Bong Lee | A Study on Gallium Coating and Wireless Platform for Implantable Biomedical Applications | Liu, Cong | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Choi | Ye | PHD | Gil Lee | Carbon Nanotube Sheet Synthesis in Nitrogen Environment and Flexible CNT Sheet Strain Sensor | Chung, Lawrence | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Dong | Shenggang | PHD | Kenneth O | Millimeter-Wave Wideband MSK Receiver and Transmitter in CMOS | Desmedt, Yvo | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Dousti | Behnoush | PHD | Gil Lee/Stuart Cogan | High Performance Ultra-Thin Microsupercapacitors Based on Carbon Nanotube Sheets | Natarajan, Sriraam | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | El Bouanani | Lidia | PHD | Manuel Quevedo-Lopez | Bi-Layer and Hybrid Single Crystal Materials for Radiation Detection Applications | Haas, Zygmunt | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Hu | Bo | PHD | Carl Sechen/Benjamin Carrion Schaefer | Thermal-Aware Placement and High Level Synthesis for Hardware Security | Rotea, Mario | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Jha | Sumit | PHD | Carlos Busso-Recabarren | Modeling of Driver Attention in Real World Scenarios Using Probabilistic Salient Maps | Schweitzer, Haim | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Li | Zhitong | PHD | Qing Gu | Perovskite Nanophotonic Devices and Topological Photonic Devices | Minary, Majid | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Liu | Yongkang | PHD | John Hansen | Advancing Driver Behavior Modeling and Improved Driving Safety in the Age of Mixed Vehicle Automation Levels | Ng, Yu-Chung | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Lu | Yichuan | PHD | Georgios Makris | Utilization of Post-Fabrication Calibration in Thwarting Process Variation and Analog IP Piracy | Page, Ivor | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Momson | Ibukunoluwa | PHD | Kenneth O | Sub-millimeter Wave Wideband CMOS Receivers | Thuraisingham, Bhavani | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Saba | Juliana | PHD | John Hansen | Leveraging Landmark Acoustic Features in Cochlear Implant Signal Processing | Prakash, Ravi | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Shankar | Nikhil | PHD | Issa Panahi | Real-Time Single and Dual-Channel Speech Enhancement on Edge Devices for Hearing Applications | Lu, Hongbing | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Shreedhar Bhat | Gautam | PHD | Issa Panahi | Real-Time Speech Processing Algorithms for Smartphone Based Hearing Aid Applications | Qian, Dong | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Taghizadeh Alamdari | Nasim | PHD | Nasser Kehtarnavaz | Personalization of Noise Reduction and Compression for Hearing Enhancement | Gonzalez, Juan | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Taherkhani | Nima | PHD | Kamran Kiasaleh | Enhanced Coding Based Modulation for OFDM-Based Visible Light Communication | Spong, Mark | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Thakur | Sneha | PHD | Poras Balsara/Ghanshyamsinh Gohil | Grid Forming Energy Router: A utility interface for Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Storage Grid Integration Applications | ||
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Tran | Kim | PHD | Rashaunda Henderson | Design of Power Amplifiers with Bounded Performance Technique | Venkatesan, Subbarayan | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Wei | Kang | PHD | Dongsheng Brian Ma | Switched-Capacitor Featured Integrated Power Circuit Design for Next-Generation Power Management | Fischetti, Massimo | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Yousefi | Midia | PHD | John Hansen | Deep learning based methods for detection, separation, and recognition of overlapping speech | Kim, Jiyoung | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Ashburn | Nickolas | PHD | Kyeongjae Cho | Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Catalytic Role of Substrate Surfaces in Deposition Processes | Ntafos, Simeon | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Avila Avendano | Carlos | PHD | Manuel Quevedo-Lopez | In-Pixel Sensor Amplification Platforms Based on Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-Film Transistors | Bastani, Farokh | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Chakraborty | Bitan | PHD | Stuart Cogan | Sputtered Electrode Coatings for Neural Stimulation and Recording | Raichel, Benjamin | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Chen | Shanmeng | PHD | Massimo Fischetti | Study of Quantum Transport in Nano-Scale Transistors Using Empirical Pseudopotentials | Hao, Shuang | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Kwon | Sunah | PHD | Moon Kim | Atomic-Scale Characterization of Surface and Interface Dynamics in Novel Materials: Cr2Ge2Te6, NbSe2, and Strontium Barium Niobate | Yang, Wei | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Lee | Yeonghun | PHD | Kyeongjae Cho | Quantum Materials Simulations: Excited-State Dynamics and Quantum Transport | Du, Ding-Zhu | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Almubarak | Yara | PHD | Yonas Tadesse | Tailoring Artificial Muscles for the Design and Development of Soft Underwater Robots | Hoyt, Kenneth | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Garimella | Martand Mayukh | PHD | Stefano Leonardi | Fluid Retention in Liquid Infused Surfaces: A Direct Numerical Simulation Study | Chen, Feng | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Jiang | Lin | PHD | Fatemeh Hassanipour | Clinical and Experimental Study on the Biomechanics of Breastfeeding | Nourani, Mehrdad | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Levy | Emily | PHD | Nicholas Fey/Yonas Tadesse | Informing Surgical Interventions via Biomechanical Engineering Techniques for Individuals with Lower-Limb Loss and Pathology | Saquib, Mohammad | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Sunny | Sumair | PHD | Arif Malik | Multiscale Modeling to Predict Induced Residual Stress, Distortion and Material Properties in Metal Additively Manufactured Components | Khan, Latifur | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Yu | Haoliang | PHD | Arif Malik/Stefano Leonardi | Numerical Simulations of Structural and Fluid Dynamics for Aerodynamic Performance Improvement | Sarac, Kamil | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Software Engineering | Johng | Haan Mo | PHD | Lawrence Chung | Improving Business Processes Using Blockchain, Microservices, or Cloud Computing: A Goal-Oriented Approach | Lee, Hoi | |
| Spring | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Telecommunications Engineering | Ranjbar-Mojaveri | Zohre | PHD | András Faragó | Graph Theoretic Approaches for Analyzing Routes, Flows, and Subnetworks in Communication Networks | Tadesse, Yonas | |
| Spring | 2021 | Naveen Jindal School of Management | International Management Studies | Boncoeur | Olivier | PHD | Riki Takeuchi/Orlando Richard | A Conservation of Resources Approach to the Multiple Dimensions of Sleep in Organizational Behavior | Ryu, Young | |
| Spring | 2021 | Naveen Jindal School of Management | International Management Studies | Welbourne Eleazar | Miranda | PHD | Toyah Miller | Entrepreneurial and Strategic Decision-Making in the Face of Adversity | Radhakrishnan, Suresh | |
| Spring | 2021 | Naveen Jindal School of Management | Management Science | Hosseinabadi Farahani | Mehdi | PHD | Milind Dawande/Ganesh Janakiraman | Essays in Operations Management | Tsang, Eric | |
| Spring | 2021 | Naveen Jindal School of Management | Management Science | Kim | Sang Hyun | PHD | Vikram Nanda | Essays on Institutional Trading in Equity Markets | Sethi, Suresh | |
| Spring | 2021 | Naveen Jindal School of Management | Management Science | Li | Chenchen | PHD | William Cready/Ningzhong Li | Why Do Firms Hide Customer Identities? An Accounting Manipulation Explanation | Wei, Kelsey | |
| Spring | 2021 | Naveen Jindal School of Management | Management Science | Zhang | Chenglong | PHD | Srinivasan Raghunathan/Jianqing Chen | Essays on Economics of Sharing Economy | Park, Haemin | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Huynh | Mai | PHD | Rockford Draper/Paul Pantano | Scavenger Receptor A1 Distinguishes Bovine Serum Albumin-Coated Pristine and Carboxylated Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes | Zhang, Li | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Miller | Justin | PHD | Mihaela Stefan | Magnetic and Catalytic Properties of Lanthanide Complexes | Choudhary, Pankaj | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Ranathunga | Dineli | PHD | Steven Nielsen | Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Study Molecular Interactions at Biologically and Mechanically Important Surfaces | Shi, Xiaoyan | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Weiland | Ashley | PHD | Julia Chan | Synthetic Design of Cerium-Based Intermetallics | Xuan, Zhenyu | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Contreras | Cesar | PHD | Tomoki Ohsawa | Controlled Lagrangians and Stabilization of Euler-Poincaré Mechanical Systems with Broken Symmetry | Stefan, Mihaela | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Helal | Md Abu | PHD | Viswanath Ramakrishna/Alain Bensoussan | Mathematical Methods for Advanced Problems of Inventory Control | Izen, Joseph | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Rouf | Samiha | PHD | Dmitry Rachinskiy/Jana Kopfova | Dynamics of SIR Model with Switching Transmission Rate and Vaccination Rate Characterized by a Relay System or Preisach Operator | Slinker, Jason | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Wu | Che-Yu | PHD | Mieczyslaw Dabkowski | Coefficients of Catalan States of Lattice Crossing | Stefan, Mihaela | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Islam | Moutusee | PHD | Kelli Palmer | Genomic Analyses of Enterococcus faecium: Vancomycin-Resistant Isolates from Dallas, Texas and Occurance of CRISPR-Cas | Kesden, Michael | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Vidal | Chantal | PHD | Li Zhang | Characterizing the role of Heme in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis | Pantano, Paul | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Steinle | Nathan | PHD | Michael Kesden | Connecting Stellar-Binary Evolution with Binary Black-Hole Spin Precession | Chan, Julia | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Wang | Qiyue | PHD | Fan Zhang | Band Topology and Moire Physics in Layered Materials | Ohsawa, Tomoki | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Wijeratne | Lakitha | PHD | David Lary | Coupling Physical Measurement with Machine Learning for Holistic Environmental Sensing | Stefan, Mihaela | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Zhang | Xurui | PHD | Xiaoyan Shi | Quantum Transport Properties in Tungsten Ditelluride Based Devices | Cao, Yan | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Zheng | Peng Peng | PHD | Fan Zhang | Effective Model for Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Quasiperiodic Anomalous Anderson Floquet Insulators | Delk, Nikki | |
| Spring | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Zhang | Yu | PHD | Min Chen/Michael Zhang | Estimating Distributions of Deletion Mutations Among Bacterial Populations and Graphical Modeling of Multiple Biological Pathways in Genomic Studies | Zhu, Hejun | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Arts and Humanities | History of Ideas | Rodriguez | Monica | PHD | Schlereth, Eric (Chair) | Listening Tenaciously: Politics, Languages, and Historiography in the Work of J.G.A Pocock | Gooch, John | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Arts, Technology & Emerging Communications | Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication | Garcia Topete | Alex | PHD | Malina, Roger (Chair) / Cooley, Heidi (Co-Chair) | Transdisciplinary Intelligence: Linking Factors of Knowledge Production and the Cultural Dimensions of Industries | Kratz, Dennis | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Audiology | Trevino | Monica | AUD | ||||
| Summer | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Doli | Evdoxia | PHD | Katz, William (Chair) | Gestural Coordination of Modern Greek Consonant Clusters: Kinematic Analysis and use of Supervised Learning Methods | Evans, Julia | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | dos Santos | Natalia Lucia | PHD | Burton, Michael (Chair) | The Influence of Age and Sex on: Neuroimmune Function, Cognition and Pain | Evans, Julia | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Himes | Lyndahl | PHD | Rypma, Bart (Chair) | Neural and Cognition Mechanisms of Trait Mindfulness and Their Relationships to Negatively-Valanced Emotional Reactivity | Nelson, Jackie | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Ray | Nicholas | PHD | Basak, Chandramallika (Chair) | White Matter Changes Associated with Computerized Cognitive Training in Healthy Aging | Golden, Richard | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Yu | Ju-Chi | PHD | Abdi, Hervé (Chair) | Sparse Partial Least Square Correspondence Analysis (SPLS-CA): Applications to Genetics and Behavioral Studies | Assmann, Peter | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Psychological Sciences | Ralph | Yvonne | PHD | Maguire, Mandy (Chair) | Self-Report Reveals the Relationship Between Mental Rotation Approach and Performance in Middle Childhood | Warner-Czyz, Andrea | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences | Psychological Sciences | Sands | Kaitlin | PHD | Mills, Candice (Chair) | Biological Learning in Children: Explanation Evaluation, Memory, and Individual Differences | Rollins, Pamela | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Criminology | Derlic | Dragana | PHD | Vieraitis, Lynne (Chair) | The Effects of Trauma-Informed Yoga on Men and Women Who are Incarcerated: A Program Evaluation | Fass, Simon | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Economics | Zhang | Licheng | PHD | Panovska, Irina (Chair) | Essays on Macroeconomics and Finance | Gorina, Evgenia | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Geospatial Information Science | Karale | Yogita | PHD | Yuan, May (Chair) | Site-Specific PM2.5 Estimation at Three Urban Scales | Worrall, John | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Erdem | Zekai | PHD | Gorina, Evgenia (Chair) | Drivers of Organizational Change in USAID After 9-11: A Qualitative Inquiry Using the Burke-Litwin Model | Brandt, Patrick | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Park | Yongjun | PHD | Battaglio Jr., R. Paul (Chair) | Conscription or Volunteer? Assessing the Impact on Korean Military Sector Performance | Valcarcel, Victor | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Hang | Tian | PHD | Ho, Karl (Co-Chair) / Berry, Brian (Co-Chair) | Wage Determinants of College Graduates in China: A Case Study of Nanjing | Panovska, Irina | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Islam | Iftekhairul | PHD | Berry, Brian (Chair) | Task Attributes, Technological Change and the Vulnerability of Employment: A State Level Investigation | Beron, Kurt | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Munday | Matthew | PHD | Bunte, Jonas (Chair) | Taiwan and the Recognition Decisions of Developing States | Andrews, Rodney | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Nava | Marcela | PHD | Scotch, Richard (Chair) | The Political Economy of Immigrant Health: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Social Capital and the Immigrant Paradox | Sul, Donggyu | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Oketch | Christine | PHD | Berry, Brian (Chair) | The Future of Soft Skills in a High Technology Labor Market | Griffith, Daniel | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Taden | John | PHD | Bunte, Jonas (Co-Chair) / Berry, Brian (Co-Chair) | Resource Booms, Industrial Busts, and Cross-Border Spillovers in Post-Colonial Africa | Lowry, Robert | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Usoro | Joshua | PHD | Pancrazio, Joseph (Chair) | Design Considerations for Improving the Chronic Functionality and Behavioral Outcomes Associated with Intracortical Microelectrode Arrays | Chiu, Yun | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Engineering | Eslami Manoochehri | Hafez | PHD | Nourani, Mehrdad (Chair) | Exploiting Instance Similarity in Applications of Deep Learning in Bioinformatics | Rugg, Elizabeth | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Engineering | Shahshahani | Masoud | PHD | Bhatia, Dinesh (Chair) | Framework for Mapping Convolutional Neural Networks on FPGAs | Dai, Xianming | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Ishigaki | Genya | PHD | Jue, Jason (Chair) | Dynamic Resource Coordination Towards Reliable and Flexible Network Slicing | Summers, Tyler | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Jin | Rong | PHD | Wu, Weili (Chair) | Study in Big Data Harnessing and Related Problems | Ma, Dongsheng | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Jin | Shasha | PHD | Gogate, Vibhav (Chair) | Inference Guided Learning of Probabilistic Models | Hassanipour, Fatemeh | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Sahoo | Pracheta | PHD | Khan , Latifur (Chair) | Semi-Supervised Learning in Drug Classification and Medical Image Analysis | Pourkamali, Siavash | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Wan | Guihong | PHD | Schweitzer, Haim (Chair) | AI Inspired Algorithms for Several Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Data Science | Nosratinia, Aria | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Computer Science | Zhao | Chen | PHD | Chen, Feng (Chair) | Fairness-Aware Multi-Task and Meta Learning | Zhou, Dian | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Azarang | Arian | PHD | Kehtarnavaz, Nasser (Chair) | Multi-Objective Deep Learning for Image Fusion in Remote Sensing | Wu, Weili | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Bangar | Esha | PHD | Kiasaleh, Kamran (Chair) | A Study of HVAC Channel for 60 GHZ Indoor High-Speed Wireless Communications | Chandrasekaran, Ramaswamy | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Gurusamy | Vigneshwaran | PHD | Akin, Bilal (Chair) | Stray Magnetic Flux Based Condition Monitoring Techniques for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors | Yen, I-Ling | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Hu | Xuan | PHD | Friedman, Joseph (Chair) | Device Modeling and Circuits Designs for Beyond-Cmos and Artificial Intelligence Hardware | Voit, Walter | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Nikooienejad | Nastaran | PHD | Moheimani, Reza (Chair) | Control System Design for High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy | Akin, Bilal | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Pu | Shi | PHD | Akin, Bilal (Chair) | Reliability Assessment, Condition Monitoring and Lifetime Estimation of Silicon Carbide MOSFETs | Young, Chadwin | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Xu | Chi | PHD | Akin, Bilal (Chair) | Reliability Evaluation of Power Devices for High Performance Power Conversion | Bastani, Farokh | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Zhang | Fan | PHD | Nosratinia, Aria (Chair) | Correlation Diversity in MIMO Broadcast and Coherence Diversity in the MIMO Relay Channel | Cogan, Stuart | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Mosur Saravana Murthy | Lakshmi Narayanan | PHD | Hsu, Julia (Chair) | Charge Transport and Device Physics in Fullerene-Based Organic Photovoltaics | O, Kenneth | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Renganathan | Venkatraman | PHD | Summers, Tyler (Chair) | Robust, Resilient, and Risk-Aware Optimization and Controls for Cyber-Physical Systems | Tamil, Lakshman | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Software Engineering | Maweu | Barbara | PHD | Prabhakaran, Balakrishnan (Chair) | Validation and Interpretable Model Explanations for Synthesized Data in Healthcare | Sechen, Carl | |
| Summer | 2021 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science | Telecommunications Engineering | Gour | Riti | PHD | Jue, Jason (Chair) | Towards Improving Resilience of Network Slices Through Protection and Localization | Kiasaleh, Kamran | |
| Summer | 2021 | Naveen Jindal School of Management | International Management Studies | Kim | Dong Shin | PHD | Lee, Seung-Hyun (Chair) | Essays on the Political Environment as an Institutional Force: Nonmarket and Market Strategies | Natarajan, Ramachandran | |
| Summer | 2021 | Naveen Jindal School of Management | Management Science | Farajbakhsh Mamaghani | Fariba | PHD | Cakanyildirim, Metin (Chair) / Wang, Shouqiang (Co-Chair) | Pricing Residential Electricity in the Presence of Distributed Solar Energy Generation, Limited Consumer Response and Microgrids | Zentner, Alejandro | |
| Summer | 2021 | Naveen Jindal School of Management | Management Science | Kasaian | Keyvan | PHD | Murthi, B.P.S. (Chair) | Essays on Consumer Credit Card Profitability | Xia, Han | |
| Summer | 2021 | Naveen Jindal School of Management | Management Science | Kim | Joohyun | PHD | Bensoussan, Alain (Chair) | Applications of Mean Field Theory in Management Science | Zhang, Jieying | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Abeyrathna | Wannaku | PHD | Meloni, Gabriele (Chair) | Functional Reconstitution and In-Vitro Characterization of Bacterial Transmembrane Transition Metal Transporters | Zhang, Li | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Akhavantabib | Noushin | PHD | D’Arcy, Sheena (Chair) | Molecular Basis for Chaperone Control of RTT109 Acetylation of Histone H3-H4 | Cao, Yan | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Calubaquib | Erika Joy | PHD | Stefan, Mihaela (Chair) | Synthesis of Functionalized Polycaprolactones and the Investigation of their Micellar Self-Assembly for Drug Delivery | Pereira, Felipe | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Tutol | Jasmine | PHD | Dodani, Sheel (Chair) | Engineering and Biological Applications of Turn-On Fluorescent Protein-Based Sensors for Chloride | Choudhary, Pankaj | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Wang | Zhong | PHD | Baughman, Ray (Chair) | Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Yarns for Artificial Muscles and Energy Harvesters | Da Silveira Rodrigues, Fabiano | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Zhang | Naifu | PHD | D’Arcy, Sheena (Chair) | Studying the RNA Surveillance Activity of MTR4 and the Tramp Complex Using Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry | Efromovich | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Akhavan | Mehdi | PHD | Lou, Yifei (Chair) | Phase Retrieval by Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers | D’Arcy, Sheena | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Ali | Alsadig | PHD | Pereira, L. Felipe (Chair) / Rahunanthan, Arunasalam (Co-Chair) | Multiscale Sampling for Subsurface Characterization | Zakhidov, Anvar | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Eze | Izuchukwu | PHD | Krawcewicz, Wieslaw (Chair) | Existence and Bifurcation of Sub-Harmonic Solutions in Reversible Non-Autonomous Differential Equations | Walker, Amy | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | K. C. Khatri | Rajendra | PHD | Cao, Yan (Chair) | Cell Nuclei Segmentation Using Deep Learning Techniques | Lv, Bing | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Khoshnasib Zeinabad | Fariba | PHD | Dragovic, Vladimir (Chair)/ Gajic, Borislav (Co-Chair) | Some Topological Aspects of Integrable Rigid Body Dynamics | Ferraris, John | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Rakotomalala | Diarisoa Mihaja Andriamanisa | PHD | Dabkowski, Mieczyslaw (Chair) | B-Type Catalan States of Lattice Crossing | Zheng, Jie | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Thiam | Abdoulaye | PHD | Bensoussan, Alain (Co-Chair) / Turi, Janos (Co-Chair) | On Inventory Control Problems with Learning | Nielsen, Steven | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Wang | Siyuan | PHD | Cao, Yan (Chair) | Bi-tensor Free Water Model with Positive Definite Diffusion Tensor and Fast Optimization | Stefan, Mihaela | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Dey | Sanchareeka | PHD | Zhang, Li (Chair) | Analysis of Heme Function in Therapy Resistance and Tumorigenesis in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer | Zhang, Chuanwei | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Wang | Tianyuan | PHD | Zhang, Li (Chair) | Heme Sequestration as an Effective Strategy for the Suppression of Tumor Growth | Lumata, Lloyd | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Hou | Junpeng | PHD | Zhang, Chuanwei (Chair) | Exotic Phases and Quantum Dynamics in Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates | Dodani, Sheel | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Khashami | Fatemeh | PHD | Lumata, Lloyd (Chair) | Tracking the Biochemistry of Cancer Cells and Dynamics of Physical Systems Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance | Krawcewicz, Wieslaw | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Shidler | Samuel | PHD | Da Silveira Rodrigues, Fabiano (Chair) | Experimental and Modeling Studies of the Morphology of Equatorial Ionospheric F-Region Drifts | Lou, Yifei | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Timms | Christopher | PHD | Kolodrubetz, Michael (Chair) | Robustness of Quantum Control in Noisy Environments | Meloni, Gabriele | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | de Silva | Galappaththige Sajith | PHD | Choudhary, Pankaj (Chair) | Contributions to Functional Data Analysis | Xuan , Zhenyu | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Wu | Jiaju | PHD | Efromovich, Sam (Chair) | Efficient Nonparametric Spectral Density Estimation with Randomly Censored Time Series | Stelling, Allison | |
| Summer | 2021 | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Statistics | Zhou | Qinyi | PHD | Shin, Sunyoung (Chair) / Chen, Min (Co-Chair) | Some Methods and Applications of Large-Scale Genomic Data Analysis | Baughman, Ray |