Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2019

• Adalian, Dvin Artashes-Boghos — Development and Dynamics of Microfabricated Enzymatic Biosensors
• Adams-Cohen, Nicholas Joseph — New Perspectives in Political Communication
• Anderson, Marin Mallory — Adventures Through Time and Phase Space: Characterizing the Dynamic Radio Sky, From MHz to GHz, From Seconds to Years
• Angeles-Albores, David — A Theory of Genetic Analysis Using Transcriptomic Phenotypes
• Arbabi, Ehsan — Metasurfaces: Beyond Diffractive and Refractive Optics
• Augustine, Vineet — Neural Architecture Underlying Thirst Regulation
• Bai, Kangchen — Dynamic Earthquake Source Modeling and the Study of Slab Effects
• Barenfeld, Scott Alexander — New Insights into Circumstellar Disk Evolution in the Era of ALMA
• Barkett, Kevin Michael Canice — Computational Methods for Gravitational Wave Physics: Spectral Cauchy-Characteristic Extraction and Tidal Splicing
• Basta, David Wagdi — Genetic Determinants of Growth Arrest Survival in the Bacterial Pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the Role of Proteases
• Beck, Jordan Casey — Reaction Development for the Total Syntheses of the Terpenoid Natural Products (+)-Psiguadial B, (+)-Rumphellaone A, and (–)-Isodocarpin
• Bilgi, Pavaman — Optimization of CCD Charge Transfer for Ground and Space-Based Astronomy
• Blom, Antoinette Elisabeth Maria — Functional Evaluation and Development of Novel Agonists and Modulators of Neuronal Ion Channels
• Blunt, Catriona Emily Wilson — Noncovalent Interactions of Silent Agonists Binding to the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor -and- Investigation into Expanding the Substrate Scope and Improving the Efficiency of Organic Photochemical Protecting Groups
• Blythe, Emily Elizabeth — Characterization of Adaptor Binding and Substrate Processing by VCP/p97
• Boyle, Kelsey Melinda — Exploring the Biological Activity of Rhodium Metalloinsertors
• Brake, Joshua Harris — Seeing Through the Fog: Using Scattered Light to Peer Deeper into Biological Tissue
• Brouillet, Jeremy Jean — Graphene-Mediated Light-Matter Interaction
• Budninskiy, Maxim A. — Geometry-Driven Model Reduction
• Bukowsky, Courtney Roberta — Scalable Nanophotonic Light Management Design for Solar Cells
• Burkholder, Eric William — Single Particle Motion in Active Matter
• Chen, Sang — Understanding Geochemical Tracers in Deep-Sea Corals from a Biomineralization Perspective
• Chen, Wen — Proteomics Profiling and Functional Characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans Excreted/Secreted Proteins
• Chio, Un Seng — Mechanistic Bases for Privileged Capture and Unidirectional Targeting of Tail-Anchored Proteins by the Get3 ATPase
• Cho, Jounhong Ryan — Optical Imaging of Dopamine Dynamics and Decoding its Role in Arousal and Salience
• Chun, Sungbong — Quantum Groups and Integralities in Chern-Simons Theory
• Chung, Jaebum — Computational Imaging: a Quest for the Perfect Image
• Cook, Colin Andrew — Phototherapeutic Devices for the Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy
• Cowper, Nicholas Glenn William — The Development of a Synthetic Strategy Toward Oxazine-Containing Natural Products Enabled by Novel Copper Catalysis
• da Silva, Andre Fernando de Castro — An EnKF-Based Flow State Estimator for Aerodynamic Problems
• Deffo Nde, Arnold Durel — A Line-Free Method of Monopoles for 3D Dislocation Dynamics
• Dhandapani, Chandru — Using the Force: Applications and Implications of Turbulence Forcing Terms in Direct Numerical Simulations
• Du, Song Ming — Fundamental Physics Through Gravitational Waves: From No-Hair Theorem to Quantum Structures of Black Holes
• Eastwood, Michael William — Searching for the Cosmic Dawn with the Hyperfine Structure Transition of Hydrogen
• Edlund, Jeffrey Andrews — Numerical Investigation of Spinal Neuron Facilitation with Multi-electrode Epidural Stimulation
• Einav, Tal — Taming the Molecular Dance: Harnessing Statistical Mechanics to Quantitatively Characterize Allosteric Systems
• Erickson, Zachary K. — Physical Processes Leading to Export of Fixed Carbon Out of the Surface Ocean
• Filippidis, Ioannis — Decomposing Formal Specifications Into Assume-Guarantee Contracts for Hierarchical System Design
• Fleischman, Dagny — Nanophotonic Structures: Fundamentals and Applications in Narrowband Transmission Color Filtering
• Flytzanis, Nicholas C. — From Single-Cell to Whole-Body: Developing a Molecular Neuroscience Toolkit
• Fowler, Trevor Michael — Silicon Neural Probes for Stimulation of Neurons and the Excitation and Detection of Proteins in the Brain
• Frankiw, Luke Steven — mRNA Splicing-Mediated Gene Expression Regulation in Innate Immunity
• Frick, Christopher Lee — How Single Cells Sense Smad3 Signal
• Frimu, Andrei — Γ(p)-Level Structure on p-Divisible Groups
• Fu, Zhongzheng — Representations of Action Monitoring and Cognitive Control by Single Neurons in the Human Brain
• Gekhtman, Dmitri — Two Holomorphic Extremal Problems in Teichmüller Theory
• Georgiev, Nikola-Zlatkov — Towards High Performance Robotic Actuation
• Giwa, Adenike Monsurat — Microstructure and Small-Scale Deformation of Al₀.₇CoCrFeNi High-Entropy Alloy
• Gossan, Sarah Elizabeth — Core-Collapse Supernova Physics in the Multi-Messenger Era
• Grantz Pansing, Amanda — Aerosol Particle Measurements: Strategies for Health-Relevant Data Collection and Analysis
• Grudić, Michael Yvan — The Role of Stellar Feedback in Star Cluster Formation
• Grünenfelder, Denise Christine — Synthetic Strategies for the Total Synthesis of Acutumine Alkaloids and the Development of Radical Deoxychlorination Reactions
• Guerrero Vela, Pedro Pablo — Plasma Surface Interactions in LaB₆ Hollow Cathodes with Internal Xe Gas Discharge
• Guo, Linqi — Impact of Transmission Network Topology on Electrical Power Systems
• Hamze Bajgiran, Hamed — Essays On Decision Theory
• Han, Arthur — Synthetic Strategies for the Total Synthesis of the Ryanoid and Isoryanoid Diterpenes
• Hannoun, Kareem Imad — Mechanistic Study of Cu-Mediated, Photoinduced C–S Bond Formation and Demonstration of Electrochemical Ammonia Production by a Surface-Attached Iron Complex
• He, Peng — The Changing Mouse Embryo Transcriptome at Whole Tissue and Single-Cell Resolution
• Helou, Bassam Mohamad — Testing Alternative Theories of Quantum Mechanics with Optomechanics, and Effective Modes for Gaussian Linear Optomechanics
• Heydeman, Matthew Thomas Edwin — Supersymmetric Scattering Amplitudes and Algebraic Aspects of Holography from the Projective Line
• Ho, Samuel Hin-Yuen — Chemical Tools for Protein Imaging in Live Bacterial Cells
• Hofmann, Florian — Iron-Oxide Geochronology to Constrain the Formation of Soils and Paleosols
• Hofstra, Julie Lyn — Development and Mechanistic Studies of Ni-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling Reactions
• Hong, Brian Daffern — Periodically Disturbed Oscillators
• Huang, Yuanlong — Development of Methods to Study Secondary Organic Aerosol
• Huang, Yufeng — Computational Heterogeneous Electrochemistry – From Quantum Mechanics to Machine Learning
• Huber, Ferdinand Michael — Molecular Basis for Ribosomal Protein Protection from Cellular Degradation
• Huertas-Cerdeira, Cecilia — On the Dynamics of Flat Plates in a Fluid Environment: A Study of Inverted Flag Flapping and Caudal Fin Maneuvering
• Hui, Aileen Oyama Ah Yee — Atmospheric Peroxy Radical Chemistry Studied by Infrared Kinetic Spectroscopy
• Huynh, David Pham — Spatio-Temporal Response of a Compliant-Wall, Turbulent Boundary Layer System to Dynamic Roughness Forcing
• Hwang-Fu, Yu-Hsien — Dynamic Regulations of Co-Translational Protein Targeting by the Signal Recognition Particle Receptor in E. coli and Human
• Isi Bañales, Maximiliano — Fundamental Physics in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: The Direct Measurement of Gravitational-Wave Polarizations and Other Topics
• Jafari, Matiar — Neural Correlates of Sensorimotor Control in Human Cortex: State Estimates and Reference Frames
• Jain, Siddharth — Decoding the Past
• Jarman, John Bryce — Chemical Tools for the Control of Biological Systems
• Jhalani, Vatsal A. — Light Emission and Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in III-V Semiconductors from First Principles
• Kalaee, Mahmoud — Superconducting Electromechanical and Nanophotonic Devices for Quantum Measurement and Conversion
• Kamali, Seyedeh Mahsa — Dielectric Metasurfaces from Fundamentals to Applications
• Kang, Jong Hun — I. Shape Selectivity of Small-pore Molecular Sieves for the Methanol-to-Olefins Reaction and II. Synthesis and Topotactic Transformation of Germanosilicate CIT-13
• Kettenbeil, Christian — Dynamic Strength of Silica Glasses at High Pressures and Strain Rates
• Khazaei, Tahmineh — Metabolic Bi-Stability and Hysteresis in a Model Microbiome Community
• Kim, Jae Hong — Measurement of R(D) and R(D*) Using Semileptonic Tags and Hadronic τ Decays
• Kim, Joey Dongjin — Effects of Branching on Conformation, Crystallization, and Self-Assembly of Polymers
• Kim, Kibeom — Memory and Decoding in Signaling Transduction Pathways
• Kim, Laura — Novel Light Emitting Mechanisms Originating from Graphene Plasmons Near and Far from Equilibrium
• Kindem, Jonathan Miners — Quantum Nanophotonics with Ytterbium in Yttrium Orthovanadate
• Kleiser, Io K. — Modeling Rapidly Fading Supernovae as Nickel-Free Core-Collapse Explosions of Extended Helium Stars
• Koloğlu, Murat — Light and Heat: Nonlocal Aspects in Conformal Field Theories
• Korth, William Zachary — Mitigating Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
• Kou, Junlong — Tailoring Thermal Radiation from Near Field to Far Field
• Kozlowski, Mark Tybalt — Use of Recombinant Self-Associating Proteins for Altering Cellular Fate and Behavior
• Kumar, Siddhant — An Enhanced Maximum-Entropy Based Meshfree Method: Theory and Applications
• Kurmis, Alexis Anna — Activity of Py-Im Polyamides in Anti-Androgen Resistant Prostate Cancer Models
• Lai, Yu-Hung — Microresonator Brillouin Laser Gyroscope
• Lakshmanan, Anupama — Engineering Acoustic Protein Nanostructures for Non-Invasive Molecular Imaging using Ultrasound
• Lawless Hughes, Nathaniel — A Comparison of p-adic Motivic Cohomology and Rigid Cohomology
• Lee, Heui Beom — Electronic Structure and Spectroscopy of Tetranuclear Mn4O4 and CaMn3O4 Complexes as Models of the Oxygen Evolving Complex in Photosystem II
• Lee, Jae Ho — Mechanisms of Co-Translational Protein Targeting by Mammalian SRP
• Lee, James Siho — The Genomics of Stress-Induced Life Cycle Decisions in Nematodes
• Leethochawalit, Nicha — Spectroscopy of Galaxies: Evolution of Escape Fractions, Metallicity Gradients and Stellar Metallicity
• Lewis, Russell DeRieux — Evolution and Characterization of Carbene Transferases for Cyclopropanation and Carbon–Silicon Bond Formation
• Li, Lei — Multi-Contrast Photoacoustic Computed Tomography
• Lifson, Max Louis — Electromechanical Properties of 3D Multifunctional Nano-Architected Materials
• Lin, Cheng-Ju — Surviving Quantum Chaos: Weak Thermalization, Prethermalization and Quantum Many-Body Scar States
• Lin, Chujun — Understanding How People Make Trait Attributions from Faces
• Liu, Jonathan C. — Engineering and Application of cGAL, a GAL4 Bipartite Expression System for Caenorhabditis elegans
• Loskot, Steven Anthony — Applications of the Enantioselective Allylic Alkylation Toward the Synthesis of Complex Natural Products
• Low, Choon Heng (Marcus) — Hemilabile, Non-Innocent (Poly)arylene Donors for Accessing Novel Reactivity at Transition Metal Centers
• MacCabe, Gregory Scott — Phonon Dynamics and Damping in Three-Dimensional Acoustic Bandgap Cavity-Optomechanical Resonators
• Mao, Xiaolin — Understanding Lithosphere and Mantle Dynamics with Numerical Models Constrained by Observations
• Matier, Carson Douglas — Copper and Nickel Catalysis for the Construction of Novel C−N and C−C Bonds
• Mauser, Kelly Ann Weekley — Resonant Thermoelectric Nanophotonics: Applications in Spectral and Thermal Sensing
• Mazur, Paul Antoine Benoit — Controlling the Buckling Behavior of Bilayered Systems
• McAneny, Michael Trevor — Aspects of Quasi-Single Field Inflation
• Miller, Hayden Bryce Dutcher — Stable and Radiogenic Isotope Studies of Iron-oxides as Paleoenvironmental and Tectonic Archives
• Moreno-Hernandez, Ivan A. — Earth-Abundant Metal Oxides for Anodic Reactions in Acidic Electrolytes
• Morgan, Jonathan Philip — Linear and Non-linear Interactions in a Rough-Wall Turbulent Boundary Layer
• Morrison, Rachel Ann — Equations of State, Sound Velocities, and Thermoelasticity of Iron-Nickel-Silicon Alloys in the Earth’s Inner Core
• Mosesso, Richard Albert — Mechanistic Investigations of Receptor Signaling via Canonical and Non-Canonical Amino Acid Mutagenesis
• Nakahira, Yorie — Connecting the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs in Sensorimotor Control and Neurophysiology Reveals Diversity Sweet Spots in Layered Control Architectures
• Nunns, Harry James Rogan — Linearity in Cell Signaling Pathways
• Okounkova, Maria — Numerical Relativity Beyond General Relativity
• Olsman, Noah Andrew — Architecture, Design, and Tradeoffs in Biomolecular Feedback Systems
• Omar, Ahmad Khalid — Dynamics, Mechanics and Stability of Physical Gels
• Omelchenko, Stefan Thomas — Towards a Net-zero Carbon Energy System: High Efficiency Photovoltaics and Electrocatalysts
• Orr, Matthew Edward — Spatially Resolved Star Formation in Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations: Understanding the Role of Feedback in Scaling Relations
• Paik, Haemin — Development of Electrocatalysts in Solid Acid Fuel Cells
• Pang, John Zhen Fu — Online Platforms in Networked Markets: Transparency, Anticipation and Demand Management
• Peng, Lucas Sky — Clocked Atom Delivery to a Photonic Crystal Waveguide: Simulations and Experiments
• Phlipot, Gregory Paul — A Fully-Nonlocal Quasicontinuum Method to Model the Nonlinear Response of Periodic Truss Lattices
• Piraner, Dan Ilya — Tunable Thermal Bioswitches as a Control Modality for Next Generation Therapeutics
• Poremba, Kelsey Elizabeth — Development of Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling Reactions
• Portela G., Carlos Mauricio — Fabrication, Mechanical Characterization, and Modeling of 3D Architected Materials upon Static and Dynamic Loading
• Praske, Eric — Intramolecular Hydrogen-shift Reactions of Peroxy Radicals
• Preska Steinberg, Asher Raphael — How Polymers Shape the Physicochemical Environment of the Gut
• Qian, Jin — From Quantum Mechanics to Experimental Observables: Computational Investigations of Energy-Related Heterogeneous Catalysts
• Ramachandran, Karthik — Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds Gain Ductility, Resistance to Hydrolysis, and Radial Strength via a Unique Poly L-lactide Microstructure
• Ramesh, Pradeep — Imaging and Control of Engineered Cells using Magnetic Fields
• Rankin, Jamie Sue — Voyager 1 Observations of Galactic Cosmic Ray Anisotropies in the Local Interstellar Medium
• Ratnaswamy, Vishagan — Constraining the Mantle's Rheology Using Methods in Uncertainty Quantification
• Reed, Christopher John — Activation of Nitric Oxide and Water by Transition Metal Clusters Relevant to Active Sites in Biology
• Ridgway, Alexander Karas — Imprints of Massive Scalars on Primordial Non-Gaussianities
• Robbins, Andrew Beyer — Exploring Microscopic Thermal Transport Properties of Molecular Crystals with Simulations and Experiments
• Rolando, Justin Charles — Bioanalytical Tools to Develop Rapid Diagnostics and Study Physiology
• Ruan, Xiaozhou — Oceanic Bottom Boundary Layers and Abyssal Overturning Circulation
• Sachdev, Surabhi — Searching for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences in Advanced LIGO Data
• Sampson, Jessica — Nuclearity and π-π Interaction Effects on Olefin Polymerization and Coordination Chemistry
• Schmitz, Denise Marie — A Perturbative Model for the Intrinsic Alignments of Galaxies
• Schoepp, Nathan Garrett — Phenotypic Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Based on Nucleic Acid Analysis
• Schretter, Catherine Elizabeth — Microbial Modulation of Host Locomotion
• Scianmarello, Nicholas E. — Oxygen Transporter and Generator Devices to Treat Diabetic Retinopathy
• Shan, Kevin Qing — Sparse Deconvolution with Applications to Spike Sorting
• Shao, Zixuan — Biological Responses to Therapeutic Treatments of Human Vascular Diseases
• Shapero, Aubrey Michael — Long Term Implantable Pressure Sensors
• Shen, Kevin — Conformations and Charge Fluctuations in Polyelectrolyte Solutions
• Shi, Jian — Improving Site Response Analysis for Earthquake Ground Motion Modeling
• Shih, Pei-Yin — The Ethology of Stress in Nematodes
• Siebel, Daniel A. — Special Values of Zeta-Functions for Proper Regular Arithmetic Surfaces
• Singhal, Vipul — Modeling, Computation, and Characterization to Accelerate the Development of Synthetic Gene Circuits in Cell-Free Extracts
• Smarte, Matthew David — Kinetic and Spectroscopic Studies of Atmospheric Intermediates
• Soh, Yong Sheng — Fitting Convex Sets to Data: Algorithms and Applications
• Sridhar, Akshay — Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Boundary Layers with Spatially Varying Roughness
• Su, Kung-Yi — Stellar Feedback, AGN Feedback and Fluid Microphysics in Galaxy Evolution
• Sun, Alexander Wang — Stereoselective Synthesis of Diazaheterocycles by Decarboxylative Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation
• Swisher, Nicholas Adam — Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of "Reverse Pyridine" Bis(phosphinite) Pincer Complexes
• Tan, Wei Lin — Polycrystalline Perovskite Ferroelectrics: Microstructural Origins of the Macroscale Electromechanical Response
• Tang, Yujie — Time-Varying Optimization and Its Application to Power System Operation
• Tao, Jim — Analysis on Vector Bundles over Noncommutative Tori
• Tertuliano, Ottman Aeman — Small-Scale Deformation and Fracture of Hard Biomaterials
• Thomas, Nancy Helen — Remotely Sensing Aqueous Alteration on Mars: Innovative Statistical and Analytical Methods for Large Spectral Datasets
• Thomas, Nathan Hoover — Passive and Active Control of Radiative Heat Flow
• Thompson, Annelise C. — Interfacial Behavior of 2D Materials in Devices for Solar Fuels and Sensing Applications
• Thompson, Jonathan Ross — Unconventional Approaches to Structured Semiconductors
• Tosi, Luís Phillipe Costa Ferreira — Fluid-Structure Instability in an Internal Flow Energy Harvester
• Tu, Min-Feng — Transport Signatures of Spin-Orbit Coupling in Graphene-Based Materials
• Turzillo, Alexander Michael — Short-Range Entangled Phases of Fermions
• Tutcuoglu, Abbas Davud — Stochastic Multiscale Modeling of Dynamic Recrystallization
• Van Horn, Grant Richard — Towards a Visipedia: Combining Computer Vision and Communities of Experts
• Varma, Vadapalli Vijay S. — Black Hole Simulations: From Supercomputers to Your Laptop
• Veilleux, Jean-Christophe — Pressure and Stress Transients in Autoinjector Devices
• Vidyasagar, A. — Predicting Microstructural Pattern Formation Using Stabilized Spectral Homogenization
• Viglione, Giuliana Augusta — Dynamics of Southern Ocean Mixed Layers
• Walton, David Paul — General Strategies for Visible-Light Decaging Based on Quinone Photochemistry
• Wang, Cong — On the Manipulation of a Turbulent Boundary Layer by Unsteady Boundary Conditions
• Wang, Haoqing — Structure and Dynamics of HIV-1 Env Trimer
• Wang, Zitao — Topological Phases of Matter: Exactly Solvable Models and Classification
• Weadock, Nicholas Joseph — Addressing Thermodynamic Inefficiencies of Hydrogen Storage in Transition Metal Hydrides
• Wei, Yuchen — Deployable Piezoelectric Thin Shell Structures: Concepts, Characterization and Vibration Control
• Wenke, Belinda B. — The Many Roles of the Nitrogenase Iron Protein
• White, Christopher David — Numerical Methods for Many-Body Quantum Dynamics
• Whitney, William Schuyler — Electrically-Tunable Light-Matter Interactions in Quantum Materials
• Witkosky, Rebecca Amber — Tectonics in Nevada and Southern California: Subsidence of the Ediacaran Johnnie Formation, Cumulative Offset Along the Lavic Lake Fault, and Geomorphic Surface Development Along the Southern San Andreas Fault
• Wong, Alice Rose — Total Syntheses of the C19 Diterpenoid Alkaloids (–)-Liljestrandisine and (–)-Liljestrandinine
• Xia, Xiaoxing — Adaptive and Reconfigurable Architected Materials Driven by Electrochemistry
• Yalamanchili, Sisir — Light Management in Photovoltaics and Photoelectrochemical Cells using Tapered Micro and Nano Structures
• Yang, Fred Chae-Reem — High Temperature Electron-Phonon and Magnon-Phonon Interactions
• Yang, Jin — Fast Adaptive Augmented Lagrangian Digital Image Correlation
• Yang, Kevin Kaichuang — Probabilistic Protein Engineering
• Yang, Qifan — Nonlinear Physics in Soliton Microcombs
• Yi, Lynn Donglin — Statistical Methods for Gene Differential Expression Analysis of RNA-Sequencing
• Yu, Helen — Subunit Selective Degradation of WIZ, a Lenalidomide- and Pomalidomide-Dependent Substrate of E3 Ubiquitin Ligase CRL4CRBN
• Yun, Hyun Gi — Structural and Biochemical Studies of Enzymes in Bacterial Glycobiology
• Zhang, Ruijie — Engineering Heme Proteins for Olefin and Carbon−Hydrogen Bond Functionalization Reactions
• Zhang, Yandong — Highly Multiplexed Imaging of E. Coli Chromosome and Sensitive Detection of Single-Cell Protein
• Zhao, Hao — Essays on Economics of Groundwater Resource Management
• Zhou, Andy — Investigations of DNA-Mediated Redox Signaling Between E.coli DNA Repair Pathways
• Ziani, Juba — Data: Implications for Markets and for Society