Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2021

• Abedi, Mohamad — Thermal Bioswitches for Non-Invasive Control of Cellular Therapies
• Allen, Hannah Marie — Constraining the Formation and Fate of Hydroperoxides in the Remote Atmosphere
• Altermatt, Michael — Serotonergic Circuits: Role in Sleep and Enhanced Genetic Tools for Access and Optical Recording
• Anaya, Michael Aurelio — Modernization of Monoclonal Antibody Screening and Protein-interaction Assays
• Anderson, Thomas Geoffrey — Hybrid Frequency-Time Analysis and Numerical Methods for Time-Dependent Wave Propagation
• Arai, Noriaki — Freeze Casting of Ceramics: Pore Design from Solidification Principles
• Arnett, Charles Haden — Multimetallic Models of the Nitrogenase Active Site
• Azizan Ruhi, Navid — Large-Scale Intelligent Systems: From Network Dynamics to Optimization Algorithms
• Bagherian, Dawna Paria — Artificial Neural Networks for Nonlinear System Identification of Neuronal Microcircuits
• Bagley, Jacob David — Fabrication of Pristine and Doped Graphene Nanostripes and their Application in Energy Storage
• Bailey, Elizabeth Ann — Interior and Orbital Dynamics at the Innermost and Outermost Reaches of Planetary Systems
• Banerjee, Abhik Kumar — Diverse Roles of RNA-protein Interactions: From Viral Antagonism to Mammalian Development
• Beardsell, Guillaume — Numerical Investigation of Compressibility Effects in Reacting Subsonic Flows
• Belland, Brent Roy — Modeling Focal Ratio Degradation, Its Implications for Upcoming Fiber Spectrographs, and the Dynamics of NGC 6822
• Biasi, Joseph Anthony — Paleomagnetism and Geochemistry of Basalts in the North American Cordillera, Davis Strait, and Antarctica
• Bochenek, Christopher David — The Progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts
• Buabthong, Pakpoom (Pai) — Stability and Protective Coatings of Semiconductor Electrodes for Solar Fuel Devices
• Burdge, Kevin Brian — Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stars: Shedding Light on the Population of Galactic Gravitational Wave Sources
• Buyalskaya, Anastasia — Investigating Drivers of Repeated Behaviors in Field Data
• Cahillane, Craig Russell — Controlling and Calibrating Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
• Cai, Karena Xin — Safe and Interpretable Autonomous Systems Design: Behavioral Contracts and Semantic-Based Perception
• Carim, Azhar Iqbal — Growth Towards Light: Translation of Optical Inputs into Mesostructured Outputs via Inorganic Phototropism
• Chadwick, Grayson Lee — How to Beat Diffusion: Explorations of Energetics and Spatial Relationships in Microbial Ecosystems
• Chai, Cynthia Mei-Ling — Neurogenetic Analysis of C. elegans Developmental Decision-making
• Charan, Sophia Mohini — Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Volatile Chemical Products: Understanding Aerosol Yields and Dynamics
• Chaudhary, Swati — Light Induced Dynamics in Quantum Matter
• Chen, Chien-Chang — Investigation of the Physical Properties of Dirac Materials
• Chen, Hsiao-Yi — Exciton Dynamics Studies from First-Principles Calculations: Radiative Recombination, Exciton-Phonon Interactions, and Ultrafast Exciton Relaxation
• Chen, Yalu — Computational Investigation of Nanoscale Electrocatalysts for Clean Energy Conversion
• Chen, Yikai (Katie) — Numerical Simulation of Performance and Solar-to-Fuel Conversion Efficiency for Photoelectrochemical Devices
• Cheng, Richard — Assuring Safety under Uncertainty in Learning-Based Control Systems
• Chimiak, Laura Marie — Prebiotic Fingerprints
• Chiu, Hui — Neural Control of Male and Female Aggression in Drosophila
• Chong, Lucy Shin — Engineering and Delivery of Programmable Protein Circuits as Potential Therapeutic Devices
• Chour, William — Molecular Technologies for Antigen-Based Immunity
• Cohen, Alexander Armand — Developing Multivalent Nanoparticle Vaccines Against Current and Future Viruses
• Cohen, Sarah Michelle — Formation and Function of Ascarosides in the Nematodes C. elegans and C. briggsae
• Dadras, Pouria — Black Holes and Entanglement Entropy
• De, Kishalay — The Whisper and the Bang: Cosmic Fireworks in the Lives of Compact Binaries
• Dulaney, Austin Ryan — Density Fluctuations and Machine Learning in Active Matter
• Edwards, Bryce Walker — Mechanical Investigations: Experimental Fracture Techniques and Frozen Small-Molecule Organics
• Elliott, Luizetta Vadimovna — Stimuli Responsive Micro-Architected Materials
• Eng, Chee Huat (Linus) — Plus Ultra: Genome-Wide Spatial Transcriptomics with RNA seqFISH+
• Fan, Siteng — Planetary Atmospheres: Astrobiologically Relevant Icy Worlds and Earth as a Proxy Exoplanet
• Faraji Dana, Mohammad Sadegh — From Metasurfaces to Compact Optical Metasystems
• Fatemi, Seyed Mohammadreza — Active Flat Optics Wavefront Manipulation for Imaging, Ranging, and Sensing
• Filippitzis, Filippos — Identification of Structural Damage, Ground Motion Response, and the Benefits of Dense Seismic Instrumentation
• Ford, Rachel Rae — Controlling the Dynamics of Microstructure Formation in Mixed-Matrix Polymeric-Particle Membranes
• Frisch, Joshua Robert — Analogues of Amenability
• Gal-Katziri, Matan — Precision at Scale: System Design from Tiny Biosensors to Giant Arrays
• Gandhi, Shashank — Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cardiac Neural Crest Development in Avian Embryos
• Ginsberg, Leah Morgan — Multiscale Mechanical Characterization of Subcellular Structures in Living Walled Cells
• Hayden, Alistair Thompson — Exhumed Fluvial Deposits: New Paleohydrological Tools Indicate Long-Duration Fluvial Activity on Early Mars
• Helms, Phillip Laurence — Tensor Network Methods for Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics
• Ho, Anna Yen Qin — The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions
• Huang, Xiawei — Molecular Function and Regulation of Aub Arginine Methylation in the piRNA Pathway
• Injeti, Sai Sharan — Multi-Functional Metamaterials
• Irizarry, Jihyun — Temporally Changing Roles of Morphogen Dorsal in the Drosophila Early Embryo
• Jette, Carina Ivonne — Transition Metal-Catalyzed Enantioselective Alpha Functionalization of Nitrogen and Oxygen-Containing Heterocycles
• Johnson, Daniel Lee — Sulfur Isotopic Insights into the Modern and Ancient Marine Sulfur Cycles
• Jones, Silken Michelle — Thermal Ignition by Vertical Cylinders
• Joshi, Akshay — A Shock Compression Investigation of Failure Waves and Phase Transition in Soda-Lime Glass
• Kafaie Shirmanesh, Ghazaleh — Electro-Optically Tunable Metasurfaces for a Comprehensive Control of Properties of Light
• Karapiperis, Konstantinos — Multiscale, Data-Driven and Nonlocal Modeling of Granular Materials
• Kempler, Paul Andrew — High-Aspect Ratio Structures in Light-Absorbers and Electrocatalysts for Solar Fuels Devices
• Kennedy, Kathleen Marie — Renewable Energy Generation and Storage: From Microwires to Macro-Energy Systems
• Khachaturian, Aroutin — Large-Scale Photonics Integration: Data Communications to Optical Beamforming
• Kim, Juhyun — Annular Links with sl₂-Irreducible Annular Khovanov Homology
• Kim, Taeyong — Investigation of Transport Phenomena of Thermal Acoustic Excitations in Semi-Crystalline and Amorphous Materials Using Transient Grating Spectroscopy
• Kishore Kumar, Deepan — Novel Light-Matter Interaction in Quasi-One-Dimensional Graphene Nanomaterials for Photonics
• Klumpe, Heidi Elizabeth — Context-Dependent, Combinatorial Logic of BMP Signaling
• Knight, Anders Matthew — Expanding the Scope of Metalloprotein Families and Substrate Classes in New-to-Nature Reactions
• Kong, Weimeng (Stephanie) — Nanometer-sized Aerosol Particles in the Atmosphere: Measurement, Analysis, and Impact
• Kuo, Claire Taijung — Customized Porosity in Ceramic Composites via Freeze Casting
• Kusanovic, Danilo Smiljan — Improving Reduced Order Models of Soil-Structure Interaction Using an Ensemble Kalman Inversion Finite Element Model Updating Framework
• Kwon, Hyounghan — Dielectric Metasurfaces for Integrated Imaging Devices and Active Optical Elements
• Laccetti, Benjamin Joseph — Therapeutic Microparticles and Biolistic Drug-Delivery to the Cornea
• Lambert, Valère Régis Westbrooke — Constraining Earthquake Source Processes Through Physics-Based Modeling
• Lawson, Joel Michael — Focused Laser Differential Interferometry
• Lee, Kyra SoHyun — 2-D Material Sensors on the Electronic Nose for the Sensitive Detection of VOCs
• Lee, Nien-En — Electron-Phonon Interactions and Charge Transport from First-Principles Calculations: Complex Crystals, Higher Order Coupling, and Steps Toward the Small Polaron Regime
• Lee, Sebastian James Rice — Combining High- and Low-Level Electronic Structure Theories for the Efficient Exploration of Potential Energy Surfaces
• Lee, Victoria Jin-Young — Theoretical, Computational, and Experimental Characterization of Nematic Elastomers
• Lee, Zachary Jordan — The Adaptive Charging Network Research Portal: Systems, Tools, and Algorithms
• Lewis, Madeline Janine — Magmatic Differentiation in Arc and Mid Ocean Ridge Settings
• Li, Xiaomin — Attention, Strategy, and the Human Mind
• Lieber, Joshua Franklin — Études in Homotopical Thinking: F₁-geometry, Concurrent Computing, and Motivic Measures
• Lin, Wei-Hsiang — Synthesis of 2D Quantum Materials for Nanoelectronic and Nanophotonic Applications
• Lingappa, Usha Farey — Manganese Through Time and Other Stories Concerning Cyanobacteria and the World Around Them
• Liu, Junyu — Does Richard Feynman Dream of Electric Sheep? Topics on Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Computing, and Computer Science
• London, Palma Alise den Nijs — Frameworks for High Dimensional Convex Optimization
• Ma, Wen-Loong — From Bipedal to Quadrupedal Locomotion, Experimental Realization of Lyapunov Approaches
• Madjarov, Ivaylo Sashkov — Entangling, Controlling, and Detecting Individual Strontium Atoms in Optical Tweezer Arrays
• Mangan, James Francis — Effective Field Theory Topics in the Modern S-Matrix Program
• Marino, Joseph Louis — Learned Feedback & Feedforward Perception & Control
• Mark, Zachary R. — Gravitational Wave Signatures of Black Hole Physics
• McCardell, Reed Dillard — Genetic Circuits for the Control of Multi-Strain Bacterial Populations
• Mead, Griffin John — Chirped Pulse Microwave and Single-Shot Terahertz Spectroscopy Studies of Intermolecular Interactions
• Messinger, Joseph Peter Herman — Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Atmospheric and Astrochemical Reactions
• Metcalfe, Kyle Shuhert — Symbiotic Diversity and Mineral-Associated Microbial Ecology in Marine Microbiomes
• Morrison, Muir — Statistical Mechanics of Problems in Transcription Regulation
• Mullin, Sean William Alexander — Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Microorganisms Living Along Steep Energy Gradients and Implications for Ecology and Geologic Preservation in the Deep Biosphere
• Murray, Riley John — Applications of Convex Analysis to Signomial and Polynomial Nonnegativity Problems
• Nakka, Yashwanth Kumar — Spacecraft Motion Planning and Control under Probabilistic Uncertainty for Coordinated Inspection and Safe Learning
• Narasimhan, Vinayak — Bioinspired Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications
• Narita, Kai — 3D Architected Battery Electrodes for Exploring Battery Kinetics from Nano to Millimeter
• Ngamnithiporn, Aurapat Fa — I. Development of Nickel- and Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation Reactions. II. Enantioselective Syntheses of Tetrahydroisoquinoline–Based Natural Products and Unnatural Analogs
• Novoseller, Ellen Rachel — Online Learning from Human Feedback with Applications to Exoskeleton Gait Optimization
• Nuñez, Paul Daniel — Investigating Unexpected but Advantageous Integrated Systems for Solar Water Splitting
• O'Sullivan, Dónal Brendan — Mapping the Diffuse Universe: Integral Field Spectroscopy of Galaxy Environments
• Obana, Maiko — Genetically Encoded 3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) Functionality for Fabrication of Protein-Based Conductive Polymers
• Parkin, James Michael — Signal Amplification in Synthetic Bacterial Communication
• Pastor, Daniel — Towards Learning Robotic Dynamics: Application to Multirotor Takeoff and Landing
• Pearlman, Aaron Benjamin — Hunting for Fast Radio Transients in the Local Universe and Pulsars Toward the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy
• Pedivellano, Antonio — Deployment Dynamics of Thin-Shell Space Structures
• Perry, Elena Kim — Mechanisms and Consequences of Bacterial Resistance to Natural Antibiotics
• Phan-Minh, Tung — Contract-Based Design: Theories and Applications
• Phillips, Alexandra Atlee — Sulfur Cycling in the Water Columns of Lakes and Oceans
• Pickering, Ethan Marcus — Resolvent Modeling of Turbulent Jets
• Poceviciute, Roberta — Mucosal Landscape of the Gut: Development and Application of 3D Imaging Tools for Interrogation of Host-Microbe Mucosal Interface in Mice and Humans
• Quintero Cadena, Porfirio — Mechanism and Scaling of Eukaryotic Transcription Activation
• Reher, Jenna — Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion: From Hybrid Zero Dynamics to Control Lyapunov Functions via Experimentally Realizable Methods
• Reimann, Christopher Elias — Convergent Synthetic Strategies toward Heterodimeric Bisindole Alkaloids and Polyoxygenated Diterpenoids
• Ren, Xinying (Cindy) — Principles for Designing Robust and Stable Synthetic Microbial Consortia
• Rice, Frank Randolph, III — A Very Wide Bandwidth SIS Heterodyne Receiver Design for Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy
• Roback, Kevin Patrick — Investigating Sand Transport and Landslides, and Implications for Past and Present Environments on Mars and Earth
• Roberts, Brenden Carlisle — New Tensor Network Methods and Studies of Criticality in Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems
• Roh, Becky — Matching Waveform Envelopes for Earthquake Early Warning
• Ross, Tyler David — Guiding Self-Organization in Active Matter with Spatiotemporal Boundary Conditions
• Royer, Fabien A. — Probing the Buckling of Thin-Shell Space Structures
• Ruan, Joseph Y. — Streamwise Homogeneous Turbulent Boundary Layers
• Sabbeth, Leah — Provenance, Structural Geology, and Sedimentation of the Miocene and Pliocene Californias
• Salehi, Fariborz — Structured Signal Recovery from Nonlinear Measurements with Applications in Phase Retrieval and Linear Classification
• Sawyer, Daniel Patrick — Enhanced Noninvasive Imaging of Acoustic Biomolecules
• Schäfer, Florian Tobias — Inference, Computation, and Games
• Shahrestani, Shane Shayan — Eddy Current Damping Stroke Sensor
• Shamai, Maysam — Complexity Reduction of Fluid-Structure Systems at Low Forcing Frequencies
• Shen, Boqiang — Applications and Integration of Optical Frequency Combs
• Shen, Naijian — Part I: The Equations of Plasma Physics and the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Magnetohydrodynamics. Part II: Evolution of Perturbed Planar Shockwaves.
• Shi, Xichen — Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft
• Shin, Jieun — Investigating the Catalytic Mechanisms of Bio-degrading Copper Proteins: Multi-copper Oxidases (MCOs) and Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenases (LPMOs)
• Simonoff, Ethan — Understanding Pattern Formation and Improving Fidelity in Phototropic Growth
• Singh, Angad — Mathematical Models of Trading
• Song, Jialin — Learning to Optimize: from Theory to Practice
• Spodyneiko, Lev — Topological Invariants of Interacting Gapped Quantum Materials and Transport Phenomena
• Stroscio, Gautam Dutta — Understanding the Electronic Structures of First-Row Transition Metal Complexes for Solar Energy Conversion and Catalysis
• Su, Yu — Optimizing Cloud AI Platforms: Resource Allocation and Market Design
• Sun, Chong — Finite Temperature Simulations of Strongly Correlated Systems
• Takei, Yodai — Integrated Spatial Genomics Reveals Organizational Principles of Single-Cell Nuclear Architecture
• Tang, Yu Qing (Eugene) — Quantum Information at High and Low Energies
• Teh, Ying Shi — Understanding Imperfections and Instabilities in Crystals via Physics-Based and Data-Driven Models
• Teke, Oguzhan — Signals on Networks: Random Asynchronous and Multirate Processing, and Uncertainty Principles
• Threatt, Stephanie Denise — In Vivo Activity of Rhodium Metalloinsertors and Exploration of Drug Delivery Systems
• Toedtli, Simon Silvio — Control of Wall-Bounded Turbulence Through Closed-Loop Wall Transpiration
• Trumbo, Samantha Kathleen — Views of an Ocean World: The Signatures of Internal and External Processes on the Surface of Europa
• Turan, Zeynep — Life Without Cortex: Subcortical Circuits in Naturalistic Behaviors
• Varuzhanyan, Grigor — Mitochondrial Dynamics and Mitophagy during Male Germline Development
• Wang, Heming — Kerr Solitons and Brillouin Lasers in Optical Microresonators
• Wang, Jingzhou — CDRxAb: Antibody Small-Molecule Conjugates with Computationally Designed Target-Binding Synergy
• Wang, Ruohan — Identification of New OPA1 Cleavage Site Reveals that Short Isoforms Regulate Mitochondrial Fusion
• Wang, Siwen — Photo- and Electro-Chemistry Methods for Waterborne Pathogen Treatment and Detection in Environmental Water
• Wong, Wan-Rong — C. elegans Models of ASD-Associated Missense Variants
• Wu, Di — Biomolecular Tools for Noninvasive Imaging and Manipulation of Engineered Cells
• Wu, Xunyi — Novel, Rapid and Cost-effective Methods for Concentration, Detection and Monitoring of Waterborne Pathogens in Resource-Limited Settings
• Wu, Zachary — Data-Driven Protein Engineering
• Xie, Hao — Road to Equilibrium: Stable Isotope Distribution in Gaseous Alkanes and Thermal History of Geological Hydrocarbons
• Xiong, Xiaobin — Reduced Order Model Inspired Robotic Bipedal Walking: A Step-to-step Dynamics Approximation based Approach
• Xu, Jian — Optical Light Manipulation and Imaging Through Scattering Media
• Xu, Yanjun — Probing the Inner Accretion Flow Properties Around Black Holes with X-ray Observations
• Yan, Ellen — Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of a Reductant-Activated Methodology for Covalent Functionalization of 1T' Transition Metal Dichalcogenides MoS₂ and WS₂
• Yang, Liyang — A Coarse Jacquet-Zagier Trace Formula for GL(n) with Applications
• Ye, Erika — Reducing Computational Costs for Many-Body Physics Problems
• Yi, Lingfei — Geometric Langlands for Hypergeometric Sheaves
• Yildiz, Hikmet — Linear Codes with Constrained Generator Matrices
• Yoo, Gene Ryan — Learning Patterns with Kernels and Learning Kernels from Patterns
• You, Minyoung — Topological Phases of Matter: Classification, Stacking Law, and Relation to Topological Quantum Field Theory
• Yu, Ke — Multi-Resolution Lattice Green's Function Method for High Reynolds Number External Flows
• Yu, Weilai — Stability of Photo-Electrochemical Interface for Solar Fuels
• Zhang, Haolu Jane — Microstructure-Enabled Plasticity in Nano-to-Microscale Materials
• Zhang, Zhewei — Hybrid Si/III-V Lasers for Next-generation Coherent Optical Communication
• Zhang, Zhicai — First Observation of the Production of Three Massive Vector Bosons and Search for Long-Lived Particles using Delayed Photons in pp Collisions at √s = 13 TeV
• Zhou, Dan — Mechanism of Action of a Therapeutic Peptide, Risuteganib, Suggests that Supporting Mitochondrial Function Underlies its Clinical Efficacy in Treating Leading Causes of Blindness
• Zhou, Wen — Single-Cell Analysis of Normal and Perturbed Early T-Cell Developmental Processes