Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2022

• Abdel-Haq, Reem — Gut Microbiome Modulates Microglia Physiology in Homeostatic and Disease States
• Abernathy, Morgan Elizabeth — Antibody Targeting of HIV-1 Env: a Structural Perspective
• Aceves, Aiden Joseph — Machine Learning and Modeling Methods for Protein Engineering
• Ambrose, Eric Ryan — Creating ARCHER: A 3D Hopping Robot with Flywheels for Attitude Control
• Andrade Meirelles, Lucas — The Nuanced Effects of Redox-Active Metabolites on Bacterial Physiology and Antibiotic Susceptibility
• Ardizzi, Anthony Joseph — Self-Heating of HEMT Low-Noise Amplifiers in Liquid Cryogenic Environments and the Limits of Microwave Noise Performance
• Arrastia, Mary Villanueva — Development of Single-Cell SPRITE: a Tool for Measuring Heterogeneity of 3D DNA Organization
• Ayoubi, Peyman — Modeling and Parameterization of Basin Effects for Engineering Design Applications
• Ballew, Conner Kiley — Multifunctional Volumetric Metaoptics
• Banker, Jash Haren — Photonic and Phononic Band Gap Engineering for Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Transduction
• Banks, Rachel A. — Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Non-Equilibrium Systems: Motor-Microtubule Assemblies and the Human-Earth System
• Barlow, Jacob T. — Quantitative Sequencing and its Application to Studies of the Human Small-Intestine Microbiota
• Barthel, Benedikt — On the Variational Principles of Linear and Nonlinear Resolvent Analysis
• Bateman, Orland Christopher Lycurgue — Design and Application of Novel Membrane Materials
• Bauser, Haley Coddington — High Contrast Nanophotonics for Scalable Photovoltaics and Solar Fuels
• Beeler, Suzannah Michelle — Deciphering Regulation in Escherichia coli: From Genes to Genomes
• Bohdanowicz, Thomas Christopher — Quantum Constructions on Hamiltonians, Codes, and Circuits
• Booeshaghi, Ali Sina — Foundations and Applications of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing
• Bouman, Amanda Rose — Autonomous Mission-Driven Robots in Extreme Environments
• Brown, David — Principles of Massively Parallel Sequencing for Engineering and Characterizing Gene Delivery
• Buzard, Camillus Francis — Detecting Small Signals: Near-Infrared Studies of Substellar Companions
• Castellanos, Jorge Alberto Castillo — Seismic Wavefield Imaging of the Earth: the Regional, the Local, and the Remote
• Chachan, Yayaati — A Journey with Dust: from Protoplanetary Disks to Planetary Atmospheres and Outflows
• Chen, Baoyi — Near-Horizon Black Hole Physics
• Chen, Jiajie — Singularity Formation in Incompressible Fluids and Related Models
• Chen, Kuan-Chang — Energy-Efficient Receiver Design for High-Speed Interconnects
• Chen, Yuguang — The Absorption and Emission of Neutral Hydrogen around High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies
• Cheng, Lixue — Accurate and Transferable Molecular-Orbital-Based Machine Learning for Molecular Modeling
• Cheng, Peishi Stephen — Charge and Heat Transport in Non-Metallic Crystals Using First-Principles Boltzmann Transport Theory
• Cheng, Yun-Ting — Cosmology and Astrophysics with Intensity Mapping
• Chivukula, Srinivas — Felt, Imagined, and Seen Touch Share a Substrate in Human Posterior Parietal Cortex
• Choi, Alexander Youngsoo — Investigation of Electronic Fluctuations in Semiconductor Materials and Devices through First-Principles Simulations and Experiments in Transistor Amplifiers
• Choi, Youngjoon — A Spectroscopic Study of Electronic Correlations in Twisted Bilayer Graphene by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
• Chou, Tzu-Chieh — Wearable Inductive Damping Sensors for Skin Edema Quantification
• Clamons, Samuel Eric — Three Problems in the Design and Specification of Biomolecular Circuits
• Corona, Sydney Lea — Emerging Evidence of a Second Glass Phase in Strong to Ultra-Fragile Bulk Metallic Glass-Forming Liquids
• Costanza, Vincenzo — Thermally Responsive Polymers for Wearable Calorimeters
• Cross, Logan Matthew — The Neural Mechanisms of Value Construction
• Cua, Eunice Michelle Chua — Exploiting Speckle to Image Deeper in Scattering Media
• da Veiga Beltrame, Eduardo — Stories in Single Cell RNA Sequencing
• Dalzell, Alexander Moos — Random Quantum Circuits and Their Simulation Complexity: an Analysis with Statistical Mechanics
• de los Reyes, Mithi Alexa Caballes (Mia) — Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Universe as Probes of Stellar and Galactic Evolution
• de Oliveira Lobo, Ana Helena — Atmospheric and Ocean Dynamics of Water Worlds
• de Souza, Alysha Maria — Sparse Neural and Motor Networks Underlying Control in the Drosophila Flight System
• DeLano, Travis Jon — Development of Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Cross-Coupling Reactions
• Devdariani, Saba — Agency Problems in Political Science
• Ding, Ke — Imaging Neuropeptide Release and Localization with Genetically Engineered Reporters
• Dobreva, Tatyana — Engineering Tools to Probe and Manipulate the Immune System at Single-Cell Resolution
• Dobrosavljevic, Vasilije V. — Exploring Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary with Multi-Technique Approaches
• Dorn, Charles Jacob — Geometry Synthesis and Multi-Configuration Rigidity of Reconfigurable Structures
• Dougherty, Christopher John — On the Experimental Simulation of Atmospheric-Like Disturbances Near the Surface
• Edmonds, KeHuan Kuo — Imaging Cell Lineage with a Synthetic Digital Recording System
• Esswein, Shannon Rose — Structural Basis of Antibody Recognition of Viruses
• Fastuca, Nicholas James — Fragment Coupling Approach To C₁₉- AND C₂₀-Diterpenoid Alkaloids: Total Synthesis of (–)-Talatisamine, (–)-Liljestrandisine, and (–)-Liljestrandinine
• Ferreira, Vinicius Thaddeu dos Santos — Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics with Superconducting Slow-Light Waveguide Circuits
• Fikes, Austin Covey — Future Microwave Arrays Take Shape
• Folkestad, Carl A. A. — Koopman-based Learning and Control of Agile Robotic Systems
• Fornace, Mark Evan — Computational Methods for Simulating and Parameterizing Nucleic Acid Secondary Structure Thermodynamics and Kinetics
• Freas, Dylan Joshua — The Synthesis of Diverse Families of Organic Compounds via Nickel-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions
• Fries, Eric Michael — Precision Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime
• Fry, Michelle Yen — Mechanistic Studies of Tail-Anchored Membrane Protein Targeting to the ER
• Fu, Harold Jin — Open-Circuit Stability and Integration of Silicon Electrodes for Solar Fuels Devices
• Fulton, Tyler James — Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (–)-Myrifabral A and B, Havellockate, and New Strategies for Acyclic Stereocontrol
• Gallo Aquino, Tomas — Single Neuron Correlates of Learning, Value, and Decision in the Human Brain
• Galstyan, Vahe — Studies in Physical Biology: Exploring Allosteric Regulation, Enzymatic Error Correction, and Cytoskeletal Self-Organization Using Theory and Modeling
• Gao, Yang — Extending the Capability of Classical Quantum Many-Body Methods
• Glaudell, Rebecca Denise — Interface Optimization for Improved Photovoltaic Devices
• Goel, Gautam — Regret-Optimal Control
• Goldberg, Nathaniel Wood — Non-Native Chemistry of Metalloenzymes
• Gong, Mengsha — Remodeling Jellyfish
• Grant, Stephen Nicholas — Investigation of Some Small Molecule-Protein and Protein-Protein Interactions in Nicotine Addiction, Opioid Use Disorder, and COVID-19
• Gu, Alan Yalun — Aqueous Aerosols in Atmospheric Chemistry and Airborne Diseases
• Hafeman, Nicholas Joseph — Synthesis and Applications of Terpenoid Natural Products: Total Synthesis of Scabrolide A and Havellockate, and Synthesis of Pinene Oxidation Products for Atmospheric Investigations
• Hamann, Kathryn Rose — Exploration of Materials and Mesostructures Accessible via Inorganic Phototropic Growth
• Han, Yanting — Emotion Experience from Stories, Videos and Everyday Life: Structure and Individual Differences
• Hanania, Haeri Park — Nanophotonic Application to Biomedical Devices
• Harmon, John Michael — Predicting the Strength of Planetary Surfaces
• Herren, Benjamin Riley — Oxidative and Internal Stress Effects of Dopants in Multilayer Yb₂Si₂O₇ Environmental Barrier Coatings
• Hoffmann, Magnus Adrian Gero — Nanoparticle Technologies to Cure and Prevent Infectious Diseases
• Holman, Elizabeth Anne — Developing Technologies for Real-Time Whole-Organism Imaging via FTIR Spectromicroscopy
• Holman, Karli Rose — Palladium-Catalyzed Cascade Cyclizations in Natural Product Synthesis: Synthetic Studies of Noraugustamine and Falcatin A
• Hooper, Morgan Louise — Characterization and Optimization of a Fully Passive Flapping Foil in an Unsteady Environment for Power Production and Propulsion
• Huang, Tzu-Chen — From Building Blocks to Theories: EFThedron and a Haagerup TFT
• Huang, Zi-Yu — Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy-Derived 3D Conductivity Tomography for Atherosclerosis Detection
• Hui, Katrina Lynn — Monsoonal Precipitation in a Model Hierarchy: Impact of Continental Geometry and Global Warming
• Idini Zabala, Benjamín Rodo — Earthquakes and the New Paradigm of Diluted Cores in Gas Giant Planets
• Jacobson, Daniel Rance — Computational Studies of Dendritic Deposition and Trajectory Phase Coexistence
• Jahelka, Phillip Robert — Progress in Low-Cost Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells
• Jette, Claudia Angela — Targeting Fusion Proteins of HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2
• Jia, Zhe — Resolving Earthquake Source Complexities in the Heterogeneous Earth
• Jo, HyeongChan — Bidirectional Brain-Machine Interfaces for Modulating Stimulation and Neural Plasticity
• Jongramrungruang, Siraput — Towards Accurate and Automated Detection and Quantification of Localized Methane Point Sources on a Global Scale
• Kajikawa, Koichiro — Inhibition is the Hallmark of CA3 Intracellular Dynamics Around Awake Ripples
• Kamraj, Nikita — Probing the Corona in Active Galactic Nuclei Using Broadband X-Ray Spectroscopy
• Katti, Raj Michael — Josephson Inductance Thermometry in Resonantly-Coupled Van-der-Waals Heterostructures
• Kemeny, Preston Cosslett — A Fluvial Perspective on the Role of Sulfide Oxidation in the Global Carbon Cycle
• Kenseth, Christopher M. — Formation, Abundance, and Evolution of Molecular Products in α-Pinene and β-Pinene Secondary Organic Aerosol
• Kim, Eun Jong — Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics in Superconducting Circuits
• Kim, Jeongmin — Molecular Simulations of Charge Transport for Energy Storage and Conversion Applications
• Kim, Seungkyeum — Development of Electrochemical Processes for More Practical and Effective Onsite Wastewater Treatment
• Kim, Yonghwi — Light Modulation with Vanadium Dioxide-Based Optical Devices
• Kjeldbjerg, Camilla Maria — The Effects of Confinement in Active Matter: the Casimir Effect, Partitioning, and Hindered Diffusion
• Klimovich, Nikita Sergeevich — Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifiers and Other Nonlinear Kinetic Inductance Devices
• Koontz, Alison Lindsay — Neural Crest and Placodal Cells Contributions to Cranial Sensory Development
• Kovachki, Nikola Borislavov — Machine Learning and Scientific Computing
• Labedz, Celeste Ritter — Between Seismic Speed and Glacial Pace: Cryoseismic Observation of Intermediate-Scale Processes at Lemon Creek Glacier, Alaska
• Lacker, Caitlin Rebecca — The Modular Synthesis and Functionalization of Cyclic Compounds Using Modern Methods
• Larochelle, Stacy — Mechanical Interactions Between Water and the Solid Earth: from Quasi-Static Geodetic Deformation to Dynamic Fault Slip
• Le, Tianhao — Radiation-Based Analytic Approaches to Investigate the Earth’s Atmosphere
• Lee, Marcus Kuok Kuan — Instabilities in the Flow Over a Spinning Disk at Angle of Attack
• Lhota, Red C. — Rheological Characterization of Polymer Additives for Mist Control and Drag Reduction
• Li, Jiazheng — The Chemistry of Europa and Venus, and Characterization of Earth-Like Exoplanets
• Li, Yimeng — Three Essays on Survey Methods and their Applications to Measuring Political Behavior and Attitudes
• Li, Yunxuan — Search for Beyond Standard Model Physics at BaBar
• Liang, Chen — Cascading Failures in Power Systems: Modeling, Characterization, and Mitigation
• Llop-Sayson, Jorge Domingo — New Methods for the Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets
• Loke, Samuel Pei Hao — Photovoltaic Technologies Developed for Space-Based Solar Power
• MacArdle, Siobhán Gaustad — Analytical Chemistry Investigations Toward Understanding the Mechanism of Nitrogenase from Azotobacter vinelandii and the Role of the 4Fe-4S Cluster of Dna2 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Markham, Stephen Robert — Gas Planet Seismology and Cooling
• Marshall, Michael Aaron — Dynamics of Ultralight Flexible Spacecraft During Slew Maneuvers
• Maser, Michael Robert — Machine Learning Methods Inspired by Challenges in Total Synthesis
• Mazza, Michael Francis — Defect-Driven Reactivity of Layered Materials Examined through Atomic Layer Deposition
• McMahan, Connor Glenn — Modeling and Programming Shape-Morphing Structured Media
• Mehta, Jenish Chetan — Combinatorial and Algebraic Propeties of Nonnegative Matrices
• Mendoza, Skyler Dakota — Development of a Synthetic Strategy Toward Falcatin A. Development of an Asymmetric Diels–Alder Reaction of α-Acyloxy Enones
• Muir, Jack Broderick — Model Parameterization and Model Selection in Geophysical Inverse Problems. Designing Inverse Problems that Respect a priori Geophysical Knowledge
• Needell, David Robert — High-Efficiency Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Photovoltaic Applications
• Nguyen, Thong Quang — Searches for Nonresonant Higgs Boson Pair Production and Long-Lived Particles at the LHC and Machine-Learning Solutions for the High-Luminosity LHC Era
• Norton, Thomas Clark — Discrete Deligne Cohomology and Discretized Abelian Chern-Simons Theory
• Ortiz-Muñoz, Andrés — Combinatorics and Stochasticity for Chemical Reaction Networks
• Panangaden, Jane Mariam — Quantum Statistical Mechanics, Noncommutative Geometry, and the Boundary of Modular Curves
• Park, Jinsoo — Spin-Phonon Interactions and Spin Decoherence from First Principles
• Park, Sunghyuk — 3-Manifolds, Q-Series, and Topological Strings
• Peng, Zhiwei — Transport and Microrheology of Active Colloids
• Perozim de Faveri, Alexandre — Automorphic L-Functions, Geometric Invariants, and Dynamics
• Petrovic, Stefan — Structure and Function of the Human Nuclear Pore Complex
• Poole, William — Compilation and Inference with Chemical Reaction Networks
• Porsandeh Khial, Parham — High Sensitivity Time-Varying Systems In Photonics and Electronics
• Qin, Yidan — Autonomous Temporal Understanding and State Estimation during Robot-Assisted Surgery
• Razo-Mejia, Manuel — Physical Biology of Cellular Information Processing
• Ribson, Ryan Dillon — Spectroscopic Characterization of Electronic and Magnetic Relaxation Phenomena in Molecular Systems
• Rinaldi, Katherine Zoe — A Technical and Systems Analysis of Hydrogen Fuel in Renewable Energy Systems
• Rochman, Jake Herschel Lebi — Microwave-to-Optical Transduction Using Rare-Earth Ions
• Rosa-Raíces, Jorge Luis — Path Space Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Molecular Simulation
• Rosenberg, Matthew Hutson — Innate Navigation: Magnetic Sensation and Maze Learning
• Rosenthal, Lee Jesse — The California Legacy Survey: a Three-Decade Census of Extrasolar Planets
• Row, Hyeongjoo — Mechanical Approach to Active Matter: Reverse Osmotic Effect and Motility-Induced Phase Separation
• Ryou, Serim — Representation of the Semantic Structures: from Discovery to Applications
• Saccone, Max Anthony — Vat Photopolymerization Additive Manufacturing of Functional Materials: from Batteries to Metals and Alloys
• Sagman, Nathaniel Levi — Harmonic Maps of Riemann Surfaces and Applications in Geometry
• Saper, Lee Michael — Experimental Studies on the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Coexisting Olivine, Silicate Melt, and Vapor
• Saunders, Claire Nicole — Thermal Behavior of Cuprous Oxide: a Comprehensive Study of Three-Body Phonon Effects and Beyond
• Savela, Emily Sue — Nucleic Acid Measurements for Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing and Early Detection of SARS-CoV-2
• Scheller, Eva Linghan — A Multi-Disciplinary Approach: How Aqueous Minerals Hold the Key to Understanding the Climate and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets
• Schild, Dirk Jacob — Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Iron Hydrides in Nitrogen Fixation and Proton Coupled Electron Transfer from C-H bonds
• Shan, Junyi — Non-Thermal Optical Engineering of Strongly-Correlated Quantum Materials
• Shen, Zhichao — Probing Water Below the Surface: Insights from Seismic Interferometry with Conventional and DAS Array
• Shinko, Forte — Descriptive Set Theory and Dynamics of Countable Groups
• Shirley, Wilbur Eric — Structure of Entanglement in Fracton Phases of Matter
• Shubin, Andrei — Topics in Equidistribution and Exponential Sums
• Shur, Andrey Sergeyvich — Serine Integrase-Based Event Recording in E. coli
• Sima, Jin — Correcting Errors in DNA Storage
• Singletary, Andrew Wills — Safe Input Regulation for Robotic Systems
• Song, Yichuan — Rheological Measurements in Moderate Reynolds Number Liquid-Solid Flows
• Stevens, Benjamin Carter — Applications of Machine Learning to Finite Volume Methods
• Su, Christina Janet — Principles of Addressing Specificity in Promiscuous Ligand-Receptor Systems
• Sudhir, Kavya — Slip Patterns on Heterogeneous Frictional Interfaces
• Sun, Xuan — Measurements of Beyond Standard Model Interactions with the UCNA and nEDM@SNS Experiments
• Szoke, Szilard — Entangled Photon Interferometry: Development of Photonic Systems Towards Quantum Spectroscopy
• Tang, Weiyi — Retroviral Lineage Analysis of the Vagal Neural Crest Reveals Multipotency Towards the Cardiac and Enteric Fates
• Tao, Xuecheng — Capturing Nuclear Quantum Effects at Classical Efficiency: a Path-Integral Approach
• Tao, Zijian — Theory of Mathematical Optimization for Delegated Portfolio Management
• Tookmanian, Elise M. — Investigation of the Roles of Hopanoids in the Lifecycle of Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens in the Context of Climate Change
• Trickle, Tanner David — Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter with Electrons, Phonons, and Magnons
• Tso, Rhondale — Fundamental Ways to Probe Gravitational Waves Across Its Spectrum and Propagation
• Vasquez, Krystal TonyBeth — Isomer Separation of Multifunctional Atmospheric Compounds Using Gas Chromatography and Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry
• Veismann, Marcel — Axial Descent of Multirotor Configurations -- Experimental Studies for Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Applications
• Venugopalan, Gautam — Prototype Interferometry in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
• Vissapragada, Shreyas — The Irradiation-Driven Evolution of Gas-Giant Exoplanets
• Wallack, Nicole Lisa — The Planet-Disk Connection: from Protoplanetary Disks to Planetary Atmospheres
• Watkins-Dulaney, Ella Jenná — Engineering the Tryptophan Synthase β-Subunit for Synthesis of Noncanonical Amino Acids
• Welch, Alexandra Justine — Understanding and Optimizing the Local Catalyst Environment in CO₂ Reduction Electrodes
• Went, Cora Margaret — Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Ultrathin Solar Cells
• White, Nicholas Conlan — Nonlinear Dynamics and Stability of Viscous Free-Surface Microcapillary Flows in V-Shaped Channels and on Curved Surfaces
• Wilkins, Olivia Harper — High-Resolution Imaging of Chemistry in Extreme Interstellar Environments
• Williams, David Elliott — Shape-Changing Phased Arrays
• Williams, Rory Logan — Development and Scaling of Differentiation Circuit Architectures for Improving the Evolutionary Stability of Burdensome Functions in E. coli
• Wittmann, Bruce James — Strategies and Tools for Machine Learning-Assisted Protein Engineering
• Wong, Joeson — Optoelectronic Physics and Engineering of Atomically Thin Photovoltaics
• Xiao, Fangzhou — Biocontrol of Biomolecular Systems: Polyhedral Constraints on Binding's Regulation of Catalysis from Biocircuits to Metabolism
• Yang, Bin — Transformations and Functions of Neural Representations in a Subcortical Social Behavior Network
• Yang, Zhi — Conformational Plasticity of HIV-1 Env and Implications for Vaccine Design
• Ylitalo, Andrew Samuel — A Bubble Is Born: Nucleation and Early Growth of CO₂ Bubbles in Polymer Foams
• Zhan, Eric — New Algorithms for Programmatic Deep Learning with Applications to Behavior Modeling
• Zhang, Juner — New-to-Nature Selective C-H Alkylation Using Engineered Carbene Transferases
• Zhang, Shiyu — Three Essays in Applied Economics
• Zhang, Tony (Haoyu) — Biological Intelligence: from Behavior to Learning Theory
• Zhang, Victor — Twisted Heisenberg Central Extensions and the Affine ADE Basic Representation
• Zhang, Yongzhe — New Examples and Monotonicity Formula for Mean Curvature Flow
• Zhang, Zhaoxi Michael — Understanding Exoplanet Atmospheres
• Zhong, Minyan — High-Resolution Geophysical Images of Static Crustal Structure and Time-Dependent Glacier Flow
• Zhou, Fengyu — Optimization of Distribution Power Networks: from Single-Phase to Multi-Phase
• Zhou, Hao — Accelerated Computational Micromechanics
• Zimmer, Matthew Holden — Cotranslational Pulling Forces Alter Outcomes of Protein Synthesis