Dissertation (Ph.D.) — 2024

• Abouamal, Ismail — Bost–Connes–Marcolli System for the Siegel Modular Variety
• Aghlmand, Fatemeh — Adaptive Optoelectronic Systems: From Bio- Sensing to Free-Space Optical Communication
• Akbari, Hamidreza — Characterization and Tuning of Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
• Anand, Shreya — Cosmic Gold Mining: Hunting for the Astrophysical Sites of r-Process Nucleosynthesis
• Aralis, Taylor Benjamin — SuperCDMS SNOLAB, HVeV Run 3, and Development of KIPM Detectors
• Badithela, Apurva Srinivas — Test and Evaluation of Autonomous Systems: Reactive Test Synthesis and Task-Relevant Evaluation of Perception
• Bernal-Choban, Camille Marie — Atomic Dynamics in Solids and Liquids from Inelastic Neutron Scattering
• Bhamidipati, Pranav Subramanyam — Modeling and Design of Synthetic Biochemical Circuits for Biological Phenotypes
• Blatnik, Marie Ann — Creating the Electric and Magnetic Fields for the nEDM@SNS Experiment
• Böhme, Annette Ellen — Observation of the Microenvironment Around CO₂ Reduction Electrodes via Fluorescent Confocal Laser-Scanning Microscopy
• Bruening, Meaghan Ann — Applications of Synthesis in Copolymer Upcycling, Reduction of CO₂, Ligand Non-Innocence, and New Weakly-Coordinating Anions
• Buenconsejo, Reina S. — Clearing the Air: A Chemical Approach to Understanding Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation From Volatile Chemical Products
• Burov, Dmitry Anatolyevich — Kernel Methods for Learning About Complex Dynamical Systems
• Buss, Marjorie Theresa — Tools for Noninvasive Imaging and Control of Engineered Bacteria In Vivo
• Cagan, David Abraham — Exploring the Photophysics and Reactivity of Nickel–Bipyridine Cross-Coupling Catalysts
• Can, Tran Thanh Trung — On Arithmetic Invariants of Special Families of K3-Type Surfaces
• Cao, Ruizhi — Dealing with Imperfections: From Aberration to Scattering
• Chan, Tsam Mang Melinda — Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Havellockate and Investigation into Chiral Palladium Enolate: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Applications
• Chang, Benjamin K. — Electron-Phonon Interactions and Charge Transport in Organic Crystals and Transition Metal Oxides from First-Principles Calculations
• Chang, Cyuan-Han — Energy Correlators, Dispersive Sum Rules, and Modular Bootstrap in Conformal Field Theories
• Chang, Yi Hua — Studies of the Evolution and Stability of the Thin Film Equation for Externally Modulated Control of Electrohydrodynamic and Thermocapillary Patterning
• Chao, Wen — Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Reactive Intermediates in the Atmosphere of Venus: the Catalytic Role of Chlorine Atoms
• Chari, Tara Varada — Perturbing the Genome: From Bench to Biophysics
• Chen, Ge — Localized Fast Radio Bursts Using DSA-110
• Chen, Peiwei — Sexual Dimorphism and Evolutionary Innovation in piRNA-Guided Genome Defense
• Chen, Po-Chih — Signal Processing for Large Arrays: Convolutional Beamspace, Hybrid Analog and Digital Processing, and Distributed Algorithms
• Cherry, Kevin Matthew — Molecular Pattern Recognition and Supervised Learning in DNA-Based Neural Networks
• Ciemniecki, John Alan — The Bioenergetics of a Low-Power, Phenazine-Dependent Maintenance Metabolism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Csernica, Timothy Andrew — Exploring Nature’s Fingerprints with Isotopic Distributions
• Cusumano, Alexander Quinn — Asymmetric Pericyclic Transformations from Reactive Palladium Intermediates
• Dallas, Brooke Hillary — Intermolecular and Intramolecular Stable Isotope Studies in Alanine
• Deng, Weiting — Additive Manufacturing of 3D Micro-Architected Materials for Device Applications
• Denman, William Thomas Plent — The Birth of PICL: New Laboratory Experiments for Understanding Ocean Worlds
• Desai, Niyati K. — Scalar Vortex Coronagraphs for Imaging Habitable Exoplanets
• Dilanyan, Taleen Gaied — Open-Source Custom Beads for Single-Cell Transcriptomics
• Dong, Guannan — Taking the Pulse of Life: Intramolecular and Clumped Isotopic Perspectives on the Origins and Evolution of Hydrocarbons in Geological and Prebiotic Systems
• Du, Jiajun — Vibrational Imaging for Chemical Biology: from Label-Free to Molecular probes
• Duan, Mengtong (Tom) — Expanding Frontiers in Biomedical Imaging and Synthetic Biology: Dynamic Acoustic Reporter Gene Imaging and Ratio-Tuning of Mammalian mRNA Polycistronic Expression
• Ebanks, Daniel C. — Unexpected Partisan Unity Among Congressional Leaders and Legislators Using New Latent Variable Estimation Techniques and Frameworks
• Echeverri, Daniel — Vortex Fiber Nulling for Exoplanet Observations
• Esho, Iretomiwa — Investigation of Transport Phenomena in Semiconductors and Semiconductor Devices: Drain Noise, Two-Phonon Scattering, and Phonon Drag
• Evans, John Matthew — Impact of Interfacial Chemistry on Corrosion, Sensing, and Catalytic Properties of Materials
• Feder, Richard Moses — Dissecting and Reconstructing the Cosmic Infrared Background with Spaceborne Experiments
• Fong, Meng-Jhang — Essays in Behavioral Economics and Game Theory
• Gailmard, Lindsey Anne — Reputation and Accountability
• Gao, Shilong — Engineering Heme Proteins for C(sp³)–H Primary Amination
• Goldberg, Max Elliot — Early Dynamics and Evolution of Extrasolar Planetary Systems
• Gomez De La Cruz, Salvador Rey — Linear Amplification in Nonequilibrium Turbulent Boundary Layers
• Goronzy, Isabel Nadine — Higher-Order Chromatin States and Nuclear Structures Regulating Gene Expression
• Graebener, Josefine Berta Marie — Formal Methods for Test and Evaluation: Reasoning over Tests, Automated Test Synthesis, and System Diagnostics
• Grayson, Robert Wall — Low-Energy Plasma–Surface Interactions at Airless Icy Bodies
• Griffiths, Jessica Anne — Bidirectional Interactions Between the Gut Microbiome and Nervous System
• Gu, Shouzhen — Quantum Error Correction Using Low-Density Parity-Check Codes and Erasure Qubits
• Gunnarson, Peter John — Autonomous Flow-Based Navigation in Unsteady Underwater Environments
• Guo, Jimmy Kang — Defining the Universe of Functional RNA-Protein Interactions
• Guzman, Pedro — Developments in Mössbauer Spectrometry: From Instrumentation to High Pressure Studies on Spins and Phonons
• Haghi, Benyamin Allahgholizadeh — Energy-Efficient and Robust Algorithms for Biomedical Applications
• He, Manni — Entanglement-Enhanced Bioimaging and Sensing
• Heim, Gavin Paul — Molecular Tuning of Electrocatalysts for Generation of Commodity Chemicals
• Hickam, Bryce Patrick — Exploring How Entangled Photon Correlations Can Enhance Spectroscopy
• Hightower, Erin Jessica — From Tectonic Evolution to Intraplate Stress: The Role of Structural Inheritance and Long-Wavelength Loading
• Hill, Andrew James — The Genetic and Neuronal Substrates of Melatonin Signaling in Zebrafish Sleep
• Ho, Dimitar Mi — Control of Unknown Dynamical Systems: Robustness and Online Learning of Feedback Control
• Huang, Hsin-Yuan (Robert) — Learning in the Quantum Universe
• Huang, Wanying — Essays on Rational Social Learning
• Huang, Yujia — Understanding and Improving Reliability of Inference Dynamics in Deep Neural Networks
• Huey, Joanna Nanami — Institutional Design of Criminal Justice Processes
• Iton, Zachery William Benjamin — Superionic Conduction of Next-Generation Mobile Ions in Solids Enabled by Coordinating Ligands
• Ives, Craig Edward — Subtractive Photonics in Bulk CMOS
• Ivy, Tobin William — Implementing and Modeling Gene Drives for Population Modification and Suppression
• Jiang, Jialong — Revealing Regulatory Network Organization Through Single-Cell Perturbation Profiling and Maximum Entropy Models
• Jin, Yuhui — On the Hecke Module of GLₙ(k[[z]])\GLₙ(k((z)))/GLₙ(k((z²)))
• Jin, Zhiyang — Acoustic Biosensors for Noninvasive Imaging of Molecular Processes
• Johnston, Kadina Elizabeth — Acquiring Enzyme Sequence-Fitness Data at Scale Toward Predictive Methods for Enzyme Engineering
• Jones, Christopher Glenn — Development of Microcrystal Electron Diffraction Techniques for the Characterization of Small Molecules and Novel Materials
• Jones, Gregory Harrison — From Venus to Mars: Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Reactive Intermediates in Planetary Atmospheres
• Jurado Quiroga, Zoila Estefani — Towards a Synthetic Nucleus: Separating Transcription and Translation in Cell-Free Protein Expression Systems
• Kaifu, Hiroki — Structural and Dynamical Correlations Linked to Smaller Thermal Resistance at a Classical Liquid/Solid Interface
• Kamakari, Hirsh — Investigation of Quantum Computers for Quantum Simulation and Machine Learning
• Kiliç, Kordağ Mehmet — On the Complexity of Neural Network Representations
• Kim, Areum — Probing Active Nanophotonic Materials Phenomena Under Electrostatic Modulation
• Ko, Dennis Lok — Design and Implementation of a Microparticle Delivery Device for the Cornea
• Kobayashi, Shunto Jerry — Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization
• Korol, Roman — Development and Applications of Imaginary Time Path Integral Methods
• Kulkarni, Neeraja Raghavendra — A Kakeya Estimate for Sticky Sets Using a Planebrush
• Laubscher, Emily Chiu — Deep Learning-Enabled Integrated Measurements of Immune Signaling in Primary Human Macrophages
• Le, Linh Nguyen Vuong — Partial Synthetic Models of the FeMoco Nitrogenase Cluster with Bridging C-Based Ligands
• Lee, Connor Tinghan — Learning-Based Perception for Robotics in Suboptimal Data Landscapes
• Lee, Justin — Ultrasound Control and Imaging of Cellular Immunotherapy
• Leefmans, Christian Richard — Topological Phenomena in Time-Multiplexed Resonator Networks
• Lei, Mi — Many-Body Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and Spin Dynamics with an Ensemble of Rare-Earth Ions
• Leibovici, Daniel Victor — General Domain FC-Based Shock Dynamics Solver
• Li, Chen — Ultrafast Optical Studies of Pressure-Tuned Spin-Orbit Materials
• Li, Dongjun — Black Hole Perturbation Theory Beyond General Relativity and Holographic Gravity in Flat Spacetime
• Li, Haoyu — Revisiting U-Pb and ²⁶Al-²⁶Mg Systematics of Calcium Aluminum-Rich Inclusions: Applications on Early Solar System Chronology and Evolution History
• Li, Jing Shuang (Lisa) — Distributed Control Theory for Biological and Cyberphysical Systems
• Li, Ka Yue Alvin — Probing the Higher Redshift Universe by Studying Strong Lensing of Gravitational Waves and Enhancing Search Sensitivity of the GstLAL Search Pipeline
• Li, Yida — I. Dynamics of Subduction Initiation and II. Constraining Sedimentary Basin Structure with Seismic Ambient Noise
• Li, Zhihui — Unveiling the Structure of the Circumgalactic Medium of High-Redshift Galaxies via Emission and Absorption Lines
• Li, Zhuofang — Essays on Trustworthy Online Platforms
• Lim, Sujung — The Impact of Energy Availability and Substrate Complexity on Anaerobic Microbial Communities in Marine Sediment
• Lin, Haw-Wei — Nonlinear and Multidimensional Terahertz Spectroscopy of Liquids and Crystalline Solids
• Liu, Aike — Bootstrapping the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa Archipelago and Skydiving Algorithm
• Liu, Hanwei — Engineered Living Material Based on Protein-Mediated Bacterial Assembly
• Liu, Mengyu — Love and War: Control of Female Social Behaviors by the Hypothalamus
• Liu, Mingchen — Nonlinear Enhancement of Optical Spectroscopy in the Mid-infrared
• Lo, Ka Lok (Rico) — Gravitational Wave Exotica - Advancing the Search for Signatures of Exotic Compact Objects and Gravitational Lensing from Data-Analysis and Theoretical Perspectives
• Lu, Chen-Hsuan — Strategic Advances in 2D Materials: Low-Temperature Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Graphene and Complementary Insights into MoS₂
• Lucia, Aldo — An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Decision-Making Under Risk
• Luebbert, Laura — Complexity of Transcriptomic Data Analysis and Implications for Biological Discovery
• Ma, Linhao — Dissipative Dynamics of Stars, Planets, and Black Holes
• Markowitz, Aaron Gregory — Interferometric Precision Measurement with Macroscopic Silicon Optomechanics
• Marquez, Ren Thomas Caburnay — Primitive Stellar Remnants and their Signatures as Probes to the Nascent Solar System
• Mayfield, Acacia Michelle Hori — Customized and Modular Control of Gene Expression for Precision Gene Therapies
• Mazaheri, Bijan Henrik Socrates — Combining Sources and Leveraging Contexts
• Miao, Kun — Stimulated Raman Scattering: a Biophysical Perspective for Imaging Cells and Tissues
• Michelsen, Jonathan Malte Zschiegner — Measuring Charge Carrier and Structural Photodynamics at Solar Energy Material Surfaces Using Transient Extreme Ultraviolet Reflection Spectroscopy
• Min, Jihong — Innovations in Wireless Bioelectronics for Precision Medicine, from Sustainable Sweat Sensing to Ingestible Gut Monitoring
• Minutolo, Lorenzo — Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detector (TKIDs) Camera: A Pathfinder mm-Wave Polarimeter
• Mitman, Keefe Edward Alden — Asymptotics with Numerical Relativity: Gravitational Memory, BMS Frames, and Nonlinearities
• Moncada Lopez, Rigoberto — Sea Ice Discrete Element Modeling: Melt and Fracture of Floes and Sheets
• Morris, Freya Kurt — Depositional and Structural History of the Pavian and Kudu Nappes in the Naukluft Mountains, Namibia
• Mueller, Andrew Sterling — Quantum Measurements with Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors
• Mueller, Elliott Patrick — Carbon Currencies: Isotopic Constraints on the Biogeochemistry of Organic Acids
• Muthusamy, Anand Kumar — Neuropsychiatric Drug Biosensors in Organelles, Cells, Biofluids, & Behaving Animals
• Naik, Nachiket Ramchandra — Charge Transport Phenomena in Cryogenic SiGe Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors
• Nelsen, Nicholas Hao — Statistical Foundations of Operator Learning
• Nguyen, Newton Huy — From Source to Sink: Measuring and Modeling Processes Affecting Methane Emissions and Loss
• Ogren, Alexander Charles — Machine Learning and Inference Methods for Surrogate Modeling and Inexpensive Characterization of Elastodynamic Systems
• Orta, Anna Karen — Leveraging the ΦX174 Protein Antibiotic to Study MraY Structure, Function, and Regulation
• Page, Katharine-Rose — Using Functional Genomics to Characterize Biogenesis and Quality Control Pathways in the Mammalian ER
• Palfey, William Richard — Hydrogen Incorporation in Rutile- and Perovskite-Structured Minerals and Their Analogues
• Pandey, Ayush — Modeling Frameworks for Modular and Scalable Biological Circuit Design
• Park, Youngkyu — Altering Framework Topology and Heteroatom Distributions of Molecular Sieves by Designed Organic Structure-Directing Agents
• Peng, Shirui — Seismic Thermometry of the North Pacific and Equatorial Indian Oceans
• Perez, Andrew Alexander — ChIP-DIP: a Multiplexed Method for Mapping Proteins to DNA Uncovers Combinatorics Controlling Gene Expression
• Plant, Kathryn Annette — A New Sensor for Milky-Way Particle Accelerators: The Standalone-Radio Cosmic Ray Detector at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array
• Ponce, Francesca V. — The Role of Integral Gain and its Neuromuscular Implementation in the Flight Control System of Drosophila
• Porter, Michael Koizumi — Improvement of Microbial Detection and Analysis Techniques in Complex Biological Environments
• Prakash, Sharan Jagdish — Experimental and Neuroinformatic Definition of Neural Circuits in Caenorhabditis elegans
• Quinn, Laura Katherine — Freeze-Cast Porous Ceramics: Tailoring Chemistry and Porosity for Functionality
• Rivière, Benjamin Pierre — Do Robots Dream of Random Trees? Monte Carlo Tree Search for Dynamical, Partially Observable, and Multi-Agent Systems
• Roberts, Gregory David — Design, Realization, and Applications of 3D Multifunctional Nanophotonics
• Rubenzahl, Ryan Asa — From the Sun to the Stars: A Solar Calibrator for the Keck Planet Finder and New Frontiers in Exoplanet Obliquities
• Ruskuc, Andrei — Single Rare-Earth Ions in Solid-State Hosts: A Platform for Quantum Networks
• Saladi, Shyam Madhukar — Some Computer Studies of Membrane Proteins, Molecular Chaperones, and Color
• Sanfiorenzo, Charles John — Design and Construction of Bacterial Genomes at the Megabase-Scale
• Schwartz, Morgan Sarah — Accelerating Biological Discovery with Deep Learning and Spatial Optical Barcodes
• Shah, Nabha Niranjan — Scattering and Gravitational Effective Field Theory
• Shang, Kuang-Ming — Oxygen-Regulating MEMS Devices for Cell Transplantation to Cure Type 1 Diabetes
• Shaw, Adam Lawrence — Learning, Verifying, and Erasing Errors on a Chaotic and Highly Entangled Programmable Quantum Simulator
• Simon, Christopher — Non-Equilibrium Quantum Dynamics in a Disordered Ising Magnet
• Singer, Clare Emilie Elmendorf — The Role of Small-Scale Cloud, Aerosol, and Radiation Processes for Earth's Climate
• Sirorattanakul, Krittanon — Response of Earthquakes to Transient Stresses, in Laboratory and Nature
• Soliman, Yousuf Mounir — Discrete Constrained Willmore Surfaces
• Sosa, Emma Sofia — Composition, Structure, and Formation of the Lower Crust in Continental and Oceanic Arc Settings: Insights from the Xenolith Record
• Spratt, Jean-Sébastien Alexandre — Numerical Simulations of Cavitating Bubbles in Elastic and Viscoelastic Materials for Biomedical Applications
• Stanko, Allison Michelle — Assembly of Complex Carbocyclic Architectures via Palladium and Nickel-Catalyzed Cyclizations
• Stevens, Taylor Anthony — Characterization of a Novel Membrane Protein Insertase in the Mitochondrial Outer Membrane
• Strehle, Mackenzie — Mechanisms of Xist-Mediated Gene Silencing During the Initiation and Maintenance of X Chromosome Inactivation
• Su, Magel Powei — Exploring Thermal Photonics for Sustainability: From Selective Solar Absorbers to Terrestrial Radiative Cooling
• Sun, Jennifer Jianing — AI for Scientists: Accelerating Discovery Through Knowledge, Data, and Learning
• Sun, Shi-Ning — Digital Quantum Simulation of Quantum Many-Body Systems
• Sun, Yuchun — 3D Micro-Architected Materials for Batteries
• Swindle, Carl Raymond — Fluid-Rock Interactions from the Lithosphere to Earth’s Surface
• Tong, Xiaoyu — Novel Reactivity and Applications of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions
• Tu, Jiaobing — Wearable Sweat Sensors for Disease Monitoring and Management
• Villafuerte, Fernando Joaquin — Additive Manufacturing of Batteries and IR-Active Microparticles: Polyborane-Based Electrolytes for Solid State Batteries and Additively Manufactured, TiN-Coated Microbridges
• Virgil, Kyle Allan — Polarization-Resolved, Oblique Incidence Terahertz Spectroscopy of Highly Uniform 2D Hybrid Perovskite Films
• Voloshin, Cameron — Guaranteed Policy Performance in Reinforcement Learning
• Wackelin, Daniel Joseph — New to Nature C–C Bond Forming Cyclases: Pushing the Boundaries of Ring Forming Reactions
• Wadia, Varun Spenta — How We Imagine: Insights from Single Neuron Recordings in the Human Brain
• Wagner, Julian Morgan — Uncovering Mechanisms of Host Recognition, Host Finding and Host Specificity
• Wang, Christina Wenlu — Search for New Physics with the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment and QIS-enabled Technology
• Wang, Grace Zimu — Chemo-Selective Proteomics for Discovery of Polymicrobial Interactions
• Wang, Renée Zurui — From Photosynthesis to Detoxification: Microbial Metabolisms Shape Earth’s Surface Chemistry
• Wang, Yijun — Topics in Gravitational Wave Physics: Lensing, Detection with Astrometry and Dark Siren Hubble Measurement
• Ware, Skyler Danielle — Nonaqueous Electrolyte Design for Energy Storage and Electrosynthesis
• Watkins, Nicholas Bret — Organic Films at the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface in CO₂ Reduction
• Wei, Skylar Xueyao — Data-Driven Safety-Critical Autonomy in Unknown, Unstructured, and Dynamic Environments
• Wen, Alexander Huai-Cheng — Vibration Damping of Coiled Structures Through Frictional Slip
• Wood, Steven Andrew — Quantum Microwave to Optical Transduction with Light-Robust Superconducting Circuits
• Wray, Parker Ryan — How to Make Small Things Do Big Things: Exploring Engineered Disorder for Massively Scalable Metasurfaces and Metamaterials
• Wu, Lue Leo — Greater Than One Billion Optical Q Factor for On-Chip Microresonators
• Wu, Samantha Chloe — The Interplay of Waves and Stellar Evolution
• Xu, Changhao — Electronic Skin in Robotics and Healthcare: Towards Multimodal Sensing and Intelligent Analysis
• Yadlapalli Yurk, Nitika — Interferometric Millimeter Observations of the High Energy Universe
• Yao, Matthew Xuhuai — Lean Premixed Hydrogen Flames: Turbulence, Chemistry, and Modelling
• Yu, Wesley Minlai — Experiments on Separation Shear Layer Instabilities in Hypervelocity Flows
• Yuan, Zhiquan — Physics and Applications of Optical Nonlinearity in High-Q Microresonators
• Zeichner, Sarah Soojin — Fates of Carbon
• Zeng, Tian — Masked 2-Furylcarbinol Derivatives: A Modular and General Platform for Mechanically Triggered Molecular Release
• Zeng, Yi — Progress Toward Precision Measurements Using Polyatomic Molecules
• Zhang, Mark Guangde — Bridging Sensory Perception to Developmental Decision Making in Caenorhabditis elegans
• Zhang, Qicheng — Sampling the Evolution of Solar System Cometoids
• Zhang, Wanji Wendy — Efforts Towards C-C Bond Formations: From Ni Catalysis to Transition-Metal Free Electrolysis
• Zhang, Yang — Understanding the Plasma Universe through Laboratory Experiments and Related Models
• Zheng, Tianzhe — Reconfigurable Metasurfaces in Nanoelectromechanical and Silicon-Organic Systems
• Zhu, Zikun — Spatiotemporal Regulation of Nascent Protein Targeting