Dissertations: 2023-2024

ANTHROPOLOGY

•Marina Álamo Bryan. Vernacular forensics: Searching for the disappeared, bureaucratic violence, and communal exhumations of clandestine burials in contemporary Mexico. Advisor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
•Jeffrey Benjamin. All inhibitory is dream: An archaeology of anaesthesia. Advisor: Brian Boyd
•Danielle Carr. Political anatomies of the cyborg: Liberal subjects and neural engineering. Advisor: Nadia Abu El-Haj and Rosalind Morris
•Sarandha Jain. Fluvial government: Tracking petroleum as liquid infrastructure in India. Advisor: Brian Larkin
•Hélène Quiniou. Postmetropolitan trauma: A revised history of the present. Advisor: Nadia Abu El-Haj and David Scott
•Eduardo Javier Romero Dianderas. Calculating Amazonia: The politics of calculative abstractions in Peru’s tropical rainforest governance. Advisor: Paige West
•Jan Tarnowski. Struggling with images: Revolution, war, and media in Syria. Advisor: Nadia Abu El-Haj

APPLIED MATHEMATICS

•Philip Dinenis. Forecasting storm surge risk and optimization of protective measures. Advisor: Kyle Mandli
•Wen Ding. Computational inversion with Wasserstein distances and neural network induced loss functions. Advisor: Kui Ren.
•Kuang Huang. Mathematical modeling of traffic flow for connected and automated vehicles. Advisor: Qiang Du.

APPLIED PHYSICS

•Heqing Huang. Efficient optical modulation and complete wavefront manipulation using integrated photonics. Advisor: Nanfang Yu
•Jonathan Karp. Theoretical studies of unconventional superconductivity in materials with strong electronic correlations. Advisor: Andrew Millis and Chris Marianetti
•Songsheng Tao. Local structure of nanocrystalline, nanoporous, and heterogeneous functional materials: Advancing tools for extracting order from disorder. Advisor: Simon Billinge
•Yocheved Ungar. Bacterial spore-based humidity— responsive textiles. Advisor: Shalom Wind and Ozgur Sahin
•Zhen Zhang. Phonon quasiparticle studies of anharmonic properties of solids. Advisor: Renata Wentzcovitch

ARCHITECTURE

•Erik Carver. Ordering modernity: The American architectural profession between fact and law, 1786-1884 Advisor: Reinhold Martin.

ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

•Susannah Blair. Constantin Guys and the modern newspaper. Advisor: Jonathan Crary
•Monica Bulger. Facing forward: Frontality and dynamics of seeing in the Archaic period. Advisor: Ioannis Mylonopoulos
•Rachel Engler. Televangelical space, 1950-1985. Advisor: Barry Bergdoll
•Angel Jiang. In the manner of silversmiths: Architecture, ornament, and the Plateresque in Renaissance Spain. Advisor: Michael Waters
•Rattanamol Johal. Forms of despair: Postmodernist art in metropolitan India. Advisor: Alexander Alberro
•Rozemarijn Landsman. Jan van der Heyden’s bricks: Art, technology, and the city. Advisor: David Freedberg
•Erhan Tamur. Site-worlds: Art, politics, and time in and beyond Tello (ancient Girsu). Advisor: Zainab Bahrani
•Cathy Zhu. Born in a golden light: Omens, art, and succession in the Southern Song (1127-1279) Advisor: Robert Harrist.

ASTRONOMY

•Adam Wheeler. Advances in the modeling of stellar spectra, and applications to the galaxy and its stars. Advisor: Melissa Ness.
•Tomer Yavetz. Orbits, orbitals, and dark matter halos: Nature and relationships. Advisor: Lam Hui and Kathryn Johnston

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

•Gillie Ben-Chorin. The role of distal antenna in the regulation of D. melanogaster neural stem cell competence. Advisor: Minoree Kohwi.
•Cyril Cros. Functional specification of the Caenorhabditis elegans nervous system by homeodomain transcription factors. Advisor: Oliver Hobert
•Shuang Feng. Nucleolar transcription and its connections to nucleolar homeostasis and mitochondrial stress responses. Advisor: James Manley
•Blanche Fields. The role of the type VI secretion system in the adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to the lung. Advisor: Alice Prince
•Paige Helmer. The role of kinesins in cell fate determination during neurogenesis. Advisor: Richard Vallee
•Xiaoting Li. Genetic variant effects on transcription factor regulation. Advisor: Harmen Bussemaker
•Ana Low Calle. A noncanonical Hippo signaling pathway regulates DeltaNp63 in cancer cells. Advisors: Ron Prywes and Carol Prives.
•Shan Lu. Detection of respiratory gas levels by internal sensory neurons in Drosophila larvae. Advisor: Wesley Grueber.
•Maryam Majeed. Expression and functional analyses of the entire cadherin gene family in C. elegans. Advisor: Oliver Hobert
•Catherine O’Keeffe. Regulation of EGFR signal transduction and cell division in quiescent vulval precursor cells during dauer developmental arrest. Advisor: Iva Greenwald
•Justin Shaffer. A genetically encoded biosensor and a conditional gene expression system for investigating Notch activity in vivo. Advisor: Iva Greenwald.
•Yuriy Shymkiv. Multidimensional encoding of context in the auditory cortex. Advisor: Rafael Yuste
•Adrien Stanley. The role of the tail of striatum in associative learning. Advisor: David Sulzer
•Tessa Tekieli. Studies of Caenorhabditis elegans neuronal cell fate. Advisor: Oliver Hobert
•Bryan Wang. Production and properties of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa R-body virulence factor. Advisor: Lars Dietrich
•Yow-Tyng Yeh. Auditory tuning in vocal learning songbirds. Advisor: Sarah Woolley
•Lingwei Zhu. Real-time observation of vitamin B12 transport by BtuCD-F at the single-molecule level. Advisors: Ruben Gonzalez and John Hunt.

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

•Christian Aurup. A system for monitoring focused ultrasound-mediated neuromodulation in the central nervous system. Advisor: Elisa Konofagou
•Philip Brudnicki. Development of a fibrous, collagen-based analog of the extracellular matrix. Advisor: Helen Lu
•Kevin Burt. Evaluation of inflammatory biological drivers and the role of the innate immune response during intervertebral disc degeneration. Advisors: Nadeen Chahine and Clark Hung.
•Candice Gurbatri. Engineered probiotics for the screening and treatment of colorectal cancer. Advisor: Tal Danino
•Tetsuhiro Harimoto. Engineered bacteria as drug delivery vehicles for cancer and tuberculosis. Advisor: Tal Danino
•Siyu He. Deciphering complex diseases by engineered tissues and multimodal data integration Advisors: Elham Azizi and Kam Leong.
•Grigorios Marios Karageorgos. High frame rate imaging of arterial wall mechanics and blood flow dynamics for atherosclerosis diagnosis and monitoring. Advisor: Elisa Konofagou.
•Paul Kemper. High frame rate pulse wave imaging for non- invasive characterization of arterial stiffness in vivo. Advisor: Elisa Konofagou
•Sharath Koorathota. Multimodal deep learning systems for analysis of human behavior, preference and state. Advisor: Paul Sajda
•Pawan Lapborisuth. Brain dynamics of attention reorienting in naturalistic paradigms. Advisor: Paul Sajda
•Stephen Lee. Focused ultrasound neuromodulation of the peripheral nervous system. Advisor: Elisa Konofagou
•Brittany Marshall. The role of the subacromial bursa in rotator cuff tendon response to injury and healing. Advisor: Stavros Thomopoulos
•Meghan Pinezich. Engineering extracellular environments to study and treat lung pathologies. Advisor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
•Niloufar Saharkhiz. Development and optimization of a clinical harmonic motion imaging system for breast tumor characterization and neoadjuvant chemotherapy response assessment. Advisor: Elisa Konofagou.
•Lingting Shi. Mechanosensing of human regulatory T cell induction. Advisor: Lance C. Kam
•Sowmya Sundaresh. Brain tissue biomechanics and pathobiology of blast-induced traumatic brain injury. Advisor: Barclay Morrison
•Michael Sutton. The influence of microtubules and microtubule- based structures on Osteoclast and CD4+ T cell function. Advisor: Lance C. Kam
•Daniel Tavakol. Bioengineered models of human bone marrow for studying systemic injury and disease. Advisor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
•David Thibodeaux. Neuronal and hemodynamic functional connectivity in the awake mouse. Advisor: Elizabeth Hillman.
•Nevin Varghese. Pharmacological interventions to reduce electrophysiological deficits following blast traumatic brain injury. Advisor: Barclay Morrison
•Josephine Wu. Engineering spatiotemporal cues for directed cartilage formation. Advisor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
•Hang Yu. Developing a single-objective lens, two-photon excitation, light-sheet microscopy (2P-SCAPE) for high-speed, volumetric imaging of biological tissues. Advisor: Elizabeth Hillman

BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS

•Oliver Bear Don’t Walk. Inferring race and ethnicity from clinical notes: Annotation, model auditing, and ethical implications. Advisor: Noémie Elhadad
•Jonah Einson. Common and rare genetic effects on the transcriptome and their contribution to human traits. Advisor: Tuuli Lappalainen
•Anna Ostropolets. Generating reliable and responsive observational evidence: Reducing pre-analysis bias. Advisor: George Hripcsak

BIOSTATISTICS

•Ángel García de la Garza. Functional data analysis and machine learning for high-dimensional structured data. Advisor: Arthur Jeff Goldsmith
•Bo Hu. The joint modeling of longitudinal covariates and censored quantile regression for health applications. Advisor: Bin Cheng; Ying Wei
•Denise Shieh. Functional and parametric modeling methods for PET imaging data. Advisor: Todd Ogden
•Robert Tumasian. Phase II/III transitional seamless trial designs with different objectives and endpoint types. Advisor: Bin Cheng.
•Siquan Wang. General Bayesian calibration framework for model contamination and measurement error. Advisor: Qixuan Chen.
•Tianchen Xu. Statistical methods for learning patients’ heterogeneity and treatment effects to achieve precision medicine. Advisor: Yuanjia Wang
•Yujing Yao. Statistical analysis of large-scale data with perturbation subsampling. Advisor: Zhezhen Jin

BUSINESS

•Erica Bailey. From the outside in: Applying a social view to state authenticity. Advisor: Sheena Iyengar
•James Carter. Diversity (mis)management: How organizational approaches to diversity management backfire. Advisor: Modupe Akinola.
•Soo Min Cho. The dynamics of culture in entrepreneurial ventures. Advisor: Paul Ingram
•Anand Kalvit. Multi-armed bandit experiments under optimism-based policies: Improved asymptotics and applications. Advisor: Assaf Zeevi
•Rittavee Keeratiwutthikul. Essays in international finance. Advisor: Jesse Schreger and Olivier Darmouni
•Vrinda Mittal. Essays in private capital. Advisor: Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
•Patryk Perkowski. Three essays on information technology and human resource management. Advisor: Bruce Kogut
•Youjin Song. A relational view of social media influencers and audience evaluations in cultural markets. Advisors: Damon Phillips and Dan Wang.
•Sibel Sözüer Zorlu. Putting food in context: Embedding-based food recommendations. Advisor: Oded Netzer
•Qianwen Sun. Managing difficult conversations. Advisor: Michael Slepian

BUSINESS: ACCOUNTING

•Qingkai Dong. The impact of audited financial statements on local governments: Evidence from US school districts. Advisor: Shivaram Rajgopal
•Yiran Kang. Financial reporting around private firms’ equity offerings. Advisor: Matthias Breuer
•Wenqiang Pan. Regulatory oversight and reporting quality: Evidence from SEC office assignment change. Advisor: Thomas Bourveau.
•Kunjue Wang. Foreign currency adjustments in executive compensation. Advisor: Shivaram Rajgopal.

BUSINESS: DECISION/RISK/OPERATIONS

•Yuanling Gan. Essays on dynamic optimization for markets and networks. Advisor: Yashodhan Kanori

BUSINESS: FINANCE

•Oliver Giesecke. Topics in state and local government finances. Advisor: Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
•Seyed Mansouri. Three essays in corporate finance and economic development. Advisor: Daniel Wolfenzon
•Sharada Sridhar. Essays in household finance. Advisor: Daniel Wolfenzon

BUSINESS: MANAGEMENT

•Fabrizio Dell’Acqua. Artificial intelligence in organizations: Three experiments on human/machine interaction and human augmentation. Advisor: Bruce Kogut

BUSINESS: MARKETING

•Byung Cheol Lee. Consumer response to personalized recommendations. Advisor: Gita Johar

CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS

•Arianne Papa. Elucidating the mechanism of beta-adrenergic regulation of calcium channels in the heart. Advisor: Steven O. Marx.
•Vijendra Ramlall. Using electronic health records to understand COVID-19 risks. Advisor: Nicholas Tatonetti

CELLULAR, MOLECULAR, AND BIOMEDICAL STUDIES

•Ryan Casner. Structure and neutralization of viral fusion proteins. Advisor: Lawrence Shapiro.
•Joshua Cho. The role of microRNA-219 in Alzheimer’s Disease-related tau proteostasis and pathology. Advisors: Syed Hussaini and Ismael Santa-Maria Perez. 
•Crystal Colón Ortiz. Vascular-glial signaling in neurovascular injury. Advisor: Carol Troy.
•Karen Gomez. The major histocompatibility complex class I in the pathogenesis of B-cell lymphomas. Advisor: Raul Rabadan
•Aaron Griffin. Identifying and targeting master regulators of drug resistance in lung adenocarcinoma through network analysis of tumor transcriptomic data Advisor: Andrea Califano.
•Yiming Huang. Toward new approaches for studying personalized gut microbiota and host-microbe interactions. Advisor: Harris Wang
•Jordan Kesner. Noncoding translation mitigation. Advisor: Xuebing Wu
•Sanne Klompe. Discovery of RNA-guided DNA integration by CRISPR-associated transposases. Advisor: Samuel Sternberg
•Annie Lin. Discovery and optimization of novel small- molecule inhibitors of glutathione peroxidase 4. Advisor: Brent Stockwell.
•Molly Martorella. Noninvasive, low-cost RNA sequencing enhances discovery potential of transcriptome studies. Advisor: Tuuli Lappalainen.
•Joana Petrescu. Spatially resolved molecular dysfunction in the prefrontal cortex of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Advisor: Hemali Phatnani
•Xenia Rybkina. The landscape and interplay of antiviral immunity mounted against SARS-CoV-2 infection across tissues, age, and disease. Advisor: Donna Farber.
•Thomas Savage. A pathogenic function of regulatory T cells in chronic liver disease and chemokines expressed by engineered bacteria recruit and orchestrate anti-tumor immunity. Advisor: Nicholas Arpaia
•Hani Shayya. The unfolded protein response couples neuronal identity to circuit formation in the developing mouse olfactory system. Advisor: Stavros Lomvardas
•Jiemin Sheng. The development and application of high- throughput tools for functional genomics. Advisor: Alejandro Chavez.
•Kira Tomlinson. The itaconate-driven immunometabolic response to S. aureus promotes persistent lung infection. Advisor: Alice Prince.
•John Tuddenham. A transcriptomic taxonomy of human microglia: Uncovering roles and regulators in aging and neurologic disease. Advisor: Philip De Jager and Peter Sims.
•Florencia Velez-Cortes. Prediction of human gut bacterial secreted proteins and their interactions with human colonic proteins. Advisor: Harris Wang
•Lukas Vlahos. A novel analytical framework for regulatory network analysis of single-cell transcriptomic data. Advisor: Andrea Califano
•Bryan Wang. Cardiomyopathy at the intersection of stem cells and tissue engineering. Advisor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
•Charlotte Wayne. Roles of Th17 cytokines in microglial and neurovascular responses to recurrent intranasal Streptococcus pyogenes infections. Advisor: Dritan Agalliu

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

•Husam Alkhodairi. Compatibilization of immiscible polymer blends using polymer-grafted nanoparticles. Advisor: Sanat Kumar
•Abdullah Altorbaq. Crystallization kinetics of semicrystalline polymer nanocomposites: Morphology-property relationship. Advisor: Sanat Kumar
•Marissa Beatty. Establishing relationships between structure and performance for silicon oxide encapsulated electrocatalysts. Advisor: Daniel Esposito
•Akash Biswas. Hybrid catalytic systems for the sustainable reduction of carbon dioxide to value-added oxygenates. Advisor: Jingguang Chen
•Sophia Chan. Preparation effects on the morphology of polymer-grafted nanoparticle membranes for gas separation applications. Advisor: Sanat Kumar
•Kiran Dhatt-Gauthier. Bayesian analysis of particle-tracking data using hierarchical models for characterization and design. Advisor: Kyle Bishop
•Alejandro Krauskopf. Directional nanoparticle organization in semicrystalline polymers: Mechanisms and quantification methodologies. Advisor: Sanat Kumar
•Nadim Massad. Engineering enzymes for cofactor recycling and carbon fixation. Advisor: Scott Banta
•Richard May. Correlating interfacial structure and dynamics to performance in lithium metal batteries. Advisor: Lauren Marbella
•Karthik Mayilvahanan. Parameter estimation for physics-based electrochemical model parameterization and degradation tracking. Advisor: Alan West
•Robert Mohr. Utilizing free convection in the design of a gravity-driven flow battery. Advisor: Alan West
•Xueqi Pang. Design principles for membraneless electrolyzers for production of fuels and chemicals. Advisor: Daniel Esposito
•Nikhil Rampal. Exploring reactivity in aqueous solutions and at mineral-water interfaces through the lens of rare event theory atomic scale simulations. Advisor: Kyle Bishop and Sanat Kumar
•Abhishek Sivaram. Machine learning framework for causal modeling for process fault diagnosis and mechanistic explanation generation. Advisor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
•Rui Su. Dynamics, pathways, and regulation of exocytotic release. Advisor: Ben O’Shaughnessy
•Emma Willett. Engineering redox pathways: A synthetic NAD(P)(H) cycle for ATP regeneration and a designed pathway for DMP synthesis using directed evolution. Advisor: Scott Banta
•Yan Xiong. DNA-programmed nanomaterials and exploration of their chemical activities Advisor: Oleg Gang.
•Zhengyan Zhang. Quincke oscillators: Dynamics, synchronization, and assembly of self-oscillating colloids. Advisor: Kyle Bishop

CHEMICAL PHYSICS

•James Callahan. Applications of coupled cluster theory to models of extended systems of fermions. Advisor: Timothy Berkelbach
•Samuel Greene. Stochastic electronic structure methods for molecules and crystalline solids. Advisor: Timothy Berkelbach

CHEMISTRY

•Rachel Avard. An investigation into the means and methods through which breast cancer cells are able to migrate. Advisor: Laura Kaufman
•Alexander Aydt. Understanding superatomic cluster tunability for use as building blocks for extended structures. Advisor: Xavier Roy.
•Benjamin Bechand. Synthesis and behavioral evaluation of novel psychedelics as potential treatments for pain and mood disorders. Advisor: Dalibor Sames
•Emily Churchill. Design and application of triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion materials Advisor: Luis Campos.
•Julia Greenwald. Single-molecule circuits by chemical design. Advisor: Latha Venkataraman
•Suk ho Hong. Designing active site-directed covalent probes for tyrosine phosphatases. Advisor: Neel Shah
•Amirhossein Jafariyan. Applications of engineered live yeast systems in the human health. Advisor: Virginia Cornish
•Wei-Li Lee. Design and synthesis of optical and pharmacological probes for studying serotonergic system. Advisor: Dalibor Sames
•Kaia Parenti. Controlling multiexciton dynamics in intramolecular singlet fission. Advisor: Luis Campos.
•Natalie Saenz. Synthesis and characterization of nanoplatelets and nanoplatelet heterostructures made with thiourea and selone precursors. Advisor: Jonathan Owen
•Daniel Shlian. Synthesis, structures, and reactivity of zinc, cadmium, and magnesium complexes supported by nitrogen donor and carboxylate ligands. Advisor: Gerard Parkin.
•Sean Treacy. Enabling organic methodology through photoredox catalysis. Advisor: Tomislav Rovis
•Xu Yi. Solid-state NMR lineshape broadening at cryogenic temperatures. Advisor: Ann McDermott
•Xiao Zhang. Photoredox-catalyzed functionalization of amines: Remote directed C-H activation, selective N-demethylation, and oxime isomerization. Advisor: Tomislav Rovis.

CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MECHANICS

•Ala Eddin Douba. Nano-engineered cement for 3D printing concrete. Advisor: Shiho Kawashima
•Beatrice Giacomini. Uncertainty quantification for micro-scale simulations of flow in plant canopies. Advisor: Marco Giometto.
•Marios Impraimakis. Unknown input structural health monitoring. Advisor: Andrew Smyth
•Maria Katsidoniotaki. Uncertainty quantification techniques with diverse applications to stochastic dynamics of structural and nanomechanical systems and to modeling of cerebral autoregulation. Advisor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou
•Ryan Leung. Novel computer vision-based vehicle non-contact weigh-in-motion system. Advisor: Maria Feng
•Lechen Li. A data-driven perspective on residential electricity modeling and structural health monitoring. Advisors: Patricia Culligan and Raimondo Betti
•Weiyi Li. Numerical modeling of non-stationary boundary-layer flow in urban areas. Advisor: Marco Giometto.
•Jumari Robinson. Experimental and numerical investigations of the thermomechanical properties of suspension bridge main cables. Advisors: Adrian Brugger and Raimondo Betti
•Mengyao Shen. Developments of two methodologies in uncertainty quantification in civil engineering and engineering mechanics. Advisors: George Deodatis and Raimondo Betti
•Weizhuo Sun. A self-localized smart hardhat system for construction 4.0. Advisor: Maria Feng
•Eleonora Tronci. Novel damage assessment framework for dynamic systems through transfer learning from audio domains. Advisor: Maria Feng
•Tengxiang Wang. Thermomechanical analysis of geothermal heat exchange systems. Advisor: Huiming Yin

CLASSICAL STUDIES

•Maria Dimitropoulos. Kindred killers: Intrafamilial murders in archaic and classical Greek art. Advisor: Ioannis Mylonopoulos
•Tal Ish-Shalom. State formation and ethnic identity in the late- Seleucid Levant (200-63 BCE). Advisor: Seth Schwartz
•Mariana Noé. Virtue and change in Plato’s laws. Advisor: Katja Vogt
•Deborah Sokolowski. Inventing Roman Bithynia: Rural cultures and identities in the 1st-3rd centuries CE. Advisors: John Ma and Francesco de Angelis

CLASSICS

•Catherine Lambert. Bad readers in ancient Rome. Advisors: Kristina Milnor and Nancy Worman
•Cristina Pérez Díaz. Where is meaning construed?: A schema for literary reception and comparatism in three case studies. Advisor: Helene Foley
•Lien Van Geel. Soror Augusti: The literary lives and afterlives of Octavia Minor. Advisor: Gareth Williams and Katharina Volk

COMMUNICATIONS

•Alexandre Gonçalves. Social media and the rise of the new right in Brazil. Advisor: Michael Schudson
•Danielle Tomson. Trolls and true believers: Conservative media influencers in the Trump years, 2017-2020. Advisor: Richard John

COMPUTER SCIENCE

•Tariq Alhindi. Computational models of argument structure and argument quality for understanding misinformation. Advisor: Smaranda Muresan
•Amos Alubala. Toward a secure account recovery: Machine learning-based user modeling for protection of account recovery in a managed environment. Advisors: Steven Bellovin and Salvatore Stolfo
•Niloofar Bayat. Internet subscription plans: Thresholding, throttling, and zero-rating. Advisosr: Daniel Rubenstein and Vishal Misra
•Ryan Bernstein. Abstractions for probabilistic programming to support model development. Advisor: Jeannette Wing
•Saikat Chakraborty. Learning to edit code: Toward building general purpose models for source code editing. Advisor: Baishakhi Ray
•Brian Chen. Learning video representation from self- supervision. Advisor: Shih-Fu Chang
•Yichen Chen. Multiscaling and machine learning approaches to physics simulation. Advisor: Eitan Grinspun
•Thomas Effiand. Toward annotation efficiency in biased learning settings for natural language processing. Advisor: Kathleen McKeown
•Lampros Flokas. Complaint-driven training data debugging for machine learning workflows. Advisosr: Nakul Verma and Eugene Wu
•Katy Gero. AI and the writer: How language models support creative writers. Advisor: Lydia Chilton
•Ioannis Karamanolakis. Efficient machine teaching frameworks for natural language processing. Advisors: Daniel Hsu and Luis Gravano
•Robert Kwiatkowski. Deep self-modeling for robotic systems. Advisor: Hod Lipson
•Daniel Li. Enabling structured navigation of longform spoken dialog with automatic summarization. Advisor: Lydia Chilton
•Henrique Maia. Harnessing simulated data with graphs. Advisor: Eitan Grinspun
•Savvas Petridis. Designing exploratory search systems that stimulate memory and reduce cognitive load. Advisor: Lydia Chilton
•Luca Piccolboni. Multi-functional interfaces for accelerators. Advisor: Luca Carloni
•Thomas Repetti. Designing, implementing, and programming a massively multithreaded spatial accelerator architecture. Advisor: Martha Kim
•Dennis Roellke. Detection, triage, and attribution of PII phishing sites. Advisor: Salvatore Stolfo
•Rose Sloan. Using linguistic features to improve prosody for text-to-speech. Advisor: Julia Hirschberg
•Ana-Andreea Stoica. Algorithmic design for social networks: Inequality, bias, and diversity. Advisor: Augustin Chaintreau.
•Alexander Van’t Hof. New container architectures for mobile, drone, and cloud computing. Advisor: Jason Nieh
•Emmanouil Vlatakis Gkaragkounis. Beyond worst-case analysis of optimization in machine learning. Advisor: Mihalis Yannakakis.
•Kiran Vodrahalli. Resource-efficient methods in machine learning. Advisor: Alexandr Andoni
•David Watkins. Learning mobile manipulation. Advisor: Peter Allen

EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

•Anas Alkhani. Catalytic dry reforming of methane: Paving the road to a carbon-neutral industrial-scale blue hydrogen production process technology via monolithic catalyst-based reformer bolstered by a techno-economic assessment. Advisor: Robert Farrauto
•Yash Amonkar. Modeling spatiotemporal dependence for integrated climate risk assessment of energy infrastructure systems. Advisor: Upmanu Lall
•Jiasheng Ding. Graphene aerogel epoxy sphere used as ultra- lightweight proppants. Advisor: Athanasios Bourtsalas
•Hanqing Fan. Developing ion-selective membrane technologies at the water-energy nexus. Advisor: Ngai Yin Yip
•Sara Hamilton. Development of nanoscale hybrid material-based electrolytes for energy storage and tandem CO2 capture and conversion. Advisor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
•Minxi Jiang. Unlocking the potential of carbonaceous resource recovery from the arrested anaerobic digestion of food waste: Engineering design and meta-omics analysis. Advisor: Kartik Chandran
•Chenghua Long. Unraveling the impact of phosphorus, inorganic carbon, and different nitrogen sources on the structure, function and activity of mixed nitrifying microbial communities. Advisor: Kartik Chandran
•Adam Massmann. Theory and causality: Estimating ecosystem response to aridity. Advisor: Pierre Gentine
•Stephanie McCartney. Advancing membrane technologies for the recovery of phosphorus and nitrogen from human urine. Advisor: Ngai Yin Yip
•Dongping Song. Tracer studies of air/sea gas exchange, mean residence times, and stable isotope fractionation in the Arctic Ocean. Advisor: Peter Schlosser

EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

•Daniel Babin. Mid-Pleistocene to present southeast African hydroclimate and deep water regimes. Advisor: Sidney Hemming
•Alexandra Balter-Kennedy. Evaluation of ice sheet vulnerability and landscape evolution using novel cosmogenic- nuclide techniques. Advisor: Joerg Schaefer
•Marina Gemma. Asteroid compositions and planet-forming environments: Insights from spectral and geochemical characterization of chondritic meteorites. Advisor: Denton Ebel
•James Gibson. Controls on surface and sedimentary processes on continental margins from geophysical data: New insights at Cascadia, Galicia, and the Eastern North American margin. Advisors: Suzanne Carbotte and Donna Shillington
•Jonathan Lambert. Pleistocene nutrient, thermocline, and bottom current dynamics in the South Pacific sector of the Western Pacific Warm Pool. Advisor: Braddock Linsley
•Nathan Lenssen. Uncertainty and predictability of seasonal-to- centennial climate variability. Advisor: Gavin Schmidt
•Corey Lesk. New insights on how changing hydroclimate might affect crop yields — and a way to avoid the worst of it. Advisor: Radley Horton
•Una Miller. Moored observations of upper-ocean turbulence and polynya processes. Advisor: Christopher Zappa
•Nicholas O’Mara. Monsoons, wildfires, and savannas: Drivers of climate and ecosystem change in Northwest Africa. Advisor: Pratigya Polissar
•Aaron Stubblefield. Modelling the dynamics and surface expressions of subglacial water flow. Advisor: Marc Spiegelman
•William Towbin. The fidelity of the mantle signal in peridotite xenoliths: Interactions during magmatic ascent. Advisor: Terry Plank
•Rebecca Trinh. Antarctic krill fecal pellets — a unique bacterial habitat and mediator of carbon export. Advisor: Hugh Ducklow
•Thomas Weiss. Investigating climate variability over the last four glacial cycles using surface and thermocline dwelling foraminifera from the Sulu Sea in the far Western Pacific. Advisor: Braddock Linsley.
•Congyu Yu. Fossil, data, and information driven paleontology. Advisor: Jin Meng
•Yuxin Zhou. Atlantic meridional overturning circulation instabilities during the last glacial cycle. Advisor: Jerry McManus

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

•Harlan Chambers. Revolutionary times: Temporalities of mobilization and narrative in China’s Revolution. Advisor: Lydia Liu.
•Sau-yi Fong. Guns, boats, and diplomacy: Late Qing China and the world’s naval technology. Advisor: Eugenia Lean
•Yuki Ishida. Envisioning literary modernity through translation: Futabatei Shimei and the formation of modern literary discourse in 1880s-1910s Japan. Advisor: Tomi Suzuki.
•Alexander Kaplan-Reyes. Flowers on the battlefield: Intimacy and hierarchy in the construction of Japanese warrior masculinities, 1507-1636. Advisors: David Lurie and Gregory Pflugfelder
•Peter Moody. Music, politics, and indigenization in the DPRK (1945-1991). Advisor: Jungwon Kim and Gregory Pflugfelder
•Tracy Stilerman. Contextualizing place writing in Tibet: The Gelukpa rewriting of the Buddhist landscape in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Advisor: Gray Tuttle
•Dongming Wu. The bronze economy and the making of the southern borderlands in the Zhou Dynasty (1045-256 BCE). Advisor: Feng Li
•Chung-Wei Yang. Pictorials and the transformation of Chinese fiction in the era of photolithography (1900-1910) Advisor: Wei Shang

ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY 

•Palani Akana. Patterns, mechanisms, and implications of spatial variability in the ecological processes regulating nutrient access by forest trees. Advisor: Duncan Menge. 
•Krishna Anujan.The role of community assembly processes in the biodiversity-production relationship: Tests of theory on real gradients. Advisor: Shahid Naeem.
•Pooja Choksi. Ecological restoration and rural livelihoods in central India. Advisor: Ruth DeFries
•Johanna Jensen. The environmental drivers of white spruce growth and regeneration at Arctic treeline in a changing climate. Advisor: Kevin Griffin
•Sarika Khanwilkar. Social and ecological insights across landscape, community, and household scales: Forest health, governance, and livelihoods in central India Advisor: Ruth DeFries
•Vijay Ramesh. Environmental drivers of bird species occupancy in a tropical montane biodiversity hotspot. Advisor: Ruth DeFries
•Stefanie Siller. Epigenetic modification of the hypothalamic- pituitary-adrenal axis during early life of the house sparrow (Passer domesticus). Advisor: Dustin Rubenstein
•Heather Wells. Genetic and environmental determinants of recombination in coronaviruses. Advisor: Simon Anthony and Maria Diuk-Wasser

ECONOMICS

•Amanda Awadey. Essays on the economics of education in Ghana. Advisors: Miguel Urquiola and Cristian Pop- Eleches.
•Anastasia Burya. Essays in effects of market power. Advisor: Hassan Afrouzi
•Kyle Coombs. Essays in public economics. Advisor: Suresh Naidu
•Martsella Davitaya. Essays in macroeconomics Advisor: Hassan Afrouzi.
•Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado. Essays in statistical decision theory and econometrics. Advisor: Navin Kartik
•Yu Fu Wong. Essays on information economics. Advisor: Qingmin Liu
•Naman Garg. Political economy of ethnic conflict. Advisor: Andrea Prat
•Sakshi Gupta. Essays in labor and development economics. Advisor: Sandra Black
•Yu Kyung Koh. Essays in family economics. Advisor: Pierre-André Chiappori and Bernard Salanié
•Eugene Larsen-Hallock. Essays on subjective expectations in finance. Advisor: Serena Ng
•Ou Liu. Essays on firm dynamics and inequality. Advisor: Martin Uribe and Matthieu Gomez
•Tam Mai. Essays in labor and education economics. Advisor: Miguel Urquiola
•Rui Mascarenhas. Essays in macroeconomics. Advisor: Jennifer La’O
•Haaris Mateen. Essays on cities and climate change. Advisor: Joseph Stiglitz and José Scheinkman
•Andrew Olenski. Essays on the economics of health care markets. Advisor: Pietro Tebaldi
•Suneil Parimoo. Essays in economic theory. Advisor: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé and W. Bentley MacLeod. 
•Roman Rivera. Essays on the economics of policing and crime. Advisors: W. Bentley MacLeod and Sandra Black.
•Szymon Sacher. Estimating structural models with Bayesian econometrics. Advisor: Andrea Prat
•Shogo Sakabe. Essays on spatial economics. Advisor: David Weinstein
•Arpita Saluja. Essays in political economy. Advisor: Suresh Naidu
•BooKang Seol. Essays in development economics. Advisor: Miguel Urquiola
•Yeji Sung. Macroeconomic expectations and noisy memory. Advisor: Michael Woodford
•Hong Ken Teoh. Essays on applications of textual analysis in macro finance. Advisor: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé
•Lizi Yu. Essays on firm’s dynamics, asset pricing, and uncertainty. Advisor: Jennifer La’O
•Krzysztof Zaremba. Essays in health economics Advisor: Douglas Almond. 
•Howard Zhang. Essays in spatial and international economics. Advisors: Donald Davis and David Weinstein.
•Yining Zhu. Essays in applied environmental economics. Advisor: Douglas Almond

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

•Matthew Bajor. High speed direction-of-arrival sensing for cognitive radio receivers. Advisor: Peter Kinget
•Gaurang Bhatt. Manipulating thermal radiation using nano-photonic structures. Advisor: Michal Lipson
•Sam Buchanan. Deep networks through the lens of low- dimensional structure: Toward mathematical and computational principles for nonlinear data. Advisor: John Wright.
•Claudia Cea. Conformable transistors for bioelectronics. Advisor: Dion Khodagholy Araghy
•Prawesh Dahal. Large-scale investigation of memory circuits. Advisor: Dion Khodagholy Araghy
•Ipshita Datta. Platform based on two-dimensional (2D) materials for next-generation integrated photonics. Advisor: Michal Lipson
•Ziyi Huang. Image analytic tools for optical coherence tomography tissue characterization, and robust learning. Advisor: Christine Hendon
•Aneek James. Ultra-broadband silicon photonic link design and optimization. Advisor: Keren Bergman
•Tingkai Liu. Spatio-temporal divisive normalization: Invariance and change detection in biological systems. Advisor: Aurel Lazar
•Prachi Patel. Neural mechanisms of attention and speech perception in complex, spatial acoustic environment. Advisor: Nima Mesgarani
•Eric Pollmann. Implantable optoelectronics for neural interfaces. Advisor: Kenneth Shepard
•Subhajit Ray. Ultra-low-power audio feature extraction using time-mode analog signal processing circuits. Advisor: Peter Kinget.
•Anthony Rizzo. Highly parallel silicon photonic links with integrated Kerr frequency combs Advisor: Keren Bergman.
•Euijae Shim. Integrated photonics for chip-scale mid-infrared sources and strain modulation of two-dimensional materials. Advisor: Michal Lipson.
•Min Chul Shin. Visible to near-infrared integrated photonics light projection systems. Advisor: Michal Lipson
•Ashish Shukla. Serial biasing technique for rapid single flux quantum circuits. Advisor: Mingoo Seok
•Adriaan Taal. Integration of neural optical recording and stimulation on minimally invasive, deep-brain implantable CMOS. Advisor: Kenneth Shepard
•Mehmet Turkcan. Sensory processing and associative learning in connectome-based neural circuits. Advisor: Aurel Lazar
•Stephen Xia. Selective audio filtering for enabling acoustic intelligence in mobile, embedded, and cyber- physical systems. Advisor: Xiaofan Jiang
•Mateus Zanarella. Low-loss visible-light integrated photonics: From tunable lasers to frequency combs. Advisor: Michal Lipson
•Yun Zhao. Nonlinear photonics for room-temperature quantum metrology and information processing. Advisor: Alexander Gaeta.
•Liwei Zhou. Model predictive critical soft-switching enable high-performance software-defined power electronics: Converter configuration, efficiency, and redundancy. Advisor: Matthias Preindl
•Ziyi Zhu. High performance silicon photonic interconnected systems. Advisor: Keren Bergman

ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

•Akua Banful. The hostile tropics: Toward a postcolonial discourse of climate. Advisor: Brent Edwards
•Catherine Bohannon. Found things: Variations in information density in long-form narrative. Advisor: Nicholas Dames
•Daniella Cádiz Bedini. Crossing the Americas: Empire, race, and translation in the long nineteenth century. Advisor: Brent Edwards.
•Lisa Del Sol. Can I get a witness? — Living while Black death is trending. Advisor: Saidiya Hartman
•Martin Larson-Xu. Artist texts. Advisor: Brent Edwards
•Aidan Levy. Rhythm speaks: Jazz temporalities and the African American novel. Advisor: Brent Edwards
•Brett Mcmillan. Narratives and neighborhood change: Writing New York and Chicago in the twentieth century. Advisor: Brent Edwards.
•Diana Newby. Passive life: Vitalism and British fiction, 1820-1880. Advisor: Sharon Marcus
•Yea Jung Park. Fictions of discernment in late medieval England. Advisor: Eleanor Johnson
•Carina Schorske. A howling in the paperwork: Feminist practice in the archives of the Caribbean. Advisor: Saidiya Hartman
•Milan Terlunen. All along...! The pre-history of the plot twist in nineteenth-century fiction. Advisor: Dennis Tenen and Sharon Marcus
•Ameya Tripathi. Documents of revolution: Literacy, translation, and internationalism in the Spanish Civil War. Advisor: Sarah Cole.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES

•Ahlam Abuawad. Arsenic, nutrition, and metabolic outcomes. Advisors: Mary Gamble and Ana Navas-Acien
•Brennan Baker. Prenatal acetaminophen exposure as a risk factor for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Underlying mechanisms in humans and mice. Advisor: Brandon Pearson and Andrea Baccarelli
•Stephen Lewandowski. Observed impacts of environmental conditions on heat illness morbidity in the military. Advisor: Jeffrey Shaman
•Victoria Lynch. Quantifying the effect of extreme and seasonal floods on waterborne infectious disease in the United States. Advisor: Jeffrey Shaman
•Sebastian Rowland. The twin crises of climate change and air pollution: Characterizing the acute cardiovascular effects of temperature and uncertainties of fine particulate matter concentrations. Advisor: Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou.

EPIDEMIOLOGY

•Melanie Askari. Estimating impacts of the Great Recession on adolescent depressive episodes and mental health service utilization with disparities by poverty in the United States. Advisor: Katherine Keyes
•Diana Garofalo. Understanding the role of lifetime ovulations on ovarian cancer risk across the spectrum of risk. Advisor: Jeanine Genkinger.
•Renata Howland. The COVID-19 lockdown, preterm birth, and healthcare disruptions among Medicaid-insured women in New York State. Advisor: Matthew Lamb
•Sandhya Kajeepeta. Estimating the negative and racialized consequences of the police-centric response to intimate partner violence. Advisor: Seth Prins
•Susannah Leisher. Exploring racial disparity in stillbirth rates through structural racism and methylation of stress-related genes: From systemic to epigenetic. Advisor: Pam Factor-Litvak.
•Jialin Mao. Applying a multilevel framework to investigating racial and ethnic disparities in robot-assisted surgery and associated outcomes for prostate cancer. Advisor: Parisa Tehranifar
•Gonzalo Martínez-Alés. Major societal crises and suicide. Advisor: Ezra Susser
•Maria Francesca Moro. Promoting the rights of persons with psychosocial disabilities and mental health conditions: An examination of the WHO QualityRights initiative and other interventions that apply a human rights-based approach to mental healthcare. Advisor: Sharon Schwartz.
•Shadiya Moss. Parental incarceration and adolescent externalizing behaviors and substance use: Reconciling discrepant findings. Advisor: Katherine Keyes
•Michelle Nolan. Informing the implementation of health department led interventions to address the opioid overdose epidemic in New York City Advisor: Katherine Keyes.
•Alexander Perlmutter. Examining vaping’s possible unintended consequences on cannabis initiation and the initiation of other substances. Advisor: Kara Rudolph
•Paul Reeping. The effect of gun-free zones on crimes committed with a firearm and active shootings in the United States. Advisor: Charles Branas
•Alexandra Restrepo Henao. Opening the blackbox of parenting programs: Mediating pathways in parenting programs to prevent externalizing problems and disorders in children and adolescents. Advisor: Katherine Keyes
•Eric Roberts. Drivers of functional and non-functional drug use: A latent class analysis. Advisor: Sandro Galea
•Eva Siegel. Strengthening policy-relevant evidence in environmental epidemiology: Dose-response curve estimation for varying exposure distributions. Advisor: Pam Factor-Litvak

FRENCH

•Noni Carter. Homo narrans: In pursuit of science’s fictions of the “human” in eighteenth-century science and contemporary science fiction and speculative fiction. Advisor: Madeleine Dobie
•Molly Lindberg. “La Mort Dans L’âme”: The ethics of writing violence, trauma, and recovery in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa. Advisor: Souleymane Diagne
•Katherine Raichlen. Historicizing identities: Family stories and twentieth-century Jewish migration in Francophone literature and film. Advisor: Madeleine Dobie

GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENT

•Yijing Chen. Deciphering the link between the Schizophrenia-risk gene SETD1A and activity-dependent transcription Advisor: Joseph A. Gogos.
•Laura Crowley. Investigating heterogeneity in the prostate epithelium. Advisor: Michael Shen
•Elizabeth Goldberg. The role of NSD1 in oral squamous homeostasis and HNSCC tumorigenesis. Advisor: Chao Lu and Cathy Mendelsohn
•Sarah Herod. The contribution of 14-3-3 proteins to protein aggregate homeostasis. Advisor: Luke Berchowitz
•Devin Jones. CELF control in the neuron. Advisor: Wayne Frankel
•Albana Kodra. The role of chromatin in olfaction. Advisor: Stavros Lomvardas
•Daniel Krizay. Transcriptomic and functional analysis of neuronal activity and disease. Advisor: Michael Boland
•Winston Lee. The monogenic architecture of retinal and neurological diseases. Advisor: Rando Allikmets
•Wanqi Wang. Deciphering axon dysfunction in the pathogenesis of ARHGEF9 epileptic encephalopathy. Advisor: Wayne Frankel

HISTORY

•Joshua Donovan. Imagining Antioch: Sectarianism, nationalism, and migration in the Greek Orthodox levant, 1860-1958. Advisors: Marwa Elshakry and Rashid Khalidi
•Fabiola Flores. The politics of devotion: Militant Catholicism and the fight for the Spanish Empire in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Advisor: Caterina Pizzigoni
•Manuel Bautista González. Gold and silver chains: The New Orleans specie market under international bimetallism,1839-1861. Advisor: David Weiman.
•Yoav Hamdani. The slaveholding army: Enslaved servitude in the United States military, 1797-1861. Advisor: Karl Jacoby
•Matthew Joseph. Syncopating segregation: Musical cross- pollination in post-World War II New York City Advisors: Casey Blake and Hilary-Anne Hallett.
•Aaron Mendon-Plasek. Genealogies of machine learning, 1950-1995. Advisor: Matthew Jones
•Robin Reich. Materials of science in Norman Sicily: Translation, transmission, and trade in the central Mediterranean corridor. Advisor: Adam Kosto
•Noah Rosenblum. Presidential administration: An intellectual and legal history, 1888-1938. Advisor: Samuel Moyn
•Thomas Ryan. War at the exhibition: Militarism and mass culture in South Korea, 1946-1973. Advisors: Lien-Hang Nguyen and Anders Stephanson.
•Noelle Turtur. Making fascist empire work: Italian enterprises, labor, and organized community in occupied Ethiopia, 1896-1943. Advisor: Victoria De Grazia
•Antonina Woodsum. Fiesta immemorial: Colonial and carceral relations with native nations in Southern California. Advisor: Karl Jacoby
•Wenrui Zhao. Dissecting sight: The eye and the art of medicine in early modern Germany, 1500-1700. Advisor: Pamela Smith
•Thomas Zuber. “We cultivate to redistribute”: Child-rearing, rural development, and the politics of inequality in twentieth-century Burkina Faso. Advisor: Gregory Mann

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

•Tugce Karatas. Applications of AI in non-stationary markets. Advisor: Ali Hirsa

ITALIAN

•Catherine Bloomer. Blameless defect: A Dantean model of disability. Advisor: Teodolinda Barolini
•Alejandro Cuadrado. Dante, historian of religious orders. Advisor: Teodolinda Barolini
•Lorenzo Mecozzi. The retrospective novel: The romance of the self. Advisor: Elizabeth Leake
•Yi Ren. Using second-order information in training deep neural networks. Advisor: Donald Goldfarb
•Claudia Sbuttoni. The value of dust: Memory and identity at Italy’s margins. Advisor: Elizabeth Leake
•Margaret Scarborough. Styles of existence, Italy 1961-1982. Advisor: Victoria De Grazia
•Andrew Wyatt. Drafting spaces: Four literary visions of the northern Adriatic. Advisor: Elizabeth Leake

LATIN AMERICAN AND IBERIAN CULTURES

•Begoña Alberdi. El arte nuevo de cocinar: Género, trabajo y tecnologías en Chile y Argentina, 1890-1945 Advisor: Graciela Montaldo.
•Iria Ameixeiras Cundíns. Staging deviant traditions: The politics of folklore under the Iberian fascist regimes. Advisor: Wadda Ríos-Font
•Felipe Becerra. Oficina fantasma: Tecnología, escritura y prácticas editoriales en América Latina (1964-1984). Advisor: Graciela Montaldo
•Alberto Carpio Jiménez. Producciones singulares. Para una crítica al trabajo en su sentido capitalista desde el cine peninsular en torno al siglo XXI. Advisosr: Bruno Bosteels and Alberto Medina
•Alexandra Cook. Before the fetish: Artifice and trade in early modern Guinea. Advisor: Alessandra Russo
•Analía Lavin. El llamado de la naturaleza: Cultura científica, espiritualidad y secularismo en el movimiento naturista uruguayo de principios del siglo XX. Advisor: Ronald Briggs

MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

•Wei Cao. Spin-pumping effects in ferromagnetic thin film heterostructures measured through ferromagnetic resonance. Advisor: William Bailey
•Michael Carter. Lightweight and flexible textile metasurfaces and array antennas via flat-knitting. Advisor: Nanfang Yu
•Zeyu Hui. Continuum level physics-based model on understanding and optimizing the lithium transport in high energy density LIB/LMB electrodes. Advisors: Yuan Yang and Alan West

MATHEMATICS

•Sayan Das. Path Properties of KPZ Models. Advisor: Ivan Corwin
•Gerhardt Hinkle. The cubic Pell equation L-function. Advisor: Dorian Goldfeld
•Lea Kenigsberg. A coproduct structure on symplectic cohomology. Advisor: Mohammed Abouzaid
•Yu-sheng Lee. CM congruences and anticyclotomic Euler systems. Advisor: Eric Urban
•Juan Álvaro Muñoz Echániz. Monopoles and Dehn twists on contact 3-manifolds. Advisor: Francesco Lin.
•Kevin Smith. C2 estimates in non-Kähler geometry. Advisor: Duong Phong
•Yash Uday Deshmukh. A homotopical description of Deligne–Mumford compactifications. Advisor: Mohammed Abouzaid.
•Song Yu. Open/closed correspondence and mirror symmetry. Advisor: Chiu-Chu Liu
•Robin Zhang. The Harris-Venkatesh conjecture for derived Hecke operators. Advisor: Michael Harris
•Weitao Zhu. The geometry of polymers and other results in the KPZ universality class. Advisor: Ivan Corwin

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

•Aykut Aksit. Microneedles for the inner ear. Advisor: Jeffrey Kysar
•Ibraheam Al Aali. Decarbonizing the electricity sector in Qatar. Advisor: Vijay Modi
•Abhinandan Antony. Applications of van der Waals materials for superconducting quantum devices. Advisor: James Hone
•Smiti Bhattacharya. A versatile high-throughput microfabricated platform to study cancer metastasis and kidney disease. Advisor: James Hone
•Terence Conlon. Decarbonization, irrigation, and energy system planning: Analyses in New York State and Ethiopia. Advisor: Vijay Modi
•Rodger Cornell. Kinetic experiments and data-driven modeling for energetic material combustion. Advisor: Michael Burke
•Shuyang Fang. The mechanical environment of pregnancy: Characterizing the material remodeling of primate reproductive tissues. Advisor: Kristin Myers
•Sally Simone Fobi Nsutezo. Data-driven decision support for low electricity access settings. Advisor: Vijay Modi
•Ayman Ismail. Higher order repetitive control for external signals with uncertain periods. Advisor: Richard Longman
•Nicole Lee. Identification of the mechanical role of extracellular matrix components in cervical remodeling. Advisor: Kristin Myers
•Tatiana Luna. Robotic strategies to characterize and promote postural responses in standing, squatting, and sit-to-stand. Advisor: Sunil Agrawal
•Joni Mici. Layered assembly: Parallel electrostatic grippers for multi-material additive manufacturing, and matter manipulation. Advisor: Hod Lipson
•Rosemarie Murray. Robotic exoskeletons for torso study, training, and assistance. Advisor: Sunil Agrawal
•Isirame Omofuma. Effects of perturbation-based balance training and transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation on postural balance control in healthy subjects. Advisor: Sunil Agrawal.
•Courtney Petersen. Analysis of bendable osteochondral allograft treatment and investigations of articular cartilage wear mechanics. Advisor: Gerard Ateshian
•Noah Rauschkolb. Efficient adoption of residential energy technologies through improved electric retail rate design. Advisor: Vijay Modi
•Danielle Stramel. mTPAD, a novel, overground cable-driven robotic gait trainer. Advisor: Sunil Agrawal
•Chao Wang. Assessment of crosslink density in collagen models and ultrafast laser crosslinking of corneal and cartilage tissues as novel treatment modalities. Advisor: Sinisa Vukelic
 

MICROBIOLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY, AND INFECTION. 

•Peter Wang. Studies of self-renewing T cells to understand, monitor, and improve responsiveness to immune checkpoint blockade for cancer. Advisor: Steven Reiner.
 

MIDDLE EASTERN, SOUTH ASIAN, AND AFRICAN STUDIES.

•Catherine Ambler. Masters of the distant meanings: Unity and multiplicity in the Persian poesis of freshness. Advisor: Hamid Dabashi. 
•Rana Baker. Engineering profit: Egyptian railroads and the unmaking of prosperity, 1847-1907. Advisor: Timothy Mitchell.
•Ibrahim El Houdaiby. Universalizing Egypt: Suez Canal, debt, corvée, and the rise of modern government. Advisor: Timothy Mitchell
•Samyak Ghosh. Formations of the King: Politics, pleasure, and law in early eighteenth-century Brahmaputra Valley, 1700-1750. Advisor: Partha Chatterjee
•John Halliwell. Creed and credit: An anthropology of debt and bankruptcy in Islamic law. Advisor: Brinkley Messick
•Karim Malak. Counting colonialism: Calculation, Egypt, Britain, and the Ottoman Empire, 1805-1954. Advisor: Timothy Mitchell.

 

MUSIC

•Audrey Amsellem. Sound and surveillance: The making of the neoliberal ear. Advisor: Aaron Fox
•Nandini Banerjee. Songs of action, songs of calm: Rabindranath Tagore and the aural fabric of Bengali life in America. Advisor: Alessandra Ciucci and Aaron Fox
•Sean Colonna. Musical Aesthetics, Drugs, and Subjectivity in Germany, 1770s–1820s. Advisor: George Lewis
•Laina Dawes. “Freedom ain’t free”: Race and representation(s) in extreme heavy metal. Advisor: Kevin Fellezs
•Mary Catherine Stoumbos. Student citizens: Whiteness, inequality, and social reproduction in marketized music education. Advisor: Aaron Fox
•Althea SullyCole. Mandé instruments at the Met: Analyzing intangible cultural heritage in the context of an African musical instrument collection in the museum. Advisor: Alessandra Ciucci and Aaron Fox
•Madeleine Turner. Rethinking Beethoven’s middle style: Form, time, and disruption in the chamber music of 1806-15. Advisor: Elaine Sisman.

MUSIC (DMA)

•Saad Haddad. On the transmigration of the Arab soul: A case study in contemporary composition. Advisor: Georg Haas
•Vicente Hansen Atria. Contrafactual archaeology: A model for inter- idiomatic composition in Orlando Furioso. Advisor: George Lewis.
•Finola Merivale. Community co-creation and virtual reality in opera: Composing “Out of the Ordinary/As an nGnách”. Advisor: George Lewis

NEUROBIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR

•Marissa Applegate. Food-caching birds as a model for systems neuroscience: Behavioral, anatomical, and physiological foundations. Advisor: Dmitriy Aronov
•John Bowler. Direct cortical inputs to hippocampal area CA1 transmit complementary signals for goal-directed navigation. Advisor: Attila Losonczy
•Matthias Christenson. Mechanisms of color coding in insects. Advisor: Laurence Abbott and Rudy Behnia
•Patricia Cooney. The kinematic and neuromuscular basis of Drosophila larval escape. Advisor: Wesley Grueber
•Malika Datta. Brain-wide mapping of dopaminergic phenotypic plasticity. Advisor: Raju Tomer
•Daniel Kato. Effects of learning and experience on multisensory integration in primary somatosensory cortex. Advisor: Randy Bruno
•Zhenrui Liao. Toward a neuroscience of stories: Metric space learning in the hippocampus. Advisor: Attila Losonczy
•Sean Lim. Multiple population codes in ventral CA1 for anxiogenic stimuli and behavioral states Advisor: René Hen.
•Mohammadamin Nejatbakhshesfahani. Scalable tools for information extraction and causal modeling of neural data. Advisor: Liam Paninski.
•Grace Paquelet. Single-cell activity and network properties of dorsal raphe serotonin neurons during emotional behaviors. Advisor: René Hen
•Jacob Portes. Flexible computation in neural circuits. Advisor: Rudy Behnia and Laurence Abbott
•James Priestley. Dynamic and compressed memory coding in the hippocampus. Advisor: Stefano Fusi and Attila Losonczy
•Lisa Randolph. Regulation of synapse number by Pumilio RNA- binding proteins. Advisor: Ulrich Hengst
•Leslie Sibener. Thalamic contributions to motor learning and performance. Advisor: Rui Costa
•Gabriel Stine. Neural mechanisms for forming and terminating a perceptual decision. Advisor: Michael Shadlen

NURSING

•April Ancheta. The impacts of school climate and education policy on weight and victimization disparities among sexual minority adolescents. Advisor: Tonda Hughes
•Joseph Belloir. Minority stress and sleep health in sexual and gender minorities. Advisor: Walter Bockting
•Leah Estrada. Racial and ethnic differences in palliative care services and potentially avoidable hospitalizations at end of life in nursing homes nationwide. Advisor: Patricia Stone
•Betina Ross Idnay. Improving eligibility prescreening for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias clinical trials with natural language processing. Advisor: Rebecca Schnall
•Supakorn Kueakomoldej. Optimizing the workforce and patient outcomes of community health center nurse practitioners. Advisor: Lusine Poghosyan.
•Kodiak Soled. “The best revenge is living a good life”: Queer and trans resilience along the childbearing journey. Advisors: Maureen George and Walter Bockting.

NUTRITIONAL AND METABOLIC BIOLOGY

•Sarah Gibeley. Investigating the role of TM6SF2 in lipid metabolism. Advisor: Henry Ginsberg
•Marriah Green. Structure and function of glutamate receptor-like channels (GLRs). Advisor: Alexander Sobolevsky
•Alyssa Shearer. Investigation of novel lncRNAs harboring risk SNPs associated with celiac and Crohn’s disease Advisor: Sankar Ghosh.
•Kirstin Tamucci. The role of ER-mitochondria contact sites in the regulation of glucose metabolism: A tale of two mitochondria and its relevance to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Advisor: Estela Area-Gomez and Richard J. Deckelbaum

 

OPERATIONS RESEARCH

•Achraf Bahamou. Topics in deep learning and data-driven optimization. Advisor: Donald Goldfarb
•Yuanlu Bai. Rare-event estimation and calibration for large-scale stochastic simulation models Advisor: Henry Lam.
•Jinsheng Chen. Essays on skills-based routing. Advisor: David Yao
•Weilong Fu. Innovative derivative pricing and time series simulation techniques via machine and deep learning. Advisor: Ali Hirsa
•Yuan Gao. New optimization models and methods for classical, infinite-dimensional, and online fisher markets. Advisor: Christian Kroer
•Oussama Hanguir. Algorithms for matching problems under data-accessibility constraints. Advisor: Clifford Stein
•Luc Le Flem. Topics in large-scale limits of interacting systems: Games with common noise, quantitative propagation of chaos, and networks. Advisor: Daniel Lacker
•Xiao Lei. Revenue management in video games and with fairness. Advisor: Adam Elmachtoub
•Xujia Liu. Efficient methods for large-scale dynamic optimization with applications to inventory management problems. Advisor: Garud Iyengar
•Yuliia Lut. Privacy-aware data analysis: Recent developments for statistics and machine learning Advisor: Rachel Cummings.
•Sai Mali Ananthanarayanan. Queues, planes, and games: Algorithms for scheduling passengers and decision making in Stackelberg games. Advisor: Clifford Stein
•Elioth Sanabria Buenaventura. On the misclassification cost problem and dynamic resource allocation models for EMS. Advisor: David Yao.
•Agathe Soret. Mean field games with heterogeneous players: From portfolio optimization to network effects. Advisor: Daniel Lacker.
•Shatian Wang. Essays on network theory: Diffusion, link analysis, and hypergraph learning. Advisor: Van-Anh Truong.
•Steven Yin. Essays on online learning and resource allocation. Advisor: Shipra Agrawal
•Lingyi Zhang. Incremental packing problems: Algorithms and polyhedra. Advisor: Yuri Faenza

 

PATHOBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE

•Katherine Croce. Using selective autophagy to determine protein aggregation’s pathogenic contribution to neurodegenerative disease. Advisor: Ai Yamamoto
•Seo Jung Hong. High-throughput methods to investigate the function and pharmacological inhibition of viral proteases. Advisor: Alejandro Chavez
•Ting Wei Xiang. The role of PPARG in urothelial carcinoma. Advisor: Cathy Mendelsohn

 

PHARMACOLOGY AND MOLECULAR SIGNALING

•Nicole Aaron. The role of PPARgamma acetylation and Adipsin in adipose tissue dysfunction. Advisor: Li Qiang
•Ramsey Bekdash. Developing and applying novel imaging methods for human diseases. Advisor: Masayuki Yazawa
•Alan Burke. Targeting T cells to acute myeloid leukemia with a novel bispecific antibody format. Advisor: Siddhartha Mukherjee
•Jacob Daniels. Molecular insights into ferroptosis as a therapeutic target for Huntington’s disease. Advisor: Brent Stockwell.
•Dallin Dressman. Genotype-phenotype correlation of T cells from aged and Alzheimer’s disease subjects. Advisor: Wassim Elyaman
•Anna Potenski. Elucidating endothelial caspase-9 signaling pathways in retinal vein occlusion. Advisor: Carol Troy.

PHILOSOPHY

•Richard Booth. Underspecificity in modal contexts. Advisor: Karen Lewis
•Olivia Branscum. Recovering matter’s “Most Noble Attribute:” Panpsychist-materialist Monism in Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, and 17th-century English thought. Advisor: Christia Mercer
•Andrew Richmond. Methods in mind: Explanation in cognitive science. Advisor: John Morrison

 

PHYSICS

•Roman Berens. Perspectives on Black Holes: Astrophysical, geometric, and beyond general relativity. Advisor: Rachel Rosen.
•Noah Bittermann. Bootstrapping from a boundary point of view. Advisor: Rachel Rosen
•Stefan Countryman. Computational methods in multi-messenger astrophysics using gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos. Advisor: Szabolcs Márka
•Edward Dunton. A search for Axion-like particles at the coherent CAPTAIN-mills detector. Advisor: Michael Shaevitz
•Steven Harrellson. Hydration solids. Advisor: Ozgur Sahin. 
•Joseph Howlett. Liquid-phase purification for multi-ton xenon detectors and a search for dark matter and neutrinos in XENON1T. Advisor: Elena Aprile.
•Ran Jing. Cryogenic near-field nanoscopy at terahertz frequency. Advisor: Dmitri Basov
•Yeon-Jae Jwa. Searching for clues for a matter-dominated universe in liquid argon time projection chambers. Advisor: Georgia Karagiorgi.
•Alan Kahn. Applying anomaly detection to search for new physics with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Advisor: Gustaaf Brooijmans
•Kiley Kennedy. The late light show with long-lived particles: A search for displaced and delayed diphoton and dielectron vertices at the LHC. Advisor: John Parsons
•Kon Hunn Leung. The strontium molecular lattice clock: Vibrational spectroscopy with hertz-level accuracy. Advisor: Tanya Zelevinsky
•Deivid Ribeiro. Observations of transient events with very-high- energy gamma-ray telescopes. Advisor: Thomas Humensky
•Sara Shabani. Spectroscopic study of localized states in twisted semiconducting heterostructures and charge transfer driven phenomena in a-RuCl3. Advisor: Abhay Pasupathy.
•Guanhao Sun. A symmetry’s tale: From the material to the celestial. Advisor: Alberto Nicolis
•Sebastián Vázquez-Carson. Transverse laser cooling of calcium monohydride molecules. Advisor: Tanya Zelevinsky.
•Claire Warner. Collisional studies of ultracold NaCs molecules. Advisor: Sebastian Will
•Tianyu Zhu. The path to the search for rare event signals in XENON1T and XENONnT dark matter experiments. Advisor: Elena Aprile

POLITICAL SCIENCE

•Pablo Argote Tironi. The impact of social media on political elites. Advisor: John Marshall
•Charleyne Biondi. In search of a political theory of the digital age: Technology and the social imaginary. Advisor: Frédéric Gros
•Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed. Religious cycles of policy responsiveness: How religious seasons regulate public opinion and government responsiveness in the Muslim world. Advisor: Daniel Corstange.
•Sean Hiroshima. A theory of revisionism: Louis XIV and the Spanish Netherlands. Advisor: Jack Snyder
•Jeffrey Jacobs. “Our word is our weapon”: Text-analyzing wars of ideas from the French Revolution to the First World War. Advisor: Suresh Naidu
•Salif Jaiteh. Leaving and returning home: Insights on migration attitudes and policies. Advisor: Macartan Humphreys.
•Simone Paci. Making the fiscal contract work: The politics of tax evasion, tax enforcement, and redistributive fiscal governance. Advisor: John Huber.
•Oscar Pocasangre Meneses. The political consequences of long-term violence in Mexico. Advisor: Maria Victoria Murillo
•David Ragazzoni. From parliamentarism to party democracy: Parliaments, parties, and leaders, Weber to Kelsen. Advisors: Turkuler Isiksel and Nadia Urbinati.
•Julia Rubio. The political behavior of the underrepresented. Advisor: Maria Victoria Murillo
•Colleen Wood. Going viral during a pandemic: Civil society and social media in Kazakhstan. Advisor: Timothy Frye

PSYCHOLOGY

•Basak Akdogan. Flexible temporal processing and its neural bases. Advisor: Peter Balsam
•Andrea Fields. Parental modulation of emotional information gathering across development. Advisor: Nim Tottenham
•Megan Goldring. A componential model of stress reactivity in daily life. Advisor: Niall Bolger
•Chelsea Harmon. Learning across development: Social and neural associations in toddlerhood, middle childhood, and adolescence. Advisor: Daphna Shohamy and Nim Tottenham
•Dara Huggins. A diversity-conflict model of inclusion. Advisor: Geraldine Downey and Colin Leach

RELIGION

•Erez DeGolan. Affect in power: Public joy in Roman Palestine and the lived experience of the rabbis (~70-350 CE). Advisor: Beth Berkowitz
•Elizabeth Dolfi. Trafficking in restoration: Building God’s kingdom in the evangelical anti- trafficking movement. Advisor: Courtney Bender
•Daniel Esparza. Broken engagements: A study of forgiveness. Advisor: Mark Taylor
•Guy St Amant. The age of scripture: Divine words and human authors in premodern India. Advisor: Sheldon Pollock
•John Tackes. Everyday eschatology: Centering and healing in two Hindu sects. Advisor: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan and John Hawley

 

SLAVIC LANGUAGES

•Milica Ilicic. Joyful sensibilities: Bakhtin’s polyphonic aesthetics and the ethics of generosity. Advisor: Mark Lipovetsky.
•Alex Pekov. Toward a transmediterranean genealogy: Matrilineal legacies in Sephardi women writers from the former Yugoslavia and the Maghreb. Advisor: Valentina Izmirlieva.

SOCIAL WORK

•Christina Aivadyan. Assessing the impact of state-level confidentiality-relevant laws on U.S. adolescents’ HIV testing practices. Advisor: Elwin Wu.
•Luciana Giorgio Cosenzo. Examining the sociocultural context of insomnia among Latinx adults: A three-paper dissertation. Advisor: Carmela Alcántara.
•Sarah Kwon. Three essays on child care policy. Advisor: Jane Waldfogel
•Caitlin Laughney. Examining earlier sexual debut among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Kazakhstan at elevated risk of HIV. Advisor: Elwin Wu
•Yong Gun Lee. Contemporary approaches to addressing HIV prevention needs among sexual and gender diverse individuals in Kazakhstan. Advisor: Elwin Wu
•Yifan Lou. End-of-life care discussions with doctors: Evidence from the United States and China. Advisor: Jinyu Liu.
•Meredith Slopen. The impact of paid sick leave mandates on women’s employment, wellbeing, and health. Advisor: Jane Waldfogel.

SOCIOLOGY

•Jordan Brensinger. Producing consumer “identities”: Identity theft and insecurity in the data economy. Advisor: Gil Eyal
•Sang Won Han. The mechanisms of elite political polarization in America. Advisor: Peter Bearman
•Francisco Lara García. Local context and the integration of Mexicans in Albuquerque and Tucson. Advisor: Andreas Wimmer
•Yarden Mariuma. Accountants, smugglers, tricksters, and princes: Cultural and network brokerage in 1821 Balkans. Advisor: Peter Bearman.
•Sandra Portocarrero. Another brick in the wall: Three essays on diversity and inequality in organizations. Advisor: Gil Eyal.
•Erela Portugaly. “Okay, well, everyone else has babies. Why shouldn’t I?”: How women with mental illness make reproductive decisions. Advisor: Gil Eyal
•Joonwoo Son. Cross-border investment in forms: National income accounting and the making of reliable government in postwar Japan. Advisor: Gil Eyal

SOCIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

•Rebecca Kruger. Cultivating more than coffee: Interrogating market-based development, gendered empowerment, and the role of social capital in fair trade co-operatives in Nicaragua. Advisor: Constance Nathanson.
•Yoka Price. Lights out in Gotham: A social history of death in New York City, 1946-1959. Advisor: David Rosner

STATISTICS

•Andrew Davison. Statistical perspectives on modern network embedding methods. Advisor: Tian Zheng
•Nabarun Deb. Blessing of dependence and distribution-freeness in statistical hypothesis testing. Advisor: Bodhisattva Sen and Sumit Mukherjee
•Alessandro Grande. Overlapping communities on large-scale networks: Benchmark generation and learning via adaptive stochastic optimization. Advisor: David Blei
•Alejandra Quintos Lima. Modeling random events. Advisor: Philip Protter
•Bridget Ratcliffe. Statistical approach to tagging stellar birth groups in the Milky Way. Advisors: Melissa Ness and Bodhisattva Sen
•Chengliang Tang. Advances in machine learning for complex structured functional data. Advisor: Tian Zheng
•Owen Ward. Latent variable models for events on social networks. Advisor: Tian Zheng
•Shun Xu. On recovering the best rank-r approximation from few entries. Advisor: Ming Yuan
•Yuanzhe Xu. Inference in ERGMs and Ising models. Advisor: Sumit Mukherjee
•Long Zhao. Martingale Schrödinger bridges and optimal semistatic portfolios. Advisor: Marcel Nutz

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

•Xinming Du. Essays in environmental economics. Advisor: Douglas Almond
•Matthew Harrington. Predicting and understanding the presence of water through remote sensing, machine learning, and uncertainty quantification. Advisor: Upmanu Lall
•Claire Palandri. Essays on animal farming and external validity for sustainable development. Advisor: Upmanu Lall and Douglas Almond
•Charles Taylor. Essays on land use and agriculture. Advisor: Wolfram Schlenker

THEATRE

•Ilana Gilovich-Wave. Bodysnatching in contemporary Anglophone drama, 1996-2022. Advisor: Jean Howard
•Abby Schroering. Cultivating collectives: Performance and ecology for the Anthropocene. Advisor: Hana Worthen

URBAN PLANNING

•Jenna Dublin-Boc Sor. The spatial politics of urban character: Analyzing the roles of historic districts in neighborhood land use activism to resist displacement, New York City and Los Angeles, 2000-2020. Advisor: Lance Freeman
•Michael Snidal. Missed opportunity: Three baseline evaluations of federal opportunity zones policy. Advisor: Lance Freeman