Dissertations: February 7, 2022

DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED

Biomedical Engineering
Swanberg, Kelley. Optimization of sensitivity to disease-associated cortical metabolic abnormality by evidence-based quantification of in vivo 1H MRS data from 3 T and 7 T. Sponsor: Christoph Juchem.

Yu, Hang. Developing a single-objective lens, two-photon excitation, light-sheet microscopy (2P-SCAPE) for high-speed, volumetric imaging of biological tissues. Sponsor: Elizabeth Hillman.

Chemical Engineering
Feric, Tony. Thermal, structural and transport behaviors of nanoparticle organic hybrid materials enabling the integrated capture and electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide. Sponsor: Ah-Hyung Alissa Park.

Earth and Environmental Sciences
Oryan, Bar. Long-term and short-term processes affecting inelastic deformation above subduction zone interfaces. Sponsor: W. Buck.

Electrical Engineering
Akbari, Hassan. Modality bridging and unified multimodal understanding. Sponsor: Shih-Fu Chang.

Khorshidian, Mohammad. Advances in linear periodically time variant circuits: From high performance filters to magnetic-free inductorless nonreciprocal components. Sponsor: Harish Krishnaswamy.

Wang, Zhaowen. Efficient and high-performance clocking circuits for high-speed data links. Sponsor: Peter Kinget.

Operations Research
Chen, Yan. Extremal queueing theory. Sponsor: Ward Whitt.

DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED

Art History and Archaeology
Gobel, Katherine. Child's play: Children and childhood in Jan Steen's genre pictures.

Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Impraimakis, Marios. Unknown input structural health monitoring.

Tronci, Eleonora. Novel damage assessment framework for dynamic systems through transfer learning from audio domains.

East Asian Languages and Cultures
Zhang, Lanxin. Efficacious language: Buddhist spells, literary culture, and material culture in Heian Japan.

French and Romance Philology
Limare, Soraya. Fictions of the Haitian Revolution.

History
Bilalutdinov, Azat. Diplomats for the empire: Tsarist consultates and the Russian-Ottoman encounter ion the Balkans 1856-1914.

Cohen, Jessica. A better life for us all: Citizen perspectives on family planning in Ghana, 1957-1994.

Italian
Moffa, Louis. Dante, poet of the stars.

Mechanical Engineering
Cornell, Rodger. Kinetics experiments and data-driven modeling for energetic material combustion.