Dissertations: January 25, 2021

DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED

Biological Sciences

• Tsai, Yueh-Lin. Function and regulation of ALS/FTD-linked RNA binding protein FUS. Sponsor: James Manley.

Biomedical Engineering

• Yuan, Dennis. Mechanical regulation of T cell activation. Sponsor: Lance C. Kam.

Biostatistics

• Liu, Yutao. Topics in Bayesian design and analysis for sampling. Sponsor: Qixuan Chen.

Chemical Engineering

• Vardner, Jonathan. Exploring the reductive pathway for the hydrometallurgical production of copper from chalcopyrite. Sponsor: Scott Banta.

Economics

• Thompson, David. Essays in regulatory design. Sponsor: Andrea Prat.

Electrical Engineering

• Choi, Jaebin. Implantable fluorescence imager for deep neuronal imaging. Sponsor: Kenneth Shepard.
• Rabinowitz, Jake. Physics and applications of nanoscale fluid flows. Sponsor: Kenneth Shepard.

Environmental Health Sciences

• Kalia, Vrinda. Metabolic evaluation of genetic and environmental contributors of Alzheimer's disease. Sponsor: Gary Miller.

DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED

Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

• Artz, Timothy. Modeling lifetime performance of ceramic matrix composites with reduced order homogenization multiscale methods.
• Leung, Ryan. Novel computer vision-based non-contact vehicle weigh-in-motion system.

Computer Science

• Correa, Juan. On the foundations of causal inference and the data fusion problem.
• Giri, Davide. Agile design and integration of accelerators in heterogeneous SoC architectures.
• Karamanolakis, Ioannis. Weakly-supervised neural networks for text mining and public health.