Dissertations: May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020
DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED
Applied Mathematics
- Martin, Zane. The interaction of the Madden-Julian oscillation and the quasi-biennial oscillation in a hierarchy of models. Sponsor: Adam Sobel.
Applied Physics
- Chen, Shaowen. Transport measurements of correlated states in Graphene flat band. Sponsor: Cory Dean.
Biomedical Engineering
- Mosher, Christopher. Interface scaffold design principles for integrative cartilage regeneration. Sponsor: Helen Lu.
- Tu, Tao. Machine learning methods for fusion and inference of simultaneous EEG and fMRI. Sponsor: Paul Sajda.
Biomedical Informatics
- Averitt, Amelia. Machine learning methods for casual inference with observational data. Sponsor: Adler Perotte.
Chemical Engineering
- Dou, Yong. Colloidal robotics: Autonomous propulsion and navigation of active particles. Sponsor: Sanat Kumar.
Chemistry
- Ravetz, Benjamin. Harnessing photophysical processes to improve photoredox catalysis. Sponsor: Tomislav Rovis.
- Xiong, Hanqing. Stimulated Raman excited fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy. Sponsor: Wei Min.
- Yablon, Lauren. Controlling singlet fission in pendent acene polymers. Sponsor: Luis Campos.
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- Alrassy, Patrick. Map data integration technique with large-scale fleet telematics data as road-safety surrogate measures in the New York metropolitan area. Sponsor: Andrew Smyth.
Classics
- Combatti, Maria. Somatic landscapes: Affects, percepts, and materialities in Euripides' select tragedies. Sponsor: Nancy Worman.
Electrical Engineering
- Arnold, Todd. Understanding cloud network performance. Sponsor: Ethan Katz-Bassett.
- Gutterman, Craig. Learning for wireless and optical network control. Sponsor: Gil Zussman.
Genetics and Development
- van Soldt, Benjamin. Proximal-distal patterning of the lung: Molecular determinants in lung development and evolution. Sponsor: Wellington Cardoso.
History
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Sarwate, Rahul. Reimagining the modern Hindu self: Caste, untouchability and Hindu theology in colonial South Asia, 1899-1948. Sponsor: Manan Ahmed.
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- Quintero Mächler, Alejandro. Bleeding nations: Blood discourses and the interpretation of violence in mid-nineteenth century Spanish America (1838-1870). Sponsor: Graciela Montaldo.
Mathematics
- Kravets, Oleksandr. Homotopy coherent actions on A-infinity categories. Sponsor: Mohammed Abouzaid.
Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection
- Berger, Julian. Bone and the physiology of danger. Sponsor: Gerard Karsenty.
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
- Shmookler, Max. The maqama before the Levantine Nahda and beyond the novel, 1770's-1850's. Sponsor: Gil Anidjar.
Music
- García Molina, Andrés. Aural economies and precarious labor: Street-vendor songs in Cuba. Sponsor: Aaron Fox.
Neurobiology and Behavior
- Birdsall, Veronica. Neuronal activity enhances the axonal motility of ESCRT-0 endosomes to facilitate synaptic vesicle protein turnover. Sponsor: Clarissa Waites.
Physics
- Tu, Xiao. Measurement of long-range correlations in small systems with ATLAS detector. Sponsor: Brian Cole.
Political Science
- Soboleva, Irina. Efficacy, openness, ingenuousness: Micro-foundations of democratic engagement. Sponsor: Donald Green.
Social Work
- Kim, Soohyun. The effects of paid leave policies on work and elder care. Sponsor: Jane Waldfogel.
Sociology
- Brown, Bailey. Kinder panic: Parent decision-making, school choice, and neighborhood life. Sponsor: Thomas DiPrete.
Statistics
- Fang, Guanhua. Latent variable models in educational assessment: Theory and application. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying.
- Ling, Hok Kan. Statistical analysis of complex data in survival and event history analysis. Sponsor: Zhiliang Ying.
TC / Anthropology and Education
- Burnside, Bruce. Inclusive national belonging - Intercultural performances in the "World-Open" Germany. Sponsor: Katherine Ewing.
TC / Cognitive Science in Education
- Mao, Yaoli. Making the implicit explicit: The effects of summarizing knowledge on behavior in repeated decisions from experience. Sponsor: James Corter.
TC / Economics and Education
- Allende Santa Cruz, Claudia. Essays in the industrial organization of education markets. Sponsor: Peter Bergman.
- Wen, Qiao. Three essays on the college expansion in China. Sponsor: Judith Scott-Clayton.
TC / English Education
- Aboali, Nora. A banned identity: Interviews with Muslim urban high school students. Sponsor: Janet Miller.
TC / School Psychology
- Kangas Dick, Kayleigh. Elevated attention problems and observed parenting in a sample of preschoolers with ASD. Sponsor: Marla Brassard.
TC / Science Education
- Parker, Jamie. The use of battle rap as a way to engage students in STEM. Sponsor: Christopher Emdin.
TC / Teaching of Social Studies
- Kim, Yeji. Troubling and re-imagining citizenship: Narrative inquiries into immigrant teachers’ positionalities and citizenship education. Sponsor: Sandra Schmidt.
DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED
Anthropology
- Liberatore, Benjamin. 'World without end': Imagining national continuity, loss, and break in the voices of England's choristers.
- Tynes, Brendane. "I can't die. I won't.": Fear and the reimagination of the (after) lives of Black women and girls.
Applied Mathematics
- Huang, Kuang. Traffic flow modeling in a nonlocal world.
Applied Physics
- Tao, Songsheng. Solving nano-structures on the surface using x-ray pair distribution function.
Business
- Phan, Minh. Consumer response to reduced processing costs: Evidence from truth in lending laws.
Chemical Engineering
- Maeng, Do Young. Hydrolysis reactions of man-made esters on indoor surfaces.
- Vainstein, Salomon. Engineering protein activity with non-canonical cofactors.
- Willett, Emma. Membrane-less ATP regeneration enzyme cascade using a reversible NAD kinase and NADH oxidation.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Oryan, Bar. Deviation from the standard subduction earthquake cycle model and its effect on upper plate deformation.
- Zhou, Yuxin. Episodic deposition and glacial instability during the last glacial cycle in the North Atlantic.
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
- Bruner, Sarah. Biodiversity and stability of ecosystem functioning: The portfolio effect in forests.
Economics
- Koh, Paul. Essays on game theory and econometrics.
- Romero Fonseca, Dario Alberto. Trade & innovation: The effect of TNO trade shocks on early textile innovation in Spain.
- Rosenkranz, David. Essays on the economics of health care markets.
- Sung, Yeji. Macroeconomic applications of a limited human memory.
History
- Hawk, Emily. American concert dance at midcentury: Processes and products of embodied thought, 1964-1976.
- Jakubczak-Gabay, Aleksandra. "Protecting the Jewish daughters:" Sex work, mobility, and belonging between the 1870s and 1939.
- Shah, Rohan. A world to win: Contested visions of globalization during the 1970s US economic crisis.
Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- Blanco, Elvira. Imaginaries of the common in contemporary Venezuela.
Mechanical Engineering
- Chang, Biing-Chwen. Study of stairmill ascent with tethered pelvis assist device.
- Conlon, Terence. The effects of latent demand on electricity system planning.
- Fobi Nsutezo, Sally Simone. The impact of residential electricity demand prediction & uncertainty in demand prediction models on electricity access planning.
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
- Radwan, Basma. The politics of eating well.
Political Science
- Feldman, Nathan. A liberal science: The Chicago style and the formation of contemporary American political science.
- Paci, Simone. Civilization at a discount tax compliance, state capacity, and the political economy of redistribution.
Slavic Languages
- Wilson, Elaine. Communist exodus: A Jewish reading of time in the shape and substance of early Soviet Russian and Yiddish narratives.