Division of Engineering and Applied Science (EAS)

Graduate Alumni — PhD

Experiments on Fluid-Structure Coupling Under Impinging Shock Wave Loading

Acosta, Alexander Ryan ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Austin, Joanna M.

Scalable Arrays From Millimeter-Wave Sensing to Microwave Wireless Power Transfer

Ayling, Alex Eben ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Interfacing Long-Lived Mechanical Oscillators and Superconducting Quantum Circuits

Bozkurt, Alkım Berke ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Mirhosseini, Mohammad

Energy Efficient On-Chip Neural Feature Extraction for Brain-Computer-Interfaces

Bulfer, Steven Patrick ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Emami, Azita

Threads in the Tapestry of Next Generation Nanodevices: Simulation and Thin Film Processing

Catherall, David Spencer ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

Additive Nanofabrication of 3D TiO₂ Metaoptics via Two-Photon Lithography

Chen, Wenyuan ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

From Models to Data: Toward a Unified Framework for Agile and Safe Bipedal Locomotion

Dai, Min ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Ames, Aaron D.

Autoignition Modeling and a Generalized Hot Surface Ignition Criterion

Davis, Branson William ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

Part I: A Novel Compact Water Tunnel. Part II: Evolution of Delta Wing Surface Contour from Flat Plates to Boxfish at Low Reynolds Numbers

Devey, Sean Patrick ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Advancing Scientific Computational Imaging Through Data-Driven and Physics-Based Priors

Feng, Berthy T. ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Bouman, Katherine L.

Building to Understand MiRNA Circuits

Flynn, Michael J. ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Elowitz, Michael B.

Deep Stochastic Control for Regime-Dependent Utility Maximization Problems

Gandhi, Harshkooshal Kamlesh ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Cvitanić, Jakša

Uncovering Hidden Structure in Data and the Physical World for Seismic Tomography and Beyond

Gao, Angela Fang ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Bouman, Katherine L.

Human-Scale Ultrasound, Thermoacoustic, and Photoacoustic Tomography

Garrett, David Christopher ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Wang, Lihong

Atomic Layer Processing of Thin Film Superconductors for Superconducting Electronics

Hossain, Azmain Abrawr ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

Signal in the Scatter: Advancing Speckle-Based Optical Sensing for Deep Cerebral Blood Flow Monitoring

Huang, Yu Xi (Max) ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Dynamics of Microfabricated Enzyme Electrodes

Jilani, Muhammad Musab ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Constructive Learning for Agile Underactuated Control

Jimenez Rodriguez, Ivan Dario ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Yue, Yisong; Ames, Aaron D.

Tailoring Tunable Interactions in Superconducting Circuits Using Many to No Modes

Kim, Gihwan ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Any-Dimensional Data Science: Learning, Optimization, and Sampling

Levin, Eitan ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Chandrasekaran, Venkat; Tropp, Joel A.

Multimodal Implantable Bioelectronics

Li, Jiahong ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Gao, Wei

Near-Wake Structure and Dynamics of a Cylinder in Hypervelocity Flows

Luo, Ying ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Austin, Joanna M.

Leveraging Aerial Transformation for Enhanced Air–Ground Robotic Mobility

Mandralis, Ioannis M. ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza; Murray, Richard M.

Computational and Data-Driven Discovery of Li Solid-State Electrolytes: From Representation to Experimental Realization

McHaffie, Daniel Brendan ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: See, Kimberly

Flexible Phased Arrays: Challenges & Opportunities

Mizrahi, Oren Simon ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Thermochemical Modeling for Giant Planet Entry Flows

Mori Carroll, Alex Takuya ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

A Song of Ice and Plasma: The Formation and Behavior of Ice-Dusty Plasmas, from the Laboratory to the Edge of the Universe

Nicolov, André ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Bellan, Paul Murray

An Experimental Characterization of Atmospheric Turbulence Effects on Millimeter Wave Propagation in a Controlled Environment

Sheng, Shawn JiaXiang ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Emami, Azita

Electrically Tunable Optical Active Metasurfaces in Space and Time

Sisler, Jared ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Nonlinear Disturbance Evolution in Boundary Layers Using the One-Way Navier-Stokes Equations

Sleeman, Michael Kenneth Elliott ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Techniques Toward the Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Enzyme-Based Sensors

Smith, Richard Daniel ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

A High-Efficiency, Low-Noise Platform for Microwave-to-Optical Quantum Transduction

Sonar, Sameer Anil ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Multiscale Response of Granular Materials under Cyclic Shear: Packing State, Force Chains, and Stress Transmission

Toledo Barrios, Patricia Amanda ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Advanced Imaging with Sound and Light: Photoacoustic Tomography and Quantum Microscopy

Tong, Xin ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Wang, Lihong

Smart Bandages for Chronic Wound Sampling, Monitoring, and Management

Wang, Canran ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Gao, Wei

Building Foundation Agents with Internet Knowledge and Large Language Models

Wang, Guanzhi ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Gkioxari, Georgia; Yue, Yisong

Additive Manufacturing and Characterization of Micro-Architected Lithium-ion Battery Electrodes

Wang, Yingjin ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Singularity Formation: Synergy in Theoretical, Numerical and Machine Learning Approaches

Wang, Yixuan ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Hou, Thomas Y.

Enabling Technologies and Algorithms for Antenna Arrays

Wu, Ailec ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Learning to Sample in Computational Imaging: Measurement Acquisition and Posterior Estimation

Wu, Zihui ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Bouman, Katherine L.

Degradation Mechanisms of Oxide Ceramics Under Molten Regolith Electrolysis Conditions

Yu, Kevin ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Faber, Katherine T.

Interactions of Intrinsic Quantum Defects with a Nanoelectromechanical System

Yuksel, Mert ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Roukes, Michael Lee

White Elephants and Cash Cows: Economically Wrangling the Zoo of AI Models

Zellinger, Michael J. ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Thomson, Matthew; Bühlmann, Peter

Synergizing Microscopy, Computation, and Artificial Intelligence to Advance Biomedical Research

Zhou, Haowen ・ PhD ・ 2026

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Strain Sensing in Thin Composite Laminates with Embedded Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors

Aller, Brayden Gieschen ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Effects of Disorder on Quantum Phase Transitions and Quantum Dynamics

Armstrong, Stephen Lowell ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Rosenbaum, Thomas F.

Beyond Symmetry: Normality-Based Analysis of Velocity Gradients in Turbulent Flows

Arun, Rahul ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Resolvent Analysis of Non-Stationary Turbulent Flows and Transient Flow Phenomena

Ballouz, Eric ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Bae, H. Jane

Optimization-Based Statistical Inference: Constrained Inverse Problems, Worst-Case Priors, and Kernel Regression

Batlle Franch, Pau ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Owhadi, Houman

Numerical Stability and Reduced Order Chemistry Modeling in Detonation Simulations

Baumgart, Alexandra Rose ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Shear-Normal Coupled Deformations in Anisotropic Structured Materials

Boddapati, Purna Chandra Jagannadh Kumar ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Reduced Order Modeling of Near-Wall and Roughness Sublayer Turbulence Using Resolvent Analysis

Chan, Miles J. ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Active Acquisition Methods for Single Cell Genomics

Chen, Xiaoqiao ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Thomson, Matthew

Techniques for Molecular Detection: From Mid-Infrared Spectrometers to Nanopore Devices

Choi, Changsoon ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Machine Learning-Augmented Algorithms: Theory and Applications in Energy and Sustainability

Christianson, Nicolas Henry ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Wierman, Adam C.; Low, Steven H.

Dynamic Safety Under Uncertainty: A Control Barrier Function Approach

Cosner, Ryan Kazuo ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Ames, Aaron D.

Layered Control Architectures: Constructive Theory and Application to Legged Robots

Csomay-Shanklin, Noel V. ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Ames, Aaron D.

Space Legos: A Concept for In-Space Assembly of Large Structures with a Stationary Robot

Dassanayake, D. M. Sahangi Pulsarani ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

First-Principles Calculations of Magnetotransport and Electron-Phonon Interactions in Semiconductors and Topological Materials

Desai, Dhruv Chimanbhai ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Bernardi, Marco

Make the Most of What You Have: Resource-Efficient Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations

Epperly, Ethan Nicholas ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Tropp, Joel A.

Mechanical Characterization of Irregular Architected Two-Phase Materials

Fox, Chelsea Brae ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Physics and Applications of Compact Optical Frequency Comb

Gao, Maodong ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Ultrafast Quadratic Nonlinear Dynamics and Soliton Formation in Parametric Amplifiers and Oscillators

Gray, Robert Matthew ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Marandi, Alireza

Chasing After the Wind: Flow Structure Detection Strategies for Autonomous Mobile Flow Field Measurements

Harms, Tanner David ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

High-Field Charge Transport and Fluctuation Phenomena in Semiconductors from First Principles

Hatanpää, Benjamin Henrik James ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

Tuning Hybrid Optomechanics for Remote Entanglement

Hatipoğlu, Utku ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Modal Analysis of Harmonically Forced Turbulent Flows with Application to Jets

Heidt, Liam Frank Raven ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Smart Masks for in situ Exhaled Breath Condensate Harvesting and Analysis

Heng, Wenzheng ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Gao, Wei

Machine-Learned Propulsion Strategies: From Adaptive Damage Compensation to Advanced Aeromobility

Hooper, Meredith Leigh ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Fast Algorithms for Spanwise Periodic Incompressible External Flows: From Simulation to Analysis

Hou, Wei ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Linear and Non-Linear Interactions Involving Large-Scale Structures in Turbulence

Huang, Yuting ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in Lithium Niobate Nanophotonic Circuits for Quantum Spectroscopy

Hwang, Emily Yoonju ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Cushing, Scott K.

Simulation of Electrohydrodynamic Distortion Relevant to Liquid Metal Ion Sources

Im, Cheolmin ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Troian, Sandra M.

Optical Frequency Division Using High-Q Integrated Photonics

Ji, Qingxin ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Computational Complexity and Quantum Gibbs Sampling for Local Hamiltonians

Jiang, Jiaqing ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Vidick, Thomas G.; Mahadev, Urmila; Preskill, John P.

Reliable Autonomy Under Uncertainty: From Learning-Based to Non-Rational Control

Kargin, Taylan ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Engineering and Computational Tools for Salivary Biomedicine

Kil, Yeokyoung (Anne) ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Pachter, Lior S.

Modeling Frictional Processes in the Presence of Fluids: From Earthquakes in the Laboratory to Induced Seismicity in Geothermal Reservoirs

Kim, Taeho ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Lapusta, Nadia; Avouac, Jean-Philippe

Advancing Applications of Quantum Computers in Quantum Simulation, Optimization, Learning, and Topological Data Analysis

King, William Robert ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Schulman, Leonard J.

Signal Processing for Line Spectra: New Sensor Arrays, Algorithms, and Theoretical Results

Kulkarni, Pranav Dhananjay ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Vaidyanathan, P. P.

Phonon-Phonon Interactions in Highly Anharmonic Systems

Ladygin, Vladimir Vladimirovich ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Full-Field Quantitative Visualization of Shock-Driven Pore Collapse in Solids: Mechanics of Deformation, Failure, and Interaction

Lawlor, Barry Patrick ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Multiscale Design, Fabrication, and Mechanical Analysis of Structural Hierarchies in Functional Materials

Lee, Seola ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Ultrafast Computing with Nonlinear Photonics

Li, Gordon Han Ying ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Marandi, Alireza

Atomically Thin Spatial Light Modulators with Excitonic Nanomaterials

Li, Melissa ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Neural Operator for Scientific Computing

Li, Zongyi ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Anandkumar, Anima

Harvesting Insights from Advanced Microscope Acquisitions: Techniques and Applications

Liang, Mingshu ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Microwave Spectroscopy for Probing Electronuclear Modes in Quantum Magnets

Libersky, Matthew Murray ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Rosenbaum, Thomas F.; Falson, Joseph

Predictions and Policy Optimization in Online Decision Making

Lin, Yiheng ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Wierman, Adam C.; Yue, Yisong

Numerical Analyses of Frictional Sliding on Rate-and-State Interfaces: Fluid Effects, Dynamic Weakening, and Potential-Based Formulation Through Machine Learning

Liu, Shengduo ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Lapusta, Nadia; Bhattacharya, Kaushik

New Structural and Electronic Degrees of Freedom in Epitaxial Square-Net Materials

Llanos, Adrian Richard ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Falson, Joseph

Variable-Stiffness and Shape-Morphing Structured Media

Lu, Tracy ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Engineering Bioaffinity Sensors toward Continuous Electrochemical Biosensing

Lukas, Heather Lauren ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Gao, Wei

Perception-Driven Autonomy and Learning Control for Ground Vehicles

Lupu, Elena Sorina ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Chung, Soon-Jo

Flow Induced by Collective Vertical Migration: Impact of Swimmer Distribution, Buoyancy, and Wake Interactions

Mohebbi, Nina ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Dabiri, John O.

Computational Design of Wearable Chemical Sensors for Personalized Healthcare

Mukasa, Daniel ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Gao, Wei

Computational Approaches to Problems in Energy and Sustainability

Musgrave, Charles Bruce, III ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Goddard, William A., III

Buoyancy-Driven Fluid Dynamics for Enhanced Ocular Drug Delivery

O’Gara, Stephanie Lea ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Thermoelastic Deflections of Thin-Shell Composite Space Structures

Pederson, John Monroe Jr. ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Planning for an Uncertain Future: Tree-Based Methods for Real-Time Fault Estimation, Collision Avoidance, and Multi-Agent Reconfiguration

Ragan, James Francis, III ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Chung, Soon-Jo

Methods for Learning Mechanics: Inverse Problems, Constitutive Modeling, and Design

Rajan, Aakila ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Measurement and Modeling of Detonation-Driven Shock Tube Flows

Schoeffler, Donner Thomas ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

Lithium Niobate Nanophotonic Circuits for Information Processing

Sekine, Ryoto ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Marandi, Alireza

Nanophotonic Engineering of Thermal Emitters

Shayegan, Komron Joseph ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Low Noise at Low Cost for Large Radio Astronomy Arrays

Shila, Kiran Arik ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Hallinan, Gregg W.; Padin, Stephen

Discrete Harmonic Analysis and its Applications to Testing, Learning, and Complexity

Slote, Joseph Alfred ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Umans, Christopher M.

A Path Towards Wearable Affective General Intelligence

Solomon, Samuel Aaron ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Gao, Wei

Acoustic Radiation in Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layers: Deciphering Linear Dynamics

Stroot, Gregory Matthew ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Aqueous Metallo-Megasupramolecules: From Stability to Extensional Flow Properties

Tawney, Jacqueline Rose ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Kornfield, Julia A.

Electrically Reconfigurable Optical Metasurfaces for Universal Wavefront Shaping

Thureja, Prachi ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Microstructural and Mechanical Characterization of Additively Manufactured Binary Metallic Alloys

Tran, Thomas Tuan ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Operator Learning for Scientific Computing

Trautner, Margaret Katherine ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Stuart, Andrew M.

Neural Network Models of Learning and Generalization

Vafeidis, Panteleimon ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Rangel, Antonio

Ultrafast Quantum State Generation and Measurement in Nonlinear Nanophotonics

Williams, James Anthony ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Marandi, Alireza

Scalable On-Chip Platforms for Quantum Microwave-Optical Interface with Solid-State Ensembles

Xie, Tian ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Safe and Scalable Learning-Based Control: Theory and Application in Sustainable Energy Systems

Yu, Jing ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock; Wierman, Adam C.

Advanced Nano Manufacturing Enables Probing Fundamental Mechanical Behaviors of Materials

Zhang, Wenxin ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Understanding and Improving Efficiency in Training of Deep Neural Networks

Zhao, Jiawei ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Anandkumar, Anima

Predictive Modeling of Architected Solids across Scales

Zhou, Ziran ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Andrade, Jose E.

Cloudy with a Chance of Microphysics: Modeling Droplet Collisions for the Climate Scale

de Jong, Emily Katherine ・ PhD ・ 2025

Advisor: Schneider, Tapio

Adaptive Optoelectronic Systems: From Bio- Sensing to Free-Space Optical Communication

Aghlmand, Fatemeh ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Emami, Azita

Characterization and Tuning of Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Akbari, Hamidreza ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Test and Evaluation of Autonomous Systems: Reactive Test Synthesis and Task-Relevant Evaluation of Perception

Badithela, Apurva Srinivas ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Atomic Dynamics in Solids and Liquids from Inelastic Neutron Scattering

Bernal-Choban, Camille Marie ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Kernel Methods for Learning About Complex Dynamical Systems

Burov, Dmitry Anatolyevich ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Stuart, Andrew M.

Observation of the Microenvironment Around CO₂ Reduction Electrodes via Fluorescent Confocal Laser-Scanning Microscopy

Böhme, Annette Ellen ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Dealing with Imperfections: From Aberration to Scattering

Cao, Ruizhi ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Electron-Phonon Interactions and Charge Transport in Organic Crystals and Transition Metal Oxides from First-Principles Calculations

Chang, Benjamin K. ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Bernardi, Marco

Studies of the Evolution and Stability of the Thin Film Equation for Externally Modulated Control of Electrohydrodynamic and Thermocapillary Patterning

Chang, Yi Hua ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Troian, Sandra M.

Signal Processing for Large Arrays: Convolutional Beamspace, Hybrid Analog and Digital Processing, and Distributed Algorithms

Chen, Po-Chih ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Vaidyanathan, P. P.

Additive Manufacturing of 3D Micro-Architected Materials for Device Applications

Deng, Weiting ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Scalar Vortex Coronagraphs for Imaging Habitable Exoplanets

Desai, Niyati K. ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Mawet, Dimitri

Investigation of Transport Phenomena in Semiconductors and Semiconductor Devices: Drain Noise, Two-Phonon Scattering, and Phonon Drag

Esho, Iretomiwa ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

Linear Amplification in Nonequilibrium Turbulent Boundary Layers

Gomez De La Cruz, Salvador Rey ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Formal Methods for Test and Evaluation: Reasoning over Tests, Automated Test Synthesis, and System Diagnostics

Graebener, Josefine Berta Marie ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Autonomous Flow-Based Navigation in Unsteady Underwater Environments

Gunnarson, Peter John ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Dabiri, John O.

Developments in Mössbauer Spectrometry: From Instrumentation to High Pressure Studies on Spins and Phonons

Guzman, Pedro ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Energy-Efficient and Robust Algorithms for Biomedical Applications

Haghi, Benyamin Allahgholizadeh ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Emami, Azita

Control of Unknown Dynamical Systems: Robustness and Online Learning of Feedback Control

Ho, Dimitar Mi ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock

Learning in the Quantum Universe

Huang, Hsin-Yuan (Robert) ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Preskill, John P.; Vidick, Thomas G.

Understanding and Improving Reliability of Inference Dynamics in Deep Neural Networks

Huang, Yujia ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Yue, Yisong

Superionic Conduction of Next-Generation Mobile Ions in Solids Enabled by Coordinating Ligands

Iton, Zachery William Benjamin ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: See, Kimberly

Subtractive Photonics in Bulk CMOS

Ives, Craig Edward ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Acoustic Biosensors for Noninvasive Imaging of Molecular Processes

Jin, Zhiyang ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Shapiro, Mikhail G.

Towards a Synthetic Nucleus: Separating Transcription and Translation in Cell-Free Protein Expression Systems

Jurado Quiroga, Zoila Estefani ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Structural and Dynamical Correlations Linked to Smaller Thermal Resistance at a Classical Liquid/Solid Interface

Kaifu, Hiroki ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Troian, Sandra M.

Investigation of Quantum Computers for Quantum Simulation and Machine Learning

Kamakari, Hirsh ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

On the Complexity of Neural Network Representations

Kiliç, Kordağ Mehmet ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Bruck, Jehoshua

Probing Active Nanophotonic Materials Phenomena Under Electrostatic Modulation

Kim, Areum ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Learning-Based Perception for Robotics in Suboptimal Data Landscapes

Lee, Connor Tinghan ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Chung, Soon-Jo

Topological Phenomena in Time-Multiplexed Resonator Networks

Leefmans, Christian Richard ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Marandi, Alireza

Many-Body Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and Spin Dynamics with an Ensemble of Rare-Earth Ions

Lei, Mi ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

General Domain FC-Based Shock Dynamics Solver

Leibovici, Daniel Victor ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Distributed Control Theory for Biological and Cyberphysical Systems

Li, Jing Shuang (Lisa) ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock

Nonlinear Enhancement of Optical Spectroscopy in the Mid-infrared

Liu, Mingchen ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Marandi, Alireza

Strategic Advances in 2D Materials: Low-Temperature Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Graphene and Complementary Insights into MoS₂

Lu, Chen-Hsuan ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Yeh, Nai-Chang

Combining Sources and Leveraging Contexts

Mazaheri, Bijan Henrik Socrates ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Bruck, Jehoshua; Schulman, Leonard J.

Innovations in Wireless Bioelectronics for Precision Medicine, from Sustainable Sweat Sensing to Ingestible Gut Monitoring

Min, Jihong ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Gao, Wei

Sea Ice Discrete Element Modeling: Melt and Fracture of Floes and Sheets

Moncada Lopez, Rigoberto ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Andrade, Jose E.

Quantum Measurements with Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors

Mueller, Andrew Sterling ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Spiropulu, Maria; Shaw, Matthew D.

Charge Transport Phenomena in Cryogenic SiGe Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors

Naik, Nachiket Ramchandra ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

Statistical Foundations of Operator Learning

Nelsen, Nicholas Hao ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Stuart, Andrew M.

Machine Learning and Inference Methods for Surrogate Modeling and Inexpensive Characterization of Elastodynamic Systems

Ogren, Alexander Charles ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Modeling Frameworks for Modular and Scalable Biological Circuit Design

Pandey, Ayush ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Do Robots Dream of Random Trees? Monte Carlo Tree Search for Dynamical, Partially Observable, and Multi-Agent Systems

Rivière, Benjamin Pierre ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Chung, Soon-Jo

Design, Realization, and Applications of 3D Multifunctional Nanophotonics

Roberts, Gregory David ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Single Rare-Earth Ions in Solid-State Hosts: A Platform for Quantum Networks

Ruskuc, Andrei ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Oxygen-Regulating MEMS Devices for Cell Transplantation to Cure Type 1 Diabetes

Shang, Kuang-Ming ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong; Komatsu, Hirotake

Non-Equilibrium Quantum Dynamics in a Disordered Ising Magnet

Simon, Christopher ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Rosenbaum, Thomas F.

Discrete Constrained Willmore Surfaces

Soliman, Yousuf Mounir ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Schroeder, Peter

Numerical Simulations of Cavitating Bubbles in Elastic and Viscoelastic Materials for Biomedical Applications

Spratt, Jean-Sébastien Alexandre ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Exploring Thermal Photonics for Sustainability: From Selective Solar Absorbers to Terrestrial Radiative Cooling

Su, Magel Powei ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

AI for Scientists: Accelerating Discovery Through Knowledge, Data, and Learning

Sun, Jennifer Jianing ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Perona, Pietro; Yue, Yisong

Digital Quantum Simulation of Quantum Many-Body Systems

Sun, Shi-Ning ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

3D Micro-Architected Materials for Batteries

Sun, Yuchun ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Wearable Sweat Sensors for Disease Monitoring and Management

Tu, Jiaobing ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Gao, Wei

Additive Manufacturing of Batteries and IR-Active Microparticles: Polyborane-Based Electrolytes for Solid State Batteries and Additively Manufactured, TiN-Coated Microbridges

Villafuerte, Fernando Joaquin ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Guaranteed Policy Performance in Reinforcement Learning

Voloshin, Cameron ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Yue, Yisong

Data-Driven Safety-Critical Autonomy in Unknown, Unstructured, and Dynamic Environments

Wei, Skylar Xueyao ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Vibration Damping of Coiled Structures Through Frictional Slip

Wen, Alexander Huai-Cheng ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Quantum Microwave to Optical Transduction with Light-Robust Superconducting Circuits

Wood, Steven Andrew ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

How to Make Small Things Do Big Things: Exploring Engineered Disorder for Massively Scalable Metasurfaces and Metamaterials

Wray, Parker Ryan ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Greater Than One Billion Optical Q Factor for On-Chip Microresonators

Wu, Lue Leo ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Electronic Skin in Robotics and Healthcare: Towards Multimodal Sensing and Intelligent Analysis

Xu, Changhao ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Gao, Wei

Lean Premixed Hydrogen Flames: Turbulence, Chemistry, and Modelling

Yao, Matthew Xuhuai ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Experiments on Separation Shear Layer Instabilities in Hypervelocity Flows

Yu, Wesley Minlai ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Austin, Joanna M.

Physics and Applications of Optical Nonlinearity in High-Q Microresonators

Yuan, Zhiquan ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Understanding the Plasma Universe through Laboratory Experiments and Related Models

Zhang, Yang ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Bellan, Paul Murray

Reconfigurable Metasurfaces in Nanoelectromechanical and Silicon-Organic Systems

Zheng, Tianzhe ・ PhD ・ 2024

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Reliable Controller Synthesis: Guarantees for Safety-Critical System Testing and Verification

Akella, Prithvi ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Ames, Aaron D.

Optimal Design of Soft Responsive Actuators and Impact Resistant Structures

Akerson, Andrew James ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Distributed and Localized Model Predictive Control

Amo Alonso, Carmen ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock

The “Interpolated Factored Green Function” Method

Bauinger, Christoph ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Where the Wild Things Are: Computer Vision for Global-Scale Biodiversity Monitoring

Beery, Sara Meghan ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Electro-Optic Excitations in van der Waals Materials for Active Nanophotonics

Biswas, Souvik ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Methods for Control of Granular Material Attributes

Buarque de Macedo, Robert Andrew ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Andrade, Jose E.

Numerical Analysis of Folding and Deployment Dynamics of Thin Shell Structures with Localized Folds

Canales Escobedo, Fabricio Gianfranco ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Degradation of Ceramic Surfaces and its Mitigation: From Electric Propulsion to Cultural Heritage

Chari, Celia S. ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Faber, Katherine T.

3D in situ Chemical Synthesis: Additive Manufacturing of Functional Polymeric Materials via Vat Photo-polymerization

Chen, Amylynn C. ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

On Multiscale and Statistical Numerical Methods for PDEs and Inverse Problems

Chen, Yifan ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Hou, Thomas Y.; Owhadi, Houman; Stuart, Andrew M.

Visual and Spatial Representation Learning with Applications in Ecology

Cole, Elijah Henry John ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Nanoscale Field Emission Devices for High-Temperature and High-Frequency Operation

De Rose, Lucía Belén ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Risk-Aware Planning and Control in Extreme Environments

Dixit, Anushri C. ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Geometry and Dynamical Systems in Machine Learning and Control

Dorobantu, Victor David ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Yue, Yisong

Graph Modeling for Genomics and Epidemiology

Eldjarn Hjoerleifsson, Kristjan ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Pachter, Lior S.

The Role of Boundaries and Other Microstructural Features on Emergent Mechanical and Mechanically-Coupled Phenomena at the Nanoscale

Gallivan, Rebecca Anne ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Shock Compression of Body-Centered Cubic Metals from the Atomistic to Continuum Scale: Iron and Molybdenum

Gandhi, Vatsa Bhupeshkumar ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Model-Based Lower-Limb Powered Prosthesis Control: Developing and Realizing Nonlinear Subsystem Control Methods for Generalizable Prosthesis Control

Gehlhar, Rachel ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Ames, Aaron D.

The Identification of Discrete Mixture Models

Gordon, Spencer Lane ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Vidick, Thomas G.; Schulman, Leonard J.

Interparticle Forces and Stress Transfer in Saturated and Unsaturated Granular Systems

Gu, Zichen ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami; Andrade, Jose E.

Causal Sampling, Compressing, and Channel Coding of Streaming Data

Guo, Nian ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Kostina, Victoria

Control and State-Estimation of Jump Stochastic Systems by Learning Recurrent Spatiotemporal Patterns

Han, SooJean ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock; Chung, Soon-Jo

Holistic Design in High-Speed Silicon Photonics and Low-Power Electronics Platforms

Hashemi Talkhooncheh, Arian ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Emami, Azita

Dynamics of Protein-Mediated Polymer Coupling and their Implications in Antibody Production and Emergent Patterning

Hirokawa, Soichi ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Phillips, Robert B.

Computational Compensation for Model Imperfections in Photoacoustic Computed Tomography

Hu, Peng ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Wang, Lihong

Experimental Study on the Thermodynamic Interactions of Phonons and Magnetism in Fe Systems

Hägeli Lohaus, Stefan P. ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Optimal Receptivity and the Generalization of the One-Way Navier-Stokes (OWNS) Equations to Complex High-Speed Boundary Layers and Jets

Kamal, Omar ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Dynamics of Time-Varying and Nonlinear Phononic Lattices

Kim, Brian Lee Kiwon ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Wave Propagation in Periodic Acoustic Metamaterials: from 1D to 3D

Kim, Gunho ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Modeling Deformations of Active Rods, Ribbons, and Plates

Korner, Kevin Andreas ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Learning and Control of Dynamical Systems

Lale, Ali Sahin ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Anandkumar, Anima

Droplet Control in Aqueous and Hydrocarbon Fluids: Long, End-Associative Polymers Dictate Fluid Behavior Under Elongational Flows

Learsch, Robert Whitson ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Kornfield, Julia A.

Towards Universal Integrated Laser Sources with Nonlinear Photonics

Ledezma, Luis M. ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Marandi, Alireza

Machine Learning and Data Assimilation for Blending Incomplete Models and Noisy Data

Levine, Matthew Emanuel ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Stuart, Andrew M.

Learning-Augmented Control and Decision-Making: Theory and Applications in Smart Grids

Li, Tongxin ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Low, Steven H.; Wierman, Adam C.

Advancement of Asymmetric Bipolar Membranes for Tailoring Chemical Environments in Electrochemical Systems

Lucas, Éowyn ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Experiments in Thermal Ignition: Influence of Natural Convection on Properties of Gaseous Explosions

Martin, Conor Daniel ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

Vision-Based Navigation and Large-Scale Estimation for Spacecraft Swarms

Matsuka, Kai ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Chung, Soon-Jo

Design, Fabrication, and Mechanical Analysis of Intertwined and Frictional Micro-Architected Materials

Moestopo, Widianto Putra ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

BICEP Array Detectors and Instrumentation at 30/40 GHz: Design, Performance, and Deployment to the South Pole for Constraining Primordial Gravitational Waves

Mohamed Soliman, Ahmed Mohamed ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Bock, James J.

Methods for Robust Learning-Based Control

O’Connell, Michael Thomas ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Chung, Soon-Jo

Physics-Based and Data-Driven Computational Models of Inelastic Deformations

Ocegueda, Eric ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Experimental Studies of Flow Control Techniques for Future Aircraft

Oshima, Emile Kazuo ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Locomotory Control Algorithms and Their Neuronal Implementation in Drosophila melanogaster

Palmer, Emily Hope ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Dickinson, Michael H.

Optimization of Photovoltaic Performance for Luminescent Solar Concentrator Systems

Phelan, Megan Elisabeth ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Electronic Correlations and Topology in Graphene Moiré Multilayers and InAs/GaSb-Derivative Systems

Polski, Robert Michael ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Nadj-Perge, Stevan

Revocable Cryptography in a Quantum World

Poremba, Alexander Mario ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Vidick, Thomas G.

Tunability of Gas Adsorption Enthalpies in Carbonaceous Materials for Energy-Related Applications

Quine, Cullen Mackenzie ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.; Ahn, Channing C.

Folding and Dynamic Deployment of Ultralight Thin-Shell Space Structures

Reddy, Narravula Harshavardhan ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Applied Machine Learning for Prediction and Control of Fluid Flows

Renn, Peter Ian James ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

The Hemodynamics of Native and Surgical Aortic Valves with Regards to Wall Shear Stress and Residence Time

Rosakis, Alexandros Yiannis ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Parametrically-Driven Nonlinear Optical Resonators and their Networks for Sensing and Computing

Roy, Arkadev ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Marandi, Alireza

Low-Power and Miniaturized Medical Electronics for In-Vivo Localization and Tracking

Sharma, Saransh ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Emami, Azita

Computational Imaging for Phase Retrieval and Biomedical Applications

Shen, Cheng ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Reliable Learning and Control in Dynamic Environments: Towards Unified Theory and Learned Robotic Agility

Shi, Guanya ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Chung, Soon-Jo; Yue, Yisong

A Novel Approach to Cardiac Health Assessment Using a Redesign of the Brachial Cuff Device

Tamborini, Alessio ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Digital Quantum Simulation of Physical Systems on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computers

Tan Teck Keng, Adrian ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

Studies on Off-Nominal Rotor Aerodynamics for eVTOL Aircraft

Tang, Ellande ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Chung, Soon-Jo

Robust Safety-Critical Control: A Lyapunov and Barrier Approach

Taylor, Andrew James ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Ames, Aaron D.

Contraction Theory for Robust Learning-Based Control: Toward Aerospace and Robotic Autonomy

Tsukamoto, Hiroyasu ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Chung, Soon-Jo

Enabling Robust and User-Customized Bipedal Locomotion on Lower-Body Assistive Devices via Hybrid System Theory and Preference-Based Learning

Tucker, Maegan Lindsay ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Ames, Aaron D.

Time-Dependent Failure of Thin-Ply Composite Laminates

Ubamanyu, Kanthasamy (Uba) ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Ion Transport in Temperature Sensitive Polyelectrolytes

Wang, Linghui ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Temperature Dependence of Gas Physisorption Energy: Experimental and Computational Studies of Krypton on Porous Carbon

Wang, Ziyi ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Mechanical Response of Lattice Structures under High Strain-Rate and Shock Loading

Weeks, John Stephen IV ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Dynamics and Performance of Wind-Energy Systems in Unsteady Flow Conditions

Wei, Nathaniel James ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Dabiri, John O.

Uncertainty and Decentralization: Two Themes in an Energy Transformation

Werner, Lucien Desloge ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Low, Steven H.; Wierman, Adam C.

Freeze Casting - from Battery Separators to Ceramic Scaffolds

Wu, Chun-Wei Vince ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Faber, Katherine T.

Expanding the Toolbox for Thermal Control of E. coli: Cold-Activated Transcription with Applications in Temperature Self-Regulation

Xiong, Lealia Li ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Shapiro, Mikhail G.; Kornfield, Julia A.

Laser-Engraved Wearable Sweat Sensor for Metabolic Monitoring

Yang, Yiran (Isabella) ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Gao, Wei

Non-Asymptotic Analysis of Single-Receiver Channels with Limited Feedback

Yavas, Recep Can ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Effros, Michelle; Kostina, Victoria

Advancements in Hemodynamic Measurement: Arterial Resonance, Ultrasound, and Machine Learning

Yurk, Dominic Jeffrey ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Abu-Mostafa, Yaser S.

Singularity Formation in the High-Dimensional Euler Equations and Sampling of High-Dimensional Distributions by Deep Generative Networks

Zhang, Shumao ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Hou, Thomas Y.

Superconducting Circuit Architectures Based on Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics

Zhang, Xueyue ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Low-Rank Matrix Recovery: Manifold Geometry and Global Convergence

Zhang, Ziyun ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Hou, Thomas Y.

Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Unstable Dynamics of Caltech’s Plasma Jet: X-Rays, Ultraviolet, and Visible Light

Zhou, Yi ・ PhD ・ 2023

Advisor: Bellan, Paul M.

Creating ARCHER: A 3D Hopping Robot with Flywheels for Attitude Control

Ambrose, Eric Ryan ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Ames, Aaron D.

Self-Heating of HEMT Low-Noise Amplifiers in Liquid Cryogenic Environments and the Limits of Microwave Noise Performance

Ardizzi, Anthony Joseph ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.; Schwab, Keith C.

Modeling and Parameterization of Basin Effects for Engineering Design Applications

Ayoubi, Peyman ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Asimaki, Domniki

Multifunctional Volumetric Metaoptics

Ballew, Conner Kiley ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Photonic and Phononic Band Gap Engineering for Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Transduction

Banker, Jash Haren ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

On the Variational Principles of Linear and Nonlinear Resolvent Analysis

Barthel, Benedikt ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

High Contrast Nanophotonics for Scalable Photovoltaics and Solar Fuels

Bauser, Haley Coddington ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Foundations and Applications of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing

Booeshaghi, Ali Sina ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Pachter, Lior S.

Autonomous Mission-Driven Robots in Extreme Environments

Bouman, Amanda Rose ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Singularity Formation in Incompressible Fluids and Related Models

Chen, Jiajie ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Hou, Thomas Y.

Energy-Efficient Receiver Design for High-Speed Interconnects

Chen, Kuan-Chang ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Emami, Azita

Charge and Heat Transport in Non-Metallic Crystals Using First-Principles Boltzmann Transport Theory

Cheng, Peishi Stephen ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

Investigation of Electronic Fluctuations in Semiconductor Materials and Devices through First-Principles Simulations and Experiments in Transistor Amplifiers

Choi, Alexander Youngsoo ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

Wearable Inductive Damping Sensors for Skin Edema Quantification

Chou, Tzu-Chieh ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Emerging Evidence of a Second Glass Phase in Strong to Ultra-Fragile Bulk Metallic Glass-Forming Liquids

Corona, Sydney Lea ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis; Samwer, Konrad

Thermally Responsive Polymers for Wearable Calorimeters

Costanza, Vincenzo ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Exploiting Speckle to Image Deeper in Scattering Media

Cua, Eunice Michelle Chua ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Engineering Tools to Probe and Manipulate the Immune System at Single-Cell Resolution

Dobreva, Tatyana ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Thomson, Matthew; Gradinaru, Viviana

Geometry Synthesis and Multi-Configuration Rigidity of Reconfigurable Structures

Dorn, Charles Jacob ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

On the Experimental Simulation of Atmospheric-Like Disturbances Near the Surface

Dougherty, Christopher John ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics with Superconducting Slow-Light Waveguide Circuits

Ferreira, Vinicius Thaddeu dos Santos ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Future Microwave Arrays Take Shape

Fikes, Austin Covey ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Koopman-based Learning and Control of Agile Robotic Systems

Folkestad, Carl A. A. ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Extending the Capability of Classical Quantum Many-Body Methods

Gao, Yang ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Chan, Garnet K.; Minnich, Austin J.

Regret-Optimal Control

Goel, Gautam ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Nanophotonic Application to Biomedical Devices

Hanania, Haeri Park ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Predicting the Strength of Planetary Surfaces

Harmon, John Michael ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Andrade, Jose E.

Oxidative and Internal Stress Effects of Dopants in Multilayer Yb₂Si₂O₇ Environmental Barrier Coatings

Herren, Benjamin Riley ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Faber, Katherine T.

Characterization and Optimization of a Fully Passive Flapping Foil in an Unsteady Environment for Power Production and Propulsion

Hooper, Morgan Louise ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy-Derived 3D Conductivity Tomography for Atherosclerosis Detection

Huang, Zi-Yu ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Progress in Low-Cost Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells

Jahelka, Phillip Robert ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics in Superconducting Circuits

Kim, Eun Jong ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Light Modulation with Vanadium Dioxide-Based Optical Devices

Kim, Yonghwi ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Machine Learning and Scientific Computing

Kovachki, Nikola Borislavov ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Stuart, Andrew M.

Instabilities in the Flow Over a Spinning Disk at Angle of Attack

Lee, Marcus Kuok Kuan ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Colonius, Tim; McKeon, Beverley J.

Cascading Failures in Power Systems: Modeling, Characterization, and Mitigation

Liang, Chen ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Low, Steven H.; Wierman, Adam C.

Photovoltaic Technologies Developed for Space-Based Solar Power

Loke, Samuel Pei Hao ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Dynamics of Ultralight Flexible Spacecraft During Slew Maneuvers

Marshall, Michael Aaron ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Modeling and Programming Shape-Morphing Structured Media

McMahan, Connor Glenn ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Combinatorial and Algebraic Propeties of Nonnegative Matrices

Mehta, Jenish Chetan ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Schulman, Leonard J.; Vidick, Thomas G.

High-Efficiency Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Photovoltaic Applications

Needell, David Robert ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Spin-Phonon Interactions and Spin Decoherence from First Principles

Park, Jinsoo ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Bernardi, Marco

High Sensitivity Time-Varying Systems In Photonics and Electronics

Porsandeh Khial, Parham ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Autonomous Temporal Understanding and State Estimation during Robot-Assisted Surgery

Qin, Yidan ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Burdick, Joel W.

Microwave-to-Optical Transduction Using Rare-Earth Ions

Rochman, Jake Herschel Lebi ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Representation of the Semantic Structures: from Discovery to Applications

Ryou, Serim ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Thermal Behavior of Cuprous Oxide: a Comprehensive Study of Three-Body Phonon Effects and Beyond

Saunders, Claire Nicole ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Correcting Errors in DNA Storage

Sima, Jin ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Bruck, Jehoshua

Safe Input Regulation for Robotic Systems

Singletary, Andrew Wills ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Ames, Aaron D.

Rheological Measurements in Moderate Reynolds Number Liquid-Solid Flows

Song, Yichuan ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Hunt, Melany L.

Applications of Machine Learning to Finite Volume Methods

Stevens, Benjamin Carter ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Slip Patterns on Heterogeneous Frictional Interfaces

Sudhir, Kavya ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Lapusta, Nadia

Entangled Photon Interferometry: Development of Photonic Systems Towards Quantum Spectroscopy

Szoke, Szilard ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Cushing, Scott K.

Axial Descent of Multirotor Configurations – Experimental Studies for Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Applications

Veismann, Marcel ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Understanding and Optimizing the Local Catalyst Environment in CO₂ Reduction Electrodes

Welch, Alexandra Justine ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Nonlinear Dynamics and Stability of Viscous Free-Surface Microcapillary Flows in V-Shaped Channels and on Curved Surfaces

White, Nicholas Conlan ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Troian, Sandra M.

Shape-Changing Phased Arrays

Williams, David Elliott ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Optoelectronic Physics and Engineering of Atomically Thin Photovoltaics

Wong, Joeson ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

New Algorithms for Programmatic Deep Learning with Applications to Behavior Modeling

Zhan, Eric ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Yue, Yisong

Optimization of Distribution Power Networks: from Single-Phase to Multi-Phase

Zhou, Fengyu ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Low, Steven H.

Accelerated Computational Micromechanics

Zhou, Hao ・ PhD ・ 2022

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Hybrid Frequency-Time Analysis and Numerical Methods for Time-Dependent Wave Propagation

Anderson, Thomas Geoffrey ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Freeze Casting of Ceramics: Pore Design from Solidification Principles

Arai, Noriaki ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Faber, Katherine T.

Large-Scale Intelligent Systems: From Network Dynamics to Optimization Algorithms

Azizan Ruhi, Navid ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Wierman, Adam C.; Hassibi, Babak

Numerical Investigation of Compressibility Effects in Reacting Subsonic Flows

Beardsell, Guillaume ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Stability and Protective Coatings of Semiconductor Electrodes for Solar Fuel Devices

Buabthong, Pakpoom (Pai) ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Lewis, Nathan Saul

Safe and Interpretable Autonomous Systems Design: Behavioral Contracts and Semantic-Based Perception

Cai, Karena Xin ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.; Chung, Soon-Jo

Computational Investigation of Nanoscale Electrocatalysts for Clean Energy Conversion

Chen, Yalu ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Goddard, William A., III

Numerical Simulation of Performance and Solar-to-Fuel Conversion Efficiency for Photoelectrochemical Devices

Chen, Yikai (Katie) ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Lewis, Nathan Saul

Assuring Safety under Uncertainty in Learning-Based Control Systems

Cheng, Richard ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Mechanical Investigations: Experimental Fracture Techniques and Frozen Small-Molecule Organics

Edwards, Bryce Walker ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Stimuli Responsive Micro-Architected Materials

Elliott, Luizetta Vadimovna ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

From Metasurfaces to Compact Optical Metasystems

Faraji Dana, Mohammad Sadegh ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Active Flat Optics Wavefront Manipulation for Imaging, Ranging, and Sensing

Fatemi, Seyed Mohammadreza ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Identification of Structural Damage, Ground Motion Response, and the Benefits of Dense Seismic Instrumentation

Filippitzis, Filippos ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.; Kohler, Monica D.

Precision at Scale: System Design from Tiny Biosensors to Giant Arrays

Gal-Katziri, Matan ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Multiscale Mechanical Characterization of Subcellular Structures in Living Walled Cells

Ginsberg, Leah Morgan ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Multi-Functional Metamaterials

Injeti, Sai Sharan ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik; Daraio, Chiara

Thermal Ignition by Vertical Cylinders

Jones, Silken Michelle ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

A Shock Compression Investigation of Failure Waves and Phase Transition in Soda-Lime Glass

Joshi, Akshay ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Electro-Optically Tunable Metasurfaces for a Comprehensive Control of Properties of Light

Kafaie Shirmanesh, Ghazaleh ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Multiscale, Data-Driven and Nonlocal Modeling of Granular Materials

Karapiperis, Konstantinos ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Andrade, Jose E.

Renewable Energy Generation and Storage: From Microwires to Macro-Energy Systems

Kennedy, Kathleen Marie ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Lewis, Nathan Saul

Large-Scale Photonics Integration: Data Communications to Optical Beamforming

Khachaturian, Aroutin ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Investigation of Transport Phenomena of Thermal Acoustic Excitations in Semi-Crystalline and Amorphous Materials Using Transient Grating Spectroscopy

Kim, Taeyong ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

Novel Light-Matter Interaction in Quasi-One-Dimensional Graphene Nanomaterials for Photonics

Kishore Kumar, Deepan ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Yeh, Nai-Chang

Customized Porosity in Ceramic Composites via Freeze Casting

Kuo, Claire Taijung ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Faber, Katherine T.

Improving Reduced Order Models of Soil-Structure Interaction Using an Ensemble Kalman Inversion Finite Element Model Updating Framework

Kusanovic, Danilo Smiljan ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Asimaki, Domniki

Dielectric Metasurfaces for Integrated Imaging Devices and Active Optical Elements

Kwon, Hyounghan ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Focused Laser Differential Interferometry

Lawson, Joel Michael ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Austin, Joanna M.

Theoretical, Computational, and Experimental Characterization of Nematic Elastomers

Lee, Victoria Jin-Young ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

The Adaptive Charging Network Research Portal: Systems, Tools, and Algorithms

Lee, Zachary Jordan ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Low, Steven H.

Synthesis of 2D Quantum Materials for Nanoelectronic and Nanophotonic Applications

Lin, Wei-Hsiang ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert; Yeh, Nai-Chang

Frameworks for High Dimensional Convex Optimization

London, Palma Alise den Nijs ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Wierman, Adam C.

From Bipedal to Quadrupedal Locomotion, Experimental Realization of Lyapunov Approaches

Ma, Wen-Loong ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Ames, Aaron D.

Applications of Convex Analysis to Signomial and Polynomial Nonnegativity Problems

Murray, Riley John ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Chandrasekaran, Venkat; Wierman, Adam C.

Spacecraft Motion Planning and Control under Probabilistic Uncertainty for Coordinated Inspection and Safe Learning

Nakka, Yashwanth Kumar ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Chung, Soon-Jo

Bioinspired Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications

Narasimhan, Vinayak ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Choo, Hyuck; Gharib, Morteza

3D Architected Battery Electrodes for Exploring Battery Kinetics from Nano to Millimeter

Narita, Kai ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Online Learning from Human Feedback with Applications to Exoskeleton Gait Optimization

Novoseller, Ellen Rachel ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Burdick, Joel W.; Yue, Yisong

Towards Learning Robotic Dynamics: Application to Multirotor Takeoff and Landing

Pastor, Daniel ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Deployment Dynamics of Thin-Shell Space Structures

Pedivellano, Antonio ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Contract-Based Design: Theories and Applications

Phan-Minh, Tung ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Resolvent Modeling of Turbulent Jets

Pickering, Ethan Marcus ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion: From Hybrid Zero Dynamics to Control Lyapunov Functions via Experimentally Realizable Methods

Reher, Jenna ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Ames, Aaron D.

Principles for Designing Robust and Stable Synthetic Microbial Consortia

Ren, Xinying (Cindy) ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Matching Waveform Envelopes for Earthquake Early Warning

Roh, Becky ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.

Probing the Buckling of Thin-Shell Space Structures

Royer, Fabien A. ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Streamwise Homogeneous Turbulent Boundary Layers

Ruan, Joseph Y. ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Structured Signal Recovery from Nonlinear Measurements with Applications in Phase Retrieval and Linear Classification

Salehi, Fariborz ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Inference, Computation, and Games

Schäfer, Florian Tobias ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Owhadi, Houman

Eddy Current Damping Stroke Sensor

Shahrestani, Shane Shayan ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Complexity Reduction of Fluid-Structure Systems at Low Forcing Frequencies

Shamai, Maysam ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Applications and Integration of Optical Frequency Combs

Shen, Boqiang ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Part I: The Equations of Plasma Physics and the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Magnetohydrodynamics. Part II: Evolution of Perturbed Planar Shockwaves.

Shen, Naijian ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Pullin, Dale Ian

Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft

Shi, Xichen ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Chung, Soon-Jo

Learning to Optimize: from Theory to Practice

Song, Jialin ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Yue, Yisong

Optimizing Cloud AI Platforms: Resource Allocation and Market Design

Su, Yu ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Wierman, Adam C.

Understanding Imperfections and Instabilities in Crystals via Physics-Based and Data-Driven Models

Teh, Ying Shi ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Signals on Networks: Random Asynchronous and Multirate Processing, and Uncertainty Principles

Teke, Oguzhan ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Vaidyanathan, P. P.

Control of Wall-Bounded Turbulence Through Closed-Loop Wall Transpiration

Toedtli, Simon Silvio ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Kerr Solitons and Brillouin Lasers in Optical Microresonators

Wang, Heming ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Biomolecular Tools for Noninvasive Imaging and Manipulation of Engineered Cells

Wu, Di ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Shapiro, Mikhail G.

Reduced Order Model Inspired Robotic Bipedal Walking: A Step-to-step Dynamics Approximation based Approach

Xiong, Xiaobin ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Ames, Aaron D.

Optical Light Manipulation and Imaging Through Scattering Media

Xu, Jian ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Reducing Computational Costs for Many-Body Physics Problems

Ye, Erika ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Chan, Garnet K.; Minnich, Austin J.

Linear Codes with Constrained Generator Matrices

Yildiz, Hikmet ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Multi-Resolution Lattice Green’s Function Method for High Reynolds Number External Flows

Yu, Ke ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Microstructure-Enabled Plasticity in Nano-to-Microscale Materials

Zhang, Haolu Jane ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Hybrid Si/III-V Lasers for Next-generation Coherent Optical Communication

Zhang, Zhewei ・ PhD ・ 2021

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon

Universality Laws and Performance Analysis of the Generalized Linear Models

Abbasi, Ehsan ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Simulations of Conic Cusp Formation, Growth, and Instability in Electrified Viscous Liquid Metals on Flat and Curved Surfaces

Albertson, Theodore Glenn ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Troian, Sandra M.

Modeling and Development of Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

Allmaras, Jason Paul ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Schwab, Keith C.

Superconductivity in Graphene Hetero-Structures: From Fundamental Physics to Functional Devices

Arora, Harpreet Singh ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Nadj-Perge, Stevan

A Novel Digital Holographic Microscope (DHM) to Investigate and Characterize Microbial Motility in Extreme Aquatic Environments

Bedrossian, Manuel M. ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Functional Autonomy Techniques for Manipulation in Uncertain Environments

Bowkett, Joseph John Douglas ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Fracture and Toughening of Brittle Structures with Designed Anisotropy

Brodnik, Neal Ryan ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Faber, Katherine T.; Ravichandran, Guruswami

Convex Relaxations for Graph and Inverse Eigenvalue Problems

Candogan, Utkan Onur ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Chandrasekaran, Venkat

Towards High Solar to Fuel Efficiency: From Photonic Design, Interface Study, to Device Integration

Cheng, Wen-Hui (Sophia) ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Real-Time Biosensing and Energy Harvesting on Human Body

Cho, Hyunjun ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Choo, Hyuck; Gharib, Morteza

Nanomechanical Properties of Electrodeposited Li and Fabrication of 3D Architected Cathodes for Li-Based Batteries

Citrin, Michael Andrew ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Quantum Correlations, Certifying Quantum Devices, and the Quest for Infinite Entanglement

Coladangelo, Andrea Wei ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Vidick, Thomas G.

Quantum Storage of Light Using Nanophotonic Resonators Coupled to Erbium Ion Ensembles

Craiciu, Ioana ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Deep Learning in Unconventional Domains

Cvitkovic, Michael William (Milan0 ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Vidick, Thomas G.

Scalable Synthesis and Verification: Towards Reliable Autonomy

Dathathri, Sumanth ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Riemannian Optimization for Convex and Non-Convex Signal Processing and Machine Learning Applications

Douik, Ahmed ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Suspended Trace Air-Gap Resonators for Low Loss Superconducting Circuits

Fang, Michael Tianyu ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Wave-Scattering by Periodic Media

Fernandez-Lado, Agustin Gabriel ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Topology Optimization and Failure Analysis of Deployable Thin Shells with Cutouts

Ferraro, Serena ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

High-Cycle Dynamic Cell Fatigue with Applications on Oncotripsy

Figueroa-Schibber, Erika ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Application of Path-Independent Integrals to Soil-Structure Interaction

García Suárez, Antonio Joaquín ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Asimaki, Domniki

Boundary Integral Equation Methods for Simulation and Design of Photonic Devices

Garza Gonzalez, Emmanuel ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Applied Safety Critical Control

Gurriet, Thomas ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Ames, Aaron D.

Phonon Thermodynamics and Elastic Behavior of GaN and GaAs at High Temperatures and Pressures

Herriman, Jane Elizabeth ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Positive Definite Matrices: Compression, Decomposition, Eigensolver, and Concentration

Huang, De ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Hou, Thomas Y.

Investigations of Different Methods to Promote Drug Mixing in the Eye

Huang, Jinglin Alice ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Mechanical Properties of Small-Scale Sputtered Metallic Glasses

Kwong, Anthony Herman Fu-Hao ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

New Frameworks for Structured Policy Learning

Le, Hoang Minh ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Yue, Yisong

Mechanics of Ultra-Thin Composite Coilable Structures

Leclerc, Christophe ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Hypervelocity Shock Tunnel Studies of Blunt Body Aerothermodynamics in Carbon Dioxide for Mars Entry

Leibowitz, Matthew Gregory ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Austin, Joanna M.

Linking Micro-Structure to Macro-Behavior of Granular Matter: From Flowing Heterogeneously to Morphing Adaptively

Li, Liuchi ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Andrade, Jose E.

L-Band Multi-Polarization Radar Scatterometry over Global Forests: Modelling, Analysis, and Applications

Lim, Yu Xian ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: van Zyl, Jakob J.

Photoacoustic Tomography: From Bench to Bedside

Lin, Li ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Wang, Lihong

From Restoring Human Vision to Enhancing Computer Vision

Liu, Yang ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Meister, Markus

First-Principles Calculations of Electron-Defect Interactions and Defect-Limited Charge Transport

Lu, I-Te ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Bernardi, Marco

Towards Atom Assembly on Nanophotonic Structures with Optical Tweezers

Luan, Xingsheng ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Kimble, H. Jeff

Integrating Quantum Optical and Superconducting Circuits with Quantum Acoustics for Scalable Quantum Network and Computation

Luo, Jie ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Three-Dimensional Quantitative Visualization for Mechanics of Discontinuous Materials

Mac Donald, Kimberley Ann ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Developing Plasma Spectroscopy and Imaging Diagnostics to Understand Astrophysically-Relevant Plasma Experiments: Megameters, Femtometers, and Everything in Between

Marshall, Ryan Scott ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Bellan, Paul Murray

Aspects of Reduced-Order Modeling of Turbulent Channel Flows: From Linear Mechanisms to Data-Driven Approaches

McMullen, Ryan Michael ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Using DNA Origami to Create Hybrid Nanophotonic Architectures for Single-Photon Emitters

Mitskovets, Anna ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert; Rothemund, Paul W. K.

Modifying Ultrasound Waveform Parameters to Control, Influence, or Disrupt Cells

Mittelstein, David Reza ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza; Shapiro, Mikhail G.

Thermal Conduction in Amorphous Materials and the Role of Collective Excitations

Moon, Jaeyun ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

Reduced-Order Model for Dynamic Soil-Pipe Interaction Analysis

Nguyen, Kien Trung ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Asimaki, Domniki

Shock Compression of Molybdenum Single Crystals to High Stresses

Oniyama, Tomoyuki ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Dynamics of Lightweight Tensegrity-Inspired Metamaterials Fabricated with 3D-Printing

Pajunen, Kirsti Mari ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Derivation of Realistic Forcing Schemes to Reproduce Turbulent Characteristics of Round Jets on Centerline

Rah, Kyupaeck Jeff ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Cavity Optomechanics for Hybrid Quantum Systems

Ren, Hengjiang ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Vision for Social Robots: Human Perception and Pose Estimation

Ronchi, Matteo Ruggero ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Variational and Multiscale Modeling of Amorphous Silica Glass

Schill, William Joseph ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Phonon Anharmonicity at the Limits of Perturbation Theory

Shen, Yang ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Latent-Variable Modeling: Algorithms, Inference, and Applications

Taeb, Armeen ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Chandrasekaran, Venkat

Surface Reconstruction from Distributed Angle Measurements

Talon, Thibaud ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Tethered Motion Planning for a Rappelling Robot

Tanner, Melissa Midori ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Towards Next Generation of Optoelectronics: from Quantum Plasmonics and 2D Materials to Advanced Optimization Techniques of Nanophotonic Devices

Tokpanov, Yury ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Additive Manufacturing of 3D Nano-Architected Metals and Ceramics

Vyatskikh, Andrey ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

On-Chip Photonic Devices for Coupling to Color Centers in Silicon Carbide

Wang, Chuting ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Dynamics of an Arched Magnetically-Twisted Current-Carrying Plasma

Wongwaitayakornkul, Pakorn ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Bellan, Paul Murray

Ultraviolet Radiation of Hypervelocity Stagnation Flows and Shock/Boundary-Layer Interactions

Yanes, Nelson Javier ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Austin, Joanna M.

Additive Manufacturing of 3D Functional Materials: From Surface Chemistry to Combustion-Derived Materials

Yee, Daryl Wei Liang ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Probing the Progression, Properties, and Progenies of Magnetic Reconnection

Yoon, Young Dae ・ PhD ・ 2020

Advisor: Bellan, Paul Murray

Development and Dynamics of Microfabricated Enzymatic Biosensors

Adalian, Dvin Artashes-Boghos ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Metasurfaces: Beyond Diffractive and Refractive Optics

Arbabi, Ehsan ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Seeing Through the Fog: Using Scattered Light to Peer Deeper into Biological Tissue

Brake, Joshua Harris ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Graphene-Mediated Light-Matter Interaction

Brouillet, Jeremy Jean ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Geometry-Driven Model Reduction

Budninskiy, Maxim A. ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Desbrun, Mathieu

Scalable Nanophotonic Light Management Design for Solar Cells

Bukowsky, Courtney Roberta ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Computational Imaging: a Quest for the Perfect Image

Chung, Jaebum ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Phototherapeutic Devices for the Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy

Cook, Colin Andrew ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

A Line-Free Method of Monopoles for 3D Dislocation Dynamics

Deffo Nde, Arnold Durel ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Using the Force: Applications and Implications of Turbulence Forcing Terms in Direct Numerical Simulations

Dhandapani, Chandru ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Numerical Investigation of Spinal Neuron Facilitation with Multi-electrode Epidural Stimulation

Edlund, Jeffrey Andrews ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Decomposing Formal Specifications Into Assume-Guarantee Contracts for Hierarchical System Design

Filippidis, Ioannis ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Nanophotonic Structures: Fundamentals and Applications in Narrowband Transmission Color Filtering

Fleischman, Dagny ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Representations of Action Monitoring and Cognitive Control by Single Neurons in the Human Brain

Fu, Zhongzheng ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Adolphs, Ralph; Rutishauser, Ueli

Towards High Performance Robotic Actuation

Georgiev, Nikola-Zlatkov ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Microstructure and Small-Scale Deformation of Al₀.₇CoCrFeNi High-Entropy Alloy

Giwa, Adenike Monsurat ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Plasma Surface Interactions in LaB₆ Hollow Cathodes with Internal Xe Gas Discharge

Guerrero Vela, Pedro Pablo ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Meiron, Daniel I.

Impact of Transmission Network Topology on Electrical Power Systems

Guo, Linqi ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Low, Steven H.

Testing Alternative Theories of Quantum Mechanics with Optomechanics, and Effective Modes for Gaussian Linear Optomechanics

Helou, Bassam Mohamad ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Chen, Yanbei

Periodically Disturbed Oscillators

Hong, Brian Daffern ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

On the Dynamics of Flat Plates in a Fluid Environment: A Study of Inverted Flag Flapping and Caudal Fin Maneuvering

Huertas-Cerdeira, Cecilia ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Spatio-Temporal Response of a Compliant-Wall, Turbulent Boundary Layer System to Dynamic Roughness Forcing

Huynh, David Pham ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Decoding the Past

Jain, Siddharth ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Bruck, Jehoshua

Light Emission and Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in III-V Semiconductors from First Principles

Jhalani, Vatsal A. ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Bernardi, Marco

Superconducting Electromechanical and Nanophotonic Devices for Quantum Measurement and Conversion

Kalaee, Mahmoud ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Dielectric Metasurfaces from Fundamentals to Applications

Kamali, Seyedeh Mahsa ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Dynamic Strength of Silica Glasses at High Pressures and Strain Rates

Kettenbeil, Christian ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Novel Light Emitting Mechanisms Originating from Graphene Plasmons Near and Far from Equilibrium

Kim, Laura ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Quantum Nanophotonics with Ytterbium in Yttrium Orthovanadate

Kindem, Jonathan Miners ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Tailoring Thermal Radiation from Near Field to Far Field

Kou, Junlong ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

An Enhanced Maximum-Entropy Based Meshfree Method: Theory and Applications

Kumar, Siddhant ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Kochmann, Dennis M.

Microresonator Brillouin Laser Gyroscope

Lai, Yu-Hung ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Multi-Contrast Photoacoustic Computed Tomography

Li, Lei ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Wang, Lihong

Electromechanical Properties of 3D Multifunctional Nano-Architected Materials

Lifson, Max Louis ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Resonant Thermoelectric Nanophotonics: Applications in Spectral and Thermal Sensing

Mauser, Kelly Ann Weekley ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Controlling the Buckling Behavior of Bilayered Systems

Mazur, Paul Antoine Benoit ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Linear and Non-linear Interactions in a Rough-Wall Turbulent Boundary Layer

Morgan, Jonathan Philip ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Connecting the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs in Sensorimotor Control and Neurophysiology Reveals Diversity Sweet Spots in Layered Control Architectures

Nakahira, Yorie ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock

Architecture, Design, and Tradeoffs in Biomolecular Feedback Systems

Olsman, Noah Andrew ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Goentoro, Lea A.; Doyle, John C.

Towards a Net-zero Carbon Energy System: High Efficiency Photovoltaics and Electrocatalysts

Omelchenko, Stefan Thomas ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Lewis, Nathan Saul; Atwater, Harry Albert

Development of Electrocatalysts in Solid Acid Fuel Cells

Paik, Haemin ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

Online Platforms in Networked Markets: Transparency, Anticipation and Demand Management

Pang, John Zhen Fu ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Wierman, Adam C.

A Fully-Nonlocal Quasicontinuum Method to Model the Nonlinear Response of Periodic Truss Lattices

Phlipot, Gregory Paul ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Kochmann, Dennis M.

Fabrication, Mechanical Characterization, and Modeling of 3D Architected Materials upon Static and Dynamic Loading

Portela G., Carlos Mauricio ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.; Kochmann, Dennis M.

From Quantum Mechanics to Experimental Observables: Computational Investigations of Energy-Related Heterogeneous Catalysts

Qian, Jin ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Goddard, William A., III

Constraining the Mantle’s Rheology Using Methods in Uncertainty Quantification

Ratnaswamy, Vishagan ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Gurnis, Michael C.

Exploring Microscopic Thermal Transport Properties of Molecular Crystals with Simulations and Experiments

Robbins, Andrew Beyer ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

Oxygen Transporter and Generator Devices to Treat Diabetic Retinopathy

Scianmarello, Nicholas E. ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Sparse Deconvolution with Applications to Spike Sorting

Shan, Kevin Qing ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Siapas, Athanassios G.

Long Term Implantable Pressure Sensors

Shapero, Aubrey Michael ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Improving Site Response Analysis for Earthquake Ground Motion Modeling

Shi, Jian ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Asimaki, Domniki

Fitting Convex Sets to Data: Algorithms and Applications

Soh, Yong Sheng ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Chandrasekaran, Venkat

Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Boundary Layers with Spatially Varying Roughness

Sridhar, Akshay ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Pullin, Dale Ian

Polycrystalline Perovskite Ferroelectrics: Microstructural Origins of the Macroscale Electromechanical Response

Tan, Wei Lin ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Kochmann, Dennis M.; Faber, Katherine T.

Time-Varying Optimization and Its Application to Power System Operation

Tang, Yujie ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Low, Steven H.

Small-Scale Deformation and Fracture of Hard Biomaterials

Tertuliano, Ottman Aeman ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Passive and Active Control of Radiative Heat Flow

Thomas, Nathan Hoover ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

Unconventional Approaches to Structured Semiconductors

Thompson, Jonathan Ross ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Lewis, Nathan Saul

Fluid-Structure Instability in an Internal Flow Energy Harvester

Tosi, Luís Phillipe Costa Ferreira ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Stochastic Multiscale Modeling of Dynamic Recrystallization

Tutcuoglu, Abbas Davud ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Kochmann, Dennis M.

Towards a Visipedia: Combining Computer Vision and Communities of Experts

Van Horn, Grant Richard ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Pressure and Stress Transients in Autoinjector Devices

Veilleux, Jean-Christophe ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

Predicting Microstructural Pattern Formation Using Stabilized Spectral Homogenization

Vidyasagar, A. ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Kochmann, Dennis M.

On the Manipulation of a Turbulent Boundary Layer by Unsteady Boundary Conditions

Wang, Cong ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Addressing Thermodynamic Inefficiencies of Hydrogen Storage in Transition Metal Hydrides

Weadock, Nicholas Joseph ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Deployable Piezoelectric Thin Shell Structures: Concepts, Characterization and Vibration Control

Wei, Yuchen ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Adaptive and Reconfigurable Architected Materials Driven by Electrochemistry

Xia, Xiaoxing ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Light Management in Photovoltaics and Photoelectrochemical Cells using Tapered Micro and Nano Structures

Yalamanchili, Sisir ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert; Lewis, Nathan Saul

High Temperature Electron-Phonon and Magnon-Phonon Interactions

Yang, Fred Chae-Reem ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Fast Adaptive Augmented Lagrangian Digital Image Correlation

Yang, Jin ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Nonlinear Physics in Soliton Microcombs

Yang, Qifan ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Data: Implications for Markets and for Society

Ziani, Juba ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Ligett, Katrina A.; Wierman, Adam C.

An EnKF-Based Flow State Estimator for Aerodynamic Problems

da Silva, Andre Fernando de Castro ・ PhD ・ 2019

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Super Pivotal Categories, Fermion Condensation, and Fermionic Topological Phases

Aasen, David ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Alicea, Jason F.

Silicon Integrated Arrays: From Microwave to IR

Abiri, Behrooz ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Observations of Failure Phenomena in Periodic Media

Avellar, Louisa Taylor ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Design, Analysis, And Computational Methods For Engineering Synthetic Biological Networks

Baetica, Ania-Ariadna ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

An LES and RANS Study of the Canonical Shock-Turbulence Interaction

Braun, Noah Oakley ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Pullin, Dale Ian; Meiron, Daniel I.

Computational Investigation of Ionic Diffusion in Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Brooks, Daniel James ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Goddard, William A., III

Towards a priori Models for Differential Diffusion in Turbulent Non-Premixed Flames

Burali, Nicholas ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Dynamic Modeling and Control of Spherical Robots

Burkhardt, Matthew Ryan ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Improving Seismic Collapse Risk Assessments of Steel Moment Frame Buildings

Buyco, John Kenneth ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.

Online Algorithms: From Prediction to Decision

Chen, Niangjun ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Wierman, Adam C.; Low, Steven H.

Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of 3D Nanolattice Photonic Crystals for Bandgap and Refractive Index Engineering

Chernow, Victoria Fay ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Development, Implementation, and Improvements on an Effective Electrochemical Wastewater Treatment and Recycling Unit as a Sustainable Sanitation Solution for the Developing World

Cid, Clément Antoine François ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Hoffmann, Michael R.

Thermal Transport in Three-Dimensional Nanoarchitected Materials

Dou, Nicholas Gang ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

Development of Ferromagnetic Metallic Glasses into Low Loss Power Transformer Cores

Floyd, Michael Cameron Dawley ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis

Egospace Motion Planning Representations for Micro Air Vehicles

Fragoso, Anthony Thomas ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Investigations of Incompressible Variable-Density Turbulence in an External Acceleration Field

Gat, Ilana Batya ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Dimotakis, Paul E.

Laboratory Investigation of Shear Ruptures: Supersonic Propagation and Nucleation by Fluid Injection

Gori, Marcello ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Rosakis, Ares J.; Lapusta, Nadia

Numerical Methods for Fluid-Structure Interaction, and their Application to Flag Flapping

Goza, Andres Jared ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

On the Effect of Large-Scale Patterned Wettability on Contact Line Hydrodynamics

Grivel, Morgane Anne Marie ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

The Coherence Collapse Regime of High-Coherence Si/III-V Lasers and the Use of Swept Frequency Semiconductor Lasers for Full Field 3D Imaging

Harfouche, Mark ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon

Experimental and Numerical Studies of Cavities, Flows, and Waves in Arched Flux Ropes

Haw, Magnus Albert ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Bellan, Paul Murray

Understanding the Origin of Glass Forming Ability in Metallic Glasses

Hoff, Andrew Taylor ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis

Controlling the Flow of Light Using High-Contrast Metastructures

Horie, Yu ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Interfacial and Stability Studies of Photocathodes for Hydrogen Evolution

Jiang, Jingjing ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Lewis, Nathan Saul

Nanoscale Field Emission Devices

Jones, William Maxwell ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Charge Transport Analysis Using the Seebeck Coefficient-Conductivity Relation

Kang, Stephen Dongmin ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Snyder, G. Jeffrey

The Avatar Paradigm in Granular Materials

Kawamoto, Reid Yoshio ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Andrade, Jose E.

Silicon Revisited: Understanding Pure Phonon Anharmonicity and the Effects on Thermophysical Properties

Kim, Dennis Sungtae ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Frequency Noise Control of Heterogeneous Si/III-V Lasers

Kim, Dongwan ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon

Data Driven Computing

Kirchdoerfer, Trenton Thomas ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Graph Clustering: Algorithms, Analysis and Query Design

Korlakai Vinayak, Ramya ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

High-throughput Characterization of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathode Materials

Kucharczyk, Christopher James ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

Optimal Controller Synthesis for Nonlinear Systems

Leong, Yoke Peng ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman; Doyle, John Comstock

Sparse Array Signal Processing: New Array Geometries, Parameter Estimation, and Theoretical Analysis

Liu, Chun-Lin ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Vaidyanathan, P. P.

Optoelectronic Design and Prototyping of Spectrum-Splitting Photovoltaics

Lloyd, John Vickery ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Microstructural Effects on Diffusion and Mechanical Properties in Different Material Systems

Luo, Shi ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Simulation, Experiments, and Modeling of Cloud Cavitation with Application to Burst Wave Lithotripsy

Maeda, Kazuki ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Three-Dimensional Nano-Architected Materials as Platforms for Designing Effective Bone Implants

Maggi, Alessandro ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Laboratory Studies of Granular Materials Under Shear: From Avalanches to Force Chains

Marteau, Eloïse Sophie Hélène ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Andrade, Jose E.

Analysis of Flapping Propulsion: Comparison, Characterization, and Optimization

Martin, Nathan Koon-Hung ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Achieving Higher Fidelity Building Response through Emerging Technologies and Analytical Techniques

Massari, Anthony Thomas ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.

Tensile Failure and Fracture of Three-Dimensional Brittle Nanolattices

Mateos Arrieta, Arturo José ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Single-Neuron Correlates of Visual Object Representation in the Human Brain: Effects of Attention, Memory, and Choice

Minxha, Juri ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Adolphs, Ralph; Rutishauser, Ueli

Gigahertz Bandwidth and Nanosecond Timescales: New Frontiers in Radio Astronomy Through Peak Performance Signal Processing

Monroe, Ryan McKay ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Hallinan, Gregg W.

On the Kinetics of Materials of Geophysical Interest

Newman, Matthew Gregory ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Probing Microplastic Deformation in Metallic Materials

Ni, Xiaoyue ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.; Adhikari, Rana

Integrated Nonlinear Photonic Devices

Oh, Dong Yoon ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Optical Response in Planar Heterostructures: From Artificial Magnetism to Angstrom-Scale Metamaterials

Papadakis, Georgia Theano ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Optimizing Resource Management in Cloud Analytics Services

Ren, Xiaoqi ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Wierman, Adam C.

Resolvent-Based Modeling of Flows in a Channel

Rosenberg, Kevin Thomas ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Design and Characterization of Dual-Matrix Composite Deployable Space Structures

Sakovsky, Maria ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Coherent Structures, their Interactions, and their Effects on Passive Scalar Transport and Aero-Optic Distortion in a Turbulent Boundary Layer

Saxton-Fox, Theresa Ann ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Modeling of Nucleation and Dynamic Rupture on Heterogeneous Frictional Interfaces with Applications to Foreshocks

Schaal, Natalie Sarah Ann ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Lapusta, Nadia

Numerical Investigations of Transport and Chemistry Modeling for Lean Premixed Hydrogen Combustion

Schlup, Jason Robert ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Thermalization in Periodically-Driven Interacting Quantum Systems

Seetharam, Karthik Iyengar ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Refael, Gil

Active Infrared Nanophotonics in van der Waals Materials

Sherrott, Michelle Caroline ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Proliferation of Twinning in Metals: Application to Magnesium Alloys

Sun, Dingyi ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik; Ortiz, Michael

Application, Computation, and Theory for Synthetic Gene Circuits

Swaminathan, Anandh ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Reconstruction and Estimation of Flows Using Resolvent Analysis and Data-Assimilation

Symon, Sean Pearson ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

The Fully Nonlocal, Finite-Temperature, Adaptive 3D Quasicontinuum Method for Bridging Across Scales

Tembhekar, Ishan ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Kochmann, Dennis M.

The Nested Periodic Subspaces: Extensions of Ramanujan Sums for Period Estimation

Tenneti, Srikanth Venkata ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Vaidyanathan, P. P.

Cathode Design for High Energy Molten Salt Lithium-Oxygen Batteries

Tozier, Dylan Douglas ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Integrated Ultra-High-Q Nonlinear Photonic Platform for On-Chip Optoelectronic Systems

Yang, Kiyoul ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Reducing Latencies in Earthquake Early Warning

Yin, Lucy ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.

Performance and Stability Optimization of Solar Fuel Devices

Zhou, Xinghao ・ PhD ・ 2018

Advisor: Lewis, Nathan Saul

Boosting Boosting

Appel, Ron ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Spontaneous Pattern Formation in Photoelectrodeposited Semiconductor Films

Batara, Nicolas Anthony ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert; Lewis, Nathan Saul

Optimal Sensor Placement for Bayesian Parametric Identification of Structures

Bhattacharyya, Pinaky ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Beck, James L.

Essays on Timing and Economic Behavior

Bhui, Rahul Brian ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.

Recovering Structured Low-rank Operators Using Nuclear Norms

Bruer, John Jacob ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Tropp, Joel A.

Computational Methods for Bayesian Inference in Complex Systems

Catanach, Thomas Anthony ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Beck, James L.

Automated Macro-scale Causal Hypothesis Formation Based on Micro-scale Observation

Chalupka, Krzysztof ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Perona, Pietro; Eberhardt, Frederick

Concentration Inequalities of Random Matrices and Solving Ptychography with a Convex Relaxation

Chen, Yuhua Richard ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Tropp, Joel A.

Fluid Dynamics with Incompressible Schrödinger Flow

Chern, Albert Ren-Haur ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Schroeder, Peter

Nonlinear and Ultrafast Optical Investigations of Correlated Materials

Chu, Hao ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Hsieh, David

Optimal Design of Materials for Energy Conversion

Collins, Lincoln Nash ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

The Implications of Privacy-Aware Choice

Cummings, Rachel Autumn Dixon ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Ligett, Katrina A.

Optics for High-Efficiency Full Spectrum Photovoltaics

Darbe, Sunita ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Dynamics and Stability of Spinning Membranes

Delapierre, Mélanie ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Nanoscale Thermal Transport with Photons and Phonons

Ding, Ding ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Minnich, Austin

Computational Methods for Behavior Analysis

Eyjolfsdottir, Eyrun-Arna ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

P-Schemes and Deterministic Polynomial Factoring Over Finite Fields

Guo, Zeyu ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Umans, Christopher M.

Error-Correcting Codes for Networks, Storage and Computation

Halbawi, Wael ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Advancing a Machine’s Visual Awareness of People

Hall, David Christopher ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

An Experimental and Theoretical Study of Active Flow Control

Hirsch, Damian George ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Robotically Assembled Space Telescopes with Deployable Modules: Concepts and Design Methodologies

Hogstrom, Kristina ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Effective Toughness of Heterogeneous Materials

Hsueh, Chun-Jen ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Coding for Security and Reliability in Distributed Systems

Huang, Wentao ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Bruck, Jehoshua

Experimental Generation and Modeling of Vortical Gusts and Their Interactions with an Airfoil

Hufstedler, Esteban Antonio Lemus ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Redox Kinetics of Nonstoichiometric Oxides

Ji, Ho-Il ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

Computational Investigation of Small Molecule Catalysis by Cobalt, Rhodium, and Iridium Molecular Catalysts

Johnson, Samantha Jo Iva ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Goddard, William A., III

Superconducting Nonlinear Kinetic Inductance Devices

Kher, Aditya Shreyas ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Zmuidzinas, Jonas

Compact Microscope System for Biomedical Applications

Kim, Jinho ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Electronically Tunable Light Modulation with Graphene and Noble Metal Plasmonics

Kim, Seyoon ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Spatial Profiles in the Singular Solutions of the 3D Euler Equations and Simplified Models

Liu, Pengfei ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Hou, Thomas Y.

Nanophotonic Resonators for Optical Quantum Memories based on Rare-Earth-Doped Materials

Miyazono, Evan Tsugio ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Faraon, Andrei

Localization and Stimulation Techniques for Implantable Medical Electronics

Monge Osorio, Manuel Alejandro ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Emami, Azita; Shapiro, Mikhail G.

Anomalous Thermodynamics of Nonideal Gas Physisorption on Nanostructured Carbons

Murialdo, Maxwell Robert ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Nonlinear Dynamics of Transition Waves in Multi-Stable Discrete and Continuous Media

Nadkarni, Neel P. ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Kochmann, Dennis M.; Daraio, Chiara

Network Effects in Small Networks: A Study of Cooperation

Noorzad, Parham ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Effros, Michelle

Phase Boundary Mapping for Exploring New Thermoelectric Zintl Compounds

Ohno, Saneyuki ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Snyder, G. Jeffrey

Thermo-Acoustic Coupling and Dynamic Response of a Premixed Methane-Air Flame

Palm, Steven Leslie ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Culick, Fred E. C.

The Deformations of Thin Nematic Elastomer Sheets

Plucinsky, Paul P. ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

An Optofluidic Ring Resonator Platform for Rapid and Robust Sensing

Popescu, Paula Flor ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Flagan, Richard C.

Windowed Integral Equation Methods for Problems of Scattering by Defects and Obstacles in Layered Media

Pérez Arancibia, Carlos Andrés ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Phonon Boundary Scattering in Thin Silicon Membranes

Ravichandran, Navaneetha Krishnan ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Minnich, Austin J.

Hydrodynamics of Insects. Part 1. Jetting of the Dragonfly Larvae. Part 2. Honeybee at the Air-water Interface: Surfing with the Capillary Wave

Roh, Chris ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Spectral Exterior Calculus and its Implementation

Rufat, Dzhelil Sabahatin ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Desbrun, Mathieu

Acid-Stable Electrocatalysts for the Solar Production of Fuels

Saadi, Fadl Hussein ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Lewis, Nathan Saul

Wireless Nano and Molecular Scale Neural Interfacing

Sadek, Akram Sarwat ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Proximal-Field Radiation Sensors for Dynamically Controllable and Self-Correcting Integrated Radiators

Safaripour Tabbalvandani, Amirreza ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Electromagnetic Field Manipulation: Biosensing to Antennas

Sideris, Constantine ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Determining Strength of Materials Under Dynamic Loading Conditions Using Hydrodynamic Instabilities

Sternberger, Zachary Martin Murphy ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Nonlinear Optics in Chip-based Microresonators and their Applications

Suh, Myoung-Gyun ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Online Learning for the Control of Human Standing via Spinal Cord Stimulation

Sui, Yanan ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Maximum Entropy Reconstruction for Gas Dynamics

Summy, Dustin Phillip ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Pullin, Dale Ian

High-Efficiency Solar Fuel Devices: Protection and Light Management Utilizing TiO2

Verlage, Erik A. ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

A System Level Approach to Optimal Controller Design for Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Wang, Yuh-Shyang ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock

Analysis of Packaging and Deployment of Ultralight Space Structures

Wilson, Lee L. ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

A Study of Communication Networks through the Lens of Reduction

Wong, Ming Fai ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Effros, Michelle

The Catalytic and Mechanical Properties of Lithium Battery Electrodes

Xu, Chen ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Physics and Applications of Microresonator Solitons and Electro-optic Frequency Combs

Yi, Xu ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Computational Modeling of the Mechanics of Elastic Structural Lattices: Effects of Lattice Architecture and Hierarchy

Zelhofer, Alex James ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Kochmann, Dennis M.

Compressing Positive Semidefinite Operators with Sparse/Localized Bases

Zhang, Pengchuan ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Hou, Thomas Y.

Electrical Impedance Based Spectroscopy and Tomography Techniques for Obesity and Heart Diseases

Zhang, Shell Xiaoxiao ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Optical Focusing and Imaging through Scattering Media

Zhou, Edward Haojiang ・ PhD ・ 2017

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Shock Wave Propagation in Composites and Electro-Thermomechanical Coupling of Ferroelectric Materials

Agrawal, Vinamra ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Fast Numerical Methods for Mixed, Singular Helmholtz Boundary Value Problems and Laplace Eigenvalue Problems - with Applications to Antenna Design, Sloshing, Electromagnetic Scattering and Spectral Geometry

Akhmetgaliyev, Eldar ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Two and Three Finger Caging of Polygons and Polyhedra

Allen, Thomas F. ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

A Fully-Nonlocal Energy-based Formulation and High-performance Realization of the Quasicontinuum Method

Amelang, Jeffrey Scott ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Kochmann, Dennis M.

Aerodynamics of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines in Full-Scale and Laboratory-Scale Experiments

Araya, Daniel Borsodi ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Dabiri, John O.

Packaging and Deployment of Large Planar Spacecraft Structures

Arya, Manan ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Phase Diagrams and Defect Thermodynamics to Devise Doping Strategies in Lead Chalcogenide Thermoelectric Materials and its Alloys

Bajaj, Saurabh ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Snyder, G. Jeffrey

Functional, Clustered, Feedforward, and Mesoscale Brain Networks

Billeh, Yazan Nicola ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Koch, Christof

Small Scale Turbulence in High Karlovitz Number Premixed Flames

Bobbitt, Brock Douglas ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Classical and Quantum Effects in Plasmonic Metals

Brown, Ana Maii ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Dynamics of Granular Crystals with Elastic-Plastic Contacts

Burgoyne, Hayden Andrew ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Electricity Markets for the Smart Grid: Networks, Timescales, and Integration with Control

Cai, Wuhan Desmond ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Low, Steven H.; Wierman, Adam C.; Chandy, K. Mani; Ledyard, John O.

A Continuum Model for Slip-Twinning Interactions in Magnesium and Magnesium Alloys

Chang, Yingrui (Ray) ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Kochmann, Dennis M.

Quantum of Vision

Chen, Bo ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Heteroepitaxy of Group IV and Group III-V semiconductor alloys for photovoltaic applications

Chen, Christopher Tien ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Atomic-Level Structure and Deformation in Metallic Glasses

Chen, David Zhaoyue ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Unsteady Aerodynamics and Optimal Control of an Airfoil at Low Reynolds Number

Choi, Jeesoon ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Earth-Abundant Zinc-IV-Nitride Semiconductors

Coronel, Naomi Cristina ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Thermal Ignition Using Moving Hot Particles

Coronel, Stephanie Alexandra ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

Mixing, Chemical Reactions, and Combustion in Supersonic Flows

Cymbalist, Niccolo ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Dimotakis, Paul E.

Optomechanics with Superfluid Helium-4

De Lorenzo, Laura Anne ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Schwab, Keith C.

A Hybrid-Parallel Framework for the Nonlinear Seismic Analysis of Very Tall Buildings

Dizon, Abel Bermie Roberto ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Hall, John F.

Dynamic Stall on Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Dunne, Reeve ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Neural and Hormonal Systems Underlying Human Reward-Seeking Behavior

Dunne, Simon G. ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: O’Doherty, John P.

Non-Linear Scale Interactions in a Forced Turbulent Boundary Layer

Duvvuri, Subrahmanyam ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Paths Towards High Efficiency Silicon Photovoltaics

Emmer, Hal S. ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Optimization and Control of Power Flow in Distribution Networks

Farivar, Masoud ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak; Low, Steven H.

Plasma Loop and Strapping Field Dynamics: Reproducing Solar Eruptions in the Laboratory

Ha, Quoc Bao Nguyen ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Bellan, Paul Murray

Computational Microscopy: Turning Megapixels into Gigapixels

Horstmeyer, Roarke William ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Exploring Thermal Phonon Transport from Atomic to Macroscopic Scales for Energy Conversion and Management

Hua, Chengyun ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Minnich, Austin

Advanced Applications of Nanoelectromechanical Systems

Hung, Peter Shek-Ho ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Roukes, Michael Lee

Force Chains, Friction, and Flow: Behavior of Granular Media across Length Scales

Hurley, Ryan Colt ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Andrade, Jose E.

Convex Programming-Based Phase Retrieval: Theory and Applications

Jaganathan, Kishore ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Optical Phase Conjugation and Its Applications in Biology

Jang, Mooseok ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

SteelConverter and Caltech VirtualShaker: Rapid Nonlinear Cloud-Based Structural Model Conversion and Analysis

Janover, Christopher George ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.

Microscopic Origin of Macroscopic Strength in Granular Media: A Numerical and Analytical Approach

Jerves Cobo, Alex Xavier ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Andrade, Jose E.

Robust Control of Evolutionary Dynamics

Jonsson, Vanessa Danielle ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.; Baltimore, David L.

Investigation of Capacitive Discharge Heating of Metallic Glasses

Kaltenboeck, Georg ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis

Real-Time Bayesian Analysis of Ground Motion Envelopes for Earthquake Early Warning

Karakus, Gokcan ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.

Thermoelectric Properties of Bismuth Antimony Telluride Alloys

Kim, Hyun-Sik ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Snyder, G. Jeffrey

Simulation of Premixed Hydrocarbon Flames at High Turbulence Intensities

Lapointe, Simon ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Fast Lattice Green’s Function Methods for Viscous Incompressible Flows on Unbounded Domains

Liska, Sebastian ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Novel Parylene Filters for Biomedical Applications

Liu, Yang ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Electromyographic Signal Processing With Application To Spinal Cord Injury

Liu, Zhao ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Incremental Control Synthesis for Robotics in the Presence of Temporal Logic Specifications

Livingston, Scott Carlton ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Fluid Transport by Aggregations of Small Swimming Organisms

Martinez-Ortiz, Monica Paola ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Dabiri, John O.

Distributed Optimal Control of Cyber-Physical Systems: Controller Synthesis, Architecture Design and System Identification

Matni, Nikolai ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock

Numerical Simulations of Droplet Aerobreakup

Meng, Jomela Chen-Chen ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Design, Fabrication, and Mechanical Property Analysis of 3D Nanoarchitected Materials

Meza, Lucas Rosendo ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Understanding Micro- and Macro-Mechanics of Soil Liquefaction: A Necessary Step for Field-Scale Assessment

Mital, Utkarsh ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Andrade, Jose E.

Topology Optimization of Silicon Anode Structures for Lithium-Ion Battery Applications

Mitchell, Sarah Louise ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Metaconcrete: Engineered Aggregates for Enhanced Dynamic Performance

Mitchell, Stephanie Jane ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Fabrication, Characterization, And Deformation of 3D Structural Meta-Materials

Montemayor, Lauren Christine ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Stability of Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces During Charging in Lithium Batteries

Natsiavas, Panagiotis Philippos ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Computational Microscopy: Breaking the Limit of Conventional Optics

Ou, Xiaoze ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Robustness, Adaptation, and Learning in Optimal Control

Papusha, Ivan Igorevych ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Connectivity and Function of the Primate Insula

Park, Soyoung ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Allman, John Morgan; Adolphs, Ralph

Distributed Control and Optimization for Communication and Power Systems

Peng, Qiuyu ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Low, Steven H.

A Model for Energy and Morphology of Crystalline Grain Boundaries with Arbitrary Geometric Character

Runnels, Brandon Scott ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Holistic Design In High-Speed Optical Interconnects

Saeedi, Saman ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Emami, Azita

Firing Patterns of Cerebellar Purkinje Cells During Locomotion and Sleep

Sauerbrei, Britton Alan ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Siapas, Athanassios G.

On the Stability of Supersonic Boundary Layers with Injection

Schmidt, Bryan Eric ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

Kinematics and Local Motion Planning for Quasi-static Whole-body Mobile Manipulation

Shankar, Krishna ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Development of Zn-IV-Nitride Semiconductor Materials and Devices

Shing, Amanda M. ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Lewis, Nathan Saul; Atwater, Harry Albert

Thermoelectric Skutterudites: Why and How High zT Can Be Achieved

Tang, Yinglu ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Snyder, G. Jeffrey

Algebraic Techniques in Coding Theory: Entropy Vectors, Frames, and Constrained Coding

Thill, Matthew David ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Recovering Structured Signals in High Dimensions via Non-Smooth Convex Optimization: Precise Performance Analysis

Thrampoulidis, Christos ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Cu₂O Heterojunction Photovoltaics

Tolstova, Yulia ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Advancements in Jet Turbulence and Noise Modeling: Accurate One-Way Solutions and Empirical Evaluation of the Nonlinear Forcing of Wavepackets

Towne, Aaron S. ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Polaron Hopping in Olivine Phosphates Studied by Nuclear Resonant Scattering

Tracy, Sally June ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Numerical Investigation of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines at Low Reynolds Number

Tsai, Hsieh-Chen ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Quantum Electromechanics with Two Tone Drive

Weinstein, Aaron Jacob ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Schwab, Keith C.

Dynamics of Chemically Active Suspensions

Yan, Wen ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Brady, John F.

Reverse Engineering and Quantifying Context Effects in Synthetic Gene Networks

Yeung, Enoch Ho-Yee ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

A Direct Approach to Robustness Optimization

You, Seungil ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock

Real-Time Load-Side Control of Electric Power Systems

Zhao, Changhong ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Low, Steven H.

Advanced Monte Carlo Simulation and Machine Learning for Frequency Domain Optical Coherence Tomography

Zhao, Sinan ・ PhD ・ 2016

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon

Effect of Microstructural Interfaces on the Mechanical Response of Crystalline Metallic Materials

Aitken, Zachary Howard ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Dendrites Inhibition in Rechargeable Lithium Metal Batteries

Aryanfar, Asghar ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Hoffmann, Michael R.

Macroscopically Dissipative Systems with Underlying Microscopic Dynamics : Properties and Limits of Measurement

Asimakopoulos, Aristotelis ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock

Ab-Initio and Experimental Techniques for Studying Non-Stoichiometry and Oxygen Transport in Mixed Conducting Oxides

Balaji Gopal, Chirranjeevi ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.; van de Walle, Axel

Stability of Hypervelocity Boundary Layers

Bitter, Neal Phillip ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance at the Superionic Phase Transitions of Mixed Ion-Electron Conducting Materials

Brown, David Ross ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Snyder, G. Jeffrey

Nanophotonic Light Trapping In Thin Solar Cells

Callahan, Dennis Michael ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Wafer-Scalable Fabrication of Metal Nanostructures for Plasmonics-Assisted Biomedical Sensing Applications

Chang, Chieh-Feng ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Simulation of Shock-Induced Bubble Collapse with Application to Vascular Injury in Shockwave Lithotripsy

Coralic, Vedran ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

General-Domain Compressible Navier-Stokes Solvers Exhibiting Quasi-Unconditional Stability and High Order Accuracy in Space and Time

Cubillos-Moraga, Max Anton ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Self-Healing Techniques for RF and mm-Wave Transmitters and Receivers

Dasgupta, Kaushik ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Instrumentation for Kinetic-Inductance-Detector-Based Submillimeter Radio Astronomy

Duan, Ran ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Golwala, Sunil

Rewriting Schemes for Flash Memory

En Gad, Eyal ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Bruck, Jehoshua

Quantum Interference and Entanglement of Surface Plasmons

Fakonas, James Spencer ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Experimental Investigation of Thrust Fault Rupture Mechanics

Gabuchian, Vahe ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Rosakis, Ares J.

Distributed Load Control in Multiphase Radial Networks

Gan, Lingwen ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Low, Steven H.

On the Role of Delays in Biological Systems : Analysis and Design

Gomez, Marcella Mary ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Optimal Data Distributions in Machine Learning

González Palacios, Carlos Roberto ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Abu-Mostafa, Yaser S.; Perona, Pietro

Wide Field-of-View Microscopes and Endoscopes for Time-Lapse Imaging and High-Throughput Screening

Han, Chao ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Real-World Social Cognition: Context Effects in Face and Threat Processing

Harrison, Laura Anne ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Adolphs, Ralph

Micromechanical Damage and Fracture in Elastomeric Polymers

Heyden, Stefanie ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

The Structure of Hippocampal Activity During REM Sleep

Hoenselaar, Andreas ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Siapas, Athanassios G.

Scalable Methods for Deterministic Integration of Quantum Emitters in Photonic Crystal Cavities

Homyk, Andrew P. ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Collective Behavior of Asperities as a Model for Friction and Adhesion

Hulikal Sampath Kumaran, Srivatsan ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Lapusta, Nadia; Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Design of Antenna-Coupled Lumped-Element Titanium Nitride KIDs for LongWavelength Multi-Band Continuum Imaging

Ji, Chenguang ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Golwala, Sunil

MEMS for Diabetic Retinopathy

Kang, Dongyang ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Modifying Bulk Metallic Glasses: Composites and Configurational States

Kozachkov, Henry ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis; Hofmann, Douglas C.

Acceleration Sensing, Feedback Cooling, and Nonlinear Dynamics with Nanoscale Cavity-Optomechanical Devices

Krause, Alexander Grey ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Discrete Modeling of Granular Media: A NURBS-based Approach

Lim, Keng-Wit ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Andrade, Jose E.

Experimental Study on Inertial Effects in Liquid-Solid Flows

Linares-Guerrero, Esperanza Crystal ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Hunt, Melany L.

Nonlinear Effects in Granular Crystals with Broken Periodicity

Lydon, Joseph John II ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Synthetic Biology Tools for Targeted Incorporation of Non-Canonical Amino Acids into Cellular Proteins

Mahdavi, Alborz ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Tirrell, David A.

Information-Theoretic Studies and Capacity Bounds: Group Network Codes and Energy Harvesting Communication Systems

Mao, Wei ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Full and Model-Reduced Structure-Preserving Simulation of Incompressible Fluids

Mason, Gemma Ellen ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Desbrun, Mathieu

The Phonon Thermodynamics of Iron and Cementite

Mauger, Lisa Mary ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Storm Track Response to Perturbations in Climate

Mbengue, Cheikh Oumar ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Schneider, Tapio

Neural and Computational Representations of Decision Variables

McNamee, Daniel Ciarán ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: O’Doherty, John P.

Cavity Optomechanics at Millikelvin Temperatures

Meenehan, Sean Michael ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Quantifying Earthquake Collapse Risk of Tall Steel Braced Frame Buildings Using Rupture-to-Rafters Simulations

Mourhatch, Ramses ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.; Krishnan, Swaminathan

Microelectrode Implants for Spinal Cord Stimulation in Rats

Nandra, Mandheerej Singh ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Light-Matter Interactions in Semiconductors and Metals: From Nitride Optoelectronics to Quantum Plasmonics

Narang, Prineha ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert; Lewis, Nathan Saul

Imperfection Insensitive Thin Shells

Ning, Xin ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Convex Relaxation for Low-Dimensional Representation: Phase Transitions and Limitations

Oymak, Samet ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Sensing and Actuation from Biology to Electronics

Pai, Alex Hao-Yu ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Injection Locked Clocking and Transmitter Equalization Techniques for Chip to Chip Interconnects

Raj, Mayank ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Emami, Azita

Shock Wave Behavior of Particulate Composites

Rauls, Michael Brian ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Neural Prosthetics and Parietal Cortex

Revechkis, Boris ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Andersen, Richard A.

Characterization and Modeling of Premixed Turbulent n-Heptane Flames in the Thin Reaction Zone Regime

Savard, Bruno ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Quantifying Earthquake Collapse Risk of Tall Steel Moment Frame Buildings Using Rupture-to-Rafters Simulations

Siriki, Hemanth ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Krishnan, Swaminathan; Heaton, Thomas H.

Programming Chemical Kinetics: Engineering Dynamic Reaction Networks with DNA Strand Displacement

Srinivas, Niranjan ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Winfree, Erik

Multilayer Active Shell Mirrors

Steeves, John Bradley ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Behavioral and fMRI Measures of Crossmodal Plasticity Induced by Auditory Sensory Substitution

Stiles, Noelle Rebecca Barry ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Shimojo, Shinsuke

The Neurocomputational Basis of Self-Control Success and Failure

Sullivan, Nicolette Jean ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Rangel, Antonio

Rate and Microstructure Effects on the Dynamics of Carbon Nanotube Foams

Thevamaran, Ramathasan ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Quantum Mechanics Studies of Fuel Cell Catalysts and Proton Conducting Ceramics with Validation by Experiment

Tsai, Ho-Cheng ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Goddard, William A., III

Surface Activity and Bulk Defect Chemistry of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathodes

Usiskin, Robert Ezra ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

Toppling Analysis of Precariously Balanced Rocks under Earthquake Excitation

Veeraraghavan, Swetha ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Krishnan, Swaminathan; Hall, John F.

Narrow-Linewidth Si/III-V Lasers: a Study of Laser Dynamics and Nonlinear Effects

Vilenchik, Yaakov ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon

A Variational Framework for Spectral Discretization of the Density Matrix in Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory

Wang, Xin C. ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik; Ortiz, Michael

Zn-VI/Cu2O Heterojunctions for Earth-Abundant Photovoltaics

Wilson, Samantha Stricklin ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Exploring the Kinetics of Domain Switching in Ferroelectrics for Structural Applications

Wojnar, Charles Stanley ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Kochmann, Dennis M.

An Exploration of Perovskite Materials for Thermochemical Water Splitting

Yang, Chih-Kai ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

Experimental, Numerical and Analytical Studies of the MHD-Driven Plasma Jet, Instabilities and Waves

Zhai, Xiang ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Bellan, Paul Murray

Investigation of Fundamental Processes Governing Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in Laboratory Chambers

Zhang, Xuan ・ PhD ・ 2015

Advisor: Seinfeld, John H.

Random Propagation in Complex Systems: Nonlinear Matrix Recursions and Epidemic Spread

Ahn, Hyoung Jun ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

A New High-Order Fourier Continuation-Based Elasticity Solver for Complex Three-Dimensional Geometries

Amlani, Faisal ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

A Retrofitting Framework for Pre-Northridge Steel Moment-Frame Buildings

Bjornsson, Arnar Bjorn ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Hall, John F.

An Integrated Design Approach to Power Systems: From Power Flows to Electricity Markets

Bose, Subhonmesh ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Low, Steven H.; Wierman, Adam C.; Chandy, K. Mani; Hassibi, Babak

Dynamically Controllable Integrated Radiation and Self-Correcting Power Generation in mm-Wave Circuits and Systems

Bowers, Steven Michael ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Towards Understanding the Mixing Characteristics of Turbulent Buoyant Flows

Carroll, Phares Lynn ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Wireless Parylene-Based Retinal Implant

Chang, Jan Han-Chieh ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

New Applications that Come from Extending Seismic Networks into Buildings

Cheng, Ming Hei ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.

Multiscale Model Reduction Methods for Deterministic and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

Ci, Maolin ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Hou, Thomas Y.

On the Behavior of Pliable Plate Dynamics in Wind: Application to Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Cossé, Julia Theresa ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

A Novel Methodology for Simulating Contact-Line Behavior in Capillary-Driven Flows

Della Rocca, Gerry V. ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Advanced Density Functional Theory Methods tor Materials Science

Demers, Steven Brian ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: van de Walle, Axel

Spinal Cord Injury Therapy through Active Learning

Desautels, Thomas Anthony ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Community Sense and Response Systems

Faulkner, Matthew Nicholas ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Krause, R. Andreas; Chandy, K. Mani; Heaton, Thomas H.

The Power of Quantum Fourier Sampling

Fefferman, William Jason ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Umans, Christopher M.; Kitaev, Alexei

Geometric Discretization through Primal-Dual Meshes

Ferrari de Goes, Fernando ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Desbrun, Mathieu

Analysis-Aware Design of Embedded Systems Software

Florian, Mihai ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Holzmann, Gerard J.

Optimal Scaling in Ductile Fracture

Fokoua Djodom, Landry ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Quantifying Synergistic Information

Griffith, Virgil ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Koch, Christof

Characterization of the Neural Mechanisms Supporting the Implementation of Cognitive Control in Human Decision Making

Hakimi, Shabnam ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: O’Doherty, John P.

Optimal Uncertainty Quantification via Convex Optimization and Relaxation

Han, Shuo ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Damage Detection in Civil Structures using High-Frequency Seismograms

Heckman, Vanessa Mary ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.

Microstructure Control and Iodine Doping of Bismuth Telluride

Heinz, Nicholas A. ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Snyder, G. Jeffrey; Haile, Sossina M.

Efficient Methods for Stochastic Optimal Control

Horowitz, Matanya Benasher ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Computational Modeling and Psvchophysics in Low- and Mid-Level Vision

Hou, Xiaodi ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Koch, Christof

Boundary-Layer Transition on a Slender Cone in Hypervelocity Flow with Real Gas Effects

Jewell, Joseph Stephen ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

Strength of Tantalum at High Pressures through Richtmyer-Meshkov Laser Compression Experiments and Simulations

John, Kristen Kathleen ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Sequence-Function Relationships in E. coli Transcriptional Regulation

Jones, Daniel Lawson III ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Phillips, Robert B.

Robust Near-Threshold QDI Circuit Analysis and Design

Keller, Sean Jason ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Martin, Alain J.

Electronic States in Disordered Topological Insulators

Kim, Kun Woo ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Refael, Gil

Studies of Phonon Anharmonicity in Solids

Lan, Tian ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

The Logic of Receptor-Ligand Interactions in the Notch Signaling Pathway

LeBon, Lauren E. ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Elowitz, Michael B.

Bright-Field and Fluorescence Chip-Scale Microscopy for Biological Imaging

Lee, Seung Ah ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

A Study on Iron-Based Amorphous Alloys: Alloy Development, Thermodynamics and Soft Magnetism

Liu, Xiao ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis

Sustainable IT and IT for Sustainability

Liu, Zhenhua ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Wierman, Adam C.; Low, Steven H.

Catechol 2,3-Dioxygenase-Assisted Cleavage of Aromatics by “Anaerobic” Termite Gut Spirochetes and Genomic Evidence of a Complete Meta-Pathway

Lucey, Kaitlyn Shae ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Leadbetter, Jared R.

A Multi-Scale Approach to Shaping Carbon Nanotube Structures for Hollow Microneedles

Lyon, Bradley Joseph ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Point of Care Molecular Diagnostics for Humanity

Malik, Imran Raouf ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

High Strain Composites and Dual-Matrix Composite Structures

Maqueda Jiménez, Ignacio ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

The Deep Ocean Density Structure at the Last Glacial Maximum: What Was It and Why?

Miller, Madeline Diane ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Adkins, Jess F.

Extracting Material Response from Simple Mechanical Tests on Hardening-Softening-Hardening Viscoplastic Solids

Mohan, Nisha ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Integrated Microsystems for Wireless Sensing Applications

Mujeeb-U-Rahman, Muhammad ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Cloud Computing Services for Seismic Networks

Olson, Michael James ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Chandy, K. Mani

Lightweight Deformable Mirrors for Future Space Telescopes

Patterson, Keith D. ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Advancing EDL Technologies for Future Space Missions: From Ground Testing Facilities to Ablative Heatshields

Rabinovitch, Jason ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Microfabricated Tools and Engineering Methods for Sensing Bioanalytes

Rajagopal, Aditya ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Efficient Methods for Empirical Tests of Behavioral Economics Theories in Laboratory and Field Experiments

Ray, Debajyoti ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.

Techniques for Strength Measurement at High Pressures and Strain-Rates using Transverse Waves

Richmond, Victoria Stolyar ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Developing and Characterizing Bulk Metallic Glasses for Extreme Applications

Roberts, Scott Nolan ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis; Hofmann, Douglas C.

Large-Eddy Simulations of Fully Developed Turbulent Channel and Pipe Flows with Smooth and Rough Walls

Saito, Namiko ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Pullin, Dale I.

Geometric Elasticity for Graphics, Simulation, and Computation

Sanan, Patrick David ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Schroeder, Peter

Development of Integrated Parylene Fluidic Devices for Use as a Microbial Monitoring System in Wastewater Treatment

Satsanarukkit, Penvipha ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Hoffmann, Michael R.

Formal Methods for Control Synthesis in Partially Observed Environments: Application to Autonomous Robotic Manipulation

Sharan, Rangoli ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Phase Transformations and Entropy of Non-Equilibrium Materials

Smith, Hillary Leigh ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

A New Ground Motion Intensity Measure, Peak Filtered Acceleration (PFA), to Estimate Collapse Vulnerability of Buildings in Earthquakes

Song, Shiyan ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.

A Fundamental Approach to Phase Noise Reduction in Hybrid Si/III-V Lasers

Steger, Scott Tiedeman ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon

Octopamine Neurons Mediate Flight-Induced Modulation of Visual Processing in Drosophila melanogaster

Suver, Marie Patricia ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Dickinson, Michael H.

Sparse Time-Frequency Data Analysis: A Multi-Scale Approach

Tavallali, Peyman ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Hou, Thomas Y.

Geometric Integration Applied to Moving Mesh Methods and Degenerate Lagrangians

Tyranowski, Tomasz Michal ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Marsden, Jerrold E.; Desbrun, Mathieu

Velocity Resolved - Scalar Modeled Simulations of High Schmidt Number Turbulent Transport

Verma, Siddhartha ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

High Temperature Transport Properties of Lead Chalcogenides and Their Alloys

Wang, Heng ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Snyder, G. Jeffrey

Social Saliency: Visual Psychophysics and Single-Neuron Recordings in Humans

Wang, Shuo ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Adolphs, Ralph

Design Strategies for Ultra-High Efficiency Photovoltaics

Warmann, Emily Cathryn ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Microfluidics-Based Single-Cell Functional Proteomics Microchip for Portraying Protein Signal Transduction Networks within the Framework of Physicochemical Principles, with Applications in Fundamental and Translational Cancer Research

Wei, Wei ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Heath, James R.

Control of Dynamical Systems with Temporal Logic Specifications

Wolff, Eric McKenzie ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Future of Earthquake Early Warning: Quantifying Uncertainty and Making Fast Automated Decisions for Applications

Wu, Stephen ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Beck, James L.

Progress in Numerical Modeling of Non-Premixed Combustion

Xuan, Yuan ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Blanquart, Guillaume

Chain-Forming Zintl Antimonidcs as Novel Thermoelectric Materials

Zevalkink, Alexandra ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Snyder, G. Jeffrey

Flexible Microimplants for In Vivo Sensing

Zhao, Yu ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Complex Behavior and Perception in Drosophila Emerges from Iterative Feedback-Regulated Reflexes

van Breugel, Floris ・ PhD ・ 2014

Advisor: Dickinson, Michael H.

New Technologies Driving Decade-Bandwidth Radio Astronomy: Quad-ridged Flared Horn and Compound-Semiconductor LNAs

Akgiray, Ahmed Halid ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Weinreb, Sander

Control of Wettability of Carbon Nanotube Array by Reversible Dry Oxidation for Superhydrophobic Coating and Supercapacitor Applications

Aria, Adrianus Indrat ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Tissue Engineering Active Biological Machines: Bio-Inspired Design, Directed Self-Assembly, and Characterization of Muscular Pumps Simulating the Embryonic Heart

Azizgolshani, Hesham ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Models of Turbulent Pipe Flow

Bourguignon, Jean-Loup ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Coupled Plasmonic Systems and Devices: Applications in Visible Metamaterials, Nanophotonic Circuits, and CMOS Imaging

Burgos, Stanley P. ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Bootstrapping Vehicles: A Formal Approach to Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning Based on Invariance

Censi, Andrea ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Limits and Tradeoffs in the Control of Autocatalytic Systems

Chandra, Fiona Adriani ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock

Ultralow-Loss Silica Resonators and Waveguides on a Silicon Chip

Chen, Tong ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Adaptive Methods Exploring Intrinsic Sparse Structures of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

Cheng, Mulin ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Hou, Thomas Y.

Conformal Geometry Processing

Crane, Keenan Michael ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Schroeder, Peter; Desbrun, Mathieu

Synthetic Molecular Machines for Active Self-Assembly: Prototype Algorithms, Designs, and Experimental Study

Dabby, Nadine L. ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Planar Reflection of Gaseous Detonation

Damazo, Jason Scott ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

Cu₂O Substrates and Epitaxial Cu₂O/ZnO Thin Film Heterostructures for Solar Energy Conversion

Darvish, Davis Solomon ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

GRAph Parallel Actor Language: A Programming Language for Parallel Graph Algorithms

DeLorimier, Michael John ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: DeHon, Andre; Desbrun, Mathieu

Advanced Silicon Solar Cell Device Physics and Design

Deceglie, Michael Gardner ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

On Delay and Security in Network Coding

Dikaliotis, Theodoros K. ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Ho, Tracey C.

Studying Conscious and Unconscious Vision with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging : the BOLD Promise

Dubois, Julien Christian Roger ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Koch, Christof; Adolphs, Ralph

GPU-Accelerated Fourier-Continuation Solvers and Physically Exact Computational Boundary Conditions for Wave Scattering Problems

Elling, Timothy James ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Flight Dynamics in Drosophila Through a Dynamically-scaled Robotic Approach

Elzinga, Michael John ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Dickinson, Michael H.

Study of the Origins of Toughness in Amorphous Metals

Garrett, Glenn Robert ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis

Thin Metastructures with Engineered Thermal Expansion

Gdoutos, Eleftherios E. ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Coupled Effects of Mechanics, Geometry, and Chemistry on Bio-Membrane Behavior

Giang, Ha Thanh ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Topics in Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra

Gittens, Alex A. ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Tropp, Joel A.

Characterizing Distribution Rules for Cost Sharing Games

Gopalakrishnan, Ragavendran ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Wierman, Adam C.

Learning and Using Taxonomies for Visual and Olfactory Classification

Griffin, Gregory Scott ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Estimation and Inference for Grasping and Manipulation Tasks Using Vision and Kinesthetic Sensors

Hebert, Paul ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Nonlinear Optics and Wavelength Translation Via Cavity-Optomechanics

Hill, Jeffrey Thomas ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Electrical and Optical Interconnects for High-Performance Computing

Honarvar Nazari, Meisam ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Emami, Azita

Brownian Thermal Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors and Single Photon Optomechanics

Hong, Ting ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Chen, Yanbei

Superprotonic Solid Acids: Thermochemistry, Structure, and Conductivity

Ikeda, Ayako ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

Structure of the Turbulent Boundary Layer under Static and Dynamic Impulsive Roughness Perturbation

Jacobi, Ian ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Plasmonics and Electron Optics in Graphene

Jang, Min Seok ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Modeling, Simulation, and Design of Self-Assembling Space Systems: Accurate Collision Detection, Robust Time Integration, and Optimal Control

Johnson, Gwendolyn Brook ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Parylene-C as a New Piezoelectric Material

Kim, Justin Young-Hyun ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Mechanics of Viscoelastic Thin-Walled Structures

Kwok, Kawai ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Light to Electrons to Bonds: Imaging Water Splitting and Collecting Photoexcited Electrons

Leenheer, Andrew Jay ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Controlling Wave Propagation through Nonlinear Engineered Granular Systems

Leonard, Andrea Beth ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

On Erasure Coding for Distributed Storage and Streaming Communications

Leong, Derek ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Ho, Tracey C.

Nonlinear Optics in Planar Silica-on-Silicon Disk Resonators

Li, Jiang ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Distributed Optimization in Power Networks and General Multi-agent Systems

Li, Na (Lina) ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock; Low, Steven H.

Algorithmic Challenges in Green Data Centers

Lin, Minghong ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Wierman, Adam C.

Sensor Networks for Geospatial Event Detection - Theory and Applications

Liu, Annie Hsin-Wen ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Chandy, K. Mani

Transceiver Designs and Analysis for LTI, LTV and Broadcast Channels - New Matrix Decompositions and Majorization Theory

Liu, Chih-Hao ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Vaidyanathan, P. P.

Dense, Efficient Chip-to-Chip Communication at the Extremes of Computing

Loh Rui Yan, Matthew ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Emami, Azita

Simulation of Richtmyer-Meshkov Flows for Elastic-Plastic Solids in Planar and Converging Geometries Using an Eulerian Framework

Lopez Ortega, Alejandro ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Pullin, Dale Ian; Meiron, Daniel I.

A Geometric Analysis of Convex Demixing

McCoy, Michael Brian ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Tropp, Joel A.

An Ultra-Low-Energy, Variation-Tolerant FPGA Architecture Using Component-Specific Mapping

Mehta, Nikil ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: DeHon, Andre

Investigation of Hypervelocity Impact Phenomena Using Real-time Concurrent Diagnostics

Mihaly, Jonathan Michael ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Rosakis, Ares J.

Proton Transfers at the Air-Water Interface

Mishra, Himanshu ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Goddard, William A., III; Hoffmann, Michael R.

Current Transport and Onset-Related Phenomena in an MPD Thruster Modified by Applied Magnetic Fields

Moeller, Robert Carlos ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.; Polk, James E.

Electronic Structure and Phonon Thermodynamics of Iron Alloys

Muñoz, Jorge Alberto ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Dynamics of Cell–Matrix Mechanical Interactions in Three Dimensions

Notbohm, Jacob K. ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

A Dynamical Systems Analysis of Vortex Pinch-Off

O’Farrell, Clara ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Dabiri, John O.

Electrical, Electrochemical, and Optical Characterization of Ceria Films

Oh, Tae-Sik ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

A Systems Approach to Cardiovascular Health and Disease with a Focus on Aortic Wave Dynamics

Pahlevan, Niema Mohammed ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

New Directions In Sparse Sampling and Estimation For Underdetermined Systems

Pal, Piya ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Vaidyanathan, P. P.

Fluorescence Optofluidic Microscopy and Fluorescence Microscopy Based on the Talbot Effect

Pang, Shuo ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Phase Behavior of Complex Superprotonic Solid Acids

Panithipongwut, Chatr ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

Slender-Body Hypervelocity Boundary-Layer Instability

Parziale, Nicholaus J. ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.; Hornung, Hans G.

Fracture of Materials Undergoing Solid-Solid Phase Transformation

Penmecha, Bharat Prasad ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Phase Stability and Defect Behavior in Complex Thermoelectric Zinc-Antimonides

Pomrehn, Gregory Schoelerman ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: van de Walle, Axel; Snyder, G. Jeffrey

Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography: Design and Application

Ren, Jian ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Interplay of Martensitic Phase Transformation and Plastic Slip in Polycrystals

Richards, Andrew Walter ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Technology Advances for Radio Astronomy

Russell, Damon Stuart ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Weinreb, Sander

Quantum Optomechanics with Silicon Nanostructures

Safavi-Naeini, Amir Hossein ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

High-Coherence Hybrid Si/III-V Semiconductor Lasers

Santis, Christos Theodoros ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon

Stochastic Simulation of the Kinetics of Multiple Interacting Nucleic Acid Strands

Schaeffer, Joseph Malcolm ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Winfree, Erik

On-Chip Integrated Label-Free Optical Biosensing

Sendowski, Jacob Benjamin ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon

Blood Cell Count On-a-Chip

Shi, Wendian (Leo) ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Non-Contiguous Protein Recombination

Smith, Matthew Alexander ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Arnold, Frances Hamilton

Mathematical Study of Complex Networks: Brain, Internet, and Power Grid

Sojoudi, Somayeh ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock

Source Imaging with Dense Sensor Networks: Inversions Based on Adjoint Methods

Somala, Surendra Nadh ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Ampuero, Jean-Paul; Lapusta, Nadia

Synthesis and Thermodynamic Studies of Physisorptive Energy Storage Materials

Stadie, Nicholas P. ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.; Ahn, Channing C.

Signal Transduction with Hybridization Chain Reactions

Sternberg, Jonathan Ben-Zion ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Pierce, Niles/ A

Convex Analysis for Minimizing and Learning Submodular Set Functions

Stobbe, Peter ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Krause, R. Andreas

Analysis and Optimization of Stress Wave Propagation in Two-Dimensional Granular Crystals with Defects

Szelengowicz, Ivan Michel Nicolas ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

On the Analysis and Design of the Locust Olfactory System

Tootoonian, Sina ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Laurent, Gilles J.

Robot Navigation in Dense Crowds: Statistical Models and Experimental Studies of Human Robot Cooperation

Trautman, Peter ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.; Krause, R. Andreas; Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Wire Array Photovoltaics

Turner-Evans, Daniel B. ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Advancing Electrocatalysis in Solid Acid Fuel Cells

Varga, Aron ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

The Optoelectronic Swept-Frequency Laser and Its Applications in Ranging, Three-Dimensional Imaging, and Coherent Beam Combining of Chirped-Seed Amplifiers

Vasilyev, Arseny ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon

Deep Tissue Fluorescence Imaging with Time-Reversed Light

Wang, Ying Min ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Coding for Information Storage

Wang, Zhiying ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Bruck, Jehoshua

Polarization-Based Navigation in Drosophila

Weir, Peter Thomas ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Dickinson, Michael H.

Dynamics and Scaling of Self-Excited Passive Vortex Generators for Underwater Propulsion

Whittlesey, Robert Wells ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Dabiri, John O.

Beyond Watson and Crick: Programming the Self-Assembly and Reconfiguration of DNA Nanostructures Based on Stacking Interactions

Woo, Sungwook ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Rothemund, Paul W. K.

Engineering Thermostable Fungal Cellobiohydrolases

Wu, Indira ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Arnold, Frances Hamilton

Design, Specification, and Synthesis of Aircraft Electric Power Systems Control Logic

Xu, Huan ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Innovations in Imaging System Design: Gigapixel, Chip-Scale and MultiFunctional Microscopy

Zheng, Guoan ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Randomness and Noise in Information Systems

Zhou, Hongchao ・ PhD ・ 2013

Advisor: Bruck, Jehoshua

Axel Rover Tethered Dynamics and Motion Planning on Extreme Planetary Terrain

Abad-Manterola, Pablo ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Atomistic Simulations of Material Properties under Extreme Conditions

An, Qi ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Goddard, William A., III

Network Coding and Distributed Compression over Large Networks: Some Basic Principles

Bakshi, Mayank ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Effros, Michelle

Network Structure Optimization with Applications to Minimizing Variance and Crosstalk

Barmpoutis, Dionysios ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Peer Effects in Social Networks: Search, Matching Markets, and Epidemics

Bodine-Baron, Elizabeth Anne ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak; Wierman, Adam C.

Thermal Ignition

Boettcher, Philipp Andreas ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

Integrated Circuit Signal Generation and Detection Techniques for Microwave and Sub-Millimeter Wave Signals

Bohn, Florian ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Plasma-Surface Interactions in Hollow Cathode Discharges for Electric Propulsion

Capece, Angela Maria ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.; Polk, James E.

Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Organic Aerosol Composition: Laboratory and Ambient

Chan, Man Nin ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Seinfeld, John H.

Applications of Coding in Network Communications

Chang, Christopher SungWook ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Ho, Tracey C.; Effros, Michelle

Virtual Earthquake Engineering Laboratory with Physics-Based Degrading Materials on Parallel Computers

Cho, In Ho ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Hall, John F.

Biomimetic Accommodating Intraocular Lens

DeBoer, Charles Meno Theodore ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Establishing a Genetic and Exogenous Toolbox for Studying Multiple Stages of Vertebrate Development in vivo

Dempsey, William P. ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Fraser, Scott E.

Clefted Equilibrium Shapes of Superpressure Balloon Structures

Deng, Xiaowei ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

The Role of Pesticide-Induced Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Inhibition in the Pathogenesis of Parkinson’s Disease

Fitzmaurice, Arthur Gerald, III ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Bronstein, Jeff M.

I. Quantal Effects in Biochemical Cooperativity and a Proposed Mechanism for the Differentiation of Calcium Signaling in Synaptic Plasticity. II. Evolutionary Algorithms for the Optimization of Methods in Computational Chemistry

Ford, William Chastang ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Hoffmann, Michael R.; Goddard, William A., III

Analysis, Design, and in vitro Implementation of Robust Biochemical Networks

Franco, Elisa ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.; Winfree, Erik

Neural Pattern Similarity and Visual Perception

Harel, Jonathan ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Koch, Christof; Adolphs, Ralph

Multiscale Modeling and Computation of 3D Incompressible Turbulent Flows

Hu, Xin ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Hou, Thomas Y.

Discrete Differential Form Subdivision and Vector Field Generation over Volumetric Domain

Huang, Jinghao ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Schroeder, Peter

Wavelength-Scale Confinement of Light and Its Applications in On-Chip Photonic Devices

Huang, Jingqing ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

High-Performance Silicon Nanowire Electronics

Huang, Ruo-Gu ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Heath, James R.

Large-Eddy Simulation of the Flat-Plate Turbulent Boundary Layer at High Reynolds Numbers

Inoue, Michio ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Pullin, Dale Ian

Geometric Descriptions of Couplings in Fluids and Circuits

Jacobs, Henry Ochi ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Desbrun, Mathieu

Deformation Mechanisms in Nanoscale Single Crystalline Electroplated Copper Pillars

Jennings, Andrew Tynes ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Greer, Julia R.

Combinatorial Regression and Improved Basis Pursuit for Sparse Estimation

Khajehnejad, M. Amin ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Non-Destructive Evaluation of Material System Using Highly Nonlinear Acoustic Waves

Khatri, Devvrath ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Thin-Film Silicon Photovoltaics: Characterization of Thin-Film Deposition and Analysis of Enhanced Light Trapping from Scattering Nanoparticle Arrays

Langeland, Krista S. ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Turbulent Boundary Layer and An Investigation of the Effects of Periodic Disturbances

LeHew, Jeffrey Allen ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

The Implementation of Optofluidic Microscopy on a Chip Scale and Its Potential Applications in Biology

Lee, Lap Man ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Genetic Regulatory Circuit Dynamics: Analysis and Synthesis

Levine, Joseph H. ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Elowitz, Michael B.

Phonon Anharmonicity of Ionic Compounds and Metals

Li, Chen W. ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Neural and Behavioral Investigations of Social Reward Processing

Lin, Alice ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Rangel, Antonio; Adolphs, Ralph

MEMS for Glaucoma

Lin, Jeffrey Chun-Hui ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

High-Order Integral Equation Methods for Diffraction Problems Involving Screens and Apertures

Lintner, Stéphane Karl ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Theory and Experiment of Slow-Light Coupled-Resonator Structures

Liu, Hsi-Chun ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon

Parylene as a New Membrane Material for Biomems Applications

Lu, Bo ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Identifying the Unique Ground Motion Signatures of Supershear Earthquakes: Theory and Experiments

Mello, Michael ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Rosakis, Ares J.

Design of Molecules and Materials for Applications in Clean Energy, Catalysis and Molecular Machines Through Quantum Mechanics, Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations

Mendoza-Cortes, Jose Luis ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Goddard, William A., III

Combining Rational and Evolutionary Approaches to Optimize Enzyme Activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Michener, Joshua Kieran ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Smolke, Christina D.

Electron Transport in Silicon Nanocrystal Devices: From Memory Applications to Silicon Photonics

Miller, Gerald Matthew ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Dynamics of Magnetically Driven Plasma Jets: An Instability of an Instability, Gas Cloud Impacts, Shocks, and Other Deformations

Moser, Auna Louise ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Bellan, Paul Murray

Eulerian Geometric Discretizations of Manifolds and Dynamics

Mullen, Patrick Gary ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Desbrun, Mathieu

Scheduling for Heavy-Tailed and Light-Tailed Workloads in Queueing Systems

Nair, Jayakrishnan U. ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Low, Steven H.; Wierman, Adam C.

Understanding and Applying Extracellular Recordings in Awake, Behaving Animals

Nelson, Matthew John ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Shimojo, Shinsuke

Superconducting Microwave Resonator Arrays for Submillimeter/Far-infrared Imaging

Noroozian, Omid ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Zmuidzinas, Jonas

Hierarchical Structures of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes as Low-Density Energy-Dissipative Materials

Raney, Jordan Robert ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Intrinsic Gradient Networks

Rolfe, Jason Tyler ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Cook, Matthew M.; Perona, Pietro

Silicon-Based Terahertz Circuits and Systems

Sengupta, Kaushik ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Graphene as a Platform for Novel Nanoelectronic Devices

Standley, Brian Lawrence ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Bockrath, Marc William

Fields, Forces, and Flows: What Laboratory Experiments Reveal About the Dynamics of Arched Plasma Structures

Stenson, Eve Virginia ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Bellan, Paul Murray

Interaction of Planning Regions in Cortex

Stetson, Robert Chess Abernathy ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Andersen, Richard A.

Distributed Control and Computing: Optimal Estimation, Error Correcting Codes, and Interactive Protocols

Sukhavasi, Ravi Teja ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

A Study of the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of LiₓFePO₄ as a Cathode Material for Li Batteries

Tan, Hongjin ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Particle-Based Modeling of Ni-YSZ Anodes

Thomas, Vaughan Lamar ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.; Goodwin, David G.

Atomistic Simulations of Materials: Methods for Accurate Potentials and Realistic Time-Scales

Tiwary, Pratyush ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: van de Walle, Axel

Hybrid Human-Machine Vision Systems: Image Annotation using Crowds, Experts and Machines

Welinder, Nils Peter Egon ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Compressed Sensing Receivers: Theory, Design, and Performance Limits

Yoo, Juhwan ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Emami, Azita

Degradations and Improvements in PEM Fuel Cell Materials: A Computational Study

Yu, Ted H. ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Goddard, William A., III

Simulations of Compressible, Diffusive, Reactive Flows with Detailed Chemistry Using a High-Order Hybrid WENO-CD Scheme

Ziegler, John Lewis (Jack) ・ PhD ・ 2012

Advisor: Pullin, Dale Ian; Shepherd, Joseph E.

Searching Large-Scale Image Collections

Aly, Mohamed Alaa El-Dien Mahmoud Hussein ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Unsupervised Learning of Categorical Segments in Image Collections

Andreetto, Marco ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Practical Compressed Sensing: Modern Data Acquisition and Signal Processing

Becker, Stephen R. ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Candes, Emmanuel J.

Simulation Capabilities for Challenging Medical Imaging and Treatment Planning Problems

Beni, Catherine Elizabeth ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Granular Crystals: Controlling Mechanical Energy with Nonlinearity and Discreteness

Boechler, Nicholas Sebastian ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Daraio, Chiara

Hybrid Silicon Nanophotonic Devices: Enhancing Light Emission, Modulation, and Confinement

Briggs, Ryan Morrow ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Electrochemically Deposited Ceria Structures for Advanced Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Brown, Evan Cornell ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

High Pressure Hugoniot Measurements in Solids Using Mach Reflections

Brown, Justin Lee ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Limits on Computationally Efficient VCG-Based Mechanisms for Combinatorial Auctions and Public Projects

Buchfuhrer, David Isaac ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Umans, Christopher M.

Surface Optofluidic Implementations towards the Development of a Biosensor

Choi, Jae-Woo ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Psaltis, Demetri

Electrochemical and Thermochemical Behavior of CeO₂-δ

Chueh, William C. ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

Pulselike Ruptures on Strong Velocity-Weakening Frictional Interfaces: Dynamics and Implications

Elbanna, Ahmed Ettaf ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.

Processes Controlling the Fate and Transport of Trace Metals in the Subsurface During Changing Redox Potential

Farnsworth, Claire Elizabeth ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Hering, Janet G.

Steady as She Goes: Visual Autocorrelators and Antenna-Mediated Airspeed Feedback in the Control of Flight Dynamics in Fruit Flies and Robotics

Fuller, Sawyer Buckminster ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.; Dickinson, Michael H.

MEMS Electrolytic Inchworms for Movable Neural Probe Applications

Giacchino, Luca ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Towards Open Ended Learning: Budgets, Model Selection, and Representation

Gomes, Ryan Geoffrey ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Energy and Force Stepping Integrators in Lagrangian Mechanics

Gonzalez, Marcial ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

DNA Directed Self-Assembly of Carbon Nanotube Structures

Han, Si-ping ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Goddard, William A., III

Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of DNA Nanotubes

Hariadi, Rizal Fajar ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Winfree, Erik

Studies of Aerosol Composition and Hygroscopicity

Hersey, Scott Patrick ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Seinfeld, John H.; Flagan, Richard C.

Imaging with Second-Harmonic Generation Nanoparticles

Hsieh, Chia-Lung ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Psaltis, Demetri

Flexible Neural Implants

Huang, Ray Kui-Jui ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Multiscale Modeling of Microcrystalline Materials

Hurtado Sepulveda, Daniel Esteban ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

SPICE²: A Spatial, Parallel Architecture for Accelerating the Spice Circuit Simulator

Kapre, Nachiket Ganesh ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: DeHon, Andre

Techniques for Mixed-Signal Linearization and Large Signal Handling in Radio-Frequency Receiver Circuits

Keehr, Edward Arthur ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Constraints on the Global Carbon Budget from Variations in Total Column Carbon Dioxide

Keppel-Aleks, Gretchen ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Wennberg, Paul O.

Mechanics of Peeling: Cohesive Zone Law and Stability

Kovalchick, Christopher ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Investigating Sources and Sinks of Organic Aerosols: NO₃-initiated Oxidation of Isoprene and Heterogeneous Oxidation of Organic Aerosol

Kwan, Alan Jake-Man ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Wennberg, Paul O.

Hierarchies, Spikes, and Hybrid Systems: Physiologically Inspired Control Problems

Lamperski, Andrew G. ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock

Large-Scale Complex Systems: From Antenna Circuits to Power Grids

Lavaei, Javad ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock; Murray, Richard M.

Mechanics of Thin Carbon Fiber Composites with a Silicone Matrix

Lopez Jimenez, Francisco ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

A Novel Experimental Study of a Valveless Impedance Pump for Applications at Lab-On-Chip, Microfluidic, and Biomedical Device Size Scales

Meier, John Allen ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Discrete Mechanics and Optimal Control for Space Trajectory Design

Moore, Ashley ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Marsden, Jerrold E.; Murray, Richard M.

Interpretation and Scaling of Positional Information During Development

Nahmad Bensusan, Marcos ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Stathopoulos, Angelike; Doyle, John Comstock

Insights into the Isoprene Photochemical Cascade

Paulot, Fabien Georges André ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Wennberg, Paul O.

Modeling the Behavior of Fiber Reinforced Sandwich Structures Subjected to Underwater Explosions

Perotti, Luigi Emanuele ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Systematic Design and Formal Verification of Multi-Agent Systems

Pilotto, Concetta ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Chandy, K. Mani

Compressed Sensing, Sparse Approximation, and Low-Rank Matrix Estimation

Plan, Yaniv ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Candes, Emmanuel J.

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Damage by Void Nucleation and Growth

Reina Romo, Celia ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Optoelectronic Control of the Phase and Frequency of Semiconductor Lasers

Satyan, Naresh ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon

Regulatory Consequences of Bandpass Feedback in a Bacterial Phosphorelay

Sen, Shaunak ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Elowitz, Michael B.

Entropy Region and Network Information Theory

Shadbakht, Sormeh ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Micro- and Nanotechnology-Based Platforms to Study Biology at Small Scale: From DNAs to Single Cells

Shin, Young Shik ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Heath, James R.

Damage Evolution in Composite Materials and Sandwich Structures Under Impulse Loading

Silva, Michael Lee ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Modeling and Predicting Object Attention in Natural Scenes

Spain, Merrielle Therese ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Repeatability of Joint-Dominated Deployable Masts

Stohlman, Olive Remington ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Pellegrino, Sergio

Coarse-Graining Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory

Suryanarayana, Phanish ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik; Ortiz, Michael

Multiscale Geometric Integration of Deterministic and Stochastic Systems

Tao, Molei ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Owhadi, Houman; Marsden, Jerrold E.

The Development of Low-Order Models for the Study of Fluid-Structure Interactions

Tchieu, Andrew Allen ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Leonard, Anthony

Random Matrix Recursions in Estimation, Control, and Adaptive Filtering

Vakili, Ali ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Case Studies in Quantitative Biology: Biochemistry on a Leash and a Single-Molecule Hershey-Chase Experiment

Van Valen, David Ashley ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Phillips, Robert B.

Topics in Multiscale Modeling of Metals and Metallic Alloys

Venturini, Gabriela Natalia ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Technologies for Protein Analysis and Tissue Engineering, with Applications in Cancer

Vermesh, Udi Benjamin ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Heath, James R.

Network Coding for Error Correction

Vyetrenko, Svitlana S. ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Ho, Tracey C.

Optical, Mechanical, and Electronic Properties of Etched Silicon Nanopillars

Walavalkar, Sameer Sudhir ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

The Simulation of Shock- and Impact-Driven Flows with Mie-Grüneisen Equations of State

Ward, Geoffrey M. ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Pullin, Dale Ian

The Roles of Majorization and Generalized Triangular Decomposition in Communication and Signal Processing

Weng, Ching-Chih ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Vaidyanathan, P. P.

Applying Formal Methods to Distributed Algorithms Using Local-Global Relations

White, Jerome S. ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Chandy, K. Mani

Quantum Mechanical Simulation and X-Ray Scattering Applied to Pressure-Induced Invar Anomaly in Magnetic Iron Alloy

Winterrose, Michael Lon ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Lagrangian and Vortex-Surface Fields in Turbulence

Yang, Yue ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Pullin, Dale Ian

Individual Particle Motion in Colloids: Microviscosity, Microdiffusivity, and Normal Stresses

Zia, Roseanna Nellie ・ PhD ・ 2011

Advisor: Brady, John F.

Effects of Polydispersity in Bubbly Flows

Ando, Keita ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Colonius, Tim; Brennen, Christopher E.

Spark Ignition: Experimental and Numerical Investigation With Application to Aviation Safety

Bane, Sally Page Moffett ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

Control Theoretic Analysis of Autocatalytic Networks in Biology with Applications to Glycolysis

Buzi, Gentian ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock

Chemical Fractionation at Environmental Interfaces

Cheng, Jie ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Hoffmann, Michael R.

Programmable In Situ Amplification for Multiplexed Bioimaging

Choi, Harry Ming Tak ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Pierce, Niles A.

Development of Visible-Light-Active Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Production and Environmental Application

Choi, Jina ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Hoffmann, Michael R.

Multiscale Methods for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Related Applications

Chu, Chia-Chieh ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Hou, Thomas Y.

Coding for Wireless Broadcast and Network Secrecy

Cui, Tao ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Ho, Tracey C.

Optofluidic Microscopy and Wavefront Microscopy: Innovations in Biological Imaging

Cui, Xiquan ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Active Metal-Insulator-Metal Plasmonic Devices

Diest, Kenneth Alexander ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Robot Motion Planning in Dynamic, Cluttered, and Uncertain Environments: the Partially Closed-Loop Receding Horizon Control Approach

Du Toit, Noel Eduard ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Transport and Separatrices in Time-Dependent Flows

Du Toit, Philip Christopher ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Marsden, Jerrold E.

Wound Healing on Artificial Extracellular Matrix Proteins

Fong, Eileen ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Tirrell, David A.

A Robust Control Approach to Understanding Nonlinear Mechanisms in Shear Flow Turbulence

Gayme, Dennice F. Maynard ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock

Interactions Between Hippocampal Areas CA3 and CA1 During Slow-Wave Sleep

Gu, Ming ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Siapas, Athanassios G.

Instability Wave Models of Turbulent Jets from Round and Serrated Nozzles

Guðmundsson, Kristján ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell Electrode Microstructures: Making Sense of the Internal Framework Affecting Gas Transport

Hanna, Jeffrey ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

ICP Etching of Silicon for Micro and Nanoscale Devices

Henry, Michael David ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Optics at the Nanoscale: Light Emission in Plasmonic Nanocavities

Hofmann, Carrie Elizabeth ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Optimized Feedback Control of Vortex Shedding on an Inclined Flat Plate

Joe, Won Tae ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Instrumentation for Wide Bandwidth Radio Astronomy

Jones, Glenn Evans ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Weinreb, Sander

Detonation Induced Strain in Tubes

Karnesky, James Alan ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

Silicon Microwire Photovoltaics

Kelzenberg, Michael David ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Photon Confinement in Photonic Crystal Cavities

Khankhoje, Uday Kiran ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Geometric Interpretation of Physical Systems for Improved Elasticity Simulations

Kharevych, Liliya ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Schroeder, Peter; Desbrun, Mathieu

Characteristics of Three-dimensional Vortex Formation and Propulsive Performance in Flapping Locomotion

Kim, Daegyoum ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

State Diagram for Contact-Inhibition of Proliferation: A Quantitative Framework for Modulating Growth Patterns in Epithelial Cell Clusters

Kim, Jin-Hong ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Asthagiri, Anand R.

Network Coding for Resource Optimization and Error Correction

Kim, Sukwon ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Effros, Michelle; Ho, Tracey C.

On Matrix Factorization and Scheduling for Finite-Time Average-Consensus

Ko, Chih-Kai ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Schulman, Leonard J.

Numerical Simulation of Wave Focusing and Scattering in Shock Wave Lithotripsy

Krimmel, Jeffrey James ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Dynamic Optical Investigations of Hypervelocity Impact Damage

Lamberson, Leslie Elise ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Rosakis, Ares J.

Chemical Synthesis in Elastomer-Based Integrated Microfluidics

Lee, Cheng-Chung ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Quake, Stephen R.

An Experimental and Numerical Study of Normal Particle Collisions in a Viscous Liquid

Li, Xiaobai ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Hunt, Melany L.

Integrated Microfluidic Devices for Cell Culture and Assay

Liu, Mike Chia-Chung ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Real-Time Applications of 3D Object Detection and Tracking

Ma, Jeremy Chee-Ming ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Low Optical Signal Detection in Biological Materials: SNR Considerations and Novel Techniques

McDowell, Emily Jayne ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Transfer at C. elegans Synapses

Narayan, Anusha ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Sternberg, Paul W.; Laurent, Gilles J.

Connectivity of the Brain from Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Neumann, Dirk ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Adolphs, Ralph

Effect of Surface Morphological Changes on Flow Over a Sphere

Norman, Adam Keith ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: McKeon, Beverley J.

Variational Methods for Control and Design of Bipedal Robot Models

Pekarek, David N. ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Marsden, Jerrold E.

A Lagrangian Approach to Transport of Momentum and Biomass in Aquatic Biological Systems

Peng, Jifeng ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Dabiri, John O.

Dynamics of Multicellular Aggregation and Disaggregation: Implications for Tissue Engineering and Cancer Metastasis

Pope, Melissa Davis ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Asthagiri, Anand R.

Hydrogen Adsorption by Alkali Metal Graphite Intercalation Compounds

Purewal, Justin ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.; Ahn, Channing C.

A Parylene Real Time PCR Microdevice

Quach, Quoc Chan (Brandon) ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Applications of Micro/Nanoscale Optical Resonators: Plasmonic Photodetectors and Double-Disk Cavity Optomechanics

Rosenberg, Jessie C. ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Shape Changing Transformations: Interactions with Plasticity and Electrochemical Processes

Roumi, Farshid ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Neuro-Evolution Using Recombinational Algorithms and Embryogenesis for Robotic Control

Roy, Anthony Mathew ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Antonsson, Erik K.; Shapiro, Andrew A.; Burdick, Joel Wakeman

The Role of Unsteady Hydrodynamics in the Propulsive Performance of a Self-Propelled Bioinspired Vehicle

Ruiz, Lydia Ann ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Dabiri, John O.

Electrochemical Characterization of Solid Acid Fuel Cell Electrodes

Sasaki, Kenji Alexander ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

Mechanical Performance of Amorphous Metallic Cellular Structures

Schramm, Joseph Paul ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis

Silicon Integrated Optics: Fabrication and Characterization

Shearn, Michael Joseph, II ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Neural Encoding of Mixtures and Stimulus Generation in the Insect Brain

Shen, Kai ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Laurent, Gilles J.

The Physics of High-Velocity Ions in the Hall Thruster Near-Field

Sullivan, Regina Mariko ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.; Johnson, Lee K.

Supermode Si/III-V Lasers and Circular Bragg Lasers

Sun, Xiankai ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon

Booming Sand Dunes

Vriend, Nathalie Maria ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Hunt, Melany L.; Clayton, Robert W.

Fabrication of Microfluidic Structures by Automated Laser Ablation and Automation of Optical Testing

Walker, Christopher ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Thermoplastic Forming and Related Studies of the Supercooled Liquid Region of Metallic Glasses

Wiest, Aaron ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis

Formal Methods for Design and Verification of Embedded Control Systems: Application to an Autonomous Vehicle

Wongpiromsarn, Tichakorn ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Biomechanical Information Transfer: Maximum Caliber, λ Genome Ejection Dynamics, and the Formation of Otoliths in Zebrafish

Wu, David Dah-wei ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Fraser, Scott E.; Phillips, Robert B.

Multiple Forms of Valuation in the Human Brain

Wunderlich, Klaus ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: O’Doherty, John P.

Compressive Sensing for Sparse Approximations: Constructions, Algorithms, and Analysis

Xu, Weiyu ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Fast Viability Assessment of Clostridium Spores: Survival in Extreme Environments

Yang, Wanwan ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Ponce, Adrian

Effect of In Situ Animal-Fluid Interactions on Transport and Mixing

Young, Kakani Katija ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Dabiri, John O.

Algorithms for Nucleic Acid Sequence Design

Zadeh, Joseph N. ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Pierce, Niles A.

Dynamic DNA Strand Displacement Circuits

Zhang, David Yu ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Winfree, Erik

I. Formate Dehydrogenase Gene Diversity in Lignocellulose-Feeding Insect Gut Microbial Communities. II. Metabolic Impacts on the Hydrogen Isotope Content of Bacterial Lipids

Zhang, Xinning ・ PhD ・ 2010

Advisor: Leadbetter, Jared R.

Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Optofluidic Applications

Adleman, James Richard ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Psaltis, Demetri

Retrieval of Soil Moisture under Vegetation Using Polarimetric Radar

Arii, Motofumi ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Rutledge, David B.; van Zyl, Jakob J.; Kim, Yunjin

Single Cell Pico Force Microscopy: A Novel Tool for High Resolution Measurement of Cell Forces

Axelrod, Blake Waters ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Roukes, Michael Lee

Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors for Extremely Low-Noise Applications

Bardin, Joseph Cheney ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Weinreb, Sander

Egocentric Distance Encoding in the Posterior Parietal Cortex

Bhattacharyya, Rajan ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Andersen, Richard A.

Safety Verification and Failure Analysis of Goal-Based Hybrid Control Systems

Braman, Julia Marie Badger ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Influence of Associative Learning on Valuation and Decision-Making in Humans

Bray, Signe Lauren ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: O’Doherty, John P.

Engineering Synthetic Biofilm-Forming Microbial Consortia

Brenner, Sarah Katherine ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Arnold, Frances Hamilton

Credit Risk and Nonlinear Filtering: Computational Aspects and Empirical Evidence

Capponi, Agostino ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Cvitanić, Jakša

Neural Control and Biomechanics of Flight Initiation in Drosophila melanogaster

Card, Gwyneth Megan ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Dickinson, Michael H.

Competition and Attention in the Human Brain Eye-Tracking and Single-Neuron Recordings in Healthy Controls and Individuals with Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Cerf, Moran ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Koch, Christof

Implantable Wireless Intraocular Pressure Sensors

Chen, Po-Jui ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Signal Processing Algorithms for MIMO Radar

Chen, Scott Chun-Yang ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Vaidyanathan, P. P.

I. Global Simulations of Interactions between Aerosols and Future Climate and II. Sensitivity of Multiangle Imaging to the Optical and Microphysical Properties of Biomass Burning Aerosols

Chen, Wei-Ting ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Seinfeld, John H.

Integration of Dye Lasers and Microfluidics for Biochemical Analysis

Chen, Yan ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Stochastic Analysis, Model and Reliability Updating of Complex Systems with Applications to Structural Dynamics

Cheung, Sai Hung ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Beck, James L.

Thermal Properties and Nanoelectromechanical System Based on Carbon Nanotubes

Chiu, Hsin-Ying ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Bockrath, Marc William

Numerical Simulation and Subgrid-Scale Modeling of Mixing and Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows

Chung, Daniel ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Pullin, Dale Ian

Continuum Modeling of Mixed Conductors: A Study of Ceria

Ciucci, Francesco ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Goodwin, David G.; Culick, Fred E. C.

One-Dimensional Physics of Interacting Electrons and Phonons in Carbon Nanotubes

Deshpande, Vikram Vijay ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Bockrath, Marc William

Active Oxide Nanophotonics

Dicken, Matthew James ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Flatland Photonics: Circumventing Diffraction with Planar Plasmonic Architectures

Dionne, Jennifer Anne ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Large-Eddy Simulation of Flow Separation and Control on a Wall-Mounted Hump

Franck, Jennifer Ann ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Tracker Effector-Specific and Motor Planning Signals in Human Frontal and Parietal Cortices: Relevance for Goal-Directed Action and Neural Prosthetics

Glidden, Hilary K. ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Andersen, Richard A.

On Achievable Rate Regions for Source Coding Over Networks

Gu, WeiHsin ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Effros, Michelle

The Optimal Transportation Meshfree Method for General Fluid Flows and Strongly Coupled Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems

Habbal, Feras ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Modeling Metallic Single Crystal Plastic Hardening Through the Evolution of Dislocation Subgrain Structures

Hansen, Benjamin Lee ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Designing Bulk Metallic Glass Matrix Composites with High Toughness and Tensile Ductility

Hofmann, Douglas Clayton ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis

Inference in Hybrid Systems with Applications in Neural Prosthetics

Hudson, Nicolas Henry ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Silicon Microdisk Resonators for Nonlinear Optics and Dynamics

Johnson, Thomas James ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Limited Randomness in Games, and Computational Perspectives in Revealed Preference

Kalyanaraman, Shankar ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Umans, Christopher M.

Radial pn Junction, Wire Array Solar Cells

Kayes, Brendan Melville ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert; Lewis, Nathan Saul

A Constitutive Relation for Shape-Memory Alloys

Kelly, Alex ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik; Murray, Richard M.

Materials Chemistry of Superprotonic Solid Acids

Kislitsyn, Mikhail N. ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

Stochastic and Collective Properties of Nonlinear Oscillators

Kogan, Oleg Boris ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Cross, Michael Clifford

Rheological Measurements in Liquid-Solid Flows

Koos, Erin Crystal ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Hunt, Melany L.

Stable High-Order Finite-Difference Interface Schemes with Application to the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability

Kramer, Richard Michael Jack ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Pullin, Dale Ian

Phase-Shifting Full-Field Interferometric Methods for In-Plane Tensorial Stress Determination for Fracture Studies

Kramer, Sharlotte Lorraine Bolyard ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami; Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Temperature Dependence of Phonons in Elemental Cubic Metals Studied by Inelastic Scattering of Neutrons and X-Rays

Kresch, Max G. ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

Experimental Investigations of Magnetohydrodynamic Plasma Jets

Kumar, Deepak ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Bellan, Paul Murray

DNA Encoded Biotechnologies for Informative Cancer Diagnostics

Kwong, Gabriel Abner ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Heath, James R.

Computational Challenges in High-Resolution Cryo-Electron Microscopy

Leong, Peter Anthony ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Jensen, Grant J.

The Optimal Transportation Method in Solid Mechanics

Li, Bo ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Study of Liquid Metals by Electrostatic Levitation

Li, John Jian-Zhong ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis; Rhim, Won-Kyu

Integrated Retinal Implants

Li, Wen ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

High-Order Solution of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations in Domains Containing Conical Singularities

Li, Zhiyi ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Three-Dimensional Elastodynamic Modeling of Frictional Sliding with Application to Intersonic Transition

Liu, Yi ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Lapusta, Nadia

Thin Film Silicon for Implantable Electronics

Lo, Hsi-Wen ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Combined Experimental and Numerical Study of Spontaneous Dynamic Rupture on Frictional Interfaces

Lu, Xiao ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Lapusta, Nadia; Rosakis, Ares J.

Uncertainty Quantification Using Concentration-of-Measure Inequalities

Lucas, Leonard Joseph ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Cluster Expansion Applied to Inelastic Scattering Experiments

Lucas, Matthew Steven ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.

High-Order Unconditionally-Stable FC-AD PDE Solvers for General Domains

Lyon, Mark Edward ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Ab Initio Quantum Mechanical Studies in Electronic and Structural Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and Silicon Nanowires

Matsuda, Yuki ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Goddard, William A., III

Optical Material Characterization Using Microdisk Cavities

Michael, Christopher Paul ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

Dynamic Simulation and Control of Articulated Limbs

Mitchell, Marcus Quintana ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Hopfield, John J.

Photonic Whispering-Gallery Resonators in New Environments

Ostby, Eric Paul ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Vahala, Kerry J.

Algorithms for Mapping Nucleic Acid Free Energy Landscapes

Othmer, Jonathan Andrew ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Pierce, Niles A.

Investigation and Application of Microscale Semiconductor Lasers and Cavities

Perahia, Raviv ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

A Critical Appraisal of Nanoindentation with Application to Elastic-Plastic Solids and Soft Materials

Poon, Poh Chieh Benny ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

A Computational Model for Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking

Rimoli, Julian Jose ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Resource Optimization for Networked Estimator with Guaranteed Estimation Quality

Shi, Ling ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Geometric Discretization of Lagrangian Mechanics and Field Theories

Stern, Ari Joshua ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Marsden, Jerrold E.; Desbrun, Mathieu

Fracture Toughness Study on Bulk Metallic Glasses and Novel Joining Method Using Bulk Metallic Glass Solder

Suh, Jin-Yoo ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis

Hysteretic Characteristics of Wood-Frame Structures Under Seismic Motions

Sutoyo, Daniel ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Hall, John F.

Stretching the Definition of a Lipid Bilayer: Elasticity’s Role in Protein and Lipid Organization

Ursell, Tristan Scott ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Phillips, Robert B.

Compact Nonlinear Optical Devices in Silicon-Polymer Hybrid Material System

Wang, Guangxi ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Precision Frequency and Phase Synthesis Techniques in Integrated Circuits for Biosensing, Communication and Radar

Wang, Hua ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Circuits and Systems for Wireless Concurrent Communication

Wang, Yu-Jiu ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Prefrontal-Hippocampal Interactions

Wierzynski, Casimir M. ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Siapas, Athanassios G.

Biogeochemical Implications of Changing Groundwater and Surface Water Hydrology at Lake Powell, Utah and Arizona, and the Merced River, California, USA

Wildman, Richard Alan ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Hering, Janet G.

Coherence Domain Optical Imaging Techniques

Wu, Jigang ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Nonlinear Responses of High-Rise Buildings in Giant Subduction Earthquakes

Yang, Jing ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.

Computational Evolutionary Embryogeny

Yogev, Or ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Antonsson, Erik K.; Shapiro, Andrew A.

Wrinkling of Dielectric Elastomer Membranes

Zheng, Ling ・ PhD ・ 2009

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami; Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Visual Prediction of Rover Slip: Learning Algorithms and Field Experiments

Angelova, Anelia Nedelcheva ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Matthies, Larry H.; Perona, Pietro

Theoretical Studies of Single Molecule Biophysical Systems and Photochemical Ensembles

Ayalasomayajula, Meher Kiran Prakash ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Marcus, Rudolph A.

Direct Antenna Modulation (DAM) for On-Chip mm-Wave Transceivers

Babakhani, Aydin ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali; Rutledge, David B.

On the Non-Local Geometry of Turbulence

Bermejo-Moreno, Ivan ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Pullin, Dale Ian

Encoding of Financial Signals in the Human Brain

Bruguier, Antoine Jean ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Bossaerts, Peter L.; Quartz, Steven R.

Robust Model Predictive Control with a Reactive Safety Mode

Carson, John Maurice, III ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.; MacMynowski, Douglas G.; Acikmese, Behcet

Coding Techniques for Data-Storage Systems

Cassuto, Yuval ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Bruck, Jehoshua

Laser Tweezers for Moving Live Dissociated Neurons

Chow, Gang ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Pine, Jerome

Discrete Geometric Homogenisation and Inverse Homogenisation of an Elliptic Operator

Donaldson, Roger David ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Owhadi, Houman; Desbrun, Mathieu

Simulations, Modeling, and Designs of Bulk Metallic Glasses

Duan, Gang ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis

Dynamics and Correlated Noise in Gene Regulation

Dunlop, Mary Julia ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Constitutive models for polymers and soft biological tissues

El Sayed, Tamer ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael

Fabrication of Nanowire-based Magnetic Structures for Magnetic Resonance Applications

Emery, Teresa Holly ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Scherer, Axel

Managing Information in Networked and Multi-Agent Control Systems

Epstein, Michael Steven ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

The Neurochip: A Complete System for Long-Term Investigation of Cultured Neural Network Connectivity

Erickson, Jonathan Christopher ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Pine, Jerome

Towards Automatic Discovery of Human Movemes

Fanti, Claudio ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Remote Sensing of Radiative Fluxes and Heating Rates from Satellite Instrument Measurements

Feldman, Daniel Robert ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Yung, Yuk L.

Real-Time Trajectory Generation for Constrained Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Using Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline Basis Functions

Flores Contreras, Melvin Estuardo ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.

Automated Visual Tracking for Behavioral Analysis of Biological Model Organisms

Fontaine, Ebraheem Ihsan ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Quantitative Characterization of 3D Deformations of Cell Interactions with Soft Biomaterials

Franck, Christian ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

The Physics of Superconducting Microwave Resonators

Gao, Jiansong ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Zmuidzinas, Jonas

On A Capacitated Multivehicle Routing Problem

Gao, Xiaojie ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Schulman, Leonard J.

A Bioinspired Computational Model of Cardiac Mechanics: Pathology and Development

Grosberg, Anna ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Low-Dimensional Representations of Transitions in Molecular Systems

Grubits, Katalin Anna ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Marsden, Jerrold E.

In vitro DNA Mechanics in Gene Regulation: One Molecule at a Time

Han, Lin ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Phillips, Robert B.

Nonparametric Detection and Estimation of Highly Oscillatory Signals

Helgason, Hannes ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Candes, Emmanuel J.

Optofluidic Microscopy: Technology Development and Its Applications in Biology

Heng, Xin ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Yang, Changhuei

Probing Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

Heo, Jinseong ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Bockrath, Marc William

Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions Obtained from Equivalent Sources for Time-Dependent Scattering Problems

Hoch, David ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Visualizing the Membrane Confinement, Trafficking and Structure of the GABA Transporter, GAT1

Imoukhuede, Princess Ikhianosen Uerenikhosen ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Lester, Henry A.

Characterization of Soft Polymers and Gels Using the Pressure-Bulge Technique

Jackson, Winston Paul ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami

Soft-Error Tolerant Quasi Delay-insensitive Circuits

Jang, Wonjin ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Martin, Alain J.

Adaptive Feature Selection in Pattern Recognition and Ultra-Wideband Radar Signal Analysis

Jiang, Hao ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Numerical Simulations of Non-Spherical Bubble Collapse with Applications to Shockwave Lithotripsy

Johnsen, Eric ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Detonation Stability with Reversible Kinetics

Kao, Shannon Theresa ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Shepherd, Joseph E.

Submillimeter Wave Camera Using A Novel Photon Detector Technology

Kumar, Shwetank ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Zmuidzinas, Jonas

Microfluidic Chip Calorimeters for Biological Applications

Lee, Wonhee ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Roukes, Michael Lee

Monitoring Earth Surface Dynamics with Optical Imagery

Leprince, Sebastien ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Avouac, Jean-Philippe

Optofluidic Dye Lasers

Li, Zhenyu ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Psaltis, Demetri

Study of Optical Phase Lock Loops and the Applications in Coherent Beam Combining and Coherence Cloning

Liang, Wei ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon

Robotic Training for Motor Rehabilitation after Complete Spinal Cord Injury

Liang, Yongqiang ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman; Edgerton, V. Reggie

From Ordinal Ranking to Binary Classification

Lin, Hsuan-Tien ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Abu-Mostafa, Yaser S.

Ultrasonic Investigation of the Elastic Properties and Liquid Fragility of Bulk Metallic Glasses in the Supercooled Liquid Region

Lind, Mary Laura ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Johnson, William Lewis

Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Converging Geometries

Lombardini, Manuel ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Pullin, Dale Ian

Quantitative Three-dimensional Imaging of Droplet Convection and Cardiac Cell Motions Based on Micro DDPIV

Lu, Jian ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Microfluidic Large Scale Integration and its Application to Systems Biology

Maerkl, Sebastian Josef ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Quake, Stephen R.

Large-Eddy Simulations of Molecular Mixing in a Recirculating Shear Flow

Matheou, Georgios ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Dimotakis, Paul E.

Understanding and Treating Eye Diseases: Mechanical Characterization and Photochemical Modification of the Cornea and Sclera

Mattson, Matthew Sanford ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Kornfield, Julia A.

Feedback Tracking and Correlation Spectroscopy of Fluorescent Nanoparticles and Biomolecules

McHale, Kevin L. ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Mabuchi, Hideo

Iron and Manganese in the Ocean: Investigation of Atmospheric Input by Dust and Coastal Ocean Time Series

Mendez, Jeffrey Michael ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Adkins, Jess F.

A Super-Algebraically Convergent, Windowing-Based Approach to the Evaluation of Scattering from Periodic Rough Surfaces

Monro, John Anderson ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Bruno, Oscar P.

Probabilistic, Features-Based Object Recognition

Moreels, Pierre ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Continuous Sensorimotor Control Mechanisms in Posterior Parietal Cortex: Forward Model Encoding and Trajectory Decoding

Mulliken, Grant Haverstock ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Andersen, Richard A.

Reliable Integration of Terascale Systems with Nanoscale Devices

Naeimi, Helia ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: DeHon, Andre

Automated Design Synthesis of Structures using Growth Enhanced Evolution

Nicaise, Fabien ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Antonsson, Erik K.

Bayesian Learning for Earthquake Engineering Applications and Structural Health Monitoring

Oh, Chang Kook ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Beck, James L.

Steel Moment-Resisting Frame Responses in Simulated Strong Ground Motions: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Big One

Olsen, Anna H. ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.

Parylene Technology for Neural Probes Applications

Pang, Changlin ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Throughput Optimization of Quasi Delay Insensitive Circuits via Slack Matching

Prakash, Piyush ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Martin, Alain J.

Adaptive Learning Algorithms and Data Cloning

Pratap, Amrit ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Abu-Mostafa, Yaser S.

Development of a Microimpedance Pump for Pulsatile Flow Transport - Part 1: Flow Characteristics of the Microimpedance Pump. Part 2: A Systematic Study of Steady and Pulsatile Transport in Microscale Cavities

Rinderknecht, Derek Gresham ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Development of Flexible Parylene-based Microtechnologies for Retinal and Spinal Cord Stimulation and Recording

Rodger, Damien Craig ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Weiland, James D.

Surface Deformation in a Liquid Environment Resulting from Single Particle Collisions

Ruiz-Angulo, Angel ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Hunt, Melany L.

Learning and Representation of Declarative Memories by Single Neurons in the Human Brain

Rutishauser, Ueli ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Schuman, Erin Margaret; Koch, Christof; Mamelak, Adam N.

Non-Equilibrium Dynamics: Diffusion in Small Numbers and Ribosomal Self-Assembly

Seitaridou, Effrosyni ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Phillips, Robert B.

Microfabricated High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) System with Closed-Loop Flow Control

Shih, Jason J. ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Tai, Yu-Chong

Generalized Network Routing Metrics and Algorithms

Soedarmadji, Edwin ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: McEliece, Robert J.

Molecules Computing: Self-Assembled Nanostructures, Molecular Automata,and Chemical Reaction Networks

Soloveichik, David ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Winfree, Erik

Optimization Algorithms in Wireless and Quantum Communications

Stojnic, Mihailo ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Blind Channel Estimation Using Redundant Precoding: New Algorithms, Analysis, and Theory

Su, Borching ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Vaidyanathan, P. P.

Plasmonics: Numerical Methods and Device Applications

Sweatlock, Luke A. ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Asymptotic Weight Analysis of Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) Code Ensembles

Sweatlock, Sarah Lynne ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: McEliece, Robert J.

Stochastic System Design and Applications to Stochastically Robust Structural Control

Taflanidis, Alexandros Angelos ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Beck, James L.

The Immersed Boundary Projection Method and Its Application to Simulation and Control of Flows Around Low-Aspect-Ratio Wings

Taira, Kunihiko (Sam) ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Low-Cost High-Efficiency Solar Cells with Wafer Bonding and Plasmonic Technologies

Tanabe, Katsuaki ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Atwater, Harry Albert

Effective Behavior of Dielectric Elastomer Composites

Tian, Lixiu ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Thermodynamic Modeling of Organic Aerosol

Tong, Chinghang ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Seinfeld, John H.; Goddard, William A., III

A Subdivision Approach to the Construction of Smooth Differential Forms

Wang, Ke ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Schroeder, Peter

Explicit Object Representation by Sparse Neural Codes

Waydo, Stephen J. ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Murray, Richard M.; Koch, Christof

A Plasticity Model to Predict the Effects of Confinement on Concrete

Wolf, Julie Anne ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Hall, John F.

Target Tracking Using Clustered Measurements, with Applications to Autonomous Brain-Machine Interfaces

Wolf, Michael Timothy ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman

Dynamics of Plasma Structures Interacting with External and Self-Generated Magnetic Fields

Yun, Gunsu Soonshin ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Bellan, Paul Murray

Detection of Aerobic Bacterial Endospores: From Air Sampling, Sterilization Validation to Astrobiology

Yung, Pun To (Douglas) ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Ponce, Adrian

Photonic Crystal Bragg Lasers: Design, Fabrication, and Characterization

Zhu, Lin ・ PhD ・ 2008

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon

Optotronics: Optically Inspired Electronics

Afshari, Ehsan ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Hajimiri, Ali

Neural Correlates of Economic and Moral Decision-Making

Anen, Cédric Robert ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Quartz, Steven R.

An Ab Initio Approach to the Inverse Problem-Based Design of Photonic Bandgap Devices

Au, John King-Tai ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Mabuchi, Hideo

Processing and Characterization of Proton Conducting Yttrium Doped Barium Zirconate for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Applications

Babilo, Peter ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

Microfluidic Technologies for Continuous Culture and Genetic Circuit Characterization

Balagaddé, Frederick Kiguli ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Quake, Stephen R.

Lost in a Crowd: Observations of Single DNA Knots and Single Mammalian Cells

Bao, Xiaoyan Robert ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Quake, Stephen R.; Simon, Melvin I.

Fiber Coupled Nanophotonic Devices for Nonlinear Optics and Cavity QED

Barclay, Paul Edward ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Painter, Oskar J.

CMOS Imaging Technology with Embedded Early Image Processing

Basset, Christophe Jean-Michel ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Perona, Pietro

Hamilton-Pontryagin Integrators on Lie Groups

Bou-Rabee, Nawaf Mohammed ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Marsden, Jerrold E.

Time-Frequency Analysis of Systems with Changing Dynamic Properties

Bradford, Samuel Case, V ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Heaton, Thomas H.

Measuring Stress in Thin-Film - Substrate Systems Featuring Spatial Nonuniformities of Film Thickness and/or Misfit Strain

Brown, Michal Amaris ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Rosakis, Ares J.

Numerical Simulations of Three-Dimensional Instabilities in Cavity Flows

Brès, Guillaume Alain ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Colonius, Tim

Robotics Training Algorithms for Optimizing Motor Learning in Spinal Cord Injured Subjects

Cai, Lance Lin-Lan ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman; Edgerton, V. Reggie

Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Arsenic Mobilization in Haiwee Reservoir Sediments

Campbell, Kate Marie ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Hering, Janet G.

Wireless Network Design and Control

Chen, Lijun ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Doyle, John Comstock; Low, Steven H.

Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Semiconductor Transverse Bragg Resonance Lasers

Choi, John Myun ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Yariv, Amnon; Crosignani, Bruno

Intelligent Information-Gathering: Using Control for Sensing and Decision-Making

Chung, Timothy Hahn Deut ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman; Murray, Richard M.

Superprotonic Solid Acid Phase Transitions and Stability

Cowan, Lisa ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Haile, Sossina M.

Deformation and Fracture of Thin Sheets of Nitinol

Daly, Samantha Hayes ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik; Ravichandran, Guruswami

Nonlocal Microstructural Mechanics of Active Materials

Dayal, Kaushik ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Phase Composition and Dynamical Studies of Lithium Iron Phosphate

Dodd, Joanna Lynn ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.; Yazami, Rachid

Structure and Evolution of Martensitic Phase Boundaries

Dondl, Patrick Werner ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik

New Approaches to the Analysis and Design of Reed-Solomon Related Codes

El-Khamy, Mostafa Said ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: McEliece, Robert J.

Textured Ferroelectric Thin Films: Synthesis, Characterization, and Influence of Compositional Grading on the Dielectric Behavior

El-Naggar, Mohamed Y. ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Goodwin, David G.

Performance Limits and Design Issues in Wireless Networks

Farajidana, Amir ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

Ultra-High Frequency Nanoelectromechanical Systems with Low-Noise Technologies for Single-Molecule Mass Sensing

Feng, Philip Xiao-Li ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Roukes, Michael Lee

Motion Contrast Using Optical Coherence Tomography

Fingler, Jeffrey Paul ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Fraser, Scott E.

Electronic Structure Calculations at Macroscopic Scales

Gavini, Vikram ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Ortiz, Michael; Bhattacharya, Kaushik

Wireless Networks: New Models and Results

Gowaikar, Radhika ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Hassibi, Babak

On the Development of Defocusing Digital Particle Image Velocimetry with Full Characterization

Graff, Emilio Castaño ・ PhD ・ 2007

Advisor: Gharib, Morteza

Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems

Gupta, Vijay ・ PhD ・ 2007