Recent Thesis and Dissertations from CaltechTHESIS

• Chari, Celia S. 2023 (PHD) Degradation of Ceramic Surfaces and its Mitigation: From Electric Propulsion to Cultural Heritage 10.7907/22st-q436
• Lopez Gomez, Ignacio 2023 (PHD) A Unified Data-Informed Model of Turbulence and Convection for Climate Prediction 10.7907/042m-9686
• Renn, Peter Ian James 2023 (PHD) Applied Machine Learning for Prediction and Control of Fluid Flows 10.7907/smnv-tz73
• Han, SooJean 2023 (PHD) Control and State-Estimation of Jump Stochastic Systems by Learning Recurrent Spatiotemporal Patterns 10.7907/gyae-jv94
• Luo, Yangcheng 2023 (PHD) Tracer Transport in Three Dimensions: Dispersion of Methane on Mars, Coupled Chemistry and Dynamics on Exoplanets, and Submesoscale Mixing in the Ocean 10.7907/91p7-gg59
• Kim, Brian Lee Kiwon 2023 (PHD) Dynamics of Time-Varying and Nonlinear Phononic Lattices 10.7907/n7mv-eg68
• Melis, Johan Matthijs 2023 (PHD) A Neural Network Model of an Insect’s Wing Hinge Reveals How Steering Muscles Control Flight 10.7907/teej-tb66
• Dixit, Anushri C. 2023 (PHD) Risk-Aware Planning and Control in Extreme Environments 10.7907/xv2b-tj24
• Pike, Sean N. 2023 (PHD) Exploring the Mass Accretion Rates of Neutron Star X-Ray Binaries and the Properties of Cadmium Zinc Telluride for Hard X-Ray Astronomy 10.7907/ctjf-2768
• Rosenthal, Isabelle Anna 2023 (PHD) The Representation of Multimodal Tactile Sensations in the Human Somatosensory System 10.7907/yxtg-sr73
• Raghavan, Guruprasad 2023 (PHD) Engineering Artificial Systems with Natural Intelligence 10.7907/374f-1202
• Breunig, Stephanie Lynne 2023 (PHD) Incorporation of Non-Canonical Proline Residues into Proteins Expressed in Escherichia coli 10.7907/8nj2-v152
• Zhang, Shumao 2023 (PHD) Singularity Formation in the High-Dimensional Euler Equations and Sampling of High-Dimensional Distributions by Deep Generative Networks 10.7907/8had-3a90
• Zhang, Yi 2023 (PHD) Application of Heterojunction Ni-Sb-SnO₂ Anodes for Electrochemical Water Treatment 10.7907/dmrd-w489
• Buarque de Macedo, Robert Andrew 2023 (PHD) Methods for Control of Granular Material Attributes 10.7907/1h8f-se14
• Biswas, Souvik 2023 (PHD) Electro-Optic Excitations in van der Waals Materials for Active Nanophotonics 10.7907/tz4z-ed06
• Sarma, Anish Anandsai 2023 (PHD) Multicellular Control 10.7907/kf54-fr89
• Kim, Hojin 2023 (PHD) New Long End-Associative Polymers for Mist Control in I. Aqueous Solutions and II. Hydrocarbon Solvents 10.7907/rsx9-qt39
• Cerri, Olmo 2023 (PHD) New Physics Tools for Discovery, a New Era of Timing Detector, and Lepton Flavor Universality Test at CMS 10.7907/bqsn-sp82
• Gallivan, Rebecca Anne 2023 (PHD) The Role of Boundaries and Other Microstructural Features on Emergent Mechanical and Mechanically-Coupled Phenomena at the Nanoscale 10.7907/gv3v-9k07
• Tsypin, Lev M. 2023 (PHD) The Discovery and Biological Mechanisms of a Widespread Phenazine’s Oxidation 10.7907/rmsf-e465
• Yang, Chien-I 2023 (PHD) Mechanism and Function of Nascent Protein Modification in Bacteria 10.7907/qhz7-a383
• Hsieh, Hao-Hsuan 2023 (PHD) Coordination Between Mammalian Nascent Protein Targeting and Cotranslational Chaperones 10.7907/x61p-vf31
• Sanders, Cecilia Brooke 2023 (PHD) Geological and Geochemical Explorations of the Salitre Formation Phosphorite, Eastern Brazil 10.7907/rd4m-7x08
• Dong, Heng 2023 (PHD) Optimization of Electrodes Towards More Practical Electrochemical Water Treatment 10.7907/hkpg-je79
• Date, Aditya Ghanashyam 2023 (PHD) Coupled Oscillators with Generalized Dissipation 10.7907/nky2-p424
• Guan, Charles 2023 (PHD) Neural Coding of Finger Movements in Human Posterior Parietal Cortex and Motor Cortex 10.7907/31rt-cy14
• Wang, Linghui 2023 (PHD) Ion Transport in Temperature Sensitive Polyelectrolytes 10.7907/zsat-9s73
• Li, Tongxin 2023 (PHD) Learning-Augmented Control and Decision-Making: Theory and Applications in Smart Grids 10.7907/cdf6-0w78
• Meyerowitz, Joseph T. 2023 (PHD) Engineering and Rapid Prototyping for Biology in Extreme Conditions 10.7907/9gbb-n831
• Phelan, Megan Elisabeth 2023 (PHD) Optimization of Photovoltaic Performance for Luminescent Solar Concentrator Systems 10.7907/aqhb-s069
• Eldjarn Hjoerleifsson, Kristjan 2023 (PHD) Graph Modeling for Genomics and Epidemiology 10.7907/s32c-a211
• Bauinger, Christoph 2023 (PHD) The “Interpolated Factored Green Function” Method 10.7907/1cnc-s558
• Qiao, Zhuoran 2023 (PHD) Physics-Informed Neural Approaches for Multiscale Molecular Modeling and Design 10.7907/48d1-ja21
• Cui, Zhi-Hao 2023 (PHD) Towards Ab Initio Simulations of High-Temperature Superconductivity 10.7907/y2qf-1f77
• Pilgram, Nickolas Hovanec 2023 (PHD) Production and Characterization of Ytterbium Monohydroxide (YbOH) for Next-Generation Parity and Time-Reversal Violating Physics Searches 10.7907/05m0-4g74
• Palmer, Emily Hope 2023 (PHD) Locomotory Control Algorithms and Their Neuronal Implementation in Drosophila melanogaster 10.7907/yyjd-a554
• Gan, Quan 2023 (PHD) Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers by Ring Expansion and Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization 10.7907/g9em-gt08
• Gandhi, Vatsa B. 2023 (PHD) Shock Compression of Body-Centered Cubic Metals from the Atomistic to Continuum Scale: Iron and Molybdenum 10.7907/kwf1-7y79
• Macioce, Theodore Kenneth 2023 (PHD) Mock Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect in Massive Galaxy Clusters and a Six-Layer Integral Antireflective Structure for Silicon Optics 10.7907/w1ds-j507
• Korner, Kevin Andreas 2023 (PHD) Modeling Deformations of Active Rods, Ribbons, and Plates 10.7907/2zb0-m166
• Sarraf, Namita 2023 (PHD) Towards Integrated Molecular Machines: Structural, Mechanical, and Computational Motifs 10.7907/cdwp-c709
• Beery, Sara Meghan 2023 (PHD) Where the Wild Things Are: Computer Vision for Global-Scale Biodiversity Monitoring 10.7907/m4mt-2q51
• Dutka, Przemysław 2023 (PHD) Cryo-ET Reveals Molecular Details of Multi-Megadalton Bacterial Protein Complexes 10.7907/87jm-7v06
• Cheng, Rui 2023 (PHD) Remotely Evaluating the Seasonality of Gross Primary Production at High Latitudes 10.7907/3gnn-sy17
• Zhang, Cheng 2023 (PHD) The Development and Performance of the First BICEP Array Receiver at 30 and 40 GHz for Measuring the Polarized Synchrotron Foreground 10.7907/bfsb-6438
• Chen, Xinhong 2023 (PHD) Non-Invasive Functional Gene Delivery to the Central and Peripheral Nervous System Across Species 10.7907/48a2-0y07
• Ousey, James Anthony 2023 (PHD) Gut Microbiota Modulation of Host Feeding Behavior 10.7907/8ghx-2b24
• Stephenson, Oliver L. 2023 (PHD) Investigating the Earthquake Cycle on Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales Using Satellites and Simulations 10.7907/ha9m-4p17
• Kamal, Omar 2023 (PHD) Optimal Receptivity and the Generalization of the One-Way Navier-Stokes (OWNS) Equations to Complex High-Speed Boundary Layers and Jets 10.7907/haet-h558
• Rosakis, Alexandros Yiannis 2023 (PHD) The Hemodynamics of Native and Surgical Aortic Valves with Regards to Wall Shear Stress and Residence Time 10.7907/exsa-nm30
• Xiong, Shuoyan 2023 (PHD) Insertion of Olefins into Nickel Alkyl Complexes: Mechanistic Studies and Polymerization Catalysis 10.7907/n59w-qg36
• Huang, Jining 2023 (PHD) Applications of Dynamic Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology in Closed-Loop Genetic Circuits and Detection of Viral Pathogens 10.7907/54tw-ym95
• Versaw, Brooke Ann 2023 (PHD) Thermally and Mechanically Responsive Platforms for Functional Polymeric Materials 10.7907/2hwm-af78
• Weeks, John S. 2023 (PHD) Mechanical Response of Lattice Structures under High Strain-Rate and Shock Loading 10.7907/9v5k-1157
• Galton, Riley 2023 (PHD) Co-Option of the piRNA Pathway to Regulate Neural Crest Specification 10.7907/9rvr-rr55
• Miller, David Ryan 2023 (PHD) Developing Dalotia coriaria, the Greenhouse Rove Beetle, as a Novel Model Organism 10.7907/wwp6-xq35
• Dutta, Irene 2023 (PHD) Rare Higgs Processes at CMS and Precision Timing Detector Studies for HL-LHC CMS Upgrade 10.7907/tmt4-nq20
• Torok, Zsofia Erzsebet 2023 (PHD) Resilience of a Precise Motor Behavior 10.7907/2ff5-e145
• Tang, Ellande 2023 (PHD) Studies on Off-Nominal Rotor Aerodynamics for eVTOL Aircraft 10.7907/eytr-nd50
• Ning, Honglie 2023 (PHD) Ultrafast Optical Control of Order Parameters in Quantum Materials 10.7907/yxa0-6884
• Yang, Yiran 2023 (PHD) Laser-Engraved Wearable Sweat Sensor for Metabolic Monitoring 10.7907/5yfm-tt16
• Husic, Corey Christopher 2023 (PHD) Strategies for the Mechanically Triggered Release of Small Molecules 10.7907/0add-6n09
• Zhang, Xueyue 2023 (PHD) Superconducting Circuit Architectures Based on Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics 10.7907/c7d8-nn87
• O’Rourke, Matthew J. 2023 (PHD) Towards High-Accuracy Simulations of Strongly Correlated Materials Using Tensor Networks 10.7907/wwka-as73
• Alshafei, Faisal 2023 (PHD) Enhancing the Ethylene and Propylene Selectivities in the Methanol-to-Olefins Reaction by Exploiting the Intricate Relationship between Framework Topology and Acidity 10.7907/btcj-w948
• Huang, Shan 2023 (PHD) DNA-Guided Genome Manipulation in Escherichia coli 10.7907/3yab-jg50
• Gu, Zichen 2023 (PHD) Interparticle Forces and Stress Transfer in Saturated and Unsaturated Granular Systems 10.7907/rgys-kh14
• Shi, Guanya 2023 (PHD) Reliable Learning and Control in Dynamic Environments: Towards Unified Theory and Learned Robotic Agility 10.7907/8rz4-7b35
• Luo, Yicheng 2023 (PHD) Maternally Inherited siRNAs Initiate piRNA Cluster Formation 10.7907/f2nh-8w08
• Li, Xiang 2023 (PHD) Topics in Gravitational Wave Physics: Quantum Theory for Detector Improvement and High-Precision Modeling of Binary Black Hole Ringdown Waveform 10.7907/ks5c-zn93
• Moestopo, Widianto Putra 2023 (PHD) Design, Fabrication, and Mechanical Analysis of Intertwined and Frictional Micro-Architected Materials 10.7907/ycqd-1f27
• Kim, Gunho 2023 (PHD) Wave Propagation in Periodic Acoustic Metamaterials: from 1D to 3D 10.7907/dyq0-vm69
• Xiao, Liting 2023 (PHD) Searching for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences and Stochastic Backgrounds in the LIGO–Virgo Detector Network 10.7907/zgtx-0582
• Lawniczak, James J. 2023 (PHD) Computational Investigations of Organometallic Catalysis 10.7907/aepb-jm46
• Goertsen, David Gerald 2023 (PHD) Expanding Adeno-Associated Viral Capsid Engineering to Multiple Variable Regions for Diversified Tropism 10.7907/7x3a-g504
• Almhjell, Patrick James 2023 (PHD) Noncanonical Amino Acid Synthesis by Evolved Tryptophan Synthases 10.7907/rcvq-dg51
• Hui, Yue 2023 (PHD) Applications of Genetically Engineered Bacillus subtilis in Biocatalysis and Functional Materials 10.7907/cdja-ck19
• Barth, Alexandra Teresa 2023 (PHD) Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Metal Complexes 10.7907/k66v-1c93
• Gehlhar, Rachel 2023 (PHD) Model-Based Lower-Limb Powered Prosthesis Control: Developing and Realizing Nonlinear Subsystem Control Methods for Generalizable Prosthesis Control 10.7907/6724-6e14
• Griggs, Whitney S. 2023 (PHD) Listening to the Internal Representation of Actions Within the Posterior Parietal Cortex 10.7907/0eae-hk18
• Liu, Xinyan 2023 (PHD) Bioorthogonal Noncanonical Amino Acid Tagging for Understanding Bacterial Persistence 10.7907/q6bx-kt39
• Sarai, Nicholas Singh 2023 (PHD) Engineering Cytochrome P450BM3 for Oxidation and Silicon–Carbon Bond Cleavage of Volatile Methylsiloxanes 10.7907/gn1j-fz77
• Dibrell, Sara Elise 2023 (PHD) Development of Oxidation and Transition Metal-Mediated Reactions and Application to Natural Product Synthesis 10.7907/ve4j-tw63
• McFadden, Molly Elizabeth 2023 (PHD) The Emerging Mechanochemistry of Naphthopyran 10.7907/r4gk-rn51
• Ma, Yitong 2023 (PHD) Multicellular Synthetic Biology in Mammalian Systems 10.7907/w0q1-7s17
• Polski, Robert Michael 2023 (PHD) Electronic Correlations and Topology in Graphene Moiré Multilayers and InAs/GaSb-Derivative Systems 10.7907/yhws-0f08
• Wandelt, Sarah Kim 2023 (PHD) Grasp, Speech, and Internal Speech Representation in the Human Cortical Grasp Circuit 10.7907/0461-g107
• Hirokawa, Soichi 2023 (PHD) Dynamics of Protein-Mediated Polymer Coupling and their Implications in Antibody Production and Emergent Patterning 10.7907/fpmm-a552
• Chittur, Priya K. 2023 (PHD) A Millifluidic Bulge Test for Multiscale Properties of Engineered Biofilms 10.7907/e1yv-mr74
• Barber, Ross William 2023 (PHD) Mechanophore Strategies for the Development of Polymers with Mechanically Gated Responsive Behavior 10.7907/wgnw-zq30
• Mohamed Soliman, Ahmed 2023 (PHD) BICEP Array Detectors and Instrumentation at 30/40 GHz: Design, Performance, and Deployment to the South Pole for Constraining Primordial Gravitational Waves 10.7907/srdx-w019
• Klein, Isabel McMillan 2023 (PHD) Understanding the Origins of Photoexcited XUV Spectra 10.7907/s8qe-4s74
• Wang, Ziyi 2023 (PHD) Temperature Dependence of Gas Physisorption Energy: Experimental and Computational Studies of Krypton on Porous Carbon https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05162023-225200255
• Roy, Arkadev 2023 (PHD) Parametrically-Driven Nonlinear Optical Resonators and their Networks for Sensing and Computing 10.7907/xsyc-6668
• Sun, Guochao 2023 (PHD) Understanding the Cosmological Evolution of Galaxies with Intensity Mapping 10.7907/fzqw-2m61
• Ni, Yu-Li 2023 (PHD) Developing Tools for Neurobiology: The Retina as a Neuropharmacology Testbed & Electrode Pooling to Boost Extracellular Array Recording 10.7907/jeh6-w316
• Tao, Yujia 2023 (PHD) Synthetic Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of Enterocin 10.7907/jdhq-sb66
• Williams, Ethan Francis 2023 (PHD) Probing Solid-Earth, Ocean, and Structural Dynamics with Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing 10.7907/vehm-dd85
• De Rose, Lucía Belén 2023 (PHD) Nanoscale Field Emission Devices for High-Temperature and High-Frequency Operation 10.7907/8qa5-kn97
• Morla, Maureen Baradi 2023 (PHD) Redox-Activated Covalent Functionalization of Semiconductor Surfaces 10.7907/1exn-0t72
• Hurt, Robert Cooper 2023 (PHD) Engineering of Second-Generation Acoustic Reporter Genes 10.7907/qs6v-5d67
• Liaw, Eric Jer-Jiun 2023 (PHD) A Novel, Rapid Phenotypic Assay for a Beta-Lactam Antibiotic Susceptibility and an Analysis of its Theoretical Limits 10.7907/qhvg-7q92
• Kann, Claudia K. 2023 (PHD) Computational Methods in the Study of Political Behavior 10.7907/0zxf-6b07
• Zhu, Ronghui 2023 (PHD) Multicellular Circuit Design in Mammalian Cells 10.7907/p0fn-qa56
• Bernstein, Jeremy 2023 (PHD) Optimisation & Generalisation in Networks of Neurons 10.7907/1jz8-5t85
• Gordon, Spencer Lane 2023 (PHD) The Identification of Discrete Mixture Models 10.7907/ebf5-0b48
• Zott, Michael D. 2023 (PHD) Strategic Applications of Electrochemistry in Ammonia Oxidation and Alkyl Halide Reduction 10.7907/4fr8-7r78
• Balzer, Christopher J. 2023 (PHD) Polyelectrolytes Near Solid Surfaces 10.7907/kga2-1820
• Chen, Zhewei 2023 (PHD) Engineering Conditional Guide RNAs for Cell-Selective Regulation of CRISPR/Cas9 10.7907/cajs-d417
• Pennington, Elyse Ann 2023 (PHD) Development of Numerical Models to Advance the Understanding of Air Quality in Los Angeles 10.7907/cvzw-kt61
• Ding, Xiaozhe 2023 (PHD) Computation-Aided Protein Engineering for Targeted Therapeutic Delivery 10.7907/7n15-3076
• Dutton, Sarah Emily 2023 (PHD) Chirped Pulse Rotational Spectroscopy of Small Molecule Clusters 10.7907/dxsp-c265
• Ifkovits, Zachary Philip 2023 (PHD) Strategies for Enabling Stable and Efficient (Photo)Electrochemical Water Splitting 10.7907/jt8t-w739
• Oshima, Emile Kazuo 2023 (PHD) Experimental Studies of Flow Control Techniques for Future Aircraft 10.7907/fpcj-w268
• Shimozono, Alexander Mitsuo 2023 (PHD) The Development of Ni-Catalyzed Methods for Application in Total Synthesis 10.7907/h0w0-1d25
• Overholts, Anna Camille 2023 (PHD) A Novel Platform for Mechanochemical Multicolor Lithography and Models for Solution-Phase Mechanophore Activation 10.7907/px5z-aj53
• Dong, Dillon Zhejun 2023 (PHD) Shocks, Jets, and Emerging Nebulae: Direct Detection and Characterization of Extragalactic Radio Transients in the VLA Sky Survey 10.7907/xwy9-tc17
• Guo, Nian 2023 (PHD) Causal Sampling, Compressing, and Channel Coding of Streaming Data 10.7907/n201-ca08
• Chang, Yen-Yung 2023 (PHD) SuperCDMS HVeV Run 2 Low-Mass Dark Matter Search, Highly Multiplexed Phonon-Mediated Particle Detector with Kinetic Inductance Detector, and the Blackbody Radiation in Cryogenic Experiments 10.7907/jswx-ad33