| Candidate |
Dissertation Title |
Professor |
| Aerospace Engineering |
John Philip Wanderer | “Variational Germano Identity Applied to the Numerical Simulation of Multiscale Partial Differential Equations” | Professor Assad A. Oberai, PhD |
| Bioinformatics |
Jennifer Ellen Beane | “Genomic Responses to Smoking-Induced Lung Injury: Indentifying Biomarkers for Lung Cancer and Emphysema” | Professor Avrum Spira, MD |
Praveen Frazer Cherukuri | “Protein Domain Superfamilies: An Evolutionary Perspective Towards a Non-Redundant Classification of Protein Domains” | Professor Stephen H. Bryant, PhD |
Karl Hoy Clodfelter | “Computational Analysis of Cytochrome P450 Structure and Expression” | Professor David J. Waxman, PhD |
Stephen Reginald Comeau, Jr. | “Development of High-Throughput Tools for the Automated Generation of Protein-Protein Complexes” | Professor Sandor Vajda, PhD |
Adnan Derti | “Mammalian Ultraconserved Sequences Avoid Segmental Duplications and Copy-Number Variants” | Professor Ulla Hansen, PhD |
Elizabeth Davidson George | “Oxygen Responsive Regulatory Networks: Gene Expression in the Lung at Birth and a New Role for KLF4” | Professor Avrum Spira, MD |
Anason Shokry Halees | “An Integrative Computational Analysis of the Human Transcriptome: Genomic Structure, Expression Patterns and Regulatory Controls” | Professor Zhipeng Weng, PhD |
Boris Hayete | “Inference of Regulatory Networks from Microarray Data, and Their Applications in Biological Discovery” | Professor James Collins, DPhil |
Joseph Christopher Mellor | “Computational Analyses of Logic and Mechanism in Regulatory Networks” | Professor Charles DeLisi, PhD |
Yan Meng | “Multi-Locus Approaches to Localizing Genes Associated with Common Human Diseases” | Professor Lindsay Farrer, PhD |
Joseph Francis Ryan, Jr. | “The Evolution of Animal Body Plans: Genomic Evidence from the Starlet Sea Anemone Nematostella Vectensis and Other Early-Branching Metazoa” | Professor John R. Finnerty, PhD |
Michael Edward Schaffer | “Elucidation of Human Growth Factor Mediated Transcriptional Programs and Computational Inference of Their Regulation” | Professor Geoffrey M. Cooper, PhD |
Vishal Shah | “Analyzing Microarray Data to Study the Effects of Cigarette Smoke on Human Airway Gene Expression” | Professor Avrum Spira, MD |
Michael Silberstein | “Computational Solvent Mapping of Proteins for Binding-Site Identification and Characterization” | Professor Sandor Vajda, PhD |
Megon Jarmaine Walker | “Active Learning for Sequential Screening and Classification of Molecular and Genomic Data” | Professor Simon Kasif, PhD |
Yaoyu E. Wang | “Computational Approaches for Identifying Potential Stable Therapeutic Targets in Viruses” | Professor Charles DeLisi, PhD |
| Biomedical Engineering |
Kenneth Michael Chrobak | “Formation of Perfused Microvessels in vitro and Their Use as Models of Barrier Function” | Professor Joe Tien, PhD |
Paola Favaretto | “Analysis of Ribosomal Protein Block Structure: Functional Characterization, Evolutionary Implications and Distant Homology Search Using Discrete State Models” | Professor Temple Smith, PhD |
Kenneth Anders Halvorsen | “Probing Weak Single-Molecule Interactions: Development and Demonstration of a New Instrument” | Professor Evan A. Evans, PhD |
Carlos Alejandro Lopez | “In Vitro Characterization of Transport, Release, and PC12 Cell Biocompatibility with Microfabricated Silicon Nanoporous Membranes” | Professor Tejal Desai, PhD |
Mingming Miao | “The Role of Raft Domains in Human Red Blood Cell Transmembrane Signaling and Membrane Cholesterol Transport” | Professor Mark W. Bitensky, MD |
James J. Norman | “Microrods Control Cellular Proliferation and Organization in Three-Dimensional Tissue Scaffolds” | Professor Tejal Desai, PhD |
Michael Scott Richards | “Quantitative Three Dimensional Elasticity Imaging” | Professor Paul Barbone, PhD |
Noah Joshua Rosenblatt | “The Effect of Mechanical Prestress on the Rheological Properties of Adherent Cells” | Professor Dimitrije Stamenovi, PhD |
Candidate | Dissertation Title | Professor |
| Computer Engineering |
Edward Alan Davis Bach | “Methodology and Implementation of a Software Architecture for Cellular and Lattice-Gas Automata Programming” | Professor Tommaso Toffoli, PhD |
Parminder Kaur | “Statistical Methods for Interpretation of High Resolution Mass Spectra” | Professor Peter B. O’Connor, PhD |
| Electrical Engineering |
David Alan Bergstein | “Resonant Cavity Enhanced Multi-Analyte Sensing” | Professor M. Selim Ünlü, PhD |
Robert Douglas Chivas | “Aerosol Deposition Process for Synthesizing Optically Active Nano-Scale Materials” | Professor Theodore Morse, PhD |
Zhihua He | “Texture- and Structure-Based Image Representation with Applications to Image Retrieval and Compression” | Professor Maja E. Bystrom, PhD |
Chien Chih Huang | “Fabrication, Motion Detection and Amplification Techniques in Radio-Frequency Nanoelectomechanical Systems (NEMS)” | Professor Kamil L. Ekinci, PhD Professor Ronald W. Knepper, PhD |
Nagapratima Kunapareddy | “Raman Spectroscopy for the Study of Cell Death” | Professor Irving Bigio, PhD |
Julia A. Pavlovich | “Physics-Based Subsurface Information Extraction by Parametric Inversion” | Professor W. Clement Karl, PhD |
Jonathan Rizzo Polimeni | “Characterizing the Two-Dimensional Structure of the V1–V2–V3 Visuotopic Map Complex in Macaque and Human Cerebral Neo-Cortex” | Professor Eric Schwartz, PhD |
Adrian Daniel Williams | “Formation of Gallium Nitride Templates and Freestanding Substrates by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy for Homoepitaxial Growth of III-Nitride Devices” | Professor Theodore Moustakas, PhD |
Tao Wu | “An Analytical Study of Server Selection for Scalable Internet Services” | Professor David Starobinski, PhD |
Tao Xu | “LEDs Based on III-Nitride Quantum Dots and Quantum Wells Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy” | Professor Theodore Moustakas, PhD |
Qingtai Zhai | “Development of a Novel Delta E-E Particle Identification Telescope Readout System” | Professor Theodore Fritz, PhD |
| Manufacturing Engineering |
Zhiqiang Cao | “Mechanical Behaviors of PECVD Dielectric Films for MEMS Applications” | Professor Xin Zhang, PhD |
Chenhuan Cui | “Experimental and Modeling Analysis of Plasma Spray Nonlinearities for Advanced Process Control Design” | Professor Michael A. Gevelber, PhD |
Hengdong Cui | “Mixed Ionic and Electronic Conducting Membranes for Hydrogen Generation and Separation” | Professor Srikanth Gopalan, PhD |
Shusen Huang | “Development of Double-Cantilever Infrared Detectors” | Professor Xin Zhang, PhD |
Jin-Hong Kim | “Manufacture of a Reflective Spatial Light Modulator Integrated Directly onto CMOS Electronics” | Professor Thomas Bifano, PhD |
Bing Xu | “Experimental and Modeling Analysis for Developing Improved Electron Beam Processing Capabilities for Precision Optical Coatings” | Professor Michael A. Gevelber, PhD |
| Mechanical Engineering |
Parag Vijay Chitnis | “A Study of Stone Fragmentation in Shock Wave Lithotripsy by Customizing the Acoustic Field and Waveform Shape” | Professor Robin Cleveland, PhD |
Caleb Hooper Farny | “Identifying and Monitoring the Roles of Cavitation in Heating from High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound” | Professor Ronald A. Roy, PhD |
Nachiket Hemant Gokhale | “Nonlinear Elasticity Imaging Using the Adjoint Method” | Professor Assad A. Oberai, PhD |
Jason David Holmes | “Investigation of Ocean Acoustics Using Autonomous Instrumentation to Quantify the Water-Sediment Boundary Properties” | Professor William M. Carey, PhD |
Yusuke Naka | “Numerical Methods for Solving the Wave Equation in Large Enclosures with Application to Room Acoustics” | Professor Assad A. Oberai, PhD |
Jeffrey Adam Stoll | “Ultrasound-Based Navigation for Minimally Invasive Medical Procedures” | Professor Pierre E. Dupont, PhD |
Tianming Wu | “Bubble Mediated Focused Ultrasound: Nucleation, Cavitation Dynamics and Lesion Prediction” | Professor R. Glynn Holt, PhD |
| System Engineering |
Min Chen | “Perturbation Analysis of Multiclass Fluid Models with First Come First Serve (FCFS) and Dynamic Priority Service Disciplines” | Professor Jian-Qiang Hu, PhD |
Wei Lai | “Optimizing Wireless Sensor Networks” | Professor Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis, PhD |
Meimei Wang | “Interval Alignment Policies and Their Applications” | James R. Perkins, PhD |
Kirk Stanley Wesselowski | “Receding Horizon Methods in Cooperative Control for Stochastic Transportation Applications on Graphs” | Professor Christos G. Cassandras, PhD |
