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PhD Graduates/Dissertation Titles 2006–07

Aerospace Engineering
Bioinformatics
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Systems Engineering

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

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