The Office of Graduate Education

Doctoral Degrees Awarded

2017-2018

SEMESTER YEAR SCHOOL DEPARTMENT LAST NAME FIRST NAME MAJOR DEGREE SUPERVISING PROFESSOR DISSERTATION TITLE OUTSIDE CHAIR Total
Fall 2017 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Swart William Studies in Literature PhD Charles Rombach Religious Experience at the Limits of Language: Lévinas, Marion, and Caputo From A Post-Phenomenological Perspective Xin Li
Fall 2017 School of Arts, Technology & Emerging Communication Arts and Technology Burns Louis   PhD Dean Terry Social Gaming as a Participatory Urban Design Process Alex Piquero 
Fall 2017 School of Arts, Technology & Emerging Communication Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication Donahue Jumanne   PhD Marjorie Zielke Cultural Simulation and the Applications of Culturally Enabled Games and Technology Stefano Leonardi 
Fall 2017 School of Arts, Technology & Emerging Communication Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication Guynes Del   PhD Angela M. Lee What Drives Online Citizen Journalism in Malaysia?  A Reasoned Action Model Approach Jeff Weekley 
Fall 2017 School of Arts, Technology & Emerging Communication Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication Robinson Jerry   PhD Anne Balsamo Sustaining Innovations and Disruptive Technologies: Implications for Mobile Health (mHEALTH) Care Platforms Robert Stillman
Fall 2017 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Cognition and Neuroscience Farrell Michelle   PhD Denise C. Park Longitudinal Effects of Amyloid on Cognitive Decline in Middle-Aged and Older Adults Roger Malina 
Fall 2017 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Cognition and Neuroscience Kapolowicz Michelle   PhD Peter F. Assmann The role of spectral information in foreign-accented speech perception Asli Leblebicioglu 
Fall 2017 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Cognition and Neuroscience Ketcherside Kristen   PhD Francesca M. Filbey Neural Mechanisms of Affective Processing in Obesity and Associations With Weight Loss Elizabeth Rugg
Fall 2017 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Communication Sciences and Disorders Evans Christine   PhD Andrea Warner-Czyz Societal Benefit of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Nils Roemer 
Fall 2017 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Communication Sciences and Disorders Kavakci Mariam   PhD Christine Dollaghan Oculomotor Evidence of Visual and Auditory Statistical Learning in Children Richard Harrison
Fall 2017 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Criminology Birch Ivan   PhD Alex R. Piquero Perceptions of Success in serious Juvenile Offenders:  A Group-Based Trajectory Approach Aage Møller 
Fall 2017 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Geospatial Information Science Lee Monghyeon   PhD Daniel A. Griffith /Yongwan Chun (co-chair) Impacts of Location Uncertainty on Statistical Modeling of Georeferenced Data Seunghyun Lee
Fall 2017 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Geospatial Information Science Thakar Vaishnavi   PhD Denis J. Dean A Spatial Optimization Approach to Finding Locations for Wildfire Fuel Treatments Hongbing Lu
Fall 2017 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Political Science Iqbal Imrana   PhD Lloyd J. Dumas Nuclear weapons proliferation and terrorism: law, politics, and theory Josef Nguyen 
Fall 2017 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Public Affairs Brecheen Courtney   PhD Sheryl L. Skaggs The Pursuit of Access, Equity, and Diversity in Public Higher Education: Social Capital Considerations and Underrepresented Minority Enrollment in California, Texas, and Michigan Universities Dennis Miller
Fall 2017 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Public Policy and Political Economy Kim Alisha   PhD Brian J.L. Berry New models of multilateralism: Investigating the dynamics of transboundary water governance Janos Turi
Fall 2017 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Public Policy and Political Economy Pham Anh   PhD Dohyeong Kim Exploring Determinants for Recruitment and Retention of Family Doctors for Rural Practice in Vietnam: Lessons From A Discrete Choice Experiment Viswanath Ramakrishna
Fall 2017 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Public Policy and Political Economy Vyas Priyanka   PhD Dohyeong Kim Examining Spatial Mismatch in the Supply and Demand for Maternal and Child Health Services in Bangladesh Michael Biewer
Fall 2017 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Public Policy and Political Economy Zhang Yingyuan   PhD Richard K. Scotch Chinese Residential Housing Policy Evaluation Nikki Delk 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Biomedical Engineering Corbett John   PhD Steven Patrie /  Hyuntae Yoo (co-chair) Novel Automated Platform For Proteoform Driven Top-Down Mass Spectrometry Proteomics Bernhard Ganglmair
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Biomedical Engineering Shimizu Eileen   PhD Mario Romero-Ortega Metabolic Mechanisms of Injury and Neuroprotection With Riluzole Against Hypoxic Damage In Mild Distraction Spinal Cord Injury Steven Xiao 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Engineering Arora Sameer   PhD Poras T. Balsara /  Dinesh K. Bhatia (co-chair) Nonlinear Phenomenon and Efficient Nonlinear Control Techniques For DC-DC Power Converters Jun Li 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Engineering Bi Zhaori   PhD Dian Zhou Efficient and Quality Assured Techniques for Analog Circuit Design Automation Suresh Radhakrishnan 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Al Naami Khaled   PhD Latifur Khan / Kevin W.Hamlen  (co-chair) Enhancing Cybersecurity with Encrypted Traffic Fingerprinting Frank Konietschke 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Chen Zhuo   PhD Gopal Gupta / Lakshman S. Tamil  (co-chair) Automating Disease Management Using Answer Set Programming: Heart Failure Tomislav Kovandzic
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Haque Ahsanul   PhD Latifur Khan Semi-supervised Adaptive Classification over Data Streams Nanda Kumar 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Platz Kenneth   PhD S. Venkatesan / Neeraj Mittal (co-chair) Saturation in Lock-Based Concurrent Data Structures Euel Elliott 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Solaimani M   PhD Latifur Khan Design and Development of Real-Time Big Data Analytics Frameworks Nadine Connell 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Tian Yuan   PhD B. Prabhakaran / Xiaohu Guo  (co-chair) Haptic Rendering in 3D Immersive Environments Christa McIntyre 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Xu Ke   PhD Haim Schweitzer Feature Engineering for Data Analytics Ying Xie
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Abotabl Ahmed   PhD Aria Nosratinia Design and Analysis of Multilevel Coded Modulation For Multi-Node Networks Doug Goodman
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Ali Ahmed   PhD Murat Torlak Performance Analysis and Techniques for Wireless Systems with Unmanaged and Managed Interference Zachary Campbell
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Cosoroaba Eva Marie   PhD Babak Fahimi Multiphysics Simulation, Analysis, and Design of a Permanent Magnet Excited Liquid Metal Magnetohydrodynamic Power Generator Gregory Dess 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Deshpande Girish   PhD Dinesh K. Bhatia Thermal Management Techniques for Field Programmable Gate Arrays Michael Rebello
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Ibrahim Mostafa   PhD Naofal Al-Dhahir Hybrid Powerline/Wireless Diversity For Smart Grid Communications Alessio Saretto
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Ke Xugang   PhD Dongheng Ma GAN Driving Techniques and Circuits For High Performance and High Reliability Power Electronics Victor Valcarcel 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Mirsamadi Seyedmahdad   PhD John H.L. Hansen Robust acoustic modeling and front-end design for distant speech recognition Miecyslaw Dabkowski
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Misra Abhinav   PhD John H.L. Hansen Robust Back-End Processing For Speaker Verification Under Language And Acoustic Mismatch Conditions Qingwen Hu
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Sadoughi Nourabadi Najmeh   PhD Carlos Busso Synthesizing Naturalistic and Meaningful Speech-Driven Behaviors Evgenia Gorina 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Shady Mohamed   PhD Aria Nosratinia Coherence diversity: A novel source of gain in wireless multiuser networks Ramachandran Natarajan 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Sharma Nishtha   PhD Andrew Marshall / William R. Frensley  Circuit Level Modeling of Spintronic Devices Casey Johnson 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Wu Minxiang   PhD Babak Fahimi Multiphysics Simulation and Optimal Design of a Pulsed Cold Plasma Reformer Zhenyu Xuan 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Zhu Bohang   PhD Kaushik Rajashekara Fast Response Model Predictive Control for Open-End Winding Induction Motors John Pomara 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Materials Science and Engineering Avila Avendano Jesus   PhD Chadwin D. Young New Applications for CDTE/CDS Heterojunctions: The Prospects of the Thin-Film JFET Zhe Zhang 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Materials Science and Engineering Oviedo Robles Juan Pablo   PhD Moon Kim Resolving Nitrogen Bases in Single Stranded DNA with Hexagonal Boron Nitride / ALD TiO2 Nanopores Juan Gonzalez
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Materials Science and Engineering Serna Villacis Martha   PhD Manuel Quevedo-Lopez Layered Metal Dichalcogenides Thin Films Deposited By Pulsed Laser Deposition Indranil Bardhan 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Materials Science and Engineering Yue Ruoyu   PhD Christopher L. Hinkle Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Michael Farmer 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Materials Science and Engineering Zhang Bo   PhD Bruce E. Gnade Fabrication and Characterization of Thermoelectric Materials and Their Stable Contacts at Elevated Temperatures Frederick Turner 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Materials Science and Engineering Zhu Hui   PhD Robert M. Wallace Surface and Interface Characterization of 2D Materials: Transition Metal Dichalcogenide and Black Phosphorous Ming Gu 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Pillutla Venkata Srikrishna   PhD Wonjae Choi Development of Scalable and Hierarchical Superhydrophobic Surfaces for Drag Reduction Ryan McMahan
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Saharan Lokesh Kumar   PhD Yonas Tadesse iGRAB Hand Orthosis: Design and Development Using Twisted and Coiled Polymer Muscles Bobby Alexander 
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Solano Cordoba Miguel   PhD Stefano Leonardi Numerical modeling and forecasting of coastal ocean currents and water levels using a 3D terrain-following, primitive equation ocean model  Shaojie Tang
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Wada Shogo   PhD Dong Qian Multiscale simulation of failure based on space-time finite element method and non-ordinary state-based peridynamics Nina Baranchuk
Fall 2017 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Wu Lianjun   PhD Yonas Tadesse Twisted and coiled polymer muscles and structures for Robotics Application Rainer Schulte
Fall 2017 School of Management Management Science Freling Ryan   PhD Brian Ratchford Understanding Influences and Biases in Decision Making: Three Meta-Analyses on Information Processing Carlos Busso
Fall 2017 School of Management Management Science Kadiyala Bharadwaj   PhD Ozalp Ozer Incentive Mechanisms for Inventory Control and Promotions Planning in Value Chain Management Maxim Arnold
Fall 2017 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Dissanayake Dushanthi   PhD Michael C. Biewer Synthesis of Functionalized Thiophene Based Materials Michael Tiefelsdorf
Fall 2017 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Taghavi Nasrabadi Amir   PhD Lev D. Gelb Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Protic Ionic Liquids Rodney Andrews
Fall 2017 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Yang Kejia   PhD Walter E. Voit Isotropic Fused Filament Fabrication Additive Manufacturing Ben Porter 
Fall 2017 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Geosciences Chakraborty Jayeeta   PhD William I. Manton Exploring the Link Between Low-Rank Coal Derived Organic Compounds in Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer and Incidence of Kidney Disease in East Texas Toyah Miller
Fall 2017 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Mathematics Arenas-Navarro Isnardo   PhD Stefano Leonardi  / Susan E. Minkoff  Numerical Simulations For Turbulent Drag Reduction Using Liquid Infused Surfaces Mehrdad Nourani 
Fall 2017 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Mathematics Perez-Nagera Pedro   PhD Janos Turi Numerical Solutions for a Class of Singular Neutral Functional Differential Equations Wonjae Chai
Fall 2017 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Molecular and Cell Biology Lal Sneha   PhD Li Zhang Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Aerobic Respiration and HEME Regulation in Yeast Angela Lee 
Fall 2017 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Molecular and Cell Biology Li Farry   PhD Kelli L. Palmer Genomic and Transcriptomic Analysis of Enterococcus Faecalis Responses to Cationic Antimicrobials Sheena D’Arcy 
Fall 2017 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Molecular and Cell Biology Louis Sam Titus Anto Sam Crosslee   PhD Santosh R. D'Mello Reduced Foxp1 Expression as a Contributing Factor in Huntington's Disease Marion Underwood
Fall 2017 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Molecular and Cell Biology Pavlovic Milos   PhD Michael Q. Zhang / Min Chen  (co-chair) Machine learning approaches to unravelling the role of mammalian DNA methylation in gene regulation Yongwan Chun
Fall 2017 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Molecular and Cell Biology Price Valerie   PhD Kelli L. Palmer The impact of genome defense systems on antibiotic resistance dissemination in the opportunistic pathogen Enterococcus faecalis Banks Miller
Fall 2017 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Niedbalski Peter   PhD Lloyd Lumata Mechanisms and Optimization Methods of 13C Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Young Ryu
Fall 2017 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Statistics Wang Cheng   PhD Qiongxia Song Extensions of Semiparametric Single Index Models Daniel Griffith  Total =  69
Spring 2018 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Georgiou Danielle Aesthetic Studies PhD Thomas Riccio Pizzicato Porno, Dirty Filthy Diamonds, Nice, and the Show About Men: Devised Dance Theatre Productions Kroener, Sven
Spring 2018 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Love Kennedy Lillian Aesthetic Studies PhD Marilyn Waligore Reimagining the Myth Keepers:  The Native American Female in Media Images Mittal, Neeraj 
Spring 2018 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Miller Cynthia Aesthetic Studies PhD Marilyn Waligore Landscapes of Mothering: Creating Maternal Identity Through Story Menon, Syam
Spring 2018 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Parrish Timothy History of Ideas PhD Charles R. Bambach  Language and Justification: Richard Rorty’s Therapeutic Philosophy Simsek, A.
Spring 2018 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Ramanath Sumathi History of Ideas PhD Pamela S. Gossin Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science: Mahendralal Sircar and His Science, Morality, and Nationalism Siegenthaler, Simon
Spring 2018 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Samarth Aditi PhD Thomas Riccio / Richard Brettell (co-chair) The Survival of Hindu Cremation Myths and Rituals in 21st Century Practice: Three Contemporary Case Studies Ackerman, Robert
Spring 2018 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Tang Le PhD Ming Dong Gu Between Politics and Aesthetics: Red China Through the Lens of Western Leftist Filmmakers Ware, Taylor 
Spring 2018 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Zhang Qiang PhD Ming Dong Gu Childhood Subjectivity in Western and Chinese Thought and Literature: A Case Study of Four Masterworks Chiou, Sy Han
Spring 2018 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Feng Shu Studies in Literature PhD Adrienne L. McLean Adapting Affect: Cognition, Emotion, and Identity from Novel to Film Tadesse, Yonas
Spring 2018 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Feng Tao Studies in Literature PhD Ming Dong Gu Old Age and Senior Subjectivity: Intellectual Reflections and  Literary Representations Across Cultures Zhang, Jie 
Spring 2018 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Mueller Mary Catherine Studies in Literature PhD David A. Patterson The Collapse of Time, Home, and Relationships:  A Critical Approach to the Holocaust Short Story Robert, Kieschnick 
Spring 2018 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Thompson Rebecca Studies in Literature PhD David A. Patterson Mayn tsvaoeh durkh dir ikh loz: The Socialist Realism of Dovid Bergelson Cakanyildirim, Metin
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Audiology Baker Jason AuD Jackie Clark
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Audiology Caldwell Tyler AuD Jackie Clark (co-chair) / Linda Thibodeau (co-chair)
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Audiology Eller Jana AuD Andrea Warner-Czyz
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Audiology Falomo Mobolaji AuD Jackie Clark
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Audiology Roby Lori AuD Andrea Warner-Czyz
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Audiology Rogers Rebecca AuD Carol Cokely
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Audiology Schott Alyce PhD Carol Cokely
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Audiology Winfield Stephanie PhD Jackie Clark (co-chair) /Linda Thibodeau (co-chair)
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Cognition and Neuroscience Borland Michael PhD Michael Kilgard  Understanding and Optimizing Vagus Nerve Stimulation Directed Cortical Plasticty Meloni, Gabriele 
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Cognition and Neuroscience Brigante Ryan PhD Bart Rypma Cross-Modal Priming of Music Concepts: On The Metaphorical Nature of Musical Meaning Cardemas, Alvaro 
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Cognition and Neuroscience Hulsey Daniel PhD Michael Kilgard Neuromodulatory Pathways Required for Targeted Plasticity Therapy Maxwell, Sarah
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Cognition and Neuroscience Noble Lindsey PhD Christa K. McIntyre The Effects of Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Extinction of Conditioned Fear Arreche, Carlos
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Comm Sciences and Disorders Mohan Anusha PhD Sven Vanneste Emerging Network Connectomics in Phantom Sound Perception Cao, Yan
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Comm Sciences and Disorders Shin Sujin PhD William F. Katz The Effect of Auditory Input on The Rate of Speech Production by Cochlear Implants Users Scott, Andrew
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Psychological Sciences Rowles Sydney PhD Candice M. Mills “Is it worth my time and effort?”: How children selectively gather information from experts when faced with different kinds of costs Kesden, Michael
Spring 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Psychological Sciences Schneider Julie PhD Mandy J. Maguire Identifying Differences in the Neural Correlates Underlying Semantic and Syntactic Development Hyndman, Kyle 
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Criminology Donnelly Paul PhD Worrall, John L. The Cycle and Dynamics of Reform and Neglect in a State Juvenile Corrections Agency: The Texas Experience Smith, Erin  
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Criminology Fenny Omobolanle PhD Connell, Nadine M. Bullying in Nigerian Secondary Schools: A test of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime Ye, Shengqi  
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Criminology Okeem Chidike PhD Piquero, Nicole Leeper A Theoretical Exploration of Psychological Grit in the Context of Criminology Wiorkowski, John  
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Criminology Powell Zachary PhD Piquero, Alex  R. Foreign Direct Investment, Institutional Anomie, Crime, and Imprisonment Ruozzi, Nicholas  
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Criminology Shuraydi Amny PhD Vieraitis, Lynne M. “I’ll Smoke, but I Won’t Eat Pork:”  Observing the Effects of Cultural Identity on Drug Dealing and Use Amongst a Sample Of Arab And Arab-American Men Dowling, W.  
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Economics Budiman Santoso PhD Hicks, Donald A. The Impact of Investment-Mix on ICT Firms' Financial and Market Performances Fishwick, Paul  
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Economics Si Xia PhD Beron, Kurt  Three Essays on the Economics of Nutrition Assistance and Food Security Guo, Xiaohu  
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Economics Yang Shuo PhD Xin (Sherry) Li Three Essays in Economics: Group Identity and Punishment, Human Capital  Development, and Moral Hazard Romero-Ortega, Mario  
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Economics Zhang Zeyu PhD Arce M., Daniel G./Deza, Monica(co-chair) Three Essays on Economic Demography Tan, Chin-Tuan  
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Geospatial Information Science Binthunaiyan Abdullah PhD Dean, Denis J. Multimodal Traffic Modeling in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A Coevolutionary, Best Case Analysis Fox, Kyle  
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Geospatial Information Science Koo Hyeongmo PhD Chun, Yongwan  Visualizing and Modeling Spatial Data Uncertainty Zhang, Kang  
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Political Science Verma Shaivya PhD Clarke, Harold D. Seeking Refuge:  Analysis of Deterrence Policies and Formal Rights Zhang, Jieying  
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Public Affairs Chordiya Rashmi PhD Sabharwal, Meghna Enhancing Retention of Women,  Minorities, and Employees with Disabilities: An Organizational Inclusion Perspective Cobb, Jorge  
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Public Policy and Political Economy Cologlu Kasim PhD Brandt, Patrick T. Price Dynamics in LNG Spot Markets: An Econometric Analysis Lumata, Lloyd  
Spring 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Public Policy and Political Economy Torno Randell PhD Holmes, Jennifer S. The Arc of Conflict: Three Articles on the Life of a Conflict Barnes, Ashley  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Engineering Arunachalam Harish Babu PhD Daescu, Ovidiu Computational Methods for Histopathological Whole Slide Image Analysis of Osteosarcoma Llamas-Rodriguez, Juan  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Engineering He Jiacong PhD Callenes-Sloan, Joseph Architecting Large Caches with Reduced Energy Siqueira, Kevin  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Barreto Suarez Carlos Alfredo PhD Cardenas, Alvaro A. Role of economic policies in the security of critical infrastructures Sasson, Noah  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Faisal Mustafa PhD Cardenas, Alvaro A. Modeling Behavior of Industrial Control System Protocols for Intrusion Detection Harrington, James  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Goodwin Travis PhD Harabagiu, Sanda Medical Question Answering and Patient Cohort Retrieval Springate, David  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Karande Vishal PhD Khan, Latifur /Lin, Zhiqiang  (Co-Chair) Protecting User Applications Using Trusted Execution Environment Fass, Simon  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Mustafa Ahmad PhD Khan, Latifur  Novel Class Detection and Cross-Lingual Duplicate Detection Over Online Data Stream Rivera Mesias, Alejandro  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Afran Md Shah PhD Saquib, Mohammad Synchronization, Equalization and Diversity Algorithms for Sparse Aeronautical Telemetry Channels Underwood, Marion  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Bhardwaj Manish PhD Akin, Bilal  In Circuit Frequency Response Analysis for Control Design & Monitoring  of Power Converters Wheeler, Andrew  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Challapalli Niharika PhD Vidyasagar, Mathukumalli Compressed Sensing Algorithms and Applications to Sparse Control Hicks, Donald  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Elshafie Ahmed PhD Al-Dhahir, Naofal PHY Security of Wiretap Channels: From Point-to-Point to Multiple Access Li, Meng  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Ganguly Anshuman PhD Panahi, Issa  Noise-Robust Speech Source Localization and Tracking Using Microphone Arrays for Smartphone-Assisted  Hearing Aid Devices Gassensmith, Jeremiah  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Heydarzadeh Mehrdad PhD Nourani, Mehrdad Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis in Industrial Systems Using Machine Learning Techniques Li, Dong  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Huang Huihua PhD Sechen, Carl  A 0.1 Ps Resolution Coarse-Fine Time-To-Digital Converter With 2.21 Ps Single-Shot Precision Kuksov, Dmitri  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Karadagur Ananda Reddy Chandan PhD Panahi, Issa  User Customizable Real-Time Single and Dual Microphone Speech Enhancement and Blind Speech Separation for Smartphone Hearing Aid Applications Smaldone, Ronald  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Kaushik Lakshmish PhD Hansen, John Conversational Speech Understanding in Highly Naturalistic Audio Streams  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Kumar Varun Subramaniam PhD Pourkamali, Siavash  Novel Sensing Approaches Towards Ultimate MEMS Sensors Murthi, B.P.S.  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Li Ting PhD Torlak, Murat Enabling Massive Device Connectivity in 5g Cellular Networks Dumas, Lloyd  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Lotfian Reza PhD Busso, Carlos Machine Learning Solutions for Emotional Speech: Exploiting The Information Of Individual Annotations Sadka, Gil  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Lv Ge PhD Gregg, Robert  Energy Shaping Control of Powered Lower-Limb Exoskeletons for Assistance of Human Locomotion Knight, Kim  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Mahdavi Mohammad PhD Pourkamali, Siavash  Resonant MEMS Piezoelectric Balances and Strain-Gauges Du, Heng  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Meng Xin PhD Kim, Jiyoung High Mobility III-V Semiconductor Devices with Gate Dielectrics and Passivation Layers Grown by Atomic Layer Deposition Subramanian, Upender  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Yang Zhuo PhD Fahimi, Babak Online Health Monitoring in Lithium-Ion Battery for Electrified Transportation Systems Dussor, Gregory  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Yao Haohan PhD Henderson, Rashaunda Radio-Frequency Communication Using Higher Order Gaussian Beams Jacob, Varghese  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Zheng Yang PhD Hansen, John  Driver Behavior and Environment Interaction Modeling for Intelligent Vehicle Advancements Cummings, Anthony  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Materials Science and Engineering Gao Yuzhi PhD Chabal, Yves Interface Chemistry in Al-Based Metal/Metal Oxide Reactive Nanolaminates Markoczi, Livia  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Materials Science and Engineering Thampy Sampreetha PhD Hsu, Julia Synthesis, Structure, and Gas-Surface Interaction in RM2O5-δ Mullite-Type Oxides as Nitric Oxide (No) Oxidation Catalysts Giertz, Seth  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Materials Science and Engineering Zhang Chenxi PhD Cho, Kyeongjae First-Principle Study on Electronic Structures of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Li, Bin  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Aliakbari Miyanmahaleh Mohammad PhD Hassanipour, Fatemeh Thermal Modeling of the Human Lactating Breast Mookerjee, Radha  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Awasthi Ankit PhD Anderson, William  Numerical Study of Turbulent Channel Flows Perturbed by Spanwise Topographic Heterogeneity: Inner-Outer Interactions Within Low- and High-Momentum Pathways Stefan, Mihaela  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Debnath Mithu PhD Iungo, Giacomo Evolution within the Atmospheric Boundary Layer of Coherent Structures Generated by Wind Turbines: Lidar Measurements and Modal Decomposition Techniques Park, Jiyoung  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Quintero David PhD Gregg, Robert  Virtual Constraint Control of Powered Prosthetic Legs: Unifying the Gait Cycle Kim, Dohyeong  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Tajaddodianfar Farid PhD Moheimani, Reza Control System Design for High Performance Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Prager, Karen  
Spring 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Software Engineering Valente Junia PhD Cardenas, Alvaro Vulnerability Trends in IoT Devices and New Sensor-Assisted Security Protections Goffman, Lisa  
Spring 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Ameri Mina PhD Xie, Ying/Honka, Elisabeth   Three Essays on Network Development, Social Influence, and User Engagement in Online Communities Banner, Olivia  
Spring 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Green Kevin PhD Zhang, Harold Essays on Retail Operations Lee, Young-joo  
Spring 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Kirci Ismail PhD Honhon, Dorothée  (Co-Chair)/Muharremoglu, Alp (Co-Chair) Not Just What is Said, But How it is Said: Implicit Communication and Enforcement of Corporate Disclosure Regulations Rugg, Liz  
Spring 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Kyung Hoyoun PhD Ali, Ashiq Strategizing for e-commerce: Science and Art in Communication and Pricing Sirsi, Shashank  
Spring 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Qiu Ye PhD Rao, Ram  Corporations Under Probation: The Determinants and Consequences of the Monitorship Requirement in Regulatory Enforcement Actions Sarac, Kamil  
Spring 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Sun Yan PhD Cready, William M. (Co-Chair)/Files, Rebecca L. (Co-Chair) Price Shocks and Financial Hedging: Empirical Analysis Liu, Cong  
Spring 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Zemoodeh Amir PhD Kieschnick, Robert L. (Co-chair)/Saretto, Alessio (Co-chair) Qin, Zhenpeng  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Adikari Appuhamillage Gayan PhD Smaldone, Ronald A. New 3D Printable Polymeric Materials for Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF)    Hamlen, Kevin  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Hammack Audrey PhD Gnade, Bruce E. (Chair)/Pantano, Paul (Co-Chair) Incorporating Novel Functionality on In Vitro Microelectrode Arrays Park, Peter  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Hashami Zohreh PhD Kovacs, Zoltan (Co-Chair)/Sibert, John W. (Co-Chair) Novel Magnetic Resonance Probes  Honhon, Dorothee  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Geosciences Tang Chen PhD McMechan, George A. From Multidirectional-Vector-Based Seismic Reverse Time Migration and Angle-Domain Common-Image Gathers to Full Waveform Inversion Using Phase-Modifed and Deconvolved Image in Acoustic and Elastic Media Rugg, Liz  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Geosciences Urbanski Tara PhD Aiken, Carlos L. V.  Virtual Geologic Environments: Interfaces to Incorporate Visualization and Analyses of 3-D Models in Geoscience Education And Research Clarke, Harold  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Mathematics Kaderli Jordan PhD Minkoff, Susan E. An Analytic Solution to a Coupled System of Equations for Modeling Photoacoustic Trace Gas Sensors and a Full Waveform Inversion Approach to Microseismic Source Estimation Piquero, Nicole  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Mathematics Wu Hao Pin PhD Balanov, Zalman (Co-Chair)/Krawcewicz, Wieslaw (Co-Chair) Application of Degree Theory to Dynamical Systems with Symmetry (with Special Focus on Computational Aspects and Algebraic Challenges) Schweitzer, Haim  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Molecular and Cell Biology Padmanabhan Ramesh PhD Miller, Dennis L. The Effect of Partial Promoter Sequences on Primer Labeling and De Novo Initiation by T7 RNA Polymerase Janakiraman, Surya  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Molecular and Cell Biology Rodrigues Marinelle PhD Palmer, Kelli L. CRISPR-Cas Systems in Enterococcus faecalis and their application in probiotics for the removal of antibiotic resistance William, Cready  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Molecular and Cell Biology Sarcar Subha PhD Miller, Dennis L. Mechanism of RNA/DNA Editing Activity by Single Subunit RNA Polymerase Superfamily Members Iungo, Giacomo  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Molecular and Cell Biology Xie Peng PhD Zhang, Michael Q. Computational Biology of Gene Transcriptional Regulation Nadin, Mihai  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Bhui Rita PhD Hayenga, Heather N. A Multiscale Model of Leukocyte Transendothelial Migration During Atherogenesis Sandler, Todd  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Coleman Joseph PhD King, Lindsay J. A Study of Abell 2146: Dark and Luminous Brunell, Thomas  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Graef Edward PhD Prasad, Shalini  Empirical Investigation of Co2 Utilizing Room Temperature Ionic Liquids Anderson, William  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Hawkins Jessica PhD Anderson, Phillip C. Sources of Variability in the Topside Ionosphere Akin, Bilal  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Hsu Chih Te PhD Heelis, Roderick A. Heat Exchange Processes in the Topside Ionosphere at Low to Middle Latitudes Nam, Hyanjoo  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Kahanda Galathara PhD Slinker, Jason D. Electrochemical Measurements on Self-Assembled Monolayers of DNA to Follow Anti-Cancer Drug Activity and Helicase Interactions Hays, Seth  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Landry Russell PhD Anderson, Phillip C. Empirical Study of Subauroral Polarization Streams (SAPS) through Decades of Satellite Observations Bastani, Farokh  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Lin Kuo-Yao PhD Slinker, Jason  D. Surface Characterization of Organic and Bioinspired Nanoscale Devices Towner, Theresa  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Smith Jonathon PhD Heelis, Roderick A. Satellite Observations of Evolving Properties of Equatorial Ionospheric Plasma Structures Raichel, Benjamin  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Wu Daji PhD Lary, David J. Providing Physical Insights into the Morphology of Spatial and Temporal Distributions of Atmospheric Aerosols Using Machine Learning Hinkle, Christopher  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Yao Ji PhD Ishak-Boushaki, Mustapha Extending and Implementing the Self-Calibration of Intrinsic Alignments of Galaxies to Current and Future Weak Lensing Surveys Salk, Jane  
Spring 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Statistics Chowdhury Marzana PhD Choudhary, Pankaj K. (Co-Chair)/Biswas, Swati (Co-Chair) Prediction of Individualized Risk of Contralateral Breast Cancer Carrion-Schaefer, Ben   Total=107
Summer 2018 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Miguel Marrero PhD Michael Wilson Homo-Sexile: Gay and Transgender Communities - Sexual and National Identities in Latin American Fiction and Film Cogan, Stuart  
Summer 2018 School of Arts and Humanities Humanities Jennifer Kraemer Studies in Literature PhD Jessica Murphy Adapting Marriage: Law Versus Custom in Early Modern English Plays Gregg, Robert  
Summer 2018 School of Arts, Technology & Emerging Communications Arts and Technology Priyanka Sharma PhD Maximilian Schich Towards an Orchestration of Forecasting Methods to Devise Strategies for Design Cho, Kyeongjae  
Summer 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Cognition and Neuroscience Christopher Desolis PhD Jonathan E. Ploski Viral Tool Development for Investigations of Learning and Memory Burr, John  
Summer 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Cognition and Neuroscience Michael Kriegsman PhD Herve Abdi Discriminant Distatis: A Multi-Way Discriminant Analysis For Distance Matrices, Illustrations With Sorting Task Hays, Seth  
Summer 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Cognition and Neuroscience Shaurabh Nandy PhD Richard Golden A Theoretical Framework for Generative Modeling of Human Functional Brain Networks  Fey, Nicholas  
Summer 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Cognition and Neuroscience Hye Bin Yoo PhD Sven Vanneste The Effect of Transcutaneous Occipital Nerve Stimulation on a Core Brain Network Via Functional Connectivity Bunte, Jonas  
Summer 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Comm Sciences and Disorders Julie Fratantoni PhD John Hart Theta Entrainment to Modulate Cognitive Control of Language Functions Reitzer, Lawrence  
Summer 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Comm Sciences and Disorders Hannah Pourchot Neale PhD Andrea Warner-Czyz  Face Scanning Patterns of Infants With Hearing Loss: Effects of Auditory Stimuli  Ishak-Boushaki, Mustapha  
Summer 2018 School of Behavioral & Brain Sciences Psychological Sciences Jesse Poucher PhD Karen J. Prager Relationship-Contingent Self-Esteem Predicts Self-Sacrifice to Reolve Conflict in the Face of More Severe Conflict Gartstein, Yuri  
Summer 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Criminology Myesha Applewhite PhD Denise P. Boots An Evaluation of the Outcomes of an Urban Mental Health Court Conditional Dismissal Program in Texas Minary, Majid  
Summer 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Economics Kwang Soo Kim PhD Donggyu Sul Essays on Investment and Exports of Multinational Firms in South Korea Choi, Emily  
Summer 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Political Science Steven Manley PhD Harold D. Clarke Public Opinion Regarding LGBT Policies: Determinants, Dynamics, and Consequences of Attitudes in the United States and Europe  Page, Ivor  
Summer 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Public Affairs Ji Won Suh PhD Paul Battaglio Organizational Communication and Performance in the Public and NonProfit Sector Spiro, Stephen  
Summer 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Public Affairs Jeremy Vickers PhD Meghna Sabharwal/Bobby Alexander Entrepreneurial Leadership: A Case Study of U.S. Accelerator Executives Maguire, Mandy  
Summer 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Public Policy and Political Economy Soojin Min PhD Richard Scotch/Dohyeong Kim Disparity in Risk Factors for Urban Residential Fire Related Injuries and Deaths Majumdar, Sumit  
Summer 2018 School of Economic, Political & Policy Sciences Public Policy and Political Economy Viveca Maria Leonela Pavon Tercero PhD Jennifer Holmes Dynamics of Violence in El Salvador Rugg, Michael  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Biomedical Engineering Katelyn Grasse PhD Robert L. Rennaker II A Novel Approach to Automate Measurement and Training of Hand and Wrist Motor Functions Zheng, Jie  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Biomedical Engineering Sathyanarayanan Sridhar PhD Danieli C. Rodrigues A Comprehensive In Vitro and In Vivo Failure Analysis of Titanium Dental Implant Systems  Hatfield, Charles  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Engineering Mohammad Mahdi Bidmeshki PhD Yiorgos Makris Proof-Carrying Hardware Intellectual Property (PCHIP): Framework Automation and Enhancement Rosen, Mark  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Yasmeen Mansour Alufaisan PhD Murat Kantarcioglu Towards Algorithmic Accountability in Data Mining Golden, Richard  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Swarup Chandra PhD Latifur Khan/Zhiqiang Lin  Scalable and Secure Learning with Limited Supervision Over Data Streams Tsang, Eric  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Computer Science Guangmo Tong PhD Ding-Zhu Du/Cong Liu Optimization Problems in Social Networks Lowry, Robert  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Syed Ali PhD Bilal Akin Condition Monitoring for Discrete Packaged Insulated Gate Bipilar Transistors in Power Converters Vanneste, Sven  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Esmail Babakrpur Nalousi PhD Won Namgoong A Digitally-Assisted Blocker Resilient RF Receiver for Wideband SAW-less Applications Gooch, John  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Jyotirmoy Banik PhD Andrea Fumagalli/Marco Tacca Towards a Robust Unified Internet: Improving the Performance of Next Generation Wireless Networks Ramakrishna, Viswanath  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Kiruba Sankaran Subramani PhD Yiorgos Makris/Aria Nosratinia Hardware Trojans in Wireless Networks Harrington, James  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Mohsen Zafarani PhD Bilal Akin Condition Monitoring Techniques For Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors Hart, John  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Peng Zhao PhD Chadwin D. Young Investigation of Electrical Properties of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Transistors with High-K Dielectrics Pinkham, Amy  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering Qian Zhong PhD Kenneth K. O Near Millimeter Wave CMOS Receiver and Transmitter Chan, Julia  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Materials Science and Engineering Aaron Dangerfield PhD Yves J. Chabal Film Formation Mechanisms and Interfacial Interactions Derived From In-Situ Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Ex-Situ XPS Glosser, Robert  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Mohammad Karim PhD Dong Qian Multi-Scale Methods and Applications of Ultrashort Laser Processing Miller, Toyah  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Clint Nicely PhD Dong Qian Concurrently Coupled Peridynamics/Finite Element Simulation Based on Nonlocal Matching Boundary Conditions Zentner, Alejandro  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Akshay Potnuru PhD Yonas Tadesse Coiled Shape Memory Alloy (CSMA) Actuators and Conductive Filament for the Realization of 3D Printed Robots Slinker, Jason  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Christian Santoni-Ortiz PhD Stefano Leonardi Wind Farm Modeling: From The Meso-Scale To The Micro-Scale Gurun, Umit  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Xuemin Wang PhD Hongbing Lu Mechanical Characterization and Modeling of Composite Materials During Compression and Actuation Delk, Nikki  
Summer 2018 Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering Xiaowei Zhu PhD William Anderson Wall Modeling for Turbulent Flow Over Complex Roughness Peinhardt, Clint  
Summer 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management International Management Studies Young-Hoon Jung PhD Seung-Hyun Lee Institutions behind Corporate Nonmarket Strategy Kim, Jung-Whan  
Summer 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management International Management Studies Xiujuan Li PhD Eric W. K. Tsang Organizational Learning and Search in the U.S. Airline Industry: Diffusion of Responsibility, Competitive Advantage of Newness, and Opportunistic Search Sul, Donggyu  
Summer 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management International Management Studies Huy Nguyen PhD Zhiang "John" Lin/Mike W. Peng Corporate social responsibility and firm strategic behaviors Fair, George  
Summer 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management International Management Studies Cristina Vlas PhD Mike W. Peng/Emily Choi Internal and External Innovation: Antecedents, Moderators, and Consequences Pearson, Robert  
Summer 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Manmohan Aseri PhD Vijay S. Mookerjee/Milind Dawande Strategic Challenges in the Digital Advertising Ecosystem Henderson, Rashaunda  
Summer 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Yaqin Hu PhD Umit G. Gurun/William M. Cready Local CEOs, Career Concerns, and Voluntary Disclosure Aldahir, Naofal  
Summer 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Youngki Jang PhD William Cready/Suresh Radhakrishnan Voluntary Disclosure With Uncertainty About Investors' Response: Evidence From M&A Conference Calls Blanchard, Andrew  
Summer 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Yeongin Kim PhD Srinivasan Raghunathan/Mehmet Ayvaci Essays on the Economics of Information Sharing in Healthcare Haas, Zygmunt  
Summer 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Cheng Nie PhD Sumit Sarkar/Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng Essays on Online Review Manipulation and Sponsored Search Advertising Wang, Jun  
Summer 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Danish Saifee PhD Vijay S. Mookerjee/Atanu Lahiri Essays on Health Information Technology, Social Media, and Care Quality Pourkamali, Siavash  
Summer 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Jayarajan Samuel PhD Vijay S. Mookerjee/Eric Zheng Three Essays in Information Systems Diehl, Paul  
Summer 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Sina Shokoohyar PhD Elena Katok/Anyan Qi Supplier Performance Management: A Behavioral Study Wu, Wei  
Summer 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Yulia Vorotyntseva PhD Dorothée Honhon/Elena Katok Essays on Individual Choice Modeling and Analysis Qiu, Fang  
Summer 2018 Naveen Jindal School of Management Management Science Xiao Zhang PhD Ozalp Ozer Pricing, Upgrade, and Contract Management O, Kenneth  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Sampath Bandara Alahakoon PhD Ronald A. Smaldone Enhanced Structural Organization and Sorption Properties of Covalent Organic Frameworks Through Rational Monomer Design Zhang, Jie  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Katherine Benavides PhD Julia Y. Chan The Story Behind Disorder: Determining the Relationship Between Structure and Physical Properties of Disordered Intermetallics Richard, Orlando  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Panikki Bulumulla PhD Mihaela C. Stefan Non-Conventional Building Blocks for Organic Electronics Pearson, Robert  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Zhuo Chen PhD Jeremiah J. Gassensmith Developing a Drug Delivery and Imaging System on a Virus-Like Particle Platform Pearson, Robert  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Madushani Dharmarwardana PhD Jeremiah J. Gassensmith Emerging Classes of Smart Materials: Organic Single Crystals to Biological Nano Particles Rao, Ram  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Marissa Higgins PhD Manuel Quevedo-Lopez Perovskite Materials for Radiation Detection Kiasaleh, Kamran  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Rangana Aloka Jayawickramage PhD John P. Ferraris Wide Temperature Performing Electrolytes and Cost-Effective Carbon Nanofiber Electrodes for High Performance Supercapacitors Sarkar, Sumit  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Sarah Karimi PhD Paul Pantano/Rockford Draper Studies on the Toxicity, Bioaccumulation and Biopersistence of Model and Commercial Chemical Mechanical Planarization Slurries with daphnia magna Auciello, Orlando  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Ruvanthi Kularatne PhD Mihaela C. Stefan Neodymium Based Catalytic System for the Polymerization of Dienes, Lactones and Vinyl Monomers Chandrasekaran, Ramaswamy  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Shaobo Li PhD Jeremiah J. Gassensmith Fabrication of Core-Shell Bio-Nanocomposites Via Biomimetic Mineralization of Metal Organic Frameworks Wilson, Michael  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Chao Long PhD Jiyong Lee Identification of Ligands Selectively Targeting Breast Cancer Stem Cells via Combinatorial Chemical Library Screening Thompson, Lucien  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Luis Fabian Pena Orduna PhD Yves J. Chabal In Situ Studies of the Surface Chemistry Reactions Involved in Gas-Phase Deposition and Etching of Thin Dielectric Films Mehra, Amit  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chemistry Jing Xu PhD Jie Zheng Interactions of Renal Clearable Gold Nnoparticles with the Kidney In Vitro and In Vivo Wallace, Robert  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Geosciences Scott Kerstetter PhD John Oldow/Prabin Shilpakar Late Oligocene to Early Miocene North-South Extension in the Western Great Basin Coleman, Catrina  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Mathematics Edward Hooton PhD Dmitrii Rachinskii/Zalman Balanov Existence and Stabilization of Periodic Solutions in Equivariant Systems Rankin, Monica  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Mathematics Filip Jevtic PhD Vladimir Dragovic Combinatorial Structure of Finite Metric Spaces Wright, Ben  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Molecular and Cell Biology Jonathan Comer PhD Li Zhang Biochemical Studies of Regulatory Heme-Protein Interaction and Heme Regulation in Yeast Miller, Banks  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Weikang Lin PhD Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki Testing the Dark Sector Versus Modified Gravity Models in Cosmology Thuraisingham, Bhavani  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Armando Maldonado PhD Lunjin Chen The Interaction of Fast Magnetosonic Waves with Energetic Electrons in the Van Allen Radiation Belts Liz, Rugg  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Elaheh Motaharifar PhD Mark Lee Electrodynamic Response of Advanced Dielectric Materials in Broadband Frequency Range Venkatesan, Subbarayan  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Physics Juan Servin PhD Michael Kesden A Unified Relativistic Treatment of Tidal Disruption Events and a New Model for Self-Intersections Involving Tidal Debris Streams for Schwarzschild Black Holes Ye, Shengqi  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Statistics Francis Bilson Darku PhD Bhargab Chattopadhyay/Frank Konietschke Study on Parameter Estimation via Multistage Sampling with Applications Hu, Yang  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Statistics Xin Huang PhD Yulia Gel Robust Analysis of Non-Parametric Space-Time Clustering Torlak, Murat  
Summer 2018 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Statistics Jiayi Wu PhD Sam Efromovich Wavelet Analysis of Big Data Contaminated by Large Noise in an fMRI Study of Neuroplasticity Coleman, James   Total = 75