Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Analysis of Ultra-wideband Voltage Pulse Propagation on Dispersive Absorptive Transmission Lines, Katherine Aho, PhD, Electrical Engineering
A Strategic and Efficient Approach to First Principles Crystal Structures Prediction, Saheed Akanji Ajibade, PhD, Materials Science
Employing Genetic Algorithms for Energy-Efficient Data Routing in Internet of Things Networks, Farzana Akhter, MS, Computer Science
Environmental Equity in Focus: Heat Exposure in Small and Rural Communities of Vermont and Vehicle Traffic Exposure Across the United States, Brittany Antonczak, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Online Collective Attention: Standardizing the Measurement of Sociotechnical Systems, Michael Vincent Arnold, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science
Analysis Of Shear Rate Dependent Flow Liquefaction Behavior Through Experiments And Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling, Soham Banerjee, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Knee articular cartilage quantitative MRI reliability and left-to-right and visit-to-visit repeatability in healthy subjects under compressive loading, Andrew Borah, MS, Biomedical Engineering
Probabilistic modeling of disease: Addressing uncertainties in within-host and population-level dynamics, Mariah Boudreau, PhD, Mathematical Sciences
Evaluating The Resource Recovery Potential Of Dairy Processing Waste Through Anaerobic Digestion With Enhanced Microbial Retention, Kennedy Paige Brown, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fermentation Of Amino Acids By Anaerobic Microbiomes In The Absence Of Methanogenesis, Leandro Conrado, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ring Learning with Errors, Sarah Days-Merrill, PhD, Mathematics
Integration And Performance Assessment Of Cyber-Physical Systems For Structural Health Monitoring And Maintenance, Alireza Fath, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
The Use Of Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning For Shape Parameter And Drag Coefficient Prediction Of Falling Snowflakes, Nicholas Fitzgerald, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Computing the Canonical Ring of Certain Stacks, Jesse Franklin, PhD, Mathematics
A Computational Journey Through Conspiracy Theories: A Genealogical Approach, Mohsen Ghasemizade, MS, Computer Science
Towards automating bioinspiration: The discovery and utility of information dynamics in homeostatic agents, Caitlin Sinclair Grasso, PhD, Computer Science
Measurement And Characterization Of Vibration Using Iot-Based Methods, Nick C. Hanna, MS, Computer Science
Effective Drag Coefficient Prediction on single-view 2D Images of Snowflakes, Cameron Hudson, MS, Complex Systems and Data Science
Control of Pneumatically Actuated Drones, Benjamin Scott Jackson, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Photoablation-based Treatment for Bacterial Keratitis Using Immunogold Bioconjugate Nanoparticles, Kelly Jean Jacobson, MS, Biomedical Engineering
Dynamical Modeling of Resistojet Style Thrusters for Fault Detection, and Fault Identification, Jonathan Leo Kerivan, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Modeling To Evaluate The Contribution Of The Built Environment On Heat Microenvironments And Analysis Of The Efficiency And Efficacy Of Electric Vehicle Purchase Incentives, Parker King, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Integrative Omic Analyses Reveal Activated Microglial Signatures in Response to HSV1 Brain Infections, Cameron Lunn, MS, Complex Systems and Data Science
Effects of Crystallization on Micromechanical Behavior of Polyethylene Nanocomposites, Mason Cole Martell, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Enhancing grid reliability with coordination and control of distributed energy resources, Hani Mavalizadeh, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Effects of Neurological and Morphological Diversity on Robot Swarm Robustness, Kevin Motia, MS, Complex Systems and Data Science
Avoiding Revenue Collapse: The Need for Immediate and Equitable Transportation Funding Reform in the United States, Clare Alice Nelson, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fine-grained Permeable Surfaces Mapping through Parallel U-Net, Nathaniel Ogilvie, MS, Computer Science
Harmonizing Matter and Function: Automatic Design and Analysis of Computational Granular Crystals, Atoosa Parsa, PhD, Computer Science
Environmental Benefits And Burdens In Circular Economy Applications, Katherine Keith Porterfield, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Capacitive Voltage Converter Method For The Search Of Water Ice On Celestial Bodies, Nathan Raymond, MS, Electrical Engineering
Pragmatic interventions against epidemics on networks, Samuel Frederick Rosenblatt, PhD, Computer Science
Stormwater Sand Filters Enhanced with Drinking Water Treatment Residuals: Field Performance and Life Cycle Phosphorus Footprint, Micayla Nicole Schambura, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rethinking rural: How simplification clouds our understanding of rural travel behavior, Harrison Schukei, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Quantitative MRI Measures of Tibiofemoral Articular Cartilage Mechanics and Composition to Inform Joint Degeneration Countermeasures in Microgravity, Marit Erika Scott, MS, Biomedical Engineering
Sugars To Medium Chain Carboxylic Acids: Shedding Light On The Microbial Black Box Of Chain Elongation, Panagiota Stamatopoulou, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Utilization Of Processed Glass Aggregate As A Replacement Of Sand Borrow In Earthwork Construction: Geotechnical, Environmental And Economic Assessment With A Focus On Deleterious Materials, Neha Subedi, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Seaweed to Steak: Muscle Cell Expansion in Alginate-Based Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering of Cultivated Meat, Irfan Tahir, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Multiscale Modeling To Study Peptide Aggregation, Subhadra Thapa, PhD, Materials Science
Building a kinder super highway: Online group behavior driven by platform design and social policy, Milo Trujillo, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science
The Impact of Representative Scale in Groundwater Modeling, Evan Norris Ulrich, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Edge Colored and Edge Ordered Graphs, Per Gustin Wagenius, MS, Mathematical Sciences
Robust interventions in network epidemiology, Erik Weis, MS, Complex Systems
Organic Fouling Mitigation In Forward Osmosis Technology Through The Use Of Oscilatting Alternating Current Electric Fields, Logan Werner, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Performance Concrete: Enhancing Durability, Cost Effectiveness And Reducing Carbon Footprint, Bismark Yeboah, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Investigation of Software Defined Radio and Deep Learning for Ground Penetrating Radar, Yan Zhang, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Metal-Dielectric Photonic Crystal Organic Light Emitting Diodes: A Novel Platform for Light Emission and Investigation of Light-Matter Interactions, David Allemeier, PhD, Materials Science
Deep Reinforcement Machine Learning as a Driver of Agent Decision-Making in Agent-Based Models of Coupled Natural and Human Complex Systems, Kevin Allen Andrew, MS, Computer Science
Investigation of Silane Coating Treatments on Phynolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator for Mars and Future Planetary Exploration, Ian Ballou, MS, Mechanical Engineering
On the construction of more lifelike devices, Shawn Lawrence Beaulieu, PhD, Complex Systems
Extended Kalman Filter Line-Based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Robotics, Vedran Beganovic, MS, Electrical Engineering
Technological and spatial analysis techniques to improve outcomes of agricultural nutrient management, Finn A. Bondeson, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Performance of a Low-Reynolds Discrete Swirl Injection Method Under a Range of Design Parameters, Owen Brandriss, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Bayesian experimental design for control and surveillance in epidemiology, Bren Case, PhD, Computer Science
Computational Models Of Extracellular Matrix Remodeling In Pulmonary Fibrosis, Dylan Tyler Casey, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science
Estimating particle velocity from dual-camera mixed reality video images using 3D particle tracking velocimetry, Thomas Chivers, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Metagenomic Insights Into The Full-Scale Anaerobic Digestion of Cow Manure and Pre-Treated Food Waste, Amy Camille DeCola, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Developing Muscle Synergy Functions For Remote Gait Analysis, Nicole Marie Donahue, MS, Biomedical Engineering
Travel Burdens In Rural Us Households, Sierra Emma-Leigh Espeland, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Investigating the Mechanical Properties of Different Types of Phospholipids, A Molecular Dynamics Study, Atena Farhangian, PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Leveraging a machine learning based predictive framework to study brain-phenotype relationships, Sage Hahn, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science
The Overpressurization and Surface Contamination of On-Demand Pressure Systems, William Harvey, MS, Mechanical Engineering
SARS-CoV-2 SURVEILLANCE AND ASSESSMENT OF OSCILLATING ELECTRIC FIELD-ASSISTED PHOSPHORUS RECOVERY AND INACTIVATION OF ESCHERICHIA COLI IN WASTEWATER, Kamruzzaman Khan, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biomechanical Outcomes 1 Year After Acl Reconstruction And Meniscus Surgery, Sadegh Khodabandeloo, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Development of a Portable Device for Quantifying Internal-External Rotational Laxity of the Knee in Vivo, Haley Kuralt, MS, Biomedical Engineering
Data Science and Mathematical Modeling for Humanitarian Response, Ollin Demian Langle Chimal, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science
A Duration-Over-Threshold Model For Flood Frequency And Flow Regime Characterization, Kenneth Scott Feasley Lawson, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Metagenomic Insights Into Landfill Intermediate Cover Soil Microbiomes And Their Potential Role In Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Peyton Lienhart, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Group-Level Frameworks for Data Ethics, Privacy, Safety and Security in Digital Environments, Juniper Lovato, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science
Leveraging Domain Specific Knowledge to classify Indeterminate Lung Nodules in CT images using Machine Learning Methodologies, Axel Herve Masquelin, PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Intelligent Wide-Area Monitoring Systems using Deep Learning, Mustafa Matar, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Timeseries Analysis To Characterize Complex Phenomena In Environmental And Human Health Applications, Jeremy Ernest Matt, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science
Applications of a Wearable Sensor Platform for Remotely Monitoring Impairment in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis, Brett Matthew Meyer, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science
Understanding and Mitigating Phosphorus Losses in the Vermont Lake Champlain Basin at the Watershed and Field Scale In A Changing Climate, George Harrison Myers, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Silicon Carbide Fabric Catalysis Assessment in an Inductively Coupled Plasma Facility, Christopher Michael Nolan, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Reactivity of Isolated Cerebral Parenchymal Arterioles to Thrombin During Pregnancy and Preeclampsia in Rats, Olivia Mae O'Brien, MS, Biomedical Engineering
Data-driven Reachability of Non-linear Systems via Optimization of Chen-Fliess Series, Ivan Perez Avellaneda, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Surface Temperature Measurement Fidelity in High Enthalpy Plasma Test Facilities, Owen Plante, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical and chemical activation of the Angiotensin II Type 1 receptor, Bharat Poudel, PhD, Materials Science
Quantifying Cartilage Composition And Arthrokinematics: Application To Short-Term Biomechanical Outcomes After Sports-Related Knee Injury And Surgery, John Curtis Ramsdell, PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Applications of Centrality Measures and Extremal Combinatorics, Hunter Dane Rehm, PhD, Mathematics
Quantifying Glial-Glial Interactions In Drosophila Using Automated Image Analysis, Gabriela Salazar Lopez, MS, Complex Systems and Data Science
Surface Volatilization Investigation of Graphite, Mitchell Stern, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Colloidal Particle Transport in Porous Media, Randall Storm, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Analyzing the Impact of Cultural Factors on Happiness Levels in Arabic Language Tweets, Parisa Suchdev, MS, Computer Science
Advancing Deep Learning Techniques For Turbidity Forecasting In Rivers And Reservoirs, Shaurya Swami, MS, Computer Science
Effects of Morphology on Genetic Assimilation of Learned Behavior, Natalie L. Tolley, MS, Computer Science
How to analyze parental conversation online: a computational stack for studying vaccine hesitancy., Carter Willets Ward, MS, Complex Systems and Data Science
An Analysis of a Linear Algebra Based Group Key Exchange Protocol, Annie Zhang, MS, Mathematical Sciences
Estimation in Generalized Estimating Equation measurement error models using instrumental variables/ Estimating the cardinality of latent defective edges in hypergraphs, Damin Zhu, PhD, Mathematical Sciences
Tools To Measure Dispersion Descriptors From Polymer Nanocomposites, Kevin Dimas Zuniga Cuellar, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Modeling the Heterogeneous Temporal Dynamics of Epidemics on Networks, Andrea Joan Allen, MS, Complex Systems and Data Science
Enhancing Cybersecurity of Power Systems using Machine Learning, Fayha Almutairy, PhD, Computer Science
Constraint-Aware and Efficiency-Aware Control of Air-Path in Fuel Cell Vehicles, Eli Bacher-Chong, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Testing Protein Adsorption on Nanoparticles Towards Improved Drug Delivery, Brooke Bednarke, MS, Biomedical Engineering
Three Branch Diversity Systems for Multi-Hop IoT Networks, Sakil Ahmed Chowdhury, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Hydroclimatic Variability of the Northeastern United States, Caitlin Crossett, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tuning electroluminescence from resonators based on Fabry-Pérot microcavity OLEDs, Ekraj Dahal, PhD, Materials Science
Building a Learning Healthcare System: a path to optimizing big health data to inform clinical care decisions, Danne Charlotte Emily Elbers, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science
Active Acoustic Sensing Technologies For Practical Uav-Based Condition Assessment Of Underside Bridge Decks, Damien Garland, MS, Mechanical Engineering