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Taraneh Darvish Design, Environment
and the Arts
Dissertation: Design Empathy & Designer
Accountability Toward Inclusivity, Diversity
and Equity: Bridging the Gap Between Design
Learning and Design Practice
Co-Chairs: Chingwen Cheng, The Design
School; Shahla Talebi, School of Historical,
Philosophical and Religious Studies
Subhasish Das Computer Engineering
(Computer Systems)
Dissertation: Machine Learning Methods for
Prediction of Physical System Behavior
Chair: Sandeep Kumar S. Gupta, School of
Computing and Augmented Intelligence
Trenton James Davis Microbiology
Dissertation: Comprehensive Two-Dimensional
Gas Chromatography (GC×GC) as a Tool for
Exploring the In Vitro Volatile Metabolome of
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa: A Case Study in
Untargeted Volatile Metabolomics
Chair: Heather Bean, School of Life Sciences
Marisol J. Diaz Justice Studies
Dissertation: Positive Effects of Trauma Work:
Vicarious Resilience of Child Abuse Crisis
Counselors Before and During the COVID-19
Pandemic
Chair: Elizabeth Blue Swadener, School of Social
Transformation
Ashley Denise Domínguez Learning,
Literacies and Technologies
Dissertation: Arts-Based Youth Participatory
Action Research: Latinx Performances of Embodied
Identity and Transformational Resistance
Co-Chairs: Carrie Sampson, Mary Lou Fulton
Teachers College; Melanie Anne Bertrand,
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
Samantha Jo Donovan Chemistry
Dissertation: Investigation of Chloramination
and its Contribution to N-Nitrosodimethylamine
Formation in Drinking Water and the Atmosphere
Chair: Pierre E. H. Herckes, School of Molecular
Sciences
Zachary Anthony Dookeran Chemical
Engineering
Dissertation: Engineering Synechococcus
Sp. Utex 2973 and Devising Carbon Dioxide Uptake
Strategies for Amino Acid and Bioplastic Production
Chair: David Ross Nielsen, School for
Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Azadeh Doroudchi Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: Dynamic Modeling and Control
of Octopus-Inspired Soft Continuum Robots with
Distributed Sensing and Actuation
Co-Chairs: Konstantinos Tsakalis, School of
Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering;
Spring Melody Berman, School for Engineering
of Matter, Transport and Energy
Jakob Dowling Economics
Dissertation: Essays in Urban Economics
Co-Chairs: Alvin Murphy, W. P. Carey School of
Business; Nicolai Vladimir Kuminoff, W. P. Carey
School of Business
Mary Catherine Driese Anthropology
Dissertation: Short-Term Medical Missions
to Guatemala: The Preparation, Organization
and Execution of STMMs Under the Enduring
Influence of Neoliberalism
Chair: Jonathan Nathaniel Maupin, School of
Human Evolution and Social Change
Cristina Duculescu Linguistics and
Applied Linguistics
Dissertation: An Investigation of Language
Learners’ Use of Grammar Learning Strategies
in Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
Chair: Mark A. James, English
Kevin Thomas Dwyer Human and Social
Dimensions of Science and Technology
Dissertation: Assessing the Resilience of Dams
to Unexpected Events and Emerging Threats
Chair: Erik Fisher, School of Politics and
Global Studies
Michael Garrett Edgar Civil, Environmental
and Sustainable Engineering
Dissertation: Phosphate and Nitrate Removal
from Impacted Water by Combined
Physical-Chemical and Microbiological
Transformations
Chair: Treavor H. Boyer, School of Sustainable
Engineering and the Built Environment
Stephen Elser Environmental Life Sciences
Dissertation: Ecosystem Services from Urban
Ecological Infrastructure: Perceptions, Performance,
and Priorities for Climate Resilient Cities
Chair: Nancy B. Grimm, School of Life Sciences
Marco Eugenio Escobar Economics
Dissertation: Essays in Economic Theory
Chair: Alejandro M. Manelli, W. P. Carey School
of Business
Challie Renee Facemire Biology
(Biology and Society)
Dissertation: Parceling the Wild: Stewardship
and Conservation in the 21st Century National
Wilderness Preservation System
Co-Chairs: Ben A. Minteer, School of Life
Sciences; Karin D. Ellison, School of Life Sciences
Jie Fan Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: Graph Based Semi-Supervised
Classification and Manifold Learning
Co-Chairs: Andreas Savva Spanias, School of
Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering;
Cihan Tepedelenlioglu, School of Electrical,
Computer, and Energy Engineering
Zhiyuan Fang Computer Science
Dissertation: Building Vision and Language Models
with Implicit Supervision and Increased Efficiency
Chair: Yezhou Yang, School of Computing and
Augmented Intelligence