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McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

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Theses/Dissertations from 2026 2026

Geometric Modeling through Multiple Implicit Functions, Yiwen Ju

Mechanics and Transport Across the Thoracic Aortic Wall: Experimental and Computational Characterization of Elastic Fiber-Deficient Arteries, Keshav Kailash

Board-level Operating System Infrastructure in Rust, Lydia Klaus

Microbial Resource Engineering for Sustainable Biomanufacturing, Hakyung Lee

Multiscale Architecture Governs Stability in Suction-Actuated Variable Stiffness Catheters, Sheridan Lee

Establishing Caenorhabditis elegans as a Platform for Bioaccumulation and Selectivity Screening of Anthelmintic Compounds, Jiarui Li

Building a Systems-Level Understanding of Vibrio natriegens for Bioengineering, Matthew Lima

Acquired von Willebrand Syndrome from Pathological Cardiovascular Flow, Alice Liu

Investigations into Mealworm-based Plastic Degradation by Knowledge Graphs, Microbiome and Metabolomic profiling, Bingdi Liu

Individualized Models for Perception and Cognition, Dominic Marticorena

Functional and Spatially Specialized Inhibition and Neuromodulation during Learning in the Hippocampus, Gerardo Enrique Molina

Conditioning Hierarchical Diffusion Transformers on RF Circuit Parameters, Ethan Morton

Elucidating cell-cell and cell-field interactions in acoustically confined microswimmers, Advaith Narayan

Building Human-Aware AI: Learning from and Assisting Human Decision-Makers, Saumik Narayanan

Deep Learning Enhanced Multimodal Endoscopy for Colorectal Cancer: From Real-Time Software Architecture to Clinical Response Assessment, Haolin Nie

Revisiting Visualization Literacy: What Standardized Assessments Reveal and Conceal Across Instruments, Cultures, and AI Systems, Saugat Pandey

Benefits of Traffic Reprofiling for Delay Sensitive Networking, Jiaming Qiu

Optimization of Refolding, Purification, and Analytical Characterization of Proinsulin(F25D) Soluble Antigen Array Immunotherapy, Abigail Richardson

Improving Semantic Precision in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Latent-Space Optimization and Semantically-Parsed Evaluation, Mohammad Rouie Miab

Bearing the Burden: The Emotional and Psychological Impact of Racial Stress on Black Women in Missouri, Ivy Smith

Optimization and Mechanistic Understanding for Value-added Products Production through Anaerobic Digestion, Jiasi Sun

Side-to-Side Differences in Three-Dimensional Femoral Head Coverage Associated with Initial Symptom Development in Patients with Bilateral Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip, Jiayi Sun

Genetic Tool Development and Pathway Elucidation in Non-model Bacteria for Biological Upcycling of Plastic Waste, Yuxin Tian

Interaction-Aware Safe Planning for Human-Robot and Multi-Robot Systems, Haoyi Wang

Smart Kitchen: Towards Real-Time AI Systems for Cognitive Support in Daily Activities, Ruiqi Wang