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McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

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Theses/Dissertations from 2026 2026

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

Urban Climatic and Health Impacts of Aerosols, Yuezhi Li

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

Operando Mechanical Pressure Diagnostics for Rechargeable Lithium Battery Degradation, Yousof Nayfeh

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

RTL Reimplementation and Performance Evaluation of an FPGA-Based Telescope Data Processing Pipeline, Chuhan Qiao

Laponite Nanosilicate as a Platform for Antigen–Adjuvant Co-Delivery in Vaccination, Haoyu Qi

Benefits of Traffic Reprofiling for Delay Sensitive Networking, Jiaming Qiu

Distinguishing Object and Self Motion in the Retina, Pratyush Ramakrishna

The Cul-de-sac Paradox: The Relationship between Walkability, Playability, and Children’s Physical Activity, Lydia Reader

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

Roles of Nuclear-Cytoskeletal Connection and Osmolarity in Collective Cell Migration, Akash Thonnuril Shaji

Advancing Geophysically Informed Data-Driven Estimation of Ambient Fine Particulate Matter with Uncertainty Quantification, Siyuan Shen

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

The Consequences of Using Human Behavior to Train AI, Lauren Treiman