Beginning in 2009 (for degrees awarded in August, 2009) all theses and dissertations completed at Washington University were required to be submitted in electronic form. Print submissions are no longer accepted. Dissertations are submitted directly in electronic form to UMI / Proquest Dissertation Services. Master’s theses are locally submitted in electronic form directly into the Washington University Open Scholarship Repository. Please contact your academic department document for information on the preparation and formatting requirements of the thesis itself.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Market Making in a Limit Order Book: Classical Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning Approaches, Chuyi Yu
Essays on the Macroeconomics of the Labor Market, Cheuk Yi Kelvin Yuen
Assessment and Diagnosis of Human Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer using Optical Imaging and Computer-aided Diagnosis, Yifeng Zeng
Examining individual differences in forgetting from long-term memory, Christopher Lee Zerr
Modulation and Long-term Release of Cardiac Fibroblast Secretome to Enhance Cardiac Cell Survival under Hypoxia, Jingxuan Zhai
Essays in Financial Economics, Leifu Zhang
Short-term memory and olfactory signal processing, Lijun Zhang
Injectable CT/MRI Contrast Agent for Gastrointestinal Tumor Tracking, luna zhang
Translating Convolutional Neural Networks Approach to the Ventral Pathway, Victoria Zhang
Adaptive Optimal Market Making Strategies with Inventory Liquidation Cost, YI ZHANG
Anion Exchange Membranes in Electrochemical Energy Systems, Yunzhu Zhang
Effective Machine Learning Methods for Accurate Medical Image Segmentation, Zhuangzhuang Zhang
Towards an Aesthetics of Space: Heterotopia and Intertextuality in Contemporary Chinese Fiction, Yuan Zhao
Deep Learning for Task-Based Image Quality Assessment in Medical Imaging, Weimin Zhou
Addressing Pragmatic Challenges in Utilizing AI for Security of Industrial IoT, Maede Zolanvari
Efficient and Scalable Computing for Resource-Constrained Cyber-Physical Systems: A Layered Approach, An Zou
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
X-rays from Warped Black Hole Accretion Disks, Quincy Abarr
Genetic Interactions and Maternal Genes Modulate Congenital Heart Disease Risk, Ehiole Ogboma Akhirome
Self Capacitance based Wireless Power Transfer for Wearable Electronics: Theory and Implementation, Yarub Omer Alazzawi
Robust Control of Burst Suppression Amid Physical and Neurological Uncertainty, Stephen Ampleman and ShiNung Ching
Lymphatic Filariasis: Host and Parasite Factors and the Pathogenesis of Systemic Adverse Events Following Treatment, Britt Juul Andersen
Understanding Task Interference in Prospective Memory Using On-Line Probes: Strategic Delay or Limited-Capacity Monitoring?, Francis T. Anderson
Horse Power: The Merry-go-round of Kentucky's Transforming Thoroughbred Racing Industry, S. Carolyn Barnes
The Object of Affection: Metamorphosis and the Unbound Subject in Early Modern English Literature, Emily Barth
Structural insights into host-pathogen interactions of alphaviruses, Katherine Basore
A Mega-Analysis of Personality Prediction: Robustness and Boundary Conditions, Emorie Danielle Beck
Making Nebraska: The Pawnee, The United States, and the Transformation of Space, 1803-1854, Ethan Reavis Bennett
Mechanisms of STING-Associated Vasculopathy and Immunodeficiency, Brock Gordon Bennion
The Effects of Monitoring Expression and Outgroup Familiarity on Judgments of Other-Race Interaction Partners, Katlin Bentley
É̉tienne de Beaumont, Surrealist Dance, and Transformations in the Paris Avant-Garde, 1913-1938, Amanda Holly Beresford
In Vivo Mechanisms of Natural Killer Cell Tolerance, Michael Bern
Electrophysiology of the Inner Retina in Health and Disease: EAAT5 in the Rod Bipolar Cell and Oscillatory Potentials in Diabetes, Gregory William Bligard
Oscar Levant: Pianist, Gershwinite, Middlebrow Media Star, Caleb Taylor Boyd
About Face: Seeing the Talker Improves Spoken Word Recognition But Increases Listening Effort, Violet Brown
Domain Specific Computing in Tightly-Coupled Heterogeneous Systems, Anthony Michael Cabrera
Transcription Factor-Mediated Epigenetic Regulation in the Healthy Brain and Neurological Disease, Alexander J. Cammack
Essays on Macro and Financial Economics, Linyi Cao
The Good, The Brown, and The Healthy: Understanding Non-Thermogenic Brown Adipose Function in Obese Mice, Caryn Nicole Carson
Regulation of Yolk Microtubule Dynamics by Dachsous Cadherins, Gina Danielle Castelvecchi
Mitochondrial Morphology, Oxidative Stress Resistance, and Pathogenesis in Cryptococcus neoformans, Andrew Lee Chang
Characterizing the relationship between gut microbiota development and healthy growth, Hao-Wei Chang
Touring the Nation: Domestic Tourism and Travel Culture in Modern China (1911-1942), Fanghao Chen
A Generalized Gaussian Process Likelihood for Psychometric Function Estimation, Jonathan Wenhan Chen
Numerical Investigation of Wind Turbine Airfoils under Clean and Dusty Air Conditions, Siyuan Chen
For Whom is She Singing? The Songs of Electra in Euripides’ and Sophocles’ Electra, Zixing Chen
Nonsense Mediated RNA Decay Promotes Survival of Cells with Defective Splicing, Abigael Jeruto Cheruiyot
The Work of Art in The Age of Surveillance: Towards A Society of Civil Power, Grace Eunhae Cho
The Role of ESCRT-III-like Subunit IST1 in Membrane Trafficking Pathways, Amy Kate Clippinger