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Theses/Dissertations from 2026

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Structural Insights into Host-Pathogen Interactions of Coronaviruses and Alphaviruses, Lucas Adams

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Exploring Hemodynamic Signatures Using Event Camera, Zaid Ahmed

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Inside 'n Out: ETV2 Specification of Hemangiogenic Lineages from FLK1+ Mesoderm, Dereck Antonio Shakeel Alleyne

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Automated Segmentation and Structural Remodeling Analysis of iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocyte, Bahareh Bahmani

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Genetic Mechanisms of Urinary Tract Infection Pathogenesis by Escherichia coli, Jesus Bazan Villicana

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Neuromodulation in Olfactory Networks: Inferring Circuit Motifs and Predicting Behavioral Outcomes from Neural Response Changes, Yelyzaveta Bessonova

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A Bimodal Regression-Without-Truth Technique for Objective Evaluation of Quantitative Nuclear-Medicine Imaging Methods, Qian Cheng

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From Natural Barrier to National Symbol: Technologies, State-Building, and the Remaking of the Yangzi River, 1843-1937, Ruochen Chen

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Analysis of Oscillating Flow Over a 2-D Airfoil with Flow Reversal, Colter Couillard-Rodak

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Development of Cell-Free DNA and Immune Cell Liquid Biopsies to Stratify Risk of Disease Progression and Treatment Toxicity, Noah Earland

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Retinal Circuits for Pupil Control: Neural Mechanisms, Visual Functions, and Capacity for Plasticity, Michael John Fitzpatrick

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Toward Vehicle-Agnostic Driving Signatures for Cognitive Impairment Prediction from Naturalistic Driving Data, Aadarsha Gopala Reddy

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Adaptive Component Expansion in Nonnegative Matrix Factorization: Theory and Applications, Youdong Guo

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Elucidating the Coordinated Role of Histone Modifications on the Establishment and Regulation of a Neuronal-specific Methylome, Nicole Hamagami

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Opportunistic Breast Cancer Detection with Photon-Counting CT: A Quantitative Pilot Study of Reconstruction-Dependent Image Quality, Graham Hannon

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Interpretable, Scalable, Unsupervised Machine Learning for Large Neuroimaging Data, Sung Min Ha

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Interfacial Engineering of Electrodes and Solid-State Electrolytes for High-Performance Lithium-Ion and Sodium-Ion Batteries, Ahmad Helaley

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Voltage-Sensor–Targeting Modulators of IKs: Identifying Critical Functional Groups of C28 via Electrophysiology and SAR Modeling, JIACHENG HUANG

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Largest 2-regular Subgraphs in Complete S-partite Graphs, Yiyang Jiang

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Ribosomal Stress in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Kimberly Bridget Johansson

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Design of an Extensible and Scalable Data Acquisition System for Pulse Shape Discrimination, Prince John

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The Role of Autophagy in Intestinal Infection in Mice and C. elegans, Gowri Kalugotla

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Board-level Operating System Infrastructure in Rust, Lydia Klaus

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Targeting the DNMT3B-ABAT Axis in Osteoarthritis Using RNA-peptide Nanoparticles Reveals GABAB Signaling as a Critical Mediator of Articular Chondrocyte Homeostasis, Amir Kucharski

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

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

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Essays on Empirical Search and Matching, Jiangheng Lin

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Fluid Belonging, Soft Boundary, Jingyi Liu

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Macroevolutionary Innovation and the Genomic Basis of Convergent Adaptation in Anolis Lizards, Aryeh Hershel Miller

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Conditioning Hierarchical Diffusion Transformers on RF Circuit Parameters, Ethan Morton

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Uncovering Hidden Features of Copyback Viral Genomes, Sarah Pye

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Understanding p53 Regulation on Transposable Elements in Cancer, Xuan Qu

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

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

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Multiplex Functional Assessment of Variant Effect in the Retinal Transcription Factor CRX, James Lewis Shepherdson

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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

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Unraveling Metabolic Determinants of Isoniazid Susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Erin Rilu Wang

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

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Energetic Heterogeneity in Retinal Ganglion Cells: Role of Neuronal Activity and Implications for Resilience, Zelun Wang

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Cloud-Deployed RNA-Seq Analytics for Identifying Imaging and Therapeutic Targets in Chemotherapy-Induced Toxicities, Zhimu Wang

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Understanding the Biological Functions of Dual-Localized Mitochondrial Phosphatase PPTC7, Lianjie Wei

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Quantitative HAADF-STEM Enabled Detection of Antisites in Multiferroic h-LuFeO3, Jianan Wu

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Biodegradable and Recyclable PLA-based Polyurethanes with Tunable Crystallinity and Mechanical Properties, Mo Xiaotian

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Temporal Logic Planning in Semantic Maps of Unknown Environments using TL-RRT, Dongrui Yang

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Temperature and environmental implications on Ti3C2Cl2 MXene degradation process, Yang Yang

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Towards Understanding Robust Neural Coding Through Representational Geometry, Zeyuan Ye

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Multidimensional MRI Maps Histology-Defined Phosphorylated Tau Burden in Alzheimer’s Disease, Hongyi Zhang

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If life were only as our first encounter, Yixiao Zhang

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Multifunctional Self-Healing and Shape-Adaptive Soft Electronics Based on Immiscible Dynamic Polymers, Sirui Zhao

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Data-Driven Multimodal MRI Representation Learning for Subtype Discovery and Disease Progression Modeling in Parkinson’s Disease, zihan zhou