The Clark Doctoral Fellows Program substantially increases the A. James Clark School of Engineering’s number of graduate fellows, supporting 30 first-year doctoral students each year as an impetus for research in strategic and vital areas. These fellows have the potential to become tomorrow’s leaders and innovators, launching technology companies and spearheading lifesaving advances to improve society.
Students selected for this distinguished program will participate in networking receptions, seminars, and other events in support of their academic and professional development. Each Clark Doctoral Fellow receives a travel stipend and works under the guidance of a Clark faculty mentor, selected from some of the Clark School's most highly qualified and successful doctoral advisors.
Eligibility
- Must be admitted to a full-time Ph.D. degree program in engineering (includes current M.S. students who have been admitted to the Ph.D. program)
- Must be a citizen or permanent resident of the U.S. or its territories
No additional application is required for student applying to Ph.D. programs in the Clark School of Engineering. Each graduate program will nominate applicants that they determine are excellent candidates for the program.
This program will fund the tuition and living stipend of Fellows for their first academic year at the University of Maryland. The first-year award is renewable for three additional fiscal years using departmental resources.
More Information
More information about each program and how to apply can be found at the following links:
Current Clark Doctoral Fellows
Aerospace Engineering
Melissa Adams | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Aerospace Navigation, Satellite and Debris Group Tracking
Matthew Arace
Thomas Bone | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Direct Fusion Drive
Nicolas Umberto Bolatto | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Multi-Rover Team Optimization for Lunar Site Preparation
Margaret Donovan
Travis Duchene | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Hypersonic Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions
Grant Duemmel
Yuval Enciu
Ray-Shimry Garatsa | LinkedIn | ORCID
Multibody Dynamics
Blaine Garner
Rose Gebhardt
Daniil Gribok
Kenshiro Lim
Kyle Locklear | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Motion Planning of Autonomous Systems in Dynamic Environments
James Marbaix
Hypersonic CFD & Data-driven Analysis
Joshua Martin | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Autonomy, Controls, and Systems for Scientific Exploration of Extreme Environments
Sophia Matthews
Hanna Mitamura | ORCID
High-speed flow
Joseph Mockler
José Morel
Nathan O'Brien
Erik Payton | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Algorithm Development and Modeling for Remote Sensing
Narayan Pillai
Paige Poteet
Jude Schaeur
Aarun Srinivas | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Rachel Suitor | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Cooperative Control of Autonomous Underwater Sensor Networks
Siddarth Suresh
Logan Swaisgood
Edward Tocco
Joseph Tolone
Visesh Uppoor
Vivek Uppoor
Grazchella Vicente | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Jacob Ward
Sarah Wielgosz
Nathan Witztum
Jonathan Wrieden
Tak Ming Yeung
Bioengineering
Anna Avila
Evan Benke
Allison Boboltz | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Juan Martin Carrasco Carvajal
Yahya Cheema
Melana Henriques
Elliot Ingraham
Rebecca Johnson | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Optical therapeutics and nanotechnology
Varun Kochar
Adam Landa
Eva Landeta | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Computational Modeling of Phase-Transitioning Therapeutics
Sebastian Lawton
Madelynn McElroy
Kathryn McNaughton | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Optical Therapeutics and Nanotechnology
Kaitlyn Moore
Allison Moses
Divya Muthusamy
Joy Odigbo
Eva Orozco Morett
Shaila Rao
Amal Shabazz | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Tissue Engineering, 3D Printing, Biomaterials
Nida Shah | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Developing Treatments for Cervical Cancer suitable for Low to Middle Income Countries
Dillon Sinanan
Caitlyn Singam
Claire Sissons
Lauren Smith
Talia Solomon
Darby Steinman
Timothy Stout
Briahnah Streeter
Owen Tabah
Linda Tian
Shyanne Urbin
Ivy Vien
Jan Oliver Viyar
Rachel Warren
Ronald Yang
Julie Zacharko
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Martin Ahn
Khakim Asadov
Scott Bernota
Andrew Chang | Lab Page | ORCID
Materials Discovery Accelerated via Machine Learning
Michael Danner | LinkedIn | ORCID
Materials for Energy Efficiency, Electrochemical Engineering, Nano-materials
Nicholas Goodwin
Richard Hoft | LinkedIn
Solid-State Batteries
Jeffrey Jackson
Rajan Jayasankar
Hadeia Liburd
Pablo Lozano | LinkedIn
Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery
Michael McKee
Ryan James Moore
Robert Morris
Funke Okunrinboye
Alyssa Petersen | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Vaginal Microbiome Impact on Reproductive Health
Maria Florencia Petracci Zappala | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Electrochemical Engineering, Solid-State Batteries
Kayla Stephenson
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Olivia Curtorillo
Constantinos Frantzis
Probabilistic Natural Hazard Assessment
Jeremiah Hannon
Lillyana House
Maryam Khan
Camila Proano
Arturo Ramirez
Mia Renna
Qadri Shaheen | Personal Website | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar | Research Gate
Public Private Partnership, institutional Capacity and Innovative Finance
Alexia Steele
Petros Woldemariam
Raziq Zaman | LinkedIn
Synthesis and Validation of Travel Behavior Data
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dimitris Amiridis
Maryn Askew
Millicent Ayako | Personal Website | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Quantum Optics for Quantum Communication Networks
Joseph Brock | Lab Page
Integrated Nanophotonic Devices
Marilyn Duong | LinkedIn
Multi-Agent Control, Optimization, Wireless Sensor Networks
Anthony Fava
Corey Ferrier
Charlie Fisher
Sorah Fischer
Quantum Materials and Optics
Michael Gill
Matthew Hankins
Kaustubh Harnoor
Samuel Harper | Lab Page | Directory Page
Quantum Optics for Quantum Networking Applications
Brian Holt
Brendan Jordan
Fabrication and Characterization of 2-D heterostructures
Ryan Matheu
Nicole Menkart | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Quantum Optics for Communication
Noam Peled
Peter Ogrinc
Sydney Overton | Personal Website | LinkedIn | ORCID | Lab Page
Oslan Ozbay
Hardware security (potential attacks and defenses)
Nathaniel Renegar
Jazzmin Robinson | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Optoelectronic Analog Processing
Katie Ruland
Ariana Spalter
Charles Su
Joseph Turner
Andreas Tzitzikas
Bryan Wilson | LinkedIn
Auditory Neuroscience and Speech Processing
Linus Wise
Materials Science & Engineering
Rachel Beall | LinkedIn | ORCID
Robert Benke
Kayla Callaway | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Transmission Electron Microscopy
Riis Card | Lab Page | LinkedIn
MBE Growth and Characterization of SiGe Heterostructures
Alessandra Crippa
Samuel Freed
Jessica Garnett | LinkedIn
Jared Garthwait
Patricia Gonzales
Michael Hinshelwood
John Hoerauf | Lab Page
Neuromorphic Computing Materials Development
Julian Keophanboua
Ryan Kim
Nicholas Meuse
Parmida Sadat Alhosseini | Directory Page
William Schubert | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Solid State Batteries
Charles Schwarz | LinkedIn | ORCID
Computational Materials Science
Sarah Seelman
Arefpour Seyed
Aphrodite Strifas | LinkedIn
Process Optimization and Mechanical Properties Enhancement of HY Steels
Emerald Tan
Leopoldo Tapia-Aracayo
Katherine Wagner
Elliot Wallace
Meryl Wiratmo
Sarah Wittenburg
Dennis Zhao | LinkedIn
Copper Inks for Hybrid Electronics
Aoife Zuercher
Mechanical Engineering
Kieran Barvenik
Grayson Bellamy
Kaan Beyduz
Michael Bonthron | Personal Website | Lab Page
Petra Budavari
Elena Carusetta
Arko Chatterjee
Deng Yun Chen
Curtis Chung
Adira Colton | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Nano-scale 3D Printing for Biomedical Applications
Asa Constantian
Jonathan DeBoer
Diego Jimenez
Cashen Diniz | Lab Page | Linkedin | ORCID
Design Optimization
Allen Garcia | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Natural Language Processing
Jesse Hearn | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Nathan Hoffman
Anthony Jones
Emils Jurcik
Adetola Koiki |LinkedIn
Observing Wildfires through UAVs and Fire Imaging Technologies
Samuel Lee | LinkedIn
Experimental Fluid-Structure Interaction
Charles Meehan | LinkedIn
Decision Making for Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Tasks
Brian O'Malley | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Modeling and Optimization of Advanced Heat Exchangers under Extreme Conditions
Connor O'Ryan | Lab Page
Using Language Processing to Extract Information from Domain Specific Text
Kathryn Pacheco
Jesse Parreira
Michael Xu
Chase Yankowski
Reliability Engineering
Lance Curtis
Use of Entropy to Predict Welded Joint Failure Under Corrosion Fatigue
Adrian MakerMeredith Thibeault |
Lab Page |
LinkedIn
Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment Visualization for Nuclear Power Plants
Jessica Zhu |
Personal Website |
LinkedIn |
Google Scholar
Uncovering Social Bias: A Framework for Measuring Harms and Designing Reliable Large Language Models
Clark Doctoral Fellows Alumni
Felix Adams (Ph.D. ’26, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Accelerating Materials Discovery with Computation: Human-in-the-loop, Quantum Machine Learning, and First Principles Computation
Robert Allsopp (Ph.D. '24, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: Study of Membrane Binding Proteins and Related Signaling Molecules
Erin Avllazagaj (Ph.D. '24, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Dissertation: Systematic Analysis of Adversaries' Exploitations of the End-host
Shohini Banerjee (Ph.D. ’26, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Hormonal and Mechanical Influences on Dynamic Cellular Processes in Endometriosis
David Boegner (Ph.D. ’24, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Sample-to-Answer Point-of-Care Virus Diagnostic System Using Thermally Responsive Alkane Partitions
Leah Klein Borden (Ph.D. '22, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: Electroadhesion of Hydrogels to Biological Tissues: A Discovery that Could Enable Sutureless Surgery
Louis Born (Ph.D. '21, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Formulation and Delivery of Enhanced Extracellular Vesicles for Wound Repair
Gillian Boyce (Ph.D. ’26, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Growth, Integration, and Characterization of Atomic Layer Deposited Metal Oxides for Non-Ideal Surfaces
Ken Brandon (Ph.D. ’26, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Endothelial Junction Remodeling as a Multiscale System: Molecular Mechanisms, Temporal Structure, and Spatial Coordination
Victoria Britcher (Ph.D. ’25, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Development and Validation of Feature-Based Vision Algorithms for Autonomous Ship-Deck Landing
Faraz Burni (Ph.D. ’25, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: Self-Degrading Soft Materials: From Molecular Gels to Gel-Foams
Devorah Cahn (Ph.D. ’24, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Overcoming the Extracellular Matrix Barrier to Nanoparticle Transport
Sean Carey (Ph.D. ’25, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Exploiting Local Immune Niches to Promote Durable and Selective Tolerance During Type 1 Diabetes
Eric Carmona (Ph.D. ’23, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: Assessing The Impact Of Electrochemical-Mechanical Coupling On Current Distribution And Dendrite Prevention In Solid-State Alkali Metal Batteries
Andrew Ceruzzi (Ph.D. ’22, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Development of Two-point Focused Laser Differential Interferometry for Applications in High-speed Wind Tunnels
Ashley Chapin (Ph.D. ’22, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Serotonin Sensor-integrated In Vitro Systems as Research Tools to Address the Gut Brain Axis
Sichao Cheng (Ph.D. ’23, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: Advanced Reaction Engineering for The Nonoxidative Valorization of Methane
Kayla Chun (Ph.D. ’25, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Development of Computationally Aided Methods for Interpreting Molecular Information
Frank Cianciarulo (Ph.D. ’25, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Analysis of Pneumatic Artificial Muscles in Anchoring, Torsion, and Weight-Limited Robotic Applications
Lautaro Cilenti (Ph.D. '22, Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: Influence of Noise on Response Localizations in Mechanical Oscillator Arrays
Cole Sousa (Ph.D. '24, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Global Analysis of Transitional Hypersonic Flow over Cone and Cone-Flare Geometries
Kristen Croft (Ph.D. ’23, Civil & Environmental Engineering)
Dissertation: Interactions and Treatment of Metals in Urban Stormwater
Sabrina Curtis (Ph.D. ’23, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Functionalized Thin-Film Shape Memory Alloys for Novel MEMS Applications
Merrill Curtis (Ph.D. '24, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Dynamics, Estimation, and Control for Stabilizing the Attitude and Shape of a Flexible Spacecraft
Ariana DeCastro (Ph.D. ’23, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Understanding Functional Behaviors of Organotropic Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells
Parham Dehghani (Ph.D. '22, Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: Burning Emulations of Condensed Phase Fuels Aboard the International Space Station
Ian DesJardin (Ph.D. '24, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Signal Processing and Forward Modeling of Space Debris Detection via Plasma Solitons
Camilla Edwards (Ph.D. ’25, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Rational Control of Toll-Like Receptor Signaling Using Microneedles for Enhanced Vaccination
Metecan Erdi (Ph.D. '22, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: Tissue Adhesive, Sprayable Polymer Blends as Adjuvant Surgical Tools
Thomas Farinha (Ph.D. ’25, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Lattice-Matched Growth of Topological Semimetal Cadmium Arsenide on Virtual Ternary III-V Substrates
Rebecca Fedderwitz (Ph.D. ’23, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Magnetic Nanoparticle Inks for Syringe Printable Inductors
Bailey Felix (Ph.D. ’26, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Direct Laser Writing-Based Soft Robotic Surgical Devices for Endovascular Applications
Nahin Ferdousi-Rokib (Ph.D. ’25, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: The Effect of Inorganic-Organic Physicochemical Properties on CCN Activity of Complex Mixtures
Daniel Fernando Escobar (Ph.D. '20, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Fundamental Understanding of Helicopter Aeromechanics On Mars Through Chamber Testing and High-Fidelity Analysis
Emily Fisler (Ph.D. '22, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Comprehensive Study and Fundamental Understanding of Lithium Sulfur Batteries for eVTOL
Daniela Fontecha (Ph.D. ’25, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Tuning the Ionic and Electronic Properties of Metal Phosphates by Atomic Layer Deposition
Eric Frizzell (Ph.D. '24, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Investigating A Possible Lunar Cold Spot Formation Mechanism: Modeling Granular Waves In Surface Regolith Using Soft Sphere Discrete Element Method
Eugene Froimchuk (Ph.D. '22, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Leveraging Self-assembly and Biophysical Design to Build Next-generation Immunotherapies
Brandon Gaitan (Ph.D. '22, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Development of Fluorescent Imaging Methods and Systems to Determine Photodynamic Potential and Inform Cancer Treatment Efficacy
Antonios Gementzopoulos (Ph.D. ’25, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Gust Encounter Flow Physics with Applications to Flow Sensing and Control
Andrew Goffin (Ph.D. '24, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Dissertation: Dynamics and Applications of Long-distance Laser Filamentation in Air
Steven Guerin (Ph.D. ’23, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Radiation Chemistry in Pressurized Water Nuclear Reactors
Seyhan Gul (Ph.D. '22, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: A Modern Aeromechanical Analysis of Hingeless Hub Tiltrotors with Model- and Full-Scale Wind Tunnel Validation
Raquel Hakes Wetson-Dawkes (Ph.D. '21, Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: Studies of Inclined Flame Instabilities and the Relationship Between Wildland Fire Exposure and Structure Destruction
Charles Hanner (Ph.D. '25, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Design of Compliant Nonlinear Articulated Suspension for Extraterrestrial Roving Vehicle
Anjana Hevaganinge (Ph.D. '25, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Interpretable Machine Vision Intelligence Methods for Biopharmaceutical and Agricultural Manufacturing Automation
Samuel Horlick (Ph.D. '21, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: Tuning the Structure and Chemistry of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes for High Performance and Stable Operation
Romanus Hutchins (Ph.D. '24, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Tunable Atomic Line Monochromators For Brillouin Spectroscopy
Noah Hoppis (Ph.D. ’25, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Space Charge Limited Dielectric Breakdown, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Approximations
Collin Inglut (Ph.D. '22, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Light Activatable Pure Porphyrin Nanoparticles for the Photodynamic Opening of the Blood-brain Barrier and Glioblastoma Treatment
Nathan Johnson (Ph.D. ’23, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: Assessing the Thermal Safety and Thermochemistry of Lithium Metal All-Solid-State Batteries through Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Modeling
Courtney Johnson (Ph.D. ’23, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: The Effect of Glycemic Condition on Substrate Stiffness-Mediated Mechanosensitivity in Macrophages
Elizabeth Jordan (Ph.D. ’25, Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: Scenario Generation-Based Single- and Multi-Objective Robust Optimization under Fixed and Variable Interval Uncertainty
Mithuun Kanapathipillai (Ph.D. '22, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Scramjet Combustor Mode Transition by Controlling Fuel Injection Distribution
Hunter Kippen (Ph.D. '24 Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Dissertation: Advances in Concrete Cryptanalysis of Lattice Problems and Interactive Signature Schemes
Dylan J. Kirsch (Ph.D. ’23, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Combinatorial Exploration of Half-Heusler (Ta0.4 Nb0.4 Ti0.2)–Fe–Sb Thin Films via High-Throughput Power Factor Mapping and Frequency-Domain Thermoreflectance (Fdtr)
Ellery Klein (Ph.D. ’23, Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: Development Of Variable Tube Geometry Heat Exchangers Using Adjoint Method With Performance Evaluation Of An Additively Manufactured Prototype
Stephanie Kronstadt (Ph.D. '22, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Assessment of Mechanical Cues to Enhance the Clinical Translation of Extracellular Vesicles
Karl Larson (Ph.D. ’25, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: Measuring Interface Effects In Solid-State Batteries
Zachary Lazri (Ph.D. ’25, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Dissertation: Analyzing and Enhancing Algorithmic Fairness in Social Systems and Data-Restricted Applications
Camille Levine (Ph.D. ’25 Reliability Engineering)
Dissertation: Expanding the Causal Logic Foundations of Human Reliability Analysis
Daniel Levy (Ph.D. ’24, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Investigation and Development of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Extracellular Vesicle-Based Therapeutics
Joshua Levy (Ph.D. ’25, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Ingestible Devices and Technologies for Controlled and Localized Gastrointestinal Drug Delivery
Austin Drisko Lewis (Ph.D. '22, Reliability Engineering)
Dissertation: Dynamic Bayesian Network Data Updating Approaches for Enabling Causal Prognostics and Health Management of Complex Engineering Systems
Barry Liang (Ph.D. '22, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Engineering Light-activatable Nanocomplex to Overcome Multidrug Resistance and Improve Drug Delivery
Joshua Little (Ph.D. ’25, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: Nanoconfinement Guided Synthesis and Assembly of Metal-2D Material Catalytic Heterostructures
Ravi Lumba (Ph.D. '22, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Scalable Domain Decomposition for Parallel Solution of Three-Dimensional Multibody Finite Element Based Rotorcraft Aeromechanics
Wright Makambi (Ph.D. ’24, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: Histatin 5 Modifications Impact Proteolytic Stability in the Presence of Fungal and Salivary Proteases
Samuel Maszkiewicz (Ph.D. ’25, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Sharp-Fin-Induced Hypersonic Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interactions
Kenneth McAfee (Ph.D. '25, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Heat Flux Sensors and Reconstruction Techniques for Atmospheric Entry Spacecraft
Jacob McCright (Ph.D. ’23, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Engineering Nanoparticles for Improved Lymphatic Delivery and Elucidating Mechanisms Regulating Nanoparticle Transport into Lymphatics
Isaac McDaniel (Ph.D. ’25, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Dissertation: IC Design for Age-Related Timing Degradation Using Machine Learning
Shannon McLoughlin (Ph.D. ’25, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Development of a 4D Printing Strategy for the Generation of Tissue Engineered Periosteum
Madeline Antonia Morales (Ph.D. '22, Materials Science and Engineering)
Dissertation: Understanding the Effect of Fabrication Conditions on the Structural, Electrical, and Mechanical Properties of Composite Materials Containing Carbon Fillers
Colleen Murray (Ph.D. ’24, Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: Energy Absorbing Cellular Structures for Crashworthiness Applications
Sharan Nayak (Ph.D. ’23, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Fast Feasible Motion Planning Without Two-Point Boundary Value Solution
Shakiba Nikfarjam (Ph.D. '23, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: Effect of Protein Folding State and Conformational Fluctuations on Hydrogel Formation and Protein Aggregation
Janel Niska (Ph.D. ’25, Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: Process and Techno-Economic Modeling for Waste-To-Energy Processes to Identify Effective Facility Scaling
Erfaun Noorani (Ph.D. '23, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Dissertation: Robust Reinforcement Learning via Risk-Sensitivity
Mahshid Noorani (Ph.D. ’25, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Dissertation: Explainable Data Driven Anomaly Detection for Securing Cyber Physical Systems: Theory and Experiment
Ramsay Nuwayhid (Ph.D. '22, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Atomic Layer Deposition of Alkali Phosphorus Oxynitride Electrolytes for Beyond-Lithium Nanoscale Batteries
Jonathan O'Neill (Ph.D. ’25, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Solid-State Electrolyte Design: Microstructure and Performance
Vincent Paglioni (Ph.D. ’23, Reliability Engineering)
Dissertation: Improving the Foundational Knowledge of Dependency in Human Reliability Analysis
Justin Pearson (Ph.D. ’24, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Investigation and Engineering of HfZrO2 Interfaces for Ferrorelectric Based Neuromorphic Devices
Michael Pedowitz (Ph.D. ’24, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Dissertation: Novel Graphene Heterostructures for Sensitive Enviromental and Biological Sensing
Idrisa Rahman (Ph.D. ’25, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Targeting Cellular Metabolism by Leveraging the Photosensitizer Verteporfin to Overcome Cancer Multidrug Resistance
Ann Ramirez (Ph.D. ’25, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Characterizing the Biophysical Properties of Mouse Lymph Nodes Using Multiple Particle Tracking
Amir Riyahi (Ph.D. ’25 Civil & Environmental Engineering)
Dissertation: Dynamic Interactions Between Sorption and Biodegradation of Halogenated Compounds in Contaminated Groundwater
Sarah Robertson (Ph.D. ’25, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: The Regulation of Excitatory Synapses onto Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons by Brief Monocular Deprivation in the Juvenile Visual Cortex
Justin Schumacher (Ph.D. ’25, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Multimodal Optical Coherence Elastography and Brillouin Microscopy to Evaluate In Vivo Lens Biomechanics in Presbyopia
James Shamul (Ph.D. ’24, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Multiscale Biomaterials-Enabled Glioblastoma Stem Cell-Targeted Therapy with microRNA to Overcome Cancer Recurrence
Amanda Siciliano (Ph.D. ’24, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Scalable Rapid Fabrication of Low-Cost, High-Performance, Sustainable Thermal Insulation Foam for Building Energy Efficiency
Ian Smith (Ph.D. ’25, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Functional Roles of Aquaporin 5 in Breast Cancer Metastatic Initiation Modeled In Vitro
Shannon Tsai (Ph.D. '22, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Leveraging Biomaterials to Direct Immune Function in Cancer and Autoimmunity
Colin Schell (Ph.D. ’24, Reliability Engineering)
Dissertation: A Causal Information Fusion Model for Assessing Pipeline Integrity in the Presence of Ground Movement
Antonio Schoneich (Ph.D. '24, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Aerosol Effects in High Supersonic Flows
Joy Shen (Ph.D. ’25, Reliability Engineering)
Dissertation: A Monte Carlo Augmented Bayesian Network Approach to Developing Hybrid External Flood Probabilistic Risk Assessments
Tyler Sinotte (Ph.D. '20, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: A Strain-Based Experimental Methodology for Measuring Sectional Stiffness Properties of Composite Blades
Aaron Sorrin (Ph.D. '23, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Photoimmunotherapy-Based Combination Regimens and Drug Delivery Systems for Ovarian Cancer Treatment
Justin Stine (Ph.D. ’23, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Dissertation: Mesoscale Embedded Sensor-Integrated Systems For Localized Biomedical Monitoring
Michael Straker (Ph.D. '25, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Low-Power Ingestible Sampling Technologies For Targeted Gastrointestinal Tissue Biopsy
James Sutherland (Ph.D. '22, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Development and Whirl Flutter Testing of Swept-Tip Tiltrotor Blades
Amoolya Tirumalai (Ph.D. '23, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Dissertation: Mean-field Approaches in Multi-agent Systems: Learning and Control
Nneoma Ugwu (Ph.D. '24, Civil & Environmental Engineering)
Dissertation: Equity Issues In Electric Vehicle Adoption And Planning For Charging Infrastructure
Stefan Waczynski (Ph.D. ’25, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Dissertation: Application of Ultrafast IR Lasers to Remote Detection, Beam Steering and Terahertz Generation
Kendyl Waddell (Ph.D. ’23, Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: Near-Limit Spherical Diffusion Flames and Cool Diffusion Flames
Sally Wang (Ph.D. ’23, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Feedback-controlled Bioelectronic Hybrid System Enable by Electrogenetic CRISPR
Richmond Wang (Ph.D. '24, Materials Science & Engineering)
Dissertation: Synthesis And Characterization Of Oxide Thin Films For Ion Transport
Linda Waters (Ph.D. '25, Civil & Environmental Engineering)
Dissertation: Building Back Greener: Energy Efficiency Transitions in the Residential Building Stock Following Floods
Callie Weber (Ph.D. ’24, Bioengineering)
Dissetartion: Metabolic Profiling of Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells: Investigating the Role of Sex, Stress, APOE Genotype, and Exercise in Alzheimer's Disease Risk
Joseph Whitmore (Ph.D. '23, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: Atomic Layer Deposition for Engineering Carbon Hollow Fiber Membrane Pore Structure
Samantha Wismer (Ph.D. ’26, Reliability Engineering)
Dissertation: Quantitative Risk Assessment of Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers for Hydrogen Production at Nuclear Power Plants
Sydney Yang (Ph.D. ’24, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Synthetic Mucus Hydrogels for Antimicrobial Peptide Delivery and Treatment of Bacterial Infections
Amirhossein Yazdkhasti (Ph.D. '22, Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: Passive and Active Graded-index Acoustic Metamaterials: Spatial and Frequency Domain Multiplexing
Olivia Young (Ph.D. ’25, Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: Direct Laser Writing For Soft Robotic Components
Daniel Zakzewski (Ph.D. ’25, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Dissertation: Advancements in Hybrid Multilevel Circuits: Leveraging Joint-Phase Redundancy for Enhanced Performance Metrics