Division of Engineering and Applied Science (EAS)
Graduate Alumni — Senior Thesis
Efficient and SPAM-Robust Ansatz-Free Lindbladian Learning
Sinha, Savar Dayal ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2026
Advisor: Preskill, John P.; Tong, Yu
Improving Parameters of Asymptotically Good Quantum LDPC Codes via Stronger Product Expansion
Cai, Yiyi ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2025
Advisor: Preskill, John P.
Methodology and Insights for System Calibration in Multi-Angle Illumination Imaging
Deng, Catherine ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2025
Advisor: Yang, Changhuei
Enforcing Constraints in Learning-Augmented Online Optimization: Theory and Applications to Energy Systems
Chen, James Yuxuan ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2024
Advisor: Wierman, Adam C.
Thermomechanical Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Kutsyy, Alice ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2024
Advisor: Bhattacharya, Kaushik
Characterizing the Molecular Structure of Preceramic Polysiloxanes for Freeze Casting of Silicon Oxycarbide Ceramics
Nandi, Ankita ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2024
Advisor: Faber, Katherine T.; Rossman, George Robert
Thinking Queerness and Forming Intimacies: Understanding Identity, Relationships, and Queerness in South Asian Diasporic Contemporary Literature, 1981–2022
Nandi, Ankita ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2024
Advisor: Murphy, Dana
Pseudorandomness of the Sticky Random Walk
Anand, Emile Timothy ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2023
Advisor: Umans, Christopher M.
Who’s Chinatown, Whose Chinatown? Visions of Urban Progress in Los Angeles Chinatown, 1970-2020
Jiang, Abigail Yuan-Shan ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2023
Advisor: Dykstra, Maura
Female Inventors and Narratives of Innovation in Late Twentieth-Century Computing
Cheng, Myra Miaobo ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2022
Advisor: Dykstra, Maura
An Efficient Environment Encoding for Trajectory Feasibility and Cost Predictions
Zou, Sarah Jin ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2022
Advisor: Yue, Yisong
A Combined High Temperature Tape-Casting and 2D Freeze-Casting Method for Polymer Membranes with Vertically Oriented Pores
Gokuli, Mahi ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2021
Advisor: Faber, Katherine T.
Engineering Logical Inflammation Sensing and Secreting Circuit for Gut Modulation
Merk, Liana Noor ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2021
Advisor: Murray, Richard M.
New Method and Analysis of Proximity Trajectory-Only Learned Dynamics for Small Body Gravity Fields
Neamati, Daniel A. ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2021
Advisor: Chung, Soon-Jo
Stabilization of Brain-Machine Interface Systems via Alignment to Baseline
Porter, Tara S. ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2021
Advisor: Emami, Azita
Optimizing Deep Neural Networks for Single Cell Segmentation
Cui, Can (Sunny) ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2020
Advisor: Van Valen, David A.
Functional Acrylate Resins for Shape Memory Polymer Microarchitectures
Salzman, Erika Emmanuelle ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2020
Advisor: Greer, Julia R.
Mechanical Properties and Characterization of Nanocrystalline Ni and Ni Solid Solutions
Schwacke, Miranda Lee ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2020
Advisor: Greer, Julia R.
Town Meeting: A Representative but Non-Sovereign Institution
Lymperopoulos-Bountalis, Filippos ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2019
Advisor: Dykstra, Maura
Landau Damping Induced Limits in Nanogap Metal-Insulator-Metal Plasmonic Waveguides and Cavities
Rimoli Assumpcao, Daniel ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2019
Advisor: Choo, Hyuck
Next Generation Fast Shutter System for LIGO
Sreedhar, Kavya ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2019
Advisor: Abbott, Richard
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Pressure Hysteresis in the Palladium Hydride Phase Transformation
Moorthy, Aadith ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2018
Advisor: Fultz, Brent T.
Utilizing Machine Learning Techniques to Rapidly Identify MUC2 Expression in Colon Cancer Tissues
Periyakoil, Preethi Kasthuri ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2018
Advisor: Yue, Yisong
Transverse Photonic Doppler Velocimetry for Plate Impact Experiments
Bischann, Moriah Nicole ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2017
Advisor: Ravichandran, Guruswami
Heading Estimation via Sun Sensing for Autonomous Navigation
Shah, Parth ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2017
Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman
Fluid-Structure Interactions of Inverted Leaves and Flags
Fan, Boyu ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2015
Advisor: Gharib, Morteza
Convex Model Predictive Control for Vehicular Systems
Huang, Tiffany Amy ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2014
Advisor: Burdick, Joel Wakeman
Charles I: Unhero of Royalist Poetry
Hoglen, Nerissa Emmy Graetz ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2013
Advisor: Haugen, Kristine L.
The Impact of Surface Chemistry on Photoelectrochemical Device Characteristics
Rosenberg, Robert Alan ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2011
Advisor: Lewis, Nathan Saul; Grimm, Ron L.
Searching for Minimum Storage Regenerating Codes
Cullina, Daniel Francis ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2009
Advisor: Ho, Tracey C.
Violence in the Medieval Church before the First Crusade
Jewell, Joseph Stephen ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2004
Advisor: Brown, Warren C.
Legal Dimensions of the Chinese Experience in Los Angeles, 1860-1880
Armond, Michelle Elle ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2000
Advisor: Deverell, William F.
The Fractional Discrete Fourier Transform
Tkacenko, Andre ・ Senior Thesis ・ 1999
Advisor: McEliece, Robert J.; Vaidyanathan, P. P.
Study of Solid-Phase Reactions of Metals on GaAs
Liew, Boon-Khim ・ Senior Thesis ・ 1985
Advisor: Nicolet, Marc-Aurele
High Energy Heavy Ion Beam Enhanced Adhesion of Gold Films to GaAs
Paine, Scott Nelson ・ Senior Thesis ・ 1984
Advisor: Tombrello, Thomas A.