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.

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.