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2022
| Student | Faculty Adviser | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Athena Kao | Hugh Hillhouse | The Development of Metal with Valence Number Three Doped-Mesoporous Ti/Ti4O7 Planer Electrode for Pharmaceutical Degradation |
| Yao-Yu Li | Vincent Holmberg | Compositional Engineering and Electrochemical Analysis of Supercritical Fluid-Liquid-Solid (SFLS)Synthesized Si1-xGex Nanowires |
| Luke Orr | Cole DeForest | Image Stack-guided Microvasculature Generation in Photodegradable Hydrogels |
2021
| Student | Faculty Adviser | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Yifeng Cai | Dynamic Control of Nanoparticle Assembly Using Solid-Binding Proteins | |
| You-Hsin Chen | René Overney | MD Simulations of Sequence Tuned Peptides Supramolecular Structures on Graphene Interface |
| Saransh Jain | René Overney and Mehmet Sarikaya | Predictive modelling of directed evolution for de-novo design of solid binding peptides |
| Nisarg Joshi | Jim Pfaendtner | Improving the accuracy and efficiency of machine learning derived interatomic potentials |
| Huan-Jui Lee | René Overney | Machine Learning-Based Determination of Protein Secondary Structures |
| Harrison Sarsito | John Berg | Suppression of Asphaltene Adsorption and Deposition in Porous Media |
| Kayden Tsai | Hugh Hillhouse | Light-induced Suppression on Forming Secondary Phases in FA-rich Perovskite |
| Jinge Xu | Cole DeForest | Data-driven Method to Investigate the Key Factor in Ru-complexes Photo-reactivity |
| Nuo Xu | Nanoparticle loaded implantable flexible microelectrode arrays for pain management after spinal cord surgery | |
| Renyu Zheng | Chun-Long Chen | Designing sequence-defined biomimetic peptoids for self-assembly |
| July Zhou | IfThresholds Software Package: score ranking standard threshold methods by comparing images produced by thresholding with manually labeled images |
2020
| Student | Faculty Adviser | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Yaqoub Albrikan | Qiuming Yu | Exploring Non-Stoichiometric Nickel Oxide (NiOx) as a Hole Transport Layer for Cesium Tin Triiodide (CsSnI3) Perovskite Solar Cells |
| Julia Boese | François Baneyx | Exploiting the Interactions of Solid Binding Proteins with Silica to form Colloidal Assemblies |
| Shrikakshmi Bonageri | Lilo D. Pozzo | Data Classification in High Throughput Screening |
| Guoyao Chen | Buddy D. Ratner | A High-resolution 3D Printable Porous Biomaterial |
| Jeffrey Chin | Hugh Hillhouse | Double Cation Substitution of CZTSSe Constituents to Reduce Detrimental Defects Clusters and Improve Device Performance |
| Ge Gu | Vince Holmberg | Supercritical Fluid-Liquid-Solid Growth of Alloyed Si1-xGex nanowires. |
| Shripathi Ramakrishnan | Samson A. Jenekhe | Wide Bandgap Donor Copolymers Containing Selenophene Moieties Enable Highly Efficient All-Polymer Solar Cells based on Naphthalene Diimide Biselenophene |
| David Shackelford | Elizabeth Nance | Comparing Machine Learning Classification Methods for Biological Tracking Data |
| Neel Arvind Shah | James Carothers | Development of RNA Aptamers through Supervised Learning and Capture-SELEX strategy |
| Kun-Lin Wu | Cole DeForest | Pharmacological Regulation of Protein-Polymer Hydrogel Stiffness |
| Zizhao Xu | Qiuming Yu | Synthesis of CsPbBr3 Quantum Dots for Photodetectors |
2019
| Student | Faculty Adviser | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Hao Dong | Qiuming Yu | Tuning Work Function and Conductivity of Methylhydroxyl Functionalized PEDOT-MeOH:PSS as a Hole Transport Material for Perovskite Solar Cells |
| Baochen Li | Stuart Adler, Daniel Schwartz & Venkat Subramanian | Develop a supercapacitor Real Time Model for PHIL simulation |
| Joel MacArthur | Shaoyi Jiang | Development of a High-Strength Zwitterionic Hydrogel to Combat Biofouling in Marine and Medical Applications |
| Liquan Niu | Shaoyi Jiang | A Study of Zwitterionic Polypeptide-Protein Conjugates |
| Zhiyin Niu | Qiuming Yu | Development of Chloromethyl Functionalized Poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Derivative (PEDOT-MeCl:PSS) Hole Transport Layer for Perovskite Solar Cells |
| Rossana Scavone | Cole DeForest | Stiffness modulation in hydrogels using the LOV2-Jalpha system |
| Maitri Uppaluri | Stuart Adler, Daniel Schwartz & Venkat Subramanian | Power Hardware in the Loop (PHIL) Simulation of Battery Packs |
| Yuening Wang | David Beck | A generalized framework for machine re-learning of complex process and kinetic models |
| Chenggang Xi | James Carothers | Multi-Ribozyme-gRNA-Aptazyme (RGA) networks for biosensing and gene regulation |
| Lena Xiao | François Baneyx & David Beck | Machine Learning of Amino Acid Composition Models for Protein Redesign |
| Yundi Zhao | François Baneyx | Stimuli-responsive assembly of nanoparticles with solid binding proteins |
2018
| Student | Faculty Adviser | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Rahul Avadhoot | David A.C. Beck | PyMolSAR: A Python-based toolkit to predict the activity and property of small molecules |
| Trevor Corrigan | Shaoyi Zhang | Hunt for a Genetically Engineered, Rationally Designed, Stealth Peptide to Prevent Non-Specific Protein Interactions |
| Sonja Glaser Dunakey | François Baneyx | Selective labeling of single-walled carbon nanotubes using solid binding proteins |
| Mengdi Fan | Venkat Subramanian | Review of Capacity Fade Models for Lithium-ion Batteries - Effects of Mechanisms on Numerical Implementation |
| Jiayuan Guo | David A.C. Beck | Developing a visualization tool for unsupervised machine learning techniques on *omics data |
| HyunJong Lee | Samson A. Jenekhe | Studies and Optimization of All-Polymer Solar Cells Based on Napthalene Diimide-Biselenophene Copolymer Acceptors |
| Yi-Yu Lin | Qiuming Yu | Solvent Effect on Morphologic, Crystalline and Electronic Properties of Triple-Cation Lead-Tin Double-Halide Perovskite Thin Films and Their Air Stability |
| Jinrong Ma | Shaoyi Zhang | Development of novel zwitterionic materials and their application |
| Tai-Yu Pan | Jim Pfaendtner | Accelerating Peptoid-Survade Simulations: Peptoid Binding on Au(111) and Au(100) |
| Sabiha Rustam | Vincent Holmberg | Exploring Copper as a Catalyst for Supercritical Fluid-Based Silicon Nanowire Growth |
| Khushmeen Sakloth | Jim Pfaendtner | Simultaneous Prediction of Density, Viscosity and Heat Calacity of Ionic Liquids- A Deep Learning Approach |
| Canfeng Wei | Lilo D. Pozzo | Making Ceramic Membranes Used in Redox Flow Batteries with Sol-gel Process |
| Kejia Wu | Jim Pfaendter | Exploring Serine-lysine Peptide Aggregation in Water and Interaction with Inorganic Surfaces Using Molecular Dynamics |
| Shijie Zhang | Buddy D. Ratner | Mechanical Simulation of Human Pleura for Medical Training by Crosslinked Polyurethane |
| Xiaoyu Zhang | Qiuming Yu | Flexible Narrowband Ultraviolet Photodetectors with Photomultiplication Based on Wide Band Gap Conjugate Pilymer and Inorganic Nanoparticles |
2017
| Student | Faculty Adviser | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Chih-Chung Chen | Elizabeth Nance | Curcumin-Loaded Polymeric Nanoparticles for Neuroprotection in Neonatal Rats with Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE) |
| Chiawei Hsu | François Baneyx | Mineralization of titania with sfGFP-Car9 variants |
| Taejin Jang | Venkat Subramanian | Orthogonal Collocation on Finite Element Method for Driven Cavity Flow |
| Luman Liu | Cole DeForest | Cyclic Stiffness Photomodulation of Cell-Laden Protein- Polymer Hydrogels |
| Pearl Philip | David A.C. Beck | Analyzing small molecule inhibition of enxymes: A preliminary machine learning approach towards drug lead generation |
| Aditya Salunkhe | Rene Overney & John Berg | The Use of Boundary Lubricants for the Reduction of Particle Jamming in Jet Cutting |
| Vineet Venkatanarayanan | John C. Berg | Suppression of Asphaltene Adsorption in Porous Media |
| Brian W. Williamson | Hugh Hillhouse | Bil3: A Lower Toxicity Route to Tandem Solar Cells |
| Jiawei Xue | Shaoyi Jiang | Environmentally friendly self-polishing anti-fouling coatings for marine applications |
| Erjin Zheng | Qiuming Yu | Solution-processed Visible-blind UV-A Photodetectors Based on CH3NH3PbCl3 Perovskite Thin Films |
2016
| Student | Faculty Adviser | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jia-Ruey Ai | Shaoyi Jiang | Mixed-charge Copolymer as Environmentally Friendly Low fouling Marine Coatings |
| Kannan Aravagiri | François Baneyx | Affinity Tag Excision Strategies for Car-9 Tagged Positions |
| Julie Blanchfield | Qiuming Yu | Characterization and Degradation of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters and Biodiesel in Artificial Seawater Under UV Exposure Using Raman Spectroscopy |
| Xinran Che | Shaoyi Jian | Bioinspired Anti-fouling Coating on Hydrophobic Surfaces |
| Prathamesh Gawade | Cole DeForest | Logic Based Delivery of Site-Specifically-Modified Proteins from Gels through Engineered Biomacromolecular Architecture |
| Soohyung Lee | Vincent Holmberg | A Comparative Study of Copper Chalcogenide Nanocrystals as Agents for Photothermal Therapy |
| Hsin-Ju Tung | Jim Pfaendtner | Accelerating Protein Unfolding Simulations: Effect of Ionic Liquids on Villin Headpiece Unfolding Time |
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Wenlan Yang |
François Baneyx | Chemically Addressable Protein Entrapment in Silica Sol-gels |
2015
| Student | Faculty Adviser | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Michael P. Comerford | Cole A. DeForest | Programmable Logic-Based Delivery of Small Molecule Therapeutics from Gels |
| Yu-Han Ho | Qiuming Yu | Development of Microfluidic Devices For In Situ Investigation of Cells Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy |
| Changlong Zou | Daniel T. Schwartz | Implementation of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy on the Mobile Phone |
2014
| Student | Faculty Adviser | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Stephanie Marie Hoffmann | Jim Pfaendtner | Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Poly(3-hexyl thiophenes) in Dilute Solutions |
| Michael T. Lombardo | Lilo D. Pozzo | Self-Assembly of Nanoparticle Surfactants |