All M.S. candidates work closely with faculty members and do independent research to earn their degree. In addition, some submit a thesis.
Thesis Option: 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014
Non-Thesis Option: 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012
Thesis Option
2020
Student | Faculty Adviser | Thesis Title |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Wenlan Yang |
François Baneyx | Chemically Addressable Protein Entrapment in Silica Sol-gels |
2015
Student | Faculty Adviser | Thesis Title |
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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 |
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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 |
Non-Thesis Option
2020
Student | Faculty Adviser |
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Omkar Bhambure | Samson A. Jenekhe |
Chih-Wei Hsu | Vince Holmberg |
David Hurt | David Beck |
Mihyun Kim | Daniel T. Schwartz |
Julia King | Buddy D. Ratner |
Zonglun Li | Qiuming Yu |
Cheng-Wei Lin | David Beck |
Christopher Nyambura | Elizabeth Nance |
John Rumptz | Charles T. Campbell |
Linnette Teo | Daniel T. Schwartz |
Duyen Tran | Samson A. Jenekhe |
Zichen Zhu | David Beck |
2019
Student | Faculty Adviser |
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Sarah Alamdari | Jim Pfaendtner |
Suyash Bhagwat | Qiuming Yu |
Vuthithorn Chinthammit | Lilo Pozzo |
Erica Eggleton | Daniel T. Schwartz |
Luke Gibson | Jim Pfaendtner |
Shao-Feng Hsu | Lilo Pozzo |
Christine Kang | David Baker |
Prabhleen Kaur | Buddy D. Ratner |
Yusong Liu | Stuart Adler, Venkat Subramanian & Daniel Schwartz |
Sijin Luozhong | Shaoyi Jiang |
Caitlin D. Parke | Venkat Subramanian |
Jaime Rodriguez | Lilo Pozzo |
Griffin Ruehl | Charles T. Campbell |
Akshay Subramaniam | Venkat Subramanian |
Jingtian Zhang | Samson A. Jenekhe |
2018
Student | Faculty Adviser |
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Brittany Bishop | Vincent Holmberg |
Neal Dawson-Elli | Venkat Subramanian |
Ian Faulkner | James Carothers |
Brian Gerwe | Stuart B. Adler |
Yi-Fan Hsieh | Shaoyi Jiang |
Victor Hu/td> | Daniel T. Schwartz |
Andrea Joseph | Elizabeth Nance |
Yu Liu | David A.C. Beck |
Michael McKenna | Elizabeth Nance |
Patrick McMullen | Shaoyi Jiang |
Mary Beth O'Kelly | Shaoyi Jiang |
Elena Pandres | Vincent Holmberg |
Benjamin Ponto | John C. Berg |
Emily Ruskowitz | Cole DeForest |
Jay Rutherford | Jonathan Posner |
Alexander Thomas | François Baneyx |
Nicole Thompson | Vincent Holmberg |
Gabriella Tosado | Qiuming Yu |
Jonathan Witt | Stuart B. Adler and Eric Stuve |
Caitlyn Wolf | Lilo D. Pozzo |
Tong Zhang | François Baneyx |
Yiheng Zhang | Vincent Holmberg |
Le Zhen | Buddy Ratner |
2017
Student | Faculty Adviser |
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Steven Adelmund | Cole DeForest |
Sai Varun Aduru | David A.C. Beck |
Barry Badeau | Cole DeForest |
Gil Benezer | Shaoyi Jiang |
Jerry Chen | Shaoyi Jiang |
James A. Clark | Hugh Hillhouse |
Jiarong Cui | David. A.C. Beck |
Chad Curtis | Elizabeth Nance |
Garrett Davidson | Jim Pfaendtner |
Monica Esopi | Qiuming Yu |
Yuan Gao | David A.C. Beck |
Yatong Ge | François Baneyx |
Kyle Harrigan | Jonathan Posner |
Yi-Ting Lee | Lilo Pozzo |
Rick Liao | Elizabeth Nance |
Sawyer Morgan | Minoru Taya |
Vidit Parekh | Qiuming Yu |
Yanbo Qi | Venkat Subramaniam & Daniel T. Schwartz |
Michael A. Newton | James Carothers & David Castner |
Jared Shadish | Cole DeForest |
Joshua K. Smith | W. James Pfaendtner & Shaoyi Jiang |
Ryan Stoddard | Hugh Hillhouse |
Ziwei Zhou | Lilo D. Pozzo |
Yuyan Zhu | Samson A. Jenekhe |
2016
Student | Faculty Adviser |
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Fahad Abdullah Alamer | Vincent Holmberg |
Mohammed Aldighaithir | Qiuming Yu |
Wesley Beckner | Jim Pfaendtner |
Kyle Caldwell | John C. Berg |
Christopher Fu | Jim Pfaendtner |
;Daniel Galvan | Qiuming Yu |
Elisa Harrison | David G. Castner |
Oliver Jan | Jim Pfaendtner |
Kiran Kanekal | Lilo Pozzo |
Ryan Kastilani | Lilo Pozzo |
Matthew Murbach | Daniel T. Schwartz |
Jessica Soto-Rodriguez | François Baneyx |
Stephen Susantyo | Hugh Hillhouse |
Caroline Tsao | Shaoyi Jiang |
Zehua Wei | Rene Overney |
Kan Wu | Shaoyi Jiang |
Yuyin Xi | Lilo Pozzo |
Peng Zhang | Shaoyi Jiang |
Dejie Zhou | Hugh Hillhouse |
2015
Student | Faculty Adviser |
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Hussain Aloufi | Hugh Hillhouse |
Ian Braly | Hugh Hillhouse |
Brett A.E. Courtright | Samson A. Jenekhe |
Frank Eberle | Samson A. Jenekhe |
Kevin Fu | Qiuming Yu |
John Katahara | Hugh Hillhouse |
Gary Kerr | Samson A, Jenekhe |
Fei Li | Shaoyi Jiang |
Xinpei Li | Qiuming Yu |
Erik J. Liu | Shaoyi Jiang |
Karl Ray Oleson | Daniel T. Schwartz |
Warren Pinkard | Hugh Hillhouse |
Arushi Prakash | Jim Pfaendtner |
Manoj Saiprasad | Daniel T. Schwartz |
Honorio Valdes | Eric M. Stuve and Stuart B. Adler |
William E. Voje, Jr. | James Carothers |
Jie Xu | Stuart B. Adler |
Yao Xu | Qiuming Yu |
2014
Student | Faculty Adviser |
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Tao Bai | Shaoyi Jiang |
Mark D. Borysiak | Jonathan Posner |
Trevor M. Braun | Daniel T. Schwartz |
Matthew Crane | Peter Pauzauskie |
Yanfen Fu | Mary E. Lidstrom |
Alexey Gilman | Mary E. Lidstrom |
Blake Robert Hough | Daniel T. Schwartz and Jim Pfaendtner |
Razieh Y. Khalifehzadeh | Buddy D. Ratner |
James M. Lownsbury | Charles T. Campbell |
Edward L. Michor | John C. Berg |
Kayla G. Sprenger | Jim Pfaendtner |
Yimin Wang | Shaoyi Jiang |
Minquian Zhang | Samson A. Jenekhe |
2013
Student | Faculty Adviser |
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Yina An | Qiuming Yu |
Cori N. Bucherl | Hugh Hillhouse |
Patrick R. Burney | Jim Pfaendtner |
Moses Cho | Jim Pfaendtner |
Charlie Corredor | Jonathan D. Posner |
Pablo de la Iglesia | Lilo D. Pozzo |
Kelly L. Fleming | Jim Pfaendtner |
Rami N. Foster | David G. Castner |
Vance Q. Jaeger | Jim Pfaendtner |
Xiaoyu Liang | Shaoyi Jiang |
Janet Bickford Matsen/td> | Mary E. Lidstrom |
Christina E. Nelson | François Baneyx |
Genaro A. Perez Selsky | Stuart B. Adler |
Andrew William Sinclair | Shaoyi Jiang |
Fang Sun | Shaoyi Jiang |
Brian J.F. Swift | François Baneyx |
Xuezhen Wang | Qiuming Yu |
Weiran Zhang | François Baneyx |
2012
Student | Faculty Adviser |
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John H. Bae | Qiuming Yu |
Andrew D. Collord | Hugh Hillhouse |
Rosa Daneshvar | Buddy D. Ratner |
Michael A. Deighan | Jim Pfaendtner/td> |
Matthew Michael Gacek | John C. Berg |
Tim C. Geary | Stuart B. Adler |
Ye-Jin Hwang | Samson A. Jenekhe |
Timothy J. McDonald | Stuart B. Adler |
Ann K. Nowinski | Shaoyi Jiang |
Beau J. Richardson | Qiuming Yu |
Lige Tonggu | Hong Shen |
Christopher A. Wolcott | Charles T. Campbell |
Xi Zhan | Hong Shen |
Leize Zhu | Qiuming Yu |