Recent M.S. Degrees

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
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
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

Non-Thesis Option