Past dissertations
2024
Matthew MacEwen
"Dynamic, Multiscale Assessment of Lumbar Functional Spinal Unit Biomechanics during Physiologic Motion"
Advisor: Arin Ellingson (co-advised by Victor Barocas)
Soo Han Soon
"Advancing RF Coil Technology for Human Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Ultrahigh Field"
Advisor: Wei Chen
2021
Ed Bello
"Characterization of the Cortical Electrophysiological Effects of Motor Thalamic DBS"
Advisor: Matt Johnson
Sam Hanson
"Biointerfacing Polymers to Overcome Challenges in Vaccine Delivery, Gene Therapy, and Cancer Therapy"
Advisor: Chun Wang
Julian Preciado
"Development of Silica-based Physical Confinement Models to Isolate and Study Dormancy-prone Cancer Cells"
Advisor: Al Aksan
Ghaidan Shamsan
"Mechanical Regulation of Glioma Cell Migration"
Advisor: Dave Odde
Nader Tavaf
"Improving Signal to Noise Ratio in Ultra High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging"
Advisor: Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele, MD, PhD
José Valdez
"Impact of Blood Rheology on Chronic and Systemic Effects in Sickle Cell Disease"
Advisor: Dave Wood
Malaney Young
"Targeting Death Receptor 5 for Therapeutic Discovery"
Advisor: Jonathan Sachs
2020
Jeanette Marie Caronia
"Developing Bioinstructive Materials for Cardiac Repair"
Advisor: Samira Azarin
Logan L Grado
"Machine Learning for Deep Brain Stimulation"
Advisor: Tay Netoff
Geneva Ruth Hargis
"Microfluidic Model Systems to Evaluate Endothelial Cell Phenotype in Disease"
Advisor: David Wood
Tiffany Louisa Held
"Perception and Mechanical Properties of the Pacinian Corpuscle"
Advisor: Victor Barocas
Mikayle Holm
"Novel Educational Tools to Understand the Cardiac Device Delivery Pathways"
Advisor: Paul Iaizzo
Ethan Yize Leng
"Computer-aided Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer with Multiparametric MRI"
Advisor: Greg Metzger
Kenneth Louie
"Using Quantified Motor Behavior Outcomes to Improve Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease"
Advisor: Tay Netoff
Jessica Ann McKay
"High-Resolution Breast Diffusion Weighted Imaging with Improved Nyquist Ghost Correction and Simultaneous Multislice Imaging"
Advisor: Patrick Bolan
Sofie Alice O'Brien
"Genomic Analysis and Engineering of Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells for Improved Therapeutic Protein Production"
Advisor: Wei-Shou Hu
Jennifer One
"Characterization of Natural Killer Cell Activation and Functionality for Cell Therapy Applications"
Advisor: Wei-Shou Hu and Samira Azarin
Preethy Parthiban
"Effect of Constant-DI Pacing on Single Cell Cardiac Dynamics"
Advisor: Alena Talkachova
Sina Shirinpour
"Tools for Improving and Understanding Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation"
Advisor: Alexander Opitz
James Stieger
"How to Use Brains and Computers to Enhance Brain Computer Interfacing"
Advisor: Bin He
Tong Wu
"Representation Learning on Large-Scale Neural and Healthcare Data: A Practitioner's Perspective"
Advisor: Zhi Yang
Jorge Daniel Zhingre Sanchez
"Anatomical, Structural, and Device-Tissue Characterizations of the Atrioventricular Valves, and Associated Structures: Implications for Transcatheter Valve Repairs and/or Replacement Therapies"
Advisor: Paul Iaizzo
2019
Emily Anne Bermel
"Examining the Collagen Fiber Alignment in Cadaveric Lumbar Facet Capsular Ligaments and Their Effect on the Mechanics of the Spine at Multiple Scales"
Advisor: Victor Barocas
Alexandra Leigh Crampton
"An Extracellular Matrix-Based High-Throughput Platform for 3D Cell Culture, Drug Screening, and Biological Discovery"
Advisor: Dave Wood
Hongsun Guo
"Identifying Parameters to Excite or Suppress Peripheral and Central Neurons Using Ultrasound for a New Noninvasive Neuromodulation Approach"
Advisor: Hubert Lim
Christopher E Korenczuk
"Failure Mechanics of Nonlinear, Heterogeneous, Anisotropic Cardiovascular Tissues: Implications for Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms"
Advisor: Victor Barocas
Molly Elizabeth Kupfer
"3D Printing to Recapitulate Cardiac Tissue Development, Structure, and Function"
Advisor: Brenda Ogle
Chih Hung Lo
"Discovery of Small Molecule Modulators of Protein-Protein Interactions by FRET-based High-throughput Screening and Structure-based Drug Design"
Advisors: Jonathan Sachs and David Thomas
Lars M Mattison
"An Examination of the Cardiothoracic Tissue Biophysical Response to Electroporation Therapies"
Advisor: Paul Iaizzo
Julia Slopsema
"Orientation-Selective Programming Strategies for Targeted Deep Brain Stimulation"
Advisor: Matthew Johnson
Supriya V Thathachary
"A Single-Element Fiber Transducer for All-Optical Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Sensing"
Advisor: Shai Ashkenazi
Bin Xu
"Engineering Functional Muscle Tissues and Modeling Muscular Diseases Using Myogenic Cells Differentiated from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells or Human Fibroblasts"
Advisor: Wei Shen and Ronald Siegel