Congratulations to our recent Brown Engineering Ph.D.s

The School of Engineering at Brown University is proud to announce the following recent dissertations that were successfully defended:

Mert Alaydin (adviser: Yuri Bazilevs), “Isogeometric Multilayer Shells: Plasticity, Damage and Friction,” December 2022	Jongyoon Bae (advisers: Andrew Peterson and Franklin Goldsmith), ”Multiscale Modeling Methods for Heterogeneous Catalysis,” December 2022	Christopher Black (adviser: David Borton), “Investigating Neural Correlates of Nociception in Primary Somatosensory Cortex Using Novel Behavior Methods,” June 2022
Katrin Blondal (adviser: Franklin Goldsmith), “Advanced Adsorbate Thermochemistry Computations and Improved Microkinetic Modeling,” July 2022	Dmitirijs Celinskis (advisers: David Borton and Christopher Moore), “Multisite and Multimodal Imaging Methods for Studying Spinal, Brain, and Vascular Dynamics,” July 2022	Xi Chen (adviser: Andrew Peterson), “Atomistic Approaches in Electronically Grand Canonical Interfaces,” July 2022
Asimanshu Das (adviser: Roberto Zenit), “Fluid Structure Interactions of Soft Solids and Complex Fluids,” August 2022	Hongyi Fan (adviser: Ben Kimia), “Novel Geometric Constraints and Methods for Robust Multiview Pose Estimation and Reconstruction,” August 2022	Kangping Hu (adviser: Jacob Rosenstein), “Spatio-Chemical Imaging with Multimodal CMOS Sensor Array” August 2022
Nupur Jain (adviser: Eric Chason), “Understanding Sn Whisker Formation under Externally Induced Stresses: Experiments and Modeling,” July 2022	Mok Yun Jin (adviser: Brian Sheldon), “Chemo-Mechanical Phenomena in Silicon-Based Composite Electrodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries,” June 2022	Krishna Nand Keshava Murthy (adviser: Carsten Eickhoff), “Knowledge Informed AI Solutions for Computer Assisted Radiology,” June 2022
Alicia Minor (adviser: Kareen Coulombe), “Engineering a Cell-targeted Therapy for Neovascularizaton in Ischemic Cardiac Tissue,” January 2023	Sijun Niu (adviser: Vikas Srivastava), “Finite Element and Neural Networks for Hidden Flaw Characterization and Structural Plasticity,” August 2022	Jiyun Park (adviser: Yue Qi), “Modeling of Oxygen Vacancies, Surfaces, and Interfaces in Oxides for Alternative Energy Applications,” December 2022
Sayan Samanta (adviser: Axel van de Walle), “First-Principles Calculations of Alloy Free Energies,” July 2022	Rabi Shrestha (adviser: Dan Mittleman), “Terahertz DSL and Wireless Communications,” August 2022	Anastasia Tzoumaka (adviser: David Henann), “Aspects of High-Strain-Rate Microcavitation in Soft Solids,” August 2022
Minglang Yin (adviser: George Karniadakis), “Hybrid Computational-Machine Learning Models with Uncertainty Quantification for Aortic Dissection,” July 2022	Cheng Zeng (adviser: Andrew Peterson), “Molecular Simulations by Exploiting Atomic Forces,” July 2022	Yuanhang Zhu (adviser: Kenneth Breuer), “Fluid-Structure Interactions of Elastically Mounted Pitching Wings,” July 2022