Commencement

Candidates for Graduate Degrees in the School of Science, Engineering and Technology

# August 2025 Graduate
* February 2026 Graduate
+ Future Award Date

Master of Arts

Chemistry
  • Benjamin Austin Baker#
  • Hao Zheng
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Mathematics
  • Liam Isaac Spilker
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Psychology
  • Daisy Martha Kiyemba*
  • Maanil Kumar#
  • Sabrina Theresa Nogueira#
  • Kylie A. Schiloski
  • Ellie Tyska
  • Tianyu Zhao+
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Master of Science

Biochemistry
  • Japheth Buchanan Theobald
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Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • Chelsea Braithwaite
  • Anton Davydenko
  • Julia Galenda Hoffman
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Biology
  • Emma Elizabeth Spaulding
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Biotechnology
  • Luwopwa Benjamin
  • Tristan Delaney Boyer
  • Elena Delicado Dominguez
  • Fabian Andrew Guirales#
  • Lauren Ju
  • Akanchhya Khanal
  • Destiny Kluck
  • Diego Francisco Morandi Zerpa
  • Henry Thanh Huu Nguyen
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Chemistry
  • Writam Sinha Roy Choudhuri#
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Computational Linguistics
  • Lindsay Dial
  • Tawny Lynne Ferraro#
  • Matthew Robert Flynn
  • Shel Ho
  • Bohan Jiang#
  • Tabitha Lucile Kaiser#
  • Benjamin West Lambright*
  • William Ian Lewis+
  • Travis Litke
  • Jade LaRose Oakes
  • Daniel Rechitsky
  • Tal Spector
  • Nathan Andrews Subrahmanian
  • Paul Carlson Weir II
  • Peter Jeffrey Williams
  • Sunny Zhou#
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Computer Science
  • Jiayi Chen*
  • Benjamin Brant Deitch
  • Parthiv Ganguly*
  • Chengpeng Gao*
  • Aaron William Gold
  • Efren Haskell*
  • Yen-Yi Lee*
  • Zixuan Liu*
  • Parasmani Pandey
  • Tri Kieu Trong Phan#
  • Liam Francis Rittenburg
  • Jarem Saunders*
  • Vedanshi Chetan Shah*
  • Galileo Abraham Steinberg
  • Emily Szabo
  • Minjie Tang*
  • Zheng Tang
  • Yuanshuo Wu
  • Zhuocheng Wu*
  • Suinan Xiao*
  • Yuting Xing*
  • Kaiyan Xu
  • Chupei Yan*
  • Ziao Yang
  • Weichen Zhao
  • Yifei Zhou*
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Mathematics
  • John Robert Houley
  • Yuichi Miyake*
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Molecular and Cell Biology
  • Joshua Renault Bernadin
  • Lindsey Michayla Brann
  • Victor Kubatin*
  • Hui Qiu*
  • Shae Kathleen Regan
  • Cameron Peter Stephens
  • Aedan Sean Using
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Neuroscience
  • Jumana Akoad
  • Ziv Amsili
  • Lily Joy Baraty*
  • Molly Elizabeth Concannon
  • Kayla DiBenedetto
  • Quinlan P. Gervasio*
  • Ainsley Elizabeth Golden
  • Dashiell Isaac Janicki
  • Connor Johnson^
  • Reyya Kocagil
  • Jason Thanh Le#
  • Emma Cai-Wei Liu
  • Troy David Martinez
  • Kaycia Kianna McKenzie#
  • Sayaka Minegishi+
  • Katerina Ann Reich
  • Marianna Zafero Tsolias
  • Keyun Zhu+

^ Posthumous degree

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Physics
  • Shubham Gupta*
  • Jagat Kafle
  • Ben Mor
  • William Karl Sorger+
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Psychology
  • Carolyn Hayley Dolfini
  • Griffin Thomas Dugan
  • Erica Gelman+
  • Angela Kristine Gori+
  • Kieran Patrick Holmes+
  • Aurora Angelica Plummer
  • Zara Erica Watkinson+
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Doctor of Philosophy

Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • Tara Pearl Azam*
    Mechanistic and Conformational Studies of Heat Shock Proteins BiP and Grp94
  • Jiahua Chen
    Metallobiology of Infection: Iron-Sulfur Clusters in Viral and Bacterial Pathogen Proteins
  • Thomas Patrick Cottle
    Feedback regulation of heme biosynthesis by mitochondrial CLPXP
  • Adam Michael DeCosta#
    Regulation of substrate selection and engagement by mitochondrial ClpX
  • Nida Farheen*
    Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Activator-Mediator Interactions in Transcription Regulation
  • MacKenzie Anne Patterson#
    Evolution: How We Use It, and How It Works Around Us
  • Crístían Vijendra Rendon Sharma#
    Beyond the Matrix: Assessing the Impact of Multiple Sequence Alignment and Codon Sequence Models on the Accuracy of Ancestral Sequence Reconstructions
  • Brandon Singh
    Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Verruculogens and Mechanistic Studies of FtmOx1
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Chemistry
  • Zhenhuan Sun
    Analysis of Domain Structure and Dynamics of Complex Organic Materials by Advanced Solid-State NMR
  • Dakang Zhang
    I. Mechanistic Studies of the Iron-Catalyzed 1,2-cis-Selective Glycal Aminoglycosylation II. Deprotection and Derivatization of Tn Antigens and Mucin-Type O-Glycan Cores III. Highly Stereoselective Chemoenzymatic Assembly of Heparan Sulfate Oligosaccharides
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Computer Science
  • Zizhang Chen#
    Structure Learning and Inference with Applications to Glycans
  • Che Yeol Chun
    Subtask-Aware Uniform Meaning Representation Parsing
  • Jack William Garbus#
    Coevolutionary Neural Learning At Scale
  • Chester Palen-Michel*
    Comparing Methods for Overcoming Data Scarcity in Less-Resourced Natural Language Processing
  • Jonne Kalervo Sälevä
    Improving Low-Resource Natural Language Processing using Prior Information
  • Jingxuan Tu#
    Dense Paraphrasing for Improved Compositional Reasoning in NLP Tasks
  • Bingyang Ye*
    Addressing Linguistic Ambiguities in Anaphora Resolution
  • Jin Zhao
    Computational Framing with Event-Based Methods
  • Zhengyang Zhou#
    Toward Unified Scientific Representation Learning: from Pure-Data Driven Forecasting to Multimodality Fusion
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Mathematics
  • Sarah Margaret May Dennis
    Fast Numerical Method for Lubrication Theory with Comparison to Extended Lubrication Theories and Stokes Flow
  • Ruoyu Guo#
    Developments in the finitistic dimension conjecture
  • Kaitlin Ragosta Hughes#
    A marking graph for finite-type Artin groups
  • Joshua Bernard Perlmutter
    The Morse Local-to-Global Property and Relatively Hierarchically Hyperbolic Groups
  • Haochen Qiu#
    On the detections by refined Seiberg-Witten type invariants
  • Rebecca Katherine Rohrlich*
    Results on the p-adic Laplacian
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Molecular and Cell Biology
  • Nathan Mark Brownstein#
    Understanding Post-transcriptional Regulation in the Molecular Clock
  • Zachary Daniel Knotts*
    EIF4G1 Depletion Activates Initiation-Specific Ribosome-Associated Quality Control
  • Anjali Pandey#
    Neuronal and Molecular Basis of Context-Dependent Olfactory Plasticity in Caenorhabditis elegans
  • Melissa Rose Seman*
    Mechanisms of Heterochromatin Regulation by HP1 Proteins and the Chromatin Remodeler Mit1
  • Anne Marie Silveira
    Regulation of membrane trafficking and actin cytoskeleton dynamics by Drosophila dynamin
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Neuroscience
  • Natasha Katelijn Baas-Thomas*
    On the Modulation of Central Pattern Generators: From Crustaceans to Rodents
  • Emma McGuirk Bain
    Regulation of branched actin networks by cortactin and GMF
  • Claire Ciampa
    Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Cognitive Aging
  • Hannah Germaine#
    Origins and Manifestations: An Investigation of Neural Reactivation Through Data and Theory
  • Josh Harrison
    Satellite Glial Cells Drive Homeostatic Synaptic and Structural Plasticity in Sympathetic Neurons
  • Daniel Patrick Leman#
    Learning resets primary visual cortex activity setpoints in vivo
  • Kathleen Cecylia Maigler
    Exogenous and Circuit-Level Influences on Cortical Palatability Coding
  • Lisandro Martin
    Learning Dependent Feedback Regulations of Behavioral Timescale Synaptic Plasticity
  • Subhadra Satish Mokashe*
    Competition between memories for reactivation as a mechanism for long-delay credit assignment
  • Zachary James Pranske
    Coordination of Synaptic Protein Dynamics Underlying Inhibitory Synapse Assembly by Sema4D/Plexin-B1 Signaling
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Physics
  • Gurbir Singh Arora*
    Landscape of Spacetimes
  • Valérie Leia Bettaque
    Magic and Wormholes in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model
  • Guglielmo Grimaldi
    Covariant properties of holographic entanglement entropy
  • Yingyou Ma#
    3D Dry Uniaxial Active Nematics in Bulk
  • Kanaya Malakar#
    Perspectives on the mechanics of active, pre-stressed biological solids
  • Hunter Aric Seyforth
    The role of specific and nonspecific interactions in the crystallization of binary mixtures of colloids
  • Naren Sundararajan
    Viral Capsid Assembly Coupled to Liquid Liquid Phase Separation
  • Annemarie Catharine Winterstrain*
    Connecting Tissue Organization to Cellular Signaling Dynamics
  • Benjamin Andrew Winterstrain*
    Emergent behavior of a dynamic actin-based active matter
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Psychology
  • Tong Lin
    An Integrated Multimodal Approach to Emotion and Empathy
  • Hannah Erica Park*
    Decision-Making in Visual Inverted Pendulum Balancing: Effects of Age, Effects of Manual Interfaces, and Transfer to Postural Balance
  • Katherine M. Seavey#
    An Examination of the Impact of Social Factors on Sexual Attitudes and Experiences
  • Luke Sim*
    Predictable Failure over Uncertain Success: VIP Extrapolation Study
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