Candidates for Graduate Degrees in the School of Science, Engineering and Technology
# August 2025 Graduate
* February 2026 Graduate
+ Future Award Date
Master of Arts
Psychology
- Daisy Martha Kiyemba*
- Maanil Kumar#
- Sabrina Theresa Nogueira#
- Kylie A. Schiloski
- Ellie Tyska
- Tianyu Zhao+
Master of Science
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
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#
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*
Molecular and Cell Biology
- Joshua Renault Bernadin
- Lindsey Michayla Brann
- Victor Kubatin*
- Hui Qiu*
- Shae Kathleen Regan
- Cameron Peter Stephens
- Aedan Sean Using
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
Back to TopPsychology
- Carolyn Hayley Dolfini
- Griffin Thomas Dugan
- Erica Gelman+
- Angela Kristine Gori+
- Kieran Patrick Holmes+
- Aurora Angelica Plummer
- Zara Erica Watkinson+
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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