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Fall 2023

Sun, Huijuan

Decentralized source-diverted blackwater resource recovery represents an attractive wastewater management approach. Source-diverted blackwater refers to toilet wastewater, with or without kitchen wastewater, containing over half of the domestic biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) load and over 90% of...

1982

Olson, C. J. (Charles J.), 1947-

Spring 2023

Farruque, Nawshad

Traditional survey based methods for clinical depression detection are not always effective; the patient may not reflect their actual mental health condition because of the cognitive bias exhibited while filling out questionnaires about depression. Established through ample earlier work, social...

Fall 2018

Xu, Peng

Information extraction (IE) is one of the most important technologies in the information age. Applying information extraction to text is linked to the prob- lem of text simplification in order to create a structured view of the informa- tion present in free text. However, information extraction...

Spring 2017

Lui, Melanie W

The work in this thesis describes advancements made towards developing main group catalysts and designing new ligands. N-Heterocyclic imine (NHI) ligands were used to support novel boron, silicon and germanium complexes. The new boron compounds demonstrated the ability to dehydrogenate...

Spring 2024

Liu, Vincent

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) involves learning policies from datasets, rather than online interaction. The dissertation first investigates a critical component in offline RL: offline policy selection (OPS). Given that most offline RL algorithms require careful hyperparameter tuning, we...

Spring 2016

Ramirez, Oscar A

When controlling dynamic systems such as robots a big challenge lies in defining how the desired actions will be accomplished. In industrial settings automation has been possible due to the structured and predictable environments. The repeatability of the tasks makes it viable to manually...

Fall 2023

Adanty, Kevin

Surrogate headforms are employed in injury biomechanics to reconstruct head impact scenarios and evaluate protective equipment. The development of human calvarium surrogates to mimic mechanical response at fracture would be an essential step forward in improving the biomechanical biofidelity of...

Fall 2015

Sherstan, Craig

The control of powered prosthetic arms has been researched for over 50 years, yet prosthetic control remains an open problem, not just from a research perspective, but from a clinical perspective as well. Significant advances have been made in the manufacture of highly functional prosthetic...

Fall 2022

Bu, Lintong

This thesis describes the theory, fabrication, and characterization of monolithic integrated membrane-in-the-middle (MIM) optomechanical Fabry-Perot resonators and elliptical birefringent Fabry-Perot optical resonators. Both types of devices were fabricated on a silicon wafer using a thin-film...