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Fall 2020

Kirkey, Aaron

Over the coming decades, global population and energy consumption are projected to increase dramatically, with the latter doubling by 2050 as per the most conservative estimates. Much of this demand is likely to be met with increased use of fossil fuels. The burning of fossil fuels is a major...

Spring 2022

Mayo Molina, Israel

The Steam Alternating Solvent (SAS) process is a relatively new auspicious alternative recovery process to produce heavy oil and bitumen resources. This process consists of injecting steam and solvent (i.e. propane) alternatively using the same well configuration as the widely adopted...

Spring 2021

Farough Motamed Nasab

Stochastic optimization is field in mathematics that deals with decision making under uncertain conditions. Traditional methods for solving stochastic optimization problems such as scenario-tree methods usually result in large-size problems that suffer from the curse of dimensionality and require...

Fall 2024

Punia, Ambuj

Fossil fuel combustion results in carbon dioxide (CO${2}$) and particulate emissions which are linked to climate change and health problems, respectively. Hydrogen can be an alternative zero-emission fuel for future energy systems. However, hydrogen is not sufficiently available in nature in its...

Fall 2018

Tao, Sile

This thesis studies mixture models, in particular the estimation of mixing distributions and their applications to empirical Bayes prediction. The objectives are two-fold: to study the large-sample property of empirical Bayes estimators; to develop algorithms for the nonparametric estimation of...

Fall 2022

Cheng, Ziyi

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are an emerging technology with the potential to be transformational in the field of systems and control. They combine wireless and virtual components with physical infrastructure to create systems that are more adaptable, scalable, and resilient than their...