Recent PhD Graduates
Anticipated for 2018
Shadi Ahmadi Darani
System Architecture Optimization Using Hidden Genes Genetic Algorithms with Applications in Space Trajectory Optimization
Mohammad Alizadeh Fard
Stagnation Reduction in Drinking Water Storage Tanks Through Internal Piping
- Doctoral Program in Environmental Engineering |Defense
- Advisor Brian Barkdoll
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Low-Tech, Affordable Solutions to Improve Water Quality
- Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching Recipient
- Stagnant Reduction in Drinking Water Storage Tanks Through Internal Piping With Water Quality Implications
Kishan Bellur
A New Technique to Determine Accommodation Coefficients of Cryogenic Propellants
El Hachemi Bouali
Analyzing the Life-Cycle of Unstable Slopes Using Applied Remote Sensing Within an Asset Management Framework
Jeana L. Collins
Reverse Insulator Dielectrophoresis Utilizing Droplet Microenvironments for Discerning Molecular Expressions on Cell Surfaces
- Doctoral Program in Chemical Engineering | Defense
- Advisor Adrienne R. Minerick
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award Recipient
- Lecturer
- High-Performance Computing
Pegah Kord Forooshani
Model Polymer Systems Containing Catechol Moieties to Tune Hydrogen Peroxide Generation for Anti-bacterial and Wound Healing Applications
Marine Foucher
Probing the Precambrian Geodynamo: Analysis of the Geomagnetic Field Behavior and Calibration of Paleointensity for Mesoproterozoic Rocks
Brice Grunert
Characterizing CDOM Spectral Variability from Seas to Space
- Doctoral Program in Geology | Defense
- Advisor Colleen Mouw
- Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
- Grunert selected for the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
- Hydrographic structuring of the eastern Bering Sea phytoplankton community
- Center for Water and Society Student Member
Arash Hosseinzadeh
Linear Ring Resonator Modulator for Microwave Photonic Links
Aditya Kumar
Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality: Sensitivity to Global Change, Atmospheric Composition and Emission Sources
- Doctoral Program in Environmental Engineering |Defense
- Advisor Shiliang Wu
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Doctoral Finishing Fellowship Recipient
- Mercury emissions from wildfires: present day estimates and impacts of 2000-2050 global change
- Impacts of 2000-2050 Global Change on Wildfire Emissions of Mercury
- Atmospheric Deposition of Mercury to the Great Lakes Region under Future Global Change Scenarios
- Global Mercury Emissions from Biomass Burning: Resolving the Regional Variation and Dependence on Vegetation Type
- Impacts of Land Cover Change on Biomass Burning Emissions of Mercury
Aref Majdara
Computationally Efficient Algorithms for Offline and Online Density Estimation for High-Dimensional Data
Ronald Matthews
Power Flow Control in Hybrid AC/DC Microgrids
Navid Pourramzan Gandji
Employing Dielectric Based Media for Controlling Field Patterns and Wave Propagations in Advanced Electromagnetic Devices
Rui Shi
Environmental Sustainability Assessments of Liquid Transportation Biofuels Derived from Algae and Oilseed
Meng Tang
Spray and Combustion Studies of High Reactivity Gasoline in Comparison to Diesel Under Advanced Compression Ignition Engine Conditions
Julie Tomasi
Investigation of Mechanical, Electrical, and Thermal Properties of Particulate/Fiber/Polymer Composites
Chaofeng Wang
Intelligent and Secure Underwater Acoustic Communication Networks
Luting Wang
Study of Modeling and Optimal Control of Plug-In Electric Vehicles and the Integration with Smart Grid
Wentao Yao
Interplay of Ionic Transport and Crystal Facets in Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes
Xu Zhang
Controlling Light with Metadevices
Shangyan Zou
Optimal Control of Wave Energy Converters
- Doctoral Program in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics | Defense
- Advisor Ossama Abdelkhalik
- Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
- Abdelkhalik Team
- Energy Systems: Gaining Control
- Michigan Tech in Global Trajectory Optimization Competition
- Wave energy conversion: control of the buoy heave motion