Recent PhD Graduates
James Balamuta
PhD: 2021
Advisor: Dr.Jeffrey Douglas, Statistics and Dr.Stephen Culpepper, Statistics
Dissertation:
Bayesian Estimation of Restricted Latent Class Models: Extending priors, link functions, and structural models
Kelechi Ikegwu
PhD: 2021
Advisor: Dr.Robert J. Brunner, Astronomy
Dissertation:
Machine Learning and Information-Theoretic Approaches for Financial Applications
Brandi Smith
PhD: 2021
Advisor: Dr.Rebecca L. Smith, Pathobiology
Dissertation:
Health Disparities, Environmental Toxicants and Midlife Women’s Health Outcomes
Pan Zhang
PhD: 2021
Advisor: Dr. Sandra Rodriguez-Zas, Animal Sciences
Dissertation:
Integration of Bioinformatics Approaches to Study Transcriptome patterns Associated with Complex Traits at the Gene and Isoform Levels
Fizza Mughal
PhD: 2020
Advisor: Dr.Gustavo Caetano-Anolles
Dissertation:
Evolution of Protein Structure, Function, and Dynamics in Biological Systems
Santiago Nuñez-Corrales
PhD: 2020
Advisor: Dr. Erik Jakobsson, Molecular & Cellular Biology
Dissertation:
Toward a Unified View of Complex Multiscale Stochastic Systems: A Generalized Theory of Interactions and Its Computational Infrastructure for Their Universal and Efficient Investigation
Justin Pence
PhD: 2020
Advisor: Dr. Zahra Mohaghegh, Nuclear Plasma and Radiological Engineering
Dissertation:
Theorizing and Quantifying Organizational and Social Factors in Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Complex Systems
Siva Ratna Kumari Narisetti
PhD: 2020
Advisor: Dr.Vivechkanand Chunoo, Agricultural Leadership Education and Dr.Michael Twidale, iSchool
Dissertation:
Utility of Agricultural Mobile Apps Among Indian Rural Farmers
Mikko Tuomela
PhD: 2020
Advisor: Dr. Michael Twidale, iSchool
Dissertation:
Individual Reading Types and the Effects of Automated Annotation
Aseel Addawood
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Dr. Umberto Ravaioli, ECE
Dissertation:
Understanding Misinformation on Twitter in the Context of Controversial Issues
Jarai Carter
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Dr. Lulu Rodriguez, Agricultural Communication
Dissertation:
Use of and Information Seeking Behaviors on Facebook Among Illinois Farmers and Farm Families
Usawadee Chaiprom
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Dr. Matt Hudson, Crop Sciences
Dissertation:
Analysis of Soybean Gene Regulation Reveals Regulatory Mechanisms of RHG1-Mediated Resistance to Soybean Cyst Nematode
Hsiao-Ying Huang
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Dr. Masooda Bashir, iSchool
Dissertation:
Examining Older Users’ Online Privacy-Enhancing Experience from a Human-Computer Interaction Perspective
Kangjae Lee
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Dr. Mei-Po Kwan, Geography
Dissertation:
Integration of GIS and Machine Learning Techniques to Investigate the Impact of Environmental Contexts on Travel Modes
Kyungho Lee
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Dr. Donna Cox, Music
Dissertation:
Understanding the role of Visual Metaphors in Emerging Media Arts Research and Practice
Halie Rando
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Dr. Anna Kukekova, Animal Sciences
Dissertation:
Genomic Response to Selection for Behavior
Daniel Wickland
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Dr. Matthew Hudson, Crop Sciences
Dissertation:
Computational Methods For Genomic Variant Calling and Analysis
Sean Wilner
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Dr. John Hummel, Psychology
Dissertation:
Narrative Comprehension Through Analogy: A Study in Cognitive Modeling and Narrative Clustering
Xuesong Yang
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Dr. Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dissertation:
Dealing with Linguistic Mismatches for Automatic Speech Recognition
Syed Abbas Bukhari
PhD: 2018
Advisor: Dr. Alison Bell, Animal Biology
Dissertation:
Neurogenomic Dynamics Following Social Interactions in Male Threespined Sticklebacks
Michael Junokas
PhD: 2018
Advisor: Dr. Guy Garnett, Music
Dissertation:
A Singular Synthesis: Investigating Timbral Synthesis and Control Systems Through the Integration of Music Composition and Machine Learning
Ankit Rai
PhD: 2018
Advisor: Dr. Barbara Minsker, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Dissertation:
Inferring Landscape Preferences from Social Media Using Data Science Techniques
Kiumars Soltani
PhD: 2018
Advisor: Dr. Shaowen Wang, Geography
Dissertation:
A Distributed Workload-aware Approach to Partitioning Geospatial Big Data for Cybergis Analytics
Joseph Yun
PhD: 2018
Advisor: Professor Brittany Duff, Advertising
Dissertation:
Analyzing the Boundaries of Balance Theory in Evaluating Cause-Related Marketing Compatibility
Tom Le Paine
PhD: 2017
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Huang, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dissertation:
Practical Considerations for Deep Learning
Yan Liu
PhD: 2017
Advisor: Dr. Shaowen Wang, Geography
Dissertation:
High-Performance Evolutionary Computation for Scalable Spatial Optimization
Khuram Shahzad
PhD: 2017
Advisor: Dr. Juan Loor, Animal Sciences
Dissertation:
Systems Physiology and Nutrition in Dairy Cattle: Applications of Omics and Bioinformatics to Better Understand the Hepatic Metabolomics and Transcriptomics Adaptations in Transition Dairy Cows
Brent Fegley
PhD: 2016
Advisor: Dr. Vetle Torvik, iSchool
Dissertation:
Mechanisms Driving the Formation and Success of Collaborations between Scientists in Biomedicine
Arshan Nasir
PhD: 2015
Advisor: Dr. Gustavo Caetano-Anolles, Crop Sciences
Dissertation:
Structural and Functional Advances in the Evolutionary Studies of Cells and Viruses
Scott Nixon
PhD: 2015
Advisor: Dr. Sandra Rodriguez-Zas, Animal Sciences
Dissertation:
Study of Phenotypic and Gene Expression Response to Bacterial Challenge