Recent PhD Graduates
Fizza Mughal
PhD: 2020
Advisor: Professor Gustavo Caetano-Anolles
Dissertation:
Evolution of Protein Structure, Function, and Dynamics in Biological Systems
Siva Ratna Kumari Narisetti
PhD: 2020
Advisor: Prof. Vivechkanand Chunoo, Agricultural Leadership Education and Prof. Michael Twidale, iSchool
Dissertation:
Utility of Agricultural Mobile Apps Among Indian Rural Farmers
Santiago Nuñez-Corrales
PhD: 2020
Advisor: Professor Erik Jakobsson
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: Professor Zahra Mohaghegh
Dissertation:
Theorizing and Quantifying Organizational and Social Factors in Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Complex Systems
Mikko Tuomela
PhD: 2020
Advisor: Professor Michael Twidale
Dissertation:
Individual Reading Types and the Effects of Automated Annotation
Aseel Addawood
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Professor Umberto Ravaioli
Dissertation:
Understanding Misinformation on Twitter in the Context of Controversial Issues
Jarai Carter
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Professor Lulu Rodriguez
Dissertation:
Use of and Information Seeking Behaviors on Facebook Among Illinois Farmers and Farm Families
Usawadee Chaiprom
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Professor Matt Hudson
Dissertation:
Analysis of Soybean Gene Regulation Reveals Regulatory Mechanisms of RHG1-Mediated Resistance to Soybean Cyst Nematode
Hsiao-Ying Huang
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Professor Masooda Bashir
Dissertation:
Examining Older Users’ Online Privacy-Enhancing Experience from a Human-Computer Interaction Perspective
Kangjae Lee
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Professor Mei-Po Kwan
Dissertation:
Integration of GIS and Machine Learning Techniques to Investigate the Impact of Environmental Contexts on Travel Modes
Kyungho Lee
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Professor Donna Cox
Dissertation:
Understanding the role of Visual Metaphors in Emerging Media Arts Research and Practice
Halie Rando
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Professor Anna Kukekova
Dissertation:
Genomic Response to Selection for Behavior
Daniel Wickland
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Professor Matthew Hudson
Dissertation:
Computational Methods For Genomic Variant Calling and Analysis
Sean Wilner
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Professor John Hummel
Dissertation:
Narrative Comprehension Through Analogy: A Study in Cognitive Modeling and Narrative Clustering
Xuesong Yang
PhD: 2019
Advisor: Professor Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
Dissertation:
Dealing with Linguistic Mismatches for Automatic Speech Recognition
Syed Abbas Bukhari
PhD: 2018
Advisor: Professor Alison Bell
Dissertation:
Neurogenomic dynamics following social interactions in male threespined sticklebacks
Michael Junokas
PhD: 2018
Advisor: Professor Guy Garnett
Dissertation:
A Singular Synthesis: Investigating Timbral Synthesis and Control Systems Through the Integration of Music Composition and Machine Learning
Ankit Rai
PhD: 2018
Advisor: Professor Barbara Minsker
Dissertation:
Inferring Landscape Preferences from Social Media Using Data Science Techniques
Kiumars Soltani
PhD: 2018
Advisor: Professor Shaowen Wang
Dissertation:
A distributed workload-aware approach to partitioning geospatial big data for cybergis analytics
Joseph Yun
PhD: 2018
Advisor: Professor Brittany Duff
Dissertation:
Analyzing the Boundaries of Balance Theory in Evaluating Cause-Related Marketing Compatibility
Tom Le Paine
PhD: 2017
Advisor: Professor Thomas Huang
Dissertation:
Practical Considerations for Deep Learning
Yan Liu
PhD: 2017
Advisor: Professor Shaowen Wang
Dissertation:
High-Performance Evolutionary Computation for Scalable Spatial Optimization
Khuram Shahzad
PhD: 2017
Advisor: Professor Juan Loor
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: Professor Vetle Torvik
Dissertation:
Mechanisms driving the formation and success of collaborations between scientists in biomedicine
Arshan Nasir
PhD: 2015
Advisor: Professor Gustavo Caetano-Anolles
Dissertation:
Structural and functional Advances in the Evolutionary Studies of Cells and Viruses
Scott Nixon
PhD: 2015
Advisor: Professor Sandra Rodriguez-Zas
Dissertation:
Study of Phenotypic and Gene Expression Response to Bacterial Challenge