Doctoral Candidate Ming Jiang successfully defended her dissertation, “THE INFLUENCE OF OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION QUALITY ON THE ROBUSTNESS OF REPRESENTATION LEARNING”on August 5th and will

Doctoral Candidate Chang Liu successfully defended his dissertation, “SOCIOTECHNICAL MATCHING: FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS AT THE PERIPHERIES OF CHINESE ECONOMIC REFORM” on June 6th and will graduate December

Doctoral Candidate Juan Alfonso de la Rosa successfully defended his dissertation, “MULTILAYER FUTURE SYSTEM-MAPPING USING DECENTERED PROTOTYPES: A PARTICIPATORY TOOL FOR DESIGN OF PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE IN

Doctoral Candidate Mohammad Amanzadeh successfully defended his dissertation, “A MATHEMATICAL INTERPRETATION OF HUMAN BODY MOVEMENT” on March 10th and will graduate May 2022. Program Area:

Doctoral Candidate Monica Porteanu successfully defended her dissertation, “DECISION-MAKING FOR A REGENERATIVE SOCIETY:VOICE-BASED EMOTION AI” on February 28th and will graduate May 2022. Program Area:

Doctoral Candidate Ryan Ingebritsen successfully defended his dissertation, “AUDITORY KINESTHESIA: A FRAMEWORK TO FACILITATE THE DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF INTERACTIVE MUSIC SYSTEMS” on February 22nd

Doctoral Candidate Yaguang Sun successfully defended his dissertation, “NEW CHALLENGES FOR SMARTPHONE APPS AMONG CHINESE URBAN OLDER PERSONS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC” on February 4th

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James Balamuta a 2021 Informatics Ph.D. graduate was recently awarded the 2022 Psychometric Society Dissertation Prize for his dissertation “Bayesian Estimation of Restricted Latent Class Models: Extending

Doctoral Candidate Si Chen successfully defended her dissertation, ““Urban Informatics Systems Science Using Engaging Interface and Machine Learning in Spatial-temporal Analysis” on December 7th and