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PhD Graduates

2003-2004 : Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Elisabet Bordt DEC 2003 "La Delicia: A Late Formative Ceramic Production Site in Southwestern Coastal Ecuador" Anthropology Dr. David A. Freidel
Shengqian Chen AUG 2004 "Adaptive Changes of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers During the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in China" Anthropology Dr. D. Fred Wendorf, Jr.
Ben Passmore MAY 2004 "Prace: Social Capital and the Workplace in the Late Transition Czech Republic" Anthropology Dr. Caroline Brettell
Keith Phillips DEC 2003 "An Analysis and Application of Statistical Techniques to Predict and Measure Business Cycles" Economics Dr. Thomas B. Fomby
Jakovs Itkins MAY 2004 "Essays on the Term Structures of Discount Bonds and Commodity Futures" Economics Dr. Nathan Balke
Limin Lin MAY 2004 "Structural Change Analysis and Forecasting of Time Series Data in Three Empirical Applications" Economics Dr. Thomas Fomby
Vasudha Rangaprasad MAY 2004 "Essays on the Determinants of School Quality and Student Achievement" Economics Dr. Daniel Millimet
Yoshitsugu Kobayashi MAY 2004 "Asian Ornithomimosaurs" Geological Sciences Dr. Louis Jacobs
Junchang Lu AUG 2004 "Oviraptorid Dinosaurs From Southern China" Geological Sciences Dr. Louis Jacobs
Bethany Rinard MAY 2004 "Structure of Kilauea's Southwest Rift Zone and Western South Flank Defined by Relocated Earthquakes" Geological Sciences Dr. Brian William Stump
Rongmao Zhou MAY 2004 "Intermediate Period Surface Waves from Mining Explosions for Crustal Structure and Source Studies - Application in the Western USA and Northeast China" Geological Sciences Dr. Brian William Stump
Courtney Raspin DEC 2003 "Eating Disorders and Family Patterns: Classifying Families Using the Beavers Family Systems Model" Psychology Dr. Robert B. Hampson
Douglas Koskela DEC 2003 "Yves Congar's Vision of Ecclesiality: Pneumatological Development and Ecumenical Promise" Religious Studies Dr. William J. Abraham
David Halleen MAY 2004 "The Role of Religious Speech in Public Discourse: An Examination of Contemporary Theories Through Analyzing the Religious Speech of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Reed" Religious Studies Dr. Robin Lovin
Jason Vickers MAY 2004 "Early Church and Seventeenth Century England" Religious Studies Dr. William J. Abraham
John Williams MAY 2004 "Between the Labyrinth and the Abyss: Presbyterians and Schism, 1837-1861" Religious Studies Dr. James E. Kirby
Patrick Carmack AUG 2004 "Recursive Partitioning in Spatially Correlated Data" Statistical Science Dr. William R. Schucany
An Jia DEC 2003 "A Tree-Based Approach for Estimating Variable Bandwidths in Local Linear Regression" Statistical Science Dr. William R. Schucany
Huiping Jiang DEC 2003 "Time-Frequency Analysis: G(lambda) Stationary Processes" Statistical Science Dr. Gray and Dr. Woodward
Yushan Liu AUG 2004 "On Estimation of the Number of Multinomial Cells from Cluster Sampling" Statistical Science Dr. Lynne Stokes
Shuyi Shen AUG 2004 "The Minimum L2 Distance Estimator in Poisson Mixtures" Statistical Science Dr. Ian R. Harris
Jeffrey Spence MAY 2004 "Imagining Data: Optimal Prediction in Regions of Interest" Statistical Science Dr. Richard F. Gunst
Zhu Wang AUG 2004 "The Application of the Kalman Filter to Nonstationary Time Series Through Time Deformation" Statistical Science Dr. Henry L. Gray

2003-2004 : School of Engineering & Applied Science

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Amitabh Dixit AUG 2004 "Asymptotically Optical Blind Techniques For Receiver Bit Error Rate Estimation And Network Optimization In An Arbitrary Multi-Receiver Network" Electrical Engineering Dr. Geoffrey Orsak
Nayera Sadek Mohamed AUG 2004 "High-Speed Network Traffic Prediction and Its Applications Using Neural Networks and Self-Similar Models" Electrical Engineering Dr. Alireza Khotanzad
Sumant Paranjpe AUG 2004 "Training-Free Universal Receivers For Wireless Communication Systems" Electrical Engineering Dr. Geoffrey Orsak
Jun Yu AUG 2004 "Content-Based Temporal and Spatial Segmentation of Motion Pictures" Electrical Engineering Dr. Mandyam Dr. Srinath
Saib Jarrar MAY 2004 "Formulation And Evaluation of Optimization Models for MPLS Traffic Engineering With QOS Requirements" Engineering Management Dr. Richard S. Barr
Akif Koru AUG 2004 "Risk Identification For Defect Reduction in Software Development" Engineering Management Dr. Jeff Tian
Charles Stein AUG 2004 "An Analytic Hierarchy Process Methodology to Combine Multiple Preferences with Data Normalization Effects in Data Envelopment Analysis Model" Engineering Management Dr. Eli Victor Olinick
Remus Ciobotaru MAY 2004 "Free Surface Fluid Interactions With Moving Solids" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Peter E. Raad
Honggang Fan AUG 2004 "Numerical Analysis of Heat and Mass Transfer in Arc Welding" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Radovan Kovacevic
Ali Merrikh MAY 2004 "Convection-Diffusion Analysis of Gas Transport in a Pulmonary Capillary" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Jose L. Lage
Mingde Song DEC 2003 "Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer in Friction Stir Welding" Mechanical Engineering