PhD Graduates
2008-2009 : Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences
| Name | Date | Dissertation | Program | Advisor(s) |
| Abdullah Kumas | August 2008 | Essays on the Bilateral Tax Treaties, Foreign Direct Investment and Witholding Tax Rates | Economics | Daniel Millimet |
| Md. Ziaul Haque | August 2008 | An Adaptive Finite Element Method for Systems of Second-Order Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equation in One Space Dimension | Mathematics | Peter Moore |
| Ana Irina Firan | August 2008 | Searches for New Physics Using the Atlas Detector | Physics | Ryszard Stroynowski, Jingbo Ye |
| Pavel Zarzhitsky | August 2008 | Search for Supersymmetry in a Three Lepton Plus Jets Signature | Physics | Robert Kehoe |
| Darcie Ann Delzell | December 2008 | Optimal Statistical Design for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Experiments | Statistics | Richard Gunst |
| Judith Rose Cooper | December 2008 | Bison Hunting and Late Prehistoric Human Subsistence Economies in the Great Plains | Anthropology | David Meltzer |
| Lauren Elizabeth Gulbas | December 2008 | Cosmetic Surgery and the Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in Caracas, Venezuela | Anthropology | Carolyn Sargent |
| David William Hershey | December 2008 | Nevado De Incahausi: the Archaeological Anatomy of a Sacred Mountain in the Andes | Anthropology | David Wilson |
| Jose Leonardo Santos | December 2008 | Evangelical Conversion and Latin American Masculinity | Anthropology | Caroline Brettell |
| Christopher Blake Wolff | December 2008 | A Study of the Evolution of Maritime Archaic Households in Northern Labrador | Anthropology | David Meltzer |
| Andrea Dawn Hoffman | December 2008 | Structure-Function Relationship of the Different Domains in the Human ABC Transporters | Biology | Pia Vogel |
| Darcie Ann Pace Delzel | December 2008 | Optimal Statistical Design for functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Experiments | Statistical Science | Richard Gunst |
| Julia V. Kozlitina | December 2008 | Tests for Trend in the Analysis of Genetic Associations Studies | Statistical Science | William Schucany |
| Dario Nappa | December 2008 | Bayesian Classification Using Bayesian Additive and Regression Trees | Statistical Science | Xinlei Wang |
| Yan Wang | December 2008 | Dependencies in NAEP and Their Effects on Analysis | Statistical Science | Lynne Stokes |
| Juan Leandro Garcia-Massini | May 2008 | Portrait of Late Oligocene Paleoenvironments from the Northwestern Ethiopian Plateau: Reconstruction Based on Paleobotany and Sedimentology | Anthropology | Bonnie F. Jacobs |
| Kristoffer E. Alstatt | May 2009 | The Impact of Global Forces on National Identity in Vientiane, Laos | Anthropology | Victoria Lockwood |
| Ryan Michael Byerly | May 2009 | Late Pleistocene to late Holocene Variability in Bison Health: Implications for Human Bison-based Subsistence on the Northwestern and Central great Plains | Anthropology | David Meltzer |
| Catrina Deanne Banks Whitley | May 2009 | Body Language: An Integrative Approach to the Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Practices of the Taos Valley | Anthropology | Ron Wetherington |
| Sandesh Regmi | May 2009 | TbRACK1 Reversibly Binds with the Translation Machinery of Trypanosoma brucei, and is Required for Complete Cleavage Furro Ingression | Biology | Larry Ruben |
| Stefan Angelov Avdjiev | May 2009 | Three Essays on the Relationship Between Asset Prices and Macroeconomic Fundamentals | Economics | Nathan Balke |
| Bilge Evrim Dener | May 2009 | Essays on Dynamic Inconsistency and Quality Uncertainty in Durable Good Markets | Economics | Santanu Roy |
| Nese Sara | May 2009 | Trade Agreements Among Asymmetric Countries | Economics | Kamal Saggi |
| Zheng Zeng | May 2009 | Three Essays on Credit Frictions and Business Cycle Fluctuations | Economics | Nathan Balke |
| Marie D. Arrowsmith | May 2009 | Mining Explosion Identification as an Application of Treaty Verification | Geophysics | Brian Stump |
| Weimin Feng | May 2009 | Stable Isotope Studies of Selected Synthetic and Pedogenic Hydroxl-Bearing Minerals and Some Implications for the Environment of the Mid-Cretaceous | Geology | Crayton Yapp |
| Juan Leandro Garcia Massini | May 2009 | Portrait of Late Oligocene Paleoenvironments from the Northwestern Ethiopian Plateau: Reconstruction Based on Paleobotany and Sedimentology | Geology | Bonnie Jacobs |
| Sougata Halder | May 2009 | Experimental Determination of the Dissolution Mechanism of Ca and Mg pyrozenes/pyroxenoids in Alkaline Solutions | Geology | John Walther |
| Edward James Dudlo |
May 2009 | Martial Borderland: The Armed Incorporation of New Mexico, 1598 - 1912 | History | Sherry Smith David Weber |
| Jose Gabriel Martinez-Serna | May 2009 | Vineyards in the Desert: The Jesuits and the Rise and Decline of an Indian Town in New Spain's Northeastern Borderlands | History | David Weber Peter Bakewell |
| Paul Thomas Nelson | May 2009 | Utah's Canyon Country: Hope and Experience Approach an American Desert, 1500 - 1936 | History | David Weber |
| Michael Lee Taylor | May 2009 | Epidemic Models for Temporary Immunity with Delay | Mathematics | Thomas Carr |
| Tammerie Brotzman Day | May 2009 | Constructing Solidarity: A Theology of Liberation | Religious Studies | Joerg Rieger |
| Jacob Harold Friesenhahn | May 2009 | The Trinitarian Theology of Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Theodicy | Religious Studies | Bruce Marshall |
| Jonathan David Sanders | May 2009 | A Smoothing-Based Procedure for Time Series Trend Testing | Statistical Science | Wayne Woodward, William Schucany |
| Mehtabul Azam | August 2009 | Essays on the Wage Structure in India | Economics | Daniel Millimet |
| Angela C. Berry | August 2009 | An Investigation of the Relationship Between Fear of Negative Evaluaiton and Bulimic Psychopathology | Psychology | Jasper A.J. Smits |
| Michael P. Bletzer | August 2009 | 'Pueblos Without Names': A Case Study of Piro Settlement in Early Colonial New Mexico | Anthropology | Michael A. Adler |
| Sofia Chabysheva | August 2009 | A Nonperturbative Calculation of the Electron's Anomalous Magnetic Moment | Physics | Kent J. Hornbostel |
| Christina Anna Dekany | August 2009 | Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Reaction-Diffusion Equations in Two Space Dimensions | Mathematics | Peter Moore |
| Jill Carol Klentzman | August 2009 | Vicous Flow, Evaporation, and Phase Explosion in Thin Liquid Films: | Mathematics | Vladimir Ajaev |
| Christina C. Paulson | August 2009 | Analysis of C.Elegans Genes Required for Maintaining Intestinal Lumen Morphology and Ingested Drug Resistance | Molecular Cell Biology | James Waddle |
| Chinwon Rim | August 2009 | Synthetic Approaches to Multidentate Thioether and Pyridyl Ligands | Chemistry | David Son |
| Christiana Julia Rissing | August 2009 | Synthetic Approaches to New Multidentate Pyridyl Ligands and Sulfur-Containing Organosilicon Dendrimers | Chemistry | David Son |
| Jennifer Ann Tarin | August 2009 | Analysis of Shell Models in Relation to a New Self-Similarity Theory of the Inertial Range in Isotropic Homogenous Turbulence | Mathematics | Mogens Melander |
| Andrew Vogt | August 2009 | Macromolecular Design Via Combinations of Controlled Radical Polymerization Techniques and Click Chemistry | Chemistry | Brent S. Sumerlin |
2008-2009 : School of Engineering & Applied Science
| Name | Date | Dissertation | Program | Advisor |
Thomas H. Morris |
August 2008 |
Private Computing on |
Computer Engineering |
Sukumaran Nair |
William Evan Westermann |
August 2008 |
A Methodology and Model to Develop Complex Systems from Requirement Networks |
Computer Science |
Jarrell Stracener |
Yi Zeng |
August 2008 |
Automatic Knowledge-Based Classification and Modeling System for IP Network |
Electrical Engineering |
Thomas Chen |
Peiqing Zhu |
August 2008 |
Design and Characterization of Phase-Locked Loops for Radiation-Tolerant Applications |
Electrical Engineering |
Ping Gui |
Raed Omar Sbeit |
August 2008 |
Telecom Mergers - economical and technological Effects - With Verizon as a Case Study |
Engineering Management |
Stephen Szygenda |
Saeed Taiseer Abu Nimeh |
December 2008 |
Phishing Detection Using Distributed Bayesian Additive Regression Trees |
Computer Science |
Sukumaran Nair |
Iyad Hilmi Shehadeh |
December 2008 |
Fiber Telecommunications and Its Impact in Today's Economy |
Engineering Management |
Stephen Szygenda |
Michael Francis Siok |
December 2008 |
Empirical Study of Software Productivity and Quality |
Engineering Management |
Jeff Tian |
Nasser Alaeddine |
May 2009 |
Anomalies Analysis and Classification for Web Quality and Reliability Improvement |
Computer Science |
Jeff Tian |
Michael Harper |
May 2009 |
A Systems Engineering Methodology for the Development of Disaster Tolerant Computer and Communications Systems |
Applied Science |
Jarrell Stracener, Stephen Szygenda |
Fatemeh Hassanipour |
May 2009 |
A Particulate-Flow Heat Exchanger Inspired by Gas Diffusion in Lung Capillaries |
Mechanical Engineering |
Jose Lage |
Robert Jones |
May 2009 |
Heuristic Algorithms for Solving the Interval Flow transshipment Network |
Operations Research |
Richard Barr |
Anusha Madhavan |
May 2009 |
Models and Algorithms for Integer Multi-Commodity Network Routing Applications |
Operations Research |
Jeffery Kennington |
Christopher Pilcher |
May 2009 |
Maritime Automatic Target Recognition Using High range Resolution Radar Profiles and Classifier Combination |
Electrical Engineering |
Alireza Khotanzad |
Shanglu Yang |
May 2009 |
Hybrid Laser-Arc Welding of Galvanized High-Strength Steels in a Gap-Free Lap Joint Configuration |
Mechanical Engineering |
Radovan Kovacevic |
Osama Ahmed Elsafadi |
August 2009 |
Integrated Process-Design, Planning, and Stochastic-System Optimization |
EMIS |
Richard S. Barr |
Ahmed Elsayed Mohamed Hassan |
August 2009 |
A Modeling Framework for Airlines Competition Analysis: Application to the U.S. Domestic Network |
ENCE |
Khaled F. Abdelghany |
Nathan Robert Huntoon |
August 2009 |
Applications of Frustrated Total Internal Reflection for Short Interaction Length Devices in Photonic Integrated Circuits |
Electrical |
Marc Christensen |
Fan-Rong Kong |
August 2009 |
Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer, Fluid Flow and Mechanical Behavior in Laser- Based Material Processing Technologies |
Mechanical |
Radovan Kovacevic |
Ying Wan |
August 2009 |
A Study of Polymer/Semiconductor Leaky-Mode Grating-Assisted Directional Couplers |
Electrical |
Jerome K. Butler |
