• Seize the data: addressing research challenges among children with autism spectrum disorder using statistical and machine learning techniques 

  Qureshi, Fatir (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-08)

  Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heterogeneous neurodevelopmental condition that is estimated to affect about 1 in 44 children in the United States. While the etiology of ASD continues to be an area of intense ...

• Analyzing and modeling human behavioral dynamics in social networks 

  Flamino, James, Rafael (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-12)

  Understanding, analyzing, and modeling human behavior within the context of social networks is a constantly ongoing study, being one of the central focuses of many scientific disciplines, include social and network science. ...

• A dynamic high-order variational multiscale method on unstructured meshes for transport problems 

  Xu, Zelu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-08)

  It is well known that the Galerkin method yields a solution with numerical/spurious oscillations in advection-dominated transport problems.Specifically when the cell Peclet or Reynolds number is high with an under resolution ...

• Design and fabrication of integrated on-chip silicon slow-light structures for optical delay line and eo modulator applications 

  Jiang, Lingjun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-08)

  The emerging silicon photonics technology has enabled numerous compact and low-cost on-chip optical systems with various functionalities. In this thesis, the research focuses on silicon on insulator (SOI) based slow-light ...

• Biomechanical ecologies: towards urban air remediation through indoor environments. 

  Mankiewicz, Phoebe, Simone (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2017-12)

  Indoor air quality (IAQ) and inhabitant health is often adversely affected by ele-vated levels of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), especially formaldehyde and benzene rings. Even though these ...

• Towards built ecologies: a consideration of multi-systemic bioresponsive behaviors within architectural systems 

  Pretorius, Mandi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-12)

  The Built Environment shapes our lived experience both as a subjective measure of personal experience, and as an objective measure of biological interactions catalyzed within an environment. An individual’s sense of ...

• Multirate digital signal processing for time interleaved analog to digital converters 

  Kouada, Ibrahim, Issoufou (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2017-05)

  In today’s increasingly higher speed and higher data rate world, high speed Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs) are very much in demand. They are needed in multiple applications including communications, radars, software ...

• Multivariate techniques for investigating complex biomedical challenges 

  Jones, Kathryn, Leigh (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-05)

  While multivariate statistical techniques have found wide-spread use in many areas of science and engineering, their application in the health care sector is not nearly as wide-spread and usually limited to certain areas. ...

• Design analysis of 3d printed internal cavity lens for lighting applications 

  Udage, Akila, Shan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)

  LED lighting systems consist of an LED light source and several subsystems, including optical, electrical, and thermomechanical components. The optical subsystem uses reflective, refractive, or a combination of reflective ...

• Electronic and vibrational properties of carbon nanostructures 

  Fadel, Mayada (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)

  In this thesis, first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) are used to study the electronic and vibrational properties of 2D, 1D, and 0D carbon nanostructures. Newly proposed carbon nanomaterials ...

• Efficient finite difference schemes for wave equations : part 1 : incompressible linear elasticity part 2 : hierarchical high-order accurate schemes 

  Newell, Arthur (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)

  This thesis is comprised of two major contributions. The first is the formulation of an efficient finite difference scheme for time-dependent incompressible linear elasticity on complex geometry. The governing equations ...

• Dynamic regulation of metabolic pathways with CRISPR-dCAS9 toehold-gated rna regulators 

  Perl, Alexander, J (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)

  In metabolic engineering, once a metabolic pathway is expressed, there is an optimization process that aims to increase the production, titer, rate, and yield of the target molecule with a goal to direct the maximum possible ...

• Sensorless frame-to-volume multimodal image fusion via deep learning 

  Guo, Hengtao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)

  Prostate cancer is the leading cause of death for men in the western world. The fusion of transrectal ultrasound (US) and magnetic resonance (MR) images for guiding the biopsy can facilitate the clinical diagnosis of ...

• A computational chemist’s guide to the development of designer material systems through the utilization of past, present, and developmental computational techniques 

  Ratcliff, Tyree, D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-12)

  Computational chemistry broadly investigates chemical problems using computer aided simulations/models. The exploration of material properties through computational means requires traversing length scales, from atomic to ...

• A clinically relevant wireless pressure sensor for acute compartment syndrome 

  Liddle, Benjamin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)

  Acute compartment syndrome (ACS) is a surgical emergency requiring rapid diagnosis and intervention. ACS occurs after traumatic injury when edema causes the pressure within a myofascial compartment to rise above capillary ...

• Natural language understanding with semantic parsing 

  Liang, Zhicheng (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)

  As a branch of natural language processing (NLP), natural language understanding (NLU) involves transforming natural language into a structured, machine-readable format. Typical target formats vary depending on the domain ...

• A variational bayes approach to inferring neuronal network connectivity 

  Smith, Devin, Cody (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)

  Uncovering a neuronal circuit's structure is an important step toward developing a mechanistic understanding of that circuit's function. In this thesis, we develop an algorithm which can accurately reconstruct an ...

• Hybrid systems and the role of the linker molecule in charge transfer heterostructures : a first principles study 

  Ciesler, Matthew (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)

  Hybrid systems are composed of materials like nanorods and sheets that have reduced dimensionality. These hybrid systems have the potential to revolutionize the way we harvest energy and design systems at the nanoscale. ...

• Deep learning for video-based assessment of surgical skills 

  Yanik, Erim (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)

  Surgical skill assessment is crucial for training and certification. The current gold standard is based on real-time proctoring in the operating room (OR) – developed by Halsted over a century ago. To assess skills, proctors ...

• Hierarchical 3d structures for bioengineering applications 

  Meduri, Aditya (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)

  Devices and scaffolds made from soft polymeric materials are being developed for various applications like filtration, catalysis, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine. To cater to different fields, these scaffolds ...

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