Candidate: Yawen Deng
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Kirstin Petersen (Chair), Ross Knepper
Time and Place: Thursday, May 3, 2018, 9:00 a.m., 331 Upson Hall
Dissertation Title: Scalable Compiler for Distributed Assembly with TERMES
Candidate: Yiwen Hua
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Kirstin Petersen (Chair), Ross Knepper
Time and Place: Thursday, May 3, 2018, 8:00 a.m., 331 Upson Hall
Dissertation Title: Building 3D-Structure with An Intelligent Robot Swarm
Candidate: Zeyu Liu
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Silvia Ferrari (Chair), Ross Knepper
Time and Place: Monday, April 23, 2018, 2:00 p.m., 531 Upson Hall
Dissertation Title: A Cell Decomposition Approach to Autonomous Path Planning for Directional Mobile Sensors
Candidate: Laura Montoya Ashton
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Tobias Hanrath (Chair), Robert Shepherd
Time and Place: Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 12:00 noon, 331 Upson Hall
Dissertation Title: High Speed Additive Manufacturing at a Liquid-Liquid Interface
Candidate: Zelin Linghu
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Meredith Silberstein (Chair), Daniel Selva
Time and Place: Thursday, May 10, 2018, 9:00 a.m., 431 Upson Hall
Dissertation Title: Effect of FEA Epistemic Uncertainty on Design of Cellular Metamaterials with Non-linear Mechanical Behavior
Candidate: Joseph Corbett Davies
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Mark Campbell (Chair), G. Edward Suh
Time and Place: Friday, Aug 25, 2017, 1:00 p.m., 531 Upson Hall
Dissertation Title: Robust Contingency Planning and System Design for Safe and Secure Autonomous Road Vehicles
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Christoper Hernandez (Chair), Marjolein van der Meulen
Time and Place: Wednesday, July 12, 2017, 2:30 p.m., 178 Rhodes Hall
Dissertation Title: Bone Phenotype of Toll-Like Receptor 5 Deficient Mice and PTH Treated Osteoporotic Sheep
Candidate: Aleshka Carrion-Matta
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: Max Zhang (Chair), Sara C. Pryor
Time and Place: Monday, July 11, 2016, 9:00 a.m., 151 Rhodes Hall
Dissertation Title: Source-oriented and Micro-environmental Aerosol Dynamics Model: Spatial variation of cerium oxide nanoparticles in an urban environment
Candidate: Jessica Hohenstein
Candidate’s Field: Mechanical Engineering
Committee: David Erickson (Chair), Geri Gay
Time and Place: Thursday, April 28, 2016, 10:30 a.m., 151 Rhodes Hall
Dissertation Title: Development of a Compact Optical Rapid Diagnostic Test Reader and a Point-of-Care Fluorescence Lateral Flow Assay for Dengue Detection
Candidate: Lucas de la Garza
Candidate’s Field: Aerospace Engineering
Committee: Mark Campbell (Chair), Dmitry Savransky
Time and Place: Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 9:00 a.m., 178 Rhodes Hall
Dissertation Title: Multi-Object, Multi-Sensor Detection and Tracking of Pedestrians on a Mobile Robot
Prior Education:
Term in Graduate School at Cornell: 10 Terms
B.S., MIT, 2011