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Doctor of Philosophy (continued) Jonghwan Kim, Business Administration, BBA, Yonsei University, Korea; MBA, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Dissertation: Relationship Between Accounting Performance and Career Decisions Michelle Kim, Comparative Literature, B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Antipodes of Asian American Literature: Heterolingualism and the Asian Americas Min Ah Kim, Social Work, B.A., B.A., MSW, Yonsei University, Korea Dissertation: Psychological Distress in Adolescent and Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer in Korea Hisako Kobayashi, Policy, Planning and Development, B.A., Chiba University, Japan; MPl, Cornell University Dissertation: Conflict Prevention in Indonesia Steven Eric Koppitsch, Business Administration, B.A., Whitman College; MBA, University of Rochester Dissertation: Can Firms Recover from Service Failures via Customer Surveys? Reducing Customer Anger Following a Negative Experience Frederick Charles Krause, Chemistry, B.A., Pomona College Dissertation: Electrocatalysts for Direct Liquid-feed Fuel Cells and Advanced Electrolytes for Lithium-ion Batteries Ivan Krylov, Chemistry, B.S., Saint Petersburg State University, Russia Dissertation: Synthesis, Structural Analysis and In Vitro AntiViral Activities of Novel Cyclic and Acyclic (S)-HPMPC and (S)-HPMPA Tyrosinamide Ester Prodrugs Anita Kumar, Anthropology, B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., G.Cert., University of Southern California Dissertation: Counseling South Asian Immigrant Domestic Violence Survivors in a Moral Border Zone Sunil Kumar, Electrical Engineering, B.T. Indian Institute of Technology Dissertation: Critically Sampled Wavelet Filter Banks on Graphs Nisha U. Kunte, American Studies and Ethnicity, B.A., Columbia University; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: Moving Parts: Refiguring Corporeal Difference and the Human through Organ Transplant Narratives
Cheng-Hao Kuo, Electrical Engineering, B.S., National Taiwan University; M.S., Carnegie-Mellon University Dissertation: Multiple Pedestrians Tracking by Discriminative Models Manish Kurse, Biomedical Engineering, B.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras; M.S., University of Southern California Dissertation: Inference of Computational Models of Tendon Networks via Sparse Experimentation Chuan Kuzin, Urban Education Policy, B.A., Brigham Young University; M.A., Harvard Graduate School of Education Dissertation: Parent Compacts in Urban Charter Schools: An Exploration of Contents and Processes Ben Siu Pan Lam, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology, B.S., University of California, Berkeley Dissertation: Investigating the Role of the Calcium-sensing Receptor in the Localization of Normal and Malignant Hematopoietic Cells in the Bone Marrow Stem Cell Niche Charlotte Lapsansky, Communication, B.A., Brown University; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: Communicating Women’s Rights in the Mobile Phone Age: Historical Perspectives and New Innovations Anca Ioana Lasc, Art History, B.A., International University Bremen; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: Designing Space: The French Private Interior Illustrated, 1852-1914 Simon Latyshev, Aerospace Engineering, B.S., University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Formation Flight Control of Autonomous Agents and Cooperative Navigation in Unknown Environment Laura Lynn Lazarus, Chemistry, B.A., University of California, Irvine; B.S., California State University, Los Angeles Dissertation: Cooperative Effect of Ionic Liquid Solvents in Microfluidic Devices for Fabricating Monodisperse Metal Nanoparticles Hoang Xuan Le, Computer Engineering, B.S., M.S., George Mason University Dissertation: High Performance Architectures for Large Scale Packet Forwarding and String Matching Thanh M. Le, Electrical Engineering, B.S., University of California, San Diego; M.S., University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Integration of Practical High Sensitivity Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator Sensors
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