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Doctor of Philosophy (continued) Adi Azar, Computer Engineering, B.S., Yarmouk University, Jordan; M.S., University of Southern California Dissertation: Adaptive Event-Driven Simulation Strategies for Accurate and High Performance Retinal Simulation Alexander Badmaev, Physics, B.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia Dissertation: Application of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene for Digital and Analog Electronics Jongsoo Baek, Psychology, B.A., M.A., Yonsei University, Korea Dissertation: Visual Attention in Spatial Cuing and Visual Search Marjan Baghaie Abchuyeh, Electrical Engineering, B.E., University of Canterbury, New Zealand Dissertation: Algorithmic Aspects of Energy Efficient Transmission in Multihop Cooperative Wireless Networks Justin James Bailey, Astronautical Engineering, B.S., Purdue University - West Lafayette; M.S., University of Southern California Dissertation: Three-Dimensional Exospheric Hydrogen Atom Distributions Obtained from Observations of the Geocorona in Lyman-Alpha Alice-Mihaela Bardan, English, B.A., Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: Contemporary European Cinema in a Transnational Perspective: Aftereffects of 1989 Fabian Rojas Barrales, Civil Engineering, Engr., University of Chile; M.S., University of Southern California Dissertation: Development of a Nonlinear Layered Shell and Membrane Element with Drilling Degrees of Freedom for the Modeling of Reinforced Concrete Wall Buildings
Patrick Wilson Belanger, Communication, B.A., M.A., Simon Fraser University, Canada; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: Negotiating Injustice: Public Memory and Nationhood(s) Rohit Bhartia, Geological Sciences, B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.S., University of Southern California Dissertation: Non-invasive Detection of Microbes in Natural Environments using Deep UV Native Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Imaging Cristiani Michels Bilhalva, Cinematic Arts, B.Equiv., Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; MFA, University of Southern California Dissertation: Female Screenplays in the 1990s Jonathan Douglas Binney, Computer Science, B.S., University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Informative Path Planning for Environmental Monitoring Matthew Paul Black, Electrical Engineering, B.S., The Pennsylvania State University; M.S., University of Southern California Dissertation: Automatic Quantification and Prediction of Human Subjective Judgments in Behavioral Signal Processing Brian Clark Bowman, Philosophy, B.S., University of Colorado at Boulder; M.A., Northern Illinois University Dissertation: Linguistic Understanding and Semantic Theory Suzel Annette Bozada-Deas, Sociology, B.A., Stanford University; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: Memories of His Hard-Work, Honesty, and Fairness Live In Me: Masculinities in Rural South Texas
Theresa Meredith Bastain, Epidemiology, B.A., Princeton University; MPH, Johns Hopkins University Dissertation: Airway Inflammation and Respiratory Health in the Southern California Children’s Health Study
Mehrdad Bozorgnia, Civil Engineering, B.S., Ferdowsi University, Iran; M.S., M.S., University of Southern California Dissertation: Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Bridges Exposed to Violent Waves
Priyanka Basu, Art History, B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A., University of Southern California; M.A., Art Center College of Design, California Dissertation: Kunstwissenschaft and the ‘Primitive’: Excursions in the History of Art History, 1879-1914
Richard Hockaday Brown, Music, B.M., University of Nebraska, Lincoln; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: Sound-On-Film: John Cage and Avant-Garde Cinema
Bardia Fallah Behabadi, Biomedical Engineering, B.S., Johns Hopkins University Dissertation: Two-Layer Synaptic Integration in Pyramidal Neurons
Kristina M. Buhrman, History, B.A., Cornell University; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: The Stars and the State: Astronomy, Astrology, and the Politics of Natural Knowledge in Medieval Japan
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