Below are theses and dissertations completed by graduates of the University of Nevada Las Vegas Howard H. Hughes College of Engineering.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Development of a Viscoelastic Ellipsoidal Model for use in Measuring Plantar Tissue Material Properties during Walking, Jessica Lee DeBerardinis
Effects Associated with the Deployment of Autonomous and Connected Vehicles: Insights from Las Vegas, NV, Sarah Dennis
Investigating Sources of Selenium in Shallow Groundwater in the Las Vegas Valley, Sahar Ehsani
Treatment of Perchlorate and Multiple Oxyanions: Chemical and Biological Investigations, Mark Elkouz
Galena Creek Bridge Structural Health Monitoring Instrumentation and Modeling, Leopold Falkensammer
Numerical Study of Spacer Grid Geometry in a 5 X 5 Nuclear Fuel Rod Bundle, Wan Chuan Fan
Improving OCR Post Processing with Machine Learning Tools, Jorge Ramon Fonseca Cacho
Machine Learning Classification of Primary Tissue Origin of Cancer from DNA Methylation Markers, Sravani Gannavarapu Surya Naga
Examining the Effectiveness of a 4D Schedule and a Virtual Reality Model on a Modular Project: UNLV Solar Decathlon Case, Rajarshi Ghimire
Analysis of Bitcoin Cryptocurrency and Its Mining Techniques, Suman Ghimire
Comparison of Zero Valent Iron (ZVI) and ZVI+Sludge for the Removal of High Levels of Hexavalent Chromium and Chlorate from Waters, Kenneth R. Greenhalgh
Coarse-Grained, Fine-Grained, and Lock-Free Concurrency Approaches for Self-Balancing B-Tree, Edward R. Jorgensen II
Batching Problems with Constraints, Shradha Kapoor
Approximation Algorithms for Illuminating 1.5D Terrain, Jiwan Khatiwada
Alkali-Silica Reactivity of Mortars Containing Natural Pozzolan, Arash Kian
Modeling Driver-Pedestrian-Infrastructure Interactions at Signalized Midblock Crosswalks, Boniphace Kutela
Private Group Communication in Blockchain Based on Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, Zachary Steven Laney
On Algebraic Structures and Automaton for Optimal Computer Network Design and Performance Study, Xiangrong Ma
Utilization of Remote Sensing Data for Estimation of the Groundwater Storage Variation, Gaurang Mistry
Design of Efficient Carbon-Based Adsorbents for the Removal of Organic and Inorganic Water Contaminants, Sayedeh Soroosh Mortazavian Dehkordi
Development of Natural Perlite Based Concrete for Sustainable Construction, Seyedmahmoud Motaharikarein
A Highly-Sensitive Global-Shutter CMOS Image Sensor with On-Chip Memory For Hundreds of Kilo-Frames Per Second Scientific Experiments, Konstantinos Moutafis
Sizing a New Bike Sharing System for the University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nesley Orochena
Opportunities and Challenges of Modular Construction in a Hospitality Centric Environment, Shreyansh Paliwal
On Action Quality Assessment, Paritosh Parmar
Impact of Design Cost Percentage on Cost Growth, Schedule Growth, and Construction Intensity of Road Construction Projects, Elina Prajapati
Static Malware Detection using Deep Neural Networks on Portable Executables, Piyush Aniruddha Puranik
The Effects of Ventilation on Trihalomethanes Removal by Spray Aeration, Alicia Qiu Cheung
Performance Comparison of Message Queue Methods, Sanika Raje
Application of Data-Driven and Process-Based Modeling Approaches for Water Quality Simulation in Lakes and Freshwater Reservoirs, Ali Saber Sichani
Benchmarking Permutation Flow Shop Problem: Adaptive and Enumerative Approaches Implementations via Novel Threading Techniques, Hari Prasad Sapkota
CFD Simulation Investigating the Effects of Groove Geometry on Heat Transfer for Internally Grooved Tubes, Richard Zaven Saroukhanoff
Cesium Platinum Iodide Perovskite Synthesis, Development and Application in Photovoltaic Devices, Dakota Schwartz
Estimation of Stage-Area-Storage Relationships in Reservoirs and Stage-Discharge Relationships in Rivers Using Remotely Sensed Data, Sailuj Shakya
Neural Network in Hardware, Jiong Si
Ambient Temperature Dependence of Air-cooled Condenser Performance and Parameters, Alexander Darr Smith
Generating Kernel Aware Polygons, Bibek Subedi
Rethinking Timestamping: Time Stamp Counter Design for Virtualized Environment, Alexander Tabatadze
Multi-Resolution Spatio-Temporal Change Analyses of Hydro-Climatological Variables in Association with Large-Scale Oceanic-Atmospheric Climate Signals, Kazi Ali Tamaddun
Investigation of Efficiency Loss of Distributed Solar Power Due to Soiling and Efficiency Recovery by Rainfall, Amanda Mayumi Tanaka
Evaluation of Titanosilicate Materials for the Sorption of Cesium and Strontium from High Level Wastes, Matheus Tolentino Lauar
The Affective Perceptual Model: Enhancing Communication Quality for Persons with PIMD, Jadin Tredup
On The Human Factors Impact of Polyglot Programming on Programmer Productivity, Phillip Merlin Uesbeck
Chromium(VI) and Oxyanion Remediation Of Vadose Zone Soils With Zero Valent Iron (ZVI) and Biological Reduction, Nicolas Kim Wong
High-Speed Radhard Mega-Pixel CIS Camera for High-Energy Physics, Wenlan Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Static and Dynamic Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment of Potable Reuse Paradigms, Erfaneh Amoueyan
N-Nitrosodimethylamine Formation and Mitigation in Potable Reuse Treatment Trains Employing Ozone nd Biofiltration, Fernanda Bacaro
Efficient and Practical Composition of Lock-Free Data Structures, Neha Bajracharya
The Combined Effect of Photovoltaic and Electric Vehicle Penetration on Conservation Voltage Reduction in Distribution System, Narayan Bhusal
The Impact of Waters of Low Quality on Soiling Removal from Photovoltaic Panels, Alisson Luiz Boeing
Application of Machine Learning in Cancer Research, Mandana Bozorgi
Water-Energy Nexus Approaches for Solar Development and Water Treatment in the Southwestern United States, Syeda Saria Bukhary
Advancing Community Detection Using Keyword Attribute Search, Sanket Chobe
Combinatorial Ant Optimization and the Flowshop Problem, Tasmin Chowdhury
Algorithms for Tower Placement on Terrain, Binay Dahal
Mitigating Accumulation of Aeolian Dust Particles on Solar Power Generator Panels without Water, Sanjana Das
Elliptic Cryptosystem, Elizabeth Dettrey
UAS-based Object Tracking via Deep Learning, Marc Dinh
Evaluating the Feasibility and Sustainability of Direct Potable Reuse in Las Vegas, NV, Cory Dow
Numerical Analysis of an Electrical Transformer with Fins and Horizontal Pins, Sean Ferneyhough
A Distributed Real-Time Short-Term Solar Irradiation Forecasting Network for Photovoltaic Systems, Michael Adelbert Gacusan
A Framework to Capture Dynamic Traffic Trends from Historical Sensor Data, Carlos Gaviria
Design, Layout, and Testing of Sige APDs Fabricated in a Bicmos Process, Dane Laurence Gentry
Detector Arrays for Nuclear Security and Safeguards Applications, Jessica Hartman
Affinity Points in Variable Frequency Drive – Motor Systems, Christophe Hicks
Preliminary Investigation of Tensile Strength and Impact Characterization Of Cementitious Composite Incorporating Carbon Nanotubes, Robabeh Jazaei
Concurrency in Blockchain Based Smartpool with Transactional Memory, Laxmi Kadariya
Morphological and Energy Transport Optimization of Spectrally-Selective Solar Absorber Coatings at Mesoscale, Dale Karas
Design Optimization and Control of a Fully Actuated Hexrotor UAV for Use in Aerial Manipulation Applications, Jameson Yau Sung Lee
Deep Data Locality on Apache Hadoop, Sungchul Lee
Fundamental Tradeoffs in Estimation of Finite-State Hidden Markov Models, Justin Le
Performance Analysis of Blockchain Platforms, Pradip Singh Maharjan
Biodegradable and Biocompatible Silk Fibroin for Optical Applications, Corey Bryce Malinowski
Variable Transition Time Inverters in a Digital Delay Line with Analog Storage for Processing Fast Signals and Pulses, James Kenton Mellott
Scheduling Two Machines with Dissimilar Costs, Madhurupa Moitra
High Speed Fast Transient Digitizer Design and Simulation, Eric Clark Monahan
Linear and Nonlinear Adaptive Attitude Control of Asteroid-Orbiting Spacecraft Using State Feedback and Output Feedback, Nicholas Moya
Design and Preliminary Evaluation of a Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycle for Solar Dish Concentrator Clean Energy Production, Danielle Nobles-Lookingbill
Numerical Study of Biopolymer Implants for Distal Femoral Condyles– Finite Element Simulations, Luke Olsen
The Design, Modeling, and Optimization of a Biomimetic Soft Robot for Fluid Pumping and Thrust Generation Using Electroactive Polymer Actuators, Zakai Jedidiah Olsen
Numerical Study of Oxidation in Stainless Steel Alloy Ep-823 by Liquid Lead-Bismuth Eutectic, Rajyalakshmi Palaparty
Community Detection and Ranking in Big Data Graphs, Matin Pirouz Nia
Machine Learning Applications in Graduation Prediction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Elliott Collin Ploutz
A Numerical Model of an Axial Wind Turbine, Andrew Liam Poland
The Future of Construction as it Applies to the Colonization of the Moon and Mars, Julian Prestia
A Machine Learning Approach to Predict First-Year Student Retention Rates at University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Aditya Rajuladevi
Effect of Curing Conditions on Mechanical Properties and Durability of Concrete, Edgar Lazaro Salas-Borrero
Calculation of Access Charge for High Speed Rail XpressWest of Nevada, Sameeksha Sapkota
Application of Machine Learning Techniques in Credit Card Fraud Detection, Ronish Shakya
Design and Analysis of First and Second Order K-Delta-1-Sigma Modulators in Multiple Fabrication Processes, Shada Sharif
Secure Device and Knowledge Discovery in Internet of Things, Shahab Taregh Tayeb
Surface Resistivity for Concrete Quality Assurance, Stanley Tat
Channel Estimation and ICI Cancelation in Vehicular Channels of OFDM Wireless Communication Systems, Vahid Vahidi
Investigations into the Airside Cooling of a Heat Exchanger, David Vallet
CFD Modeling of Smoke Movement in an Atrium, Robin Wu
Study of Blockchain-as-a-Service Systems with a Case Study of Hyperledger Fabric Implementation on Kubernetes, Aniket Jalinder Yewale
The Effect of Titanium Dioxide on Nucleate Pool Boiling Using an Aluminum Substrate, Kevin Yim