UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

2017 Conferral of Doctoral Degrees

JUNE 15, 2017

ROYCE HALL, UCLA A live webcast and video recording of today’s ceremony is/will be available at: www.grad.ucla.edu/hoodingwebcast

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2 Message from the Chancellor

Dear UCLA Graduate:

Congratulations! Today’s Commencement marks a major milestone in your life -- a joyful day for each of you and your families, and a celebration of your uncommon ability, vision and determination. A UCLA doctoral degree is an extraordinary achievement and will serve you well in whatever you choose to do in the future.

Now you join generations of distinguished alumni who are exemplary leaders and tireless innovators dedicated to improving lives here at home and around the world. I encourage you to further the Bruin legacy of excellence and service, with the spirit of optimism that makes UCLA a special place. We look forward to what your future holds and will take great pride in your accomplishments.

Thank you for the many contributions you have made to our campus that have advanced our mission of education, research and service to California and beyond. You and your fellow students have enriched me personally, providing fresh perspectives and insights.

Your relationship with UCLA will continue throughout your life. I hope that you will take full advantage of the many resources available to our alumni and that you will remain engaged with campus. Remember that you are one of UCLA’s best advocates and ambassadors. You are always welcome here.

Today is special, unlike any other day in your life. Enjoy this time with your family and friends in memorable ways. I am enormously proud of you, and I wish you a lifetime of fulfillment and happiness.

With Very Best Wishes,

Gene D. Block Chancellor

3 Message from the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division

Dear Graduate:

Welcome to today’s doctoral hooding ceremony, which marks the 79th anniversary of the first Ph.D. awarded at UCLA. The entire UCLA community celebrates your accomplishments and applauds the effort, perseverance, talent, and commitment that have enabled you to reach this extraordinary milestone, earning the title “Doctor.”

Each of you has developed exceptional mastery of your academic field. Through your scholarship, research and creative endeavors, you have made unique contributions to the body of human knowledge, pushing back the frontiers. You are accomplished artists and entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists, humanists and teachers. Each of you is poised to lead, to inspire, to change the world.

On behalf of every faculty member who has come to know you through courses, seminars, and research, I can say that it has been a joy to mentor you and see you develop as a scholar. We appreciate the sacrifices you have made and thank those who have supported you along the way. We can’t wait to see what you do next.

Congratulations to all of our 2017 doctoral degree recipients!

With very best wishes for a fulfilling life of the mind, spirit and heart.

Robin L. Garrell Vice Provost for Graduate Education Dean, Graduate Division

4 Processional Order

Chancellor

Vice Provost, Graduate Education and Dean, Graduate Division

Vice Provosts

Deans

Academic Vice Chancellors

Regents of the University

Vice Chancellors

Associate Deans

Faculty Processional Marshals

Faculty

Candidate Processional Marshals

Candidates for the Degrees of: Doctor of Philosophy Doctor of Education Doctor of Environmental Science and Engineering Doctor of Musical Arts Doctor of Public Health

5 Order of Proceedings

Guests are requested to remain seated during the academic procession and recessional.

PROCESSIONAL Christoph Bull, University Organist

WELCOME Susila Gurusami, Sociology Degree Candidate Processional Marshal

Frederic Sala, Electrical Engineering Degree Candidate Processional Marshal

CALL TO ORDER Gene Block Chancellor

GREETINGS AND INTRODUCTIONS Robin L. Garrell Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean, Graduate Division

KEYNOTE Robin L. Garrell

CONFERRAL OF DEGREES Gene Block

PRESENTATION AND HOODING OF THE CANDIDATES Faculty Readers & Hooding Marshals

SALUTE TO THE GRADUATES Robin L. Garrell

CLOSING REMARKS AND RECESSIONAL Robin L. Garrell

6 Distinguished Guest

REGENTS

Francesco Mancia, Alumni Regent-Designate

Faculty Marshals

PROCESSIONAL MARSHALS

Jessica R. Cattelino, Chair, Graduate Council

Susan D. Cochran, Chair, Academic Senate

HOODING MARSHALS

Susan L. Ettner, Associate Dean, Graduate Division

Miguel Garcia-Garibay, Dean, Physical Sciences

Ann R. Karagozian, Interim Vice Chancellor for Research

David Rousseve, Interim Dean, School of the Arts & Architecture

Victoria L. Sork, Dean, Life Sciences

Joseph B. Watson, Associate Dean, Graduate Division

READERS

Laura E. Gomez, Interim Dean, Social Sciences

Norma Mendoza-Denton, Associate Dean, Graduate Division

David C. Schaberg, Dean, Humanities

7 Degree Candidate Processional Marshals

Susila Gurusami, Sociology

Frederic Sala, Electrical Engineering

NOMINEES

Arif Amlani, Education

Matthew Scott Brown, Computer Science

Sharon Fay Cobb, Nursing

Leigh-Michil George, English

Peter Lockwood Haffner, World Arts and Cultures/Dance

Sudesh Kalyanswamy, Mathematics

Nhu Nguyen Tran, Nursing

Terrell James Antonio Winder, Sociology

8 The 2016-2017 Doctoral Class

UCLA has awarded more than 33,000 doctoral degrees since 1939.

A total of 667 doctoral degrees are being awarded this year.

47% Female, 53% Male

Average age: 33 years old

The youngest graduate is 24 years old. The oldest is 65 years old.

5 different degree types: Doctor of Philosophy (632) Doctor of Education (21) Doctor of Environmental Science & Engineering (6) Doctor of Musical Arts (6) Doctor of Public Health (2)

79 different majors

Engineering is awarding the most degrees (22%), followed by Physical Sciences (16%), Social Sciences (10%), Life Sciences (10%), Humanities (10%) and Health Sciences (7%)

Data is valid as of 6/9/17.

9 Go Bruins

As a special gift, each doctoral graduate present at today’s ceremony will receive a Go Bruins UCLA Doctoral Alumni license plate holder.

As an option, the license plate holder may be traded in for a commemorative UCLA Doctoral Alumni tote bag immediately following the ceremony. Just stop by our table in the Quad (look for the blue balloons) to exchange your special gift.

10 Degree Candidates Major/Dissertation Chair & Co-Chair (when applicable) Dissertation Title

Doctor of Education Nicholas Heath Glenn Bach Education/ Robert Cooper & Eugene Tucker Education/ Robert A. Rhoads High School Social Studies and the Common Core: An Action Research Project Examining Educator Conceptions of Postsecondary Studio-Based Arts Terri Marie Iler Entrepreneurship Education/ Christina A. Christie & Mark P. Kristen Ann Beall Hansen Education/ Christina A. Christie Unpacking College Readiness: An Investigation of the Predictors of Early College High School: Closing the Postsecondary Success among First-Time Latino Achievement Gap Freshmen through Structural Equation Joshua Richard Morris Berger Modeling Education/ Tyrone C. Howard & Linda P. Natalie Katherine Johnson Rose Education/ Diane Durkin & Tyrone C. The Implementation of School-Based Howard Peer Programs: Successes, Challenges, and Hidden among Privilege: Increasing Solutions Belonging for Low SES Students at Affluent Josh Brody Schools through Participatory Action Education/ Wellford W. Wilms Research Socioeconomic Diversity in Independent Mark Jutabha High Schools Education/ Christina A. Christie & Diane Durkin Adaina Elizabeth Brown Education/ Eugene Tucker & Robert Cooper School Board Conflict, Decision-Making Processes, and Professional Development: Policy to Practice: The Perspectives of The Effect on Superintendent Turnover Teachers and Administrators on the Implementation of Common Core Utilizing Julie Stefan Lindsay Action Research to Design a Professional Education/ Diane Durkin & Mark Kevin Development Model Eagan Michael Hill Carter The Highly Sensitive Teacher: Sensory- Education/ Mark Kevin Eagan Processing Sensitivity, Burnout, and Self- Efficacy in Urban Public School Teachers The Barriers and Successes Experienced by Chief Business Officers in Higher Education Who Have Served in the Role of College President

* The names of doctoral graduates who placed a restriction on the release of personal information are not included in this listing.

11 Tammy Lee Mahan Marielle Limfueco Sallo Education/ Mark Kevin Eagan Education/ Eugene Tucker & Tyrone C. Assessing the Relationship between Grit, Howard Efficacy, Mindset & Motivation (GEMM) Multi-School Collaboration at All-Girl and Academic Probation among Community Catholic Secondary Schools: College College Students Knowledge for Latino Parents

Michelle Pajela Melendres Education/ Robert A. Rhoads Doctor of Cultural Competence in Social Work Practice: Exploring the Experiences of Recent Environmental Science MSW Graduates and Engineering

Guadalupe Navarro-Garcia Khadeeja Saba Abdullah Education/ Robert Cooper & Linda P. Rose Environmental Science and Engineering/ Irwin H. Suffet & Michael K. Stenstrom Integrating Social Justice Values in Educational Leadership: A Study of African Acidizing Oil Wells, a Sister-Technology to American and Black University Presidents Hydraulic Fracturing: Risks, Chemicals, and Regulations Christine Paul Education/ Robert A. Rhoads & Linda P. Todd Michael Bear Rose Environmental Science and Engineering/ Richard F. Ambrose Navigating Title IX and Gender Based Campus Violence: An Analysis of the Roles Soil Carbon Sequestration and Carbon and Experiences of Title IX Coordinators Market Potential of a Southern California Tidal Salt Marsh Proposed for Restoration Gregory John Phillips Education/ Diane Durkin & Wellford W. Setal Sridhar Prabhu Wilms Environmental Science and Engineering/ Richard F. Ambrose Culturally Relevant Cyberbullying Prevention Plant and Soil Recovery along Transmission Manuel Victor Rustin Power Line Corridors in the Colorado Desert Education/ Diane Durkin & Tyrone C. of Southern California Howard Jordan Alexander Rosencranz Teacher-driven Change: Developing an Environmental Science and Engineering/ Intervention for Street-life Oriented Youth Richard F. Ambrose & Glen Michael through Action Research MacDonald Jamila Aisha Salisberry Assessing the Vulnerability of Salt Marsh Education/ Tyrone C. Howard & Linda P. Habitats to Sea-Level Rise in California Rose The Perspectives of Former Foster Youth about University Supports

12 Glenn Gregory Sias Charles Robert Tyler Environmental Science and Engineering/ Music/ Antonio Lysy Deepak Rajagopal & Richard F. Ambrose Interpreting Henri Dutilleux’s Quotations of Characterization of the Life Cycle Baudelaire in “Tout un monde lointain...” Environmental Impacts and Benefits of Smart Electric Meters and Consequences of Wan Wong Their Deployment in California Music/ Inna Faliks Piano Performance in Musical Symbolism: Tiffany Ann Yap Interpretive Freedom through Understanding Environmental Science and Engineering/ Symbolist Aesthetics Richard F. Ambrose & Vance Vrendenburg Assessing the Threat of Two Deadly Fungal Pathogens (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans) to Doctor of Public Health Amphibian Biodiversity and the Impacts of Human-Mediated Movement of an Invasive Anna Liza Malazarte Antonio Carrier Species and Climate Change Public Health/ Catherine Crespi-Chun & Robert Erin Weiss The Good, the Bad and the Fitting: A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Patient Doctor of Musical Arts Preferences Elicited through Discrete Choice Experiments Ho Joon Kim Music/ Peter D. Kazaras & Neal H. Stulberg Rufaidah Dabbagh Performing Sunflower Sutra: Merging Music Public Health/ Susan D Cochran and Theater in the Speaking-Pianist Genre Current Trends of Substance Use in Iraq: Examining Data from the 2014 Iraqi Andrew John Isaac Munro National Household Survey of Alcohol and Music/ Inna Faliks & Elisabeth Covel Le Drug Use Guin Preparing the Ernani Paraphrase for Performance

Terri Lynn Richter Music/ Juliana K Gondek Witches, Whores, and Virgin Martyrs: Female Roles in Seventeenth Century Opera

Gary Smith Music/ David Samuel Lefkowitz & Theresa Anne Dimond Instrument and Implement Selection and Setup, Performance Strategies, Structure, and Interpretation in Helmut Lachenmann’s Intérieur I

13 Doctor of Philosophy Anas W. I. Alanqar Chemical Engineering/ Panagiotis D. Ahmad Abiri Christofides Bioengineering/ Warren Grundfest Economic Model Predictive Control Using Investigation of Multi-Modal Haptic Data-Based Empirical Models Feedback Systems for Robotic Surgery Yazeed Abdullah Alaskar Ann Michelle Acker Electrical Engineering/ Kang Lung Wang Linguistics/ Pamela Munro High Quality III-V Semiconductor Voice and Valence in Q’anjob’al Integration on Si Using van der Waals Layered Material Buffer for Photonic Oladunni Adeyiga Integration Applications Biomedical Engineering/ Dino Di Carlo Rapid Concentration of Bacteria Using Fahad Ali A. Albalawi Microfluidic Magnetic Ratcheting Electrical Engineering/ Panagiotis D. Christofides Christian Raul Aguilera-Sandoval Safe Model Predictive Control Formulations Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Ensuring Process Operational Safety Genetics/ Otto Orlean Yang The Dynamic Interplay between HIV-1 and Abdulrahman Musaed Albassam T cells Chemical Engineering/ Vasilios Manousiouthakis Britt Karin Ahlstrom Energy Systems Optimization Psychology/ Ayako Janet Tomiyama Evaluation of Space Food for Commercial Stephanie Lynn Albert Astronauts Public Health/ Deborah C. Glik & Michael L. Prelip Salpy Akaragian #consumingitall: Understanding the Nursing/ Deborah Koniak-Griffin Complex Relationship between Media The Prevalence of High Blood Pressure in Consumption and Eating Behaviors Armenia Bandar Abdulaziz Almangour Shawana Masad Al Harrasi Materials Science and Engineering/ Jenn- Nursing/ Marysue V. Heilemann & Mary- Ming Yang Lynn Brecht Additive Manufacturing of High-Performance Predictors of Depression among Adult 316L Stainless Steel Nanocomposites via Omani Women in Wilayat of Rustaq Selective Laser Melting

Iman Hamdoon Hamed Al Hashmi Shir Alon Nursing/ Felicia S Hodge Comparative Literature/ Gil Hochberg & Nouri Gana The Effectiveness of a Health Education Intervention on Self-Efficacy for Adherence Against the Flow: Impassive Modernism in to Healthy Behaviors among Women with Arabic and Hebrew Literatures Gestational Diabetes

14 Ann Marie Aly Hilary Jeanne Aralis Linguistics/ Sun-Ah Jun Biostatistics/ Ronald S. Brookmeyer Prosodic Effects of Code-Switching in Modeling Multistate Models with Back Spanish-Basque Bilinguals Transitions: Statistical Challenges and Applications Brendan Rayhan Amer Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/ Robert Fernando Arroyo García Lascurain Thompson Clubb Music/ David Samuel Lefkowitz Structural and Biochemical Investigation Affect and Feelings: The Persuasive Power of of Gram-Positive Bacterial Surface Display Film Music Machinery Natsuki Atagi Arif Amlani Psychology/ Catherine M. Sandhofer Education/ Michael H. Seltzer & Theodore The Effects of Community Linguistic M. Porter Diversity and Multilingualism on Children’s Cultivation of the Intellect in Education: The Development of Language Awareness Role of Cultural Lenses Sanghoon Bae Xin An Materials Science and Engineering/ Yang Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences/ Jacob Yang Bortnik Wearable electronics-based biomedical Wave-Particle Interactions in Space and devices for sensors, vital sign tracking and Laboratory Plasmas therapy

Madeline Andrews Aileen Baecker Neuroscience/ Bennett G Novitch Epidemiology/ Zuofeng Zhang & Jian Yu Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling Rao Directs Neural Development in the Dorsal Geographic Variability and the Association Spinal Cord of Flavonoids, Glycemic Index, and Related Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms with Liver Ashley Angulo Cancer Management/ Noah J. Goldstein The Role of Feelings of Endowment in Yu Bai Charitable Giving Decisions Mechanical Engineering/ Jason L. Speyer Properties of the Multivariate Cauchy Gregory Elias Antill Estimator Philosophy/ Pamela Hieronymi The Ethics of Self-Fulfilling Belief Vivian J. Bailey Mathematics/ Alexander Sergee Merkurjev Brian Anthony Apicella Cohomological Invariants of Finite Groups Classics/ David L. Blank The Politics of Knowledge in Plato’s Neha Bajwa Biomedical Engineering/ Warren Grundfest Statesman In vivo Terahertz Imaging of Tissue Edema for Burn Wound and Flap Assessment

15 Travis James Baker Lee Andre Beaudoen Political Science/ Christopher N. History/ Michael G. Morony Tausanovitch Mirrors of the World: Alexander Romances Why Can’t We Be Friends? Essays on and the Fifteenth Century Ottoman Gridlock in American Legislatures Sultanate

Karthika Balasubramanian Lisa Katarina Berglund Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology/ Urban Planning/ Anastasi Loukaitou-Sideris Daniel H. Cohn Experts of Crisis: Exclusive Planning The Identification and Characterization of Discourse and Community Resistance in Chondrodysplasias Resulting from Cartilage Detroit Extracellular Matrix Abnormalities Kathleen Berry Ayca Balkan Education/ Connie L. Kasari Electrical Engineering/ Paulo Tabuada From Subtypes to Phenotypes: Discovering Formal Synthesis and Data-Driven the Clinical Predictors of RRB Profiles in Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems ASD

Matthew John Baltz Tenley Catherine Bick Sociology/ William Rogers Brubaker Art History Between Militarism and Neoliberalism: The Figure as Model: The Early Work of American State and Developmental Politics Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1956–1966 in a Globalizing Era Deborah Jean Bird Olajide Noah Bamishigbin, Jr. Biology/ Blaire Van Valkenburgh Psychology/ Christine Dunkel Schetter & The Cribriform Plate: Evolution of Annette Louise Stanton Mammalian Olfaction Written in Bone The Antecedents and Consequences of Adolescent Fatherhood in Black Males Sarah Joy Bittick Biology/ Peggy Marie Fong Lászl Bardczi Human Manipulations of Bottom-Up and Physics/ Troy A. Carter Top-Down Controls Cause Degradation Multi-Field/-Scale Interaction of Neoclassical of Primary and Facilitation of Secondary Tearing Modes with Turbulence and Impact Foundation Species on Plasma Confinement Anthony Bodlovic Hayk Barseghyan Culture and Performance/ Allen Fraleigh Human Genetics/ Eric J.N. Vilain Roberts Identification of Genetic Etiology in The Virgin of Pain Disorders of Sex Development Patrick Boehnke Geochemistry/ Timothy Mark Harrison A Tale of Two Earths: Reconciling the Lunar and Terrestrial Hadean Records

16 David McCabe Boland Rosana Leos Bravo Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Public Health/ Steven P. Wallace Physiology/ Alan Garfinkel & Christopher Medical Decision-Making among Foreign- B. Cooper Born Latino Elders with Multiple Chronic The Impact of Aerobic Fitness on Cognition Conditions and Molecular Intermediates Meghan Brennan Mariska Aldora Bolyanatz Nursing/ Dorothy J. Wiley Hispanic Languages and Literatures/ Norma The Effect of Clinical Trial Participation on Mendoza-Denton & Ji Young Kim Early Breast Cancer Outcomes Plural Production and Perception in Santiago Spanish Caitlin Anna-Corbett Brown Biology/ Blaire Van Valkenburgh Jeffrey David Bonde Interpreting Pleistocene Predator-Prey Physics/ Walter N. Gekelman Dynamics: Inference from Skeletal Pathology, Collisionless Energy and Momentum Dental Growth and Stature Coupling of a High-Beta Expansion to an Ambient Plasma Erin Leith Brown History/ Janice L. Reiff Tracy Ann Buck Bonfitto Urban Ambitions in an Agricultural Art History/ Saloni Mathur Economy: Town-Building on the Great The Rock Garden: A Study of Memory, Plains, 1870–1929 Place-Making, and Community in Chandigarh, India Gustav Joseph Brown Sociology/ William Rogers Brubaker Gayle Marie Boxx Islamization and Religious Pluralism in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Democratizing Indonesia Genetics/ Genhong Cheng Role of IFN-Beta in Disease and Knox Hudnall Brown Characterization of the Immune Response Political Science/ Kathleen Bawn Following Acute Radiation Exposure Return of the Solid South: Republican Success in Southern State Legislatures Matthew Scott Bramble Human Genetics/ Eric J.N. Vilain Matthew Scott Brown The Effects of Chromosomal Composition Computer Science/ Jens Palsberg and Hormonal Influences on Shaping Sex Typed Self-Applicable Meta-Programming Differences in the Developing Mammalian Brain Nathan David Brown Geology/ Timothy Mark Harrison Gabriela Alejandra Bran Mechanical Engineering/ Adrienne G. Using Luminescence Signals from Lavine & Hossein Pirouz Kavehpour Bedrock Feldspars for Low-Temperature Thermochronology Complex Heat Exchangers for Improved Performance

17 Robert Brown Fatima Burney Bioinformatics/ Bogdan Pasaniuc Comparative Literature/ Aamir R. Mufti Methods and Models for the Analysis of The Inside Outdoors: Return(s) to Nature in Human Genetic Data Urdu and Anglophone Poetry

Abraham Nataniel Buditama Cristal Lynn Byrne Chemistry/ Sarah H. Tolbert Education/ Carollee Howes & Rashmita S. Multiferroic Applications of Mistry Nanoarchitectured, Solution-Processed Breaking the Cycle of Abuse and Neglect: Materials Attachment in the Context of a Therapeutic Child Care Center for Maltreated Children Philip Bulterys Molecular Biology/ Robert L. Modlin Joana Carolina Capote Zulueta Intercellular Spread of Burkholderia and Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Novel Therapeutic Strategies Physiology/ Melissa J Spencer Elucidation of the Regulatory Role of Sean A Buono Osteopontin on the Pathology of Duchenne Environmental Health Sciences/ Hilary Muscular Dystrophy Godwin & Richard J Jackson Improving the Detection and Surveillance Kathy Michelle Carbone of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Public Information Studies/ Anne J. Gilliland Health Laboratories Moving Records: Artistic Interventions and Activisms in the Archives Zachary Daniel Burkett Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Dwight Anthony Physiology/ Stephanie Ann White & Xinshu Art History/ Steven D. Nelson Xiao Building the Creole Empire: Architecture, Network-Based Insights to Learned Urbanism, and Social Space in the French Vocalization Colonial World, 1659-1810

Nicholas Jacob Burkhart Julie Theresa Castaneda Geography/ Michael Edward Shin Molecular Toxicology/ Michael D. Roth Instructional Technology and Learning Linking Cannabinoid Receptor Type II Analytics in Online Geographic Information (CB2) Biology to Function Science (GIS) Education Peter Catron Benjamin Adams Burnett Sociology/ Roger Waldinger Electrical Engineering/ Benjamin S. Immigrant Socioeconomic Mobility in the Williams Age of Mass Migration Design and Modeling of High Temperature Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers Lee Sook Chae Philosophy/ Alexander Jacob Julius War and Peace: Towards a Theory of Just Peace

18 Clara Chan Zenan Li Chang Biomedical Engineering/ Amy Catherine Molecular Biology/ Yvonne Y. Chen Rowat Rewiring Signaling Responses to Soluble MicroRNAs with Therapeutic Potential Extracellular Cues for T-Cell Therapies and Regulate Ovarian Cancer Cell Physical beyond Properties and Invasive Behavior Natpat Chanjavanakul Hua-I Chang Education/ Alison Bailey Electrical Engineering/ Gregory J. Pottie “Learning Without Intending to:” A Robust and Large-Scale Human Motion Qualitative Study of High School Students’ Estimation with Low-Cost Sensors Out-of-Class English Learning Practices

Insoon Chang Ian Lorne Charlesworth Oral Biology/ Cun Yu Wang Mathematics/ Dimitri Y. Shlyakhtenko Epigenetic Regulation of Head and Neck On bi-free probability and free entropy. Squamous Cell Carcinoma Chemoresistance, Invasion, and Metastasis Yve Barthelemy Chavez Art History/ Charlene Villasenor Black Miya Chang Indigenous Artists, Ingenuity, and Resistance Social Welfare/ Ailee Moon at the California Missions After 1769 Correlates and Determinants of Psychological Distress between Older Korean Immigrants Bryant Roi Chen in the United States and Older Koreans in Computer Science/ Judea Pearl Korea: A comparative study Graphical Methods for Linear Structural Equation Modeling Sunny Chun Chang Molecular Biology/ Todd O. Yeates Chen Chen Selective Transport and Targeted Mechanical Engineering/ Adrienne G. Assembly in the 1,2-Propanediol Bacterial Lavine Microcompartment Ammonia Based Solar Thermochemical Energy Storage System for Direct Production Yoon Jung Chang of High Temperature Supercritical Steam Electrical Engineering/ Jason C. S. Woo ‘Junction-Level’ Heterogeneous Integration Dustin Yuan Chen of III-V Materials with Si CMOS for Novel Materials Science and Engineering/ Qibing Asymmetric Field-Effect Transistors Pei Overcoming the Limitations of Silver Yu-Ling Chang Nanowire Electrodes for Light Emitting Molecular Biology/ Matteo Pellegrini Applications Gut Microbial Taxa and Products that Regulate Immune Responses and Disease Huajun Chen Features Materials Science and Engineering/ Yang Yang Solution-Processed Metal Oxide Semiconductors and Their Applications

19 Mindy Minyi Chen Ross Cheung Social Welfare/ Yeheskel Hasenfeld & Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences/ Jochen Edward T Walker Peter Stutz Advancing Immigrant Worker Rights MAX-DOAS Measurements of Aerosol, through Labor-Community Coalition: HCHO, and NO2 over Los Angeles from an Comparative Case Studies of the CLEAN Elevated Mountaintop Site Carwash Campaign Jessica Chiang Patrick Bon-Yung Chen Psychology/ Shelley E. Taylor & Andrew J. Neuroscience/ Kelsey C. Martin Fuligni Temporal Gene Expression during a Critical Early Family Stress, Biobehavioral and Time Window following Induction of LTP of Psychosocial Functioning, and Inflammation Mouse Hippocampal CA3-CA1 Synapses Po-Yen Chien Thomas Chen Chen Electrical Engineering/ Jason C. S. Woo Comparative Literature/ Kirstie M. McClure Advanced Channel Engineering for Thin & Robert Yee-Sin Chi Body Transistors Making the Censored Public: The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests in Chinese Yoo Mi Chin Fiction and Film Education/ A. Torres From Cultural Studies to Global Citizenship Yuh-Jie Chen Education: South Korean Millennial Women’ Computer Science/ Adnan Youssef Darwiche Confucian Reception of Hollywood’s Learning Bayesian Network Structures with Romantic Comedy Non-Decomposable Scores Wei-Han Cho Zuow-Zun Chen Electrical Engineering/ Mau-Chung Frank Electrical Engineering/ Mau-Chung Frank Chang Chang Energy-Efficient Multi-Band Signaling for The Reduction and Cancellation of Phase High-Speed Memory Interface Noise in Digital Frequency Synthesizers and Quadrature Receivers Yeon Sik Cho Management/ Avanidhar Subrahmanyam & Hung-Chieh Cheng Stuart A. Gabriel Materials Science and Engineering/ Yu The Impact of Local Media on Household Huang Investment Decisions Van der Waals Heterostructure Devices— from Two-Dimensional Materials to Hybrid Jung Yun Choi Perovskites Applied Linguistics/ Charles Goodwin Korean Grammar as a Resource for the Roanna Yuk-Heng Cheung Organization of Attention and Action in History/ Andrea Sue Goldman Instructions Embodying Modernity: Humor, Gender Politics, and Popular Culture in Republican Guangzhou

20 Wutichai Chongchitmate Lisa Joann Cleath Mathematics/ Rafail Ostrovsky Near Eastern Languages and Cultures/ New Models for Multi-Party Computation William M. Schniedewind Reading Ceremonies in the Hebrew Bible: Charlene Kuan Huang Chu Ideologies of Textual Authority in Joshua 8, 2 Management/ Suzanne Bliven Shu Kings 22-23, and Nehemiah 8 Of Photographs, Souvenirs, and Ticket Stubs: Understanding Mementos Sharon Fay Cobb Nursing/ Janet C Mentes Yu-Hsuan Chuang The Influence of Multiple Chronic Health Epidemiology/ Beate R. Ritz Conditions on the Health of Older African Coffee Consumption, Smoking, and Genetic Americans Living with Serious Mental Illness Factors of Parkinson’s Disease: Gene- Environment Interaction and Genome-wide Jonathan Edward Collins DNA Methylation Studies Political Science/ Lorrie Frasure Yokley Talking in the Halls: Deliberative Democracy, Raymond Wai-Keung Chui Local Institutions, and School Board Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Governance Physiology/ Kalyanam Shivkumar Bioelectronic Intervention in Cardiovascular Dylan Shane Connor Control Geography/ David L Rigby & Jamie M Goodwin-White Marika Louise Cifor Putting People in their Place: Information Studies/ Michelle L. Caswell Intergenerational Inequality in the Age of ‘Your Nostalgia is Killing Me’: Activism, Mass Migration Affect and the Archives of HIV/AIDS Zuelma Arellano Contreras Logan Elizabeth Clark Epidemiology/ Beate R. Ritz Ethnomusicology/ Tara Colleen Browner & Prenatal Risk Factors for Childhood Cancer Anthony Seeger and Placental Vascular Resistance: An The Mayan Marimba and the Musical Investigation of Maternal Metabolic Factors Production of Place in a Transnational and Smoking, Hispanic Enclaves, and Air Migrant Community Pollution

Stephen Eric Clark John Berkeley Cook Physics/ Christoph Niemann Chemistry/ Sarah H. Tolbert Simulations of Super Alfvcénic Laser Development of Functional Materials with Ablation Experiments in the Large Plasma Novel Nanoscale Architectures Designed Device for Applications in Energy Storage and Electrochemical Water Splitting

Ines Cordeiro Da Silva Dias Hispanic Languages and Literatures Film and Politics in the Lusophone World (1960s—1970s)

21 Michael Anthony Corsello Elizabeth Dolin Dalton Chemistry/ Neil Kamal Garg Psychology/ Constance L. Hammen Total Synthesis of the Tubingensin Alkaloids Explication of the Relationship between Depressive Symptoms, Stress, and Health Daniel Couch Behaviors in Young Adults English/ Christopher J. Looby The Imperfect Form: Literary Fragments and Angeline Tilly Dang Politics in the Early Republic Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics/ Robert L. Modlin Benjamin Court Antimicrobial Mechanisms in Response to Musicology/ Tamara Judith-Marie Levitz Mycobaterium leprae Infection The Politics of Musical Amateurism, 1968- 1981 Ben Dankongkakul Aerospace Engineering/ Richard E. Wirz Kristen Coveleskie Overcoming the Scaling Limitations of Ring- Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Cusp DC Ion Thruster Discharges Physiology/ Emeran Mayer The Impact of GLP-1 Analog, Exenatide, on Arash Davari the Resting Brain of Lean vs Obese Women Political Science/ Mark Q. Sawyer & Kirstie M. McClure Karrmen Crey Indeterminate Governmentality: Neoliberal Film and Television/ Chon A. Noriega Politics in Revolutionary Iran, 1968-1979 Indigeneity, Institutions of Media Culture, and the Canadian State since 1990 Anna Christina Davis Health Policy and Management/ Jack Ivy S. Curren Needleman Geology/ An Yin The Vital Few: Characterizing the Kinematic Evolution and Mechanisms of Comorbidity Profiles and Spending Strike-Slip Faulting in the Solar System: Trajectories of Patients with High Costs in an Insight from Analogue Experiments Integrated Delivery System

Morgan Currie William Davis Information Studies/ Johanna R. Drucker Theater and Performance Studies/ Michael J. Hackett & Michael J. Colacurcio The Data-fication of Openness: The Practices and Policies of Open Government Data in Performing Revelation: Joseph Smith and the Los Angeles Creation of The Book of Mormon

Matthew Kiyoshi Curry Misa Dean Dayson Sociology/ Jennie Elizabeth Brand Anthropology/ Sherry B. Ortner The Great Recession and the Effects of Seeing and Disrupting: Anti-Blackness, Higher Education Public Culture, and the Place of Berlin

22 Nickolas Sebastiano Jennifer Dirkes Germanic Languages/ Robert S. Kirsner Music/ David Samuel Lefkowitz Split Pronominal Adverbs in Dutch: Synchretic Analysis and Storyboard Scores: Searching for Meaning in What is the Musical Rhythm of Filmic Elements Considered Meaningless Zen David Dochterman Peng Deng Comparative Literature/ Efrain Kristal Oral Biology/ Cun Yu Wang Volcanic Poetics: Revolutionary Myth and Molecular and Epigenetic Regulation of Stem Affect in Managua and the Mission, 1961- Cell Self-Renewal and Differentiation 2007

Michael Anthony D’Errico John Patrick Domann Musicology/ Nina Eidsheim Mechanical Engineering/ Gregory P. Carman Interface Aesthetics: Sound, Software, and On Magnetoelastodynamics the Ecology of Digital Audio Production Jingming Dong Adrien Des Enffans d’Avernas Computer Science/ Stefano Soatto Economics/ Lee Ohanian & Andrew Optimal Visual Representation Engineering Granger Atkeson and Learning for Computer Vision Disentangling Credit Spreads, Equity Volatility, and Leverage Deborah Michelle Donig English/ Jennifer A Sharpe Martina DeSalvo Leave Nothing to the Imagination: Global Neuroscience/ Kelsey C. Martin Forms of Atrocity After 1945 Regulation and Transcriptional Role of CRTC1 during Activity in Neurons Larissa Noelle Dooley Psychology/ Julienne Elizabeth Bower Andrea Di Miceli Inflammation and Core Processes of Management/ Romain T. Wacziarg Depression Essays on Development and Political Economy Diana Remy Dou Molecular Biology/ Hanna K. A. Mikkola Mary Carollyn Dingman Expression of the Medial HOXA Genes Is Political Science/ Brian Douglas Walker Indispensible for Self-Renewal in Human Me, My Avatar, and War: The Moral Hematopoietic Stem Cells Relationship between Soldiers and Civilians Halina Jacqueline Dour Kebonyethata Dintwe Psychology/ Michelle Craske Geography/ Gregory Stewart Okin Using the Individual to Enhance Treatment Assessing Biogeochemical Process in Dryland Efficiency for Disorders of Negative Affect Ecosystems: Potential Impacts of Climate Change

23 Li Du Melissa Fales Electrical Engineering/ Mau-Chung Frank Psychology/ Martie G. Haselton & Theodore Chang Francisco Robles Airtouch: A Novel Single Layer 3D Touch Subjective Social Status and Health: Sensing System for Human/Mobile Device Environmental Antecedents and Molecular Interactions Mechanisms

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Teng Xu Nezih Tolga Yardimci Computer Science/ Miodrag Potkonjak Electrical Engineering/ Mona Jarrahi Enhance Energy-efficiency and Security of Large-Area Plasmonic Photoconductive IoT using Hardware-oriented Approaches Nanoantenna Arrays for Terahertz Wave Generation and Detection in High- Xiaoqing Xu Performance Time-Domain Terahertz Systems Epidemiology/ Beate R. Ritz California State-Wide Studies to Investigate Kathleen Miuyi Yee Medical Conditions and Medication Uses Biological Chemistry/ Ke Shuai in Relation to Macular Degeneration and Gene Regulation by Epigenetic Modifiers in Childhood Cancer Stem Cells, Cancer, and Immunology

Sibo Yan George Yeh Economics/ Bryan C. Ellickson Molecular Biology/ Stephen Smale Estimating Stochastic Volatility within a Elucidating Selective Gene Regulation by Trading Day NF-B and Nuclear IB in Macrophages

53 Michael Tyrone Yeung Jamie Leigh Zelechowski Chemistry/ Richard B. Kaner Germanic Languages/ Todd S. Presner & Origin of Superhardness of Metallic Roman Koropeckyj Tungsten Monoboride The Representation of Forced Migration in the Feature Films of the Federal Republic of Xiyu Yi Germany, German Democratic Republic, and Chemistry/ Shimon Weiss Polish People’s Republic (1945–1970) Super Resolution of Optical Fluctuation Imaging 2.0 (SOFI-2.0): Towards Fast Super Ian Michael Zemke Resolved Imaging of Live Cells Mathematics/ Ciprian Manolescu TQFT Structures in Heegaard Floer Yi Ying homology Molecular Biology/ Douglas L. Black Low Complexity Sequences of Rbfox Form Katelyn Elizabeth Caslavka Zempel Higher-Order Complexes with LASR to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/ Steven Regulate Alternative Splicing G. Clarke Identification of Methylated Mitochondrial Chengcheng Yu Proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Statistics/ Song-Chun Zhu Single View 3D Reconstruction and Parsing Jin Zhang Using Geometric Commonsense for Scene Molecular and Medical Pharmacology/ Ligia Understanding G. Toro De Stefani & Riccardo Olcese The Subproteome of MitoBKCa Channels Peiyuan Yu from Cardiomyocytes Reveals Novel Insights Chemistry/ Kendall N. Houk into Its Mitochondrial Import Mechanism Computational Studies on the Reactivity, and Function Selectivity and Molecular Dynamics of Cycloaddition Reactions Meng Zhang History/ Roy Bin Wong Victoria Yuiwen Yu Timber Trade along the Yangzi River: Market, Biomedical Physics/ Ke Sheng Institutions, and Environment, 1750-1911 Improving Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) Radiotherapy Outcome through Personalized Shu ZhangJo Biological Modeling and Optimization Civil Engineering/ Shaily Mahendra Biodegradation of 1,4-Dioxane in Co- Gabriel Roberto Zaourak Contaminant Mixtures Economics/ Ariel Tomas Burstein & Lee Ohanian Wenbo Zhou Essays on Financial Crises and Misallocation Economics/ Aaron Tornell Essays on Exchange Rates

54 Yubin Zhou Environmental Health Sciences/ Irwin H. Suffet The Identification, Analysis, and Treatment of Odor Nuisance Released from Wastewater Treatment Plants

Wei Zhu Mathematics/ Stanley J. Osher Nonlocal Variational Methods in Image and Data Processing

Boback Ziaeian Health Policy and Management/ Gerald F. Kominski & Michael K. Ong An Evaluation of National Heart Failure Hospitalizations

Mary Catherine Zide Biomedical Engineering/ Alex Anh-Tuan Bui & Corey Wells Arnold Patient-Centered Visualization for Personal Health Records

Jennifer Zieba Human Genetics/ Deborah Krakow Discovering the Pathophysiology and Molecular Origins of Spondylocarpotarsal Synostosis Syndrome Using a Murine Model

Bahman Zohour Chemical Engineering/ Selim M. Senkan Catalysis for C1 Chemistry: Oxidative Coupling of Methane Using Nanofiber Catalysts and Discovery of Catalysts for Atmospheric Reduction of CO2 to Methanol

Lisa Yang, Physics and Biology in Medicine, passed away while pursuing her Ph.D. at UCLA. As we celebrate the doctoral candidates of 2017, let us also pay tribute to her life and her academic achievements.

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