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Theses and Dissertations

The one-stop shop for all UTA theses and dissertations written by masters and PhD students for their degree requirements!

Dissertations from 2026 2026

A PLANNER FOR ACCELERATION OF LARGE-SCALE LOOP-BASED ARRAY PROGRAMS ON HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, Tanvir Ahmed Khan

REWARDS THAT RESONATE- HOW INCENTIVIZED ONLINE REVIEWS SHAPE CUSTOMER LOYALTY AND REVIEW OUTCOMES, SAMEEHA KHIZINDAR

Theta-Beta Ratio Frequency Band Analysis in Magnetoencephalography and its ability to Evaluate Cognitive Control in Youth with Epilepsy, Kaitlin M. Killian

A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF INTERFACIAL SURFACES TO IMPROVE MECHANICAL STRENGTH IN DISSIMILAR METAL REPAIR USING HYBRID ADDITIVE-SUBTRACTIVE MANUFACTURING, MD HUMAUN KOBIR

INVESTIGATING SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE REGULATION OF CONDITIONED MORPHINE REWARD BY OREXIN, Farzana Akter Koly

Essays on CEO Bacground and Insider Trades., Noura Khadidja Kone

Deep Learning for Wireless Communications, Swarada Ajit Kulkarni

Enabling Phase-Field Framework for Thermal Diffusion and Electromigration Studies in Lead-Free Cu–Sn Solder Joints, harikrishnan Kumarasamy

Community Narratives on Addressing Gender and Power-Based Violence: Asian/Pacific Islander Voices From DC, Maryland, and Virginia; An Oral History of the Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP), Linda Kuo

THE UNSPOKEN WORKWEEK: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF MENSTRUATION ON WORK EXPERIENCES, Cherie Kuriakose

Spatial Temporal Modeling of Infectious Disease Patterns in Texas, Robert E. Lashbrook

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE HUMAN THNATOMICROBIOME BY DECOMPOSITION STAGE THROUGH BIOINFORMATIC AND META DATA ANALYSIS, Ashton C. Laughlin

TESTING THE INFLUENCE OF INCREASED PREDATION ON THE EVOLUTION OF MORPHOLOGICAL COLORATION PLASTICITY IN TRINIDADIAN KILLIFISH (ANABLEPSOIDES HARTII), Alyssa M. Laux

Pride and Portrayal: The Effects of Gender Identity and Generational Cohort on LGBTQ+ Perceptions of Media Coverage, Dang H. Le

An Exploration of Geomagnetically Induced Currents and the Accessibility of Geomagnetic Data Collection, Richard Le

SCALABLE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS FOR INTELLIGENT MONITORING, Jian Li

APPLICATION OF EIGENVALUE PROBLEM IN ANALYSIS & DESIGN OF VIBRATION PROBLEM, Li Li

ENERGY-AWARE BATTERY-FREE SOLAR UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS: FROM SINGLE-AIRCRAFT FEASIBILITY TO SWARM-SCALE EVALUATION, Jackson G. Liller

Ionospheric Electrodynamics at Low and High Latitudes and Its Impacts on the Ionosphere-Thermosphere System: Observations and Modeling, MINJING LI

IMPACT OF FAMILY AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH ON BEHAVIORAL AND BMI OUTCOMES IN ADOLESCENTS WITH AND WITHOUT INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: AN ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM PERSPECTIVE, Pingnan Li

Technology Adoption Across Levels: Essays on Users, Platforms, and Paradigms in the Age of AI, Kaiyue Liu

INTEGRATIVE APPROACHES AND DATA ANALYSIS FOR SINGLE-CELL RNA SEQUENCING DATA, Teng Long

Partial Deck-Girder Composite Action in Prestressed Concrete I-Girder Bridges, Balaram Luitel

ESSAYS ON CEO, FIRM INNOVATION AND ANALYST BEHAVIOR, Yilun Lu

Enhancing the User Experience of Colorado Bend State Park Through the Implementation of Cultural Landscape Analysis, Hunter C. Lynch

TOWARD INTERPRETABLE MULTI-OMICS MULTIMODAL BIOMEDICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Yanjun Lyu

Reliable and Label-Efficient Learning for Open-World Visual Perception and Robot Learning Under Uncertainty, Zongyao Lyu

Enjoying the Golden Screen of Asian American Representation in a Colorblind Era: Neoliberalism, Narrative, and Negotiation, Jered Mabaquiao

DEVELOPMENT OF A DEEP LEARNING-ENABLED COMPUTER VISION FRAMEWORK FOR PAVEMENT CRACK ASSESSMENT ON PLASTIC-MODIFIED ASPHALT SECTION: SH 205, DALLAS DISTRICT, Garima Maharjan

Enhancing the performance of disk-based key-value stores: From learned index acceleration to I/O-efficient hybrid caching, Sujit Maharjan

Applications of Doppler Broadening Spectroscopy for the Characterization of the Surface and Near Surface of Two-Dimensional Heterostructures, Hany M. Mahdy

Buckling analysis of auxetic composite laminates and optimal design using lamination parameters and machine learning, Hans Bendon Maria Tamil Selvan

On An Asymptotic Two-Dimensional Shallow Water Model, Christina M. Martinez

Voice and Student Engagement with Writing: Integrating Perspective, Personality, and Style, Sara S. Martin

Investigating the Viability of Fully Online Asynchronous Physics Instruction in Formal Education, Clifton W. Massey-Noel

Synthetic Contact Zones: Meeting Nature and Animals in Video Games, Sarah C. McPherson

(Trans*)gressing discourse: Producing and disrupting normativity in education for trans* students with dis/abilities, Meagan Meredith

Development and Characterization of Fluorescent Chemosensors for Cation Detection, Reagan L. Miller

DEVELOPMENT OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL USING TRANSFER LEARNING FOR CONDITION ASSESSMENT OF SANITARY SEWER PIPES, Mohsen Mohammadagha

Effects of Fermented Soybean Products on the Human Gut Microbiome, Microbial Metabolism, and Host Physiology, Shannon Moncier

Preliminary Investigation of the Carbon Storage Potential in the Fort Worth Basin: Reservoir Characterization and Modeling of the Lower Atoka Grant South Sand in Tarrant County, Texas, Mary Ann M. Moody

Personal Strength as a Core Dimension of Posttraumatic Growth: A Multi-Method Study of U.S. Military Veterans, Steven Moore

Evaluating and Advancing the Robustness and Fairness of Face Obfuscation Systems, Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi

Vertical Contraction Scour Beneath Submerged Bridge Decks in Cohesive Soils: Hydraulic, Geometric, and Soil-Property Controls and Predictive Modeling, Qazi Ashique E Mowla

Protecting Wetlands in the State of Texas: Assessing Gaps in Regulations, Knowledge, and Professional Roles and Responsibilities, Grace A. Moy

LEADERSHIP AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: THREE ESSAY DISSERTATION ON GENDER, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND FIRM PERFORMANCE, Siddhi Ramanand Nair

CONSTRAINING THE TECTONO-CLIMATIC EVOLUTION OF THE NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS: INSIGHTS FROM VOLCANIC GLASS, LEAF WATER, AND LEAF WAX HYDROGEN ISOTOPES, Rijumon Nandy

Multimodal Deep Learning for Biological Data Understanding, Saiyang Na

Ultra-Low Noise Ion Detection for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Searches, Karen E. Navarro

FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF U1C AND CANCER-ASSOCIATED U1 SNRNA MUTATIONS IN SNRNP BIOGENESIS, Duc Minh Ngu

Occurrence of Microplastics in the Urban Air and Water Systems and Associated Exposure Risks, Jenny K. Nguyen

Engineering Targeted Nanoparticles to Enable Imaging and Therapeutic Angiogenesis in Peripheral Arterial Disease, Na Thi Vy Nguyen

Virtualized and Distributed Neighborhood Data Centers, Benjamin T. Niccum

EARLY DETECTION AND OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF NEONATAL HYPOXIC-ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY SEVERITY, Soheila Norasteh

Application of MATLAB Simulation for Quantum Wells and Absorption Modelling, Mohamed Nur

Towards comprehensive strategies for promoting physical activity in Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD): Exploring program effectiveness, eHealth interventions, and practical recommendations for parents and children, Mary Luz Ocampo-Plazas

Fabrication Processes for InP Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers, Joungkook Oh

Design, Fabrication, and Experimental Verification of a Two-Megawatt Electric and Thermal Load Emulator, Brent R. Oksanen

CHARACTERIZATION OF TOMOGRAPHIC PIV SYSTEM FOR SINGLE-PHASE IMMERSION COOLING APPLICATIONS, JOEL JOSHUA OOMMEN

STRUCTURED SPARSE DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES FORECASTING: FROM INTERPRETABLE FEATURE SELECTION TO ENTERPRISE DECISION SUPPORT, Dervis Ozay

Autonomous UAV Mission Planning Under Threat Using Model Predictive Control with Proportional-Navigation Pursuers, Mehmet B. Ozcelik

End-to-End Development and Experimental Validation of a 1/10-Scale Autonomous Vehicle, Rikkin Pankaj Panchal

THE ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION OF SYMBIONTS, Bibek Singh Parajuli

Universal Sound Separation: Distance-Aware Mixture Simulation, Co-occurrence Conditioning, and Chain-of-Inference, Wonjun Park

Set-theoretic Reachability-informed Model Predictive Control for Mechanical and Aerospace Systems, Jinaykumar Nitinkumar Patel

Dosage Sensitivity and the Evolution of Dosage Compensation: Tests of the Insensitive Sex Chromosome Hypothesis in Flour Beetles, Shana Pau

PEPTIDE SEQUENCING VIA PROTEIN LANGUAGE MODELS, Thuong Le Hoai Pham

FROM DESIGN TO FUNCTION: LATE d-BLOCK METAL COMPLEXES SUPPORTED BY FLUORINATED PYRIDYL AND PYRAZOLYL LIGAND FRAMEWORKS, Vo Quang Huy Phan

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING AND MACHINE LEARNING IN 5G/6G NETWORKS, Roopesh Kumar Polaganga

Gas Dynamic Modeling of Blowdown Supersonic Wind Tunnel and Multimode Control System Development, Harshwardhan Prasad

MULTI-OBJECTIVE RISK-BASED OPTIMIZATION FOR WATER NETWORK REHABILITATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY, Raghavendra Kumar Punugu

Development of a Design Methodology for Polymeric Spray-Applied Pipe Linings in Deteriorated Culverts Using 3D Finite Element Analysis Informed by a Parametric Study, Ehsan Rajaie

Structuring Craft Practice: An AI-Assisted Framework for Representing, Documenting, and Recommending Material Craft Knowledge, Mohammad Abu Nasir Rakib

NEIGHBORHOOD EMBEDDINGS AND SCALABLE LEARNING FOR OPTIMAL TRANSPORT AND UNBALANCED OPTIMAL TRANSPORT, Muhammad S. Rana

Status Anxiety and Public Support for Reactionary Political Movements, Timothy E. Randall

Cross-Layer Supervisory Control for Low-Altitude UAV Swarm Networks, Nitin Singh Rathore

Educating for Safety: Understanding and Strengthening Educational Interventions for Social Media–Related Teen Dating Violence., Minjaal Raval

Multiscale Injury Biomechanics and Neuronal Communication in Brain, Md Navid Imtiaz Rifat

The Regulatory Evolution of Epidermal Signaling Glands in Lizards: Regulatory Architecture, Deep Homology, and Environmental Modulation, Joshua O. Rivera

Behind the Curtain: A Literature Review of Personal and Ecological Risk Factors and Current Multi-Level Interventions for Performing Artists, Christopher A. Robles

An Automated Compliance Checker for AI Agent Logging and Record-Keeping under the EU AI Act Using a Domain-Specific Language, Lamia Hasan Rodoshi

A Bayesian Late-Fusion Supportability Framework for Rare-Disease Severity Prediction in GLUT1 Deficiency Syndrome, Jordan M. Rodriguez

Adolescent Girls’ Experiences of Digital Dating Abuse Through Social Media: A Scoping Review, Kiara E. Rodriguez

Amorphous Selenium Photodetectors for Liquid Noble Detectors, Michael Rooks

Sewer Pipe Condition Assessment Using an Ensemble Machine Learning Framework for Infrastructure Decision Support, Mahnaz Rouhi

Development of Multimodal Measurements and Analysis for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease, Fiza Saeed

FLUORESCENT TRYPTOPHAN DERIVATIVES FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS, Mandira Saha

Coordinating the Layers: Regulation of Peptidoglycan Synthesis and Cell Wall Assembly in Mycobacterium smegmatis by MurJ and PgfA, Karen Emmanuella Samaga-de-Tembiwa

Deep Learning Frameworks for Functional Genomics: lncRNA–miRNA Interactions, Dose-Specific Graph Modeling, and Complete Graph-Based lncRNA Functional Annotation Using Cross-Layer Attention, Sachit Satyal

Generative Imaging for Computational Pathology, Md Jillur Rahman Saurav

DATA-DRIVEN PREDICTION OF CONCRETE BRIDGE DECK CORROSION USING GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR), Nafisa Shafiullah

Performance Evaluation of Modified Moisture Barrier for Subgrade Stabilization of Pavements on Expansive Soils, MD Tamim Shahriar

IMPROVING STRENGTH AND FRACTURE RESISTANCE IN FUSED FILAMENT FABRICATION THROUGH PRINTHEAD-INTEGRATED IN-SITU ANNEALING, Tanvir Ahmed Shanto

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Multistage Triaxial Behavior of Reconstituted Kaolin Clay, Kushal Sharma

Mitochondria in Local Control of Programmed Cell Killing & Resilience, Rashna Sharmin

COASTLINE ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEM, Aref Shiran

EPIGENETIC TARGETING OF HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY WITH LYSINE DEMETHYLASE (KDMs) INHIBITOR JIB-04, Manjeet Singh

BEYOND PERMISSIONS: A PRIVACY AND SECURITY ANALYSIS OF SENSOR AND NETWORK ACTIVITY ON XR DEVICES USING XRMONITOR, Gayatri Sravya Siripurapu

Thermal Management in Data Centers: A Study of Hybrid-Cooled Servers and Single-Phase Immersion Systems, Akiilessh Sivakumar

Exploring the Landscape of Global Social Work Education in the United States: A Mixed-Method Study, Shamila Sivakumaran