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Medical Image Analytics (Radiomics) with Machine/Deeping Learning for Outcome Modeling in Radiation Oncology
(2020)
Image-based quantitative analysis (radiomics) has gained great attention recently. Radiomics possesses promising potentials to be applied in the clinical practice of radiotherapy and to provide personalized healthcare for ...
Probing Local Atomic Environments to Model RNA Energetics and Structure
(2020)
Ribonucleic acids (RNA) are critical components of living systems. Understanding RNA structure and its interaction with other molecules is an essential step in understanding RNA-driven processes within the cell. Experimental ...
Precision Cosmology with Inaccurate Data: Assessing and Addressing Systematic Errors in Large-Scale Structure
(2021)
Cosmology as a field has made rapid progress over the last 30 years, driven in large part by a massive increase in observational data. Large-scale structure (LSS) surveys have played a key role in this rise of `Precision ...
Computational Methods for Understanding Dynamics in Mass Transport and Tissue Development
(2020)
Elucidating the process by which a biological system evolves and properly identifying hidden states and influential underlying factors are important for studying biological functions and origins of diseases. However, due ...
Discovering the Missing Population of AGN Pairs with Chandra
(2020)
Although the first supermassive black hole (SMBH) was observed over 100 years ago, the details regarding how they form, evolve, and impact their surroundings remain active topics of research. In fact, only over the past 5 ...
Correlation in Complex Networks
(2020)
Network representations are now ubiquitous across science. Indeed, they are the natural representation for complex systems—systems composed of large numbers of interacting components. Occasionally systems can be well ...
Computational Discovery of Solid Electrolytes for Batteries: Interfacial Phenomena and Ion Mobility
(2020)
Solid-state batteries (SSBs) using a solid electrolyte (SE) and Li-metal anode are promising technologies that can increase energy density and minimize safety concerns for applications such as electric vehicles. Although ...
Single-Molecule Mapping and Heterogeneous Dynamics of Epigenetic Modifications in Live Microbes
(2023)
Single-Particle Tracking (SPT) in living cells informs the dynamics of target molecules and enables the investigation of their functions and interactions with other components in the cell. The quantitative analysis of SPT ...
Electron Acceleration and Radiation Generation from Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions and Statistical Methods at High Repetition-Rate
(2021)
This dissertation explores the interaction between high-intensity lasers and plasmas to accelerate electrons and produce radiation via experimental and computational efforts. The laser pulses used in this dissertation have ...
Celestial Dragons and Brushing Teeth
(2023)
This dissertation delves into two domains. The first domain is cosmology and astrophysics, investigating galaxy occupation of dark matter halos as well as characterization of the star-forming and quiescent galaxy populations ...