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119th Annual Commencement CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY June 14, 2013 119th Annual Commencement CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Friday, June 14, 2013 10:00 a.m. 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.ind 6/12/13 "In life, leadership and learning are inextricably linked, and without advancements in both, a community and society cannot flourish." —Jean-Lou Chameau, Caltech President 2 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 2 6/12/13 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR AND THE PRESIDENT Graduates, welcome to our celebration of you —the Caltech Class of 2013! It is an honor and a privilege to join you and your family and friends as you commemorate the significant accomplishment your graduation represents. Your academic journey has undoubtedly been filled not only with lessons and challenges, but with growth and achievements. Today marks the beginning of a new journey —one in which you'll apply the knowledge and experience you've gained at Caltech to make a difference in academia, business, industry, government, and society as a whole. You are among the world's most promising scientists, engineers, mathematicians, entrepreneurs, innovators, scholars, and leaders. You arrived at Caltech with big ideas and even bigger passions and goals. We hope that your time here has sharpened those ideas, nurtured those passions, and helped you achieve those goals. We also hope that you have built friendships, explored opportunities on campus and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and embraced the lesson that innovation requires taking risks. But even as you move on, we hope you will stay connected to Caltech. We encourage you to return often to campus or to become engaged in a local alumni chapter, so that Caltech students continue to benefit from all you have to share, just as you benefited from those who came before you. And, of course, we hope you will be a Caltech ambassador to further elevate the Institute's prominence in the world. We join you in applauding your family members, your professors, the Caltech staff, your friends, and all the other generous champions-trustees, alumni, donors, Caltech Associates— who have supported your journey at Caltech. These are the people who have prepared you to carry the spirit of discovery and lifelong curiosity into the world, and they are no doubt as proud of you today as we are. Congratulations, Class of 2013! David Lee Chair, Board of Trustees Jean-Lou Chameau President 3 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 3 6/12/13 ABOUT CALTECH More than a century ago, in November 1891, Throop University opened its doors to six faculty members and 31 students. Within a few years, astronomer George Ellery Hale, chemist Arthur Amos Noyes, and physicist Robert Andrews Millikan had come together to transform Throop into a world-class science and engineering research and education institution. Since then, Caltech has grown to nearly 300 professorial faculty, more than 600 research scholars, over 1,200 graduate students, and almost 1,000 undergraduates-all of whom expand human knowledge and advance society through bold, collaborative explorations and creative, intensive scholarship in fundamental and applied sciences and engineering. Caltech scholars have accelerated life-changing discoveries and transformed the fields of energy, medicine, geoscience, and astrophysics. They have earned 32 Nobel Prizes, seven Crafoord Prizes, 13 National Medals of Technology, and 57 National Medals of Science. The Institute operates internationally recognized facilities for advanced research on its campus and oversees a seismological laboratory, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and an unparalleled network of astronomical observatories. At Caltech, Theodore von Kármán developed principles that influenced modern jet flight, and played a key role in the founding of JPL; today, Caltech and JPL scientists such as John Grotzinger and Bethany Ehlmann are exploring Mars after successfully landing the newest rover, Curiosity, on the Red Planet. Charles Richter created the first logarithmic scale for measuring the magnitude of earthquakes; Thomas Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori reinvented the scale to provide more accurate readings of large quakes, from a greater distance; and, today, K. Mani Chandy and R. Andreas Krause are working to adapt cell phones for use in earthquake forewarnings and detection. 4 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 4 6/12/13 Maarten Schmidt determined the nature of quasars; Mike Brown has discovered an object larger than Pluto beyond the outer solar system, demoting Pluto to dwarf-planet status. Clair Patterson's research on lead pollution prompted controls in the automobile industry; today, faculty such as John Seinfeld, John Dabiri, Frances Arnold, and Sossina Haile are pioneering research into air quality and clean energy. Linus Pauling determined the nature of the chemical bond; Max Delbrück helped inspire the creation of molecular genetics; and, today, David Baltimore is using gene therapy to aid in the fight against human HIV infections. Caltech is a place where bold discoveries are possible-where visionary scholars advance the boundaries of knowledge. We celebrate today the 588 graduates who will receive 256 bachelor's degrees, 96 master's degrees, two engineer's degrees, and 236 Ph.D. degrees, and who will contribute to Caltech's impressive legacy and record of achievement around the world. 5 6 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 6 6/12/13 ACADEMIC PROCESSION Chief Marshal Konstantinos P. Giapis, Ph.D. Marshals Geoffrey A. Blake, Ph.D. John F. Brady, Ph.D. Rod Kiewiet, Ph.D. Richard M. Murray, Ph.D. Joseph E. Shepherd, Ph.D. David A. Tirrell, Ph.D. Faculty Officers John O. Dabiri, Ph.D. Kristine L. Haugen, Ph.D. MARCHING ORDER Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Science Candidates for the Degree of Master of Science Candidates for the Degree of Engineer Candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Faculty Officers The Faculty The Chairs of the Divisions The Deans The Provost and Vice Provosts The Vice Presidents The Trustees The Commencement Speaker The President The Chair of the Board of Trustees 7 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 7 6/12/13 PROGRAM ORGAN PRELUDE Leslie J. Deutsch, Ph.D. PROCESSIONAL The Caltech Convocation Brass and Percussion Ensemble William W. Bing, M.M., Conductor PRESIDING David L. Lee, Ph.D. Chair of the Board of Trustees California Institute of Technology COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER Mary Sue Coleman President, University of Michigan CHORAL SELECTION "Ode to Joy" excerpts from Symphony No. 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven; Arranged by Dr. Deutsch (Translation on page 58) The Caltech Glee Club, the Caltech Convocation Brass and Percussion Ensemble, and Organ Nancy Sulahian, M.M., Conductor CONFERRING OF DEGREES Jean-Lou Chameau, Ph.D. President California Institute of Technology PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES For the Degree of Bachelor of Science D. Roderick Kiewiet, Ph.D. Dean of Undergraduate Students For the Degree of Master of Science Joseph E. Shepherd, Ph.D. Dean of Graduate Studies For the Degree of Engineer Joseph E. Shepherd, Ph.D. Dean of Graduate Studies 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 8 6/12/13 For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Biology Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Engineering and Applied Science Geological and Planetary Sciences Humanities and Social Sciences Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy Raymond J. Deshaies Professor of Biology Jacqueline K. Barton, Ph.D. Division Chair Ares J. Rosakis, Ph.D. Division Chair Kenneth A. Farley, Ph.D. Division Chair Jonathan N. Katz, Ph.D. Division Chair B. Thomas Soifer, Ph.D. Division Chair ANNOUNCEMENT OF AWARDS AND CONCLUDING REMARKS ALMA MATER "Hail CIT" by Manton Barnes, B.S. '21 (The audience may join in; lyrics are on page 63) RECESSIONAL President Chameau The Caltech Glee Club, the Caltech Convocation Brass and Percussion Ensemble, and Organ The Caltech Convocation Brass and Percussion Ensemble Dr. Deutsch ORGAN POSTLUDE "The Throop Institute March," composed by E. C. Kammermeyer in 1900 for the Throop Institute Guitar and Mandolin Society Live streaming of Caltech's 2013 commencement ceremony will begin shortly before 10 a.m. on Friday, June 14, at www.caltech.edu. 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd g 6/12/13 10 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 10 6/12/13 ABOUT THE SPEAKER Mary Sue Coleman has served as the president of the University of Michigan (U-M) since August 2002. She is also a professor of biological chemistry in the Medical School and a professor of chemistry in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. As president, Coleman has launched several major initiatives at U-M that are designed to have a positive impact on future generations of students, the intellectual life of the campus, and society at large. These include expanded academic partnerships with universities in China, Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil, and a groundbreaking collaboration between the university and Google that will enable the public to search the text of the university's 7-million-volume library, and will pave the way to universal access to and the preservation of recorded human knowledge. She was one of six university presidents selected by President Obama to help launch the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, a national effort bringing together industry, universities, and the federal government to revitalize American manufacturing through investment in and development of emerging technologies. In 2010, then U.S. commerce secretary Gary Locke named her cochair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Coleman is regarded as a national spokesperson on the educational value of diverse perspectives in the classroom, and her extensive leadership positions in higher education have included membership on the National Collegiate Athletic Association Board of Directors and the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. As a biochemist, Coleman has built a distinguished career through her research on the immune system and malignancies. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Coleman is also a nationally recognized expert on the consequences of being uninsured, both for individuals and society as a whole. 11 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 11 6/12/13 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES Bachelor of Science Anish Agarwal* Republic of Singapore Mechanical Engineering and Economics and Computer Science (Minor) Shir Aharon* Princeton Junction, New Jersey Applied and Computational Mathematics and Business Economics and Management Lucia Minjung Ahn Ithaca, New York Computer Science Avin Daniel Andrade* Pleasanton, California Chemical Engineering (Environmental) Mitchel Chinedu Arene* Jos Plateau, Nigeria Electrical Engineering Sarun Atiganyanun* Bangkok, Thailand Applied Physics Dori Bejleri* Wolcott, Connecticut Mathematics John Cain Blackwood* Rancho Palos Verdes, California Chemical Engineering (Materials) and Business Economics and Management Daniel Christopher Elevado Blado* Richmond, Texas Applied and Computational Mathematics Michelle Esther Bobrow* Great Neck, New York Biology Stephanie Claire Bohaczuk* Wyckoff, New Jersey Biology Carly Mariah Bond Anchorage, Alaska Chemical Engineering (Materials) Ethan Rain Boroson* Tucson, Arizona Mechanical Engineering Reuben Joseph Britto* Redding, California Chemical Engineering (Materials) Nicholas Salpeter Buckley Woodside, California Engineering and Applied Science (Computation and Neural Systems) Nina Budaeva* El Cerrito, California Physics Yi Elise Cai* Albany, California Biology Juan Diego Caporale Chino, California Mechanical Engineering Juan Pablo Cardenas Miami, Florida Mechanical Engineering Arjun Subramani Chandar* North Miami, Florida Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics and Management Sandhya Chandrasekaran* Fremont, California Biology and Chemistry Christine Haejung Chang* Pleasanton, California Chemistry Saptarshi Chaudhuri* Columbus, Obio Physics Sinthunon Chavanaves* Bangkok, Thailand Physics * Students whose names are followed by an asterisk are being graduated with honor in accordance with a vote of the faculty. + Students whose names are followed by a dagger are close to completion and will receive diplomas at the end of the academic year in which all graduation requirements are met. 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 12 6/12/13 Bachelor of Science continued Clare Chen* Pasadena, California Mechanical Engineering Daniel Young Chen* Austin, Texas Computer Science and Business Economics and Management Tao Tao Chen Cupertino, California Mathematics Victor Eric Chen* San Jose, California Biology Benjamin J. Cherian San Jose, California Applied Physics Annie Fong Yu Chin* San Jose, California Computer Science Eric Hyunseung Cho Los Angeles, California Computer Science Sung Bong Chun* Songnam, Republic of Korea Physics and Mathematics Yeojun Caleb Chun Toledo, Ohio Applied and Computational Mathematics Brandon Robert Comellat Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Physics Nadine Peyton Currie DeLand, Florida Chemistry Megan Rose Cutrofello* Evanston, Illinois Mathematics and Economics Colleen Rebecca Delaney* Benicia, California Physics and History (Minor) Breanna Denicola Los Gatos, California History Matthew Ross Diamond Temecula, California Geochemistry Race Everest Rial DiLoreto University Place, Washington Biology Gabriella Lora Dodd Dallas, Texas Mechanical Engineering Hanna Marie Dodd* Pasadena, California Mechanical Engineering Jacinto Dominguez III Vista, California Mechanical Engineering Yishun Dong* Shanghai, People's Republic of China Electrical Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics Shayan Doroudi* Mission Viejo, California Computer Science Karen Marie Dowling* Ann Arbor, Michigan Electrical Engineering Christopher Robert Dudiak* Atlanta, Georgia Computer Science Mihail Eugen Dumitrescu Bucharest, Romania Computer Science Michael Wayne Edwards Canyon Country, California Computer Science Joshua Alexander Escribano-Fontanet* Apopka, Florida Physics Steven Evergreen* Downey, California Electrical Engineering Kelvin Fang* San Jose, California Electrical Engineering Suzannah Alcyone Fraker* Washington, District of Columbia Computer Science Mason Cecil Freedman Falls Church, Virginia Mechanical Engineering Matthew Kuenzli Fu* Herndon, Virginia Mechanical Engineering Kimberly Keiko Furuya Bloomington, Illinois Engineering and Applied Science (Computation and Neural Systems) Prakriti Gaba* Las Vegas, Nevada Biology and Business Economics and Management Meng Ge* Beijing, People's Republic of China Applied and Computational Mathematics and Economics 13 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 13 6/12/13 Bachelor of Science continued Marvin Ho-Yan Gee* Frederick, Maryland Biology Alexandra Todorova Georgieva Sofia, Bulgaria Physics Vaishnavi Giridaran* Champaign, Illinois Engineering and Applied Science (Computation and Neural Systems) and Bioengineering. Brent Justin Goldman San Francisco, California Computer Science and Business Economics and Management Eduardo Martín Gonzálezt Virginia Beach, Virginia Computer Science Kevin Li Gu* Fresno, California Chemical Engineering (Process Systems) Yuzhou Conan Gu* Changzhou, People's Republic of China Applied and Computational Mathematics Kelly Mengyu Guan* Arcadia, California Chemical Engineering (Materials) Matthew Patrick Harrigan* Essex, Connecticut Chemistry Ying Qiao Hee* Republic of Singapore Chemical Engineering (Process Systems) and Business Economics and Management Matthew Thomas Edwin Heydeman* Monterey, California Physics Daniel William Hogan* Salt Lake City, Utah Physics Nerissa Emmy Graetz Hoglen* Kalaheo, Hawaii Engineering and Applied Science (Computation and Neural Systems) and English Kristen Marie Holtz* Tracy, California Mechanical Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems (Minor) Katherine Hoopert Sunnyvale, California Engineering and Applied Science (Computation and Neural Systems) Gladia Chork Hotan* Republic of Singapore Physics Yang Hu* Richland, Washington Biology Yifei Huang* Naperville, Illinois Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science (Minor) Supriya Iyer San Jose, California Mechanical Engineering and Geological and Planetary Science (Minor) Megan Nora Jackson* Moraga, California Chemistry Bryan Paul Jador* Chapel Hill, North Carolina Computer Science Anum Jang Sher Islamabad, Pakistan Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics and Management Ayooluwakunmi Oluwafemi Jeje* Ibadan, Nigeria Mechanical Engineering Xinyao Ji* Jiangsu, Peoplé's Republic of China Mathematics Zhengyang Jiang* Chengdu, Peoplé's Republic of China Mathematics and Business and Economics and Management Raymond Christian Jimenez* Duarte, California Electrical Engineering 14 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 14 6/12/13 Bachelor of Science continued Timothy Underwood Johnson Torrance, California Mathematics Samuel Stephen Jones Rocky Mount, Virginia Electrical Engineering Karolina Z. Kalbarczyk Urbana, Illinois Chemical Engineering (Biomolecular) Amol Deepak Kamat* Northville, Michigan Biology Aroutin Khachaturian* Glendale, California Electrical Engineering Rishi Das Khanna Millwood, New York Electrical Engineering Brian T. Kim* Northridge, California Chemical Engineering (Biomolecular) and Political Science Caroline Haejin Kimt Seongnam, Republic of Korea Electrical Engineering Chang Sub Kim* Seoul, Republic of Korea Physics Laura Kim* Atlanta, Georgia Chemical Engineering (Materials) Seohyun Kim* Seoul, Republic of Korea Chemistry Stacy Yeonchi Kim Avondale, Arizona Physics Roy Jeffrey Koczela Shorewood, Wisconsin Engineering and Applied Science Christopher Forrest Kolner* Moraga, California Electrical Engineering Swadhruth Komanduri Okemos, Michigan Engineering and Applied Science (Computation and Neural Systems) and Business Economics and Management Philip L. Kong* Los Angeles, California Biology Timea Kosztin* Columbia, Missouri Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics and Management Jeffrey Adam Kowalski* Ewing, New Jersey Chemical Engineering (Materials) Stephanie Ya-Wen Kwan Rancho Palos Verdes, California Biology and English (Minor) Sung Min Kwont Seoul, Republic of Korea Chemical Engineering (Materials) Thomas Ginhay Kwong* Irvine, California Mechanical Engineering Pawel Michal Latawiec* Cary, Illinois Physics Kimberly Lutek Law* San Diego, California Bioengineering Rebecca Jean Lawler* Portland, Oregon Computer Science Tuan Anh Le* Warsaw, Poland Computer Science Christina Colleen Leet Vancouver, Washington Physics Eun Jee Lee* Seoul, Republic of Korea Electrical Engineering Seoung Jun (Elijah) Lee* Incheon, Republic of Korea Mechanical Engineering and Structural Mechanics (Minor) Jomya C. Lei* Brentwood, Tennessee Electrical Engineering and Chemistry Cheng Ran Mathilda Lit Wuhan, Peoplé's Republic of China Computer Science Henry Li* San Jose, California Computer Science and Business Economics and Management Nannan Li* Hefei, Peoplé's Republic of China Chemical Engineering (Materials) Shuaili (Cici) Li* Fremont, California Chemical Engineering (Materials) 15 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 15 6/12/13 Bachelor of Science continued Susan Elizabeth Liao Princeton, New Jersey Biology Ee Jane Lim Kota Bharu, Malaysia Chemical Engineering (Materials) Eric Liu Warren, New Jersey Chemical Engineering (Materials) Erik Jerry Liu State College, Pennsylvania Chemical Engineering (Biomolecular) Shiyi Liu Guangdong, People's Republic of China Physics Yuan Liu* Beijing, People's Republic of China Applied and Computational Mathematics and Business Economics and Management Kevin Lo* San Diego, California Computer Science Megan Lo* Austin, Texas Chemical Engineering (Biomolecular) Cassandra Derrick Lochhaas* Newburyport, Massachusetts Physics Tong Lu San Ramon, California Economics and Engineering and Applied Science (Computation and Neural Systems) Tsung-Ju Jeff Lu* San Jose, California Electrical Engineering Marcus Aaron Lucas Olympia, Washington Mechanical Engineering Tuling Ma* East Brunswick, New Jersey Computer Science Xiaoya Ma* Fayetteville, New York Chemical Engineering (Materials) Timothy David MacDonald* Turlock, California Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering (Minor) Vishnu Manoranjan* Pullman, Washington Biology and Philosophy (Minor) Anastasiya Vadimovna Markovtsova Foster City, California Bioengineering Blaine Roger Matulevich* Kalispell, Montana Mechanical Engineering and History Matthew Zoccoli Mayers* Franklin Lakes, New Jersey Mathematics and Chemistry Naomi Aubrey McArthur Omaha, Nebraska Engineering and Applied Science (Computation and Neural Systems) Carson Kent McNeil Salt Lake City, Utah Engineering and Applied Science (Computation and Neural Systems) and Computer Science (Minor) Alan Joseph Menezes* Saratoga, California Electrical Engineering Andrew Chengsi Meng* Baton Rouge, Louisiana Physics and Chemistry Rocio Mercado Wilmington, California Chemistry Brian Merlob Coral Springs, Florida Political Science and Computer Science Timothy Meyer Honolulu, Hawaii Computer Science and Business Economics and Management Zeke Millikan* Minneapolis, Minnesota Mechanical Engineering Jama Abdullahi Mohamed Springfield, Virginia Electrical Engineering Mahati Mokkarala* Budd Lake, New Jersey Biology Rachel Stockton Moore Aiken, South Carolina Chemical Engineering (Materials) Melody Ann Morris* Bedford, Massachusetts Chemical Engineering (Materials) 16 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 16 6/12/13 Bachelor of Science continued Judy Mou* Temple City, California Computer Science Alexander Telemachos Mouschovias* Urbana, Illinois Applied Physics Collin Michael Murphy Wasilla, Alaska Computer Science and Business Economics and Management Jaime Rose Nagel* Neenah, Wisconsin Mechanical Engineering Roshan Devan Nanu Southlake, Texas Physics Luis Alexander Navarro* Miami, Florida Chemistry Ilya Nepomnyashchiy* Carol Stream, Illinois Computer Science and Mathematics Joshua Alexander Borwein Nevin Hong Kong, People's Republic of China Mathematics and Philosophy (Minor) Nina Zhixuan Ng-Quinn Alta Loma, California Biology HongAn Thuy Nguyen* Wyoming, Michigan Mechanical Engineering Lan Huong Nguyen* Ha Noi, Vietnam Applied and Computational Mathematics and Economics Brice Chedjou Nzeukou Tucson, Arizona Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics and Management Richard Hua O'Dowd* Santa Barbara, California Computer Science John Jefferson Odell* Prince Frederick, Maryland Mechanical Engineering Nicholas Charles Ogden Carterville, Illinois Electrical Engineering Steven Yukio Okai Pearl City, Hawaii Electrical Engineering Mia Rose Hubbard Oviatt Woodinville, Washington Biology Geunwook Pack* Seoul, Republic of Korea Applied and Computational Mathematics and Economics Alison Dawn Parisian* Vacaville, California Biology Sung Jin Park* San Jose, California Chemical Engineering (Biomolecular) Priyam Patel Irvine, California Applied Physics Brian Daniel Penserini Carmichael, California Geology Christopher Adam Perez Chicago, Illinois Mathematics Ahalya Prabhakar Alpharetta, Georgia Mechanical Engineering Suyeon Pyo* Iksan, Republic of Korea Chemical Engineering (Materials) Chenxi Qiu* Temecula, California Bioengineering John Steven Rath Eden Prairie, Minnesota Mathematics Srihari V. Ravi* West Windsor, New Jersey Computer Science Benjamin Razon* Maple Glen, Pennsylvania Computer Science and Business Economics and Management Haoyang Ren Cary, North Carolina Computer Science Addison Rice Sparta, New Jersey Engineering and Applied Science (Environmental Science and Engineering) and Geological and Planetary Science (Minor) 17 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 17 6/12/13 Bachelor of Science continued Alexander David Rider* Monrovia, California Physics Christian Daniel Rivas Claremont, California Business Economics and Management Joanna Renee Robaszewski Arlington Heights, Illinois Physics Andrew Carlos Rodriguez Weston, Florida Applied and Computational Mathematics Sebastián Rojas Mata* Escazú, Costa Rica Mechanical Engineering Cipriano William Romero* Northbrook, Illinois Electrical Engineering Errika Celine Romero Houston, Texas Chemical Engineering (Biomolecular) Tommaso Rosi Fiorenzuola d'Arda, Italy Applied and Computational Mathematics Alexander Manek Karl Runkel* Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany Engineering and Applied Science (Computation and Neural Systems) and Economics Murtaza Saifee* Tarzana, California Electrical Engineering Stephanie Rae Parlade Samson* Lomita, California Chemical Engineering (Materials) Dev V. Sanghani* Rajkpt, Gujarat, India Computer Science Hunter James Sceats* Colorado Springs, Colorado Applied Physics Stephen Joseph Schwee* Winter Springs, Florida Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics and Management James Michael Scott* Rockford, Michigan Physics Kijun Seo* Seoul, Republic of Korea Computer Science Nihar Sharma Noida, India Computer Science Hong Sheng* Wuhan, Peoplé's Republic of China Applied and Computational Mathematics Kevin Shi* Johnston, Iowa Chemical Engineering (Biomolecular) Dong Woo Shin Los Angeles, California Chemistry and History Sang Ha Shin* Seoul, Republic of Korea Mechanical Engineering Juan Pablo Sierra El Segundo, California Electrical Engineering Gregory Vahagn Simonian* Los Angeles, California Astrophysics Nikita Sinha* San Ramon, California Biology Seorim Songt Arlington, Texas Chemical Engineering (Materials) Daniel Enrique Sotolongo* Miami, Florida Physics Andrew Chai Stanek Fremont, California Biology Jessica Tsu-Yun Su* Boca Raton, Florida Computer Science Sabrina I-Chyi Sun* Arcadia, California Chemical Engineering (Biomolecular) Dylan Joshua Sures Northridge, California Chemistry Mikhail Vladimir Sushkov* Cupertino, California Computer Science Kevin Michael Sutherland* Modesto, California Geology Wesley Staton Swank Coraopolis, Pennsylvania Mechanical Engineering Kelly K. Swanson* Naperville, Illinois Physics 18 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 18 6/12/13 Bachelor of Science continued Alex Atsushi Takeda* Londrina, Brazil Physics Katherine Anne Taylor Washington, District of Columbia Mechanical Engineering Thanchanok Teeraratkul* Bangkok, Thailand Electrical Engineering Ryan Thorngren* Los Angeles, California Mathematics Vicky Yuan Tian Mukilteo, Washington Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics and Management and Aerospace Engineering (Minor) Suk Sien Tie* Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia Astrophysics Mohit Tiwari* Yorktown Heights, New York Physics and Mathematics Joshua Wayne Tollefson* Rosemount, Minnesota Applied and Computational Mathematics and Planetary Science Mariya Ivanova Vasileva Sofia, Bulgaria Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics and Management Saraswathi Joy Venkatesh* Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Mathematics Christine Grace Viveiros Spokane, Washington Mechanical Engineering Alex J-S Wang* Dallas, Texas Chemical Engineering (Biomolecular) Jing Wang* Clarksville, Maryland Physics and Computer Science Pan Qiyu Wang* Germantown, Maryland Computer Science Tong Wang Shenyang, Peoplé's Republic of China Physics Yizhuo Wang* Kingsport, Tennessee Computer Science Alexander Spence Wein* Palo Alto, California Computer Science and Mathematics Jody C. Wen* Orange, California Applied and Computational Mathematics Rebecca Ann Wernis* Chicago, Illinois Physics Reginald George Wilcox III* Ottawa, Canada Electrical Engineering and Business Economics and Management Sarah Marie Wittman Milwaukee, Wisconsin Computer Science Stephen Wayne Worlow Spring, Texas Mathematics and Computer Science Sarah Louise Wright Strongsville, Ohio Bioengineering Alexander Huang Wu* Yorba Linda, California Applied and Computational Mathematics and Business Economics and Management Christine Elizabeth Wu Pleasanton, California Chemical Engineering (Biomolecular) Louie Robert Wu Gainesville, Florida Mathematics Xiaotong (Tony) Wu* Gainesville, Florida Mechanical Engineering and Business Economics and Management Ying Xian* Fremont, California Chemistry and English Catherine Bingchan Xie* Mountain View, California Bioengineering and English (Minor) Yushu Joy Xie* Troy, Michigan Chemical Engineering (Biomolecular) 19 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 19 6/12/13 Bachelor of Science continued Junxiao Xu* Troy, Michigan Computer Science and Business Economics and Management Melissa Xu Davis, California Bioengineering Sibei Xu San Diego, California Bioengineering (Devices) Irene Chiyun Yang* Houston, Texas Electrical Engineering Mimi Xuan Yang* Lexington, Kentucky Electrical Engineering Ran Yang Lake Oswego, Oregon Biology Scott Michael Yantek* Olmsted Township, Ohio Physics Alex Wayne Yeh Westlake Village, California Chemical Engineering (Biomolecular) Joshua Yoon* Columbia, Missouri Physics Yeoil Yoon Seoul, Republic of Korea Mathematics Chia-Chen Yu* Kaohsiung, Taiwan (ROC) Electrical Engineering Jenny Z. Yung Ashburn, Virginia Applied and Computational Mathematics Alexander Victor Zahn Orange, California Physics Eric B. Zhang* Sharon, Massachusetts Applied and Computational Mathematics Rongxiao Zhang* Guangdong, Peoplé's Republic of China Mechanical Engineering Vivian Zhang* Tucson, Arizona Mechanical Engineering Shiyu Zhao* Zhejiang, Peoplé's Republic of China Computer Science Zipeng Zhao* North Potomac, Maryland Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering (Minor) Jennifer Haijin Zhu Phoenix, Arizona Chemical Engineering (Materials) Mario Victor Zubia* Guadalupe, California Biology Andrew Joseph Zucker* Greeley, Colorado Mathematics 20 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 20 6/12/13 Master of Science Ryo Adachi (Behavioral and Social Neuroscience) B.E., The University of Tokyo 2009; M.S., 2011. Paul William Jacob Anzel (Applied Physics) B.A., B.S., Rice University 2009. Asma (Electrical Engineering) B.E., NED University of Engineering and Technology 2009. Sirio Belli (Astrophysics) Laurea Triennale, University of Bologna 2008; Laurea Magistrale, 2010. Rahul Brian Bhui (Behavioral and Social Neuroscience) B.A., The University of British Columbia 2010. Tobias Bischoff (Environmental Science and Engineering) Vordiplom, Philipps-Universität Marburg 2008; M.S., University of Cambridge 2011. Brock Douglas Bobbitt (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2011; B.S., Wheaton College 2011. Kristen Marie Boydstun (Physics) B.Sc., McGill University 2010. Nicholas James Broten (Social Science) B.A., University of California, Berkeley 2008; M.Sc., London School of Economics 2009. Michael Ira Burd (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 2008. Edward Scott Hafer Burns (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., Carnegie Mellon University 2011. Wuhan Desmond Cai (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Cornell University 2009. Kyle Ian Carlson (Behavioral and Social Neuroscience) B.A., The University of Memphis 2006. Remi Arthur Carmigniani (Aeronautics) Diplôme d'Ingénieur, Ecole Polytechnique 2012. David Hamilton Case (Geochemistry) B.A., Washington University in St. Louis 2010. Matthew C. Chao (Social Science) B.A., Dartmouth College 2006. Lawrence Yong-uck Chung (Mathematics) B.S., Seoul National University 2008. Renata Christina Cummins (Geobiology) A.B., Harvard College 2011. Trevor Justin David (Astrophysics) A.B., Vassar College 2009. Mélanie Delapierre (Space Engineering) Diplôme d'Ingénieur, École Polytechnique 2012. Abel Bermie Roberto Dizon (Civil Engineering) B.S., University of California, Los Angeles 2011. Heather Ann Duckworth (Space Engineering) B.A., Columbia University 2011. Katharine Yan Fang (Chemical Engineering) B.A.Sc., The University of Toronto 2010. Masoud Farivar (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Sharif University of Technology 2009. Glenn Robert Garrett (Materials Science) B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology 2005. Paul Robert Gebhart (Physics) B.S., University of California, Irvine 2009. John Bernard Gorman (Electrical Engineering) B.S., California State University, Long Beach 2004. Andres Jared Goza (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., Rice University 2011. Vikash Gunreddy (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2012. David Christopher Hall (Electrical Engineering) B.E., B.S., The University of Melbourne 2010. Jennifer Leigh Hamon (Geology) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010. Wentao Huang (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications 2008; M.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2011. 21 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 21 6/12/13 Master of Science continued Christopher George Janover (Applied Mechanics) B.E., M.E., The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 2010. William Maxwell Jones (Electrical Engineering) B.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Joshua Andrew Kammer (Planetary Science) B.A., Texas A&M University 2010. Melodie Minyu Kao (Astrophysics) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011. Scott Ian Kelber (Physics) B.A. (Economics), B.A. (Physics), The University of Chicago 2006. Aditya Shreyas Kher (Applied Physics) B.S., University of California, San Diego 2009. Jinho Kim (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Seoul National University 2005; M.S., 2007. Kun Woo Kim (Applied Physics) B.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Ramya Korlakai Vinayak (Electrical Engineering) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 2011. Altemurcan Kahraman Kursunlu (Space Engineering) B.S., Bogazici University 2012. Carlos Daniel Laguna Juarez (Space Engineering) B.E., Universidad Panamericana 2012. Simon Lapointe (Aeronautics) B.S., Université Laval 2010; M.S., 2012. Jionghui Li (Electrical Engineering) B.E., Harbin Institute of Technology 2011. Zhao Li (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications 2011. Rod Seung-Hwan Lim (Biology) B.S., University of California, San Diego 2008. Yunung Lin (Geology) B.A., National Taiwan University 2003; M.S., 2005. Maxwell Bernard Loewinger (Chemistry) B.A., Wesleyan University 2008; M.A., 2010. Frank Donald Maselli (Civil Engineering) B.E., M.E., Stevens Institute of Technology 2010. Jordan Eliot Maslov (Electrical Engineering) B.S., California Institute of Technology 2012. Lucas Rosendo Meza (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., University of California, Los Angeles 2011. Sergio Montero (Social Science) Licenciado en Economia, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas 2011. Benjamin Tyler Montet (Astrophysics) B.A., B.S., The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2011. Abhiram Moturi (Electrical Engineering) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 2012. Judy Mou (Computer Science) B.S., California Institute of Technology 2013. Maxwell Robert Murialdo (Materials Science) B.S., Stanford University 2011. Neel Prashant Nadkarni (Aeronautics) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar 2012. Miki Nakajima (Planetary Science) B.A., Tokyo Institute of Technology 2007; M.S., 2009. Panagiotis Philippos Natsiavas (Mechanical Engineering) Diploma, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 2012. Parham Noorzad (Electrical Engineering) B.S., University of Tehran 2012. Xiaoze Ou (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Zhejiang University 2011. Akshay Pai (Electrical Engineering) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 2012. 22 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 22 6/12/13 Master of Science continued Shuo Pang (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Tsinghua University 2006; M.S., Texas A&M University 2008. Qiuyu Peng (Electrical Engineering) B.E., Shanghai Jiaotong University 2011. Nakul E. Reddy (Bioengineering) B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology 2006. Joseph Holda Rheinhardt (Chemistry) B.S., Indiana University 2010. Carolyn Mary Richmonds (Chemical Engineering) B.S., Case Western Reserve University 2010. Chris Roh (Aeronautics) B.S., Cornell University 2012. Alexander Charles Romero (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) B.S., Duke University 2007. Kevin Thomas Rosenberg (Space Engineering) B.S. (Aerospace Engineering), B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), University of Florida 2012. Amir Hossein Safavi-Naeini (Applied Physics) B.A.Sc., University of Waterloo 2008. Theresa Ann Saxton-Fox (Mechanical Engineering) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012. Marc Serra Garcia (Aeronautics) B.Sc., M.Sc., Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2010. Matthew Reed Shaner (Chemical Engineering) B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara 2010. Amanda M. Shing (Materials Science) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2008. Va Cheung Si (Biology) B.S., University of California, Los Angeles 2007. Gregory Stephen Smetana (Aeronautics) B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison 2012. Jeffrey Owen Smith (Chemistry) B.S., Carnegie Mellon University 1998. Kevin Michael Sutherland (Geochemistry) B.S., California Institute of Technology 2013. Sean Pearson Symon (Aeronautics) B.A., B.S., University of Maryland, College Park 2012. Albert Z. Tan (Electrical Engineering) B.S. (Electrical Engineering), B.S. (Political Science), California Institute of Technology 2012. Zhihong Tan (Environmental Science and Engineering) B.S., Peking University 2009. Brian Jon Thompson (Electrical Engineering) B.S.E.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 2007. Zachary James Tobin (Applied Physics) B.S.E., Case Western Reserve University 2009. Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert (Geobiology) B.A., Barnard College 2008. Gerelt Tserenjigmid (Social Science) B.A., The University of Tokyo 2011. Jacqueline Rose Villadsen (Astrophysics) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2009. Mu Wang (Chemical Engineering) B.E., McGill University 2007; M.E, 2008. Robert Christopher Wills (Environmental Science and Engineering) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 2011. Charlotte Ling Yang (Computation and Neural Systems) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011. Hang Yu (Environmental Science and Engineering) B.Sc., The University of British Columbia 2010. Fan Zhang (Physics) B.A., University of Cambridge 2004; M. Sc., 2005. Hao Zhang (Environmental Science and Engineering) B.S., Nankai University 2011. Qiaoxi Zhang (Social Science) B.S., University of Hong Kong 2011. Xiaoxiao Zhang (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Texas A&M University 2010. 23 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 23 6/12/13 Engineer Prakhar Mehrotra (Aeronautics) B.Tech., National Institute of Technology, Trichy 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Rebecca Lynn Rought (Aeronautics) B.S., Syracuse University 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. 24 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 24 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy DIVISION OF BIOLOGY Maja Bialecka-Fornal (Biochemistry and Molecular Biopbysics) M.S., Jagiellonian University 2008. Thesis: Single-Cell Analysis of the Physiology of Mechanosensation in Bacteria. Danielle Vera Brown Bower (Biology) A.B., Harvard College 2005; M.S., University of Cambridge 2006. Thesis: Chemical and Neural Regulation of Embryonic Branching Morphogenesis. Julie YoungHee Cho (Biology) B.A., The Johns Hopkins University 2003. Thesis: State-Dependent Modulation of Neuronal Circuits in C. elegans Sleep. Marissa Morales Del Real (Biology) B.A., College of Notre Dame of Maryland 2006. Thesis: Analysis of a Transcriptional Network Involving PU.1, Notch, and Gata3 in the Lymphomyeloid Lineage Decision during Early T-cell Development. Adler R. Dillman (Biology) B.S., Brigham Young University 2006. Thesis: Host Seeking and the Genomic Architecture of Parasitism among Entomopathogenic Nematodes. Gilberto Hernandez (Biology) B.A., University of California, Los Angeles 1996; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2001. Thesis: Building a Gene Regulatory Network in Adult Mouse Skeletal Muscle Following Nerve Injury: Transcriptome Characterization and New Model for Functional cis-Regulatory Analysis In Vivo. Elaine Yih-Nien Hsiao (Biology) B.S., University of California, Los Angeles 2007. Thesis: Brain, Gut and Immune Interactions in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Na Hu (Biology) B.A., University of California, Berkeley 2008. Thesis: Epigenetic Regulation in Neural Crest Development: Role of DNA Methyltransferases 3A and 3B. Natalie J. Kolawa (Biology) B.A., University of California, Berkeley 2007. Thesis: Proteomic Analysis of the Cdc48/Ubx Network Identifies a Role for Ubx2 in the Regulation of Lipid Biosynthesis. Sung-Eun Melanie Lee (Biology) B.S., Harvey Mudd College 2004. Thesis: Mechanism of Intestinal Colonization by Symbiotic Bacteria. Janna C. Nawroth (Biology) B.S., Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2004; M.S., 2007. Thesis: Conceptual Framework and Physical Implementation of a Systematic Design Strategy for Tissue-Engineered Devices. When more than one field of study is listed, the first is the major and the second and others are minors. 25 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 25 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Anh H. Pham (Biology) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 2004; M.D., University of Southern California 2007. Thesis: Tools for Assessing Mitochondrial Dynamics in Mouse Tissues and Neurodegenerative Models. Abigail Green Saxena (Biology) B.S., University of Texas 2002. Thesis: Sulfur-Cycling in Methane-Rich Ecosystems: Uncovering Microbial Processes and Novel Niches. Maayan Schwarzkopf (Biology) B.S., Tel Aviv University 2004; M.S., 2006. Thesis: Engineering Nucleic Acid Mechanisms for Regulation and Readout of Gene Expression: Conditional Dicer Substrate Formation and Sensitive Multiplexed Northern Blots. Anna Shemorry (Biology) B.S., University of California, San Diego 2007. Thesis: Studies of the N-End Rule Pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nicole Anne Tetreault (Biology) B.S., University of California, Davis 2002; M.S., University of California, Los Angeles 2006. Thesis: Microglia in the Cerebral and Cerebellar Cortices in Individuals with Autism. Ophelia S. Venturelli (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) B.S., M.S., Stanford University 2007. Thesis: Role of Feedback and Dynamics of a Gene Regulatory Network. Jimmy Liu Zhao (Biology) A.A., Pasadena City College 2004; B.A., University of California, Berkeley 2006. Thesis: Function of MicroRNA-146a and NF-kB in Physiologic and Pathologic Hematopoiesis. DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING David Gregory Abrecht (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science) B.S. (Chemical Engineering), B.S. (Paper Science and Engineering), North Carolina State University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2011. Thesis: Thermodynamic Properties of Organometallic Dihydrogen Complexes for Hydrogen Storage Applications. Nathan Bruce Bennett (Chemistry) B.S., Brigham Young University 2008. Thesis: Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation: Insights, Application toward Cyclopentanoid and Cycloheptanoid Molecules, and the Total Synthesis of Several Daucane Sesquiterpenes. Yashodhan Bhawe (Chemical Engineering and Chemistry) B.S., University of California at Berkeley 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: I. Materials for Thermochemical Water Splitting II. Structure-Property Relations for the Zeolite Catalyzed Conversion of Methanol to Light Olefins. 26 218780 CALTECH-body_R1.indd 26 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Nicholas Boekelheide (Chemistry) B.S., Carleton College 2004. Thesis: Quantum Simulation of Enzyme Catalysis. Justin William Chartron (Biochemistry and Molecular Biopbysics) B.S., University of California, San Diego 2006. Thesis: The Structure of a Transmembrane Protein Sorting Complex. Pedro de Souza Leão Coelho (Chemistry) M.Chem., Oxford University 2008. Thesis: Olefin Cyclopropanation and Carbon-Hydrogen Amination via Carbene and Nitrene Transfers Catalyzed by Engineered Cytochrome P450 Enzymes. Jill Suzanne Craven (Chemical Engineering) B.S., University of Arizona 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Studies of Ambient and Chamber Aerosol Composition Using the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer. Christopher Scot Daeffer (Chemistry) B.S., Cornell University 2006. Thesis: Ring-Opening Metathesis of Bulky Norbornene Monomers and the Radical-mediated Hydrophosphonation of Olefins. Leopold Daniel d'Espaux (Chemical Engineering and Biology) B.S. Cornell University 2005; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2007. Thesis: Synthetic Regulation of Eukaryotic Gene Expression by Noncoding RNA. Nicole Danielle Bouley Ford (Chemistry) B.S., Trinity University 2007. Thesis: Capturing Protein Dynamics with Time-resolved Luminescence Spectroscopy. Alexander F. G. Goldberg (Chemistry) B.Sc., Queen's University 2008. Thesis: Synthetic Applications and Methodological Developments of Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes. Han Han (Chemical Engineering and Chemistry) B.S., The University of Melbourne 2007. Thesis: Development of Targeted, Polymeric Delivery Vehicles for Camptothesin and siRNA via Boronic Acid-Diol Complexation. Lisa Marie Hochrein (Chemical Engineering and Biology) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 2004; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Towards Conditional RNAi: Shape and Sequence Transduction with Small Conditional RNAs. Nicholas Jeffrey Hoh (Chemical Engineering) B.S., Cornell University 2008. Thesis: Effects of Particle Size Ratio on Single Particle Motion in Colloidal Dispersions. Allen Yu Hong (Chemistry) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 2006. Thesis: Development of a Novel Ring Contraction Strategy and Application to the Total Synthesis of Presilphiperfolanol Natural Products. 27 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 27 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Kiwook Hwang (Chemistry) B.S., Seoul National University 2007. Thesis: Biotechnologies for Cancer Diagnostics: Cell Sorting, Protein Analysis and Imaging of Cellular Metabolism. Benjamin Keith Keitz (Chemistry) B.S., The University of Texas at Austin 2007. Thesis: Selectivity in Ruthenium Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis: Applications and Origins. Gretchen Eva Keller (Chemistry) A.A., Santa Barbara City College 2002; B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara 2005. Thesis: Phototriggering Nitric Oxide Synthase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus. Matthew James Kelley (Chemistry) B.S., John Carroll University 2004. Thesis: Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy of Amino Acids and Sugars. Chithra Krishnamurthy (Chemistry) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 2006. Thesis: Developing Chemical Probes to Study Fucosylated Glycans. Chethana Kulkarni (Chemistry) B.S., Stanford University 2006. Thesis: Selective Functionalization of the Protein N-Terminus with N-Myristoyl Transferase in Bacteria. Zuleikha Kurji (Chemistry) B.A., Cornell University 2003. Thesis: Molecular Design of Side-Group Liquid Crystal Polymers: Understanding Their Interactions with Small-Molecule Liquid Crystal Solvent. Benjamin Chun Yeung Li (Chemistry) B.A., Columbia University 2007. Thesis: Synthesis and Biological Studies of DNA-binding Cyclic Py-Im Polyamides. Walrati Limapichat (Chemistry) Sc.B., Brown University 2005. Thesis: Probing the Roles of Receptor Structure, Drug-Receptor Interactions, and Receptor Crosstalk in Ligand-Gated Ion Channel Function. Christine Lauren Loza (Chemical Engineering and Environmental Science and Engineering) B.S., University of Notre Dame 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Investigations of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in Laboratory Chambers. Heather Catherine McCaig (Chemistry) B.S., Oregon State University 2004; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2007. Thesis: Resonant Nanocantilever Chemical Vapor Sensors. James Robert McKone (Chemistry) B.A., Saint Olaf College 2008. Thesis: Earth-Abundant Materials for Solar Hydrogen Generation. David Church Montgomery (Chemistry) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 2007. Thesis: Improving the Biological Activity of Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamides. Matthew Michaels Moore (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) B.S., University of California, San Diego 2006. Thesis: Applications of Computational Protein Design to Red Fluorescent Proteins. 28 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 28 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Natalie Bloom Muren (Chemistry) B.A., Willamette University 2006. Thesis: DNA-mediated Charge Transport for Long-range Sensing and Protein Detection. Arundhati Nag (Chemistry) B.S., University of Calcutta 2004; M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 2006. Thesis: Developing Peptide Based Capture Agents for Diagnostics and Therapeutics. Roger Rauhauser Nani (Chemistry) B.S., Boston College 2006. Thesis: The Intramolecular Buchner Reaction of a-Diazo-B-Ketonitriles: Development and Application to the Total Synthesis of (+)-Salvileucalin B. Hosea Martin Nelson (Chemistry) B.S., City College of San Francisco 2004. Thesis: A Unified Synthetic Approach to the Transtaganolide and Basiliolide Natural Products. Thang Xuan Nguyen (Chemistry) B.S., University of California, Irvine 2007. Thesis: A Study of Protein Targeting Reveals Insights into Mitigating Protein Aggregation. Young In Oh (Chemistry) B.S., The University of Chicago 2006. Thesis: Synthesis and Biological Activity of Anticoagulant Heparan Sulfate Glycopolymers. Claude Joseph Rogers (Chemistry) B.S., University of California, Davis 2003. Thesis: Discovery of New Roles for Chondroitin Sulfate in Neurotrophin Signaling and Retinotopic Development. Elizabeth Anne Santori (Chemistry) B.S., The University of Chicago 2007. Thesis: Si Microwire Array Photoanodes for Artificial Photosynthetic Devices. Kuang Shen (Chemistry) B.S., University of Science and Technology of China 2007. Thesis: Novel Roles of the SRP RNA in Co-Translational Protein Targeting. Daniel Leif Migdow Suess (Chemistry) B.A., Williams College 2007. Thesis: Reactions of Small Molecules Facilitated by Metal-Acceptor Interactions. Christina Lei Ting (Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics) B.S., The University of Texas at Austin 2007. Thesis: A Novel Method for Studying Nucleated Pathways in Membranes: Development and Applications for Gene Delivery. Frank Truong (Chemical Engineering) B.S., University of Houston 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Expanding Protein Sequence Space through Incorporation of Non-Canonical Amino Acids. Matthew Martin Van Wingerden (Chemistry) B.S., University of Washington 2007. Thesis: Improving the Efficiency of Ruthenium-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis with Solid-Supported Catalysts, Microfluidic Reactors, and Novel X-type Ligands. 29 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 29 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Emily Lowell Warren (Chemical Engineering) B.S., Cornell University 2005; M.Phil., University of Cambridge 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Silicon Microwire Arrays for Photoelectrochemical and Photovoltaic Applications. Arif Wibowo (Chemistry) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 2006. Thesis: Identification of Fucose a(1-2) Galactose Binding Proteins in the Mammalian Brain. Devin Thomas Wiley (Chemical Engineering) B.S., University of Arizona 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2011. Thesis: Design of Nanoparticles that Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier by Receptor Mediated Transcytosis. Heather R. Williamson (Chemistry) B.S., University of Alabama 2006. Thesis: Engineering Multi Step Electron Tunneling Systems in Proteins. Matthew Steven Winston (Chemistry) A.B., Harvard College 2007. Thesis: Chemistry of PNP Bis(phosphide) Pincer Ligands -and- PalladiumII) Dimers as Robust, Versatile Precatalysts for Olefin Isomerization, Oligomerization, and Oxidation. Bin Zhang (Chemistry) B.S., University of Science and Technology of China 2007. Thesis: Sec-facilitated Protein Translocation and Membrane Integration. DIVISION OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES Ahmed Halid Akgiray (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Cornell University 2005; M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2007. Thesis: New Technologies Driving Decade-Bandwidth Radio Astronomy: Quad-ridged Flared Horn and Compound-Semiconductor LNAs. Adrianus Indrat Aria (Aeronautics) B.S., Bandung Institute of Technology 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Control of Wettability of Carbon Nanotube Array by Reversible Dry Oxidation for Superhydrophobic Coating and Supercapacitor Applications. Hesham Azizgolshani (Bioengineering) B.S., University of California, Los Angeles 2006. Thesis: Tissue Engineering Active Biological Machines: Bio-Inspired Design, Directed Self-Assembly, and Characterization of Muscular Pumps Simulating the Embryonic Heart. Jean-Loup Bourguignon (Aeronautics) Ingénieur Civil Physicien, Université de Liége 2007; Ingénieur, Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Models of Turbulent Pipe Flow. 30 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 30 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Stanley P. Burgos (Applied Physics) B.S., California Institute of Technology 2008; M.S., 2012. Thesis: Coupled Plasmonic Systems and Devices: Applications in Visible Metamaterials, Nanophotonic Circuits, and CMOS Imaging. Andrea Censi (Control and Dynamical Systems) Laurea, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza" 2005; Laurea Specialistica 2007. Thesis: Bootstrapping Vehicles: A Formal Approach to Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning Based on Invariance. Fiona Adriani Chandra (Bioengineering) B.S., University of California, Los Angeles 2005. Thesis: Limits and Tradeoffs in the Control of Autocatalytic Systems. Tong Chen (Applied Physics) B.S. (Physics), B.S. (Statistics), Peking University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Ultralow-Loss Silica Resonators and Waveguides on a Silicon Chip. Mulin Cheng (Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.S., Peking University 2002; M.S., 2005; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Adaptive Methods Exploring Intrinsic Sparse Structures of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations. Keenan Michael Crane (Computer Science) B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Conformal Geometry Processing. Nadine L. Dabby (Computation and Neural Systems) B.A., University of California, Berkeley 2003. Thesis: Synthetic Molecular Machines for Active Self-Assembly: Prototype Algorithms, Designs, and Experimental Study. Jason Scott Damazo (Aeronautics) B.S., (Mathematics), B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Walla Walla College 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Planar Reflection of Gaseous Detonations. Davis Solomon Darvish (Materials Science) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Cu, O Substrates and Epitaxial Cu,O/ZnO Thin Film Heterostructures for Solar Energy Conversion. Michael Gardner Deceglie (Applied Physics) B.S., Dickinson College 2006; M. Phil., University of Queensland 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Advanced Silicon Solar Cell Device Physics and Design. 31 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 31 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Michael deLorimier (Computer Science) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 2002; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2005. Thesis: GRAph Parallel Actor Language: A Programming Language for Parallel Graph Algorithms. Theodoros Dikaliotis (Electrical Engineering) B.S., National Technical University of Athens 2004; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2006. Thesis: On Delay and Security in Network Coding. Julien Dubois (Computation and Neural Systems) M.S., Université Pierre et Marie Curie 2005. Thesis: Studying Conscious and Unconscious Vision with fMRI: the BOLD Promise. Tim Elling (Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.S., California Institute of Technology 2002. Thesis: GPU-Accelerated Fourier-Continuation Solvers and Physically Exact Computational Boundary Conditions for Wave Scattering Problems. Michael John Elzinga (Mechanical Engineering) A.B., B.S., Lafayette College 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Flight Dynamics in Drosophila through a Dynamically-scaled Robotic Approach. Glenn Robert Garrett (Materials Science) B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology 2005; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2013. Thesis: Study of the Origins of Toughness in Amorphous Metals. Eleftherios E. Gdoutos (Aeronautics) B.S. (Computer Science), B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Northwestern University 2009; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Thin Metastructures with Engineered Thermal Expansion. Ha Thanh Giang (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., Vietnam National University 2004; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2007. Thesis: Coupled Effects of Mechanics, Geometry, and Chemistry on Bio-membrane Behavior. Alex Gittens (Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.S., University of Houston 2006. Thesis: Topics in Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra. Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan (Computer Science) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Characterizing Distribution Rules for Cost Sharing Games. Gregory S. Griffin (Computation and Neural Systems) A.B., Princeton University 1992. Thesis: Learning and Using Taxonomies for Visual and Olfactory Classification. Paul Hebert (Mechanical Engineering) B.E., McGill University 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2007. Thesis: Estimation and Inference for Grasping and Manipulation Tasks Using Vision and Kinesthetic Sensors. 32 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 32 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Jeffrey Thomas Hill (Applied Physics) B.A.Sc., University of Waterloo 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2012. Thesis: Nonlinear Optics and Wavelength Translation via Cavity-Optomechanics. Meisam Honarvar Nazari (Electrical Engineering) B.Sc., University of Tehran 2006; M.S., M.A.Sc., University of Toronto 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Electrical and Optical Interconnects for High-Performance Computing. Ting Hong (Applied Physics) B.S., Nanjing University 2002; M.S., Chinese Academy of Sciences 2005; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2007. Thesis: Brownian Thermal Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors and Single Photon Optomechanics. Ayako Ikeda (Materials Science) B.E., Kyoto University 1999; M.E., 2001. Thesis: Superprotonic Solid Acids: Thermochemistry, Structure, and Conductivity. lan Jacobi (Aeronautics) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Structure of the Turbulent Boundary Layer under Static and Dynamic Impulsive Roughness Perturbation. Min Seok Jang (Applied Physics and Physics) B.S., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Plasmonics and Electron Optics in Graphene. Gwendolyn Brook Johnson (Aeronautics) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Modeling, Simulation, and Design of Self-Assembling Space Systems: Accurate Collision Detection, Robust Time Integration, and Optimal Control. Justin Young-Hyun Kim (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Korea University 1999; M.S., 2001; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2007. Thesis: Parylene-Cas a New Piezoelectric Material. Ka Wai Kwok (Aeronautics) B.S., Lehigh University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Mechanics of Viscoelastic Thin-Walled Structures. Andrew Jay Leenheer (Materials Science) B.S., Colorado School of Mines 2005; M.S., 2007. Thesis: Light to Electrons to Bonds: Imaging Water Splitting and Collecting Photoexcited Electrons. Andrea Beth Leonard (Applied Mechanics) B.S., Montana State University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Controlling Wave Propagation through Nonlinear Engineered Granular Systems. 33 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 33 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Derek Leong (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Carnegie Mellon University 2005; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: On Erasure Coding for Distributed Storage and Streaming Communications. Jiang Li (Applied Physics) B.S., Peking University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2012. Thesis: Nonlinear Optics in Planar Silica-on-Silicon Disk Resonators. Na (Lina) Li (Control and Dynamical Systems) B.S., Zhejiang University 2007. Thesis: Distributed Optimization in Power Networks and General Multi-agent Systems. Minghong Lin (Computer Science) B.E., University of Science and Technology of China 2006; M.Phil., The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2011. Thesis: Algorithmic Challenges in Green Data Centers. Annie Hsin-Wen Liu (Computer Science) B.E., University of Washington 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Sensor Networks for Geospatial Event Detection - Theory and Applications. Chih-Hao Liu (Electrical Engineering) B.S., National Tsing Hua University 2003; M.S., National Taiwan University 2005; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2011. Thesis: Transceiver Designs and Analysis for LTI, LTV and Broadcast Channels - New Matrix Decompositions and Majorization Theory. Loh Rui Yan, Matthew (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Lafayette College 2004; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Dense, Efficient Chip-to-Chip Communication at the Extremes of Computing. Alejandro Lopez Ortega (Aeronautics) Ingeniero Aeronáutico, Universidad de Sevilla 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Simulation of Richtmyer-Meshkov Flows for Elastic-Plastic Solids in Planar and Converging Geometries Using an Eulerian Framework. Hareem Tariq Maune (Applied Physics) B.S., Florida Institute of Technology 2001; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2004. Thesis: Bandgap Tuning, Thermal Conductivity, and DNA Assisted Self-Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes. Michael B. McCoy (Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.S., The University of Texas at Austin 2007. Thesis: A Geometric Analysis of Convex Demixing. 34 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 34 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Nikil Mehta (Computer Science) Sc.B., Brown University 2003; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2006. Thesis: An Ultra-Low-Energy, Variation-Tolerant FPGA Architecture Using Component-Specific Mapping. Jonathan Michael Mihaly (Aeronautics) B.S., Syracuse University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Investigation of Hypervelocity Impact Phenomena Using Real-time Concurrent Diagnostics. Himanshu Mishra (Materials Science) B.Eng., Panjab University 2005; M.S., Purdue University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Proton Transfers at the Air-Water Interface. Robert Carlos Moeller (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., University of Southern California 1999; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2001. Thesis: Current Transport and Onset-Related Phenomena in an MPD Thruster Modified by Applied Magnetic Fields. Jorge Alberto Muñoz Jr. (Materials Science) B.S., The University of Texas at El Paso 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Electronic Structure and Phonon Thermodynamics of Iron Alloys. Jacob K. Notbohm (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Dynamics of Cell-Matrix Mechanical Interactions in Three Dimensions. Clara O'Farrell (Control and Dynamical Systems and Aeronautics) B.E., Princeton University 2008. Thesis: A Dynamical Systems Analysis of Vortex Pinch-Off. Tae-Sik Oh (Materials Science) B.S., Seoul National University 2004; M.S., 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Electrical, Electrochemical and Optical Characterization of Ceria Films. Niema Mohammed Pahlevan (Bioengineering) B.S., University of Tehran 2001; M.S., California State University, Northridge 2007. Thesis: A Systems Approach to Cardiovascular Health and Disease with a Focus on Aortic Wave Dynamics. Piya Pal (Electrical Engineering) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: New Directions in Sparse Sampling and Estimation for Underdetermined Systems. 35 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 35 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Shuo Pang (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Tsinghua University 2006; M.S., Texas A&M University 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2013. Thesis: Fluorescence Optofluidic Microscopy and Fluorescence Microscopy Based on the Talbot Effect. Chatr Panithipongwut (Materials Science) B.S., Chulalongkorn University 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Phase Behavior of Complex Superprotonic Solid Acids. Nicholaus J. Parziale (Aeronautics) B.S., State University of New York, Binghamton 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Slender-Body Hypervelocity Boundary-Layer Instability. Bharat Prasad Penmecha (Mechanical Engineering) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Fracture of Materials Undergoing Solid-Solid Phase Transformation. Gregory Schoelerman Pomrehn (Materials Science) B.S., Harvey Mudd College 2004; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Phase Stability and Defect Behavior in Complex Thermoelectric Zinc-Antimonides. Jian Ren (Electrical Engineering) B.E., Tsinghua University 2001. Thesis: Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography: Design and Application. Andrew Walter Richards (Mechanical Engineering) B.S., Michigan Technological University 2005; M.S., 2007. Thesis: Interplay of Martensitic Phase Transformation and Plastic Slip in Polycrystals. Damon Stuart Russell (Electrical Engineering) B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara 1995. Thesis: Technology Advances for Radio Astronomy. Amir H. Safavi-Naeini (Applied Physics) B.A.Sc., University of Waterloo 2008. Thesis: Quantum Optomechanics with Silicon Nanostructures. Christos Theodoros Santis (Electrical Engineering) Diploma, National Technical University of Athens 2005; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: High-Coherence Hybrid Si/III-V Semiconductor Lasers. Joseph Malcolm Schaeffer (Computer Science) B.S., California Institute of Technology 2003; M.S., 2012. Thesis: Stochastic Simulation of the Kinetics of Multiple Interacting DNA Strands. Jacob Benjamin Sendowski (Electrical Engineering) B.S., University of California, San Diego 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: On-chip Integrated Label-Free Optical Biosensing. 36 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 36 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Wendian Shi (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Peking University 2004; M.S., 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Blood Cell Count On-a-Chip. Matthew Alexander Smith (Bioengineering) B.S., Oxford University 2008. Thesis: Non-Contiguous Protein Recombination. Somayeh Sojoudi (Control and Dynamical Systems) B.S., Shahed University 2005; M.S., Concordia University 2008. Thesis: Mathematical Study of Complex Networks: Brain, Internet, and Power Grid. Surendra Nadh Somala (Civil Engineering) B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Source Imaging with Dense Sensor Networks: Inversions Based on Adjoint Methods. Nicholas P. Stadie (Materials Science) B.S., Arizona State University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Synthesis and Thermodynamic Studies of Physisorptive Energy Storage Materials. Jonathan Ben-Zion Sternberg (Bioengineering) B.S., University of California, Berkeley 2006. Thesis: Signal Transduction with Hybridization Chain Reactions. Peter Stobbe (Applied and Computational Mathematics) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1999. Thesis: Convex Analysis for Minimizing and Learning Submodular Set Functions. Ivan Michel Nicolas Szelengowicz (Aeronautics) Diplóme d'Ingénieur, École Polytechnique 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Analysis and Optimization of Stress Wave Propagation in Two-Dimensional Granular Crystals with Defects. Sina Tootoonian (Computation and Neural Systems) B.A., B.S., The University of British Columbia 2006. Thesis: On the Analysis and Design of the Locust Olfactory System. Peter Trautman (Control and Dynamical Systems) B.S., Baylor University 2000. Thesis: Robot Navigation in Dense Crowds: Statistical Models and Experimental Studies of Human Robot Cooperation. Daniel B. Turner-Evans (Applied Physics) B.S., Yale University 2008. Thesis: Wire Array Photovoltaics. Aron Varga (Materials Science) M.S., University of Cambridge 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Advancing Electrocatalysis for Solid Acid Fuel Cells. 37 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 37 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Arseny Vasilyev (Applied Physics) B.S., University of California, Davis 2007. Thesis: The Optoelectronic Swept-Frequency Laser and Its Application in Ranging, Three-dimensional Imaging, and Coherent Beam Combining of Chirped-seed Amplifiers. Ying Min Wang (Bioengineering) B.S.E., Duke University 2006. Thesis: Deep Tissue Fluorescence Imaging with Time-Reversed Light. Zhiying Wang (Electrical Engineering) B.E., Tsinghua University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Coding for Information Storage. Peter Thomas Weir (Computation and Neural Systems) B.A., University of California, Berkeley 2004. Thesis: Polarization-based Navigation in Drosophila. Robert Wells Whittlesey (Aeronautics) B.S. (Aeronautical Engineering), B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Illinois Institute of Technology 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Dynamics and Scaling of Self-Excited Passive Vortex Generators for Underwater Propulsion. Sungwook Woo (Bioengineering) B.S., Pohang University of Science and Technology 2007; M.S., 2007. Thesis: Beyond Watson and Crick: Programming the Self-Assembly and Reconfiguration of DNA Nanostructures Based on Stacking Interactions. Indira Wu (Bioengineering) B.S., Columbia University 2006. Thesis: Engineering Thermostable Fungal Cellobiohydrolases. Huan Xu (Mechanical Engineering) S.B., Harvard College 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Design, Specification, and Synthesis of Aircraft Electric Power Systems Control Logic. Guoan Zheng (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Zhejiang University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Innovations in Imaging System Design: Gigapixel, Chip-Scale and Multi-Functional Microscopy. Hongchao Zhou (Electrical Engineering) B.S., Tsinghua University 2006; M.S., 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Randomness and Noise in Information Systems. 38 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 38 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL AND PLANETARY SCIENCES Thomas J. Ader (Geophysics) M.S., Ecole Polytechnique 2007; M.S., Paul Sabatier University 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2011. Thesis: Earthquakes of the Nepal Himalaya: Towards a Physical Model of the Seismic Cycle. Kristin Diane Bergmann (Geology) B.A., Carleton College 2004; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2011. Thesis: Constraints on the Carbon Cycle and Climate during the Early Evolution of Animals. Melanie Beth Channon (Geochemistry) B.S., Arizona State University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Oxygen Isotopes and Volatiles in Martian Meteorites. Steven Michael Chemtob (Geochemistry) B.A., Washington University 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: The Origin and Evolution of Amorphous Silica Coatings on Young Hawaiian Basalts. Yi-Chun Chen (Environmental Science and Engineering) B.S., National Taiwan University 2006. Thesis: Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds. Anne Elizabeth Dekas (Geobiology) A.B., Harvard College 2004. Thesis: Diazotrophy in the Deep: An Analysis of the Distribution, Magnitude, Geochemical Controls, and Biological Mediators of Deep-Sea Benthic Nitrogen Fixation. Lauren Ashley Edgar (Geology) B.A., Dartmouth College 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Identifying and Interpreting Stratification in Sedimentary Rocks on Mars: Insight from Rover and Orbital Observations and Terrestrial Field Analogs. Emily A. Hamecher (Geology) B.A., Humboldt State University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Studies of the Equation of State and Elasticity of Mantle Materials. Xavier J. Levine (Environmental Science and Engineering) B.A., The University of Chicago 2006. Thesis: Dynamics of Earth's Hadley Circulation. King-Fai Li (Environmental Science and Engineering) B.S., The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2004; M.Phil., 2006. Thesis: Atmospheric Trace Gases as Probes of Chemistry and Dynamics. Yunung Nina Lin (Geology) B.A., National Taiwan University 2003; M.S., 2005; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2013. Thesis: Using Space Geodesy to Constrain Variations in Seismogenic Behavior on Subduction Megathrusts. 39 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 39 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Michael Robert Line (Planetary Science) B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Characterization of Exoplanet Atmospheres: Spectral Retrieval and Chemistry. Lingsen Meng (Geophysics) B.S., Nanjing University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Navigating Earthquake Physics with High-Resolution Array Back-Projection. Francisco Hernan Ortega Culaciati (Geophysics and Computational Science and Engineering) B.Sc., Universidad de Chile 2005; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Aseismic Deformation in Subduction Megathrusts: Central Andes and North-East Japan. Magdalena Rose Osburn (Geobiology) B.A., Washington University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Isotopic Proxies for Microbial and Environmental Change: Insights from Hydrogen Isotopes and the Ediacaran Khufai Formation. Belle Philibosian (Geology) B.S., California Institute of Technology 2005; M.S., University of Oregon 2007. Thesis: Characterization of Diverse Megathrust Fault Behavior Related to Seismic Supercycles, Mentawai Islands, Sumatra. Kristin Phillips-Alonge (Geophysics) B.S., University of California, San Diego 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Structure of the Subduction System in Southern Peru from Seismic Array Data. Steven Michael Skinner (Geology) B.A., B.S., University of California, Los Angeles 2006. Thesis: Plate Tectonic Constraints on Flat Subduction and Paleomagnetic Constraints on Rifting. Claire Waller Thomas (Geology) B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2011. Thesis: Liquid Silicate Equation of State: Using Shock Waves to Understand the Properties of the Deep Earth. Jeffrey Muir Thompson (Geophysics and Civil Engineering) B.S., University of Southern California 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: The Short-Timescale Behavior of Glacial Ice. Yu Wang (Geology) B.S., National Taiwan University 2001; M.S., 2002. Thesis: Earthquake Geology of Myanmar. June Ki Wicks (Geochemistry) B.S., California Institute of Technology 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Sound Velocities and Equation of State of Iron-Rich (Mg, Fe)O. 40 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 40 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Nneka Njeri Akosua Williams (Geology and Geopbysics) A.B., M.A., Harvard College 2003. Thesis: Defining the Relationship between Seismicity and Deformation at Regional and Local Scales. Aaron S. Wolf (Planetary Science) B.S. (Earth Sciences), B.S. (Physics), University of California, Santa Cruz 2005; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Probing the Thermodynamic Properties of Mantle Rocks in Solid and Liquid States. Lindsay Diana Yee (Environmental Science and Engineering) B.S., University of California, Riverside 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Chemistry of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation. Xi Zhang (Planetary Science) B.S., Peking University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Aerosols and Chemistry in the Planetary Atmospheres. DIVISION OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Dustin Beckett (Social Science) B.A., Claremont McKenna College 2004; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: An Economic Approach to Consumer Product Ratings. Luke Anthony Boosey (Social Science) B.S., The University of Queensland 2005. Thesis: Essays on Information, Competition, and Cooperation. Benjamin Bushong (Social Science) B.S., University of Oregon 2007. Thesis: Essays on Behavioral and Neuro-economics. Mürüvvet Ilknur Büyükboyaci Hanay (Social Science) B.S., Bilkent University 2005; M.A., Sabanci University 2007. Thesis: Essays on Contests, Coordination Games, and Matching. Peter William Foley (Social Science) B.S., California Institute of Technology 2006; M.S., 2010. Thesis: Four Essays on the Empirical Analysis of Political Ideology. Yutaka Kayaba (Social Science) B.A., University of Tokyo 2002; M.A., 2007. Thesis: Essays on Learning and Econometrics. Emerson Cristian Melo Sanchez (Social Science) B.S., Universidad de Chile 2005; M.S., 2006. Thesis: Essays on Economic Networks. Guilherme Pereira De Freitas (Social Science) B.S., Universidade de Brasilia 2004; M.Sc., Intituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada 2007. Thesis: Essays on Mechanism Design. Nilanjan Roy (Social Science) B.Sc., Presidency College, University of Calcutta 2006; M.S., Indian Statistical Institute 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Essays on Cooperation and Reciprocity. 41 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Thomas Gorden Ruchti (Social Science) B.S., Ohio University 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Markets and Microstructure. John Andrew Sinclair (Social Science) B.A., Claremont McKenna College 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Of Primary Importance: American Primary Elections 1945 - 2012. DIVISION OF PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY Randol Wallace Aikin (Physics) B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder 2006. Thesis: Testing Inflationary Cosmology with the BICEP1 and BICEP2 Experiments. Daniel James Alton (Physics) B.Sc., University of Western Australia 2005; B.Sc., Australian National University 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2012. Thesis: Interacting Single Atoms with Nanophotonics for Chip-Integrated Quantum Networks. Padraic James Bartlett (Mathematics) B.A., The University of Chicago 2008. Thesis: Completing €-dense Partial Latin Squares. Peter Bernard Brooks (Physics) B.S., Stanford University 2007. Thesis: Quantum Error Correction with Biased Noise. Branimir Josip Cacic (Mathematics) B.Sc., University of Toronto 2007. Thesis: On Reconstruction Theorems in Noncommutative Riemannian Geometry. Sha Chang (Mathematics) B.S., Nanjing University 2007. Thesis: Hele-Shaw Flow Near Cusp Singularities. Nicole Gisela Czakon (Physics) B.S. Duke University 2004. Thesis: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Observations Using Large-Format Millimeter Arrays. Kevin T. Engel (Physics) B.A., B.S.E., Case Western Reserve University 2007. Thesis: Charged Pion Contribution to the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon. Vera Gluscevic (Astrophysics) B.Sc., University of Belgrade 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: CMB as a Probe of New Physics and Old Times. Jeongwan Haah (Physics) B.S., Seoul National University 2008. Thesis: Lattice Quantum Codes and Exotic Topological Phases of Matter. Kevin Peter Hickerson (Physics) B.S., California Institute of Technology 2002; M.S., 2011. Thesis: The Physics of Ultracold Neutrons and Fierz Interference in Beta Decay. Jingjing Huang (Mathematics and Electrical Engineering) B.A., Brandeis University 2007. Thesis: Determinantal Hypersurface from a Geometric Perspective. 42 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 42 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Shankar lyer (Physics) A.B., Princeton University 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2011. Thesis: The Interplay of Localization and Interactions in Quantum Many-Body Systems. Tucker Jones (Astrophysics) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Detailed Properties of High Redshift Galaxies. Scott Ian Kelber (Physics) B.A. (Economics), B.A. (Physics), The University of Chicago 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2013. Thesis: Single-Particle Mass Spectrometry and Inertial Imaging with Nanomechanical Systems. Isaac Hyun Kim (Physics) S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007. Thesis: Conditional Independence in Quantum Many-Body Systems. David Benjamin Levitan (Physics) B.A., Cornell University 2006. Thesis: Finding Needles in the Haystack: A Search for AM CVn Systems with the Palomar Transient Factory. Xerxes F. López-Yglesias (Physics) B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara 2002; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2005. Thesis: Physical Investigations of Small Particles: (I) Aerosol Particle Charging and Flux Enhancement and (II) Whispering Gallery Mode Sensing. Chao Ma (Physics) B.S., Beijing Institute of Technology 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2010. Thesis: Single Cell Proteomics Microchip to Profile Immune Function, with Applications in Stem Cell Biology, Translational Disease Mechanism Study and Clinical Therapeutics Monitoring. Walter Kennerth Max-Moerbeck Astudillo (Astrophysics) Lic. Cs. Astronomía, Lic. Cs. Ing. Electrica, Universidad de Chile 2004; Ing. Civil Eléctrica, 2005; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: The Relationship between the Radio and Gamma-Ray Emission of Blazars. Andrew Burch Newman (Astrophysics) B.A., Washington University in St. Louis 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Dark Matter and the Assembly History of Massive Galaxies and Clusters. Gregory H. Ogin (Pbysics) B.A., B.S., B.S.E.E., University of St. Thomas 2004. Thesis: Measurement of Thero-Optic Properties of Thin Film Dielectric Coatings. Piti Ongmongkolkul (Physics) B.S., Carnegie Mellon University 2006. Thesis: Measurement of Direct CP Asymmetry in b→sy via Sum of Exclusive B Meson Decays Using the BABAR Detector. 43 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 43 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Laura María Pérez Muñoz (Astrophysics) B.S., Universidad de Chile 2005; M.S., 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2008. Thesis: Grain Growth in Protoplanetary Disks. Laura Rebecca Rynne Peskin (Mathematics) B.A., Columbia University 2008. Thesis: Ordinary Mod p Representations of the Metaplectic Cover of p-adic SL Christopher S. Rogan (Physics) A.B., Princeton University 2006; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Searches for New Symmetries in pp Collisions with the Razor Kinematic Variables at Vs = 7 TeV. Gwen Charlena Rudie (Astrophysics) B.A., Dartmouth College 2007; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: The Intergalactic and Circumgalactic Medium Surrounding Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts 2<Z<3. Kevin Luke Setter (Physics) B.A., Swarthmore College 2002. Thesis: Topological Quantum Field Theory and the Geometric Langlands Correspondence. Paul Michael Skerritt (Physics) B.Sc., University College Dublin 1997; M.Sc., 1998; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2000. Thesis: Geometric Quantization and Foliation Reduction. Marcus Lawrence Teague (Physics) B.S., Texas A&M University 2003. Thesis: Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopic Studies on High-Temperature Superconductors and Dirac Materials. Kevin Kai-Wen Teh (Mathematics) B.A.Sc., University of Toronto 2007; M.Sc., 2008. Thesis: Dirac Spectra, Summation Formulae, and the Spectral Action. Vladlen Timciuc (Physics) B.S., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology 2003; M.S., 2005; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Search for Heavy Neutral Resonances in the Dielectron Channel with the CMS Detector at the LHC. Hei Man Tsang (Physics) B.Sc., University of Hong Kong 2005; M.Phil., 2007. Thesis: Discovery of Non-Zero Neutrino Mixing Angle 0,3 Using Daya Bay Antineutrino Detectors. Chien-Yao Tseng (Physics) B.S., National Taiwan University 2004; M.S., 2005. Thesis: Deviation from Standard Inflationary Cosmology and the Problems in Ekpyrosis. Robin Daniel Tucker-Drob (Mathematics) B.S., Tulane University 2008. Thesis: Descriptive Set Theory and the Ergodic Theory of Countable Groups. 44 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 44 6/12/13 Doctor of Philosophy continued Michel van Garrel (Mathematics) B.S., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 2006; M.S., 2008. Thesis: Relative Mirror Symmetry and Ramifications of a Formula for Gromov-Witten Invariants. Jan Veverka (Physics) Ing., Institute of Chemical Technology 2001; Dipl. Phys., Rheinisch-Westfällische Technische Hochschule Aachen 2005; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Studies of Zgamma Production and Constraints on Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings in pp Collisions at Vs = 7 TeV. Christopher Wegg (Physics) M.S., University College London 2003. Thesis: The Dynamics of White Dwarfs, Black Holes and Stellar Cusps. Wong, Wing Hong Tony (Mathematics) B.S., The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2008; B.S., University of California, Berkeley 2008. Thesis: Diagonal Forms, Linear Algebraic Methods and Ramsey-type Problems. Huan Yang (Physics) B.S., California Institute of Technology 2007. Thesis: Topics in Gravitational-Wave Science: Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics and Black Hole Physics. Yong Yang (Physics) B.S., University of Science and Technology of China 2005; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2009. Thesis: Search for a Standard Model Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Photons in CMS at the LHC. Aaron Benjamin Zimmerman (Physics) B.S., The University of New Mexico 2008; M.S., California Institute of Technology 2012. Thesis: Topics in Black Hole Perturbation Theory and the Visualization of Curved Spacetime. 45 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 45 6/12/13 PRIZES AND AWARDS Prizes and awards are listed only for those students receiving degrees in 2013, and include prizes and awards received by them in previous years. FREDERIC W. HINRICHS, JR., MEMORIAL AWARD Awarded to the seniors who, in the opinion of the undergraduate deans, have made the greatest undergraduate contribution to the welfare of the student body and whose qualities of leadership, character, and responsibility have been outstanding. 2013 Avin Daniel Andrade, Juan Diego Caporale MABEL BECKMAN PRIZE Awarded to an undergraduate woman upon completion of her junior or senior year in recognition of demonstrated academic and personal excellence, contributions to the Institute community, and outstanding qualities of character and leadership. 2013 Catherine Bingchan Xie GEORGE W. HOUSER AWARD Formerly the Sigma Xi Award, awarded to a senior selected for an outstanding piece of original scientific research. 2013 Andrew Joseph Zucker MILTON AND FRANCIS CLAUSER DOCTORAL PRIZE Awarded to the Ph.D. candidate whose research is judged to exhibit the greatest degree of originality as evidenced by its potential for opening up new avenues of human thought and endeavor as well as by the ingenuity with which it has been carried out. Name of recipient to be announced at commencement. The prizes above are announced at the commencement ceremony. 46 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 46 6/12/13 AXLINE MERIT SCHOLARSHIP Awarded to selected freshmen whose record of personal and academic accomplishment is judged outstanding among incoming freshmen. These scholarships are renewable, contingent on academic performance. 2007 Jessica Tsu-Yun Su 2008 Jessica Tsu-Yun Su 2010 Jessica Isu-Yun Su 2011 Jessica Tsu-Yun Su 2012 Jessica Tsu-Yun Su ADVOCATING CHANGE TOGETHER (ACT) AWARD The Caltech Y ACT Award allows students to learn about a global, national, or local issue by immersing themselves with activists working on a cause over the summer and then challenges them to educate others by creating and leading programs designed to raise awareness on campus the following year. 2012 Amol Deepak Kamat APOSTOL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING IN MATHEMATICS Named in honor of Tom Apostol, who was a great teacher at Caltech for over 50 years, the award recognizes excellence in teaching by our graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants. 2010 Wong, Wing Hong Tony 2011 Padraic James Bartlett, Kevin Kai-Wen Teh, Michel van Garrel 2012 Laura Rebecca Rynne Peskin 2013 Branimir Josip Cacié CHARLES D. BABCOCK AWARD Awarded, by vote of the aeronautics faculty, to a graduate student whose achievements in teaching or other assistance to students have made a significant contribution to the aeronautics department. 2009 Ian Jacobi 2010 Bharat Prasad Penmecha 47 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 47 6/12/13 ROBERT P. BALLES CALTECH MATHEMATICS SCHOLARS AWARD Awarded to the mathematics major entering his or her senior year who has demonstrated the most outstanding performance in mathematics courses completed in the student's first three years at Caltech. 2012 Ryan Thorngren WILLIAM F. BALLHAUS PRIZE Awarded to aeronautics students for outstanding doctoral dissertations. 2013 Adrianus Indrat Aria, Alejandro Lopez Ortega ERIC TEMPLE BELL UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS RESEARCH PRIZE Awarded to one or more juniors or seniors for outstanding original research in mathematics. 2013 Andrew Joseph Zucker BHANSALI PRIZE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Awarded to an undergraduate student for outstanding research in computer science in the current academic year. Awardees are selected by a committee of computer science faculty. (The award was established in 2001 by Vineer Bhansali (BS, MS 1987 Physics) in memory of his grandfather, Mag Raj Bhansali.) 2013 Eun Jee Lee RICHARD G. BREWER PRIZE IN PHYSICS Awarded to the freshman with the most interesting solutions to the Physics 11 "hurdles," in recognition of demonstrated intellectual promise and creativity at the very beginning of his or her Caltech education. 2010 Haoyang Ren ROLE D. BUHLER MEMORIAL AWARD IN AERONAUTICS Awarded to an aeronautics student for outstanding academic achievement in the Master's program. 2008 Jean-Loup Bourguignon, Jason Scott Damazo 2013 Remi Arthur Carmigniani 48 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 48 6/12/13 FRITZ B. BURNS PRIZE IN GEOLOGY Awarded to an undergraduate who has demonstrated both academic excellence and great promise of future contributions in the fields represented by the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. 2012 Kevin Michael Sutherland CALTECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SPIRIT AWARD Commemorates extraordinary activities by Caltech undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars who best exemplify the spirit, tradition, and values of Caltech. This Award is given only when the Association finds that exceptional activities have occurred which merit this special recognition. 2012 Raymond Christian Jimenez, Rebecca Jean Lawler, Sebastián Rojas Mata, Ryan Thorngren THE W. P. CAREY & CO., INC., PRIZE IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS Awarded to a student receiving a Doctor of Philosophy degree for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in applied mathematics or pure mathematics. 2013 Mulin Cheng, Michael B. McCoy CENTENNIAL PRIZE FOR THE BEST THESIS IN MECHANICAL AND CIVIL ENGINEERING Awarded each year to a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in applied mechanics, civil engineering, or mechanical engineering whose doctoral thesis is judged to be the most original and significant by a faculty committee appointed annually by the executive officer for mechanical and civil engineering. The prize consists of a citation and a cash award of $1,000 and was established with gifts from alumni following the Mechanical Engineering Centennial Celebration in 2007. 2013 Jacob K. Notbohm RICHARD BRUCE CHAPMAN MEMORIAL AWARD Awarded to a graduate student in hydrodynamics who has distinguished himself or herself in research in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science. 2013 lan Jacobi 49 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 49 6/12/13 DONALD S. CLARK MEMORIAL AWARD Awarded to two juniors in recognition of service to the campus community and academic excellence. Preference is given to students in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science and to those in Chemical Engineering. 2011 Avin Daniel Andrade, Matthew Kuenzli Fu THE DONALD COLES PRIZE IN AERONAUTICS Awarded to the graduating Ph.D. student in aeronautics whose thesis displays the best design of an experiment or the best design for a piece of experimental equipment. 2013 Ian Jacobi, Robert Wells Whittlesey DEANS' CUP AND STUDENT LIFE AND MASTER'S AWARDS Two awards, selected by the deans, the director of student life, and the master of student houses, presented to undergraduates whose concern for their fellow students has been demonstrated by persistent efforts to improve the quality of undergraduate life and by effective communication with members of the faculty and administration. 2012 Kristen Marie Holtz, Deans Cup 2013 Christopher Forrest Kolner, Deans' Cup Supriya Iyer, Student Life and Master's Stephanie Ya-Wen Kwan, Student Life and Master's Alan Joseph Menezes, Student Life and Master's Collin Michael Murphy, Student Life and Master's DEMETRIADES-TSAFKA-KOKKALIS PRIZE IN BIOTECHNOLOGY OR RELATED FIELDS Awarded annually to a Ph.D. candidate for the best thesis, publication, or discovery in biotechnology or related fields at the Institute in the preceding 12 months. Winners are selected by the bioengineering faculty. This prize is made possible by a gift from Anna Kokkalis Demetriades and Sterge T. Demetriades, Eng '58. 2011 Fiona Adriani Chandra 2013 Pedro de Souza Leao Coelho 50 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 50 6/12/13 DEMETRIADES-TSAFKA-KOKKALIS PRIZE IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP OR RELATED FIELDS Awarded annually for the best business plan or proposal, start-up, thesis, publication, discovery, or related efforts by students) in entrepreneurship or related fields at the Institute in the preceding 12 months. This prize is made possible by a gift from Anna Kokkalis Demetriades and Sterge T. Demetriades, Eng '58. 2013 Guoan Zheng DEMETRIADES-TSAFKA-KOKKALIS PRIZE IN ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES OR RELATED FIELDS Awarded annually to a Ph.D. candidate for the best thesis, publication, discovery, or related efforts in benign renewable energy sources or related fields at the Institute in the preceding 12 months. T'his prize is made possible by a gift trom Anna Kokkalis Demetriades and Sterge T. Demetriades, Eng '58. 2013 James Robert McKone DEMETRIADES TSAFKA-KOKKALIS PRIZE IN NANOTECHNOLOGY OR RELATED FIELDS Awarded annually to a Ph.D. candidate for the best thesis, publication, or discovery in nanotechnology or related fields at the Institute in the preceding 12 months. This prize is made possible by a gift from Anna Kokkalis Demetriades and Sterge T. Demetriades, Eng'58. 2013 Janna C. Nawroth CONSTANTIN G. ECONOMOU MEMORIAL PRIZE Awarded to a chemical engineering graduate student distinguished by outstanding research accomplishments and exemplary attitude while fulfilling candidacy requirements for the Ph.D. degree. 2009 Emily Lowell Warren 2012 Matthew Reed Shaner 51 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 51 6/12/13 EVERHART DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE STUDENT LECTURER AWARD Awarded to a graduate student who has demonstrated exemplary presentation ability and graduate research. 2012 Keenan Michael Crane, Adler R. Dillman, Janna C. Nawroth 2013 Elaine Yi-Nien Hsiao, James Robert McKone, Piya Pal DORIS EVERHART SERVICE AWARD Awarded annually to an undergraduate who has actively supported and willingly worked for organizations that enrich not only student life, but also the campus and/or community as a whole, and who has, in addition, exhibited care and concern for the welfare of students on a personal basis. The award was established in 1999 by Martin and Sally Ridge in honor of Doris Everhart. 2013 Nikita Sinha LAWRENCE L. AND AUDREY W. FERGUSON PRIZE Awarded to the graduating Ph.D. candidate in biology who has produced the outstanding doctoral thesis for the past year. 2013 Adler R. Dillman HENRY FORD II SCHOLAR AWARD Awarded either to the engineering student with the best academic record at the end of the third year of undergraduate study, or to the engineering student with the best first-year record in the graduate program. 2012 Judy Mou JACK E. FROEHLICH MEMORIAL AWARD Awarded to a junior in the upper 5 percent of his or her class who shows outstanding promise for a creative professional career. 2012 Matthew Zoccoli Mayers 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 52 6/12/13 GRADUATE DEANS' AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE Awarded to a Ph.D. candidate who, throughout his or her graduate years at the Institute, has made great contributions to graduate life and whose qualities of leadership and responsibility have been outstanding. 2013 Jill Suzanne Craven, Daniel B. Turner-Evans GEORGE W. AND BERNICE E. GREEN MEMORIAL PRIZE Awarded to the undergraduate student who, in the opinion of the division chairs, has shown outstanding ability and achievement in creative scholarship. 2013 Megan Nora Jackson DAVID M. GRETHER PRIZE IN SOCIAL SCIENCE Awarded to the undergraduate student who demonstrates outstanding performance and creativity in one of the social science options. Funded by Susan G. Davis in recognition of David M. Grether's contributions to econometrics and experimental economics and his service to the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the prize is awarded annually by a committee of social science faculty and carries a cash award of $500. 2013 Tong Lu THE LUCY GUERNSEY SERVICE AWARD Awarded to one or two students who have provided exceptional service to the Caltech Y and/or the community, are involved with service projects, have demonstrated leadership in community and volunteer service efforts, and who exemplify a spirit of service. 2013 Susan Elizabeth Liao, Eric B. Zhang ARIE J. HAAGEN-SMIT MEMORIAL AWARD Awarded to a sophomore or junior in biology or chemistry who has shown academic promise and who has made recognized contributions to Caltech. 2012 Megan Nora Jackson 53 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 53 6/12/13 ALEXANDER P. AND ADELAIDE F. HIXON PRIZE FOR WRITING Awarded annually in recognition of the best writing in freshman humanities courses. 2011 Michelle Esther Bobrow HANS G. HORNUNG PRIZE Awarded for the best oral Ph.D. defense presentation by a student advised by aerospace faculty. The decision is made by a committee of students who attend all thesis presentations for the year. 2013 Niema Mohammed Pahlevan BIBI JENTOFT-NILSEN MEMORIAL AWARD Awarded to an upperclass student who exhibits outstanding qualities of leadership and who actively contributes to the quality of student life at Caltech. 2012 Sebastián Rojas Mata 2013 Sarah Louise Wright SCOTT RUSSELL JOHNSON GRADUATE DISSERTATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS Awarded for the best graduate dissertation in mathematics. 2013 Laura Rebecca Rynne Peskin, Robin Daniel Tucker-Drob SCOTT RUSSELL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GRADUATE STUDY IN MATHEMATICS Awarded to continuing graduate students for excellence in one or more of the following: extraordinary progress in research, excellence in teaching, or excellent performance as a first-year graduate student. 2010 Padraic James Bartlett 2012 Robin Daniel Tucker-Drob 54 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 54 6/12/13 SCOTT RUSSELL JOHNSON UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS PRIZE Awarded for the best graduating mathematics major. Special consideration is given to independent research done as a senior thesis or SURF project. 2013 Ryan Thorngren SCOTT RUSSELL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GRADUATE TEACHING IN MATHEMATICS Awarded to continuing graduate students for excellence in teaching. 2012 Wong, Wing Hong Tony KALAM PRIZE FOR AEROSPACE ENGINEERING Awarded to a student in the aerospace engineering Master's program whose academic performance was exemplary and who shows high potential for future achievements at Caltech. This prize was made possible through the generosity of Dr. Abdul Kalam, the 11th president of India, himself an aerospace engineer. 2009 Alejandro Lopez Ortega 2013 Melanie Delapierre D. S. KOTHARI PRIZE IN PHYSICS Awarded to a graduating senior in physics who has produced an outstanding research project during the year. 2013 Rebecca Ann Wernis MARGIE LAURITSEN LEIGHTON PRIZE Awarded to one or two undergraduate women who are majoring in physics or astrophysics, and who have demonstrated academic excellence. 2011 Nina Budaeva THE LEMELSON-CALTECH STUDENT PRIZE Awarded through an annual competition to a senior or graduate student who has created or improved a product or process, applied a technology in a new way, redesigned a system, or in other ways demonstrated remarkable inventiveness. 2011 Guoan Zheng 55 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 55 6/12/13 LIBRARY FRIENDS' SENIOR THESIS PRIZE This prize was established in 2010 to recognize a senior thesis that exemplifies scholarly research, including the effective use of library resources and other bibliographic materials. A $1,200 cash award accompanies the citation. The senior thesis is an extensive, independent written work usually undertaken during a senior thesis course series. The University Librarian and the Friends of Caltech Libraries oversee the evaluation and nomination process and make recommendations to the Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee for final selection. At the discretion of the Friends of Caltech Libraries, more than one award, or none, may be made in any year. 2013 Karolina Z. Kalbarczyk MARI PETERSON LIGOCKI (81) MEMORIAL AWARD Awarded to a student who has improved the quality of student life at Caltech through his or her personal character. 2013 Vishnu Manoranjan DOROTHY B. AND HARRISON C. LINGLE SCHOLARSHIP Awarded to an incoming freshman in recognition of interest in a career in science or engineering, outstanding academic record, demonstrated fair-mindedness, and unquestioned integrity. This prize is renewable, contingent on academic performance. 2007 Jessica Tsu-Yun Su 2008 Jessica Isu-Lun Su 2010 Jessica Tsu-Yun Su 2011 Jessica Tsu-Yun Su 2012 Jessica Tsu-Yun Su 56 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 56 6/12/13 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AWARD Awarded to a candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering whose academic performance has demonstrated outstanding original thinking and creativity, as judged by a faculty committee appointed each year by the executive officer for mechanical engineering. The prize consists if a citation and a cash award 2013 Matthew Kuenzli Fu, Anum Jang Sher GORDON MCCLURE MEMORIAL COMMUNICATIONS PRIZE Awarded to undergraduate students for excellence in essay writing in three subjects: English, history, and philosophy. 2012 Nerissa Emmy Graetz Hoglen, Blaine Roger Matulevich 2013 Shayan Doroudi, Vishnu Manoranjan THE HERBERT NEWBY MCCOY AWARD Awarded to chemistry doctoral students for outstanding contributions to the science of chemistry. 2013 Pedro de Souza Leao Coelho, Benjamin Keith Keitz, Kuang Shen, Bin Zhang JAMES MICHELIN SCHOLARSHIP Given in memory of geologist James Michelin, who worked in the oil fields of Southern California in the 1930s and dreamed of returning to college at Caltech, this annual award recognizes undergraduate students for their contributions to the field of geology or geophysics. 2013 Kevin Michael Sutherland ROBERT L. NOLAND LEADERSHIP SCHOLARSHIP Awarded to undergraduate students who exhibit qualities of outstanding leadership, which are most often expressed as personal actions that have helped other people and that have inspired others to fulfill their capabilities. 2013 Matthew Kuenzli Fu, Sebastián Rojas Mata, Mario Victor Zubia 57 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 57 6/12/13 PRESIDENT'S SCHOLARS This scholarship, which is renewable contingent on academic performance, is awarded to selected freshmen to promote the breadth and diversity of the Caltech undergraduate student body. 2008 Marcus Aaron Lucas HERBERT J. RYSER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPS Awarded to undergraduate students for academic excellence, preferably in mathematics. 2012 Ryan Thorngren, Saraswathi Joy Venkatesh, Andrew Joseph Zucker 2013 Zhengyang Jiang SAN PIETRO TRAVEL PRIZE Awarded to one or more sophomore, junior, or senior to fund an adventurous and challenging summer travel experience that expands the recipient's cultural horizons and knowledge of the world. 2011 Mohit Tiwari 2012 Carly Mariah Bond, Catherine Bingchan Xie 2013 Chang Sub Kim, Melody Ann Morris, Geunwook Pack RICHARD P. SCHUSTER MEMORIAL PRIZE Awarded to one or more juniors or seniors in chemistry or chemical engineering on the basis of financial need and academic promise. 2013 Megan Nora Jackson, Matthew Zoccoli Mayers ELEANOR SEARLE PRIZE IN LAW, POLITICS, AND INSTITUTIONS The Eleanor Searle Prize was established in 1999 by friends and colleagues to honor Eleanor Searle. The prize is awarded annually to an undergraduate or graduate student whose work in history or the social sciences exemplifies Eleanor Searle's interests in the use of power, government, and law. 2013 Zeke Millikan 58 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 58 6/12/13 ERNEST E. SECHLER MEMORIAL AWARD IN AERONAUTICS Awarded to an aeronautics student who has made the most significant contribution to the teaching and research efforts of GALCIT (Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology). Preference is given to students working in structural mechanics. 2010 Jonathan Michael Mihaly 2011 Jason Scott Damazo 2012 Prakhar Mehrotra 2013 Nicholaus Joseph Parziale RENUKA D. SHARMA AWARD Awarded to a sophomore chemistry major for outstanding performance during his or her freshman year. 2011 Megan Nora Jackson 2012 Seohyun Kim DON SHEPARD AWARD Awarded to students who would find it difficult, without additional financial help, to engage in extracurricular and cultural activities. The recipients are selected on the basis of their capacity to take advantage of and to profit from these activities rather than on the basis of their scholastic standing. 2009 Geunwook Pack 2010 Blaine Roger Matulevich, Matthew Zoccoli Mayers 2012 Lucia Minjung Ahn, Timothy Meyer, HongAn Thuy Nguyen, Irene Chiyun Yang, Vivian Zhang 59 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 59 6/12/13 JOHN STAGER STEMPLE MEMORIAL PRIZE IN PHYSICS Awarded to a graduate student in physics for outstanding progress in research as demonstrated by an excellent performance on the oral Ph.D. candidacy examination. 2009 Christopher S. Rogan 2011 Piti Ongmongkolkul 2012 Kevin Thomas Engel, Jeongwan Haah MORGAN WARD PRIZE Awarded for the best problems and solutions in mathematics submitted by a freshman or sophomore. 2008 Gjergji Zaimi CHARLES AND ELLEN WILTS PRIZE Awarded to a graduate student for outstanding independent research in electrical engineering leading to a Ph.D. 2013 Hongchao Zhou FREDERICK J. ZEIGLER MEMORIAL AWARD Awarded to an outstanding sophomore or junior in pure applied mathematics, for excellence in scholarship as demonstrated in class activities or in the preparation of an original paper or essay in any subject area. 2011 Matthew Zoccoli Mayers 2012 Geunwook Paek 60 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 60 6/12/13 THE MEANING OF ACADEMIC DRESS The costumes of those in the academic procession have a specific symbolism that dates back to at least the 14th century. Academic institutions in the United States adopted a code of academic dress in 1895 that has been revised from time to time. The dress of institutions in other countries varies, and there is not a worldwide code, but the basic elements are present in all academic costumes. Caltech's David Elliot (1917-2007), professor of history, emeritus, wrote the following about academic costumes: "Of particular interest is the cap or mortarboard. In the form of the biretta, it was the peculiar sign of the master. Its use has now spread far beyond that highly select group to school girls and choir boys and even to the nursery school. Sic transit... "The gown, of course, is the basic livery of the scholar, with its clear marks of rank and status— the pointed sleeves of the bachelor, the oblong sleeves of the master, the full sleeves and velvet trimmings of the doctor. The doctors, too, may depart from basic black and break out into many colors-Harvard crimson or Yale blue or the scarlet splash of Oxford. "Color is the very essence of the hood: color in the main body to identify the university; color perhaps in the binding to proclaim the subject of the degree-orange for engineering, gold for science, the baser copper for economics, white for arts and letters, green for medicine, purple for law, scarlet for theology, and so on.... "With this color and symbolism, which is medieval though mutated, we stage our brief moment of pageantry, paying homage to that ancient community of scholars in whose shadow we stand, and acknowledging our debt to the university as one of the great institutional constructs of the Middle Ages." 61 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 61 6/12/13 ODE TO JOY Text of Beethoven Ninth Symphony excerpt, after the poem "An die Freude ("To Joy") by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) Freude, schöner Götterfunken Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum! Deine Zauber binden wieder Was die Mode streng geteilt; Alle Menschen werden Brüder, Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt. Joy, beautiful spark of the gods Daughter of Elysium, We enter, drunk with fire, Heavenly one, your sanctuary! Your magic reunites What custom strictly divided. All men will become brothers, Where your gentle wing rests. Wem der große Wurf gelungen, Eines Freundes Freund zu sein; Wer ein holdes Weib errungen, Mische seinen Jubel ein! Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund! Und wer's nie gekonnt, der steble Weinend sich aus diesem Bund! Whoever has had the great fortune To be a friend's friend, Whoever has married a beloved wife, Let him mix in his jubilation! Indeed, whoever can call even one soul His own on this round earth! And whoever was never able to, must creep Tearfully away from this band! 62 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 62 6/12/13 HAIL CIT (Caltech alma mater) by Manton Barnes, B.S. '21 In Southern California with grace and splendor bound, Where the lofty mountain peaks look out to lands beyond, Proudly stands our Alma Mater, glorious to see; We raise our voices proudly, hailing, hailing thee. Echoes ringing while we're singing over land and sea, The halls of fame resound thy name, noble CIT. 63 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 63 6/12/13 CALTECH AlumnE ASSOCATION Congratulations to today's graduates. We welcome you to the family of Caltech alumni! For more than 100 years, Caltech's alumni have gone forward from this day to make a positive impact in the world. We know this year's class will do the same, and that future Techers will be inspired by the achievements of the Class of 2013. Your Caltech degree offers you a place among— and access to—one of the most accomplished alumni networks of any institution, with more than 22,000 graduates around the world. The Caltech Alumni Association, in partnership with Caltech, works to help you realize the full potential of that network, personally and professionally. Graduates, your alumni community is proud of you. We encourage you to venture out to explore, invent, build, and innovate. Follow your passion, and in turn, make the world a better place. Heather Dean, BS '00, MS '00 President, Board of Directors Caltech Alumni Association alumni.caltech.edu 64 218780_CALTECH-body-V2.indd 64 6/12/13 DEL MAR BLVD. MICHIGAN AVE. LURA ST. LOT 11 ACCESS - HANDICAP DROP-OFF Beckman Auditorium Beckman Labs 日 Baxter Hall INFORMATION 4口 Parsons-Gates Dabney Hall SERVICES FOR COMMENCEMENT GUESTS PUBLIC TELEPHONES are available in Baxter Hall. RESTROOMS are available in Baxter Hall, Beckman Labs, and Dabney Hall. FIRST AID SERVICES are available at the information booth. LOST AND FOUND items may be reported and /or claimed at the information booth. ATHENAEUM luncheon tickets will be on sale at the information booth from 8 to 10 a.m. SPECIAL SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES are available at the information booth. A driver's license or state-issued ID card is required. LARGE-TYPE PROGRAMS (abridged) are available at the information booth. AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (ASL) interpreters are stationed at the west front of the ceremony seating area. PEOPLE WHO USE WHEELCHAIRS, and their guests, will find a special section near the east front of the ceremony seating area. RESTROOMS ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE WHO USE WHEELCHAIRS are located on the first floors of Dabney Hall and Baxter Hall. The passing of the torch symbolizes the spirit of research going from one hand to the next, from one generation to the next, from youth to maturity. commencement.caltech.edu