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Spintronics using low magnetization materials
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Information storage using magnetic materials is accomplished by controlling and sensing the magnetic moment orientation of nanoscale ferromagnets. In order to improve performance and compete with existing and alternative ...
Graph guided predictions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Graphs provide a natural abstraction to model relational and strategic data in domains as diverse as biology (e.g., molecules), multiagent settings (e.g., online vendors on ecommerce platforms), and distributed systems ...
Essays on the term structure of equity returns
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This dissertation contains three essays on the term structure of equity returns. In the first chapter I document substantial variation in the cross-section of the term premium of US stocks between 1996 and 2019. I introduce ...
Essays on nominal rigidities, bounded rationality, and macroeconomic policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis consists of three chapters about macroeconomic policy. In the first chapter, I study the empirical relationship between nominal rigidities and the real effects of monetary policy. Nominal rigidities lie at the ...
Comprehensive single-cell transcriptional profiling of the regenerative planarian Schmidtea mediterranea
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Animals can contain hundreds of cell types, each of which has a distinct morphology and function. The transcriptome of a cell dictates this unique cell biology. Recent approaches for high throughput single-cell RNA sequencing ...
Online and offline learning in operations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
With the rapid advancement of information technology and accelerated development of data science, the importance of integrating data into decision-making has never been stronger. In this thesis, we propose data-driven ...
Improving farmers' and consumers' welfare in agricultural supply chains via data-driven analytics and modeling : from theory to practice
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The upstream parts of the agricultural supply chain consists of millions of smallholder farmers who continue to suffer from extreme poverty. The first stream of research in this thesis focuses on online agri-platforms which ...
A unified modeling for control of reactive power dynamics in electrical energy systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis is motivated by the renewed need to understand and control the dynamics of reactive power in the electrical energy systems. Of particular interest are the dynamical non-sinusoidal interactions between heterogeneous ...
A design methodology for computer architecture parameterized by robot morphology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Robots that safely interact with people are a promising solution to address societal challenges from elder care to hazardous work environments. A key computational barrier to the robust autonomous operation of complex ...
Efficient metric representations for big data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Contemporary datasets are often represented as points in a high-dimensional metric space. To deal with increasingly larger datasets, many algorithms rely on efficient or compressed representations of the induced metric. ...