Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions
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Reducing the Compositional and Structural Degeneracy of Planetary Interiors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)The interior conditions of planets are highly uncertain, because two types of intrinsic degeneracies – compositional degeneracy and structural degeneracy – prevent precise characterization. In this thesis, I develop a ... -
Principal Slip Zones in Nature and Experiments and Their Role in the Earthquake Cycle
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)Earthquakes generally do not occur in intact rocks but rather within extremely narrow (≤10 cm) principal slip zones found along fault zones. These slip zones are relatively weaker than the surrounding wall rocks suggesting ... -
A Novel Machine Learning Approach to Robust Optimization: Theory and Applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)The increasing availability of data offers modelers unprecedented opportunities to improve decision-making. In particular, we can leverage machine learning based approaches to estimate parameters of optimization models, ...
