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A 2-D Scalable Third harmonic radiator at 291.3 GHz with -2 dBm of Radiated Power in 22 nm FinFET Technology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)The Terahertz (THz) band exhibits potential for novel applications and improvements to existing systems such as spectroscopy, imaging, and high-speed communications. However, the lack of high-power sources at this frequency ... -
A Basic Isolated Half-Bridge Silicon Carbide Gate Driver for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)A Basic, Isolated, Half-Bridge Silicon Carbide Gate Driver was designed and validated using Cadence and SPICE. The architectures of similar gate drivers were studied and simplified to reduce the total area of the gate ... -
A Better Bus Map: How Good Transit Map Design Can Strengthen the MBTA’s Bus System
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)Greater Boston is poised to radically reimagine its bus system in the coming years. With an ongoing network redesign by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) seeking to create a dense network of high frequency ... -
A Bioinspired Approach to Engineer the Seed Microenvironment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)Bioinspired by the tardigrade and bombyx mori, we engineer the seed microenvironment to encapsulate, preserve and deliver Rhizobium tropici. Scientific discoveries in agriculture and sustainability are at the crossroads ... -
A Biomaterial-based Stem Cell Therapy for Retinal Regeneration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)Retinal diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy are the leading cause of blindness worldwide with prevalence and resulting costs projected to increase. There are few available treatments, ... -
A blood exchange method to study circulation kinetics of tumor cells in the blood
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)Blood is an essential compartment for tumor cell trafficking. In solid epithelial-derived tumors, blood serves as the major vehicle for metastasis, whose principal cell is the circulating tumor cell (CTC). These cells ... -
'A Bridge Over the Chasm': Rhetoric and Reflexivity in Housing Advocacy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)As we cast housing in the language of crisis, development, shortage, and units, we lose sight of its value in the context of social relations and human wellbeing. The rhetoric that has evolved to explain gaps in housing ... -
A broadened HLA ligandome uncovers new immunotherapy targets for pancreatic cancer + A prime editor mouse to model a broad spectrum of somatic mutations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-02)Pancreatic cancer is a lethal malignancy recalcitrant to immune checkpoint blockade and other immunotherapies. A subset of tumors is computationally predicted to harbor potentially immunogenic peptides for MHC class I ... -
A Canonical Experiment on System Complexity Metric and Its Impact on Engineering Management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)Systems are constantly increasing complexity. Being able to quantify the system complexity and how it relates to human effort and cognition can bring numerous benefits for product development and project management. In ... -
A Case for Pre-trained Language Models in Systems Engineering
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)Modern engineered systems are immensely complex. Extensive sets of natural language requirements guide the development of such systems. As such, tools to assist system engineers in managing and extracting information from ... -
A Case Study for Cyber Incident Report in Industrial Control Systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)In recent times, Cyber Incidents have increased in frequency and complexity. These incidents have come from a wide range of sources, from lone individuals to complex state-sponsored teams. In particular, these cyber-crime ... -
A Case Study of Project Management of COVID-19 Vaccination in Japan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)COVID-19 vaccination played a critical role in preventing the spread of the disease in the global pandemic. Research on operational mechanisms of COVID-19 vaccination projects is limited compared with the epidemiologic and ... -
A Case Study: LIHTC-to-Condo Conversion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)By the end of the decade, approximately half of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)-funded housing units are anticipated to reach the end of their affordability restrictions. This thesis examines the potential benefits ... -
A Cavity-Coupled Rydberg Atom Array Platform for Quantum Computing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)Neutral atom systems have long been the test bed for complex quantum physics. Recently, much of the focus in quantum research has shifted from fundamental science to applications in quantum computation. Although several ... -
A Closer Look at Classical Measurement, an Algorithm for Deliberation in Rodents, and a Conjecture on Intertemporal Choice
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)In this three-part thesis, Part I is an examination of the measurement process in classical Hamiltonian mechanics. This part is concerned with the tradeoff that exists, when measuring any observable of a system, between ... -
A Coherent Categorification of the Asymptotic Affine Hecke Algebra
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)Kazhdan–Lusztig categorified the affine Hecke algebra H in terms of equivariant coherent sheaves on the Steinberg variety. Recently, Ben-Zvi–Chen–Helm–Nadler have applied the formalism of categorical traces to construct a ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Domestic Municipal Data Governance Systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)Prompted in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, cities in the United States are becoming increasingly aware of the need to improve how they govern their data. Data governance is generally understood to involve practices pertaining ... -
A complete resource allocation framework for flexible high throughput satellite constellations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)The past few years have been a witness for the rise of the new era of satellite communications. The interest for providing broadband access from space has reached levels that remind of those in the late 90s with Iridium ... -
A computational framework for emotion understanding
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)The organizing principle of this thesis is that human emotion understanding reflects a model-based solution to a large class of ill-posed inverse problems. To interpret someone's expression, or predict how that person would ... -
A computational framework for the large scale simulation of the dynamics of highly flexible filaments in a viscous flow
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)In science and engineering, the behavior of filaments immersed in viscous flows is of significant interest for a wide range of biological applications. In order to simulate the dynamics of the filaments, in this thesis we ...