One Hundred and Third Annual Commencement

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY - Continued
Matthew Lamont Tyler (Chemical Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems)
B.s., California Institute of Technology 1991; M.s., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology 1992.
Thesis: Performance Monitoring and Fault Detection in Con trol Systems.
Edye Udell (Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering Science) S.B.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1989.
Thesis: Modeling Methane Utilization by Methanotrophs in Groundwater:
Applications for Groundwater Bioremediation.
Yushan Yan (Chemical Engineering and Chemistry) B.s., University of Science and
Technology of China 1988; M.S., Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics 1990; M.s.,
California Institute of Technology 1995.
Thesis: Preparation of Zeolite ZSM-5 Membranes.
Bryant H. Yang (Chemistry) B.A., University of California, San Diego 1991.
Thesis: Use of Pseudoephedrine as a Practical Chiral Auxiliary for Asymmetric
Synthesis.
DMSION OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE
Philippe H. Adam (Aeronautics and Planetary Science) B.s. (Aerospace Engineering),
B.S. (Applied Mathematics), Polytechnic University 1992; M.s., California Institute of
Technology 1993.
Thesis: Enthalpy Effects on Hypervelocity Boundary Layers.
Christopher Assad (Electrical Engineering) B.S., California Institute of Technology 1987;
M.s.,1989·
Thesis: Electric Field Maps and Boundary Element Simulations of Electrolocation in
Weakly Electric Fish.
Eric Lee Bakke (Applied Physics) B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison 1986; M.s.,
California Institute of Technology 1994-
Thesis: Viscosity Measurements of Bulk Metallic Glass Forming Alloys.
Anatoly 1. Baurnstein (Applied Mathematics) Diploma, Moscow Aviation Institute "99".
Thesis: Nonlinear Water Waves with Shear.
Carolyn Louise Beck (Electrical Engineering) B.s., California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona 1984; M.s., Carnegie Mellon University 1985.
Thesis: Model Reduction and Minimality for Uncertain Systems.
Robert Louis Behnken (Mechanical Engineering) B.s. (Mechanical Engineering), B.s.
(Physics), Washington University 1992; M.s., California Institute of Technology
1993·
Thesis: Nonlinear Control and Modeling of Rotating Stall in an Axial Flow
Compressor.
Kwabena Adu Boahen (Computation and Neural Systems) B.5.E., M.S.E., The Johns
Hopkins University 1989.
Thesis: Retinomorphic Vision Systems: ReverS€ Engineering the Vertebrate Retina.
Michael C. Burl (Electrical Engineering) B.s., California Institute of Technology 1987;
M.s.,1992 .
Thesis: Recognition of Visual Object Classes.
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