This section contains undergraduate theses by Dartmouth students. To browse theses by subject, go to Academic Departments and look under a specific department or program.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Exploring Tokenization Techniques to Optimize Patch-Based Time-Series Transformers, Gabriel L. Asher

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“I Had to Go There for My Own Safety” Negotiations of Access and Autonomy among DC Birth Settings, Elizabeth Avery Borgmann

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Welfare Maximization in the Airplane Problem, Alina Chadwick

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Loving 바리데기: A Traveler's Guide to Anthologizing the 여성 시인, Tiffany Hyunkyung Chang

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Shader-based Real-time Image Tracking for Mobile Augmented Reality, Andrew Wang Chen

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What We Hear in Voices: Identifying Dimensionality in Speech Stimuli Trait Impressions, Caroline W. Conway

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Exploring Applications of AI in Developer-Side Web Accessibility Practices, Maria H. Cristoforo

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Mechanical Scanning Sonar Projections with a Monocular Camera, Xenia Dela Cueva

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An Economic Remodel: The Genesis of Modern Corporate Sustainability, Caitlin R. Doak

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Shifting Forms: Queer Placemaking Amidst Neoliberalism In New York City Through Art, Colin J. Donnelly

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The Fight for Rice: Understanding How Monte Cristi Will Respond to DR-CAFTA and Climate Change, Scarlette G. Flores

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The Impact of Maine’s Municipal Shellfish Management on Clam Harvester Motivation to Participate in Resource Conservation, Rachel Lohr Freer

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College Course Assignment: Maximality, Fairness, Scheduling, Emily Y. Gao

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Remote Sensing-Based Analysis of Urban Heat Islands and Historical Housing Discrimination In Boston, MA, Lily Gray

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Math, ChatGPT, and You: The Problem with Mathematical Accuracy in Large Language Models, Alexandre M. Hamel

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Carbon Pricing in Action: Evaluating the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Evelyn M. Hatem

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Curating Familiarity within the Unfamiliar: Exploring Non-Native Mobile App Experiences to Create Cross-Cultural Design Frameworks, Hanna Hong

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Latent Auto-recursive Composition Engine: A Generative System for Creative Expression in Human-AI Collaboration, Yenkai Huang

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RIPL: Recursive Inference for Policy Learning, Kunal Jha, Jeremy R. Manning, and Alberto Quattrini Li

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SPACE BOUNDS FOR ESTIMATING MINIMUM NORM OF SOLUTIONS IN UNDERCONSTRAINED SYSTEMS, Jeffrey Jiang

Apocalyptic Surpluses, Hannah Kadin

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Investigating Bias in Mortgage-Rate Machine Learning Models, Will Kalikman

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From History to Memory: Comparative Discourse of Proust's Le Temps Retrouvé and Michelet's Histoire de la Révolution Française, Jose F. Lopez Cochachi

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Impacts of Dam Construction on Hydro-Geomorphic Alteration in the Rio Coca, Richard Allen Lytle III

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Connection-Saving Gate Assignment: A Computational Approach, Rob Mailley

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Advancing Clinical Bacterial Diagnosis: Gram-Stained Whole-Slide Image Classification with Attention-Based Deep Learning, Jack McMahon

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Conserving the Public Lands: Policy and Spatial Analysis of a Bureau of Land Management Conservation Leasing Mechanism, Isaiah M. Menning

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Examining Differences in Concept Representation Across Similarity Spaces Between Humans and Large Language Models, Krishnachandra Nair

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Fiscal incentives for green growth: A mixed-methods study of the state of agroforestry and tree cover in India, Spriha Pandey

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Open Source Supply Chain Security: a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Achieving Various Security Thresholds in Build Environments, Carly Retterer

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The Dartmouth Land Ethic: Synthesizing Environmental Ethical Beliefs in Hanover and Beyond, Conor M. Roemer

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Emotional Regulation on Modulating Associations between Depression and Physical Activity as Characterized via Deep Learning, Franklin Ye Ruan

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Zoom dysmorphia: An eye-tracking study of self-view and attention during video conferences, Kathleen H. Stimson

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“Salmon don’t have time for us to fix the climate”: The politics of climate change and dam breaching on the Lower Snake River, Zanna Stutz

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Achieving Domain-Independent Certified Robustness via Knowledge Continuity, Alan Wenyuan Sun

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Modern Bodies: Globalizing Media Cultures and the Representation of Ideal Beauty, Michelle Sun

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Land-use governance and Indigenous engagement in Arctic Alaska and Norway: successes, current gaps, and paths forward, Ningning Sun

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Data-Driven Computing Methods for Nonlinear Physics Systems with Geometric Constraints, Yunjin Tong

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Evading Antivirus Detection by Abusing File Type Identification, Chavin Udomwongsa

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Measuring Confidentiality with Multiple Observables, John J. Utley

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Whisper: Proximity-Based Authentication for Securely Sharing Secrets, Charles A. Vogel

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Restoring the Ahupuaʻa: Community-Based Resource Management and Resilience in Kauaʻi, Jeffrey W. Walbridge Jr.

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Implementing Selective Signature Scanning to Optimize Malware Detection, Lucas Gray Wilbur

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Experimental Methods in Predicting Market Drift and other Portfolio Optimization Factors using Graph Theory, Perry Harrison Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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(Dis)connected: Internet Access, Health Disparities, and the COVID-19 Pandemic, Spencer Allen

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Utilizing Natural Language Processing for Automated Clinical Text Review: Identification of Care Preference Documentation in Patients’ Discharge Summaries, Saksham Arora

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Information diffusion in online social networks: a simulation experiment, Maxwell Jacob Blum

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GeoRCF-GN: Geography-Aware State Prediction in Dynamic Networks, Barkin Cavdaroglu

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Connecting Linguistic Expressions and Pain Relief Through Transformer Model Construction and Analysis, Sarah M. Chacko

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Cyclic Mixed-Radix Dense Gray Codes, Jessica Cheng

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NOVEL GENERALIZATIONS AND ALGORITHMS FOR THE MAX-k-COVERAGE PROBLEM, Luc Cote

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An Empirical Study of Locality-Sensitive Hashing to Approximate the Minimum Spanning Tree, Elizabeth Crocker

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Investigating English-Language Dialect-Adjusted Models, Samiha Datta

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Say That Again: The role of multimodal redundancy in communication and context, Brandon Javier Dormes

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Team Versus Player? A Study of Baseball Salary Arbitration and the Arbitrator Exchangeability Hypothesis, Devan Fink

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Undoing of the Carceral School System in the South Bay, California, Lizet Garcia

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The Flow of Power: Addressing Asymmetric Flood Risk in the Upper Valley, Eric VR Hryniewicz

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Pathways to Pricelessness: How the Value of 'Priceless' Art is Socially Constructed in both Valueless and Limitless Forms, Cristina M. Javens

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Interpreting Business Strategy and Market Dynamics: A Multi-Method AI Approach, Lobna Jbeniani

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Postcolonial Hauntology of Modernity: Exploring Legacies of Enlightenment Thought in the Understanding of the 'Human' through Intertextualities in Heart of Darkness and Hunter x Hunter, Pumho Karimi

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An Algorithmic Approach to Jazz Guitar Voice-Leading Chord Fingerings, Matthew B. Keating

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Concrete July: Forging a Critical Peace in Korea from Fragments of the Past, Sheen Kim

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Counterfactual Replacement Analysis for Interpretation of Blackbox Sexism Classification Models, Anders Knospe

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Sarcasm Detection in English and Arabic Tweets Using Transformer Models, Rishik Lad

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L’Espresso: uno stimolante, una bevanda, e un pilastro dell'italianità, Salvatore Joseph Lupo

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Unmasking Bias: Investigating Strategies for Minimizing Discrimination in AI Models, Julia L. Martin

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Critical Geopolitics and the Created Worlds of Post-9/11 Spy Film, Caitlin Anne McCarthy

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Data-Optimized Spatial Field Predictions for Robotic Adaptive Sampling: A Gaussian Process Approach, Zachary Nathan

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Cognitive Feedback Theories and Artificial Intelligence: A Case for A Grammarly of UI/UX Design, Jordan Buchanan Paff

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Leveraging magnetic nanoparticles and photothermal heating for on-chip processing of therapeutic exosomes, Siddhant Parwal

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"Got a Long List of Ex-lovers, They'll Tell You I'm Insane": Gender, Agency, and Image in Taylor Swift's Lyrics Over Time, Emily Patel

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Restorying the L.A. River through Ancestral Knowledge & Multispecies Care in Southeast L.A., Jimena Natalia Pérez

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Predictive AI for the S&P 500 Index, Jacqueline Rose Perry

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Bridging Philosophy and Neuroscience: How Behavioral Experiments Inform a Recent Theory of Animal Consciousness, Qasim Abrar Qureshi

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What you don’t know matters: An ignorance-focused investigation of theory of mind, Steven M. Shin and Jonathan S. Phillips

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Deep Learning for Skin Photoaging, Gokul Srinivasan

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Utilizing Mixed Graphical Network Models to Explore Parent Psychological Symptoms and Their Centrality to Parent Mental Health in Households with High Child Screen Usage, Piper F. Stacey, Nicholas C. Jacobson, and Damien Lekkas

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Exploring Improvements to Space-Bounded Derandomization from Better Pseudorandom Generators, Boxian Wang

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Stereotypes and Language Models: Understanding how language models encode stereotypes, debiasing language models, and examining how stereotypes affect conversations, Brian C. Wang

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The Dilemma of Disclosure: Designing Interpersonal Informatics Tools for Mood Tracking, Daniel Earl Westphal

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Towards a Computational Model of Narrative on Social Media, Anne Bailey

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Entity Based Sentiment Analysis for Textual Health Advice, Dae Lim Chung

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Symplectically Integrated Symbolic Regression of Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems, Daniel DiPietro

State Power and Body Politics in Neoliberal Times: Diamela Eltit's Sumar and Basma Abdel Aziz's al-Ṭābūrs, Ryan Ellis

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Leveraging Context Patterns for Medical Entity Classification, Garrett Johnston

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Destabilizing Terrorist Networks, John Keane

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Possibility is not a Luxury: The role of identity in representations of possibility, Hannah M. LeBaron

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Determining American Sign Language Joint Trajectory Similarity Using Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), Rohith Mandavilli

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Probing NLP Conceptual Relatedness Judgments Through the Word-Based Board Game Codenames, Tracey Mills

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How Do We Represent Possibilities in the Visual World? — An analysis of amodal completion under cognitive and perceptual load., Camden Parker

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Designing narrative-based interfaces for collective action: A case study using Amazon, climate change, and consumer behavior, Catherine Parnell

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Machine Learning and the Network Analysis of Ethereum Trading Data, Santosh Sivakumar

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TorSH: Obfuscating consumer Internet-of-Things traffic with a collaborative smart-home router network, Adam Vandenbussche

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Analyzing Behavioral Adaptation to COVID-19 And Return To Pre-Pandemic Baselines in a Cohort of College Seniors, Vlado Vojdanovski

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Identifying optimal course structures using topic models, Tehut Tesfaye Biru

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The Discrete-Event Modeling of Administrative Claims (DEMAC) System: Dynamically modeling the U.S. healthcare delivery system with Medicare claims data to improve end-of-life care, Rachael Chacko

Witnessing and Remembrance: The Rhetoric of Loss in the Old Testament and Latin-American, Jewish Memoir Writers, Theodore Friedman

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An inside vs. outside classification system for Wi-Fi IoT devices, Paul Gralla

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Exploring the Long Tail, Joseph H. Hajjar

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Counting and Sampling Small Structures in Graph and Hypergraph Data Streams, Themistoklis Haris