Upcoming Doctoral Dissertations

"Elastic metamaterials enable unprecedented control over wave propagation by tailoring structural architecture rather than material composition. While conventional designs rely primarily on nearest-neighbor coupling, such local interactions limit the achievable dispersion characteristics, bandwidth, and the realization of nonreciprocal behavior. This dissertation details a comprehensive framework for the inverse design, implementation, and application of one-dimensional nonlocal elastic metamaterials capable of realizing prescribed, multi-band dispersion relations and unconventional wave phenomena." Read more

"Artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing offer two directions for designing hybridcomputational systems: quantum circuits can provide task-specific components within AI models,while AI methods can help determine how quantum circuits are initialized, trained, and compiled.Realizing this reciprocal relationship requires connecting the quality of a quantum component'scontribution to the resources needed to obtain it. This dissertation investigates that connectionthrough six studies organized around Quantum for AI and AI for Quantum, and develops a co-designframework for future high-performance hybrid computing." Read more