EPP Commencement 2017

Commencement ceremonies on May 21, 2017 honored Carnegie Mellon's class of 2017. Engineering and Public Policy - which proudly celebrates forty years as a department this year - recognized the newest PhDs, master's students, and undergraduates who will move on to pursue opportunities at the intersection of technology and policy.

PhD Graduates

• Matthew Babcock
  Thesis: Exploring and Bridging Group Divides in Climate Communications
• Casey Canfield
  Thesis: Using Vigilance to Quantify Human Behavior for Phishing Risk
• Frankie Catota Quintana
  Thesis: Cybersecurity Capabilities in a Critical Infrastructure Sector of a Developing Nation 
• Olutayo Fabusuyi
  Thesis: The Mode Most Traveled:  Parking Implications and Policy Responses
• Felipe Aguiar Marcondes de Faria
  Thesis: Hydropower Development in the Brazilian Amazon
• Michael Ford
  Thesis: Studies in Nuclear Power: Low Risk and Low Carbon
• Brock Glasgo
  Thesis: Device-Level Data Analytics to Guide Policy
• Shelly Hagerman
  Thesis: Economics of Behind-the-Meter Solar PVand Energy Storage
• Qiwei Han
  Thesis: Essays on Consumer Switching and Search Behavior
• Nathaniel Horner
  Thesis: Powering the Information Age: Metrics, Social Cost Optimization Strategies,  and Indirect Effects Related to Data Center Energy
• Richard Huntsinger
  Thesis: Evaluating Forecasting Performance in the Context of Process-Level Decisions: Methods, Computation Platform, and Studies in Residential Electricity Demand Estimation
• Long Thanh Lam        
  Thesis: Innovation in China’s Renewable Energy Industry
• Julian Lamy           
  Thesis: Optimal Locations for Siting Wind Energy Projects: Technical Challenges, Economics, and Public Preferences
• Len Necefer
  Thesis: Development of a Decision Aid for Energy Resource Management for the Navajo Nation Incorporating Environmental Cultural Values
• Daniel Posen
  Thesis: Feedstock, or Neither? Evaluating Tradeoffs in the Use of Biomass for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
• Stephanie Seki 
  Thesis: Evaluating the Economic, Environmental and Policy Impacts of Ethanol as a Transportation Fuel in Pennsylvania 
• Jeffery Song
  Thesis: Sense of the Noise: Statistical Analysis of Environmental DNA Sampling for Invasive Asian Carp Monitoring Near the Great Lakes
• Chin Yen Tee
  Thesis: Market Design for the Future Electricity Grid: Modeling Tools and Investment Case Studies
• Paul Tisa
  Thesis: Department of Defense Energy and Logistics: Implications of Historic and Future Cost, Risk, and Capability Analysis
• Fan Tong
  Thesis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Economic and Environmental Implications of Using Natural Gas to Power On-Road Vehicles in the United States 
• Nathaniel Williams
  Thesis: Microgrid Utilities for Rural Electrification in East Africa: Challenges and Opportunities 
• Xiaochen Zhang
  Thesis: Welfare Properties of Recommender Systems

Master of Science – Engineering & Public Policy

• Jeffrey Anderson
• Sun Hee Baik
• Jaison Desai
• Tylesha Drayton
• Alessandro Giordano
• Katherine McMahon
• Erezi Ogbo
• Manar Sarie
• Brian Sergi