EPP Commencement 2016

May 15, 2016 was Carnegie Mellon's Commencement ceremony, a celebration of achievement across campus.

The department highlighted the hard work and contributions of this year’s graduates with a ceremony for EPP and E&TIM graduates. Friends, family, faculty, and staff honored this year's graduates with a diploma ceremony over breakfast. 

PhD Graduates

• Leslie S. Abrahams (joint degree with Civil and Environmental Engineering)
  Thesis: Quantitative Modeling Under Uncertainty to Inform Effective Energy and Environmental Policies
• Mohammed Alotaibi
  Thesis: Exploring Spectrum Aggregation Technology: A Study of the Technical Techno-economic, Policy Implications and the Potential Impact on Economics
• Dena Marie Asta (joint degree with Statistics)
  Thesis: Geometric Approaches to Inference: Non-Euclidean Data and Networks
• Amy Lauren Dale (joint degree with Civil and Environmental Engineering)
  Thesis: Modeling the fate of engineered metal and metal oxide nanoparticles in surface waters and sediments: Environmental drivers, particle properties, and implications for model design
• William Frankenstein
  Thesis: Computational Models of Nuclear Proliferation
• Nathaniel I. Gilbraith (dual degree with Portugal)
  Thesis: Evaluating How Demand Side Resources Affect the Environmental and Economic Performance of Energy Systems
• Justin Cole Glier
  Thesis: Assessment of Solid Sorbent Systems for Post-Combustion Carbon Dioxide Capture at Coal-Fired Power Plants
• John Paul Helveston
  Thesis: Development and Adoption of Plug-in Electric Vehicles in China: Markets, Policy, and Innovation
• Mohammad Jahanbakht (dual degree with Portugal)
  Thesis: The Role of Entrepreneurship in the Development of the African Mobile Telecommunications Industry
• Siripha Junlakarn: Retail Market Mechanism in Support of Differentiated Reliable Electricity Services
• Samuel Allan Markolf (joint degree with Civil and Environmental Engineering)
  Thesis: Climate Change Decision-Making at the Metropolitan Level: Current Estimates and Future Drivers of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
• Dana Elyse Peck (joint degree with Civil and Environmental Engineering)
  Thesis: Data-Driven Analyses and Policy Implications in the Transportation World: A Focus on Pennsylvania Inspection and Registration Data and Nationwide Fatal Crash Data
• Todd Ryan
  Thesis: Case-Studies in the Economics of Ancillary Services of Power Systems in Support of High Wind Penetrations
• Hameed Safiullah
  Thesis: Enabling the future grid: an analysis of operational and flexibility issues in the Indian power grid
• Kristen R. Schell (dual degree with Portugal)
  Thesis: Computational Models for Renewable Energy Target Achievement & Policy Analysis
• Shuchi Talati
  Thesis: The Future of Low Carbon Electric Power Generation: An Assessment of Economic Viability and Water Impacts under Climate Change and Mitigation Policies
  
  

E&TIM Graduates

• Aditya Chaganti
• Daniel Clerk
• Sakshi Goel
• Madhuri Gopal
• Jingzhi Hu
• Narendra Jhabakh
• Andrew Jreissaty
• Jose Maria Chema Lopez
• Nimmy Mathew
• Fridtjof Melle
• Divya Peri
• Harini Peri
• Aishwarya Ramachandran
• Chaitra Ramarao
• Hrishikesh Ravindranath
• Soumya Shyamasundar
• Nandiswar Reddy Suram
• Dongxue Tang
• Anjali Tomer
• Aman Tyagi
• Yusuke Yamamoto
• Noopur Zokarkar
• Charles Johnathan Tanner
• Maddie Gioffre