Doctoral Candidates Scheduled for Final Oral Examinations of the Dissertation

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Student Name Major Chair Name Date, Time, Location Title
ZHOU, XUENING CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Gordon, Vernita OCTOBER 14, 2025; 1:00 PM; POB 2.402 THE IMPACT OF THE EXTRACELLULAR ENVIRONMENT ON THE INTERACTION OF BIOFILMS WITH IMMUNE CELLS
NATINSKY, EVA M MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Cullinan, Michael A, Dingreville, Remi OCTOBER 17, 2025; 9:00AM; ETC 3.108 ACCELERATING MICROSCOPY FOR NANOSCALE FABRICATION VIA DEEP-LEARNING IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION
LIU, DELAND HU ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING Millan, Jose del R. OCTOBER 23, 2025; 1:00PM; EER 6.702 ERROR-RELATED POTENTIALS IN NEURAL ENGINEERING: FROM PERCEPTUAL SKILL ENHANCEMENT TO ASSISTIVE COMMUNICATION
TIAN, CHENYU COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS Arbogast, Todd J, Hesse, Marc A OCTOBER 23, 2025; 1:00PM; POB 4.304 SIMULATION OF A PARTIAL MELTING MANTLE
LI, RUIHAO ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING John, Lizy K, Yadwadkar, Neeraja J OCTOBER 24, 2025; 2:00 PM; EER 0.806/0.808 EFFICIENT MEMORY ALLOCATION AND MANAGEMENT FOR CPU/GPU SYSTEMS
SKEENS, JOE AEROSPACE ENGINEERING Bettadpur, Srinivas V OCTOBER 24, 2025; 2:00 PM; ASE 2.202 RELATING GNSS AND VLBI ANTENNA POSITIONS THROUGH CO-OBSERVATION OF RADIO FREQUENCY SOURCES
ASPER, NICHOLAS A MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Charlton, William S OCTOBER 27, 2025; 3:00 PM TO 5:00 PM; NETL CONFERENCE ROOM COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO DISPLACEMENT DAMAGE METRICS FOR FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS IN NEUTRON ENVIRONMENTS
MIMIZUKA, KAYO JOURNALISM AND MEDIA (MA, PHD) Lukito, Josephine OCTOBER 27, 2025; 2PM-4PM; DMC 3.378A PLAYING WITH FIRE: ACTIVIST LOGICS FOR SPREADING AND CONFRONTING LETHAL MISINFORMATION THE CASES OF JAPANESE QANON AND SOCIAL MEDIA "WATCHERS"
O'HEARN, NIGEL ENGLISH Kornhaber, David D OCTOBER 27, 2025; 9:30 AM TO 1:00 PM; ATWOOD LIBRARY CAL 300 TOWARD AN ACTIVITY ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN DRAMA, 19391964
DU, CAIFAN INFORMATION STUDIES (PHD) Arif, Ahmer, Gomez-Cruz, Edgar OCTOBER 29, 2025; 11AM; UTA 5.522 THE LABOR OF GROWTH: EXAMINING HOW INFORMATION SCHOLARS NAVIGATE CHANGES IN THEIR RESEARCH TRAJECTO