The following theses have been submitted to the Faculty of Mathematics Graduate OfficeÌýand are available for review by contacting the Administrative Team, Graduate Studies by email.
If you wish to attend a virtual defence as an audience member, pleaseÌýemailÌýto request an invitation. Please note that the number for virtual attendees may be limited and it may not always be possible to accommodate all requests. Invitations are sent the day before the defence. For defences that are Held-Without-Public-Disclosure, requests must be submitted at least 4 business days in advance to allow adequate time for signing the required NDA form.Ìý
August 2025
August Defenses
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Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Miti Mazmudar |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýRealizing Privacy Design Strategies for Back-end Web Architectures |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýIan Goldberg |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location:ÌýOnline |
July 2025
July Defenses
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Date: Thursday, July 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Blake VanBerlo |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýImproving Automated Lung Ultrasound Interpretation with Self-Supervised Learning |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýJesse Hoey, AlexanderÌýWong |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: DC 2314 |
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Date: Friday, July 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Vihan Shah |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýOptimal Graph Streaming Algorithms and Further Advances in Modern Models of Computation |
| Supervisor(s): Sepehr Assadi |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: DC 2314 |
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Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýLarissa Kroell |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýPartial C*-dynamical systems and the ideal structure of partial reduced crossed products |
| Supervisor(s): Matthew Kennedy |
| Department/School: Pure Mathematics |
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Location:ÌýMC 5403 |
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Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýRobert Harris |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýExotic constructions on covers branched over hyperplane arrangements |
| Supervisor(s): B. Doug Park |
| Department/School: Pure Mathematics |
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Location:ÌýOnline |
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Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýShubhankar Mohapatra |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýTowards practicable and efficient private learning |
| Supervisor(s): Xi He |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location:ÌýDC 2310 |
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Date: Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Josephine Reynes |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýExtensions of the Tutte Polynomial and Results on the Interlace Polynomial |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýKaren Yeats,ÌýLogan Crew |
| Department/School: Combinatorics and Optimization |
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Location:ÌýMC 5501 |
June 2025
June Defenses
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Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýNimmi Rashinika Weeraddana |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýTacit Inefficiencies and Barriers in Continuous Integration |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýShane McIntosh |
| Department/School:ÌýComputer Science |
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Location:ÌýDC 2314 |
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Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Yash Totani |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýQuadratic forms over global fields |
| Supervisor(s): Yu-Ru Liu, Wentang Kuo |
| Department/School: Pure Mathematics |
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Location:ÌýMC 5403 |
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Date: Monday, June 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Maliha Ahmed |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýMulti-scale Modelling of Neurosteroid-mediated Seizure Trajectories in Childhood Absence Epilepsy |
| Supervisor(s): Sue Ann Campbell |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location:ÌýMC 6460 |
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Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Sourabhashis Das |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýOn the distributions of prime divisor counting functions |
| Supervisor(s): Wentang Kuo, Yu-Ru Liu |
| Department/School: Pure Mathematics |
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Location:ÌýMC 5417 |
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Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýMelissa Stadt |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýMathematical modeling of whole-body electrolyte homeostasis |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýAnita Layton |
| Department/School:ÌýAppliedÌýMathematics |
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Location:ÌýMC 6460 |
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Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýBenxuan Shi |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýRisk Sharing in Monopolistic Insurance Markets: Hidden Types and Bowley-Optimal Pricing |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýMario Ghossoub, Bin Li |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location: M3 4001 |
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Date: Friday, June 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýYiwei Lu |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýTrustworthy Machine Learning with Data in the Wild |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýYaoliang Lu, Sun Sun |
| Department/School:ÌýComputer Science |
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Location:ÌýDC 3317 |
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Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Ferreira Pinto Junior |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýDirected Isoperimetry and Monotonicity: Properly Testing in the Analytic Setting |
| Supervisor(s): Eric Blais |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: DC 2314 |
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Date: Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Nabil Bin Hannan |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýUsing a Capability Sensitive Design Approach to Support Newcomers Well-being |
| Supervisor(s): Edith Law |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: Online |
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Date: Friday, June 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Dingding Hu |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýStatistical Inference in ROC Curve Analysis |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýPengfei Li |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location: M3 3001 |
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Date: Friday, June 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýNicole Kitt |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýCharacterizing cofree representations of SLn x SLm |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýMatthew Satriano |
| Department/School:ÌýPure Mathematics |
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Location:ÌýOnline |
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Date: Friday, June 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýJingbang Chen |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýAlgorithmic Tools for Network Analysis |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýLap Chi Lau, Richard Peng |
| Department/School:ÌýComputer Science |
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Location:ÌýDC 2314 |
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Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýWei Liang |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýCausal Inference in the Presence of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects |
| Supervisor(s): Changbao Wu |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location: M3 3001 |
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Date: Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Zheng Ma |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýAdvancing Proteomic Analyses with Graph-based Learning: Protein Inference and DIA De Novo Peptide Sequencing |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýAli Ghodsi, Ming Li |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: Online |
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Date: Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Sharon Choy |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýAdaptive Live Streaming Strategies for Multi-homed Environments |
| Supervisor(s): Bernard Wong |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: DC 2314 |
May 2025
May Defenses
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Date: Friday, May 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Nathan King |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýClosest Point Geometry Processing: Extensions and Applications of the Closest Point Method for Geometric Problems in Computer Graphics |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýChristopher Batty, Steven Ruuth |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: DC 3301 |
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Date: Monday, May 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Donald (Kwan Tsaan) Lai |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýKinetic Energy Spectra, Backscatter, and Subgrid Parameterization Analysis in Radiative-Convective Equilibrium |
| Supervisor(s): Michael Waite |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location: MC 5479 |
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Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýAmirhossein Dehghanizadeh |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýCosmic Frontiers: From the Origins to Gravitational Wave Astronomy |
| Supervisor(s): Ghazal Geshnizjani |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location: MC 6460 |
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Date: Friday, May 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Ashish Gaurav |
| Title: Techniques to Learn Constraints from Demonstrations |
| Supervisor(s): Pascal Poupart |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: Remote |
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Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Ahmed Alquraan |
| Title: Leveraging Emerging Data Center Technologies to Build High-Performance Data Stores |
| Supervisor(s): Samer Al-Kiswamy |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: DC 3317 |
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Date: Friday, May 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Saber Malekmohammadi | ||||||
| Title: Fast, Private and Fair Federated Learning | ||||||
| Supervisor(s): Yaoliang Yu | ||||||
| Department/School: Computer Science | ||||||
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Location: Online
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April 2025
April Defenses
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Date: Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 3:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Tales Rick Perche |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýThe Information Locally Stored in Quantum Fields: From Entanglement to Gravity |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýEduardo MartÃn-MartÃnez, David Kubiznak |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location: QNC 2101 |
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Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Adina Goldberg |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýSynchronous and quantum games: Graphical and algebraic methods |
| Supervisor(s): Michael Brannan |
| Department/School: Pure Mathematics |
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Location: MC 2009 |
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Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Jeremy VanderDoes |
| Title: Contributions to Change Point and Functional Data Analysis |
| Supervisor(s): Gregory Rice, Shoja'eddin Chenouri |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location: M3 4206 |
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Date: Monday, April 07, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýYuliang Shi |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýRobust Methods and Model Selection for Causal Inference under Missingness of Study Exposure |
| Supervisor(s): Joel Dubin, Yeying Zhu |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location: M3 4001 |
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Date: Tuesday, April 08, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýMengxiao Zhang |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýProgram Reduction: Versatility, Insights, and Efficacy |
| Supervisor(s): Chengnian Sun |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: DC 2314 |
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Date: Tuesday, April 08, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Matthew Kroeker |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýSome Sylvester-Gallai-Type Theorems for HigherDimensional Flats |
| Supervisor(s): Jim Geelan |
| Department/School: Combinatorics and Optimization |
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Location: MC 6029 |
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Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýMichael Boyuan Zhu |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýEfficiency and Equilibria in Centralized and Decentralized Insurance Markets |
| Supervisor(s): Mario Ghossoub |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location: M3 4206 |
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Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Dongchang Li |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýQuickest Change Detection in Nonlinear Hidden Markov Models using a Generalized CUSUM Procedure |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýNavaratnam Sri Namachchivaya |
| Department/School: Applied Math |
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Location: M3 3103 |
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Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Chengjie Huang |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýLiDAR-based 3D Perception from Multi-frame Point Clouds for Autonomous Driving |
| Supervisor(s): Krzysztof Czarnecki |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: Online |
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Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýYusuf Aydogdu |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýReduced-Order Modeling and Data Assimilation of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation |
| Supervisor(s): N.Sri Namachchivaya |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location: MC 5501 |
March 2025
March Defenses
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Date: Friday, March 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Matthew Lakier | ||||||||||||
| Title: Paidian Playful Interaction in Non-game User Interfaces | ||||||||||||
| Supervisor(s): Daniel Vogel | ||||||||||||
| Department/School: Computer Science | ||||||||||||
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Location: DC 3317
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Date: Friday, March 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Katrina Chen |
| Title:ÌýDeep Learning Frameworks for Anomaly Detection in Time Series and Graphs with Limited Labels |
| Supervisor(s): Ben Feng, Tony Wirjanto |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location: M3 3001 |
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Date: Monday, March 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýJosé Polo Gómez |
| Title: Measurements of quantum fields with particle detectors |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýEduardo MartÃn-MartÃnez |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location: QNC 2101 |
February 2025
February Defenses
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Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Yiping Guo |
| Title: A Study of Statistical Methods for Modelling Longevity and Climate Risks |
| Supervisor(s): Johnny Li, Ben Feng |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location: Online |
July 2024
July Defenses
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Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Sepehr Hajebi |
| Title: Foreshadowing the Grid Theorem for Induced Subgraphs |
| Supervisor(s): Sophie Spirkl |
| Department/School: Combinatorics and Optimization |
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Location: Hybrid |
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Date: Thursday, July 4, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Luke Hagar |
| Title: Design with Sampling Distribution Segments |
| Supervisor(s): Nathaniel Stevens |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location: Remote |
June 2024
June Defenses
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Date: Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 11:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Zhongwen Zhang |
| Title: Unsupervised Losses for Clustering and Segmentation of Images: Theories & Optimization Algorithms. |
| Supervisor(s): Yuri Boykov |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: Hybrid |
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Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Alexandra Bühler |
| Title: Estimands in Randomized Clinical Trials with Complex Life History Processes |
| Supervisor(s): Richard Cook; Jerry Lawless |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location: Hybrid |
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Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at 9:30 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Hank Chun-Hao Chen |
| Title: Hopf 2-Algebras: Homotopy Higher Symmetries in Physics |
| Supervisor(s): Florian Girelli |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location: Hybrid |
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Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 9:30 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Stéphanie Abo |
| Title: Multiscale Modelling of Biological Rhythms and Systems |
| Supervisor(s): Anita Layton |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location: In Person |
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Date: Monday, June 3, 2024 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Ala’ Alalabi |
| Title: Controller and Observer Design for Partial DifferentialAlgebraic Equations |
| Supervisor(s): Kirsten Morris |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location: Hybrid |
May 2024
May Defenses
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Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Nicholas Olson-Harris |
| Title: Some Applications of Combinatorial Hopf Algebras to Integro-Differential Equations and Symmetric Function Identities |
| Supervisor(s): Karen Yeats |
| Department/School: Combinatorics & Optimization |
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Location: Hybrid |
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Date: Friday, May 17, 2024 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Joseph Scott |
| Title: Meta-Solving via Machine Learning for Automated Reasoning |
| Supervisor(s): Vijay Ganesh, Jo Atlee |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: Remote |
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Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Yuan Wang |
| Title: Space-time Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Advection-Diffusion Problem |
| Supervisor(s): Sander Rhebergen |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location:ÌýHybrid |
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Date: Monday, May 13, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Liang Chen |
| Title: Collective Dynamics of Large-Scale Spiking Neural Networks by Mean-Field Theory |
| Supervisor(s): Sue Ann Campbell |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location:ÌýHybrid |
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Date: Friday, May 10, 2024 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Pablo Millan Arias |
| Title: Deep Unsupervised Learning for Biodiversity Analyses: Representation learning and clustering of bacterial, mitochondrial, and barcode DNA sequences |
| Supervisor(s): Lila Kari |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location:ÌýHybrid |
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Date: Friday, May 10, 2024 at 3:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Mojtaba Valipour |
| Title: Symbolic Regression and Sequence Modelling with Conditional and Dynamic Language Models |
| Supervisor(s): Ali Ghodsi |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location:ÌýHybrid |
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Date: Monday, May 6, 2024 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Alexey Smirnov |
| Title: Discrete total variation in multiple spatial dimensions and its applications |
| Supervisor(s): Lilia Krivodonova |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location:ÌýHybrid |
April 2024
April Defenses
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Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Andrew Na |
| Title: Efficient Machine Learning Methods for Solving Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations in Finance |
| Supervisor(s): Justin Wan |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location:ÌýHybrid |
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Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Greg Philbrick |
| Title: Writing My Own Line Drawing Software as an Artist |
| Supervisor(s): Craig S. Kaplan |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location:ÌýHybrid |
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Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Zhaoran (Eric) Hou |
| Title: Sequential Monte Carlo for Applications in Structural Biology, Financial Time Series and Epidemiology |
| Supervisor(s): Samuel Wong |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location:ÌýHybrid |
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Date: Friday, April 17, 2024 at 1:30 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Mengyao Zhang |
| Title: On Convergence Analysis of Stochastic and Distributed Gradient-Based Algorithms |
| Supervisor(s): Jun Liu, Xinzhi Liu |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location: M3 4206 |
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Date: Friday, April 12, 2024 at 11:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Joseph Yossef Musleh |
| Title: Algorithms for Drinfeld Modules |
| Supervisor(s): Eric Schost |
| Department/School:ÌýComputer Science |
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Location:ÌýHybrid |
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Date: Friday, April 12, 2024 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Jie Jian |
| Title: Edge Estimation and Community Detection in Time-varying Networks |
| Supervisor(s): Peijun Sang, Mu Zhu |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location:ÌýHybrid |
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Date: Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Shaokai Wang |
| Title: Deep Learning Methods for Novel Peptide Discovering and Function Prediction |
| Supervisor(s): Bin Ma |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: Hybrid |
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Date: Friday, April 5, 2024 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Kira Selby |
| Title: Distributions in Semantic Space |
| Supervisor(s): Pascal Poupart |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: Hybrid |
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Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Trang Bui |
| Title: Design and analysis of experiments on networks |
| Supervisor(s): Stefan Steiner, Nathaniel Stevens |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location: Hybrid |
March 2024
March Defenses
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Date: Thursday March 14, 2024 at 5:30 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Aarti Malhotra |
| Title: Emotions and Context in Decision-making for a Socially Intelligent Agent |
| Supervisor(s): Jesse Hoey |
| Department/School:ÌýComputer Science |
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Location:ÌýOnline |
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Date: Wednesday March 13, 2024 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Banafsheh Lashkari |
| Title: Measurement System Assessment Studies for Multivariate and Functional Data |
| Supervisor(s): Shoja'eddin Chenouri |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location:ÌýOnline |
February 2024
February Defenses
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Date: Thursday February 29, 2024 at 3:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Siddhartha Sahu |
| Title: Optimizing Differential Computation for Large-Scale Graph Processing |
| Supervisor(s): Semih Salihoglu |
| Department/School:ÌýComputer Science |
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Location:ÌýOnline |
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Date: Friday February 2, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýAndrew Jena |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýGraph-Theoretic Techniques for Optimizing NISQ Algorithms |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýMichele Mosca |
| Department/School:ÌýCombinatorics and Optimization |
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Location:ÌýOnline |
January 2024
January Defences
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Date: Monday January 29, 2024 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýNils Lukas |
| °Õ¾±³Ù±ô±ð:ÌýAnalyzing Threats of Large-Scale Machine Learning Systems |
| Supervisor(s):ÌýFlorian Kerschbaum |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: DC 3317 |
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Date: Thursday January 18, 2024 at 2:30 PM EST |
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| Candidate:ÌýChuanzheng Wang |
| Title: Safety-critical Control for Dynamical Systems under Uncertainties |
| Supervisor(s): JunÌýLiu; Stephen Smith |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location: M3 3127 |
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Date: Friday January 12, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Chendi Ni |
| Title: A General Neural Network Methodology for Multi-period Portfolio Organization |
| Supervisor(s): Yuying Li; Peter Forsyth |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: DC 3317 |
December 2023
December Defences
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Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 1:00 PM EDT |
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| Candidate: Joshua Jung |
| Title: Graph Mapping for Knowledge Transfer in General Game Playing |
| Supervisor(s): Jesse Hoey |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: DC 3317 |
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Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 9:00 AM EDT |
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| Candidate: Christopher Salahub |
| Title: Exploration in Pairwise Measures of Dependence and Pooled Significance |
| Supervisor(s): Wayne Oldford |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location: M3 3001 |
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Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 1:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Mahsa Panahi |
| Title: Statistical Methods in the Search for a Dominant Cause of Variation |
| Supervisor(s): Stefan H. Steiner, Jeroen de Mast |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location: M3 3001 |
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Date: Friday, December 1, 2023 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Donovan Allum |
| Title: Simulations of Radiatively Driven Convection and Spatially Heterogeneous Solar Radiation Intensity in Ice-Covered Lakes |
| Supervisor(s): Marek Stastna |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location: MC 5479 |
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Date: Friday, December 1, 2023 at 2:30 PM EDT |
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| Candidate: Maxwell Fitzsimmons |
| Title: Properties of Difference Inclusions with Computable Reachable Set |
| Supervisor(s): Jun Liu |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location: MC 6460 |
November 2023
November Defences
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Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 12:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Johra Moosa |
| Title: Improving Peptide Identification in Proteomics Data Analysis through Repeat-Preserving Decoy and Decoy-Free Retraining |
| Supervisor(s): Bin Ma |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: DC 2314 |
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Date: Wednesday November 29, 2023 at 10:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Lijia Wang |
| Title: Joint Modeling, Variable Selection, and Multiply Robust Estimation in Mediation Analysis with Multiple Mediators |
| Supervisor(s): Yeying Zhu, Richard Cook |
| Department/School: Statistics and Actuarial Science |
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Location: M3 3127 |
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Date: Monday November 27, 2023 at 3:00 PM EST |
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| Candidate: Esha Saha |
| Title: Expanding the Scope of Random Feature Models: Theory and Applications |
| Supervisor(s): Giang Tran |
| Department/School: Applied Mathematics |
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Location: M3 4206 |
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Date: Friday November 10, 2023 at 9:00 AM EST |
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| Candidate: Glaucia Melo dos Santos |
| Title: Adaptive Human-Chatbot Interactions: Contextual Factors, Variability Design and Levels of Automation |
| Supervisor(s): Paulo Alencar, Daniel M. Berry, Donald D. Cowan |
| Department/School: Computer Science |
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Location: DC 2310 |