Overview
The Final Oral Examination (FOE) is the capstone experience of your doctoral studies. General information about the FOE is outlined in the SGS Calendar. The Final Oral Examination schedule (see calendar below) lists current thesis defenses, and is updated periodically.
Additionally, you may find helpful the Guidelines for the Doctoral Final Oral Examination (FOE), a document that outlines the responsibilities of the graduate unit, SGS, the Examination Committee, and the Chair of the Committee in the planning and conduct of a Final Oral Examination. Faculty and Staff can access additional resources on the SGS Final Examinations webpage.
Academic fees for continuously registered Ph.D. candidates in the final year of the program are pro-rated over the 12–month academic year, based on the date of the final approved thesis submission to SGS. Incidental fees are charged on a sessional (term) basis. More information on the pro-rated fees and schedules can be found in Graduate Fees and on the Student Accounts website under Current Fall–Winter Fee & Refund Schedules.
In-person examinations at the School of Graduate Studies
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Doctoral examination schedule
| Exam Date | Student Name | Exam Information (Thesis, Supervisor(s), Graduate Unit) |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 5 | Name: Mohammad Haghighi |
Week-Long Microsimulation of Activities Using Data from a Smartphone Application-Based Activity-Travel Survey Supervisor(s): Prof. Eric Miller Graduate Unit: Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering |
| Jan 5 | Name: Mohammad Hesam Rashidi |
Human-Centred Last-Mile Logistics Supervisor(s): Prof. Matthew Roorda, Prof. Mehdi Nourinejad Graduate Unit: Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering |
| Jan 6 | Name: Stephanie J Ziembicki |
Improvements in Exposure Assessment Methodologies for Diesel Engine Exhaust Exposure Supervisor(s): Prof. Victoria Arrandale, Prof. Paul Demers Graduate Unit: Department of Public Health Sciences |
| Jan 6 | Name: Doris Maria Theresa Adao |
The Role of microRNAs in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Supervisor(s): Prof. Filio Billia, Prof. Craig Simmons Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering |
| Jan 7 | Name: Anas Mahmoud |
Multimodal Learning for 3D Perception in Autonomous Driving Environments Supervisor(s): Prof. Steven Waslander Graduate Unit: Institute for Aerospace Studies |
| Jan 7 | Name: Jeffrey Stulberg |
The molecular and cellular changes that define Muller glial cell reprogramming in the regenerating larval zebrafish retina Supervisor(s): Prof. Vince Tropepe Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology |
| Jan 8 | Name: Gautier Courbon |
Structure, function, and inhibition of mycobacteri al ATP synthase and EtfD Supervisor(s): Prof. John Rubinstein Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics |
| Jan 8 | Name: Benjamin Gallagher |
“I’d kind of like to know how this was supposed to go”: Poetic Practice, Pedagogy, Resilience, and Responsibility in a Community Writing Workshop Supervisor(s): Prof. Rob Simon Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning |
| Jan 8 | Name: Sheida Monica Stephens |
Toward Solar-Powered Cell Factories: Integrating Materials, Measurements, and Metabolic engineering in Rhodopseudomonas palustris Supervisor(s): Prof. Grant Allen, Prof. Radhakrishnan Mahadevan Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry |
| Jan 8 | Name: Katherine Ilia Nicoll |
The Structure and Meaning of Container Phrases in Labrador Inuttitut Supervisor(s): Prof. Keir Moulton, Prof. Suzi Oliveira de Lima Graduate Unit: Department of Linguistics |
| Jan 8 | Name: Geetam Mall |
Using scintillation to measure pulsar orbits and probe the structure of the interstellar medium. Supervisor(s): Prof. Ue-Li Pen, Prof. Marten van Kerkwijk Graduate Unit: Department of Physics |
| Jan 9 | Name: Honghua Dong |
Towards Reliable and Practical Language-Model Agents: Evaluation and Development Supervisor(s): Prof. Xujie Si, Prof. Christopher Maddison Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
| Jan 9 | Name: Ehsan Etesami |
Distributed Multi-domain Application Service Chain Supervisor(s): Prof. Alberto Leon-Garcia Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| Jan 9 | Name: Nicholas Smith |
Transitory Affects: Remote work and financial frontiers in Athens, Greece Supervisor(s): Prof. Chris Krupa Graduate Unit: Department of Anthropology |
| Jan 9 | Name: Jiajia Zhou |
The Populist Challenge to Democracies in Real and Nominal Terms Supervisor(s): Prof. Phillip Lipscy Graduate Unit: Department of Political Science |
| Jan 9 | Name: William Aidan Staples |
Moral Judgment of Macrosocial Systems Supervisor(s): Prof. Jason Plaks Graduate Unit: Department of Psychology |
| Jan 9 | Name: Dafe Oputu |
Who Needs City Hall? Patterns of Local Democracy in Urban West Africa Supervisor(s): Prof. Antoinette Handley Graduate Unit: Department of Political Science |
| Jan 9 | Name: Amanda Norton |
An Assessment of Air Pollution Exposure: Exploring NO2 and PM2.5 Exposure Injustices in the the Peel Region of Ontario, Canada Supervisor(s): Prof. Matthew Adams Graduate Unit: Department of Geography and Planning |
| Jan 9 | Name: Judith E. MacKinnon |
THE QUEST FOR MEANINGFUL EMPLOYMENT: PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ENTRY INTO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS PART OF THE DISABILITY INCLUSION ACTION PLAN, 2025 Supervisor(s): Prof. Tanya Titchkosky Graduate Unit: Department of Social Justice Education |
| Jan 12 | Name: Christian Eros Drago |
The birth, life, and death of squeezed light Supervisor(s): Prof. John Sipe Graduate Unit: Department of Physics |
| Jan 12 | Name: Louis Ngai |
Regulation of Intestinal Homeostasis Through a BMP2-CSF1 Circuit Supervisor(s): Prof. Arthur Mortha Graduate Unit: Department of Immunology |
| Jan 12 | Name: Fei Wang |
Revealing and Mitigating Privacy Leakage in Distributed and Foundation Model Learning Supervisor(s): Prof. Baochun Li Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| Jan 12 | Name: Ladan Berahman |
Exploring the Relationship Between Residential Parking and Travel Behaviour Through a Smartphone-Based Survey Supervisor(s): Prof. Eric Miller Graduate Unit: Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering |
| Jan 12 | Name: Vikas Srinivasan Sridhar |
Efficacy, Mechanisms and Safety of SGLT2 Inhibition in Participants at Varying Cardiovascular Risk and in Kidney Transplant Recipients Supervisor(s): Prof. David Cherney Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science |
| Jan 12 | Name: Rachel Windsor |
Playing Dirty: Surviving Girlhood Sexual Trauma in Contemporary American Literature and Culture Supervisor(s): Prof. Naomi Morgenstern Graduate Unit: Department of English |
| Jan 13 | Name: Alix Julia Jansen |
Delegation at the Street Level: Employment Service Delivery in Practice Supervisor(s): Prof. Linda White Graduate Unit: Department of Political Science |
| Jan 13 | Name: Shivam Sharma |
Engineering Diabetic Wound Healing Solution: Mechanisms, Modeling, and Smart Nanotherapeutics Supervisor(s): Prof. Anil Kishen Graduate Unit: Faculty of Dentistry |
| Jan 13 | Name: Shivam Sharma |
Engineering Diabetic Wound Healing Solution: Mechanisms, Modeling, and Smart Nanotherapeutics Supervisor(s): Prof. Anil Kishen Graduate Unit: Faculty of Dentistry |
| Jan 13 | Name: Shashank Motepalli |
Decentralization in Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms: Quantification and Advancement Supervisor(s): Prof. Hans-Arno Jacobsen Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| Jan 14 | Name: Alice Shan |
Dissecting the Heterogeneity of Metastatic Neuroblastomas with Single Cell Transcriptomics Supervisor(s): Prof. David Kaplan, Prof. Meredith Irwin Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science |
| Jan 14 | Name: Melissa Biscardi |
Oculomotor Rehabilitation After Concussion in Adults Supervisor(s): Prof. Tatyana Mollayeva, Prof. Angela Colantonio Graduate Unit: Rehabilitation Sciences Institute |
| Jan 15 | Name: Eli S Joseph Jany |
“You think we are half shadows, but we know more than you”: Lives and Life Writing of Disabled Yiddish Speakers in Interwar Poland Supervisor(s): Prof. Angelica Fenner, Prof. Doris Bergen Graduate Unit: Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures |
| Jan 15 | Name: Belay Tadesse Gebregergis |
Investigating the Role of C9orf72 in Synaptic Func tion Supervisor(s): Prof. Janice Robertson Graduate Unit: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology |
| Jan 16 | Name: Eva Kristina Plesnik |
In the Shade on Parnassus: Places of Otium in Renaissance Humanism Supervisor(s): Prof. William Robins Graduate Unit: Centre for Medieval Studies |
| Jan 16 | Name: Miad Laghaei |
Peak-to-Average-Power-Ratio Reduction Techniques for Discrete Multi-Tone Systems Supervisor(s): Prof. Ali Sheikholeslami Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| Jan 19 | Name: Joseph McGowan |
An Amplified Stern-Gerlach Measurement of a Bose- Einstein Condensate Supervisor(s): Prof. Aephraim Steinberg Graduate Unit: Department of Physics |
| Jan 20 | Name: Alexandra Noelle Atiya |
Economic and Spiritual Conflict in Medieval East Anglian Drama Supervisor(s): Prof. Suzanne Akbari Graduate Unit: Centre for Medieval Studies |
| Jan 20 | Name: Garrett Morgan |
Goals, Gaps, and Good Intentions: Characterizing Justice in the Municipal Climate Action Strategies of Amsterdam, Glasgow, New Orleans, and Toronto Supervisor(s): Prof. Blake Poland, Prof. John Robinson Graduate Unit: Department of Geography and Planning |
| Jan 21 | Name: Raul Salas Reyes |
The Influence of the Differential Treatment Norm in the International Governance of Climate Change Supervisor(s): Prof. William Gough Graduate Unit: Dept. of Physical & Environmental Sci (UTSC) |
| Jan 21 | Name: Sebastien Roy-Garand |
Searches for Heavy Neutral Leptons in the ATLAS detector Supervisor(s): Prof. Nikolina Ilic Graduate Unit: Department of Physics |
| Jan 22 | Name: Fatemeh Mirshafiei Langari |
Targeting Metabolic Dysregulation in Ischemic Heart Disease by Identifying Reparative Mediators from Pediatric Stromal Cells Supervisor(s): Prof. Jason T. Maynes Graduate Unit: Department of Biochemistry |
| Jan 22 | Name: Yuqiu Zhang |
Taming Complexity and Uncertainty: An Adaptive Approach to Resource Management in Cloud-Native Systems Supervisor(s): Prof. Hans-Arno Jacobsen Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| Jan 23 | Name: Kiley Goyette |
Direct and Indirect Platform Labour Cleaning for Short-Term Rental Platforms Supervisor(s): Prof. Deborah Leslie Graduate Unit: Department of Geography and Planning |
| Jan 23 | Name: Mahreen Khan |
Characterizing Tandem Repeat Expansions and their Contributions to Disorders Supervisor(s): Prof. Christopher Pearson Graduate Unit: Department of Molecular Genetics |
| Jan 23 | Name: Sean Edward Grisdale |
PUBLIC LAND, PRIVATE PROFIT: LAND PRIVATIZATION AND THE RISE OF THE CONDOMINIUM IN THE CONDOMINIUM IN THE GREATER TORONTO AREA 1978-2023 Supervisor(s): Prof. Alan Walks Graduate Unit: Department of Geography and Planning |
| Jan 26 | Name: Steven Botts |
Uncovering Regulation of Aortic Endothelial Cell Fate by the ETS Transcription Factor ERG: Towards Novel Therapeutic Targets for Atherosclerosis Supervisor(s): Prof. Jason Fish, Prof. Kathryn Howe Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science |
| Jan 26 | Name: Zoya Fatima Tawhidi |
FcγRIII as a Central Effector in Antibody-Med Platelet Clearance: Mechanistic Insights Across Im mune Thrombocytopenic Disorders Supervisor(s): Prof. Alan Lazarus Graduate Unit: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology |
| Jan 27 | Name: Sophia Hailemariam |
Molecular characterization of the human immune response to Plasmodium falciparum transmission-blocking antigens Supervisor(s): Prof. Jean-Philippe Julien Graduate Unit: Department of Biochemistry |
| Jan 27 | Name: Jennifer Gottwald |
Toward Quantitative PET Imaging of Tumor Hypoxia i n Cervical Cancer Supervisor(s): Prof. David Jaffray Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics |
| Jan 28 | Name: Xiao Min Chang |
Retribution vs. Restoration: A Developmental Investigation of Judgments and Reasoning about Post-Transgression Interventions Supervisor(s): Prof. Tina Malti Graduate Unit: Department of Psychology |
| Jan 28 | Name: Gabrielle Migliato Marega |
Designing and Operating Sanitary Sewers Under Uncertainty in Data-Scarce Contexts Supervisor(s): Prof. David Meyer Graduate Unit: Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering |
| Jan 28 | Name: Namjee Kim |
Gallium Nitride High Electron Mobility Transistors for Liquid Cooled Power Module and Radio Frequency Applications Supervisor(s): Prof. Wai Tung Ng Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| Jan 28 | Name: Zijin Liu |
Bayesian Causal Inference Methods for Matrix-Value Data in Radiotherapy Planning Supervisor(s): Prof. Olli Samuli Saarela, Prof. Zhihui Liu Graduate Unit: Department of Public Health Sciences |
| Jan 28 | Name: Nana Gulic |
Gender and Citizenship Education: The Case of Croatia Supervisor(s): Prof. Miglena Todorova Graduate Unit: Department of Social Justice Education |
| Jan 29 | Name: Kleio Chatanaka |
Blood-based Proteomic Signatures for Distinguishin g Glioma Subtypes and Predicting Patient Outcomes Supervisor(s): Prof. Eleftherios Diamandis Graduate Unit: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology |
| Jan 30 | Name: Julia Tom |
From touch to movement: the role of central tactile suppression in the fine motor performance of expert musicians and musical novices. Supervisor(s): Prof. Joyce Chen Graduate Unit: Department of Kinesiology (Graduate) |
| Jan 30 | Name: Michael G Reid |
Sodomites and Woman-Haters: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Queer Experience Supervisor(s): Prof. Simon Dickie Graduate Unit: Department of English |