Doctoral Examinations & Schedule
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) |
|---|---|---|
| May 1 | Name: Bradley DeMatteo |
American Samleng: Voices of Cambodian Diaspora Supervisor(s): Prof. Joshua David Pilzer Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music |
| May 1 | Name: Bradley DeMatteo |
American Samleng: Voices of Cambodian Diaspora Supervisor(s): Prof. Joshua David Pilzer Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music |
| May 1 | Name: Kyla Lynn Greenham |
Synergistic Impact of Climate Change and Aquatic Invasive Species on Native Fish Communities Supervisor(s): Prof. Nicholas Mandrak Graduate Unit: Dept. of Physical & Environmental Sci (UTSC) |
| May 1 | Name: Rajat Sawanni |
A combined experimental and numerical study of pressure dependence of sooting processes in a counterflow diffusion flame Supervisor(s): Prof. Omer Gulder Graduate Unit: Institute for Aerospace Studies |
| May 1 | Name: Sanskriti Sasikumar |
Split-belt treadmill training to rehabilitate freezing of gait in Parkinsons disease Supervisor(s): Prof. Antonio Strafella Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science |
| May 2 | Name: Emily Xiong |
Leveraging Large-Scale Functional Genomic Screens to Identify and Characterize Genes with Environmentally Contingent Importance for Fitness in Candida albicans Supervisor(s): Prof. Leah Cowen Graduate Unit: Department of Molecular Genetics |
| May 2 | Name: Shezadi Khushal |
Dissonance between Human Rights Policies & Practice: An Examination of the Implementation of Human Rights Policies in Ontario Schools Supervisor(s): Prof. Ann Lopez Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education |
| May 2 | Name: Cheuk Yi Jovy Chan |
Managing the Human Herd in the Digital World Supervisor(s): Prof. Joseph Heath Graduate Unit: Department of Philosophy |
| May 2 | Name: Giovanni Jason Mastromarco |
Mechanisms of stress-induced biomolecular condensate disassembly and ALS-associated protein aggregation Supervisor(s): Prof. Hyun Lee Graduate Unit: Department of Biochemistry |
| May 2 | Name: Jaykumar Harshadkumar Patel |
Advancing MRI-guided Cardiac Interventions using 3D Cone Imaging Supervisor(s): Prof. Graham Wright Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics |
| May 2 | Name: Jingcheng Niu |
Towards the Renormalization of Transformer Language Models Supervisor(s): Prof. Gerald Penn Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
| May 2 | Name: Shai Bonen |
Devices, Circuits, and Architectures for Monolithic Quantum Computing Processors in Advanced Production CMOS Technologies Supervisor(s): Prof. Sorin Voinigescu Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| May 3 | Name: Xuan Shi |
Global Resolvent Analysis and Spectral Proper Orthogonal Decomposition of SDBD Plasma Actuator Effects on Airfoil Flow Dynamics Supervisor(s): Prof. Pierre Sullivan Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering |
| May 5 | Name: Yalin Sun |
Dopamine and Endocannabinoid System Interactions in Sex- and Age-Specific Neuropsychiatric Vulnerability Supervisor(s): Prof. Susan George Bahl Graduate Unit: Department of Pharmacology |
| May 5 | Name: Robin Swanson |
Computational Imaging for Extremely Large Telescopes Supervisor(s): Prof. Kiriakos Kutulakos Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
| May 5 | Name: Xincheng Zhang |
TASEP and the KPZ fixed point in half-space Supervisor(s): Prof. Jeremy Quastel Graduate Unit: Department of Mathematics |
| May 6 | Name: Daniel Dun-ning Woo Johnson |
Building Representations and Quantifying Uncertainty with Pairwise Consistency Supervisor(s): Prof. David Duvenaud, Prof. Christopher Maddison Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
| May 6 | Name: Tanya Elizabeth Bandula-Irwin |
The Determinants and Dimensions of Armed Group Taxation Supervisor(s): Prof. Wilson R.S Prichard Graduate Unit: Department of Political Science |
| May 6 | Name: Raeid Saqur |
Dynamic Adaptation to Financial Market Regimes Through Filtering and Reward Engineering of LLMs Supervisor(s): Prof. Frank Rudzicz Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
| May 6 | Name: Maryam Zanjir |
Developing a Core Outcome Set in Endodontics Supervisor(s): Prof. Amir Azarpazhooh, Prof. Carilynne Yarascavitch Graduate Unit: Faculty of Dentistry |
| May 6 | Name: Maryam Zanjir |
Developing a Core Outcome Set in Endodontics Supervisor(s): Prof. Amir Azarpazhooh, Prof. Carilynne Yarascavitch Graduate Unit: Faculty of Dentistry |
| May 6 | Name: Steven Patrick Ryan |
Three Essays in Public Economics Supervisor(s): Prof. Kory Kroft Graduate Unit: Department of Economics |
| May 7 | Name: Calder David Sheagren |
Evaluation of MRI Methods for Ventricular Radio- Frequency Ablation Planning in Patients With Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators. Supervisor(s): Prof. Graham Wright Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics |
| May 7 | Name: Daniel Sibley |
Surgical prehabilitation: expansion to a novel outcome and population target Supervisor(s): Prof. Daniel Santa Mina Graduate Unit: Department of Kinesiology (Graduate) |
| May 7 | Name: Eduardo Gutierrez Cornelius |
Car Wash Legacies: Lawyers, Globalization, and the the Restructuring of the Brazilian Penal Field Supervisor(s): Prof. Ron Levi, Prof. Sida Liu Graduate Unit: Department of Sociology |
| May 7 | Name: Camille Intson |
Gay Dreams and Feeling Machines: Queering Mediating Technologies in Performance Supervisor(s): Prof. Patrick Keilty Graduate Unit: Faculty of Information |
| May 7 | Name: Camille Intson |
Gay Dreams and Feeling Machines: Queering Mediating Technologies in Performance Supervisor(s): Prof. Patrick Keilty Graduate Unit: Faculty of Information |
| May 7 | Name: Charmaine Elizabeth Condy |
Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Black Widow Spiders (Latrodectus, Theridiidae) Supervisor(s): Prof. Maydianne Andrade, Prof. Nathan Richard Lovejoy Graduate Unit: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| May 8 | Name: Patricia Elizabeth Lenz |
Making (Radical) Change Real: Understanding the Relational Elements Necessary to Undertake Transformational Social Innovation Between Nonprofits and Local Governments Supervisor(s): Prof. Micheal Shier Graduate Unit: Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work |
| May 8 | Name: Patricia Elizabeth Lenz |
Making (Radical) Change Real: Understanding the Relational Elements Necessary to Undertake Transformational Social Innovation Between Nonprofits and Local Governments Supervisor(s): Prof. Micheal Shier Graduate Unit: Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work |
| May 9 | Name: Adithya Shankara Subramanian |
Mechanisms of Exopolysaccharide Modification and Export by Synthase-Dependent Systems Supervisor(s): Prof. Lynne Howell Graduate Unit: Department of Biochemistry |
| May 9 | Name: Meysam Roodi |
Accelerating the DNA Sequencing Pipeline Supervisor(s): Prof. Andreas Moshovos Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| May 9 | Name: Shengbo Zhang |
Evaluation and control of window shading for occupant comfort and energy efficiency in a residential context Supervisor(s): Prof. Marianne Touchie Windisch Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering |
| May 12 | Name: Joseph Bud Roach |
Digital Media as a Tool of Rhetorical Amplification in Historical Performance Supervisor(s): Prof. Jeffrey McFadden Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music |
| May 12 | Name: Ashkan Mirzaei |
Leveraging Image Generative Priors for 3D Editing Supervisor(s): Prof. Igor Gilitschenski, Prof. Jonathan Kelly Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
| May 12 | Name: Amirmehdi Salehi |
In-situ Nanofibrillation for Advanced Manufacturing of High-Performance Polypropylene-based Polymer Composites via Spun-bond Technology Supervisor(s): Prof. Chul Park Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering |
| May 12 | Name: Joseph Bud Roach |
Digital Media as a Tool of Rhetorical Amplification in Historical Performance Supervisor(s): Prof. Jeffrey McFadden Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music |
| May 12 | Name: Angela Zavaleta Bernuy |
A/B Testing in Computing Education Research Supervisor(s): Prof. Joseph Williams, Prof. Andrew Petersen Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
| May 12 | Name: Jun Gao |
Machine Learning for 3D Content Creation Supervisor(s): Prof. Sanja Fidler Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
| May 12 | Name: Kyu Min Ju |
Peace in Saint Augustine Supervisor(s): Prof. Ryan Balot Graduate Unit: Department of Political Science |
| May 13 | Name: Jeffrey Alexander Zuccato |
Leveraging DNA methylation signatures in tissue and biofluids for the prognostication and non-invasive detection of CNS tumours Supervisor(s): Prof. Gelareh Zadeh Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science |
| May 13 | Name: Stephen Tino |
Essays in the Economics of Immigration Supervisor(s): Prof. Kory Kroft Graduate Unit: Department of Economics |
| May 13 | Name: Connie He Yang |
Homeland Insecurities: Imaginative Geographies of Terrorism and the United States Israel Relation Supervisor(s): Prof. Matthew Farish, Prof. Emily Gilbert Graduate Unit: Department of Geography and Planning |
| May 13 | Name: Jacqueline Watkins |
Member Perspectives: Understanding How Beliefs and Attitudes Relate to Elementary Teachers Union Member Engagement in Ontario, Canada. Supervisor(s): Prof. Carol Campbell Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education |
| May 14 | Name: Caleb Labbe Phelan |
Performance as Translation: Virtuosity in Musical Modernity Supervisor(s): Prof. Sherry Lee Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music |
| May 14 | Name: Caleb Labbe Phelan |
Performance as Translation: Virtuosity in Musical Modernity Supervisor(s): Prof. Sherry Lee Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music |
| May 14 | Name: Alexandria Samson |
Longitudinal Sex Differences in Brain and Cognitive Function in Older Adults: Multivariate Analyses of Alzheimers Disease Risk Factors and Mild Cognitive Impairment Supervisor(s): Prof. Anthony Randal McIntosh Graduate Unit: Department of Psychology |
| May 15 | Name: Jotthi Bansal |
ASSESSING IMPACTS ON CAREER HUMAN AGENCY AND COUNSELLING NEEDS OF PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES DURING A PANDEMIC. Supervisor(s): Prof. Charles Chen Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development |
| May 15 | Name: Anubha Agarwal |
Essays in Macroeconomics Supervisor(s): Prof. Diego Restuccia, Prof. Murat Celik Graduate Unit: Department of Economics |
| May 15 | Name: Maria Eduarda Mendes Martins |
Time Sculptures for Orchestra Supervisor(s): Prof. Gary Kulesha Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music |
| May 15 | Name: Aditi Bhatia-Kalluri |
Rise of the Digital Financial Ecosystem in India: The Political Economy of Platforms, Gaps and Trends for Development Supervisor(s): Prof. Brett Caraway Graduate Unit: Faculty of Information |
| May 15 | Name: Aditi Bhatia-Kalluri |
Rise of the Digital Financial Ecosystem in India: The Political Economy of Platforms, Gaps and Trends for Development Supervisor(s): Prof. Brett Caraway Graduate Unit: Faculty of Information |
| May 15 | Name: Maria Eduarda Mendes Martins |
Time Sculptures for Orchestra Supervisor(s): Prof. Gary Kulesha Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music |
| May 16 | Name: Grayson Tilstra |
Design and Synthesis of Ionizable Lipids for mRNA Delivery Supervisor(s): Prof. Omar F. Khan Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering |
| May 20 | Name: Kristi Kerford |
Having It All? A Phenomenological Exploration of Women’s Sense of Fulfilment Supervisor(s): Prof. Charles Chen Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development |
| May 20 | Name: Qianfeng Shen |
A Three Layer Lossless and Low Latency Network Protocol Stack Implemented Using FPGAs Supervisor(s): Prof. Paul Chow Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| May 20 | Name: Jeremy Ko |
On Lock-Free Data Structures for Dynamic Sets and Their Amortized Step Complexities Supervisor(s): Prof. Faith Ellen Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
| May 20 | Name: Quin Yuhui Xie |
The Role of Gut Microbiota and Immunity in Risk fo r Youth-Onset Diabetes Supervisor(s): Prof. Jayne Danska Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics |
| May 21 | Name: Karly Franz |
Interbrain synchrony during a novel dyadic tracing task: analytical methods and socio-cognitive differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder Supervisor(s): Prof. Tom Chau Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering |
| May 21 | Name: Diana Nakib |
Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Profiling of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis and Healthy Livers: Defining Myeloid Dysregulation and Epithelial Identity in the Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Niche Supervisor(s): Prof. Sonya MacParland Graduate Unit: Department of Immunology |
| May 21 | Name: Ava Danialy |
Preclinical Evaluation of an MR-guided High ntensity Focused Ultrasound Platform for in-utero Therapy Supervisor(s): Prof. James McKenzie Drake Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering |
| May 21 | Name: Justin Gabriel Cowen |
The Role of GEF-H1 in the regulation of the Hippo Pathway Supervisor(s): Prof. Robert Rottapel Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics |
| May 21 | Name: Anna Mandel |
Selective targeting of epigenetic regulators in primary and metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma Supervisor(s): Prof. Rebecca Gladdy Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science |
| May 21 | Name: Mingyue Yang |
Application of Machine Learning in Program and Malware Analysis Supervisor(s): Prof. David Lie, Prof. Nicolas Papernot Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| May 23 | Name: Seyed Ali Jokar Jandaghi |
Methods to Improve Server Utilization by Analyzing Large-Scale Public Cloud Datasets Supervisor(s): Prof. Bianca Schroeder Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
| May 23 | Name: Alessio Aletta |
A World of Paper. Geography and spatiality in the Works of Luigi Pirandello Supervisor(s): Prof. Luca Somigli Graduate Unit: Department of Italian Studies |
| May 23 | Name: Victor Robert Lotocki |
Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Oxidative Doping of Conjugated Polymers with Complex Architectures Supervisor(s): Prof. Dwight Seferos Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry |
| May 23 | Name: Erich Daniel Luna Jacobs |
Decoloniality and the Critique of Modernity: An Interpretive Study on Walter Mignolo, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, and Arturo Escobar Supervisor(s): Prof. Margaret Kohn Graduate Unit: Department of Political Science |
| May 23 | Name: Bruno Staffa |
On density and equidistribution of stationary geodesic nets Supervisor(s): Prof. Yevgeny Liokumovich Graduate Unit: Department of Mathematics |
| May 23 | Name: Valeria Ratsch |
Harassment and Violence Faced by Latinas on Ontario Construction Industry Work Sites Supervisor(s): Prof. Kiran Mirchandani Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education |
| May 23 | Name: Zhixiang Chi |
Towards Model Adaptation at Test-time in Open-World Environments Supervisor(s): Prof. Konstantinos Plataniotis Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| May 23 | Name: Amin Dadashzade |
Protection of Transmission Lines in Power Systems with High Penetration of Inverter-Based Resources Supervisor(s): Prof. Ali Hooshyar Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| May 23 | Name: Khashayar Namdar |
Non-invasive MRI-based Pipelines for Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas Molecular Biomarker dentification and Beyond Using Machine Learning Supervisor(s): Prof. Farzad Khalvati Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science |
| May 26 | Name: Somayyeh Kamalou |
Relating Process to Outcome: Resolution of Self-Criticism Process, Client Post-Session and Post-Treatment Changes, and Working Alliance in Emotion-Focused Therapy for Depression Supervisor(s): Prof. Jeanne Watson Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development |
| May 26 | Name: Sujay Nagaraj |
Reconciling with Noise in Machine Learning for Health Supervisor(s): Prof. Anna Goldenberg Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
| May 27 | Name: Anna Kozak |
Gender and Genre in Queer American Autobiography Supervisor(s): Prof. Naomi Morgenstern Graduate Unit: Department of English |
| May 27 | Name: Edna Lopez Avila |
Systematic Noise Trading, Social Media, and the Impact on Equity and Options Markets Supervisor(s): Prof. Chay Ornthanalai, Prof. Charles Martineau Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Management |
| May 27 | Name: Edna Lopez Avila |
Systematic Noise Trading, Social Media, and the Impact on Equity and Options Markets Supervisor(s): Prof. Chay Ornthanalai, Prof. Charles Martineau Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Management |
| May 28 | Name: Shahrzad Mirzaei |
Acquisition du placement de l’accent tonique en francais L2 chez les apprenants persanophones : etude des effets eventuels des contraintes morpho-phonologiques de la L1 Supervisor(s): Prof. Jeffrey Steele Graduate Unit: Department of French |
| May 28 | Name: Samer Hamamji |
Development Evaluation of a Food Choices Assessment Score according to 2019 Canadas Food Guide, and its association with Cardiometabolic Risk, Socioeconomic Status, and 10-Year Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Findings from the Canadian Health Measures Survey Supervisor(s): Prof. Mary L’Abbe Graduate Unit: Department of Nutritional Sciences |
| May 28 | Name: Weiyi Xiao |
USING REVISION PROMPTS TO FACILITATE KNOWLEDGE CREATION IN THREADED DISCUSSIONS: AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY Supervisor(s): Prof. Shelley Stagg Peterson Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning |
| May 28 | Name: Nicole Isabelle George |
Pathways for decolonial FSL literacies in Teacher Education Supervisor(s): Prof. Diane Farmer Graduate Unit: Department of Social Justice Education |
| May 29 | Name: Jennifer Gutberg |
Navigating an Epoch-Shaping Crisis: Exploring Top Management Teams’ Sense- and Decision-Making through COVID-19 Supervisor(s): Prof. G. Ross Baker Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation |
| May 29 | Name: Wenyangzi Shi |
Growing as English language teachers: A case study of international graduate students in Toronto Supervisor(s): Prof. Normand Labrie Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning |
| May 29 | Name: Xiaomeng Ma |
The Development Pattern of Multimorbid conditions Accompanying Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Associated Disease Management Supervisor(s): Prof. Walter Wodchis Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation |
| May 29 | Name: Mohammad Reza Talebi Bidhendi |
Multiscale modeling of materials and structures under extreme conditions Supervisor(s): Prof. Kamran Behdinan Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering |
| May 30 | Name: Samantha Burns |
Supporting Children’s Development Through Caregiver Responsivity in Early Childhood Education Supervisor(s): Prof. Michal Perlman Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development |
| May 30 | Name: Gianluca Villani |
Multistability Analysis in Networks of Positive Loop Motifs Supervisor(s): Prof. Luca Scardovi Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| May 30 | Name: Brady Park |
Effect of Semaglutide on Vascular Regenerative Cells in People at Risk of Atherosclerosis Supervisor(s): Prof. Subodh Verma Graduate Unit: Department of Pharmacology |