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Doctoral Examinations & Schedule

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 University Registrar’s Office website under Current Fall–Winter Fee & Refund Schedules.

In-person examinations at the School of Graduate Studies

Requests to book the rooms at 63 St. George Street are covered by the following guidelines.

  • Exam rooms are available for blocks of up to three (3) hours between 9:30 AM and 4:30 PM ET, Monday to Friday.
  • Exam rooms have maximum capacities as indicated on the Book a Meeting Room website.
  • All participants should bring their laptop or tablet with them; the computer, camera, and microphone in the room can be used to provide a full room view for remote participants. The computer is currently configured for anyone to sign into their Zoom or Microsoft Teams account. Teleconference is also available for a maximum of two participants.
  • All signature files and forms will be administered electronically.
  • Please avoid the use of perfume, cologne, hairspray and other scented products when you visit the School of Graduate Studies. Refer to the University’s Guidelines on the Use of Perfumes and Scented Products.

Doctoral examination schedule

Exam DateStudent NameExam Information
(Thesis, Supervisor(s), Graduate Unit)
Sep 1Name: Kelsey Alexandra Lanctot Eakin More Than a Feeling: Charting a Path to Residential Thermal Comfort and Health for Older Adults in Canada
Supervisor(s): Prof. Marianne Touchie Windisch, Prof. Liam OBrien
Graduate Unit: Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering
Sep 1Name: Maryam Rezvani Metasurface Antennas for Wireless Communications
Supervisor(s): Prof. Raviraj Adve
Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Sep 1Name: Umang R Khan The Psychology of Moral Goodness: Judgments of Obligation, Temptation and Effort
Supervisor(s): Prof. Christina Starmans
Graduate Unit: Department of Psychology
Sep 1Name: Fatemeh Ghasemi Matching Vector PIR: Improvements and Limitations
Supervisor(s): Prof. Swastik Kopparty
Graduate Unit: Department of Mathematics
Sep 1Name: Desmond Wong Remembering Futures: Engaging Black and Indigenous Youth in the Practices of Memory Work
Supervisor(s): Prof. Eve Tuck
Graduate Unit: Department of Social Justice Education
Sep 1Name: Weilong Gu Sources of Variation in CYP Activity Relevant to Substance Use and Disorders
Supervisor(s): Prof. Rachel Tyndale
Graduate Unit: Department of Pharmacology
Sep 1Name: Xiang Ni Theoretical Designing of Carbon Nanothreads and MX ene-SAC for Post Lithium-ion Batteries
Supervisor(s): Prof. Chandra Veer Singh
Graduate Unit: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Sep 1Name: Zeyuan Cheng Machine Learning Surrogate-based Multidisciplinary Design Optimization For Coupled Aeroacoustics Of The Aircraft Landing Gear
Supervisor(s): Prof. Kamran Behdinan
Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Sep 1Name: Qirat Faza Ashraf Mutation-Driven Hyperactivation of STAT5B: Structural, Allosteric, and Therapeutic Insights with Broader Implications for STAT Signalling
Supervisor(s): Prof. Patrick Gunning, Prof. Scott Prosser
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Sep 1Name: Praveen Jayakumar Designing Unitary Transformations for Efficient Quantum Chemistry Simulations
Supervisor(s): Prof. Artur Izmaylov
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Sep 1Name: Spencer Albert State Action: From Agency to Attribution and Back
Supervisor(s): Prof. Avia Pasternak
Graduate Unit: Department of Philosophy
Sep 1Name: Seyed Mohammad Sheikholeslami Multimodal Federated Learning over Resource-limited Wireless Networks
Supervisor(s): Prof. Konstantinos Plataniotis
Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Sep 1Name: Sara Shivafard Sexual violence prevention in Ontario public colleges: Focus on practitioners and institutional practice
Supervisor(s): Prof. Miglena Todorova
Graduate Unit: Department of Social Justice Education
Sep 1Name: Shelly D. Buckingham Exploring Caregiver Engagement with a Digital ADHD Intervention in Under-Resourced Contexts
Supervisor(s): Prof. Eunice Eunhee Jang
Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
Sep 1Name: Lindsay Shauna Stern Predicting and Preventing Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries within the Aging Population using Digital Health Technologies
Supervisor(s): Prof. Tilak Dutta
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Sep 2Name: Anne Frances Kirvan Developing Virtual Care Competencies for Social Work Practice in Physical and Mental Healthcare
Supervisor(s): Prof. Faye Mishna
Graduate Unit: Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Sep 2Name: Anne Frances Kirvan Developing Virtual Care Competencies for Social Work Practice in Physical and Mental Healthcare
Supervisor(s): Prof. Faye Mishna
Graduate Unit: Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Sep 2Name: Christine Tewfik Fawzy Tewfik The Impact of Culture on Teachers Understanding and Implementation of 21st Century Competencies
Supervisor(s): Prof. James Slotta
Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Sep 2Name: Jean-Francois Crepault What Is a Public Health Approach to Substance Use? An Investigation in Three Parts
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jurgen Rehm
Graduate Unit: Department of Public Health Sciences
Sep 2Name: Julia Nomikos Characterizing the immune microenvironment and generating novel MYOD1L122R murine models of rhabdomyosarcoma
Supervisor(s): Prof. Rebecca Gladdy
Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
Sep 2Name: Tianyi Lyu Process-Driven Microstructure Evolution in Laser P owder Bed Fusion of Steels
Supervisor(s): Prof. Yu Zou
Graduate Unit: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Sep 2Name: Jeffrey Youn NMR spectroscopy and Biophysical Studies of the Structure and Interactions of the Disordered Kir6.2 C-terminal Tail
Supervisor(s): Prof. Voula Kanelis
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Sep 2Name: Mennatallah Samir Fayez Alnahas Monitoring of Harmful Algal Blooms in Drinking Water Treatment
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ronald Hofmann
Graduate Unit: Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering
Sep 2Name: Ty Trusty Efficient Simulation of Stiff Problems in Elastodynamics
Supervisor(s): Prof. David Levin
Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science
Sep 2Name: Faraz Khoshbakhtian Critical Node Detection In Networks: Policy Extraction, Learing, And Combinatorial Search For Practical Interventions
Supervisor(s): Prof. Scott Sanner
Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Sep 2Name: Imrul Kayes Biogenic Methane Fluxes Across Urban Ecosystems: Environmental Controls and Biochar-based Mitigation
Supervisor(s): Prof. Sean Thomas
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Forestry
Sep 3Name: Adriana Marroquin Rodriguez Privilege and Precarity in International Student Mobility: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study of Latin American and Caribbean Students in Taiwan
Supervisor(s): Prof. Elizabeth Buckner
Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Sep 3Name: Matthew Martin Mucha Dictatorial Cultures Across the Luzon Strait: Gendered Memory in the Martial Law Literatures of Taiwan and the Philippines
Supervisor(s): , Prof. Robert Diaz
Graduate Unit: Centre for Comparative Literature
Sep 3Name: Matthew Martin Mucha Dictatorial Cultures Across the Luzon Strait: Gendered Memory in the Martial Law Literatures of Taiwan and the Philippines
Supervisor(s): , Prof. Shana Ye
Graduate Unit: Centre for Comparative Literature
Sep 3Name: Yan Li Interpretable Machine Learning for Survival Analysis
Supervisor(s): Prof. Scott Sanner
Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Sep 3Name: Ahmed Esawi Babiker Osman “Projectified” Health System Strengthening: How Health Benefits Packages Stall on the Path to Universal Health Coverage Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Supervisor(s): Prof. Fiona Miller
Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
Sep 3Name: Shuping Wang Anaerobic Biotransformation of Amino- and Nitro-Su bstituted Chlorobenzenes Using Multi-Element Compo und Specific Isotope Analysis
Supervisor(s): Prof. Elodie Passeport
Graduate Unit: Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering
Sep 3Name: Farzaneh Mahdisoltani Structure-Aware Methods in Machine Learning
Supervisor(s): Prof. David James Fleet
Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science
Sep 3Name: Jo-Ann Baawah Osei-Twum Chronic Kidney Disease and Health Inequities: A Mixed Methods Critical Analysis of a Machine Learning Population Health Management, Using Health Administrative Data
Supervisor(s): Prof. Laura Rosella
Graduate Unit: Department of Public Health Sciences
Sep 3Name: Nil Alt The Regime of Exhaustion: Disarticulations of Capital, Labour, and Ecology on Turkeys Cherry Frontier
Supervisor(s): Prof. Sarah Wakefield, Prof. Mike Ekers
Graduate Unit: Department of Geography and Planning
Sep 3Name: Mackenzie Eli William Loranger Investigation of Immune Priming: Screening and Characterising Bacterial and Chemical-Induced Plant Immunity
Supervisor(s): Prof. Keiko Yoshioka
Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology
Sep 3Name: Ayokunle Abdulfattah Lekuti Engineering Stable DNA-Coated Surfaces for Improve d Nanoparticle Identification and Biomolecule dete ction
Supervisor(s): Prof. David Hwang
Graduate Unit: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Sep 4Name: Serra Yildirim Beyond the conventional lens: exploring the impact of indoor environmental quality on student wellbeing in a university campus environment
Supervisor(s): Prof. Marianne Touchie Windisch
Graduate Unit: Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering
Sep 4Name: Guangbiao Pu Designing and Implementing an Interdisciplinary Studies Course (IDC4U) in AI and Business Innovation for Ontario Secondary Schools: A Design-Based Research Case Study
Supervisor(s): Prof. James Slotta
Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Sep 4Name: Ke Chen Forgotten Not
Supervisor(s): Prof. Norbert Palej
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Sep 4Name: Ke Chen Forgotten Not
Supervisor(s): Prof. Norbert Palej
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Sep 4Name: Dorothy Diana Apedaile Investigating Housing Insecurity and HIV Vulnerability Among Transgender Women in the United States
Supervisor(s): Prof. Susan Bondy
Graduate Unit: Department of Public Health Sciences
Sep 4Name: Tiffany Tresa Hill Good grief: Politics, possibilities, and the practices of returning to lands, waters, and kin with Indigenous, Black, and racialized young people
Supervisor(s): Prof. Eve Tuck
Graduate Unit: Department of Social Justice Education
Sep 4Name: Suhyeon Yoo Towards Culturally Responsive Song Signing: Examining the Design and Evaluation of Performer- and Audience-Centered Interventions
Supervisor(s): Prof. Khai Nhut Truong
Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science
Sep 4Name: Steven Kuan Yu Chen Evolution for High Light Sensitivity in the G Protein-Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin
Supervisor(s): Prof. Belinda Chang
Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology
Sep 4Name: Prokhor Protasov Viola Concerto
Supervisor(s): Prof. Christos Hatzis
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Sep 4Name: Prokhor Protasov Viola Concerto
Supervisor(s): Prof. Christos Hatzis
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Sep 8Name: Adithya Chakravarthy Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves
Supervisor(s): Prof. Vijayakumar Murty
Graduate Unit: Department of Mathematics
Sep 8Name: Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi ENERGY AND SPECTRUM EFFICIENT COMMUNICATIONS FOR NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORKS: FROM SMALL CELLS TO UAV AND RIS
Supervisor(s): Prof. Shahrokh Valaee
Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Sep 8Name: Zhiqi Liang Rejuvenation of Aged Bone Marrow Sinusoidal Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Restores Their Hematopoietic Stem Cell-Supporting Function
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ren-Ke Li
Graduate Unit: Department of Physiology
Sep 8Name: Amad M. Jamil Al-Azzawi Reforming Pharmacy Education in Developing Health Care Systems: The Case of Clinical Training in the United Arab Emirates
Supervisor(s): Prof. Elizabeth Buckner
Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Sep 8Name: Brandon Hey Disrupting Despair: Exploring Relational Health and Life Course Dimensions of Suicidality among Indigenous Fathers in Canada
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jeffrey Ansloos
Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
Sep 8Name: Gavin Robert Hurd Prequantization of transitive Courant algebroids
Supervisor(s): Prof. Marco Gualtieri
Graduate Unit: Department of Mathematics
Sep 8Name: Zian Zhang Equity in Education: Impacts and Challenges of Grade 9 De-Streamed Mathematics Curriculum Policy Implementation in Ontario
Supervisor(s): Prof. Douglas McDougall
Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Sep 8Name: Mahdi Behdani Spatially-Dispersive Leaky-Wave Antennas for Sensing
Supervisor(s): Prof. Sean Hum
Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Sep 8Name: Ellen Glyn Marshall Nikelski Exploring the Role of Mitonuclear Coevolution as a Driver of Avian Speciation
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jason Tyler Weir
Graduate Unit: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Sep 8Name: Reem Essam Hamdy Ayad The Social Embeddedness of Moral Evaluations of Artificial Intelligence
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jason Plaks
Graduate Unit: Department of Psychology
Sep 8Name: Nokuzola Songo Living in a Crime Scene: Siyazikhulumela (speaking among ourselves) and the Intimate Geographies of Black Women’s Survival During Udlame (civil war) in South Africa
Supervisor(s): Prof. Thembela Kepe
Graduate Unit: Department of Geography and Planning
Sep 8Name: Diego Jose Proano Falconi Out-of-Pocket Spending on Oral Health Care and Financial Hardship Among Canadian Households
Supervisor(s): Prof. Carlos R. Quinonez, Prof. Sonica Singhal
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Dentistry
Sep 8Name: Diego Jose Proano Falconi Out-of-Pocket Spending on Oral Health Care and Financial Hardship Among Canadian Households
Supervisor(s): Prof. Carlos R. Quinonez, Prof. Sonica Singhal
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Dentistry
Sep 8Name: Natasha Shokri Higher Education as a Colonial Affective Structure and the Question of Happiness
Supervisor(s): Prof. Njoki Wane
Graduate Unit: Department of Social Justice Education
Sep 8Name: Sarina Ruth Simmons Mennonite Missions on Manidoo Ziibi: Cosmologies of Land and Relationality in Treaty #3
Supervisor(s): Prof. Pamela Klassen
Graduate Unit: Department for the Study of Religion
Sep 8Name: Karlye Wong Long-Term Field Performance of Decentralized UV Disinfection for Harvested Rainwater in Climate- Vulnerable Settings
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ronald Hofmann
Graduate Unit: Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering
Sep 9Name: Sara Sino Identifying Strategies That Can Be Implemented to Promote the Use of Question Prompt Lists: A Multiple Methods Study in the Context of Preventing Premature Cardiovascular Disease After Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy
Supervisor(s): Prof. Anna Gagliardi, Prof. Gillian Booth
Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
Sep 9Name: Yuan Gao Towards Digital Cardiac Assessment: Learning Cardi ac Structure and Function from Wearable and Multim odal Clinical Data
Supervisor(s): Prof. Chris McIntosh
Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics
Sep 9Name: Prisca Ogochukwu Eze Towards Equitable Psychopathology Assessment: Examining Measurement Equivalence and Racialized Experiences in MMPI-3 Assessment
Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael Bagby
Graduate Unit: Department of Psychology
Sep 9Name: Fateme Sadat Sajadi A Unified Finiteness Theorem for Curves over Global Fields
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jacov Tsimerman
Graduate Unit: Department of Mathematics
Sep 9Name: Nanqiao Du Advancing Teleseismic Full-waveform Inversion Based on the Spectral-Element Method: with Application to the Central Cascadia Subduction Zone
Supervisor(s): Prof. Qinya Liu
Graduate Unit: Department of Earth Sciences
Sep 9Name: Sepehr Hoomani Rad Thin Film Drainage and Island Evolution Dynamics Beneath Emulsion Drops: Effects of Surfactant, Substrate Wettability, and Drop Size
Supervisor(s): Prof. Arun Ramchandran, Prof. Edgar Joel Acosta
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Sep 9Name: Pedro Armando Mendez Ocampo Metal-Ligand Cooperativity in Manganese and Iron Complexes: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Catalysis
Supervisor(s): Prof. Datong Song
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Sep 9Name: Nathan John Carlson Understanding the early universe and the evolution of the Cosmic Web through simulated observations
Supervisor(s): Prof. J Richard Bond
Graduate Unit: Department of Physics
Sep 9Name: Zoha Faheem Investigating the Role of Interferon and Barrier Sites in Promoting Flares in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Supervisor(s): Prof. Joan Wither
Graduate Unit: Department of Immunology
Sep 9Name: Andriy Bilen’kyy Varieties of Aboutness: Themes, Fiction, and Literature
Supervisor(s): Prof. Sonia Sedivy
Graduate Unit: Department of Philosophy
Sep 9Name: Mohammad Yaghini Multi-Objective and Multi-Agent Trustworthy Machine Learning
Supervisor(s): Prof. Nicolas Papernot
Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Sep 9Name: Alyson Burtch Beyond Knowledge: How Scientific Literacy and Motivated Reasoning Shape Undergraduate Science and Engineering Students’ Perspectives on Socioscientific Issues
Supervisor(s): Prof. Creso Sa
Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Sep 9Name: Michaela Dorothy Soriano Centre-Based Childcare Attendance in Early Childhood and Child Adiposity and Nutrition
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jonathon Maguire
Graduate Unit: Department of Nutritional Sciences
Sep 9Name: Aakash Solanki Governing Indeterminately: An Ethnography of Techn opopulism from India
Supervisor(s): Prof. Todd Sanders, Prof. Francis Cody
Graduate Unit: Department of Anthropology
Sep 9Name: Iulia Roitenberg Vision as Compass Work: An Interpretive Description Study of How Ontario Public Health Leaders Create Resilient and Future-Ready Organizations
Supervisor(s): Prof. Adalsteinn Brown
Graduate Unit: Department of Public Health Sciences
Sep 9Name: Atang Salepito Navigating Justice and Culture: Intimate Partner Violence and Legal Frameworks in Botswana Through a Decolonial and Intersectional Lens
Supervisor(s): Prof. Njoki Wane
Graduate Unit: Department of Social Justice Education
Sep 9Name: Jessica Bundy African Nova Scotian Perceptions of the Police in Urban Nova Scotia
Supervisor(s): Prof. N. Scot Wortley
Graduate Unit: Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
Sep 9Name: Nidhi Panwar Crisis Intensification and Populist Mobilization i in the Third and Fourth Party Systems in India 1989-2024
Supervisor(s): Prof. Kanta Murali
Graduate Unit: Department of Political Science
Sep 10Name: Xiaohan Zhou There and Back Again: Mapping the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of GPCRs in Live Cells
Supervisor(s): Prof. Claudiu Gradinaru
Graduate Unit: Department of Physics
Sep 10Name: Ziyu Cheng Chinese Contemporary Art at the Venice Biennale: A History of Transnational Networks and Infrastructures (1993-2007)
Supervisor(s): Prof. Alberto Zambenedetti
Graduate Unit: Dept. of Italian Spanish Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Sep 10Name: Kai Gu Negative Marginal Densities and Kernel-Mediated Trajectory Representations in the Mixed Quantum- Classical Liouville Dynamics
Supervisor(s): Prof. Estate of Jeremy Schofield, Prof. Artur Izmaylov
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Sep 10Name: Kenny Patrick Figueira-Rebelo Functions of the human 40S hnRNP ribonucleosome
Supervisor(s): Prof. Benjamin Blencowe
Graduate Unit: Department of Molecular Genetics
Sep 10Name: Alireza Rahimi Development of Lithium-Based Cathode and Solid Electrolyte Coatings Using Solution Precursor High-Velocity Oxygen Fuel Spraying
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ali Dolatabadi
Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Sep 10Name: Fabio Gregorio Arriola Pacheco Needs Assessment and Logic Model Development of a First Nations Preventive Paediatric Oral Health Program in Canada
Supervisor(s): Prof. Herenia Lawrence
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Dentistry
Sep 10Name: Fabio Gregorio Arriola Pacheco Needs Assessment and Logic Model Development of a First Nations Preventive Paediatric Oral Health Program in Canada
Supervisor(s): Prof. Herenia Lawrence
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Dentistry
Sep 10Name: Khandaker Mohammed Rezaul Karim Ecological patterns and environmental drivers of foliar methane (CH₄) and nitrous oxide (N&#8 fluxes
Supervisor(s): Prof. Sean Thomas
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Forestry
Sep 10Name: M Umar Qureshi Leadership at High-Needs Elementary Schools in Ontario: Competencies for Principal Efficacy
Supervisor(s): Prof. Joseph Flessa
Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Sep 10Name: David Brian Jeffrey Crompton CONSTRUCTION OF NOVEL BIOPHYSICAL COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF BASAL GANGLIA DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION
Supervisor(s): Prof. Milad Lankarany, Prof. Frances Skinner
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Sep 10Name: Ana Zdravkovic Barber Emotionally Aware Learning Environments: A Multi-Modal and Explainable AI Investigation of Affect, Physiology, and Performance During Math Digital Game-Based Learning
Supervisor(s): Prof. Earl Woodruff
Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
Sep 10Name: Samuel Ga-Ching Lui Diversification in Bacterial Communities Through Trade-offs
Supervisor(s): Prof. Sidhartha Goyal
Graduate Unit: Department of Physics
Sep 10Name: Stefan Mihailo Mladjenovic Nanoparticle transport and release from tumour blo od vessel barriers
Supervisor(s): Prof. Sonya MacParland
Graduate Unit: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Sep 10Name: Qiujin Ma A Direct Derivation Method of Floor Response Spectrum for Multiple Degree-of-Freedom Structures
Supervisor(s): Prof. Oh-Sung Kwon
Graduate Unit: Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering
Sep 10Name: Jason Brennan Nerding Out: Literacy, Place, and Pedagogy in Postdigital Times
Supervisor(s): Prof. Rob Simon
Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Sep 10Name: Simran Kaur Nerval A Multi-pronged Approach to Characterize and Constrain the Early Universe
Supervisor(s): Prof. Renee Hlozek
Graduate Unit: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Sep 10Name: Patrick O’Reilly-Fleming Chromatic Trichord Improvisation: A Guitar-Centred Approach
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jeff Packman
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Sep 10Name: Patrick O’Reilly-Fleming Chromatic Trichord Improvisation: A Guitar-Centred Approach
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jeff Packman
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Sep 10Name: Runlin Yuan Design, Modelling, and Validation of a Novel Continuous Layer Freeze Concentration Process for Water Recovery
Supervisor(s): Prof. Vladimiros Papangelakis
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Sep 10Name: Liam Blair Fox Extractive Attachments: Energy Transition and the Making of the Prairie West
Supervisor(s): Prof. Scott Prudham, Prof. Deborah Cowen
Graduate Unit: Department of Geography and Planning
Sep 10Name: Kathryn Elizabeth Rayne Furtado Conceiving Community: The Intellectualist Ethics Eris and Philotes in Early Greek Political Thought
Supervisor(s): Prof. Victoria Wohl
Graduate Unit: Department of Classics
Sep 10Name: Sumayya Saleem Labour Market Signals and Equity Across the Employment Lifecycle: Evidence from the Early Learning and Child Care Sector
Supervisor(s): Prof. Michal Perlman
Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
Sep 11Name: Jesse Aaron Staats Governing for Self-determination: Indigenous Education Councils (IECs) and University Governance in Ontario
Supervisor(s): Prof. Glen Jones
Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Sep 11Name: Behrang Mohajer Multiscale and Multiphysics Simulation of the Spunbonding Drawing Region: From Drafter Airflow and Flow-induced Crystallization to Fiber-in-fiber
Supervisor(s): Prof. Chul Park, Prof. Markus Bussmann
Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Sep 11Name: Patrick Hugh Goodwin The Inner Virtuoso: An Exploratory Study of the Use of Mental Imagery by Violinists
Supervisor(s): Prof. Robin Elliott
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Sep 11Name: Rainni Chen d-wave Mid-Gap Andreev Resonant States in Spin- Active Superconducting Junctions: From Proximity Effects to Scanning Probe Applications
Supervisor(s): Prof. John Wei
Graduate Unit: Department of Physics
Sep 11Name: Patrick Hugh Goodwin The Inner Virtuoso: An Exploratory Study of the Use of Mental Imagery by Violinists
Supervisor(s): Prof. Robin Elliott
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Sep 11Name: Joshua Tolulope David Identity, Agency, and Performance Aesthetics: A Study of Opera and the Operatic Voice in Lagos, Nigeria (2000-2023)
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ellen Lockhart
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Sep 11Name: Joshua Tolulope David Identity, Agency, and Performance Aesthetics: A Study of Opera and the Operatic Voice in Lagos, Nigeria (2000-2023)
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ellen Lockhart
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Sep 11Name: Renato Carvalho Becoming a Critical Educator: Examining Teachers’ Practice Change Towards Critical Action Learning
Supervisor(s): Prof. James Slotta
Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Sep 11Name: Gang Yang Earthquake Source Characterization with Uncertainty Quantification based on Three- dimensional Velocity Models: with Application to Induced Earthquakes in Oklahoma
Supervisor(s): Prof. Qinya Liu
Graduate Unit: Department of Physics
Sep 11Name: Steven Dupas Isoform-Resolution Single-Cell CRISPR Screening Reveals Convergent Functions of Microexons during Neurogenesis
Supervisor(s): Prof. Benjamin Blencowe
Graduate Unit: Department of Molecular Genetics
Sep 11Name: Alireza Keshavarzian Randomized Techniques in Representation Learning for Efficient Time Series Classification
Supervisor(s): Prof. Shahrokh Valaee
Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Sep 11Name: Aleksandra Fomina Engineering spatially defined pancreatic cancer niches for studying tumour stroma immune interactions
Supervisor(s): Prof. Alison McGuigan
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Sep 11Name: Sajdeep Singh Soomal The Chemicalization of Substance
Supervisor(s): Prof. Michelle Murphy
Graduate Unit: Department of History
Sep 11Name: Logan Richard James Murphy A Theory of Argumentation for Assurance of Configurable Systems
Supervisor(s): Prof. Marsha Chechik
Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science
Sep 11Name: Katherine Sawicka Self-management in Youth with Multiple Sclerosis During Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care and to Early Adulthood
Supervisor(s): Prof. Brian Feldman
Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
Sep 11Name: Qiaoyu Liang Topics on Bayesian Hypothesis Assessment
Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael Evans
Graduate Unit: Department of Statistical Sciences
Sep 11Name: Alexander Douglas Jacob Temporal Dynamics of Multi-Session Reward Formation in the Lateral Amygdala
Supervisor(s): Prof. Sheena Josselyn
Graduate Unit: Department of Psychology
Sep 11Name: Ji Zhang Oxygen Consumption and Hypoxia Tolerance as Driver s of Tumour Hypoxia
Supervisor(s): Prof. Bradly Wouters
Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics
Sep 11Name: Xinyang Zhang Pharmacological Targeting of TRPM7 Kinase and Channel Activity in Experimental Ischemic Brain Injury
Supervisor(s): Prof. Hong-Shuo Sun
Graduate Unit: Department of Physiology
Sep 11Name: Jennifer Wilson Vocal Timbre in the Performance of French Repertoire
Supervisor(s): Prof. Daniel Taylor
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Sep 11Name: Jennifer Wilson Vocal Timbre in the Performance of French Repertoire
Supervisor(s): Prof. Daniel Taylor
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Sep 11Name: Graham Robert Johnson Inaudita in id genus versuum dulcedine Educated Women in Early Medieval Germany, c.850-c. 1050
Supervisor(s): Prof. Shami Ghosh
Graduate Unit: Centre for Medieval Studies
Sep 11Name: Ian Wigglesworth The Governance and Responsible Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in the Ontario College System
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ruth Childs
Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Sep 11Name: Shahab Ramezanpour Engineering Dissipation for Exceptional Tunable Nanophotonics and Quantum Computing
Supervisor(s): Prof. Amr Helmy
Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Sep 11Name: Soroush Mehraban From Video to Biomarkers: Learning-Based Gait Analysis for Clinical Mobility Assessment
Supervisor(s): Prof. Babak Taati
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Sep 11Name: Di Mo How Are Lexically Ambiguous Words Represented and Processed?
Supervisor(s): Prof. Blair Armstrong
Graduate Unit: Department of Psychology
Sep 11Name: Seyed Pourya Moghadam Kouhi Multimodal AI Systems for Privacy-Preserving Activity of Daily Living Monitoring in Smart Homes
Supervisor(s): Prof. Azadeh Kushki, Prof. Dinesh Kumbhare
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Sep 11Name: Ilias Halimi Application of AFM to study the chain packing of bulk and thin polymer films
Supervisor(s): Prof. Gilbert Walker
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Sep 14Name: Leila Moslemi Mehni Visualizing Iran: Print Culture, Public Discourse, and Editorial Cartoons
Supervisor(s): Prof. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Graduate Unit: Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations
Sep 14Name: Madeline Erlich The Role of Soy for Metabolic Health
Supervisor(s): Prof. John Sievenpiper
Graduate Unit: Department of Nutritional Sciences
Sep 14Name: Ariana Alexandra Ellis “Go as a valiant knight” : Public Execution and Popular Memory in Venice and London, 1483 to 1607
Supervisor(s): Prof. Nicholas Terpstra
Graduate Unit: Department of History
Sep 14Name: Guocheng Jiang Brain Structure and Function in Community-Dwelling Adults: Insights on Cerebrovascular Disease Using Regional and Network-based Approaches
Supervisor(s): Prof. Bradley MacIntosh
Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics
Sep 14Name: Nicole Daniella Cesca Reimagining Walking Assessment and Treatment for Individuals Living with Spinal Cord Injury: A Focus on Gait Adaptability
Supervisor(s): Prof. Kristin Musselman
Graduate Unit: Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
Sep 14Name: Bruno Luis de Oliveira Andreotti Availability and Negotiability: I-Implicatures and the Discourse Life of Default Inferences
Supervisor(s): Prof. Barend Beekhuizen, Prof. Michela Ippolito
Graduate Unit: Department of Linguistics
Sep 14Name: Erdem Idil Intimate Histories of Venetians in Istanbul: Trans-Imperial Texts, Bodies, and Governance, 1650-1800
Supervisor(s): Prof. E. Natalie Rothman
Graduate Unit: Department of History
Sep 14Name: Ahmad Ribal Israwi Delineating the Role of TRPV4 in Neuronal Function
Supervisor(s): Prof. Joanne Nash
Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology
Sep 14Name: Aisha Olaitan Raji Feasibility of a Collaborative Robot for Retraining Reaching and Grasping in Stroke and Spinal Cord Injury
Supervisor(s): Prof. Milos Popovic, Prof. Cesar Marquez Chin
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Sep 15Name: Mohammad Goudarzi Rad Feasibility and acceptability of Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation for apnea detected by Capnography (TESCapno): A Pilot Randomized Control Trial
Supervisor(s): Prof. Aaron Conway, Prof. Robyn Stremler
Graduate Unit: Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
Sep 15Name: Mohammad Goudarzi Rad Feasibility and acceptability of Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation for apnea detected by Capnography (TESCapno): A Pilot Randomized Control Trial
Supervisor(s): Prof. Aaron Conway, Prof. Robyn Stremler
Graduate Unit: Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
Sep 15Name: Xuanchi Ren Towards Generating Large 3D Worlds
Supervisor(s): Prof. Sanja Fidler
Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science
Sep 15Name: Jenny Jun Agnosticism and the Potential to Experience Wisdom
Supervisor(s): Prof. Michel Ferrari
Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
Sep 15Name: Megan Christine Bolton Two Team-Based Nursing Care Optimization Tools for Use in Pediatric Intensive Care Developed with User-Centered Design: A Pre-Implementation Study
Supervisor(s): Prof. Robyn Stremler
Graduate Unit: Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
Sep 15Name: Megan Christine Bolton Two Team-Based Nursing Care Optimization Tools for Use in Pediatric Intensive Care Developed with User-Centered Design: A Pre-Implementation Study
Supervisor(s): Prof. Robyn Stremler
Graduate Unit: Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
Sep 15Name: Youchen Song Identification and Mechanistic Characterization of Novel Hippo Pathway Regulators: Insights from NUA K2 Centric Screens
Supervisor(s): Prof. Liliana Attisano
Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics
Sep 15Name: Chuan Liu Bioengineering Strategies to Recapitulate Microenvironmental Cues in the Human Kidney
Supervisor(s): Prof. Milica Radisic
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Sep 15Name: Milan Lazic Physiological Correlates of Phases of Understanding and Their Implications for Humanistic AI
Supervisor(s): Prof. Earl Woodruff
Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
Sep 16Name: Ziyi Wu Controllable Visual Generation with Diffusion Models
Supervisor(s): Prof. Igor Gilitschenski
Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science
Sep 17Name: Fupan Yao Characterizing Mechanisms of Heterogeneity in Rare Paediatric Brain Tumors
Supervisor(s): Prof. Annie Huang
Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics
Sep 17Name: Andreea Artemiza Bosorogan Investigating the drivers of plant defences against insect herbivores in the Solanaceae
Supervisor(s): Prof. Eliana Gonzales-Vigil
Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology
Sep 17Name: Arseniy Gorbushin Service System Designs in the Digital Economy
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ming Hu, Prof. Opher Baron
Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Management
Sep 17Name: Arseniy Gorbushin Service System Designs in the Digital Economy
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ming Hu, Prof. Opher Baron
Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Management
Sep 17Name: Ran Cheng A Role for the Golgi Protein USO1 in Cerebral Cavernous Malformations
Supervisor(s): Prof. Brent Derry
Graduate Unit: Department of Molecular Genetics
Sep 17Name: Noel Devaere Water Recycling from Hypersaline Brines via a Forward Osmosis-Freeze Concentration-Reverse Osmosis Process
Supervisor(s): Prof. Vladimiros Papangelakis
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Sep 18Name: Truong Buu Phan Probabilistic and Coding Techniques for One-Shot Compression and Language Modelling
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ashish Khisti
Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Sep 18Name: Niloofar Ganji Advancing the Management of Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Supervisor(s): Prof. Agostino Pierro
Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
Sep 18Name: Jiaxi Zhang The Lived Experiences of Second-Generation Chinese immigrants with Mental Health Services in the Greater Toronto Area
Supervisor(s): Prof. Abby Goldstein
Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
Sep 18Name: Carolina Chavez Madero Using Extracellular Signal-regulated Kinase Signaling to Predict Muscle Cell Fates
Supervisor(s): Prof. Penney Gilbert
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Sep 18Name: Kristina Stajic Cuerpos e Intimidades en la Narrativa Mexicana del del Siglo Veintiuno
Supervisor(s): Prof. Susan Antebi
Graduate Unit: Dept. of Italian Spanish Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Sep 18Name: Elizabeth T McDermott The Genealogy of Western Perceptions of Russia: From Chaadaev to the Cold War
Supervisor(s): Prof. Clifford Orwin
Graduate Unit: Department of Political Science
Sep 18Name: Siti Nurfaezah Binti Zahari Computer-Controlled Electrical Perceptual Threshold Test for Standardizing Quantitative Sensory Assessment in Spinal Cord Injury
Supervisor(s): Prof. Milos Popovic, Prof. Shehroz Saeed Khan
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Sep 18Name: Ismael Kettani Creating the Organon: The Reception of Aristotle’s Logical Works in Antiquity
Supervisor(s): Prof. James Allen
Graduate Unit: Department of Philosophy
Sep 18Name: Sophie Marie Clelia Jordan Black Arthurian Knighthood in Medieval Dutch and German Romance
Supervisor(s): Prof. Markus Stock
Graduate Unit: Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures
Sep 21Name: Zian Wang Learning-Based Editing Through Inverse and Forward Rendering
Supervisor(s): Prof. Sanja Fidler
Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science
Sep 21Name: Anasua Kundu Machine learning analysis of determinants of vaping cessation among youth and young adult e-cigarette users
Supervisor(s): Prof. Peter Selby
Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
Sep 21Name: Angel Oluwapelumi Badewole Evaluating CO₂ Electrolysis and Bioenergy wi Carbon Capture and Storage: Environmental Performance, Deployment Feasibility and Implications for Climate Mitigation
Supervisor(s): Prof. Heather L MacLean, Prof. Bradley Saville
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Sep 21Name: Yi Wang Walmart’s Hinterland Fix: Spatial Structures of Retail Logistics and Working-Class Power in the Western United States
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ryan Isakson
Graduate Unit: Department of Geography and Planning
Sep 21Name: Huiwen Liu Photovoltaic Module Designs for High Reliability
Supervisor(s): Prof. Harry Ruda
Graduate Unit: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Sep 22Name: Eniolaye Balogun Understanding how mutation shapes trait variation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Supervisor(s): Prof. Robert Ness
Graduate Unit: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Sep 22Name: Katherine Ann Warburton A Computational Analysis of the Structure and Evolution of Hierarchical Category Systems
Supervisor(s): Prof. Yang Xu, Prof. Charles Kemp
Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science
Sep 22Name: Tamar Vered Av-Shalom From avirulence to virulence: explorations into the dual nature of bacterial effectors
Supervisor(s): Prof. David Guttman
Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology
Sep 22Name: Haocong Song Identification and Robotic Manipulation of Sperm in Testicular Samples
Supervisor(s): Prof. Yu Sun
Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Sep 23Name: Philip E Trotter Excessive Rhetorics: Style, Sentiment, and the Sublime, 1700-1760
Supervisor(s): Prof. Thomas Keymer
Graduate Unit: Department of English
Sep 23Name: Abel Tetteh Sika-Nartey Assessment of Proton and Electronic-Site Reactivity in Diverse Microenvironment in Liquid- Phase Catalysis
Supervisor(s): Prof. Cathy Ya Huei Chin
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Sep 23Name: Paige Katherine Sampson Smith Methods for Improving Drug Delivery to Tumours in the Spinal Cord Using Controlled Focused Ultrasoun d Exposures.
Supervisor(s): Prof. Meaghan O’Reilly
Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics
Sep 23Name: Yue Ru Li Host Conditioning and Thymic Aging Regulate Progenitor T Cell Engraftment Through Changes in Thymic Niche Receptivity and Progenitor Expansion
Supervisor(s): Prof. JC Zuniga-Pflucker
Graduate Unit: Department of Immunology
Sep 24Name: Sabrina Madsen-Colford Estimating Urban Biogenic CO2 Fluxes Using Modified Empirical Vegetation Models
Supervisor(s): Prof. Debra Wunch
Graduate Unit: Department of Physics
Sep 25Name: . Divyani Achuta Panjab: Caste and the Making of Modern Sikhism, 1870 – 2025
Supervisor(s): Prof. Malavika Kasturi
Graduate Unit: Department of History
Sep 25Name: Suyue Lyu Reducing Immunogenicity in Therapeutic Proteins Using Deep Generative Models
Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael James Garton
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Sep 28Name: Khodr Jaber Dynamically-Adaptive GPU-native Combinatorial Forests of Octrees
Supervisor(s): Prof. Pierre Sullivan
Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Sep 28Name: Lucile Mulat LA COMPLICITE FEMININE: ENJEUX DE SES MISES EN RECIT DANS LA LITTERATURE FRANCAISE CONTEMPORAINE DES FEMMES
Supervisor(s): Prof. Barbara Havercroft
Graduate Unit: Department of French
Sep 29Name: Yingke Liang Structural and biochemical characterization of mycobacterial NADH dehydrogenases and the long chain acyl-CoA carboxylase
Supervisor(s): Prof. John Rubinstein
Graduate Unit: Department of Biochemistry
Sep 29Name: Fatemeh Shomal Zadeh A Multi-Dermatome Computer-Controlled Electrical Perceptual Threshold System for Standardized Quantitative Sensory Assessment after Spinal Cord Injury
Supervisor(s): Prof. Kei Masani, Prof. Dinesh Kumbhare
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Sep 29Name: Ali Shirinzad Advances in Particle Image Velocimetry, Turbulent Boundary-Layer Physics, and Separation Control in Low-Reynolds-Number Airfoils
Supervisor(s): Prof. Pierre Sullivan
Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Sep 29Name: Rana Hosseini Decentralized Discrete Event-based Supervisory Control of Microgrid Clusters with Partial Observability
Supervisor(s): Prof. Mohammad Iravani, Prof. Sahar Pirooz Azad
Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Sep 30Name: Anna Julia Andersen Multi-Stage Lithospheric Drips Link Sedimentary Basin Evolution and Orogenic Plateau Uplift: Insights from Analogue and Numerical Modelling
Supervisor(s): Prof. Russell Pysklywec
Graduate Unit: Department of Earth Sciences
Sep 30Name: Tara Yazdanimotlagh Physics-Based Modeling of Droplet-to-Particle Formation in a High-Temperature Gas Flow Field
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ali Dolatabadi
Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Sep 30Name: Bryn Gina Livingston A recurrent single-nucleotide mutation in TBR1 pro motes stemness in Group 4 medulloblastoma
Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael Taylor
Graduate Unit: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Sep 30Name: Shiquan Zhang Elastic Memory and Adaptive Consensus for Cloud Databases
Supervisor(s): Prof. Hans-Arno Jacobsen
Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.