Doctoral Examinations & Schedule – School of Graduate Studies

The Final Oral Examination (FOE) is the capstone experience of your doctoral studies. General information about the FOE is outlined in the SGS Calendar. A Doctoral Exam Schedule (see calendar below) listing current thesis defenses 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

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.

Doctoral Examination Schedule

Exam Date	Student Name	Exam Information (Thesis, Supervisor(s), Graduate Unit)
Dec 1	Name: Meng-Fen Tsai	Monitoring Hand Use and Hand Role of Stroke Survivors at Home Using Egocentric Video Supervisor(s): Prof. Jose Zariffa, Prof. Rosalie Wang Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Dec 1	Name: Rebecca Ashley Gerechter Christensen	The Independent and Combined Associations of Estimated Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Body Mass Index, Percent Body Fat or Physical Activity with Invasive Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Supervisor(s): Prof. Jennifer Brooks Graduate Unit: Department of Public Health Sciences
Dec 1	Name: Jaclyn Cheukwai Law	Characterization of T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 following infection and vaccination Supervisor(s): Prof. Tania Watts Graduate Unit: Department of Immunology
Dec 1	Name: Seyed Mohammad Yarandi	Moral Words: Masks for Many Faces Supervisor(s): Prof. Gurpreet Rattan Graduate Unit: Department of Philosophy
Dec 1	Name: Rachel Chubak Forbes	When the Mighty Fall: Moral Outrage Toward Powerful Perpetrators Supervisor(s): Prof. Jennifer Stellar Graduate Unit: Department of Psychology
Dec 1	Name: Vincent Calabrese	Michael Wyschogrod and Jewish Existentialism Supervisor(s): Prof. David Novak Graduate Unit: Department for the Study of Religion
Dec 1	Name: Michael Klassen	Curriculum Governance in The Proessions: A Comparative and Sociological Analysis of Engineering Accreditation Supervisor(s): Prof. Creso Sa Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Dec 2	Name: Jennifer Susan Claro	EFFECTS OF AN ONLINE INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE ON THE MOTIVATION OF JAPANESE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO LEARN ENGLISH Supervisor(s): Prof. Clare Brett Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Dec 2	Name: Sina Azimi	Exploring the Development of Coach-Parent Relationships in Organized Competitive Youth Team Sports Supervisor(s): Prof. Katherine Tamminen Graduate Unit: Department of Kinesiology (Graduate)
Dec 2	Name: Maryam Ebrahimiazar	Ultrasound Jetting and Atomization of Sessile and Impacting Droplets Supervisor(s): Prof. Nasser Ashgriz Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Dec 2	Name: Milan Ilnyckyj	Persuasion Strategies: Canadian Campus Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns and the Development of Activists, 2012-20 Supervisor(s): Prof. Robert Vipond Graduate Unit: Department of Political Science
Dec 2	Name: Margaret Elizabeth Eng	Antenatal synthetic glucocorticoid programming of post-natal blood-brain barrier transporter Supervisor(s): Prof. Stephen Matthews Graduate Unit: Department of Physiology
Dec 5	Name: Flanny Chacko Alamparambil	Supporting Kindergarten Student’s Development of Knowledge, Skills and Understanding about Truth and Reconciliation Supervisor(s): Prof. Douglas McDougall Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Dec 5	Name: Mary Fiore	Investigating Teachers’ Assessment Practices of St udents’ Mathematical Thinking in Number Sense: A C ase Study Supervisor(s): Prof. Douglas McDougall Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Dec 5	Name: Elizabeth Jean Larson	Test Validation and Complex, Dynamic Systems: The Case of the Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Supporting English Learners Test (PeCKSELT) Supervisor(s): Prof. Jeff Bale Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Dec 5	Name: Maria Mercedes Cavallo	Jurisdictional Scaling Practices: A Legal Geography Approach to the Governance of Childcare in Buenos Aires City Supervisor(s): Prof. Brenda Cossman Graduate Unit: Faculty of Law
Dec 5	Name: Tarimobo Michael Otobo	Development and Validation of the Juvenal Idiopathic Arthritis MRI Sacroiliac Joint Scoring System Supervisor(s): Prof. Andrea Doria Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
Dec 5	Name: Isaac Major Jackiw	AERODYNAMIC ATOMIZATION OF LIQUID DROPS AND JETS Supervisor(s): Prof. Nasser Ashgriz Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Dec 5	Name: Hassan Anis	Cardinality-Constrained Financial Optimization Problems Supervisor(s): Prof. Roy Kwon Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Dec 5	Name: Brian Robert Pentz	On the Role of Resource Epistemology and Epistemic Tensions as Explainers of Fisheries Management Outcomes. Supervisor(s): Prof. Nicole Klenk Graduate Unit: Dept. of Physical & Environmental Sci (UTSC)
Dec 5	Name: Luis Eduardo Abatti	Investigating the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms driving SOX2 overexpression in cancer Supervisor(s): Prof. Jennifer Mitchell Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology
Dec 5	Name: Christopher Duane Tatham	Life and Love Under Criminalization: The Experiences of People Living with HIV in Canada Supervisor(s): Prof. Adam Green Graduate Unit: Department of Sociology
Dec 6	Name: Sanchia Patricia deSouza	Milk and the City: Nature and Power in Twentieth-Century Bombay Supervisor(s): Prof. Jayeeta Sharma Graduate Unit: Department of History
Dec 6	Name: Tiago Fernandes Lins	Methodologies for assessing the fate of nanoplastics in the environment Supervisor(s): Prof. David Sinton Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Dec 7	Name: Vidhant Pal	Investigating the impact of FGFR5 expression on β-cell metabolism, maturity and intracellular Supervisor(s): Prof. Jonathan Rocheleau, Prof. Dawn Kilkenny Rocheleau Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Dec 7	Name: Simoun Icho	Inhibition of Primary Virulence Factors via Host-Dependent Factors to Protect Against Disease Supervisor(s): Prof. Roman Melnyk Graduate Unit: Department of Biochemistry
Dec 7	Name: Stephanie Mio Nakamata Huynh	Understanding Stereoselectivity and Applications in Chiral Diamine-Based Systems Supervisor(s): Prof. Jik Chin Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Dec 7	Name: Christiana Correa e Castro Martine	Access to Dental Care in Canada: Organized Dentistry and the State in Two Canadian Provinces Supervisor(s): Prof. Gregory Marchildon Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
Dec 7	Name: Rachel Dadouch	Where is Communication Breaking Down Narrative Tensions in Obesity-in-Pregnancy Clinical Encounters Supervisor(s): Prof. Rohan D’Souza, Prof. Janet Parsons Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
Dec 8	Name: Minhal Hasham	Spectroscopic Studies of Semiconductor Nanocrystals: From Core, to Surface, and Beyond Supervisor(s): Prof. Mark Wilson Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Dec 8	Name: Hanlin Liu	Development of Mn(III) Porphyrins as Gd-free Contrast Agents for Targeted MR Imaging Supervisor(s): Prof. Xiaoan Zhang Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Dec 8	Name: Grant John Valentine	The Canadian Punitive Paradox: The Evolution of Conservative Political Marketing Practices and the Late Onset of Penal Populism in Canadian Federal Politics Supervisor(s): Prof. Paula Maurutto Graduate Unit: Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
Dec 8	Name: Anna Li	Some Costs and Consequences of Movement and Grouping Behaviours Supervisor(s): Prof. F. Helen Rodd Graduate Unit: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Dec 8	Name: Nafiseh Ghoroghchian	Graph-Based Learning for System Analysis and Control: Applications in Brain Networks Supervisor(s): Prof. Stark Draper, Prof. Roman Genov Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Dec 8	Name: Geonhui Lee	Integrated systems for CO2 capture-and-Upgrade Supervisor(s): Prof. Edward Sargent Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Dec 8	Name: Damian Matricciano Manzone	Evidence for somatosensory facilitation during object reception and action observation Supervisor(s): Prof. Luc Tremblay Graduate Unit: Department of Kinesiology (Graduate)
Dec 8	Name: Allen Spencer Kempton	Crossroads in Digital Gaming: metaplay, communication, interaction Supervisor(s): Prof. Sara Grimes Graduate Unit: Faculty of Information
Dec 8	Name: Mingzhe Liu	Evaluating The Contributions Of Focal Subclinical Ischemia To Alzheimers Disease Pathogenesis Supervisor(s): Prof. Joanne McLaurin Graduate Unit: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Dec 8	Name: Prabhjot Dhami	Insight into the Neurophysiology of Major Depressive Disorder in Youth and its Treatment Via Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Supervisor(s): Prof. Daniel Blumberger Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
Dec 8	Name: Peihang Xu	Probing atom on-site interactions in an optical lattice. Supervisor(s): Prof. Joseph Thywissen Graduate Unit: Department of Physics
Dec 8	Name: Jennifer Joan Febbraro	Fracturing White Feminism: Race, Nation, and Representation at the National Film Board’s New Initiatives in Film Program at Studio D Supervisor(s): Prof. Rinaldo Walcott Graduate Unit: Department of Social Justice Education
Dec 9	Name: Bhisham Singh Kinha	“Gathering the Pieces Back Together”: The Experiences of Queer Second-Generation South Asians in Counselling and Psychotherapy Supervisor(s): Prof. Roy Moodley Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
Dec 9	Name: Xiaoshu Cao	Influence of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) on Rostral Fluid Shift, and the Pathophysiology on Asthma Supervisor(s): Prof. Azadeh Yadollahi Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Dec 9	Name: Ahmed Naser Khafhafera	Solubility of Sodium Salt in Kraft Black Liquor and the Impact on Evaporated Fouling Supervisor(s): Prof. Nikolai DeMartini Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Dec 9	Name: Maral Vafaie	Materials Chemistry to Advance the Speed and Sensitivity of Infrared Solution-Cast Photodetectors. Supervisor(s): Prof. Edward Sargent Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Dec 9	Name: Andrew Kouri	Mobile health (mHealth) in older adults with airways disease Supervisor(s): Prof. Sharon Elizabeth Straus Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
Dec 9	Name: Mina Mirjalili	Investigating Causal Relations between EEG Features and Working Memory Supervisor(s): Prof. Tarek Rajji Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
Dec 9	Name: Joy Jae-Ryung Lee	Opera Chunhyangjeon – An Introduction to South Korea’s first Changjak Opera Supervisor(s): Prof. Steven Philcox Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Dec 9	Name: Matthew Joseph Basso	Measurement of Associated Production of Higgs Bosons Decaying to Pairs of W Bosons with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Supervisor(s): Prof. Robert Orr Graduate Unit: Department of Physics
Dec 9	Name: Zachariah Black	Minding the Mundane The Critique of Political Participation from Epicurus to Montaigne Supervisor(s): Prof. Ronald Beiner Graduate Unit: Department of Political Science
Dec 9	Name: Jennifer Leigh Ryan	Evaluating the Feasibility of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation as an Adjunct to Physiotherapy in Children and Youth with Acquired Brain Injury Supervisor(s): Prof. Virginia Wright, Prof. Deryk Beal Graduate Unit: Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
Dec 12	Name: Jane Yang	Implications of degeneracy and pleiotropy for homeostatic regulation of neuronal properties Supervisor(s): Prof. Steven Prescott Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Dec 12	Name: Karan Malhotra	Versatile Polymer Coatings for Advanced Stability and Bioanalytical Applications of Nanoparticles Supervisor(s): Prof. Ulrich Krull Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Dec 12	Name: Chirag Apte	Reaction discovery through functional small molecules: From peptides to fluorophores Supervisor(s): Prof. Andrei Yudin Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Dec 12	Name: Patrick Diep	Characterization and Design of Nickel-binding Proteins Towards Metal Recovery Applications Supervisor(s): Prof. Alexandre Iakounine, Prof. Radhakrishnan Mahadevan Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Dec 12	Name: Leif Erik Lovblom	Joint Multistate Models for Correlated Disease Processes: Extending Approaches for Interval-Censoring, Mixed Observation Schemes, and Multiple Longitudinal Outcomes Supervisor(s): Prof. George Tomlinson, Prof. Bruce Perkins Graduate Unit: Department of Public Health Sciences
Dec 12	Name: Matthieu Caron	Dissipating Darkness: Governing Nighttime in Montreal, 1954-1986 Supervisor(s): Prof. Sean Mills Graduate Unit: Department of History
Dec 12	Name: Yueyue Pan	Point-of-care Detection Platforms for Metabolic Biomarker and Infectious Disease Supervisor(s): Prof. Xinyu Liu Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Dec 12	Name: Lisa Marie Doerksen	Finding Oneself in the World Supervisor(s): Prof. Gurpreet Rattan Graduate Unit: Department of Philosophy
Dec 12	Name: John Kit Fai Feng	Next Generation Ultrafast Electron Diffractometers Supervisor(s): Prof. R J Dwayne Miller Graduate Unit: Department of Physics
Dec 12	Name: Charlene Elaine Lancaster	Characterization of Phagosome Resolution in Mammalian Phagocytes Supervisor(s): Prof. Mauricio Terebiznik Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology
Dec 13	Name: Chloe J Mitchell	Peptide-based inhibitors of bacterial small multidrug resistance proteins Supervisor(s): Prof. Charles Deber Graduate Unit: Department of Biochemistry
Dec 13	Name: David Madras	Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning in High- Stakes Decision-Making Systems Supervisor(s): Prof. Richard Zemel Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science
Dec 13	Name: Tian Qi Chen	Generative Modeling with Differentiable Dynamics Supervisor(s): Prof. David Duvenaud Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science
Dec 13	Name: David Philpott	Unlocking Cell Biology Through Development and Application of High- Throughput Microfluidic Cell Sorting Supervisor(s): Prof. Edward Sargent Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Dec 13	Name: Melanie Girard	Type I interferon responses in monocytes regulate GITRL expression and anti-tumor immunity Supervisor(s): Prof. Tania Watts Graduate Unit: Department of Immunology
Dec 13	Name: Mohsen Poorganji	Sensory co-activation and brain state in suprathreshold TMS-EEG of frontal cortex Supervisor(s): Prof. Daniel Blumberger, Prof. Jeff Daskalakis Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
Dec 13	Name: Allison Rich	The Cello Exercise Index: Considering Technique Resources for Cello Teachers and Students Supervisor(s): Prof. Daphne Tan Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Dec 13	Name: Xiao Yin Li	The Influence of Organizational Context on the Implementation of Evidence-Based Pain Practices in Neonatal Intensive Care Units Supervisor(s): Prof. Bonnie Stevens Graduate Unit: Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
Dec 13	Name: Aaron Turpin	Supporting Social Work Management Practice: The Critical Role of Social Entrepreneurial Orientation Supervisor(s): Prof. Micheal Shier Graduate Unit: Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Dec 13	Name: Fatima Samji	Excellence and Access for Ontario’s Higher Education System: How Universities Commit to Both Supervisor(s): Prof. Ruth Childs Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Dec 14	Name: Terran Lee Giacomini	Exploring Transformative Politics and Practice: The Activism of Women in La Via Campesina Supervisor(s): Prof. Angela Miles Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Dec 14	Name: Azadeh Assadi	Applying Clinician Macrocognition in the Design of a Clinical Decision Support Tool for Congenital Heart Disease Management Supervisor(s): Prof. Patricia L Trbovich Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Dec 14	Name: Zhe Gong	Impedance-Based Battery Management for Cell Utilisation Improvement in Electric Vehicles Supervisor(s): Prof. Olivier Trescases Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Dec 14	Name: Chanele Polenz	The Role of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate in the Reverse Transendothelial Migration of Aortic Resident Intimal Myeloid Cells Supervisor(s): Prof. Myron Cybulsky Graduate Unit: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Dec 14	Name: Aris Georgios Bolnter Spourdalakis	Effective Field Theory and Machine Learning for Jet Physics. Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael Luke Graduate Unit: Department of Physics
Dec 14	Name: Yuchen Ma	Fluxes in Doubly diffusive systems and the origin of thermohaline staircases. Supervisor(s): Prof. W Richard Peltier Graduate Unit: Department of Physics
Dec 14	Name: Rebecca Marie Horne	Navigating Conflicts of Interest and Psychological Need Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships Supervisor(s): Prof. Emily Impett Graduate Unit: Department of Psychology
Dec 14	Name: Maral Karimi	Modern Iran, Republican Nationalism, Empire and Social Movements Outline of Theory of Protest Cycles Supervisor(s): Prof. John Portelli Graduate Unit: Department of Social Justice Education
Dec 14	Name: Huda Amina Abdi Hassan	Ciyaal Baraf: Tropes, Fictions, and Self-Creation through the Somali Diaspora’s Aesthetic, Political , and Artistic Production Supervisor(s): Prof. Rinaldo Walcott Graduate Unit: Women and Gender Studies Institute
Dec 15	Name: John George Israelian	Targeted Protein Degradation for the Prevention of Pathological Glycogen Accumulation Supervisor(s): Prof. Patrick Gunning Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Dec 15	Name: Azadeh Vatandoust	Multiple Fortification of Salt with Zinc and Other Micronutients Supervisor(s): Prof. Levente Diosady Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Dec 15	Name: Lindsay Maria McIntyre	Talking Back: An Exploration of Negative Self-Talk in Undergraduate Voice Majors Supervisor(s): Prof. Daphne Tan Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Dec 15	Name: Ahmed Raza Hasan	Causes and consequences of recombination rate variation Supervisor(s): Prof. Robert Ness Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology
Dec 16	Name: Georgy Sandler	The Evolution and Consequences of Sexual Reproduction Supervisor(s): Prof. Aneil Agrawal, Prof. Stephen Wright Graduate Unit: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Dec 16	Name: Andrew Forbes Kaufman	Vulture Capitalism: a Partial Geography of Sovereign Debt Markets Supervisor(s): Prof. Alan Walks Graduate Unit: Department of Geography and Planning
Dec 16	Name: Steven Dean Teasdale	Networks of Slaveholding and enslavement in the Genoese Mediterranean 1348-1528 Supervisor(s): Prof. Nicholas Terpstra Graduate Unit: Department of History
Dec 16	Name: Michaela Estelle Rae Manson	Mind and Prejudice: Cognitive Improvement in the Philosophies of Rene Descartes and Mary Astell Supervisor(s): Prof. Donald Ainslie Graduate Unit: Department of Philosophy
Dec 16	Name: Sridevi Venkatesan	Multimodal investigation of Chrna5 nicotinic receptors: cellular and synaptic mechanisms of cholinergic modulation in the prefrontal cortex Supervisor(s): Prof. Evelyn Lambe Graduate Unit: Department of Physiology
Dec 16	Name: Emily Chenery	Detecting and Monitoring Wildlife Parasites: Determining the Current Extent and Future Impact of the Winter Tick (Dermacentor albipictus) in the Yukon and Beyond. Supervisor(s): Prof. Peter Kalman Molnar, Prof. Nicholas Mandrak Graduate Unit: Dept. of Physical & Environmental Sci (UTSC)
Dec 16	Name: Jee Yoon Bang	Hippocampal inputs to the anterior hypothalamus modulate defensive behaviours and stress response Supervisor(s): Prof. Junchul Kim Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology
Dec 19	Name: Jason Rebello	Unlocking Dynamic Cameras for Visual Navigation Supervisor(s): Prof. Steven Waslander Graduate Unit: Institute for Aerospace Studies
Dec 19	Name: Naif Tarafdar	A Heterogeneous Stack for a Re-configurable Data Centre Supervisor(s): Prof. Paul Chow Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Dec 19	Name: Dan Dan Li	The Role of Dietary Nitrate on Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Risk Factors Supervisor(s): Prof. Vladimir Vuksan Graduate Unit: Department of Nutritional Sciences
Dec 19	Name: Emma Kiku Kamo McIlwraith	Analysis of microRNAs Regulated by the Saturated Fat Palmitate and Endocrine Disrupting Chemical Bisphenol A in Hypothalamic Neuronal Cell Lines Supervisor(s): Prof. Denise Belsham Graduate Unit: Department of Physiology
Dec 20	Name: Zahra Ansarilari	Transfer Time Optimization in Transit Scheduling Supervisor(s): Prof. Amer Shalaby, Prof. Merve Bodur Graduate Unit: Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering
Dec 22	Name: Ruoyong Xu	Statistical Computing With Graphics Processing Units Supervisor(s): Prof. Patrick Brown Graduate Unit: Department of Statistical Sciences