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Doctoral Oral Exams for September 1, 2025 – September 5, 2025

August 22, 2025 News

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The Graduate Dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:

Jonathan Flores, PhD., Civil and Environmental Engineering
Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 12:00PM, Kellogg Room 118 ELab II. 
Dissertation: “Monitoring River Systems from Space: Insights from Mapping Headwaters, Modeling Discharge, and Detecting Dams.” Colin J. Gleason, Chair.

Hyemin Gu, PhD., Mathematics
Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 10:10AM, LGRT 1685. 
Dissertation: “Robust Generative Flows via Wasserstein Proximal Regularizations Based on Gradient Flows and Mean Field Games.” Markos Katsoulakis, Chair.

Thomas Vitalis, PhD., Civil and Environmental Engineering
Thursday, September 4, 2025, 1:00PM, Kellogg Room 118 ELab II. 
Dissertation: “Auxetic Steel Architected Materials for High Confinement of Interpenetrating Reinforced Concrete Composites.” Simos Gerasimidis, Chair.

Mengxue Zhang, PhD., Computer Science
Friday, September 5, 2025, 3:00PM, via Zoom. 
Dissertation: “AI-Driven Analysis, Scoring, and Generation for Open-Ended Mathematical Reasoning.” Andrew Lan, Chair.

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