Doctoral Oral Exams for Dec. 2 – 6

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

Shahrzad Keshavarz, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Monday, Dec. 2, 10 a.m., 309 Knowles Engineering Building Conference Room. Dissertation: “Design of Hardware with Quantifiable Security Against Reverse Engineering.” Daniel Holcomb, chr.

Souyoung Jin, Ph.D., Computer Science, Monday, Dec. 2, 1:30 p.m., A311 Lederle Graduate Research Center. Dissertation: “Improving Face Clustering in Videos.” Erik Learned-Miller, chr.

Beyza Alpaydin, Ph.D., College of Education, Tuesday, Dec. 3, noon, N135 Furcolo. Dissertation: “The Effectiveness of Point-of-View-Video Modeling on Improving Social and Communication Skills.” Michael Krezmien, chr. 

Lara Sucupira Furtado, Ph.D., Regional Planning, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 1 p.m., 358 Design Building. Dissertation: “Placement Attachment and Housing Displacement as Motivations for Civic Engagement: The Case of ZEIS in Fortaleza, Brazil.” Henry Renski, chr. 

Pia Bideau, Ph.D., Computer Science, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 10 a.m., 151 Computer Science Building. Dissertation: “Motion Segmentation - Segmentation of Independently Moving Objects in Video.” Erik Learned-Miller, chr.

Jason Pizzollo, Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular Biology, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 10 a.m., N410 Life Sciences Laboratories. Dissertation: “Characterizing Adaptive Non-Coding Changes in the Regulation of Human Gene Expression.” Courtney Babbitt, chr.

Shengmin Luo, Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1:30 p.m., 234 Marston Hall. Dissertation: “Nanoindentation Characterization of Elastic Properties of Shales and Swelling Clay Minerals.” Guoping Zhang, chr.

Aditya Sundarrajan, Ph.D., Computer Science, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 3 p.m., A311 Lederle Graduate Research Center. Dissertation: “Towards Optimized Traffic Provisioning and Adaptive Cache Management for Content Delivery.” Ramesh Sitaraman, chr. 

Tsung-Yu Lin, Ph.D., Computer Science, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2 p.m., A311 Lederle Graduate Research Center. Dissertation: “Higher-order Representations for Visual Recognition.” Subhransu Maji, chr.

Xin Li, Ph.D., Chemistry, Friday, Dec. 6, noon, N410 Life Science Laboratory. Dissertation: “Tools for Fundamental Mechanistic Studies: Resolving Protein Dynamics by Nanopore Tweezer and Quantitating Molecular Trafficking by Droplet-Interface Bilayer Technologies.” Min Chen, chr.

Emily Peterson, Ph.D., Public Health, Friday, Dec. 6, 3 p.m. 145 Integrated Science Building. Dissertation: “Bayesian Methods for the Assessment of Reporting Errors for Data-Sparse Population-Periods with Applications to Estimating Mortality.” Leontine Alkema, chr.