Doctoral Oral Exams for July 1 – 5

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

Emma Strubell, Ph.D., College of Information and Computer Sciences, Monday, July 1, 9:00 a.m., Room 150/151 Computer Science Building.  Dissertation:  “Machine Learning Models for Efficient and Robust Natural Language Processing.”  Andrew McCallum, chr.

Leland Kusmer, Ph.D., Linguistics, Monday, July 1, 12:30 p.m., N400 Integrated Learning Center.  Dissertation:  “Optimal Linearization: Prosodic Displacement in Khoekhoegowab and Beyond.”  Kyle Johnson and Kristine Yu, co-chrs.

Patrick W. Verga, Ph.D., College of Information and Computer Sciences, Monday, July 1, 1:00 p.m., Room 150/151 Computer Science Building.  Dissertation:  “Extracting and Representing Entities, Types and Relations.”  Andrew McCallum, chr.

Wanting Xie, Ph.D., Physics, Tuesday, July 2, 10:00 a.m., 215 Engineering Lab.  Dissertation:  “Extreme Dynamics of Nanomaterials under High-rate Mechanical Stimuli.”  Jae-Hwang Lee, Jun Yan, co-chrs. 

Meizhe Wang, Ph.D., Chemistry, Tuesday, July 2, 2:30 p.m., N410 Life Sciences Laboratories (LSL). Dissertation:  “Supramolecular Nanoassemblies for the Separation and the Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Peptides and Modified Proteins.”  Richard W. Vachet, chr.

Seunghwan Lim, Ph.D., Astronomy, Wednesday, July 3, 1:00 p.m., 533 Lederle Graduate Research Tower.  Dissertation:  “Galaxies and Gas in Dark Matter Halos and the Cosmic Web.”  Houjun Mo, chr.