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

Amirhossein Alvandi, Ph.D., Statistics, Monday, July 29, 1 p.m, Lederle 1685. Dissertation: “Two Types of Methods for At-Risk Populations.” Krista Gile, chair.

Caitlin Kline, Ph.D., Economics, Monday, July 29, 2 p.m., Crotty Hall 308. Dissertation: “Fall Fathom Five: Industrial Fishing, Carbon, and the Economics or Extinction.” Robert Pollin, chair.

Scott Thiel, Ph.D., Chemistry, Monday, July 29, 1 p.m. Lederle 1681 and via Zoom. Dissertation: “On the Non-Stoichiometry and Phase Stability of Transition Metal Carbides Under High Pressures.” James Walsh, chair.

Dongwei Wang, Ph.D., Education, Tuesday, July 30, 10 a.m., via Zoom. Dissertation: “Tackling Omitted and Not-Reached Items in Low-Stakes Assessment: A Model-Based Approach.” Craig S. Wells, chair.

Nicholas Manganaro, Ph.D., Chemistry, Friday, July 30, 1 p.m., Lederle 1681 and via Zoom. Dissertation: “Polymorphism in Silver Delafossites Under Extreme Pressures.” James Walsh, chair.

Alkim Yalin Karakilic, Ph.D., Communication, Tuesday, July 30, 9 a.m. via Zoom. Dissertation: “Trendyol Influencers: Gender, Precarious Work, and Platform Labor at the Intersection of E-Commerce and Influencer Industries in Turkey.” Emily West, chair.

Ankit Pandey, Ph.D., Animal Science, Tuesday, July 30, 9 a.m. ISB 427L. Dissertation: “Non-Canonical Functions of a Disintergrin and Metalloproteases in Development and Cancer.” Dominique Alfandari, chair.

Zheshun Xiong, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wednesday, July 31, 9 a.m. via Zoom. Dissertation: “Scalable Silicon Photodetector Arrays for Biomedical and Machine Vision Applications.” Guangyu Xu, chair.

Anamary Maqueira Linares, Ph.D., Economics, Wednesday, July 31, 9:30 a.m., Crotty Hall 308. Dissertation: “Essays on Social Reproduction, Distribution, and the Political Economy of Paid and Unpaid Work in Selected Latin American Countries.” Katherine Moos, chair.

Hanling Guo, Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular Biology, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2 p.m., ISB 145. Dissertation: “Investigating the Type 3 Secretion System Translocon in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa: Establishing a Functional Assay for Translocon Assembly and Mapping the Topology of PopB.” Alejandro Heuck, chair.

Kashyap Sundara Rajan, Ph.D., Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Friday, Aug. 2, noon, ELab II 119. Dissertation: “Cold Spray of Polymeric Powders.” Jonathan Rothstein, chair.

Rui Hu, Ph.D., Statistics, Friday, Aug. 2, 10 a.m., Lederle 1685. Dissertation: “Topics in Causal Inference: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Sensitivity Analysis.” Ted Westling, chair.

Pratyush Kumar Patel, Ph.D., Physics, Friday, Aug. 2, 9 a.m., Lederle 1033 and via Zoom. Dissertation: “Progress Towards Tesseract: Calibration and Backgrounds.” Scott Hertel, chair.