Home Navigating Your Degree Oral Defense Dates Oral Defense Dates Agrima Seth Program: Information Dissertation Title: Cultural Variability & Bias in Online Social Interactions & Large Language Models Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: 3470 LEINWEBER COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION BUILDING Chair: Kentaro Toyama Kassidy Jungles Program: Pharmacology Dissertation Title: The Implementation of Combination Therapies for the Treatment of Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: KAHN AUDITORIUM, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/92278477768 PW:KJTHESIS Chair: James M Rae Chenyi Zhu Program: Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Title: Fundamental Studies of Sprays in Energy-Intense Systems: Case Studies of Pre-chamber Jet Combustion and Freezing Water Sprays Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 10:30 a.m. Location: 2540 G. G. BROWN LABORATORY: ZOOM: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/97794260995 (PASSWORD: SPRAYS) Chair: Margaret S Wooldridge Anupon Tadee Program: Environmental Health Sci Dissertation Title: Occupational Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment for Professional and Student Researchers Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: SPH II 1112 Chair: Rick Neitzel Shuai Che Program: Nuc Eng & Radiol Sciences Dissertation Title: Developing Experimental and Modeling Capabilities to Advance Molten Salt Reactor Technology for Molten Salt Pumps and Heat Exchangers Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: LURIE ENGINEERING CENTER (JOHNSON ROOMS ABC) Chair: Adam Burak and Xiaodong Sun Levi Hooper Program: Clin Pharm Translational Sci Dissertation Title: Quantitative Approaches to Kidney Function Assessment: Advancing Measured Glomerular Filtration Rate Techniques to Broaden Access in Patients with Kidney Impairment Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: NUB 2548 Chair: Amit Pai and Kathleen A Stringer Di Wang Program: Biostatistics Dissertation Title: Integration Methods for Incorporating Published Prediction Models with a New Time-to-Event Dataset Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: M4034, SPH II; HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/MEETING/REGISTER/SYREFZNPSYQVLTRSKFGLMG Chair: Zhi He Yimin Zhou Program: Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Title: Enhancement of Boiling and Evaporation Heat Transfer through Surface Structure Design for Two-Phase Thermal Management Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: 2540 GGB Chair: Solomon Adera Shubham Atreja Program: Information Dissertation Title: AppealMod: Introducing Productive Friction to Support Volunteer Moderators Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 4:00 p.m. Location: LEINWEBER COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION BUILDING 3470 Chair: Libby Hemphill Tejaswi Tripathi Program: Mathematics Dissertation Title: Exponential Last Passage Percolation in the Upper Large Deviation Regime and Multi-Point Distributions for other LPP Models Date: 8 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: 1866 EAST HALL Chair: Jinho Baik Carmen Ramos Program: Nutritional Science Dissertation Title: The Role of Coparenting Dynamics in Early Childhood Feeding and Promotion of Young Children's Healthy Weight Date: 8 Jul 2025 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: SPH1 2695 Chair: Kate Bauer Emily Cornish Program: History of Art Dissertation Title: Indigenous Women and Photography in the Hawaiian Kingdom Date: 8 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/97031661154?JST=3 Chair: Kevin Gray Carr and Stacy Kamehiro Ariella Hoffman-Peterson Program: Health Service Org & Policy Dissertation Title: Innovating with Trust: Regulation and Organizational Field Maturity in the Era of Emerging Health Technologies Date: 8 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91510886169?JST=2 Chair: Jodyn Platt Nan Cheng Program: Physics Dissertation Title: Symmetry-Driven Phenomena in Complex Media Date: 10 Jul 2025 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: WEST HALL ROOM 335. ZOOM LINK: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/8790406115 Chair: Xiaoming Mao Kayla Marcotte Program: Hlth Infrastruc and Lrng Systs Dissertation Title: Optimizing an Assessment Model: Investigating How Multiple Observations from Workplace-based Assessments Can Be Used to Build Accurate Measurement Systems in Graduate Medical Education Date: 10 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: TAUBMAN HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY (ROOM 2903) Chair: Andrew E Krumm Hayley Lillo Program: Chemistry Dissertation Title: Multinuclear Nickel Complexes Featuring Unusual Oxygenic Ligands: Hydrogen Peroxide Activation, Catalase Reactivity, and Efforts Toward C?H Activation Date: 10 Jul 2025 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: 1706 CHEMISTRY Chair: Joshua Buss Marianthie Wank Program: Biostatistics Dissertation Title: Clinical Trial Design and Statistical Methods for Partially Randomized Patient Preference, Sequential, Multiple-Assignment, Randomized Trials Date: 11 Jul 2025 Time: 8:00 a.m. Location: SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH BUILDING 2 M4034, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/MEETING/REGISTER/B4MKAOOOQZU4YYHVKVF Chair: Tom Braun and Kelley Kidwell Zhichen Liu Program: Civil Engineering Dissertation Title: Inverse Learning and Intervention of Transportation Network Equilibrium Date: 11 Jul 2025 Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: GGB 2029 Chair: Yafeng Yin Maximilian Jerdee Program: Physics Dissertation Title: Inference and Information in Network Structure Date: 11 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: WEISER 747 Chair: Mark Newman Scott Neville Program: Mathematics Dissertation Title: Combinatorics of Quiver Mutations Date: 11 Jul 2025 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: 210 WH Chair: Sergey Fomin Haojie Zhu Program: Civil Engineering Dissertation Title: Dense Learning for Advancing Safety Performance of Autonomous Vehicles Date: 11 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: GGB 2029 CONF ROOM Chair: Henry Liu Luchen Zhang Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences Dissertation Title: Development of Small-Molecule Antagonists or Agonists of STING for Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases or Cancer Date: 14 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: NCRC B520 ROOM 1140; ZOOM: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/94533406820 (PASSCODE: 051951) Chair: Duxin Sun Jose Ortiz Tavarez Program: Physics Dissertation Title: Physical Networks, Exploring the Role of Real Space Topology in Physical Response Date: 14 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: 4404 RANDALL Chair: Nicholas Kotov and Xiaoming Mao Masahiro Abe Program: Environmental Engineering Dissertation Title: Financial Modeling of Extreme Flood Events on Corporate Property Damage and Business Interruption Loss: A Geospatially-Informed Facility Portfolio Approach Date: 14 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: GGB 2029, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/99959859021 PW:730087 Chair: Peter Adriaens Chalem Bolton Program: Sociology Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Economic Inequality and Insecurity in the United States Date: 14 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: LSA 4147 Chair: Greta R Krippner and Robert Allen Manduca William Weaver Program: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dissertation Title: The Marginality Manifesto: Computational Morphometrics of Half a Million Herbarium Specimens Reveals Lineage-Specific Evolutionary Dynamics in Climate-Leaf Trait Relationships Date: 14 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: BSB 3150 AND HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/WEBINAR/REGISTER/WN_-UJR9SPTRKATNVGC28ICLA Chair: Stephen A Smith Rahaf Alharbi Program: Information Dissertation Title: Reimagining Privacy and Transparency in Visual Assistance Technologies with Blind People Date: 14 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: ZOOM: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/94066323760?JST=2 Chair: Robin Brewer and Sarita Schoenebeck Kat Roemmich Program: Information Dissertation Title: Reshaping Privacy Norms in the Age of Emotion AI: Socio-Technical Pathways for Emotional Privacy, Human Agency, and Dignity Date: 14 Jul 2025 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: LEINWEBER-4-4526 (8) Chair: Florian Schaub Linda Huber Program: Information Dissertation Title: Computing Care: Governing U.S. Healthcare Through Markets and Data Date: 15 Jul 2025 Time: 8:00 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95047727766?PWD=UXJYE97PCCX1MHPW5CUNIBXGZKD2IQ.1 Chair: Silvia Lindtner Agamjot Sangotra Program: Molecular & Cellular Pathology Dissertation Title: Novel Strategies to Target the Polyglutamine Androgen Receptor in Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy Date: 15 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: BSRB (ABC SEMINAR ROOMS) Chair: Andrew P Lieberman Easton Huch Program: Statistics Dissertation Title: Robust Methods for Causal Inference and Policy Learning with Applications to Mobile Health Date: 15 Jul 2025 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: WEST HALL 438, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/92910902423?PWD=KLJTM607UKOIHGZGJVCWK0MY777UUB.1&JST=3 Chair: Walter Dempsey and Fred Feinberg Cheyenne Pettit Program: History Dissertation Title: Tempting the Nation: Venereal Disease and Imperial Belonging in Canada's Great War, 1914-1920 Date: 16 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/96185521813 AND EIHS CONFERENCE ROOM Chair: Joshua H Cole and Kali A K Israel Crystal Zanders Program: English and Education Dissertation Title: Unseen: Black Autistic Women's Masking Practices, Pressures, and Possibilities Date: 16 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91078361262 PW: 474155 Chair: Anne Leslie Curzan and M Remi Yergeau Sam Ankenbauer Program: Information Dissertation Title: Skimming the Deep Keel: The Coordination Work of Older Adults in Precarious Moments Date: 16 Jul 2025 Time: 2:15 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/9477636206 Chair: Robin Brewer Anubha Singh Program: Information Dissertation Title: Governing Onions: Between the Forms and Fantasies of Designing the Future of Agriculture in India Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 8:00 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/7505284466 (PASSCODE: 023661) Chair: Patricia Garcia and Silvia Lindtner Adam Ard Program: Medicinal Chemistry Dissertation Title: Discovery and SAR-Guided Development of Small-Molecule SERCA2a Activators for Cardiovascular Applications Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: RACKHAM GRADUATE SCHOOL, EARL LEWIS ROOM HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/96012409511 PW: SERCA Chair: Martin C Clasby Galen Ng Program: Naval Architect & Marine Eng Dissertation Title: Hydroelastic Optimization of Composite Appendages Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: 236 NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND MARINE ENGINEERING BUILDING (ROSENBLATT ROOM) Chair: Joaquim R R A Martins Prabhjot Kaur Program: Nuc Eng & Radiol Sciences Dissertation Title: Improving the Probabilistic Method of Sequence Reconstruction and Developing a 3D Compton Imaging System with CdZnTe Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: JOHNSON ROOMS, LURIE ENGINEERING CENTER, 3RD FLOOR LEC 3213ABC Chair: Zhong He Yulan Chu Program: Cell & Developmental Biology Dissertation Title: Cell Cycle-activated Nuclear Receptor Phosphorylation Maintains Organotypic Progenitor Cell Identity and Lineage Fidelity Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: KAHN AUDITORIUM, 109 ZINA PITCHER PL, ANN ARBOR, MI 48109, USA Chair: Benjamin Allen Guoxin Zheng Program: Physics Dissertation Title: Study of Electrical, Magnetic, and Thermal Properties in Kagome Materials Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: AP267 CONFERENCE ROOM Chair: Lu Li Cassidy Pyle Program: Information Dissertation Title: Investigating Affirmative Action Discussions on Social Media Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: ZOOM: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95382147017 Chair: Nazanin Andalibi and Nicole Ellison Papa Yaw Owusu-Obeng Program: Environment and Sustainability Dissertation Title: Balancing Local Priorities with Regional Decarbonization: Pathways for Utility-Scale Solar Expansion Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 12:30 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/99355167093 Chair: Michael T Craig Sang Hyun Lee Program: Electrical & Computer Engineer Dissertation Title: Multiscale THz Polarization Activity: From Chiral Phonons to Micro- and Macrostructures Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: NCRC G063 & G064 Chair: Nicholas Kotov and Theodore B Norris Usha Kadiyala Program: Biophysics Dissertation Title: Spatiotemporal Coordination of Growth and Patterning in Early Embryonic Development Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: 1640 CHEM Chair: Qiong Yang Solangel Troncoso Program: Psych & Women's and Gender Stu Dissertation Title: Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/99591121371?JST=3 Chair: Susan A Gelman Lingxiao Zhou Program: Physics Dissertation Title: Coherent Manipulation of Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Photonic Devices Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: RANDALL 4404; OR HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/3491695633 Chair: Hui Deng Deepthi Suresh Program: Biomedical Engineering Dissertation Title: Improving Student Outcome Expectations for Biomedical Quality Engineering Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: JAMES AND ANNE DUDERSTADT CENTER 1180 – PRESENTATION ROOM, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/93869079483 Chair: Paul Anthony Jensen Doruk Aksoy Program: Aerospace Engineering Dissertation Title: Incremental Tensor Decompositions for Scientific Machine Learning and Bayesian Inference Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: FRB2300 AND HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/2519051905 Chair: Alex Arkady Gorodetsky Dicle Taskin Program: Architecture Dissertation Title: The Pan-American Highway Project: Imageries, Infrastructures, and Landscapes of Hemispheric Integration, 1923-1970 Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91937519368 PW: DEFENSE Chair: Joy Knoblauch Adaeze Eneli Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences Dissertation Title: Understanding the Critical Quality Attributes Influencing Doxil? Performance in Vitro and in Vivo Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: NCRC BUILDING 10 RESEARCH AUDITORIUM, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91940700142 PW: DOXIL Chair: Anna A S Schwendeman Andrew Cruz Program: Chemistry Dissertation Title: Outcompeting and Suppressing the Intramolecular Heck Arylation in Bimolecular Palladium-Catalyzed Alkene Difunctionalization Reactions Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: CHEMISTRY ROOM 1640 Chair: John P Wolfe Andrew Bennett Program: Chemistry Dissertation Title: Ionic Cocrystals as Green Oxidizers Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: CHEM 1400 Chair: Adam J Matzger Daniel Liao Program: Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Title: Interfacial Engineering of Anode-Free Solid-State Batteries Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: LURIE 4231 Chair: Neil P Dasgupta Chao Huang Program: Materials Science & Engin Dissertation Title: The Science and Pharmaceutical Application of Nano-Materials Made via?Organic Vapor Jet De-sublimation Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: G126 CONF ROOM – CHE B28, NCRC Chair: Max Shtein Leyao Zhang Program: Biostatistics Dissertation Title: Supervised Feature Discovery and Uncertainty Quantification in High-Dimensional Regression Date: 21 Jul 2025 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: M4034, SPH II Chair: Peter Xuekun Song Emily Oliphant Program: Materials Science & Engin Dissertation Title: Bridging Bonds and Bands: A Toolkit for Interpreting the Crystal Chemistry of Electronic Structure Date: 21 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: EECS 1303 Chair: Emmanouil Kioupakis and Wenhao Sun
Agrima Seth Program: Information Dissertation Title: Cultural Variability & Bias in Online Social Interactions & Large Language Models Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: 3470 LEINWEBER COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION BUILDING Chair: Kentaro Toyama
Kassidy Jungles Program: Pharmacology Dissertation Title: The Implementation of Combination Therapies for the Treatment of Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: KAHN AUDITORIUM, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/92278477768 PW:KJTHESIS Chair: James M Rae
Chenyi Zhu Program: Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Title: Fundamental Studies of Sprays in Energy-Intense Systems: Case Studies of Pre-chamber Jet Combustion and Freezing Water Sprays Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 10:30 a.m. Location: 2540 G. G. BROWN LABORATORY: ZOOM: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/97794260995 (PASSWORD: SPRAYS) Chair: Margaret S Wooldridge
Anupon Tadee Program: Environmental Health Sci Dissertation Title: Occupational Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment for Professional and Student Researchers Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: SPH II 1112 Chair: Rick Neitzel
Shuai Che Program: Nuc Eng & Radiol Sciences Dissertation Title: Developing Experimental and Modeling Capabilities to Advance Molten Salt Reactor Technology for Molten Salt Pumps and Heat Exchangers Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: LURIE ENGINEERING CENTER (JOHNSON ROOMS ABC) Chair: Adam Burak and Xiaodong Sun
Levi Hooper Program: Clin Pharm Translational Sci Dissertation Title: Quantitative Approaches to Kidney Function Assessment: Advancing Measured Glomerular Filtration Rate Techniques to Broaden Access in Patients with Kidney Impairment Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: NUB 2548 Chair: Amit Pai and Kathleen A Stringer
Di Wang Program: Biostatistics Dissertation Title: Integration Methods for Incorporating Published Prediction Models with a New Time-to-Event Dataset Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: M4034, SPH II; HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/MEETING/REGISTER/SYREFZNPSYQVLTRSKFGLMG Chair: Zhi He
Yimin Zhou Program: Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Title: Enhancement of Boiling and Evaporation Heat Transfer through Surface Structure Design for Two-Phase Thermal Management Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: 2540 GGB Chair: Solomon Adera
Shubham Atreja Program: Information Dissertation Title: AppealMod: Introducing Productive Friction to Support Volunteer Moderators Date: 7 Jul 2025 Time: 4:00 p.m. Location: LEINWEBER COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION BUILDING 3470 Chair: Libby Hemphill
Tejaswi Tripathi Program: Mathematics Dissertation Title: Exponential Last Passage Percolation in the Upper Large Deviation Regime and Multi-Point Distributions for other LPP Models Date: 8 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: 1866 EAST HALL Chair: Jinho Baik
Carmen Ramos Program: Nutritional Science Dissertation Title: The Role of Coparenting Dynamics in Early Childhood Feeding and Promotion of Young Children's Healthy Weight Date: 8 Jul 2025 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: SPH1 2695 Chair: Kate Bauer
Emily Cornish Program: History of Art Dissertation Title: Indigenous Women and Photography in the Hawaiian Kingdom Date: 8 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/97031661154?JST=3 Chair: Kevin Gray Carr and Stacy Kamehiro
Ariella Hoffman-Peterson Program: Health Service Org & Policy Dissertation Title: Innovating with Trust: Regulation and Organizational Field Maturity in the Era of Emerging Health Technologies Date: 8 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91510886169?JST=2 Chair: Jodyn Platt
Nan Cheng Program: Physics Dissertation Title: Symmetry-Driven Phenomena in Complex Media Date: 10 Jul 2025 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: WEST HALL ROOM 335. ZOOM LINK: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/8790406115 Chair: Xiaoming Mao
Kayla Marcotte Program: Hlth Infrastruc and Lrng Systs Dissertation Title: Optimizing an Assessment Model: Investigating How Multiple Observations from Workplace-based Assessments Can Be Used to Build Accurate Measurement Systems in Graduate Medical Education Date: 10 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: TAUBMAN HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY (ROOM 2903) Chair: Andrew E Krumm
Hayley Lillo Program: Chemistry Dissertation Title: Multinuclear Nickel Complexes Featuring Unusual Oxygenic Ligands: Hydrogen Peroxide Activation, Catalase Reactivity, and Efforts Toward C?H Activation Date: 10 Jul 2025 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: 1706 CHEMISTRY Chair: Joshua Buss
Marianthie Wank Program: Biostatistics Dissertation Title: Clinical Trial Design and Statistical Methods for Partially Randomized Patient Preference, Sequential, Multiple-Assignment, Randomized Trials Date: 11 Jul 2025 Time: 8:00 a.m. Location: SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH BUILDING 2 M4034, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/MEETING/REGISTER/B4MKAOOOQZU4YYHVKVF Chair: Tom Braun and Kelley Kidwell
Zhichen Liu Program: Civil Engineering Dissertation Title: Inverse Learning and Intervention of Transportation Network Equilibrium Date: 11 Jul 2025 Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: GGB 2029 Chair: Yafeng Yin
Maximilian Jerdee Program: Physics Dissertation Title: Inference and Information in Network Structure Date: 11 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: WEISER 747 Chair: Mark Newman
Scott Neville Program: Mathematics Dissertation Title: Combinatorics of Quiver Mutations Date: 11 Jul 2025 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: 210 WH Chair: Sergey Fomin
Haojie Zhu Program: Civil Engineering Dissertation Title: Dense Learning for Advancing Safety Performance of Autonomous Vehicles Date: 11 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: GGB 2029 CONF ROOM Chair: Henry Liu
Luchen Zhang Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences Dissertation Title: Development of Small-Molecule Antagonists or Agonists of STING for Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases or Cancer Date: 14 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: NCRC B520 ROOM 1140; ZOOM: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/94533406820 (PASSCODE: 051951) Chair: Duxin Sun
Jose Ortiz Tavarez Program: Physics Dissertation Title: Physical Networks, Exploring the Role of Real Space Topology in Physical Response Date: 14 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: 4404 RANDALL Chair: Nicholas Kotov and Xiaoming Mao
Masahiro Abe Program: Environmental Engineering Dissertation Title: Financial Modeling of Extreme Flood Events on Corporate Property Damage and Business Interruption Loss: A Geospatially-Informed Facility Portfolio Approach Date: 14 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: GGB 2029, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/99959859021 PW:730087 Chair: Peter Adriaens
Chalem Bolton Program: Sociology Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Economic Inequality and Insecurity in the United States Date: 14 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: LSA 4147 Chair: Greta R Krippner and Robert Allen Manduca
William Weaver Program: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dissertation Title: The Marginality Manifesto: Computational Morphometrics of Half a Million Herbarium Specimens Reveals Lineage-Specific Evolutionary Dynamics in Climate-Leaf Trait Relationships Date: 14 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: BSB 3150 AND HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/WEBINAR/REGISTER/WN_-UJR9SPTRKATNVGC28ICLA Chair: Stephen A Smith
Rahaf Alharbi Program: Information Dissertation Title: Reimagining Privacy and Transparency in Visual Assistance Technologies with Blind People Date: 14 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: ZOOM: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/94066323760?JST=2 Chair: Robin Brewer and Sarita Schoenebeck
Kat Roemmich Program: Information Dissertation Title: Reshaping Privacy Norms in the Age of Emotion AI: Socio-Technical Pathways for Emotional Privacy, Human Agency, and Dignity Date: 14 Jul 2025 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: LEINWEBER-4-4526 (8) Chair: Florian Schaub
Linda Huber Program: Information Dissertation Title: Computing Care: Governing U.S. Healthcare Through Markets and Data Date: 15 Jul 2025 Time: 8:00 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95047727766?PWD=UXJYE97PCCX1MHPW5CUNIBXGZKD2IQ.1 Chair: Silvia Lindtner
Agamjot Sangotra Program: Molecular & Cellular Pathology Dissertation Title: Novel Strategies to Target the Polyglutamine Androgen Receptor in Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy Date: 15 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: BSRB (ABC SEMINAR ROOMS) Chair: Andrew P Lieberman
Easton Huch Program: Statistics Dissertation Title: Robust Methods for Causal Inference and Policy Learning with Applications to Mobile Health Date: 15 Jul 2025 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: WEST HALL 438, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/92910902423?PWD=KLJTM607UKOIHGZGJVCWK0MY777UUB.1&JST=3 Chair: Walter Dempsey and Fred Feinberg
Cheyenne Pettit Program: History Dissertation Title: Tempting the Nation: Venereal Disease and Imperial Belonging in Canada's Great War, 1914-1920 Date: 16 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/96185521813 AND EIHS CONFERENCE ROOM Chair: Joshua H Cole and Kali A K Israel
Crystal Zanders Program: English and Education Dissertation Title: Unseen: Black Autistic Women's Masking Practices, Pressures, and Possibilities Date: 16 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91078361262 PW: 474155 Chair: Anne Leslie Curzan and M Remi Yergeau
Sam Ankenbauer Program: Information Dissertation Title: Skimming the Deep Keel: The Coordination Work of Older Adults in Precarious Moments Date: 16 Jul 2025 Time: 2:15 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/9477636206 Chair: Robin Brewer
Anubha Singh Program: Information Dissertation Title: Governing Onions: Between the Forms and Fantasies of Designing the Future of Agriculture in India Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 8:00 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/7505284466 (PASSCODE: 023661) Chair: Patricia Garcia and Silvia Lindtner
Adam Ard Program: Medicinal Chemistry Dissertation Title: Discovery and SAR-Guided Development of Small-Molecule SERCA2a Activators for Cardiovascular Applications Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: RACKHAM GRADUATE SCHOOL, EARL LEWIS ROOM HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/96012409511 PW: SERCA Chair: Martin C Clasby
Galen Ng Program: Naval Architect & Marine Eng Dissertation Title: Hydroelastic Optimization of Composite Appendages Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: 236 NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND MARINE ENGINEERING BUILDING (ROSENBLATT ROOM) Chair: Joaquim R R A Martins
Prabhjot Kaur Program: Nuc Eng & Radiol Sciences Dissertation Title: Improving the Probabilistic Method of Sequence Reconstruction and Developing a 3D Compton Imaging System with CdZnTe Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: JOHNSON ROOMS, LURIE ENGINEERING CENTER, 3RD FLOOR LEC 3213ABC Chair: Zhong He
Yulan Chu Program: Cell & Developmental Biology Dissertation Title: Cell Cycle-activated Nuclear Receptor Phosphorylation Maintains Organotypic Progenitor Cell Identity and Lineage Fidelity Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: KAHN AUDITORIUM, 109 ZINA PITCHER PL, ANN ARBOR, MI 48109, USA Chair: Benjamin Allen
Guoxin Zheng Program: Physics Dissertation Title: Study of Electrical, Magnetic, and Thermal Properties in Kagome Materials Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: AP267 CONFERENCE ROOM Chair: Lu Li
Cassidy Pyle Program: Information Dissertation Title: Investigating Affirmative Action Discussions on Social Media Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: ZOOM: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95382147017 Chair: Nazanin Andalibi and Nicole Ellison
Papa Yaw Owusu-Obeng Program: Environment and Sustainability Dissertation Title: Balancing Local Priorities with Regional Decarbonization: Pathways for Utility-Scale Solar Expansion Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 12:30 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/99355167093 Chair: Michael T Craig
Sang Hyun Lee Program: Electrical & Computer Engineer Dissertation Title: Multiscale THz Polarization Activity: From Chiral Phonons to Micro- and Macrostructures Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: NCRC G063 & G064 Chair: Nicholas Kotov and Theodore B Norris
Usha Kadiyala Program: Biophysics Dissertation Title: Spatiotemporal Coordination of Growth and Patterning in Early Embryonic Development Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: 1640 CHEM Chair: Qiong Yang
Solangel Troncoso Program: Psych & Women's and Gender Stu Dissertation Title: Date: 17 Jul 2025 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/99591121371?JST=3 Chair: Susan A Gelman
Lingxiao Zhou Program: Physics Dissertation Title: Coherent Manipulation of Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Photonic Devices Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: RANDALL 4404; OR HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/3491695633 Chair: Hui Deng
Deepthi Suresh Program: Biomedical Engineering Dissertation Title: Improving Student Outcome Expectations for Biomedical Quality Engineering Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: JAMES AND ANNE DUDERSTADT CENTER 1180 – PRESENTATION ROOM, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/93869079483 Chair: Paul Anthony Jensen
Doruk Aksoy Program: Aerospace Engineering Dissertation Title: Incremental Tensor Decompositions for Scientific Machine Learning and Bayesian Inference Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: FRB2300 AND HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/2519051905 Chair: Alex Arkady Gorodetsky
Dicle Taskin Program: Architecture Dissertation Title: The Pan-American Highway Project: Imageries, Infrastructures, and Landscapes of Hemispheric Integration, 1923-1970 Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91937519368 PW: DEFENSE Chair: Joy Knoblauch
Adaeze Eneli Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences Dissertation Title: Understanding the Critical Quality Attributes Influencing Doxil? Performance in Vitro and in Vivo Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: NCRC BUILDING 10 RESEARCH AUDITORIUM, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91940700142 PW: DOXIL Chair: Anna A S Schwendeman
Andrew Cruz Program: Chemistry Dissertation Title: Outcompeting and Suppressing the Intramolecular Heck Arylation in Bimolecular Palladium-Catalyzed Alkene Difunctionalization Reactions Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: CHEMISTRY ROOM 1640 Chair: John P Wolfe
Andrew Bennett Program: Chemistry Dissertation Title: Ionic Cocrystals as Green Oxidizers Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: CHEM 1400 Chair: Adam J Matzger
Daniel Liao Program: Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Title: Interfacial Engineering of Anode-Free Solid-State Batteries Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: LURIE 4231 Chair: Neil P Dasgupta
Chao Huang Program: Materials Science & Engin Dissertation Title: The Science and Pharmaceutical Application of Nano-Materials Made via?Organic Vapor Jet De-sublimation Date: 18 Jul 2025 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: G126 CONF ROOM – CHE B28, NCRC Chair: Max Shtein
Leyao Zhang Program: Biostatistics Dissertation Title: Supervised Feature Discovery and Uncertainty Quantification in High-Dimensional Regression Date: 21 Jul 2025 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: M4034, SPH II Chair: Peter Xuekun Song
Emily Oliphant Program: Materials Science & Engin Dissertation Title: Bridging Bonds and Bands: A Toolkit for Interpreting the Crystal Chemistry of Electronic Structure Date: 21 Jul 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: EECS 1303 Chair: Emmanouil Kioupakis and Wenhao Sun
