Home Navigating Your Degree Oral Defense Dates Oral Defense Dates Alan Tseng Program: Naval Architect & Marine Eng Dissertation Title: Microplastic Transport in the Global Ocean: the Effects of Particle Size, Biofouling, and Fragmentation Date: 11 Sep 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: CONFERENCE ROOM; NA&ME BUILDING Chair: Yulin Pan Baharan Meghdadi Program: Chemical Engineering Dissertation Title: Multiomics Digital Twins to Decode Tumor Metabolism and Precision Vulnerabilities in Patients with Brain Cancer Date: 15 Sep 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: NCRC BUILDING 10, RESEARCH AUDITORIUM / HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/97757206103 PW: 1234 Chair: Deepak Nagrath Aparna Ananthasubramaniam Program: Ind Interdept Degree Prog Dissertation Title: Studying Non-Financial Spillover Effects of Household Economic Shocks from a Systems Perspective: Three Computational Case Studies Date: 22 Sep 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: MEET.GOOGLE.COM/NIA-PVKC-YRZ Chair: Daniel M Romero and Kristin S Seefeldt Zixuan Huang Program: Robotics Dissertation Title: Long-Horizon and Multimodal Reasoning for Contact-Rich Manipulation Date: 24 Sep 2026 Time: 10:30 a.m. Location: FRB 4000 Chair: Dmitry Berenson Gabriel Oliveira Da Ponte Program: Industrial & Operations Eng Dissertation Title: Computational Advancements for Discrete Optimal Design using Convex Optimization Date: 25 Sep 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: IOE 2869 Chair: Marcia Fampa and Jon Lee Benjamin Nelson-Schmitz Program: Civil Engineering Dissertation Title: Advancing Flood Risk Assessment through Computational Modeling and Observations Date: 25 Sep 2026 Time: 11:30 a.m. Location: GGB 2029 Chair: Jeremy David Bricker and Valeriy Y Ivanov Contact Academic Records and Dissertations Hours: Academic Records and Dissertations is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The office is closed Saturdays and Sundays and on the following holidays: Thanksgiving (Thursday and the following Friday), Christmas through New Year’s, Memorial Day, Independence Day (July 4), and Labor Day. Location 0120 Rackham Building 915 East Washington Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070 Contact Phone: 734.763.0171 Fax: 734.936.3335 Email: [email protected]
Alan Tseng Program: Naval Architect & Marine Eng Dissertation Title: Microplastic Transport in the Global Ocean: the Effects of Particle Size, Biofouling, and Fragmentation Date: 11 Sep 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: CONFERENCE ROOM; NA&ME BUILDING Chair: Yulin Pan
Baharan Meghdadi Program: Chemical Engineering Dissertation Title: Multiomics Digital Twins to Decode Tumor Metabolism and Precision Vulnerabilities in Patients with Brain Cancer Date: 15 Sep 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: NCRC BUILDING 10, RESEARCH AUDITORIUM / HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/97757206103 PW: 1234 Chair: Deepak Nagrath
Aparna Ananthasubramaniam Program: Ind Interdept Degree Prog Dissertation Title: Studying Non-Financial Spillover Effects of Household Economic Shocks from a Systems Perspective: Three Computational Case Studies Date: 22 Sep 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: MEET.GOOGLE.COM/NIA-PVKC-YRZ Chair: Daniel M Romero and Kristin S Seefeldt
Zixuan Huang Program: Robotics Dissertation Title: Long-Horizon and Multimodal Reasoning for Contact-Rich Manipulation Date: 24 Sep 2026 Time: 10:30 a.m. Location: FRB 4000 Chair: Dmitry Berenson
Gabriel Oliveira Da Ponte Program: Industrial & Operations Eng Dissertation Title: Computational Advancements for Discrete Optimal Design using Convex Optimization Date: 25 Sep 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: IOE 2869 Chair: Marcia Fampa and Jon Lee
Benjamin Nelson-Schmitz Program: Civil Engineering Dissertation Title: Advancing Flood Risk Assessment through Computational Modeling and Observations Date: 25 Sep 2026 Time: 11:30 a.m. Location: GGB 2029 Chair: Jeremy David Bricker and Valeriy Y Ivanov
