Doctoral Examinations & Schedule
The Final Oral Examination (FOE) is the capstone experience of your doctoral studies. General information about the FOE is outlined in the SGS Calendar. The Final Oral Examination schedule (see calendar below) lists current thesis defenses, and is updated periodically.
Additionally, you may find helpful the Guidelines for the Doctoral Final Oral Examination (FOE), a document that outlines the responsibilities of the graduate unit, SGS, the Examination Committee, and the Chair of the Committee in the planning and conduct of a Final Oral Examination. Faculty and Staff can access additional resources on the SGS Final Examinations webpage.
Academic fees for continuously registered Ph.D. candidates in the final year of the program are pro-rated over the 12–month academic year, based on the date of the final approved thesis submission to SGS. Incidental fees are charged on a sessional (term) basis. More information on the pro-rated fees and schedules can be found in Graduate Fees and on the Student Accounts website under Current Fall–Winter Fee & Refund Schedules.
In-Person Examinations at the School of Graduate Studies
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Doctoral Examination Schedule
| Exam Date | Student Name | Exam Information (Thesis, Supervisor(s), Graduate Unit) |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 1 | Name: Xiang Ren |
Analyzing System Performance and Automating Performance Diagnosis Supervisor(s): Prof. Ding Yuan Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| Nov 1 | Name: Joshua Agostino Palumbo |
Liquid-Cooled Heat Sinks Fabricated Using Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing Techniques Supervisor(s): Prof. Sanjeev Chandra Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering |
| Nov 1 | Name: Christine Chan |
Suicide ideation in Ontario: associations with health service utilization, suicide attempts, and suicide Supervisor(s): Prof. Peter Donnelly Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation |
| Nov 1 | Name: Yifei Yan |
Substrates for Plasma Sprayed Solid Oxide Cell with Better Longevity and Air Permeability Supervisor(s): Prof. Olivera Kesler Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering |
| Nov 1 | Name: Osholene Oshobugie Upiomoh |
Kemetic Initiation: Articulating the African Rites of Passage as Revealing of African Indigenous Knowledge for its Sacredness in the Triumphant Birth of High-Quality Human Beings and Society Supervisor(s): Prof. Njoki Wane Graduate Unit: Department of Social Justice Education |
| Nov 1 | Name: Timothy Cheung |
Protected Zwitterionic Polymers for Delivery of Therapeutic Macromolecules Supervisor(s): Prof. Molly Shoichet Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry |
| Nov 4 | Name: Robert Aaron Zimmerman |
Copulas: New Theory and Methods Supervisor(s): Prof. Radu Craiu Graduate Unit: Department of Statistical Sciences |
| Nov 4 | Name: Muchun Han |
Effects of ketamine enantiomers and their hydroxynorketamine metabolites on synaptic transmission and long-term potentiation in mouse hippocampal slices Supervisor(s): Prof. Graham Collingridge Graduate Unit: Department of Physiology |
| Nov 4 | Name: Sayan Nag |
Advancing Effective Brain Connectivity Estimation for task-fMRI using Dynamic Casual Modeling Supervisor(s): Prof. Kamil Uludag Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics |
| Nov 4 | Name: Carin Elizabeth McLean |
Cultivating Strong Student Character in Post Secondary Education Supervisor(s): Prof. Richard Volpe Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development |
| Nov 5 | Name: Umair Afzal Majid |
How do Hospitals Walk the Talk Exploring the Connection between Hospital Goals and Patient and Family Engagement Practices Supervisor(s): Prof. Kerry Kuluski, Prof. Carolyn Steele Gray Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation |
| Nov 6 | Name: Daniel Foster |
The Economic and Educational Impacts of Universal Early Childhood Education and Care Programs: A Meta-Analytic and Quasi-Experimental Approach Supervisor(s): Prof. Jennifer Jenkins Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development |
| Nov 6 | Name: Mohammad Kaviul Khan |
Generalized Variable Importance Metric: An approach to identify important predictors from learning models Supervisor(s): Prof. Rafal Kustra Graduate Unit: Department of Public Health Sciences |
| Nov 6 | Name: Dorothy Lee |
Promoting endogenous enteric neural crest cells migration through collagenase matrix metalloproteinase 2 and chemoattractant glia cell derived neurotrophic factor stimulation as novel Hirschsprung disease therapeutics Supervisor(s): Prof. Agostino Pierro Graduate Unit: Department of Physiology |
| Nov 6 | Name: Emma Schmiedecke |
A Study of the Composer-Performer Relationship in the Music of Joan Tower Supervisor(s): Prof. Robin Elliott Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music |
| Nov 7 | Name: Logan Doyle |
Chunking in Visual Working Memory Implicates Long-Term Memory Representations Supervisor(s): Prof. Susanne Ferber Graduate Unit: Department of Psychology |
| Nov 8 | Name: Chris Brimacombe |
On the eEffectiveness of Analysing Ecological Communities as Networks Supervisor(s): Prof. Marie-Josee Fortin Graduate Unit: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Nov 8 | Name: Azadeh Zandieh |
Thermal and Dielectric properties of Boron Nitride Nanotube-Based Polymeric Composites Supervisor(s): Prof. Chul Park, Prof. Keun Su Kim Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering |
| Nov 11 | Name: Justin Beland |
Bayesian Optimization Algorithms for High-Dimensional Problems and Robust Design Supervisor(s): Prof. Prasanth Nair Graduate Unit: Institute for Aerospace Studies |
| Nov 11 | Name: Haidy Giratallah |
Big Data Genomic Approaches for Understanding Nicotine Metabolism and Associated Phenotypes Supervisor(s): Prof. Rachel Tyndale Graduate Unit: Department of Pharmacology |
| Nov 11 | Name: Samantha Kadee Murray |
Leveraging GaN Integrated Circuits for In-Situ Device Monitoring and High-Density Power Converters Supervisor(s): Prof. Olivier Trescases Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| Nov 11 | Name: Aaron Tohuvavohu |
Designing the Cosmic Collider Lab: Realtime Instrumentation for Compact Object Mergers Supervisor(s): Prof. Christopher Matzner, Prof. Maria Drout Graduate Unit: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| Nov 11 | Name: Pranav Milind Khanolkar |
Towards an Understanding of the Capabilities, Feasibility, and Requirements of AI-based Methods as a Prelude to their Implementation in Product Design Processes Supervisor(s): Prof. Alison Olechowski Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering |
| Nov 12 | Name: Auguste Anatole Nahas |
Organisms as Agents: Beyond the Artifact Model of Teleology Supervisor(s): Prof. Denis Walsh Graduate Unit: Inst. for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology |
| Nov 12 | Name: Jazlyn Priagula Borges |
Mechanism and targeting of NINJ1-mediated lytic cell death Supervisor(s): Prof. Benjamin Steinberg, Prof. Benjamin Steinberg Graduate Unit: Department of Physiology |
| Nov 12 | Name: Oliver Limoyo |
Generative and Self-Supervised Learning for Robotics Problems Supervisor(s): Prof. Jonathan Kelly Graduate Unit: Institute for Aerospace Studies |
| Nov 12 | Name: Elisabeth Lange |
“Hoping without Hope”: Positive Pessimism in the Literary Texts of Marlen Haushofer and Sibylle Berg Supervisor(s): Prof. Angelica Fenner Graduate Unit: Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures |
| Nov 12 | Name: Joshua Morgan Graham |
Electrophilic Cyanation of Alkenyl Tosylates, Ketones and Amines using Disubstituted Malononitriles Supervisor(s): Prof. Sophie Rousseaux Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry |
| Nov 13 | Name: Heng Kang Yao |
Implications of Cellular Changes in Depression on Human Cortical Microcircuit Activity Supervisor(s): Prof. Etay Hay Graduate Unit: Department of Physiology |
| Nov 13 | Name: Esther Matus |
Development of Bispecific Proteins for Applications in Immunotherapy Supervisor(s): Prof. Jean Gariepy Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics |
| Nov 13 | Name: Ambika Tenneti |
Community Engagement in Urban Forestry: Exploring Barriers and Strategies for Inclusion of Recent Racialised Immigrants in Toronto’s Urban Forest Supervisor(s): Prof. Shashi Kant, Prof. Nicole Klenk Graduate Unit: Faculty of Forestry |
| Nov 13 | Name: Ambika Tenneti |
Community Engagement in Urban Forestry: Exploring Barriers and Strategies for Inclusion of Recent Racialised Immigrants in Toronto’s Urban Forest Supervisor(s): Prof. Shashi Kant, Prof. Nicole Klenk Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Forestry |
| Nov 14 | Name: Juny Yoon |
An Expectation-Maximization Approach to Unsupervised Parameter Learning for Trajectory Estimation Supervisor(s): Prof. Tim Barfoot Graduate Unit: Institute for Aerospace Studies |
| Nov 15 | Name: Yee Kei Kiki Chan |
Micronutrient Premix Granules: Characterization, Failure, Analysis, and Application in Fortified Bouillon Cubes Supervisor(s): Prof. Yu-Ling Cheng, Prof. Levente Diosady Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry |
| Nov 15 | Name: Bowen Cheuk Hong Chan |
The Spectrum of Virtue: From the Decent to the Excellent Supervisor(s): Prof. Thomas Hurka Graduate Unit: Department of Philosophy |
| Nov 15 | Name: Sonia Ebemen Evans |
Control of Substrate Supply to the Chloroplast 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol-4-phosphate Pathway Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael Phillips Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology |
| Nov 15 | Name: Daniele Laudadio |
A Seat at the Table: Food and National Belonging in Contemporary Postcolonial Italy Supervisor(s): Prof. Luca Somigli Graduate Unit: Department of Italian Studies |
| Nov 15 | Name: Cinthya Guzman |
Recentering Boredom: A Sociological Exploration of Emotions Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic Supervisor(s): Prof. Daniel Silver Graduate Unit: Department of Sociology |
| Nov 15 | Name: Maxime Perron |
The Contextual Involvement of the Speech-Motor System in Speech Perception Supervisor(s): Prof. Claude Alain Graduate Unit: Department of Psychology |
| Nov 18 | Name: Kimanzi Muthengi |
Democratic Student Councils and Secondary Schools in Kenya: An Explanatory Study Supervisor(s): Prof. Francine Menashy Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education |
| Nov 18 | Name: Mickael Dang |
Drug delivery strategies to overcome chronic ocular hypertension Supervisor(s): Prof. Molly Shoichet Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry |
| Nov 18 | Name: Silviu Pitis |
Leveraging Structure to Represent Tasks in Sequential Decision Making Supervisor(s): Prof. Jimmy Ba Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
| Nov 18 | Name: Victoria Riccio |
Analysis of targeting and function of dual localized peroxisome and mitochondria membrane proteins Supervisor(s): Prof. Angus McQuibban, Prof. Peter Kim Graduate Unit: Department of Biochemistry |
| Nov 19 | Name: Whitney Laurel Mon-Nga Quong |
What it Means to Have a Scar: Measuring the Scar Experience with the SCAR-Q Supervisor(s): Prof. Joel Fish Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science |
| Nov 19 | Name: Xiangyue Hu |
Elucidating Mechanisms by which Loss-of-Function and a Human Missense Variant of Integrin-Linked Kinase Control Murine Renal Development Supervisor(s): Prof. Norman Rosenblum Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science |
| Nov 19 | Name: Neel Dipesh Choksi |
Ultra-Narrow Optical Features Using Polarization-Dependent Gain in Elliptically Birefringent Fibers Supervisor(s): Prof. Li Qian Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| Nov 19 | Name: Holly Boyne |
Pain Sensitivity as a Longitudinal Risk Factor for Nonsuicidal Self-injury Supervisor(s): Prof. Chloe Hamza Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development |
| Nov 20 | Name: Cory Richman |
The Characterization of Chromosmoe 1q Gains in Ped iatric Posterior Fossa Ependymoma Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael Taylor Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics |
| Nov 21 | Name: Anthony Antunes |
Assimilation to God in Plato’s Republic Supervisor(s): Prof. George Boys-Stones Graduate Unit: Department of Classics |
| Nov 21 | Name: Erik Alfred Etzler |
Traffic noise as a source of acoustic interference in Orthopterans Supervisor(s): Prof. John Ratcliffe, Prof. Darryl Gwynne Graduate Unit: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| Nov 22 | Name: Ruo Xi Zhang |
Elucidating the Function of Novel Components of Extracellular Contractile Injection Systems (eCIS) Supervisor(s): Prof. Alan Richard Davidson Graduate Unit: Department of Molecular Genetics |
| Nov 22 | Name: Aaron Klein |
Distributed shape derivatives for level-set topology optimization and their applications to robust topology optimization Supervisor(s): Prof. Masayuki Yano, Prof. Prasanth Nair Graduate Unit: Institute for Aerospace Studies |
| Nov 22 | Name: Pallavi Pilaka |
Investigating Mechanisms Dictating Tissue-Specific Alternative Splicing Patterns in C. elegans Supervisor(s): Prof. John Anthony Calarco Graduate Unit: Department of Cell and Systems Biology |
| Nov 22 | Name: Travonne Edwards |
Interrupting Anti-Black Racism: Examining Physical Abuse Allegations Against Black Families Navigating Ontario’s Child Welfare System Supervisor(s): Graduate Unit: Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work |
| Nov 25 | Name: Bryan Wang |
Human-AI Systems for Creating, Consuming, and Interacting with Digital Content Supervisor(s): Prof. Tovi Grossman Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
| Nov 25 | Name: Jing ze Wu |
Control of Phagosome Resolution by Ion Fluxes and Phosphoinositides Supervisor(s): Prof. Sergio Grinstein, Prof. Spencer Freeman Graduate Unit: Department of Biochemistry |
| Nov 25 | Name: Piriththiv Dhavarasa |
Investigating Intracellular and Extracellular Biology Using Genome-Wide CRISPR/Cas9 Screening Supervisor(s): Prof. Shana Kelley Graduate Unit: Department of Biochemistry |
| Nov 26 | Name: Jason Lequyer |
Zero-shot Image Restoration for Biological Imaging Supervisor(s): Prof. Laurence Pelletier Graduate Unit: Department of Molecular Genetics |
| Nov 26 | Name: Mayana Slobodian |
Fixing Canada: A Century of Indigenous-Targeted State Commissions of Inquiry Supervisor(s): Prof. Mariana Valverde Graduate Unit: Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies |
| Nov 26 | Name: Evan Yifan Wang |
Integrative genomic analysis of WNT medulloblastom a Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael Taylor Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics |
| Nov 27 | Name: Pouya Shati |
Interpretable and Constrained Machine Learning via Combinatorial Optimization Supervisor(s): Prof. Sheila McIlraith, Prof. Eldan Cohen Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science |
| Nov 27 | Name: Michael Yin Chak Chong |
Bayesian Approaches to Demographic and Health Estimation Supervisor(s): Prof. Monica Alexander Graduate Unit: Department of Statistical Sciences |
| Nov 27 | Name: Ahmed Shariful Alam |
High-Speed and Power Efficient Integrated Electro-Optic Modulators Supervisor(s): Prof. J Stewart Aitchison Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin. |
| Nov 28 | Name: Alicia Battaglia |
Design of Polymer Binders for Organic Electrodes Supervisor(s): Prof. Dwight Seferos Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry |
| Nov 28 | Name: Wenfu Bao |
Behavioral and Neurophysiological Correlates of Auditory Attention in Monolinguals and Bilinguals Supervisor(s): Prof. Monika Molnar Graduate Unit: Rehabilitation Sciences Institute |
| Nov 28 | Name: Jerry Ng |
Comparing Deep learning Against Classic Time Series Analysis and System Identification for Modelling the Kraft Chemical Recovery Process Supervisor(s): Prof. Nikolai DeMartini, Prof. Yuri Lawryshyn Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry |
| Nov 28 | Name: Emmett Wise |
Streamlining Calibration: Eliminating Infrastructure and Certifying Optimality Supervisor(s): Prof. Jonathan Kelly Graduate Unit: Institute for Aerospace Studies |
| Nov 28 | Name: Elizabeth Tirovolas |
Feedback with Children: Exploring a Framework for Providing Psychoeducational Assessment Results in Schools Supervisor(s): Prof. Todd Cunningham Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development |
| Nov 29 | Name: David Adam Przelicki |
Characterization of recurrent tumour biology in pe diatric posterior fossa ependymoma Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael Taylor Graduate Unit: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology |
| Nov 29 | Name: Garrett Shayne Paul Bullivant |
Transcription Factor Mediated Rescue of Differentiation Failure in Glioblastoma Supervisor(s): Prof. Peter Dirks Graduate Unit: Department of Molecular Genetics |
| Nov 29 | Name: Runjie Shi |
Data-Driven Portable Perimetry Supervisor(s): Prof. Willy Wong Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering |
| Nov 29 | Name: Xin Huang |
Collagen Morphometrics Exploration in Health and Disease Supervisor(s): Prof. Laurent Bozec Graduate Unit: Faculty of Dentistry |