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 DateStudent NameExam Information
(Thesis, Supervisor(s), Graduate Unit)
Apr 1Name: Ramon Arora Innovations in Catalytic Syntheses of Bis- and Halogenated Heterocycles
Supervisor(s): Prof. Mark Lautens
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Apr 1Name: Melissa Carmen Tan Evaluation of Music Based Responses and Cognitive Interventions for Adults with MDD and Suicide Risk
Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael Thaut
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Apr 1Name: Melissa Carmen Tan Evaluation of Music Based Responses and Cognitive Interventions for Adults with MDD and Suicide Risk
Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael Thaut
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Apr 1Name: Victoria Flood Using ground-based FTIR spectroscopy, satellite measurements and models to understand atmospheric composition over Canada
Supervisor(s): Prof. Kimberly Strong
Graduate Unit: Department of Physics
Apr 1Name: Vanessa Yen Cheng Li DNA on particles: a marker for high-throughput detection and screening assays
Supervisor(s): Prof. Warren Chan
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Apr 1Name: Chaoyu Zhang Disruption Management in the (Post-)Pandemic World
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ming Hu
Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Management
Apr 1Name: Chaoyu Zhang Disruption Management in the (Post-)Pandemic World
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ming Hu
Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Management
Apr 1Name: Duc Nguyen Essays in Economic Growth and Development
Supervisor(s): Prof. Diego Restuccia
Graduate Unit: Department of Economics
Apr 1Name: Tara Lynn Henechowicz The Genetic Architecture of Active Music Engagement and its Relationship to Neurobiological Function and Health
Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael Thaut
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Apr 1Name: Tara Lynn Henechowicz The Genetic Architecture of Active Music Engagement and its Relationship to Neurobiological Function and Health
Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael Thaut
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Apr 2Name: Eric Nicholson Trans-Threshold Ion Irradiation Damage Primary and Secondary Damage Mechanisms in Radiation Environments of Emerging Interest
Supervisor(s): Prof. Chandra Veer Singh, Prof. James Davis
Graduate Unit: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Apr 2Name: Noemie Rose Francoise Bucourt Essays on Corporate Governance and Corporate Externalities
Supervisor(s): Prof. Alexander Dyck, Prof. Claire Celerier
Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Management
Apr 2Name: Noemie Rose Francoise Bucourt Essays on Corporate Governance and Corporate Externalities
Supervisor(s): Prof. Alexander Dyck, Prof. Claire Celerier
Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Management
Apr 2Name: Janita Grace Van Dyk Food Tempos: Experiments in Making Food and Value in Northern Italy
Supervisor(s): Prof. Shiho Satsuka
Graduate Unit: Department of Anthropology
Apr 2Name: Joeffre Nathan Braga Peripheral Inflammatory Disease and Brain Gliosis
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jeffrey Meyer
Graduate Unit: Department of Pharmacology
Apr 3Name: Amirjalal Jalali Advanced manufacturing of functional lightweight composite systems for sustainable and flexible electronics
Supervisor(s): Prof. Chul Park, Prof. Mohini Sain
Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Apr 3Name: Aljosa Jurinic The Art And Science Of Piano Playing: Exploring The Biomechanical Basis Of Pianists’ Movement Patterns
Supervisor(s): Prof. Aiyun Huang
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Apr 3Name: Aljosa Jurinic The Art And Science Of Piano Playing: Exploring The Biomechanical Basis Of Pianists’ Movement Patterns
Supervisor(s): Prof. Aiyun Huang
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Apr 3Name: Heather Lynn Yawney Phonological and Morphological Conditions on Dorsals in Kazakh: Productivity in Production and Acceptability
Supervisor(s): Prof. Peter Jurgec, Prof. Nathan Sanders
Graduate Unit: Department of Linguistics
Apr 3Name: Yun Wang A Porcelainzed Song, China: Material Surfacescape and Beyond (10th – 13th Centuries).
Supervisor(s): Prof. Graham Sanders, Prof. Chen Shen
Graduate Unit: Department of East Asian Studies
Apr 3Name: Alexis Ricardo Millares Thomson A Theory of Sets and Harmonic Complexity in Just Intonation and its Equal Temperament Approximations in the Chamber Music of Georg Friedrich Haas
Supervisor(s): Prof. Mark Sallmen
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Apr 3Name: Alexis Ricardo Millares Thomson A Theory of Sets and Harmonic Complexity in Just Intonation and its Equal Temperament Approximations in the Chamber Music of Georg Friedrich Haas
Supervisor(s): Prof. Mark Sallmen
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Music
Apr 4Name: Emily Olga Rosa Dobrich A PEDAGOGICAL REIMAGINING OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN’S EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNITY BUILDING EXPERIENCES IN CANADA THROUGH EMBODIED LEARNING AS DECOLONIZING PRAXIS
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jennifer Wemigwans
Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Apr 4Name: Mahsa Karimi An active microfluidic wound dressing for burn and skin wound care
Supervisor(s): Prof. Benjamin Hatton
Graduate Unit: Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Apr 4Name: Laura Marie Medlock The processing of touch and its disruption under neuropathic pain conditions
Supervisor(s): Prof. Steven Prescott
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Apr 4Name: Mina Mahdian Data Driven Approach for Development of Surface Engineered Foams to Remove Bacteria From Drinking Water
Supervisor(s): Prof. Amy Marlou Bilton
Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Apr 4Name: Thomas Clifford Panagiotou Investigating the formation and resolution of the intercellular bridge in animal cytokinesis
Supervisor(s): Prof. Andrew Rhys Wilde
Graduate Unit: Department of Molecular Genetics
Apr 4Name: Brett Jones Cognition in Bipolar Disorder: Neurobiological Correlates and Lifespan Perspectives
Supervisor(s): Prof. Muhammad Ishrat Husain
Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
Apr 4Name: Dorothy Wai Ting Wong Evaluating the Transitional Pain Service on Opioid Use Among Chronic Post-Surgical Pain Patients in Toronto, Ontario: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Supervisor(s): Prof. Whitney Berta
Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
Apr 7Name: Keyu Zhuang On-demand in-vivo long-term stem cell tracking using bright ferritin magnetic resonance imaging
Supervisor(s): Prof. Hai-Ling Cheng
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Apr 7Name: Soumya Ranjan Mishra Design Readiness Levels and Maturity Quantification
Supervisor(s): Prof. Kamran Behdinan
Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Apr 7Name: Samantha Seaton An Exploration of the Deimplementation of Longstanding Low-Value Clinical Practices: The Case of Sensory Integration
Supervisor(s): Prof. Helene Polatajko-Howell, Prof. Heather Colquhoun
Graduate Unit: Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
Apr 7Name: Chelsie Leger Relationship-Building in Destreamed Grade 9 Mathematics Classrooms: Exploring Best Practices and Challenges
Supervisor(s): Prof. Douglas McDougall
Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Apr 7Name: Seyed Parsa Mirdehghan Optimizing Coded Illumination and Reconstruction for High-Performance Active 3D Imaging
Supervisor(s): Prof. Kiriakos Kutulakos
Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science
Apr 7Name: Ece Su Sayin HYPOXIA-INDUCED DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; A CONTRAST AGENT FOR CEREBRAL PERFUSION IMAGING
Supervisor(s): Prof. Joseph Fisher
Graduate Unit: Department of Physiology
Apr 7Name: Nameer Khan Auxiliary-Assisted Hybrid DC-DC Converters for Fast Transient Response in 48V PoL Automotive Applications
Supervisor(s): Prof. Olivier Trescases
Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Apr 8Name: Joseph Sebastian Listening to bio-engineered tissues and materials: Assessing cellularity, stiffness, and contractility using high-frequency ultrasound
Supervisor(s): Prof. Craig Simmons
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Apr 8Name: Sadaf Naz Kashi Kalhour Characterization of Biosludge Flocs from Pulp and Paper Mills with Implications for Dewatering
Supervisor(s): Prof. D Grant Allen, Prof. Arun Ramchandran
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Apr 8Name: Mengran Xu Producing Socialism in the Web of Life: An Agricultural and Environmental History of North China.
Supervisor(s): Prof. Yiching Wu, Prof. Yue Meng
Graduate Unit: Department of East Asian Studies
Apr 8Name: Jonas Chi Fung Yeung Contributors to radiation and chemotherapy-induced brain toxicity
Supervisor(s): Prof. Brian Nieman
Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics
Apr 8Name: Nello David Sansone Harnessing Nature’s Synergistic Hierarchical Architecture for Next-Generation Bespoke Hybrid Composites
Supervisor(s): Prof. Patrick Chang Dong Lee
Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Apr 8Name: Yuming Zhang Hierarchical Biofabrication Strategies Enabled by Ultrathin Collagen Sheets
Supervisor(s): Prof. Axel Guenther
Graduate Unit: Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Apr 8Name: Leting Liu Corporate Conduct in the Time of Callouts: How Public Criticism Shapes Environmental Disclosure and Outcomes
Supervisor(s): Prof. Aida Wahid, Prof. Gordon Richardson
Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Management
Apr 8Name: Leting Liu Corporate Conduct in the Time of Callouts: How Public Criticism Shapes Environmental Disclosure and Outcomes
Supervisor(s): Prof. Aida Wahid, Prof. Gordon Richardson
Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Management
Apr 9Name: Bing Xin Song Angiogenesis in People at Risk for Dementia or with Dementia
Supervisor(s): Prof. Krista Lanctot
Graduate Unit: Department of Pharmacology
Apr 9Name: Zhibo Wang Computer-aided Investigation of Novel Optoelectronic Materials: Optimizing Computational Methods for Materials Discovery
Supervisor(s): Prof. Oleksandr Voznyy
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Apr 9Name: Tracey Margaret White Canada in an Era of Intelligent Machines: How Institutions Condition Knowledge Generation and Innovation in a Learning Economy
Supervisor(s): Prof. David Wolfe
Graduate Unit: Department of Political Science
Apr 10Name: Molly Johnston LDs On The Brain Teaching Students With Learning Disorders About Their Unique Brains and Learning Profiles
Supervisor(s): Prof. Lana Stermac
Graduate Unit: Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
Apr 11Name: Daya Alderfer The Embodied Classroom: Exploring the Effects of Yoga on Primary School Teachers’ Well-being and Pedagogy
Supervisor(s): Prof. John Miller
Graduate Unit: Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Apr 11Name: Evianne Margo Rovers Developing Computational Methods in Proximity Pharmacology for Enzyme Discovery, PROTAC Screening, and Conformational Space Exploration
Supervisor(s): Prof. Matthieu Schapira
Graduate Unit: Department of Pharmacology
Apr 11Name: Rozalina Omar Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Experiences of South Asian Female Immigrant Teachers in Toronto
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jamie-Lynn Magnusson
Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Apr 11Name: Junhui Yang Essays in Urban and Spatial Economics
Supervisor(s): Prof. Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Prof. Stephan Heblich
Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Management
Apr 11Name: Junhui Yang Essays in Urban and Spatial Economics
Supervisor(s): Prof. Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Prof. Stephan Heblich
Graduate Unit: Graduate Department of Management
Apr 14Name: Jenna Leigh Olender An Episodic Narrative Exploration of Liberal Arts Undergraduates’ Encounters with New Ideas
Supervisor(s): Prof. Stephanie Waterman
Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Apr 14Name: Jennifer Coulter The Experiences of Women Senior Housing Officers in Canadian Universities
Supervisor(s): Prof. Katharine Janzen
Graduate Unit: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Apr 14Name: Joseph Donia Designing Worlds, Worlding Design: The Politics of Value Creation in Artificial Intelligence for Heal
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jay Shaw, Prof. Jennifer Gibson
Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
Apr 14Name: Andre Flicker Dada s Unsinn: The Negation of Meaning and Sense in Zurich and Berlin Dada
Supervisor(s): Prof. Willi Goetschel
Graduate Unit: Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures
Apr 15Name: Cassandra Chidiac Passive Treatment Strategies and Their Combination for Mining-Impacted Waters and Associated Emission
Supervisor(s): Prof. Frank Gu
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Apr 15Name: Blair Attard-Frost The Impacts and Governance of Artificial Intelligence: A Transfeminist Perspective
Supervisor(s): Prof. Kelly Lyons
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Information
Apr 15Name: Blair Attard-Frost The Impacts and Governance of Artificial Intelligence: A Transfeminist Perspective
Supervisor(s): Prof. Kelly Lyons
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Information
Apr 15Name: D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika Understanding the Influences of the Undergraduate Student Experience in Canada on the Career Pathways for Black Engineering Graduates
Supervisor(s): , Prof. Greg Evans
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Apr 15Name: D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika Understanding the Influences of the Undergraduate Student Experience in Canada on the Career Pathways for Black Engineering Graduates
Supervisor(s): , Prof. Susan McCahan
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Apr 15Name: Robert Duba-Kiss Developing AAV Gene Therapy Tools for Neurodevelopmental Epileptic Encephalopathies
Supervisor(s): Prof. David Hampson
Graduate Unit: Department of Pharmacology
Apr 15Name: Reinhard Marwin Grassmann Towards Open Continuum Robotics
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science
Apr 16Name: Kareem Kudus Non-Invasive Molecular Status Differentiation of Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas From Magnetic Resonance Images Using Machine Learning
Supervisor(s): Prof. Farzad Khalvati, Prof. Birgit Ertl-Wagner
Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
Apr 17Name: Pascal Hogan-Lamarre Serial Electron Crystallography for High-Resolution Structure Determination of Radiation-Sensitive Materials
Supervisor(s): Prof. R J Dwayne Miller
Graduate Unit: Department of Physics
Apr 17Name: Miaoshiqi Liu Regression Inference and Gaussian Approximation for Non-stationary Time Series
Supervisor(s): Prof. Zhou Zhou
Graduate Unit: Department of Statistical Sciences
Apr 21Name: Irene Poetranto Varieties of Information Controls in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ronald Deibert, Prof. Jacques Bertrand
Graduate Unit: Department of Political Science
Apr 21Name: Bryton Varju 1,2,4-Chalcogenadiazoles as Degradable Linkers for for π-Conjugated Polymers
Supervisor(s): Prof. Dwight Seferos
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemistry
Apr 22Name: Julia Isler Anti-Underdogs: Capitalism and Narrative Form
Supervisor(s): Prof. Adam Hammond
Graduate Unit: Department of English
Apr 22Name: Rene Bogovic Divided by a Shared Language: Afrikaans and Raciolinguistic Projects in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Supervisor(s): Prof. Patricia Landolt
Graduate Unit: Department of Sociology
Apr 22Name: Leonard Mwesigwa Examining Equity and Social Inclusion of a Public- Private Partnership-driven Urban Bus System in Africa: A Case Study of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Tanzania
Supervisor(s): Prof. Matti Siemiatycki
Graduate Unit: Department of Geography and Planning
Apr 22Name: Ilya Musabirov Accelerating Evidence-Based Learning Design Improvement with Adaptive Interventions
Supervisor(s): Prof. Joseph Williams, Prof. Michael Liut
Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science
Apr 23Name: Yun-Chun Chen Data-Driven 3D Modeling via Assembly, Generation and Detailization
Supervisor(s): Prof. Alec Jacobson
Graduate Unit: Department of Computer Science
Apr 23Name: Jamie Nikolaou Gauging Longevity: Canadas Abortion Rights Movement in the Post-Decriminalization Era, 1988-2018
Supervisor(s): Prof. Judith Taylor
Graduate Unit: Department of Sociology
Apr 23Name: Reza Khosravi Farsani Capacity Bounds for Broadcast Channels with Cooperative Users
Supervisor(s): Prof. Wei Yu
Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Apr 23Name: Spencer Underwood Daddy and Papa: Canadian Gay Men Becoming Parents, Caring for their Families, and Constructing Fatherhood
Supervisor(s): Prof. Bonnie Fox, Prof. Rania Hatem Salem
Graduate Unit: Department of Sociology
Apr 24Name: Hsuan Hsiao Power- and Area-Efficient Techniques and Methodologies for Emerging Circuit Design
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jason Helge Anderson
Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Apr 24Name: Sarah Colpitts Harnessing Innate Lymphoid Cells in Cell Therapies for Transplantation and Exploring Their Immunoregulatory Role in Human Spleen
Supervisor(s): Prof. Sarah Crome
Graduate Unit: Department of Immunology
Apr 24Name: Yue Feng Investigating Degradation Machinery of Human CIpXP in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Supervisor(s): Prof. Aaron Schimmer
Graduate Unit: Department of Medical Biophysics
Apr 25Name: Yuxing Zhang Agrifood Networks: Platformization, Sustainability , and Algorithmic Control
Supervisor(s): Prof. Tero Jukka Karppi
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Information
Apr 25Name: Yuxing Zhang Agrifood Networks: Platformization, Sustainability , and Algorithmic Control
Supervisor(s): Prof. Tero Jukka Karppi
Graduate Unit: Faculty of Information
Apr 25Name: Khashayar Namdar Non-invasive MRI-based Pipelines for Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas Molecular Biomarker dentification and Beyond Using Machine Learning
Supervisor(s): Prof. Farzad Khalvati
Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
Apr 25Name: Rami Beidas Dual Avenues: CGRA Mapping Using Zero-Suppressed Binary Decision Diagrams, and Register Optimization for High-Level Synthesis
Supervisor(s): Prof. Jason Helge Anderson
Graduate Unit: Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engin.
Apr 25Name: Madeline Eileen Jarvis-Cross Estimability, Variability, and Predictability in and of Infectious Disease Models and Emergence
Supervisor(s): Prof. Marty Krkosek
Graduate Unit: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Apr 28Name: Amny Athamny Keeping It All A Halal Muslim Was Never Harder: Identity Formation Among Second Generation Muslims in Canadian Urban Centers
Supervisor(s): Prof. Patricia Landolt
Graduate Unit: Department of Sociology
Apr 29Name: Daniela Isaacs-Bernal Affinity-based Delivery System Controls the Release of Antibodies
Supervisor(s): Prof. Molly Shoichet
Graduate Unit: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Apr 29Name: Giorge Thomas Voutsas Association and Impact of the Physical Environment on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors in an Asthmatic Pediatric Population
Supervisor(s): Prof. Indra Narang
Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
Apr 29Name: Feodor Kogan Groupoid Models of the Irrational Rotation Algebra
Supervisor(s): Prof. George Elliott
Graduate Unit: Department of Mathematics
Apr 29Name: Yueh Jean Chia Looking Towards the Past: Resonant Histories in Singapore’s Forgotten Infrastructure
Supervisor(s): Prof. Joshua Barker, Prof. Shiho Satsuka
Graduate Unit: Department of Anthropology
Apr 29Name: Ivan Sapp Enigmatic Revisions: Freud with Lacan
Supervisor(s): Prof. Garry Leonard
Graduate Unit: Department of English
Apr 30Name: Kitty Kit Yee Tang Generation of alveolar-like macrophages derived from a safe and universal pluripotent cells source for allogeneic cell therapies
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ian Rogers
Graduate Unit: Department of Physiology
Apr 30Name: Lance Nicholas Stewart What its Worth: Preferences and Expectations of Music Listeners in the Evaluation of Material Affordances
Supervisor(s): Prof. Vanina Leschziner
Graduate Unit: Department of Sociology