The following is a list of thesis defences taking place from Monday, Jan. 16 to Friday, Jan. 20.

Master of Science in Statistics thesis defence

Jeremy Brett Blanchard, a Master of Science in Statistics candidate, will defend the thesis “Enhancing Lexical Sentiment Analysis using LASSO Style Regularization” on Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 11 a.m. in virtual format.

The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; William Marshall, Supervisor; Ali Emami, External Examiner (Brock University); and Henryk Fuks and Pouria Ramazi, Committee Members.