{"id":112124,"date":"2026-10-09T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=112124"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:06:17","slug":"thesis-defences-oct-13-to-oct-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/10\/thesis-defences-oct-13-to-oct-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis defences Oct. 13 to Oct. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Tuesday, Oct. 13 and Friday, Oct. 16.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Master of Science in Computer Science thesis defences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robert Morabito, a Master of Science in Computer Science candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cRating the Pitch, Not the Product: User Evaluations of LLMs Reflect Expectations More Than Performance\u201d on Wednesday, Oct. 14 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in CRN 527.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Ke Qiu, Chair; Yifeng Li, External Examiner; Ali Emami, Supervisor; and Renata Queiroz Dividino, Supervisory Committee Member.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Audri Banik, a Master of Science in Computer Science candidate, will defend the thesis \u201cFederated Learning with Graph-based Aggregation for Traffic Forecasting\u201d on Thursday, Oct. 15 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in virtual format.<\/p>\n<p>The examination committee includes Ke Qiu, Chair; Sajal Saha, External Examiner; Renata Queiroz Dividino, Supervisor; and Robson De Grande, Supervisory Committee Member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of thesis defences taking place between Tuesday, Oct. 13 and Friday, Oct. 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112128,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112124\/revisions\/112128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}