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  • Dec 18 – Master of Science Thesis Defence – Yage Zhang

    Tuesday, December 12, 2023 | By

    Master of Science thesis defences in Computer Science

    Yage Zhang, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend her thesis titled “Aligning Language Models Using Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning” on Monday, December 18 at 2 PM., in MC H313.

    The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Yifeng Li, Supervisor; Shengrong Bu, External Examiner (Brock University); and Ali Emami and Robson De Grande, Committee Members.

    Alanna McNulty, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend her thesis titled “Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Algorithms for Real-World Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization ” on Tuesday, December 19 at 1:00 PM., virtually.

    The examination committee includes Brian Ross, Chair; Betty Ombuki-Berman, Supervisor; Kyle Harrison, External Examiner (The University of Newcastle); and Yifeng Li and Shahryar Rahnamayan, Committee Members.

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  • Master of Science Thesis Defences – Dec 11 and Dec 15 -Alysha Gullion, Ethan Gibbons, Nicholas Aksamit, Raikhan Zakarina

    Wednesday, December 06, 2023 | By

    Master of Science thesis defence in Biological Sciences

     

    Alysha Gullion, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend her thesis titled “Influence of cover crops on invertebrate diversity in Niagara organic vineyards” on Monday, December 11 at 9:30 AM., virtually.

    The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Liette Vasseur, Supervisor; Caroline Provost, External Examiner (Centre de Recherche Agroalimentaire de Mirabel); and Sudarsana Poojari and Kiyoko Gotanda, Committee Members.

    Master of Science thesis defence in Computer Science

    Ethan Gibbons, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Memetic Algorithm for Large-Scale Real-World Vehicle Routing Problems with Simultaneous Pickup and Delivery with Time Windows” on Monday, December 11 at 1:30 PM., virtually.

    The examination committee includes Shahryar Rahnamayan, Chair; Betty Ombuki-Berman, Supervisor; Brian Ross, External Examiner (Brock University); and Michael Winter and Ke Qiu, Committee Members.

    Master of Science thesis defence in Computer Science

     

    Nicholas Aksamit, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Combining the Power of Attention Models

    and Many-objective Computational Intelligence Algorithms for Drug Design” om Friday, December 15 at 10 AM, virtually.

    The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Betty Ombuki-Berman and Yifeng Li, Co-Supervisors; Naser Ezzati-Jivan, External Examiner (Brock University); and Rahnuma Islam Nishat and Youlian Pan, Committee Members.

    Master of Science thesis defence in Chemistry

    Raikhan Zakarina, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend her thesis titled “Solvent-free zinc-catalysed hydroboration of esters ” on Friday, December 15 at 2:30 PM., in Plaza 600F.

    The examination committee includes Ping Liang, Chair; Georgii Nikonov, Supervisor; Joe Gilroy, External Examiner (University of Western Ontario); and Divya Matta and Martin Lemaire, Committee Members.

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  • Dec 7 – PhD Thesis Defence – Andréanne Hébert-Haché

    Wednesday, November 29, 2023 | By

    Andréanne Hébert-Haché, a PhD in Biological Sciences candidate, will defend her thesis titled “The influence of grapevine cultivar, clone, and rootstock on cold hardiness and dehydrin proteins” on Thursday, December 7th at 9:30 a.m., in hybrid format.

    The examination committee members are Brian Roy, Chair; Debbie Inglis and Jim Willwerth, Co-Supervisors; Horst Caspari, External Examiner (Colorado State University); Michael Pisaric, Internal Examiner; and Vincenzo de Luca and Charles Despres, Committee Members.

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  • Nov 8 – PhD Thesis Defence – Lyndon Duff

    Thursday, November 02, 2023 | By

    Lyndon Duff, a PhD in Biological Sciences candidate, will defend his thesis titled “Environmental and social influences of foraging behaviour and maternal investment with a note on the mating frequency of the eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica” on Wednesday, November 8th from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Please note, the original room location has changed. We ask you RSVP to egenkin@brocku.ca if you wish to attend.

     

    The examination committee members are Brian Roy, Chair; Miriam Richards, Supervisor; Kyle Bobiwash, External Examiner (University of Manitoba); Francine McCarthy, Internal Examiner; and Adonis Skandalis and Ping Liang, Committee Members.

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  • Oct 25 – Master of Science Thesis Defence – Minh Vu

    Thursday, October 19, 2023 | By

    Master of Science thesis defence in Biotechnology

    Minh Vu, a Master of Science candidate in the Centre for Biotechnology, will defend his thesis titled “Epidemiology, genetic variance, and symptomology of grapevine viruses in Canada: A

    metagenomic approach” on Wednesday, October 25 at 3:00 PM, virtually.

    The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Debbie Inglis and Sudarsana Poojari, Co-Supervisors; Basudev Ghoshal, External Examiner (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada); and Liette Vasseur, Committee Member.

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  • Master of Science Thesis Defence – Marshall Joseph, Dipanzan Islam, Maka Hu, David Emanuel

    Tuesday, October 03, 2023 | By

    Master of Science thesis defence in Computer Science

     

    Marshall Joseph, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Emergent Behaviour in Game AI:

    A Genetic Programming and CNN-based Approach to Intelligent Agent Design” on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 10 AM, in MC J404.

    The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Brian Ross, Supervisor; Sheridan Houghten, External Examiner (Brock University); and Beatrice Ombuki-Berman and Yifeng Li, Committee Members.

    Master of Science thesis defence in Computer Science

    Dipanzan Islam, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Language Agnostic Software Energy Kernel Framework” on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 4 PM, virtually.

    The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Supervisor; Robson De Grande, External Examiner (Brock University); and Beatrice Ombuki-Berman and Glaucio Haroldo Silva de Carvalho, Committee Members.

    Master of Science thesis defence in Computer Science

    Maka Hu, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend her thesis titled “Automatic Generation of Human

    Readable Proofs” on Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 3 PM, in CRN 207.

    The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Michael Winter, Supervisor; Ivo Duntsch, External Examiner (Brock University); and Ali Emami and Brian Ross, Committee Members.

    Master of Science thesis defence in Mathematics and Statistics

    David Emanuel, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, will defend his thesis titled “On the Extendibility of a D(4)-Pair of Pell Numbers” on Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 10:30 AM, In CRN 207.

    The examination committee includes Ke Qiu, Chair; Omar Kihel, Supervisor; Puntani Pongsumpun, External Examiner (KMITL); and Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh and Alexandre Odesski, Committee Members.

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  • Oct 13 – Master of Science Thesis Defence – Amirmahdi Khosravi Tabrizi

    Tuesday, October 03, 2023 | By

    Master of Science thesis defence in Computer Science

     

    Amirmahdi Khosravi Tabrizi, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Adaptive Logging system: A System Using Reinforcement Learning For Log Placement” on Friday, October 13, 2023 at 9:00 AM, in MC H313.

    The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Supervisor; Renata Queiroz Dividino, External Examiner (Brock University); and Yifeng Li and Ali Emami, Committee Members.

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  • Oct 5 – Master of Science Thesis Defence – James Sargant

    Thursday, September 28, 2023 | By

    Master of Science thesis defence in Computer Science

    James Sargant, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Evolving Weighted Networks to Simulate

    Epidemics and Lockdowns” on Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 9:30 AM, in PLZ 600F.

    The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Sheridan Houghten, Supervisor; Ke Qiu, External Examiner (Brock University); and Brian Ross and Renata Queiroz Dividino, Committee Members.

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  • Oct 3 – Master of Science Thesis Defence – Alexandra Gunn

    Thursday, September 28, 2023 | By

    Master of Science thesis defence in Biological Sciences

     

    Alexandra Gunn, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend her thesis titled “Investigating Vitis sp. cold tolerance with abscisic acid (ABA) analogs “ on Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 9:30 AM, virtually.

    The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Jim Willwerth, Supervisor; Ben-Min Chang, External Examiner (Research Scientist, Summerland Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada); and Debbie Inglis and Charles Despres, Committee Members.

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  • Oct 2 – Master of Science Thesis Defence – Karl Grantham

    Thursday, September 28, 2023 | By

    Master of Science thesis defence in Computer Science

    Karl Grantham, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “AI Enabled Drug Design and Side Effect Prediction Powered by Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms & Transformer Models” on Monday, October 2, 2023 at 12:30 PM, in PLZ 600F.

    The examination committee includes Cheryl McCormick, Chair; Yifeng Li, Supervisor; Divya Matta, External Examiner (Brock University); and Beatrice Ombuki-Berman  and Sheridan Houghten, Committee Members.

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