Nadia Karimzadeh, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend the thesis titled “Scalable and Reliable GNN-based
Network Traffic Management in Software-Defined Vehicular Networks” on Friday, October 17 at 10am, in virtual format.
The examination committee includes Ke Qiu, Chair; Robson de Grande, Supervisor; Naser Ezzati-Jivan, External Examiner; and Renata Dividino, Committee Member.
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Doctoral thesis defence in the Department of Chemistry
Zackery C. Watts, a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend his thesis titled “N,N,O- and O,N,O- Diarylazo Redox-Active Ligands: Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry, and Pathways to Spin Crossover Conductors” on Monday, October 20th, 1:30 PM, in PL600F.
The examination committee includes Litsa Tsiani, Chair; Martin Lemaire, Supervisor; Michael Shatruk, External Examiner (Florida State University); David Crandles, Internal External Examiner; and Art van der Est and Melanie Pilkington, Committee Members.
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PhD in Biological Sciences thesis defence
Marvel Megaly, a PhD in Biological Sciences candidate, will defend the thesis “Investigating the role of Notch signalling during mesoderm development and cell proliferation” on Tuesday, Sep. 16, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The defence will take place in CAIRNS 207.
The examination committee members are Kimberley Gammage, Chair; Aleksandar Necakov, Supervisor; Allan Albig, External Examiner (Boise State University); Rebecca MacPherson, Internal Examiner; and Gaynor Spencer and Robert Carlone, Advisory Committee.
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Ghazal Khodabandeh, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend her thesis titled “Link Prediction on Distributed Systems” on Thursday, September 4 at 9:30 AM, in MC D404.
The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Supervisor; Rahnuma Islam Nishat, External Examiner (Brock University); and Robson De Grande, Committee Member.
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Nujitha Ransika Wickramasurendra, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “BERT-Based Intrusion Detection System for RF Jamming Attacks in Vehicular Network” on Tuesday, September 2 at 1 PM, virtually.
The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Glaucio H.S. de Carvalho, Supervisor; Shengrong Bu, External Examiner (Brock University); and Robson De Grande, Committee Member.
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Tong Zhang, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “Energy Observability in Large Language Models: A Multi-Layered Approach” on Wednesday, August 20 at 11 AM in GSB 305.
The examination committee includes Ke Qiu, Chair; Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Supervisor; Blessing Ogbuokiri, External Examiner (Brock University); and Yifeng Li , Committee Member
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Seyed Alireza Ezaz, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “TAAF: A Trace Abstraction and Analysis Framework Synergizing Knowledge Graphs and LLMs” on Tuesday, August 19 at 1 PM, virtually.
The examination committee includes Ke Qiu, Chair; Naser Ezzati-Jivan, Supervisor; Heng Li, External Examiner (Polytechnique Montreal); and Renata Queiroz Dividino, Committee Member.
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PhD in Biological Sciences
Ryan Douglas Hallam, PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend his thesis titled “Investigating β- and γ-secretase function and processing of APP with genetic and pharmacological tools” on Friday, August 29 at 11AM, in CRN 207.
The examination committee includes Philip Sullivan, Chair; Aleksandar Necakov, Supervisor; Margaret Fahnestock, External Examiner (McMaster University); Newman Sze, Internal External Examiner; Stephen Glasgow and Rebecca MacPherson, Committee Members.
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MSc in Biotechnology
Jennifer Kujani, a Master of Science candidate in the Centre for Biotechnology, will defend her thesis titled “A Study of Lipid-Protein Binding Assays With α-Tocopherol Transfer Protein Using Surface Plasmon Resonance” on Thursday, August 28 at 1 PM, in TH253.
The examination committee includes Jeff Stuart, Chair; Jeffrey Atkinson, Supervisor; Jason Baardsnes, External Examiner (National Research Council), and Dustin Duncan and Stephen Glasgow, Supervisory Committee Members.
Biotechnology, FMS, Thesis defence
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MSc in Computer Science
Md. Sirajum Munir Prince, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Computer Science, will defend his thesis titled “High-Order Graph Neural Networks and Contrastive Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Node Classification” on Wednesday, August 27 at 2 PM, virtually.
The examination committee includes Ke Qiu, Chair; Renata Queiroz Dividino, Supervisor; Robson De Grande, External Examiner (Brock University); and Rahnuma Islam Nishat, Committee Member.
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