Defense Announcements

09/12/2024 | Morgan N. Thompson, PHD, Entomology

9:00AM, HPCT 413

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Local and systemic plant defense against aboveground and belowground specialist insect herbivores

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Entomology

Chair: Anjel Helms

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10318


09/13/2024 | Sourajit Dey Baksi, PHD, Chemistry

1:00PM, CHEM 2101

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Syntheses of Platinum and Silicon adducts of conjugated polyynes: en route to carbyne

Arts and Sciences
Chemistry

Chair: John Gladysz

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09/16/2024 | Joung Bo Ko, PHD, Kinesiology

10:00AM, Human Clinical Research Facility Conference Room

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Effects of Human Milk Oligosaccharide 2'-Fucocyllactose Ingestion on Weight Loss & Markers of Health

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Richard Kreider

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10360


09/16/2024 | Ashwath Sethu Venkataraman, PHD, Aerospace Engineering

1:30PM, HRBB621

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
DEVELOPMENT, VALIDATION, AND APPLICATIONS OF A NUMERICAL FRAMEWORK FOR SIMULATIONS OF THE DYNAMICS OF DETONATIONS

Engineering
Aerospace Engineering

Chair: Elaine Oran

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10327


09/17/2024 | Ty Lawrence Jansky, MS, Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications

9:00AM, AGLS 200

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Ag Leadership, Educ & Comm

Chair: Scott Cummings

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10346


09/17/2024 | Srihari Menon, PHD, Industrial Engineering

11:00AM, ETB 4002

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE EFFECT OF POSTURE AND SEX ON SPACECRAFT OCCUPANT INJURY UNDER DYNAMIC LOADS

Engineering
Industrial & Systems Eng

Chair: Nancy Currie-Gregg

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09/18/2024 | Kartik Kumar Rajagopalan, PHD, Materials Science and Engineering

12:00PM, RDMC 229

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Thermo-Responsive Polymer Salogels For Shape Stabilization Of Inorganic Salt Hydrate Phase Change Materials

Engineering
Materials Science & Engr

Chair: Svetlana Sukhishvili

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10320


09/18/2024 | Jiaying Zhu, PHD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

1:00PM, HEEP Center RM437

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE OF TURNIP YELLOW MOSAIC VIRUS

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Biochemistry & Biophysics

Chair: Jae Cho

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10328


09/18/2024 | Alexius O. Dingle, PHD, Genetics and Genomics

2:00PM, HEEP 440

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Exploring mechanisms for developing an inducible death in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Entomology

Chair: Zachary Adelman

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10323


09/19/2024 | Michael Richard McKinsey, MS, Computer Science

10:00AM, PETR 120

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Using Parallel Performance Data to Classify Parallel Algorithms

Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering

Chair: Olga Pearce

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10337


09/19/2024 | Pritam Roychowdhury, PHD, Chemistry

3:00PM, ILSB 3147

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
TRACELESS AMINATION VIA BIFUNCTIONAL N-AMINOPYRIDINIUM INTERMEDIATES

Arts and Sciences
Chemistry

Chair: David Powers

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10319


09/23/2024 | Stephen David Decasien, PHD, Anthropology

9:00AM, ANTH 113

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
The Naval Ram: History, Production, and Symbolism in Ancient Greece and Rome

Arts and Sciences
Anthropology

Chair: Deborah Carlson

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10340


09/24/2024 | John C. Hoefler, PHD, Chemistry

12:30PM, CHEM 1126

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Dynamics and Selective Air Oxidation of Phosphines Adsorbed on Silica and Activated Carbon and Immobilized Phosphine Oxides as Carriers for Peroxides

Arts and Sciences
Chemistry

Chair: Janet Bluemel

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10336


09/24/2024 | Erik Hoempler, PHD, Management

2:00PM, Wehner 102

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
The Company You Keep: The Impact of Scandals on Industry Peer Interlock Networks

Mays Business School
Management

Chair: Srikanth Paruchuri

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10342


09/25/2024 | Shubham Jain, PHD, Water Management and Hydrological Science

9:00AM, Blackland Research and Extension Center & Microsoft Teams

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Towards Enhancing the Performance and Interpretability of Machine Learning Approaches for Large Sample Hydrology

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Biological & Agricultural Eng

Chair: Raghavan Srinivasan

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10331


09/25/2024 | Jessie Lene Cortez, PHD, English

9:00AM, LAAH 360

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Constructing Vulnerability: Readings of Openness to Disease

Arts and Sciences
English

Chair: Sara DiCaglio

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10356


09/25/2024 | Alan Martinez, PHD, Materials Science and Engineering

12:00PM, Zoom (311 427 7087)

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Electrochemical degradation behavior of supermartensitic and additively manufactured stainless steels in CO2 and H2S saturated salt brines for oil and gas applications

Engineering
Materials Science & Engr

Chair: Homero Castaneda-Lopez

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10344


09/25/2024 | Huyen Nguyen, PHD, Educational Human Resource Development

1:00PM, 715B Harrington Tower

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Work-life balance of Vietnamese female faculty in higher education institutions: A phenomenological study

Education and Human Development
Educ Admn & Human Resource Dev

Chair: Jia Wang

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10350


09/25/2024 | Chen Gong, PHD, Electrical Engineering

3:00PM, WEB 324

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
THE STUDY OF LATERAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER (LCSEL) AND RELATED PROCESSING

Engineering
Electrical & Computer Eng

Chair: Harlan Harris

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10334


09/27/2024 | Zihao Yu, PHD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

10:00AM, tbd

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Spatiotemporal Development of Phage Life Cycles: A Single-Cell Study

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Biochemistry & Biophysics

Chair: Ryland Young

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10353


09/27/2024 | Mohamed Naveed Gul Mohamed, PHD, Aerospace Engineering

1:00PM, HRBB 621

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
OPTIMAL CONTROL OF NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Engineering
Aerospace Engineering

Chair: Suman Chakravorty

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10345


09/30/2024 | Sambhav Khurana, MS, Computer Science

8:30AM, TBD

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Advancing Graph Language Models: Towards Improved Capability and Interpretability

Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering

Chair: Shuiwang Ji

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10329


09/30/2024 | Becky Maria Legere, PHD, Biomedical Sciences

9:00AM, VMTH 264

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
mRNA-Encoded Anti-VapA Monoclonal IgG1 for Passive Immunization of Foals Against Rhodococcus equi

Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Vet Large Animal Clinical Sc

Chair: Noah Cohen

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10333


09/30/2024 | Abdulvahit Sahin, PHD, Civil Engineering

10:30AM, DLEB

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
LABORATORY INVESTIGATION OF PELLETIZED CLAY BARRIER MATERIALS INTENDED FOR THE ISOLATION OF HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE

Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engr

Chair: Marcelo-Javier Sanchez Castilla

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10332


09/30/2024 | Nicole Anne Havrilchak, PHD, Ecology and Conservation Biology

2:00PM, WFES 336

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Lineage-related physiological, morphological, and anatomical drivers of C4 grass responses to low water availability

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Ecology & Conservation Biology

Chair: Jason West

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10325


09/30/2024 | Whitney Christine Roberson, PHD, Biology

2:00PM, Rudder Tower 410

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Pax2a and Pax5 protect sensory hair cells from destabilizing effects of Fgf signaling on cell adhesion.

Arts and Sciences
Biology

Chair: Bruce Riley

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10348


09/30/2024 | Cassie Marie Marbach, PHD, Horticulture

3:00PM, HFSB 203

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
EXPLORING TEXAS WINE: CONSUMER DYNAMICS, VERJUS ECONOMICS, AND CLUSTER THINNING EFFECTS

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Horticultural Sciences

Chair: Charles Hall
Co-Chair: Ioana Botezatu

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10330


09/30/2024 | Niankui Li, PHD, Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences

3:00PM, Room 403 (Biochemistry & Biophysics building)

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
TOUSLED-mediated stoichiometric phosphorylation of SGS3 regulates RDR6 activity to fine-tune RNA silencing

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Biochemistry & Biophysics

Chair: Xiuren Zhang

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10351


09/30/2024 | Kylie Marlene Lytle, PHD, Chemistry

5:15PM, Over Zoom: https://tamu.zoom.us/j/93223875651

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Thermally Activated Single-photon Up-conversion in Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanocrystals

Arts and Sciences
Chemistry

Chair: Matthew Sheldon

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10322


10/1/2024 | Zihao Shang, PHD, Civil Engineering

1:00PM, DLEB

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
An Experimental and Numerical Study of Soils Subject to Freeze-Thaw Cycles

Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engr

Chair: Marcelo-Javier Sanchez Castilla

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10349


10/2/2024 | Nour Mansour Abdelhafez Mohamed Basha, PHD, Chemical Engineering

3:00AM, Online

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Advanced Data-Driven Process Monitoring Framework and its Application to Chemical Processes

Engineering
Chemical Engineering

Chair: Mohamed Nounou
Co-Chair: Costas Kravaris

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10363


10/2/2024 | Millennium Bismay, MS, Computer Science

3:00PM, TBD

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Improving Personlized Recommendation using Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering

Chair: James Caverlee

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10326


10/2/2024 | Timothy William Assel, PHD, Aerospace Engineering

3:15PM, HRBB 603

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Scale Resolving Simulations of Turbulence: Challenges in Closure Modeling with Cut-off in the Dissipative Scales

Engineering
Aerospace Engineering

Chair: Sharath Girimaji

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10364


10/3/2024 | Laurel Sage Curran, PHD, Health Education

2:00PM, College Station

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Exploring equitable and active aging

School of Public Health
Health Education Programs

Chair: Tyler Prochnow

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10341


10/4/2024 | Yuheng Zhang, PHD, Atmospheric Sciences

9:00AM, OMB 1209

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
THE CONVERGENCE AND CONSISTENCY OF LIGHT SCATTERING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS IN DUST OPTICS AND OCEANIC PARTICLE MODELLING

Arts and Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Ping Yang

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10321


10/4/2024 | Zhao Xu, PHD, Computer Engineering

3:00PM, PETR 314

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Deep Learning for Molecular Geometry and Property Analysis

Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering

Chair: Shuiwang Ji

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10317


10/7/2024 | Amy Amariany Gomez, PHD, Medical Sciences

1:00PM, Texas A&M IBT

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL CONJUGATIVE ELEMENT PICE-SEPI-ST2 AND ITS ROLE IN HEMOSTASIS MODULATION IN STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS ST2 BLOODSTREAM INFECTIONS

Medicine
College of Medicine

Chair: Axel Hook

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10338


10/8/2024 | Yuanhang Wang, PHD, Agricultural Economics

2:00PM, AGLS 210F

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
ESSAYS ON MIGRATION, WEATHER SHOCK, AND HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIOR

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Agricultural Economics

Chair: Kashi Kafle

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10339


10/9/2024 | Erica J. Pope, MS, Kinesiology

12:00PM, Huffines

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Steven Martin

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10365


10/9/2024 | Luna Yang, PHD, Water Management and Hydrological Science

12:45PM, DLEB conference room

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Estimating Streamflow at Ungauged Basins in the Conterminous United States

Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engr

Chair: Francisco Olivera

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10335


10/10/2024 | Minh Danh Luu, MS, Computer Engineering

12:00PM, PETR 126

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
VCDiag: Analyzing Erroneous Waveform Trace via Machine Learning for Bug Triaging

Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering

Chair: Michael Quinn

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10361


10/11/2024 | Allison M. Savoie, PHD, Oceanography

9:00AM, OMB 602

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Carbonate Chemistry Across Ocean Environments: Coastal Waters, Coral Reefs, and the Deep-Sea

Arts and Sciences
Oceanography

Chair: Kathryn Shamberger

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10343


10/11/2024 | Emily Grace Monroe, MS, Ecology and Conservation Biology

11:00AM, Online via Teams

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Modeling Climate Change Impacts on Forages and Fire Fuel in the Edwards Plateau Ecoregion of Texas, USA

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Ecology & Conservation Biology

Chair: Jay Angerer
Co-Chair: Xinyuan Wu

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10359


10/14/2024 | Kumpanat Thongmai, MS, Electrical Engineering

8:30AM, WEB 201

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Real-Time Cyber-Physical System Testbed for Studying the Impact of Cyberattacks in Smart Power Distribution Systems

Engineering
Electrical & Computer Eng

Chair: Karen Butler-Purry

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10355


10/18/2024 | Dakota William Kempken, MNR, Natural Resources Development

1:00PM, Online via MS Teams

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Rangeland Wildlife & Fish Mgmt

Chair: Megan Dominguez

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10324


10/22/2024 | Hannah R. Beilue, MS, Kinesiology

12:00PM, Huffines

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Steven Martin
Co-Chair: Christopher Woodman

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10358


11/1/2024 | Trent Logan Letney, MS, Sport Management

12:00PM, Online

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Gregg Bennett
Co-Chair: Shane Hudson

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10352


11/1/2024 | Ashley N. Krantz, MS, Sport Management

12:00PM, Online

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Paul Keiper

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10354


11/1/2024 | Paul J. Cabello, MS, Sport Management

12:00PM, Online

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Hyun-Woo Lee
Co-Chair: Gregg Bennett

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da10357