05/26/2025 | Yuanyuan Lei, PHD, Computer Science
3:00PM, Peterson 326
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Knowledge-aware Language Modeling for Addressing Information Distortion
Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Chair: Ruihong Huang
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17170
05/27/2025 | Mostafa Nashaat Mostafa Hammoda Ahmed, MS, Chemical Engineering
7:00AM, LH 238 (Qatar Campus)
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Application of a Systematic Method to Fill the Gap in the Early Stages of Process Design
Qatar Campus
Chemical Engineering
Chair: Patrick Linke
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17200
05/27/2025 | Brad Tanner Jennings, MS, Geography
9:00AM, Eller Oceanography & Meteorology, 807
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO IDENTIFY STRUCTURES ACROSS ANTARCTIC RESEARCH STATIONS
Arts and Sciences
Geography
Chair: Andrew Klein
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17158
05/27/2025 | David Pearce, MS, Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management
9:00AM, HSFB 303
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Survey and Statistical Methods to Estimate Abundance of Unmarked Wildlife Populations in South Texas
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Rangeland Wildlife & Fish Mgmt
Chair: Stephen Webb
Co-Chair: Ty Werdel
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17161
05/27/2025 | Rose Christy Blanchard, PHD, Ecology and Conservation Biology
10:00AM, WFES 411
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Functional Ecology and Diversification of Western Mosquitofish Morphology
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Ecology & Conservation Biology
Chair: Joshuah Perkin
Co-Chair: Anna Lawing
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17180
05/27/2025 | Haoyuan Chen, PHD, Industrial Engineering
1:00PM, https://tamu.zoom.us/j/92781459170
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Scalable Gaussian Processes and Applications in Modern Machine Learning
Engineering
Industrial & Systems Eng
Chair: Rui Tuo
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17153
05/27/2025 | Siddhant Vivek Jaitpal, PHD, Biomedical Engineering
1:00PM, HTIB, Room 135
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Development of an Isothermal approach for the sensitive detection of Hepatitis C Virus
Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Samuel Mabbott
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17181
05/27/2025 | Hannah Claire Lehman, PHD, Aerospace Engineering
1:00PM, HRBB 621
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Hierarchical Auctions for the Coordination of Heterogeneous Agents using Machine Learning
Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Chair: John Valasek
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17206
05/28/2025 | Jordyn Vanportfliet, PHD, Genetics and Genomics
8:00AM, https:\jacksonlab.zoom.us\j\84226223330?pwd=cQ8yGdR2z7yIXwCaL7ZBLNsrrYsf67.1&&from=addon
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Characterizing innate immune and inflammatory responses in models of mitochondrial disease
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Biochemistry & Biophysics
Chair: Andrew West
Co-Chair: Raquel Sitcheran
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17179
05/28/2025 | David Eugenio Jan Van Wijk, PHD, Aerospace Engineering
9:30AM, HRBB 621
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Safety-Critical Control of Input-Constrained Systems
Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Chair: Manoranjan Majji
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17193
05/28/2025 | Morgan Smith Osborne, PHD, Microbiology
10:00AM, MSC 2500
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Secretion and processing of substrates during Clostridioides difficile sporulation
Arts and Sciences
Biology
Chair: Joseph Sorg
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17151
05/28/2025 | Finnegan Travis Hein, MS, Visualization
3:00PM, LAAH 109
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts
College of Perf Vis Fine Arts
Chair: Courtney Starrett
Co-Chair: Michael Gayk
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17188
05/29/2025 | Murat Gokoglu, MS, Ocean Engineering
9:00AM, Galveston, TX
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Modeling Soil-Like Behaviors in SPH: Density, Viscosity, and Yield Stress Adjustments for Hybrid Structure Evolution Simulation
Engineering
Ocean Engineering
Chair: Jens Figlus
Co-Chair: Roger Cordes
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17146
05/29/2025 | Bokun Wang, PHD, Computer Science
11:00AM, PETR 414
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Beyond Empirical Risk Minimization: Optimization and Generalization Theory for Modern Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Chair: Tianbao Yang
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17205
05/30/2025 | Clay Sven Norrbin, PHD, Mechanical Engineering
9:00AM, Turbomachinery Laboratory
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
INFLUENCE OF PUMP ROTOR VIBRATION ONTO FLEXIBLY MOUNTED ROTOR MECHANICAL SEAL DYNAMICS
Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Adolfo Delgado-Marquez
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17189
05/30/2025 | Chen Yang, MS, Chemical Engineering
10:00AM, JEB Room 256
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
A method to generate exhaustive hazardous scenarios from chemical process system
Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Chair: Faisal Khan
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17186
05/30/2025 | Shih-Guo Li, PHD, Chemistry
1:00PM, CHEM 1423
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
SYNTHETIC POLYPEPTIDES DERIVED FROM N-CARBOXYANHYDRIDES FOR ELECTRONIC AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
Arts and Sciences
Chemistry
Chair: Karen Wooley
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17204
05/30/2025 | Haley L Moyer, PHD, Toxicology
2:00PM, VENI 106A
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Modeling multi-cellular membranes in vitro using microphysiological systems
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Vet Integrative Biosciences
Chair: Ivan Rusyn
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17196
05/31/2025 | Md Zahidul Islam, PHD, Mechanical Engineering
8:00AM, Online (ZOOM)
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
ADVANCED RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES WITH 3D INTERCONNECTED CNTS FOR ENHANCED PERFORMANCE
Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Choongho Yu
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17166
06/2/2025 | Hannah Louise Bleth, MS, Ecology and Conservation Biology
9:00AM, TBD
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Diversity and stability of fish and invertebrates in bays along the Texas coast
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Ecology & Conservation Biology
Chair: Masami Fujiwara
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17202
06/2/2025 | Hang Li, PHD, Civil Engineering
9:15AM, DLEB217
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Investigating Dissolved Organic Matter Photophysics with Experimental and Computational Methods
Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engr
Chair: Garrett McKay
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17211
06/2/2025 | Seungwoo Son, MS, Nuclear Engineering
10:30AM, AIEN 301
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Mitigation of Random and False Coincidences in Mobile NRTA Setup Using Geant4-Based Analysis
Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
Chair: Naqvi Farheen
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17173
06/2/2025 | Natasha Jane Chrisandina, PHD, Chemical Engineering
1:00PM, GERB 315
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH FOR RESILIENCE-AWARE MULTI-SCALE DESIGN UNDER UNCERTAINTIES AND DISRUPTIONS
Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Chair: Mahmoud El-Halwagi
Co-Chair: Efstratios Pistikopoulos
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17183
06/2/2025 | Lois Gordils Valentin, PHD, Genetics and Genomics
2:00PM, JEB Room 256
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Engineered Conjugative Type IV Secretion Systems for Bacterial Antagonism Independent of Plasmid Transfer
Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Chair: Xuejun Zhu
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17198
06/3/2025 | Floris Constantijn Droees, PHD, Biomedical Sciences
9:00AM, VMTH 101
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Assessment of hemostasis in dogs with liver disease
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Vet Small Animal Clinical Sc
Chair: Jonathan Lidbury
Co-Chair: Joerg Steiner
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17203
06/3/2025 | Madeline English, MS, Toxicology
10:00AM, TIPS 1002c
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Evaluation of Cytotoxicity Effects of Cryopreservation Agents in vitro Using 2D vs. 3D Hepatic Models
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Vet Physiology & Pharmacology
Chair: Elaheh Rahbar
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17178
06/3/2025 | Abhinav Bharathwaj Swaminathan, PHD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
11:00AM, ILSB Room 3147
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Defining mitochondrial protein functions using genetic, biochemical, and computational approaches
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Biochemistry & Biophysics
Chair: Pingwei Li
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17197
06/3/2025 | Katherine M Berg, PHD, Plant Pathology
1:00PM, PLPM
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
The Function of Ketols in Pathogen and Herbivory Stresses of Maize and Induced Systemic Resistance
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Plant Pathology & Microbiology
Chair: Mikhailo Kolomiets
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17149
06/3/2025 | Katelin Sue Dias, PHD, Counseling Psychology
1:00PM, Zoom
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
VALIDATION OF THE FATIGUE AND ALTERED COGNITION SCALE IN INDIVIDUALS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Education and Human Development
Educational Psychology
Chair: Carly McCord
Co-Chair: Timothy Elliott
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17165
06/3/2025 | Charles D Borenstein, PHD, Materials Science and Engineering
1:00PM, RDMC 229
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
FABRICATION, PROCESSING, AND PROPERTIES OF BULK MULTIPHASE METAL COMPOSITES
Engineering
Materials Science & Engr
Chair: Michal Demkowicz
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17194
06/3/2025 | Isaac A. Ray, PHD, Statistics
2:00PM, BLOC 427
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Nonparametric Statistical Approaches to Manifold-Aware Clustering, Estimation and Prediction
Arts and Sciences
Statistics
Chair: Huiyan Sang
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17167
06/3/2025 | Sam Rose Franklin, PHD, Genetics and Genomics
3:00PM, VIDI 102
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Uncovering Predictive Signatures for Infectious and Clinical Outcomes in Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Multiomic Machine Learning Approach
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Veterinary Pathobiology
Chair: Jessica Galloway-Pena
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17155
06/4/2025 | Andie C Miller, PHD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
10:00AM, HPCT 413
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
ECOLOGICAL ISOLATION AND STRAIN-SPECIFIC TRAITS IN THE FALL ARMYWORM (SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA: J.E. SMITH)
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Entomology
Chair: Gregory Sword
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17209
06/4/2025 | James K. Baldwin, PHD, Sociology
1:00PM, Zoom
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Architects of Segregation: Racialized Housing Organizations and the Making of Houston's Urban Mosaic
Arts and Sciences
Sociology
Chair: Joe Feagin
Co-Chair: Heili Pals
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17185
06/5/2025 | Peggy Sue Carris, PHD, Sociology
10:00AM, West Campus Social Science Building (WCSS) Room 324
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
MORE THAN A FISH OUT OF WATER: HOW INSTITUTIONAL TYPE SHAPES FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS' SENSE OF BELONGING AND ACADEMIC SUCCESS
Arts and Sciences
Sociology
Chair: Patrick Goldsmith
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17168
06/5/2025 | Berkley White, PHD, Biomedical Engineering
10:00AM, Emerging Techologies Building
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Engineering Scalable Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Based Therapies: Microcarrier Design, Real Time Process Monitoring, and Extracellular Vesicle Functionalization
Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Roland Kaunas
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17191
06/5/2025 | Om Adikrao More, MS, Mechanical Engineering
12:00PM, Online
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A CROP MONITORING AND INSPECTION ROBOT
Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Isuru Godage
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17164
06/5/2025 | Stephanie Lauren McMahon, PHD, Genetics and Genomics
1:00PM, VIDI 106
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
MICROBIOME, RESISTOME, PHYLOGENETICS, AND ANTIBIOTICS: A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT INFECTION RISK IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Veterinary Pathobiology
Chair: Jessica Galloway-Pena
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17199
06/5/2025 | CJ J Bott, PHD, Mathematics
1:30PM, BLOC 302
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Computation of Schubert Galois Groups
Arts and Sciences
Mathematics
Chair: Frank Sottile
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17150
06/5/2025 | Elena Ann Lundeen, MS, Water Management and Hydrological Science
2:00PM, OMB 807
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
RIVER-FLOODPLAIN CONNECTIVITY IN A LOWLAND MEANDERING RIVER
Arts and Sciences
Geography
Chair: Andrew Moodie
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17157
06/5/2025 | Tiffany Marie Padilla, MED, Curriculum and Instruction
2:00PM, zoom
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Education and Human Development
Teaching, Learning & Culture
Chair: Emily Cantrell
Co-Chair: R Joshi
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17175
06/5/2025 | Mahsa Valizadeh, PHD, Industrial Engineering
2:00PM, Zoom
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Uncertainty Reduction and Learning Efficiency in Deep Learning Across Multiple Domains
Engineering
Industrial & Systems Eng
Chair: Rui Tuo
Co-Chair: James Caverlee
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17187
06/5/2025 | Jason Azriel Campos, PHD, Sociology
2:00PM, College Station, TX
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
THE BARRIO LIVES ON: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF CRIMINALITY AND RESISTANCE IN A GENTRIFIED SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY
Arts and Sciences
Sociology
Chair: Robert Duran
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17210
06/5/2025 | Adrien Robert Auguste Cassagne, PHD, Aerospace Engineering
2:45PM, HRBB Room 621
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Complex Thermo-Mechanical Loading in High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys
Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Chair: Jean-Briac Le Graverend
Co-Chair: Dimitris Lagoudas
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17148
06/6/2025 | Yoo Jin Lee, PHD, Biomedical Engineering
10:00AM, Emerging Technologies Building
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Stimuli-Responsive Materials for Biomedical Applications
Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Taylor Ware
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17171
06/6/2025 | Archita Sharma, PHD, Biomedical Engineering
12:00PM, Room: 5039, Emerging Technologies Building
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Advanced Bioactive Materials for Skin Regeneration
Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Feng Zhao
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17147
06/6/2025 | Hugo Bayer Reichmann, PHD, Neuroscience
1:00PM, Virtual
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
PREFRONTAL MECHANISMS OF FEAR SUPRESSION DURING FEAR MEMORY CONSOLIDATION AND EXTINCTION
Arts and Sciences
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Chair: Stephen Maren
Co-Chair: Justin Moscarello
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17156
06/6/2025 | Leslie Nicole King, MS, Physiology of Reproduction
1:00PM, KLCT 126
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
SHEEP AS A MODEL FOR PCOS: IMPACTS OF PRENATAL TESTOSTERONE EXCESS DURING GESTATIONAL DAYS 60-90 ON METABOLIC FUNCTION, COLOSTRUM COMPOSITION, MILK PRODUCTION, MAMMARY GLAND HISTOLOGY AND OFFSPRING GROWTH
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Animal Science
Chair: Rodolfo De Carvalho Cardoso
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17184
06/9/2025 | Cullen B. Cable, MS, Civil Engineering
9:00AM, Dwight Look Engineering Building: Room 217
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Strain-Based Assessment of Tension Lap Splices in Ultra-High-Performance Concrete Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing
Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engr
Chair: Kinsey Skillen
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17163
06/9/2025 | Braden Scott Hanson, PHD, Biomedical Sciences
10:00AM, VENI 101A
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
A Novel Nutritional Immunity Boosting Antimicrobial for Urinary Tract Infection
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Veterinary Pathobiology
Chair: Sargurunathan Subashchandrabose
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17176
06/9/2025 | Aurora Gaona Hernandez, PHD, Marine Biology
1:00PM, OCSB 141
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Ecological Drivers of Eastern Oyster Health in Texas Estuaries: Impacts of Dermo Disease and Other Parasites with Links to Climate Variability
Marine Sci & Maritime St
Marine Biology
Chair: Antonietta Quigg
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17174
06/9/2025 | Erin Donnelle Connolly, MS, Animal Science
3:00PM, Kleberg Center room 126
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Utilization of Trans-4-Hydroxy-L-Proline for Glycine Synthesis in Porcine Conceptuses and Hybrid Striped Bass
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Animal Science
Chair: Guoyao Wu
Co-Chair: Delbert Gatlin III
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17162
06/10/2025 | Megan Phyllis Greenwood, PHD, Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications
10:30AM, AGLS Rm 129
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
STAKEHOLDER UNDERSTANDING AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING ABOUT STRUCTURAL SOUNDNESS IN BEEF CATTLE: A MIXED METHODS STUDY
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Ag Leadership, Educ & Comm
Chair: Theresa Murphrey
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17192
06/11/2025 | Jillian Paige Bennett, MS, Aerospace Engineering
8:00AM, TBD
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Adaptive Multiple Time Scale Control Stability Analysis for an Arbitrary Number of Timescales
Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Chair: John Valasek
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17160
06/11/2025 | Ashley N Barros, PHD, English
1:00PM, LAAH 360
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
“Devysing Felaweshipe and Framing the Social Storyworld: A Study on Textual Intersubjectivity and Reader Participation in Framed Tale Collections of the Medieval World”
Arts and Sciences
English
Chair: Britt Mize
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17169
06/11/2025 | Chinmay Mahesh Aras, PHD, Chemical Engineering
1:00PM, JEB
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Optimal Design of Large-Scale Supply Chain Networks for Decarbonization Under Uncertainty
Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Chair: M M Faruque Hasan
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17177
06/12/2025 | Muhammed Ulascan Ersoy, MS, Electrical Engineering
9:00AM, Pending room reservation
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
PARAMETER-EFFICIENT FINE-TUNING FOR LEARNING LANGUAGE MODEL WATERMARKS
Engineering
Electrical & Computer Eng
Chair: Tie Liu
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17195
06/12/2025 | Ashlyn Holbert Strickland, PHD, Biomedical Sciences
9:00AM, VENI 101A
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Effects of antibiotics, probiotics, and pen change on the microbial communities and bacterial population dynamics of Enterococcus spp. in the beef cattle feedyard environment and artificially processed airborne particulate matter
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Vet Integrative Biosciences
Chair: Keri Norman
Co-Chair: Harvey Scott
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17208
06/12/2025 | Emily K Raibley, PHD, Psychology
9:30AM, Zoom
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Making sense of ostracism: How attributions for ostracism influence emotions and behaviors
Arts and Sciences
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Chair: Heather Lench
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17212
06/12/2025 | Jordy Cheyem Lopez Garcia, PHD, Mathematics
2:00PM, Blocker 302
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Newton polytopes and toric varieties for periodic graph operators
Arts and Sciences
Mathematics
Chair: Frank Sottile
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17190
06/12/2025 | Dharma Raj Ojha, MS, Mechanical Engineering
2:00PM, Turbomachinery Laboratory Conference Room 163
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
TWO PHASE FLOW IMAGING OF SPRAYS USING LASER INDUCED EXCIPLEX FLUORESCENCE
Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Waruna Kulatilaka
Co-Chair: Adolfo Delgado-Marquez
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17213
06/13/2025 | Rashid Almirovich Baembitov, PHD, Electrical Engineering
2:00PM, WEB 201
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
MANAGING RISK OF FORCED OUTAGES BY UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING FOR OUTAGE RISK PREDICTION IN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS
Engineering
Electrical & Computer Eng
Chair: Mladen Kezunovic
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17154
06/27/2025 | Alissa Breanne Herring, MS, Animal Science
9:00AM, KLCT 400
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Maternal citrulline supplementation increases fetal growth and programs postnatal pancreatic development in lambs
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Animal Science
Chair: Michael Satterfield
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17159
07/14/2025 | Ana Maria Velasquez Escobar, PHD, Genetics and Genomics
2:00PM, AGLS 113 & https://tamu.zoom.us/j/98577060017
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Developing a Gene Drive Approach for Island Mouse Eradication and Biodiversity Conservation
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Nutrition
Chair: David Threadgill
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17201
07/18/2025 | Rorey Mattingly Yates-Iannelli, 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#da17182
07/18/2025 | Jordan Kenneth Marks, 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: Paul Keiper
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da17207