Defense Announcements

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

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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

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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

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