Defences held in person have locations listed with the date below. Zoom information for virtual exams is not listed; if you are interested in attending one of these defences, please contact the candidate's department or graduate.doctoral@ubc.ca. Zoom links are available one week prior to the defence.
Friday, 8 November 2024 - 10:00am - Zoom
Caolan Barr
Department: Geography
Across Distant Shores? Bridging Housing Justice and Decolonization on lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Territories
Wednesday, 13 November 2024 - 11:00am - Room 200
Gara Dexter
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Identification and Validation of Acetovanillone Catabolism in Rhodococcus rhodochrous GD02
Friday, 15 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Nassim Derriche
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Effects of Electric Polarization in Hybridized Materials
Friday, 15 November 2024 - 4:00pm - 3028, Fred Kaiser Building, 2332 Main Mall
Dian Ross
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Assemblage: Digital Twins, Hardware Oracles & Distributed Ledger Technologies - A Provenance Solution for the Digital Age
Monday, 18 November 2024 - 4:00pm - Room 203
Katarzyna Kabacinska
Department: Experimental Medicine
End-User Perspectives on Social Robots to Support Mental Health in the Hospital and at Home
Tuesday, 19 November 2024 - 1:00pm - Zoom
Juanita Desjarlais-Smith
Department: Educational Studies
Iskotew: Fire - Keeping the Fire Lit Indigenous Iskotwew (Women) Leading in Decolonizing Education Systems
Tuesday, 19 November 2024 - 1:00pm - 146, ICICS Building, 2366 Main Mall
Raghav Goyal
Department: Computer Science
Data-Efficient Learning on Structured Output Data
Thursday, 21 November 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Daniel Lee
Department: Zoology
On the Respiratory Consequences of the Air-to-Water Transition in Insects
Monday, 25 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Elmira Berjisian
Department: Civil Engineering
Getting up to Speed: Revealed Preferences for Utilitarian Cycling Speed and Energy Expenditure
Monday, 25 November 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Golam Ismot Ara Taposhe
Department: Materials Engineering
Silicon Purification by Simultaneous Slag Refining with CaO-SiO2-Al2O3-Na2O and Solvent Refining with Si-Fe Alloy
Monday, 25 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203
Demet Kirmizibayrak
Department: Physics and Astronomy
New Tricks for Old Stars: Studying Compact Objects through Novel Methodologies in Timing, Energy and Imaging
Monday, 25 November 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Chelsea Gowton
Department: Plant Science
Abiotic and Biotic Drivers of Indirect Defense Allocation in Vicia Faba
Monday, 25 November 2024 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Michael Kinach
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Electrodynamics of Non-Topological Solitons
Tuesday, 26 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203
Mollie Holmberg
Department: Geography
On Viral Terrain: The Shifting Imaginaries of Geography and Infectious Disease Risk in USAID's PREDICT
Tuesday, 26 November 2024 - 12:00pm - 226, Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 East Mall
Abigail Chapman
Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Fertility Costs of Covert Viral Infections in Honey Bee Queens
Tuesday, 26 November 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Maria Cervantes
Department: Geography
Credentialized Aspirations: The Mobility Journeys of Mexican Professionals in North America
Wednesday, 27 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Bo Chen
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Real-time Electricity Market Pricing Methods Incorporating Power System Frequency Dynamics
Wednesday, 27 November 2024 - 10:00am - 2010, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Building, 6250 Applied Science Lane
Mouad Boudina
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Capillarity in Diverging Elastic Channels
Wednesday, 27 November 2024 - 10:00am - B104, School of Population and Public Health, 2206 East Mall
Salima Kerai-Sayani
Department: Population and Public Health
Assessing Positive Youth Development in School-Aged Children in Pakistan: A Cultural Adaptation of the Middle Years Development Instrument for Research with Children
Wednesday, 27 November 2024 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Cameron Zheng
Department: Chemistry
Tantalum-Catalyzed Hydroaminoalkylation for the Construction of N-Heterocyclic Frameworks and Aminated Bioproducts
Thursday, 28 November 2024 - 9:00am - 318, Hennings Building, 6224 Agricultural Rd
Guy Leckenby
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Exotic Decay Measurements at the Experimental Storage Ring for Neutron Capture Processes
Thursday, 28 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Brodie Thomson
Department: Chemistry
Investigations of S(IV) Fluorides and Their Utility in Small Molecule Syntheses
Thursday, 28 November 2024 - 11:00am - 3028, Fred Kaiser Building, 2332 Main Mall
Ziao Wang
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Statistical Inference on Structural Data: Sequences and Graphs
Thursday, 28 November 2024 - 1:00pm - 5108, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall
Christopher Rodell
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Improving Fire Danger Forecasting with Numerical Weather Prediction and Machine Learning
Friday, 29 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Jing Wang
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Incorporation of Physics into Learning of Robot Vision and Dynamics
Friday, 29 November 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203
Anne-Cecile Delaisse
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Highly Skilled Vietnamese Migrants’ Transnational Occupations, Belongings and Mobilities: a Cross-National Comparative Ethnography in France and Canada
Friday, 29 November 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Laura Stankiewicz
Department: Biomedical Engineering
A Pipeline for Discovery-Based Research on Human T Cell Development: Integrating Spatial Omics and PSC-T Platforms
Monday, 2 December 2024 - 9:00am - V2 - 222, Clinical Support, 948 29th Avenue Bikeway
Jeffrey Bone
Department: Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Statistical Modeling of the Relationship between Pre-Pregnancy Body-Mass-Index and Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes
Monday, 2 December 2024 - 10:00am - Zoom
Lauren Currie
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Examining the Use of an Identity Focused Group Intervention in Facilitating Identity Change in a Problematic Substance Use Sample
Monday, 2 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Jordan Long
Department: Educational Studies
School Leadership Practices for a Democratic Way of Life: A Temporally Multiple Case Study of One Canadian Public High School
Monday, 2 December 2024 - 2:00pm - Zoom
Joy Braun
Department: Allard School of Law
Protecting Vulnerable Persons: A Socio-Legal Study of Elder Abuse Response
Monday, 2 December 2024 - 4:00pm - Room 203
Manyou Ma
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Toward AI-Native 6G Networking: Algorithm Design for Efficient Edge Learning, Caching, and Inference
Tuesday, 3 December 2024 - 9:00am - James Hogg Conference Centre, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St Paul's Hospital, 1081 Burrard Str
Abhinav Kumar Checkervarty
Department: Experimental Medicine
Investigating Early Life Immunity and Vaccine Response Using High-Dimensional Biological (omics) Datasets
Tuesday, 3 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Mahsa Hosseini
Department: Civil Engineering
Assessment of Seismic Force Modification Factors for Conventional Construction Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Structures in Canada Using the Performance-based Unified Procedure
Tuesday, 3 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 203
Gonzalo Andres Gavilan Acuna
Department: Forestry
Remote Sensing to Inform Precision Forestry Management in P. radiata Plantations
Tuesday, 3 December 2024 - 2:00pm - Zoom
Diana Royea
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Preservice Teachers' Experiences of Learning Study in an Elementary Mathematics Education Course: An Activity Theory-Informed Phenomenological Inquiry
Wednesday, 4 December 2024 - 12:00pm - Zoom
Hanyang Jiang
Department: Theatre and Film
Stage Acting and Knowledge Making in Modern China, 1937-1961
Wednesday, 4 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Doriane Drolet
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Advancements in Seismotectonic Analysis through Relative Moment Tensor Inversion
Wednesday, 4 December 2024 - 2:00pm - D213, Chemistry D Block, 2036 Main Mall
Soleil Worthy
Department: Chemistry
Ice Nucleation Ability of Organic and Inorganic Substances: the Effects of Coatings and New Methodologies for Studying their Abundance in the Atmosphere
Wednesday, 4 December 2024 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Rhea Storlund
Department: Zoology
Mechanisms that Facilitate and Control the Dive Response in Pinnipeds
Thursday, 5 December 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Mia Stankovic
Department: Chemistry
Renewable Chemical & Fuel Production in a Membrane Reactor
Thursday, 5 December 2024 - 1:00pm - Zoom
Timothy Chui
Department: Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
High-Resolution Dynamical Downscaling to Explore Climate- and Terrain-Influenced Changes to the Weather of British Columbia
Friday, 6 December 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Aria Malhotra
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Predictive Metrics for Moist Desquamation in Treatment Planning for Breast Radiotherapy
Friday, 6 December 2024 - 10:00am - Zoom
Caitlyn Yates
Department: Anthropology
Degrees of Visibility: Multi-Continental Travelers' Journeys through the Americas
Friday, 6 December 2024 - 10:00am - 351, Biomedical Research Centre, 2222 Health Sciences Mall
Ishika Luthra
Department: Bioinformatics
Guiding Future Genomics Research through Machine Learning: Functional DNA Analysis and Benchmarking
Friday, 6 December 2024 - 12:00pm - 3113, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, 938 W 28th Ave
Yuanjie Zou
Department: Cell & Developmental Biology
Roles of Autophagy and Transcription Factor EB (TFEB) in B-cell Viability and Function
Monday, 9 December 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Manpreet Thandi
Department: Nursing
Using Primary Care Electronic Medical Record Data in British Columbia, Canada to Develop an Electronic Frailty Index
Monday, 9 December 2024 - 9:00am - Zoom
Jennica Nichols
Department: Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
Expanding the Conceptualization of Research-based Theatre to Better Use it as a Knowledge Translation Intervention Supporting Person-Centered Interventions: A Canadian Case Study
Monday, 9 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Mohamed Hendy
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Multi-scale Multi-physics Compositional Study of Energy Materials
Monday, 9 December 2024 - 1:00pm - Zoom
Xiaolei Deng
Department: Psychology
Modelling Product Risk and Gambling Harms in Online Gambling
Monday, 9 December 2024 - 3:00pm - Dorothy Lam Boardroom, BC Cancer Research Institute, 675 West 10th Avenue
Jeanie Malone
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Towards Endoscopic Optical Imaging of the Fallopian Tubes for Tubo-Ovarian Cancer Detection
Tuesday, 10 December 2024 - 9:00am - 1410, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Seevasant Indran
Department: Genome Science and Technology
Sentinel Interaction Mapping (SIM): Development of a Novel Complementation-Independent Variant Functionalization Platform Using Yeast-Human Genetic Interaction Mapping for TP53
Tuesday, 10 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Niki Oveisi
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Impact of Cancer on Sexual and Reproductive Health among Adolescent and Young Adults (AYA): Epidemiologic Studies and Patients' Perspectives
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 - 9:30am - Zoom
Jerry Achar
Department: Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Analyzing and Accounting for Uncertainty in Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) Prediction of Chemical Toxicity
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 - 10:00am - Zoom
Albert Cotugno III
Department: Philosophy
Attention and Virtue
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 - 12:00pm - 210, Pulp and Paper Centre, 2385 East Mall
Huaiyu Zhang
Department: Forestry
Controllable Synthesis of Xylan Nanoparticles and Modifications for Versatile Applications
Thursday, 12 December 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Eric Press
Department: Zoology
Visual Signals of Self-Motion in the Pretectum of a Flying Zebra Finch
Thursday, 12 December 2024 - 9:00am - Room 203
Emily Ismailzai
Department: Sociology
Standard North American Food Work: Unveiling the Invisibilized Labour of Low-Income Families through Food Bank Work
Thursday, 12 December 2024 - 1:00pm - Zoom
Eunice Bawafaa
Department: Nursing
Women’s Experiences and Perception of Access to Reproductive Healthcare in Rural Ghana
Friday, 13 December 2024 - 9:00am - Room 200
Zelai Xu
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Mechanics of Hydrogels in Flow Fields
Friday, 13 December 2024 - 9:00am - 1346, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Virginia Pichler
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Beneath the Surface: Unraveling Mycobacterium Abscessus Morphotypes, Resistance and Clinical Challenges in Treatment
Friday, 13 December 2024 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Kip Squier
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Stretching Boundaries: Local and Systemic Influences on Tendon Function
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Olivia Fischer
Department: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
An Examination of the Multicultural Orientation Framework with Sexual and Gender Minority Clients