Home Navigating Your Degree Oral Defense Dates Oral Defense Dates April Kim Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences Dissertation Title: Nanodisc Formulations for Targeted Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis Date: 1 Oct 2026 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: NCRC BUILDING 10, ACR1 Chair: James J Moon Rudy Pradenas Alvarez Program: Romance Language & Lit Spanish Dissertation Title: Pacificacion Y Tecnogenesis Del Sujeto Colonial. Violencia, Tecnologia Y Cultura Material en Los Siglos XVI Y XVII Date: 5 Oct 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: COMMONS ROOM, FOURTH FLOOR, MLB (MODERN LANGUAGE BUILDING) 812 E WASHINGTON ST ANN ARBOR, MI 48104 Chair: Daniel J Nemser and Sergio R Villalobos Ruminott Nipit Congpuong Program: Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Title: Synergistic Flow Induced Oscillations of Tandem Cylinders in Harnessing Horizontal Hydrokinetic Energy Date: 5 Oct 2026 Time: 4:00 p.m. Location: 1100 DOW, ZOOM LINK: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95529688079 (PW: 05102026) Chair: Michael M Bernitsas Ehsan Hafeziasl Program: Electrical & Computer Engineer Dissertation Title: Sub-terahertz Beamformers Enabled by Miniaturized-element Frequency Selective Surfaces Date: 12 Oct 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: EECS 3316, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95269899408 PW:MEFSS Chair: Kamal Sarabandi Haoran Li Program: Bioinformatics Dissertation Title: Enabling Accessible and Robust Long Reads Transcriptomic and Epi-Transcriptomic Analysis by a Multi-Function Web Platform Date: 13 Oct 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: MS 1 – 5330 AUDITORIUM, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/98476790065?PWD=PMMB4YMGVLUO18BVCACNSOR PC:000000 Chair: Kin Fai Au Marbely Micolta Calderon Program: Astronomy & Astrophysics Dissertation Title: Field Notes on Planetary Origins: Tracing Refractory Material Through Planet-Forming Disks Date: 14 Oct 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: 4448 EAST HALL Chair: Nuria Calvet Alexandra Putka Program: Neuroscience Dissertation Title: Elucidating the Necessity of Oligodendroglial Dysfunction for Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3 Phenotypes Date: 14 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: KAHN AUDITORIUM, BSRB Chair: Andrew P Lieberman and Hayley McLoughlin Alanah Cardenas-O'Toole Program: Climate & Sp Sciences & Engin Dissertation Title: Ionospheric Irregularities Across Latitudes: Occurrence and Energetics of Polar Cap Patches and Equatorial Plasma Bubbles Date: 15 Oct 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: LURIE ENGINEERING CENTER ROOM 4231 Chair: Shasha Zou Daiwen Zhang Program: Industrial & Operations Eng Dissertation Title: Combinatorial Infeasibility Analysis for Constraint Systems Date: 15 Oct 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: IOE 2717 Chair: Amy Ellen Mainville Cohn and Marina A Epelman Contact Academic Records and Dissertations Hours: Academic Records and Dissertations is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The office is closed Saturdays and Sundays and on the following holidays: Thanksgiving (Thursday and the following Friday), Christmas through New Year’s, Memorial Day, Independence Day (July 4), and Labor Day. Location 0120 Rackham Building 915 East Washington Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070 Contact Phone: 734.763.0171 Fax: 734.936.3335 Email: [email protected]
April Kim Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences Dissertation Title: Nanodisc Formulations for Targeted Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis Date: 1 Oct 2026 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: NCRC BUILDING 10, ACR1 Chair: James J Moon
Rudy Pradenas Alvarez Program: Romance Language & Lit Spanish Dissertation Title: Pacificacion Y Tecnogenesis Del Sujeto Colonial. Violencia, Tecnologia Y Cultura Material en Los Siglos XVI Y XVII Date: 5 Oct 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: COMMONS ROOM, FOURTH FLOOR, MLB (MODERN LANGUAGE BUILDING) 812 E WASHINGTON ST ANN ARBOR, MI 48104 Chair: Daniel J Nemser and Sergio R Villalobos Ruminott
Nipit Congpuong Program: Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Title: Synergistic Flow Induced Oscillations of Tandem Cylinders in Harnessing Horizontal Hydrokinetic Energy Date: 5 Oct 2026 Time: 4:00 p.m. Location: 1100 DOW, ZOOM LINK: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95529688079 (PW: 05102026) Chair: Michael M Bernitsas
Ehsan Hafeziasl Program: Electrical & Computer Engineer Dissertation Title: Sub-terahertz Beamformers Enabled by Miniaturized-element Frequency Selective Surfaces Date: 12 Oct 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: EECS 3316, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95269899408 PW:MEFSS Chair: Kamal Sarabandi
Haoran Li Program: Bioinformatics Dissertation Title: Enabling Accessible and Robust Long Reads Transcriptomic and Epi-Transcriptomic Analysis by a Multi-Function Web Platform Date: 13 Oct 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: MS 1 – 5330 AUDITORIUM, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/98476790065?PWD=PMMB4YMGVLUO18BVCACNSOR PC:000000 Chair: Kin Fai Au
Marbely Micolta Calderon Program: Astronomy & Astrophysics Dissertation Title: Field Notes on Planetary Origins: Tracing Refractory Material Through Planet-Forming Disks Date: 14 Oct 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: 4448 EAST HALL Chair: Nuria Calvet
Alexandra Putka Program: Neuroscience Dissertation Title: Elucidating the Necessity of Oligodendroglial Dysfunction for Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3 Phenotypes Date: 14 Oct 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: KAHN AUDITORIUM, BSRB Chair: Andrew P Lieberman and Hayley McLoughlin
Alanah Cardenas-O'Toole Program: Climate & Sp Sciences & Engin Dissertation Title: Ionospheric Irregularities Across Latitudes: Occurrence and Energetics of Polar Cap Patches and Equatorial Plasma Bubbles Date: 15 Oct 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: LURIE ENGINEERING CENTER ROOM 4231 Chair: Shasha Zou
Daiwen Zhang Program: Industrial & Operations Eng Dissertation Title: Combinatorial Infeasibility Analysis for Constraint Systems Date: 15 Oct 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: IOE 2717 Chair: Amy Ellen Mainville Cohn and Marina A Epelman
