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聽 defences, please contact the candidate's department or graduate.doctoral@ubc.ca. Zoom links are available one week prior to the defence.
Monday, 18 August 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
LEI LI
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Simulation of Hydrogel Mechanics in Biomicrofluidic Applications
Monday, 18 August 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Justin Turner
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Garden of Resilience: Individual, Clinician, and Indigenous Community Stories of Disruption and Adaptation during the 21st Century
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Kevin Roberts
Department: Psychology
Improving Psychological Tools for the Investigation of Affective Biases in Perception and Attention
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 - 3:30pm - Zoom
Maram Sakr
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Democratizing Robot Learning: Teaching by Demonstration with Everyday Users in Mind
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 - 4:00pm - Zoom
Jasem Estakhr
Department: Neuroscience
Important Roles of AKAP150-anchored PKA and CaN in Mediating Crosstalk Between LTP and LTD and Consequently LTP/LTD Balance
Thursday, 21 August 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Christian Weilbach
Department: Computer Science
Structured Amortized Variational Inference
Thursday, 21 August 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
NUHA ALOMAR
Department: Dentistry
Supervision and Autonomy in Periodontics Surgical Education: A Grounded Theory Study at an Academic Institution
Thursday, 21 August 2025 - 2:00pm - 240, West Mall Annex (WMAX), 1933 West Mall
Keisha Maloney
Department: Community and Regional Planning
Rehearsals for Transformation: Learning the Craft of Planning
Friday, 22 August 2025 - 10:00am - 202, Chemical and Biological Engineering Building, 2360 East Mall
Adel Jalaee
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Advanced Polymeric and Wood-Derived Composites: Structure, Processing, and Application
Friday, 22 August 2025 - 1:00pm - 1346, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Abhishek Bedi
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
WAVE 2 and Tpm3.1/3.2: Actin Dynamics, B Cell Biology, and Targeting B-Cell Lymphomas
Monday, 25 August 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Jennifer Nagtegaal
Department: French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
Expanded Comics: Multimediality, Performance, and Extra Multimodality under Post-Postmodernism
Tuesday, 26 August 2025 - 9:00am - 2202, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Bldg, 6250 Applied Science Ln
Sifat Kalam
Department: Civil Engineering
Engineering Membrane Wettability for Industrial Wastewater Reclamation
Wednesday, 27 August 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Kieran Forde
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Pilgrimage, Reorientation, and Reconciliation: Teacher Inquiry and the Curriculum of the Self
Wednesday, 27 August 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Jan Gustowski
Department: Chemistry
The Investigation of Miscibility of the Amine Containing Polyolefin with Condensation Polymers
Friday, 29 August 2025 - 10:00am - Zoom
Adeerya Johnson
Department: Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Salt Shakers: Black Women's Cultural Expression and Influence in Atlanta's Hip-Hop Dance Scene
Wednesday, 3 September 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Kangkang Duan
Department: Civil Engineering
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Robot Control for Efficient and Safe Construction
Wednesday, 3 September 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Ning Shen
Department: Statistics
Probabilistic Modeling of High-Throughput Sequencing Data for Enhanced Understanding of DNA Methylation Heterogeneity
Wednesday, 3 September 2025 - 12:30pm - 2202, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Bldg, 6250 Applied Science Ln
Rui Gao
Department: Mechanical Engineering
A Graph Neural Network Framework for Simulating Unsteady Fluid Flow and Fluid-Structure Interaction
Thursday, 4 September 2025 - 10:00am - 1330, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Ramin Ebrahim Nakhli
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Characterization of Cellular Interactions in Histopathology Images for Clinical and Biomedical Research using Deep Learning Models
Thursday, 4 September 2025 - 3:00pm - Zoom
Benjamin Hives
Department: Kinesiology
Exploring the Reciprocal Relationship between Stress and Physical Activity
Thursday, 4 September 2025 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Shehan Gunawardane
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Advancing Functionality of Soft Actuators through Selective Stiffness Modulation and Smart Materials
Friday, 5 September 2025 - 10:30am - Zoom
Yao Du
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Blockchain-Enabled Decentralized Machine Learning for Reliable and Collaborative Edge Intelligence
Friday, 5 September 2025 - 11:00am - 288, ICICS, 2366 Main Mall
Junbin Zhang
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Detection, Attribution, and Localization of Manipulated Images
Friday, 5 September 2025 - 1:00pm - Zoom
Xinyuan Zhang
Department: Sauder School of Business
Learning and Decision-Making in Complex Information Environments
Monday, 8 September 2025 - 1:00pm - Zoom
Allison Landstedt
Department: Music
Beyond the Music: An Embodiment-Based Approach to Song Recital Preparation鈥擨ntegrating Eurhythmics, Laban, and BMC庐
Tuesday, 9 September 2025 - 2:00pm - Zoom
Zitao Chen
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Advancing Privacy and Accountability in Machine Learning
Wednesday, 10 September 2025 - 1:00pm - 204, Chemical and Biological Engineering Building, 2360 East Mall
Majd Tabbara
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Selective Propylene Production: Propane Oxidative Dehydrogenation Catalyzed by Molten Metal Alloys & by a Mixed-Bed of h-BN and Bi2O3
Thursday, 11 September 2025 - 12:00pm - Zoom
Jennie Pearson
Department: Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
Building "Communities of Care" under Sex Work Criminalization and Beyond: Exploring How Mutual Aid Supports the Health, Safety and Wellbeing of Sex Workers in Vancouver, Canada
Thursday, 11 September 2025 - 12:30pm - 302-Q , Vancouver General Hospital, Leon Blackmore Pavilion, 855 W 12th Avenue
Annie Lalande
Department: Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Improving Planetary Health through Healthcare Foodservices Transformation
Friday, 12 September 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Marco Didone
Department: Materials Engineering
Investigation of Low-Velocity Impact Damage in a Discontinuous Long Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite
Friday, 12 September 2025 - 10:00am - Zoom
Nasim Peikazadi
Department: Educational Studies
Identity and Power: Iranian Women鈥檚 Negotiations of Belonging in a Transnational Context
Friday, 12 September 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Amirhossein Tavakoli
Department: Vancouver School of Economics
Essays on Firms and Workers
Friday, 12 September 2025 - 3:30pm - Zoom
Gideon Uchehara
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Techniques for Optimized Quantum Circuit Cutting, Scalable Qubit Reuse, and High-Fidelity Generalized Measurements
Monday, 15 September 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Robert Mahikwa
Department: Educational Studies
Mentoring Indigenous Graduate Students into Indigenous Scholars
Monday, 15 September 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Mojgan Gitimoghaddam
Department: Experimental Medicine
The Effects of Attending Community-Based Physical Activity Programs on Children and Youth with Neurodevelopment and/or Intellectual Disabilities/Disorders
Monday, 15 September 2025 - 12:30pm - 202, School of Population and Public Health, 2206 East Mall
Alexandra Lukey
Department: Population and Public Health
Evolving Strategies for Ovarian Cancer Prevention: Exploring the Acceptability and Feasibility of Risk-Reducing Salpingectomy
Tuesday, 16 September 2025 - 1:00pm - 202, Chemical and Biological Engineering Building, 2360 East Mall
Xuetong Shi
Department: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sustainable Energy Solutions through Physically and Chemically Modified Wood
Wednesday, 17 September 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Bridget Barraclough
Department: Zoology
Hoxb8 Lineage Tracing to Map Spinofugal Projections Related to Motor Recovery Following Spinal Cord Injury
Wednesday, 17 September 2025 - 10:00am - 1416, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Irafasha Casmil
Department: Genome Science and Technology
Expanding the Repertoire of Self-Amplifying RNA Vectors for Next Generation Gene Therapies
Wednesday, 17 September 2025 - 11:30am - 1410, Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Andrew Sharon
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Genetic and Environmental Regulation of Intestinal Antiviral Immunity
Wednesday, 17 September 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Gareth William Maddock Smith
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Detecting Antihydrogen Annihilations in ALPHA-g for Measurement of Gravitational Free Fall
Wednesday, 17 September 2025 - 2:00pm - 3200, Biological Sciences Building, 6270 University Blvd
Jessica Hancock
Department: Botany
Bioactive Lipid Transport and Cellulose Nanomaterial Isolation: Insights into Cannabis sativa L. Bioproduct Potential
Thursday, 18 September 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Yiling Tang
Department: Kinesiology
Moodmover: The Development of an App-Based Behavioural Intervention for Increasing Physical Activity Among People With Depression
Thursday, 18 September 2025 - 2:00pm - 288, ICICS, 2366 Main Mall
Simin Mirzaei
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Visual Quality Enhancement of Low-Dose Dental Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) Images
Friday, 19 September 2025 - 9:00am - Zoom
Elise Chu
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Understanding Curriculum as Play: Transdisciplinarity, Spirituality, and Consciousness
Friday, 19 September 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Sarah Smith-Tripp
Department: Forestry
Post-fire Conifer Recovery and Associated Ecological Drivers across Large Extents Assessed from Satellite and Field Observations
Monday, 29 September 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Po Yuan Fu
Department: Genome Science and Technology
Untangling Sources of DNA Methylation Variability in the Context of Developmental and Rare Diseases
Monday, 29 September 2025 - 12:30pm - Room 200
Emma Cooke
Department: Forestry
Linking Fish Injury, Fishing Practices, and Angler Perspectives in Recreational Marine Capture-and-Release Pacific Salmon Fisheries
Thursday, 2 October 2025 - 4:00pm - Room 200
Lara Sarlak
Department: Anthropology
Disposing the Displaced: The Violent Governance of Waste and Recycling in Istanbul
Friday, 10 October 2025 - 9:00am - Room 200
Jill Morris
Department: Curriculum and Pedagogy
A Curriculum of Revelation: Jean-Luc Marion's Saturated Phenomena in the Classroom