Dissertation Defense

Doctoral Candidate Name: Amir Alansari Program: Civil Engineering Defense Date and Time: April 7, 2021 – 10:00 AM Defense Location: Virtual Committee chair’s Name: Dr. James Amburgey Committee Members: Dr. Olya Keen, Dr. Mei Sun, Dr. Jordan Poler, Dr. Terry Xu Abstract: Most of the coagulation studies done thus far were either site-specific or focused […]

Doctoral Candidate Name: Pramesh Subedi Program: Mathematics (Applied) Defense Date and Time: April 14, 2021 – 2:15 PM Defense Location: Online via Zoom Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Yanqing Sun Committee Members: Dr. Eliana Christou, Dr. Qingning Zhou, Dr. Yufeng Han Abstract: In this paper, we have applied case cohort study design to semiparametric additive hazard […]

Doctoral Candidate Name: Melissa Miller Sykes Program: Curriculum and Instruction Defense Date and Time: April 12, 2021 – 11:00 AM Defense Location: Zoom Meeting Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Maryann Mraz Committee Members: Dr. Bruce Taylor, Dr. Bob Rickelman, Dr. Kelly Anderson Abstract: The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore professional development from the […]

Doctoral Candidate Name: Ping Mao Program: Public Policy Defense Date and Time: April 16, 2021 – 9:30 AM Defense Location: Zoom Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Roslyn Mickelson Committee Members: Dr. Teresa Scheid, Dr. Chuang Wang, Dr. Wei Zhao Abstract: This dissertation investigates a newly emerging phenomenon in Chinese higher education in which a Chinese university […]

Doctoral Candidate Name: Kumar Arumugam Program: Mechanical Engineering Defense Date and Time: April 9, 2021 – 12:30 PM Defense Location: MEES conference room, Duke 324 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Stuart Smith Committee Members: Dr. Jimmie Miller, Dr. Tsinghua Her, Dr. Joshua Tarbutton, Dr. Xingde Dai Abstract: A unifying theme of this thesis is the implementation […]

Doctoral Candidate Name: Qiuyu Chen Program: Computing and Information Systems Defense Date and Time: April 12, 2021 – 9:00 AM Defense Location: Zoom Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Jianping Fan Committee Members: Dr. Aidong Lu, Dr. Jing Yang, Dr. Min Shin, Dr. Weidong Tian Abstract: Deep neural networks (DNN) are proved to be effective and improve […]

Doctoral Candidate Name: Xi Mo Program: Business Administration: Finance Defense Date and Time: April 6, 2021 – 11:00 AM Defense Location: Zoom Committee chair’s Name: Yufeng Han, I-Hsuan Ethan Chiang Committee Members: Christopher Kirby, Weidong Tian, Rob Roy McGregor Abstract:

Doctoral Candidate Name: Felicia Dangerfield-Persky Program: Curriculum and Instruction Defense Date and Time: April 14, 2021 – 11:00 AM Defense Location: Virtual via Zoom Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Chance Lewis Committee Members: Dr. Bettie Butler, Dr. Xiaoxia Newton, Dr. Amy Good Abstract: This quantitative study explores the potential school-level and school district-level factors associated with […]

Doctoral Candidate Name: Edward Lee Program: Business Administration: DBA Defense Date and Time: April 6, 2021 – 3:00 PM Defense Location: Zoom Committee chair’s Name: Dr. SungJune Park Committee Members: Dr. Chandrasekar Subramaniam, Dr. Reginald A. Silver, Dr. Yaorong Ge Abstract: Wearable technology became popular not only in the consumer market, but also in the […]

Doctoral Candidate Name: MD Akram Hossain Program: Biology Defense Date and Time: April 9, 2021 – 3:00 PM Defense Location: Virtual Meeting via Zoom Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Shan Yan Committee Members: Dr. Christine Richardson, Dr. Pinku Mukherjee, Dr. Kaushik Chakrabarti, Dr. Jun-Tao Guo Abstract: The maintenance of genome integrity and fidelity is essential for […]