Ten Spring 2025 College of Sciences PhD's Awarded!

Ten College of Sciences, Spring 2025, PhD candidates were honored at the Graduate School Doctoral Hooding Ceremony on 15 May 2025. They received their diplomas on Saturday, 17 May 2025, at the College of Sciences Commencement Ceremony.

Blaine Novak Pilch (PhD in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology)
Dissertation title: “The Impact of Green Lynx Spiders on Pollinator Behavior and Plant Fitness”
Advisor: Mark Genung

(Mark Genung (hidden) hooding Blaine Novak Pilch)

(Joseph Savoie, Mark Genung, Blaine Novak Pilch, and Mary Farmer-Kaiser)

Andrea Santariello (PhD in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology)
Dissertation title: “How Foraging Ecology and Breeding Characteristics of Royal Terns and Black Skimmers are Affected by Coastal Restoration, Predation, and Foraging Location”
Advisor: Paul Leberg

(Paul Leberg hooding Andrea Santariello)

(Joseph Savoie, Andrea Santariello, Paul Leberg, and Mary Farmer-Kaiser)

Seyedmajid Hosseini Majid (PhD in Computer Science)
Dissertation title: “Toward Robust Stress Detection Using Real-World Data and Multimodal Learning”
Advisors: Anthony Maida and Narasimha Gottumukkala

(Anthony Maida and Narasimha Gottumukkala hooding Seyedmajid Hosseini Majid)

(Joseph Savoie, Narasimha Gottumukkala, Seyedmajid Hosseini Majid, Anthony Maida, and Mary Farmer-Kaiser)

Boisy Gene Pitre (PhD in Computer Science)
Dissertation title: “A Hyper-Embedded Architecture for Area-Constrained System-on-Chip Applications”
Advisor: Martin Margala

(Martin Margala hooding Boisy Gene Pitre)

(Joseph Savoie, Boisy Gene Pitre, Martin Margala, and Mary Farmer-Kaiser)

Shekufeh Shafeie (PhD in Computer Science)
Dissertation title: “Modeling Acceptance of Human Implantable Technology in the General Public”
Advisor: Beenish Chaudhry

(Beenish Chaudhry (hidden) Hooding Shekufeh Shafeie)

(Joseph Savoie, Shekufeh Shafeie, Beenish Chaudhry, and Mary Farmer-Kaiser)

Mohsen Riahi Alam (PhD in Computer Engineering)
Dissertation title: “Bitstream Processing in Memory: Fast, Robust, Energy-Efficient”
Advisor: Nianfeng Tzeng

(Sercan Aygun hooding Mohsen Riahi Alam)

(Joseph Savoie, Mohsen Riahi Alam, Sercan Aygun, and Mary Farmer-Kaiser)

Gboyega Adepoju (PhD in Mathematics)
Dissertation title: “Parametric and Nonparametric Tolerance Intervals for Some Continuous Distributions”
Advisor: Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy

(Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy hooding Gboyega Adepoju)

(Joseph Savoie, Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy, Gboyega Adepoju, and Mary Farmer-Kaiser)

Alain Lionel Fogang Takoutsing (PhD in Mathematics)
Dissertation title: “Banach Lie Groups of C*-algebras”
Advisor: Leonel Robert Gonzalez

(Justin Lynd hooding Alain Lionel Fogang Takoutsing)

(Joseph Savoie, Alain Lionel Fogang Takoutsing, JustinLynd, and Mary Farmer-Kaiser)

Sameera Hewage (PhD in Mathematics)
Dissertation title: “Statistical Inference for Categorical Gini Correlation and Gini's Mean Difference”
Advisor: Yongli Sang

(Yongli Sang hooding Sameera Hewage)

(Joseph Savoie, Sameera Hewage, Yongli Sang, and Mary Farmer-Kaiser)

Jonathon Villareal (PhD in Mathematics)
Dissertation title: “Rigid automorphisms of linking systems of finite groups of Lie type”
Advisor: Justin Lynd

(Jonathon Villareal and Justin Lynd)

(Joseph Savoie, Jonathon Villareal, Justin Lynd, and Mary Farmer-Kaiser)