Jack Turicek, Mechanical Engineering, “Multifunctional Fiber reinforced Polymer Composites with Bioinspired Damage sensing, Self healing, and Thermal regulation,” August 19. 2026, FWH 3301. Major Professor: Dr. Jason F. Patrick.

Greg Ferraro, Economics, “Essays on Environmental Management in Agricultural Policy and Production”, August 21, 2026, 12:30 p.m., Nelson Hall Room 4305, Major Professors: Dr. Zachary Brown and Dr. Roderick Rejesus.

Vinson Oliver Williams, Aerospace Engineering, “Modeling, Dynamics, and Control for Marine Tethered Coaxial Turbines: Retooling Classical Methods,” August 25, 2026. 10:00 a.m., Hunt Library – 4505. Major Professor: Dr. Matthew Bryant.

Ayesha Awan, Comparative Biomedical Science, “Metaproteomic Investigations of Dietary Protein Sources and their Interactions with the Host and Gut Microbioma,” August 26, 2026, 9:30 a.m., 3503 Thomas Hall. Major Professor: Dr. Manuel Kleiner.

Vincenzo Musico, Material Science & Engineering, August 25, 2026, 11:00 a.m., EBI – 3018. Major Professor: Dr. Veronica Augustyn.

Shafin Amin, Electrical Engineering, “Resource-Aware Electronic Design Through Structured Ontologies,” September 1, 2026, 3:00 p.m., MRC337/Remote. Major Professor: Dr. Paul Franzon.

Nicholas Sengstaken, ELPHD, “Financial Resilience and Institutional Adaption in U.S. Higher Education”, September 2, 2026, 2:00 p.m., Remote, Major Professor: Dr. Paul Umbach.

Jack Robinson, Economics, “The Economics of Grain Deficits: On-Farm Storage and Spatial Price Transmission in North Carolina”, September 4, 2026, 12:00 p.m., Nelson Hall Room 4302, Major Professors: Dr. Nicholas Piggot and Dr. Barry Godwin.

Patrick Haughey, Mathematics, “Data-Adaptive, Robustness-Preserving, and Efficiency-Improving Methodology for Causal Effect Estimation,” September 8, 2026, 9:30 a.m., SAS 3282. Major Professor: Dr. Semyon Tsynkov.

Patrick Veazie, Horticultural Science, “Chemical Properties and Management Responses of Wood-Fiber Substrates: Lime Requirements, Alkalinity Interactions, and PGR Efficacy in Container Crops,” September 10, 2026, 9:00 a.m., 121 Kilgore Hall. Major Professor: Dr. Brian Whipker.

Alp Tezbasaran, Nuclear Engineering, “Distributed Dynamic Event Tree Generation, Reinforcement-Learning Branch-Set Reduction, and Trajectory Clustering for Simulation-Driven Probabilistic Risk Assessment with an Embedded Crew Model,” September 11, 2026, 10:00 a.m., Bu-1121 Duke Energy Conference Room. Dr. Mihai A. Diaconeasa.

Naveen Narasimhachar Joshi, Material Science & Engineering, “Non-equilibrium Synthesis of Multifunctional Diamond-like Carbon and Q-Carbon Thin Films,” September 17 2026, 12:30 p.m., EBI-3003. Major Professors: Dr. Jagdish Narayan/Dr. Roger Narajan.

Yuqin Wang, Computer Engineering, “Compiler-Driven Full-Network Evaluation and Hardware Software Co-Design for Edge AI SoCs,” September 17, 2027, 3:00 p.m., EBII-2055. Major Professor: Dr. Rhett Davis.

Mandy Paige Lovingood, Public History, “Exhibiting Turquerie: The Social Afterlives of Women’s Eighteenth-Century Portraits,” September 18, 2026, 11 a.m., Withers 358. Major Professors: Dr. Akram Khater and Dr. Tammy Gordon.

Swarna Chowdhury, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, “Improved Understanding of Hydro-Morphodynamics in Rapidly Changing Coastal Environments with Application to Habitat Vulnerability,” September 21, 2026, 9:00 a.m., DSW-101-BAE. Major Professor: Dr. Celso Castro-Bolinaga.

Yi Liu, Statistics, “Data-Adaptive, Robustness-Preserving, and Efficiency-Improving Methodology for Causal Effect Estimation,” September 21, 2026, 11 a.m., SAS 5202. Major Professor: Dr. Shu Yang.

Jenna Corinne Pastel Wagner, Animal Science and Poultry Science, “Quantitative Approaches to Dairy Goat Milk Quality and Milk Replacer Formulation: Applications in Dairy Production and Conservation Nutrition for Endangered Ungulates,” September 21, 2026, 11:00 a.m., Room 125, Polk Hall. Major Professors: Dr. Kimberly Ange-van Heugten and Dr. Stephanie Ward.

Arsalan Ali Malik, Computer Engineering, “Fault Injection Attacks on FPGA-Based AI Systems: Evaluation, Root Cause Analysis, Defenses, and Metrics,” September 24, 2026, 10:00 a.m., SCI Lab Conference Room, 2240/EBII. Major Professor: Aydin Aysu.

Siye Cen, Electrical Engineering, “Grid-Forming Inverter Control for Fault Ride-Through Under Capacity Constraints,” September 29, 2026, 10:00 a.m., FREEDM Energy Board Room. Major Professor: Dr. Iqbal Husain.

Mahe Rukh, Chemical Engineering, “Perovskite Oxides as Redox-Activated CO2 Sorbents for Sorption-Enhanced Oxidative Gasification/Reforming Reactions,” October 1, 2026, 3:00 p.m., EBI-1005. Major Professor: Dr. Fanxing Li.

Leticia Santos, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, “Advancing crop residue cover mapping through machine learning and satellite imagery,” October 16, 2026, 1:00 p.m., PSB 3158. Major Professors: Dr. Daniela Jones and Dr. Chris Reberg-Horton.

Azka Arshad, Chemistry, “From Fundamental Photophysics to Automated Discovery,” October 26, 2026, 2 p.m., PSB 4152 Boardroom. Major Professor: Dr. Felix N. Castellano.

Gene Deese, Adult & Lifelong Education, “Examining Baccalaureate Completion Outcomes for AAS Transfer Students at Minority-Serving Institutions Using Propensity Score Matching”, October 28, 2026, 1:00 p.m., Remote, Major Professors: Dr. Audrey Jaeger and Dr. Bobbie Frye.

Ta seen Reaz Niloy, Electrical Engineering, “Context Aware Spectrum Coexistence Design and Implementation of Terrestrial 5G Networks in FR3 Satellite Bands,” October 28, 2026, 2:00 p.m., ECE meeting Room, 3075. Major Professor: Dr. Vijay K. Shah.

Sina Sadeghi, Chemical Engineering, “Accelerated Synthesis Studies of Eco-Friendly Semiconductor Nanocrystals Using Autonomous Fluidic Labs,” November 2, 2026, 1:00 p.m., EBI-2018. Major Professor: Dr. Milad Abolhasani.

Vahid Jebraeeli, Electrical Engineering, “Balanced Scalability for Sustainable ML,” November 4, 2026, 12:00 p.m., EBII-3001. Major Professor: Dr. Hamid Krim.

Hiya Bandyopadhay, CRDM, “Sacred Waters, Polluted Narratives: A Comparative Media Framing Analysis of Water Pollution and Festival-Related Pollution in India,” December 2, 2026, 1 p.m., Winston 201A. Major Professors: Dr. Andrew Binder and Dr. Jason Swarts.