M.Sc. and Ph.D. Defences

Spring 2026

PhD

Date	Time	Location	Degree	Speaker	Title / Abstract Link
April
13	10am	LIB 2020 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Sonny Min	Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Biological Aging
15	1pm	LIB 2020 & Zoom	M.Sc.	Roxana Darvishi	Estimating Complex Densities using Two-Stage Normalizing Flows
17	10:30am	LIB 7200 & Zoom	M.Sc.	Annie Yao	Quasi-Oracle Arrays
29	10am	Zoom	Ph.D.	Shifan Jia	Advanced Functional Data Analysis Methods: From Regression Modeling to Multimodal Learning
29	3:30pm	ASB 10920	M.Sc.	Jingyu Zhu	Fee structures in lifetime pension pools
March
18	3:30pm	LIB 7200 & Zoom	M.Sc.	Isaac Marchand	Heterogeneity in lifetime pension pools
February
5	10:00am	LIB 2020 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Golara Zafari	Three essays in financial econometrics

Date	Time	Location	Degree	Speaker	Title / Abstract Link
NOVEMBER
26	2:00pm	LIB 2020 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Grant Hutchings	Computationally Efficient Methods for Emulation and Bayesian Calibration of Computer Models
OCTOBER
7	3:00pm	Zoom	M.Sc.	Dul Norovsambuu	Investigating hyperparameter tuning for popular statistical learning algorithms
SEPTEMBER
4	10:00am	LIB 2020 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Matthew Berkowitz	Improving random (survival) forest predictions and estimates through targeted tuning and bias correction