PhD Final Examination: Youngshang Han
Dissertation Title: Printing and Recycling of Liquid Metal Composites for 3D Architected Thermoelectric Wearables, Supervisory Committee Members: Mohammad Malakooti | Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Karl Bohringer | GSR | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Junlan Wang |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Jie Xiao |Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Youngshang Han. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, June 8, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
PhD General Examination: Abdulaziz Alrashed
Supervisory Committee Members:Lucas Meza | Committee Co-Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eleftheria Roumeli |GSR | Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Aniruddh Vashisth |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering, Marco Salviato | Committee Member | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Abdulaziz Alrashed. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, June 8, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
PhD General Examination: Benjamin Estroff
Supervisory Committee Members:Dayong Gao | Committee Co-Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wei-Chih Wang | Committee Co-Chair | National Tsinghua University, UW Department of Mechanical Engineering, Payman Arabshahi | GSR | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Santosh Devasia | Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering, Joseph Garbini | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Ben Estroff. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, June 8, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Jan Williams
Dissertation Title: Data-driven recurrent models to forecast and control high-dimensional dynamical systems, Supervisory Committee Members: Krithika Manohar | Committee Co-Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Jose Nathan Kutz |Committee Co-Chair | Department of Applied Mathematics , Marine Denolle | GSR | Department of Earth and Space Sciences , Stefania Fresca | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Jan Williams. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, June 8, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Marina Ruediger
Dissertation Title: Approaches for Autonomous Multi-Vehicle Underwater Inspections, Supervisory Committee Members: Ashis Banerjee | Committee Chair |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Abhishek Gupta | GSR | Department of Computer Science and Engineering , Santosh Devasia |Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Aaron Marburg | Committee Member | Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Marina Ruediger. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
PhD General Examination: Ivan Stepanov
Supervisory Committee Members: Albert Folch | Committee Chair | Department of Bioengineering , Miqin Zhang | GSR | Department of Materials Science & Engineering , Eric Seibel | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Nathan Sniadecki | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Ivan Stepanov. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM.
PhD General Examination: Vinh Nguyen
Supervisory Committee Members:Corie Cobb| Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lilo Pozzo | GSR | Department of Chemical Engineering Jie Xiao| Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nadya Peek| Committee Member | Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Vinh Nguyen. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Xiaohai (Bob) Hu
Dissertation Title: Learning-Based Control and Tactile Perception for Robotic Systems, Supervisory Committee Members: Xu Chen | Committee Chair |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Amir Taghvaei | GSR | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics , Santosh Devasia |Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Steve Shen | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Bob Hu. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
PhD General Examination: Emilee Armstrong
Supervisory Committee Members: Corie Cobb| Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Daniel Schwartz | GSR | Department of Chemical Engineering , John Kramlich | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Lucas Meza | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Emilee Armstrong. Event Types: Academics.
Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
MS Thesis Presentation: Shubham Mittal
Thesis Title: Not All Policies are Equal: Training Flow-Based Policies for Efficient Downstream Steering, Supervisory Committee Members:Abhishek Gupta| Committee Chair | Computer Science and Engineering, Santosh Devasia| Committee Member| Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ashis G. Banerjee| Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: megrad@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
PhD General Examination: Kush Dwivedi
Supervisory Committee Members:Lucas Meza | Committee Co-Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Marco Salviato | Committee Co-Chair | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Dwayne Arola | GSR | Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Aniruddh Vashisth |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering, Charles Dorn | Committee Member | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Kush Dwivedi. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, June 12, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Yushu Lin
Dissertation Title: Learning-Based Control and Tactile Perception for Robotic Systems, Supervisory Committee Members: John Palmore Jr. | Committee Chair |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Jingwei Hu | GSR | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics , Alberto Aliseda |Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Antonino Ferrante | Committee Member | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Yushu Lin. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, July 14, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.