MS Thesis Presentation: Chinmay Ratnaparkhe
Thesis Title: Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Single-Frequency Ultrasonic Wrinkle Characterization in Aerospace Composites, Supervisory Committee Members:Krithika Manohar| Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Xu Chen| Committee Member| Department of Mechanical Engineering, Agnes Blom-Schieber | Committee Member | Advanced Composites Center.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: megrad@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, May 26, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
MS Thesis Presentation: Alvin Liu
Thesis Title: J-Integral Method for Determining the Fracture Toughness of Ti-6Al-4V Produced by Electron Beam Melting, Supervisory Committee Members:Ramulu Mamidala| Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, John Kramlich| Committee Member| Department of Mechanical Engineering, Daniel G. Sanders | Committee Member | Sugino Corporation.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: megrad@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Changwoo Lee
Dissertation Title: Wearable Nano-Capacitive Sensor Systems for Sleep and Fatigue Monitoring, Supervisory Committee Members: Jaehyun Chung | Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Anant Anantram | GSR | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Dayong Gao |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Jong-Hoon Kim |Committee Member |Washington State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Changwoo Lee. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, May 28, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Pengcheng (Pearson) Chen
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Pengcheng Chen. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, May 29, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
PhD General Examination: Anmol Purohit
Supervisory Committee Members:Igor Novosselov | Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Avin Vijay| GSR | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics John Kramlich | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brian Pinkard | Committee Member | Aquagga, Inc.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Anmol Purohit. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, May 29, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
PhD General Examination: Zachary Taylor
Supervisory Committee Members:Jaehyun Chung | Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Guozhong Cao | GSR | Department of Materials Science and Engineering Junlan Wang |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anuscheh Nawaz |Committee Member |UW Applied Physics Laboratory.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Zachary Taylor. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, May 29, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
MS Thesis Presentation: Jianya Wei
Thesis Title: A Study of the Portable and Fully Automated Artificial Kidney, Supervisory Committee Members:Dayong Gao| Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jae Hyun Chung| Committee Member| Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ruidong Ma | Committee Member | Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: megrad@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, June 1, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Kelli Shimazu
Dissertation Title: Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing for Point-of-Care Diagnostics of Bloodborne Viruses, Supervisory Committee Members:Jonathan Posner | Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Barry Lutz | GSR | Department of Bioengineering, Jaehyun Chung |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering, Paul Drain |Committee Member | Department of Global Health.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Kelli Shimazu. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, June 1, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Satria Ardianuari
Dissertation Title: Influence of Prosthetic Ankle-Foot Properties on Intact Limb Biomechanical Demands in Transtibial Amputees During Simulated Functional Tasks, Supervisory Committee Members: Glenn Klute| Committee Chair | VA CLiMB & Department of Mechanical Engineering , Christopher Neils | GSR | Department of Bioengineering , Katherine Steele |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Jenny Robinson |Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Stefania Fatone |Committee Member |Department of Rehabilitation Medicine.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Satria Ardianuari. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, June 2, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
PhD Final Examination: Yu-Jen (Howard) Cheng
Dissertation Title: Nanocomposite Single-Electrode Capacitive Sensors for Intelligent and Wearable Cardiovascular Health Monitoring, Supervisory Committee Members: Jaehyun Chung | Committee Chair | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Xiaohu Gao | GSR | Department of Bioengineering , Dayong Gao |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Jonathan Posner |Committee Member |Department of Mechanical Engineering , Younghoon Kwon | Committee Member | UW Medicine, Division of Cardiology.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Yu-Jen Cheng. Event Types: Academics.
Wednesday, June 3, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
PhD Qualifying Examination: Saveer Yogita Sharda
Supervisory Committee Members: Juan Carlos del Alamo | Faculty Advisor | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Dayong Gao | Departmental Representative | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Alberto Aliseda | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering , Ashish Manohar | Committee Member | Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Saveer Sharda. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, June 5, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
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.
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.