Recent Successful Thesis Defenses

Xiang (Anthony) Chen – MSc Oral Defense
Monday, May 14, 2012 at 10:00
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“Body-Centric Interaction with a Screen-based Handheld Device”

Marian Doerk – PhD Oral Defense
Monday, May 14, 2012 at 14:30
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“Visualization for Search: Exploring Complex and Dynamic Information Spaces”

Saikat Sarkar passed his MSc Oral Defense on April 30, 2012.  Saikat’s thesis, “An Empirical Analysis of Network Coding in Peer-to-Peer Video-on-Demand Systems” was reviewed by his supervisor, Dr. Mea Wang, Dr Payman Mohassel from the department of Computer Science and Dr Hung-Ling (Steve) Liang from the department of Geomatics Engineering.

Ali Abbasi passed his PhD Candidacy exam on April 30, 2012.

Pengwei Wang passed his PhD Candidacy exam on April 27, 2012.

Mohsen Alimomeni passed his PhD Candidacy exam on April 24, 2012.

Jibran Rashid passed his PhD Oral Defense on April 24, 2012.  Jibran’s thesis, “Limits and Consequences of Nonlocality Distillation” was reviewed by his supervisor, Dr. Peter Hoyer; his supervisory committee Dr. Gilad Gour from the department of Physics and Astronomy and Dr. Lisa Higham from the department of Computer Science; Dr. Alain Tapp from the University of Montreal and Dr. Stefan Wolf from the University of Lugano.

Ealaf Sameh Selim passed her MSc Oral Defense on April 20, 2012.  Ealaf’s thesis, “Requirements and Reuse in an Agile Environment for Tabletop-based GIS Applications” was reviewed by her supervisor, Dr. Frank Maurer, Dr. Anthony Tang from the department of Computer Science and Dr. Richard Levy from the department of Environmental Design.

Miaosen Wang passed his MSc Oral Defense on April 19, 2012.  Miaosen’s thesis, “The Peddler Framework: Designing a Public Display that Captures and Preserves the Attention of a Passerby” was reviewed by his supervisor, Dr. Saul Greenberg, Dr. Anthony Tang from the department of Computer Science and Mr. Joshua Michael Taron from the department of Environmental Design.

Kambiz Ghazinour Naini passed his PhD Oral Defense on April 18, 2012.  Kambiz’s thesis, “A Lattice-based Privacy Aware Access Control Model” was reviewed by his supervisor, Dr. Kenneth Barker from the faculty of Science, his supervisory committee, Dr. John Aycock and Dr. Reda Elhajj from the department of Computer Science; Dr. Philip Fong from the department of Computer Science, Dr Mahmood Moussavi from the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dr. Luigi Logrippo from the University of Ottawa.