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Dissertation Defense Roster

Amy Pesina

"A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF MENTORING AND INDUCTION PRACTICES: EXPLORING NOVICE TEACHER EXPERIENCES AND RETENTION IN A NORTH TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICT"

Date: September 25, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Virtual

Sima Besharat Ferdowsi

"On Effective Reliability Modeling of Electronic Assemblies Subjected to Dynamic Excitations"

Date: September 25, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Signature Center, Room 105

Courtney Windham

"ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: DESIGN FEATURES, INSTRUCTIONAL IMPACT, AND SELF-EFFICACY"

Date: September 28, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Online

April Renee Dabbs

"THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHER SALARIES AND STUDENT PERFORMANCE ON THIRD GRADE AND FIFTH GRADE READING STAAR TESTS IN TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS"

Date: October 02, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Online

Jose Alberto Lopez

"TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES IN A TURNAROUND MIDDLE SCHOOL IN EAST TEXAS"

Date: October 20, 2026
Time: 12:00 AM
Location: Virtual

Brittney Eskew

"LEADERSHIP ACTIONS THAT INFLUENCE TEACHER RETENTION: A QUALITATIVE DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF LONG-TENURED TEACHERS IN HIGH-POVERTY TITLE I SCHOOLS"

Date: October 22, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Virtual

Celina Alaniz

"CAMPUS LEADERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF DISTRICT-LED DATA CONVERSATIONS AS A MECHANISM FOR INSTRUCTIONAL DECISION-MAKING"

Date: October 26, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Online

Guzman P. Guzman

"ADMINISTRATOR PERCEPTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CULTURALLY AWARE LEADERSHIP IN A PREDOMINANTLY HISPANIC, ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED K–12 FEEDER PATTERN"

Date: October 26, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: Online

Golnoosh Toosi

"ADVANCING SABINE-NECHES WATERWAY EFFICIENCY: A DATA-DRIVEN STUDY OF TRAFFIC FLOW AND OPERATIONAL DYNAMICS"

Date: October 26, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Online

Bridget Leann Kirby

"THE ROAD NOT TAKEN: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF QUALIFIED TEXAS WOMEN AND THE SUPERINTENDENCY"

Date: October 27, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Online

Namam Subedi

"Machine Learning based Load Balancing for Object Storage"

Date: October 28, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: MAES 218

Kelsea Meredith

"Examining the Relationship Between Professional Learning Community Efficacy and Teacher Retention in Junior High Schools"

Date: November 02, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: Teams

Lizette R Castelline

"EXAMINING THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF PARENTS IN A TURNAROUND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN EAST TEXAS"

Date: November 02, 2026
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: Teams

Casey Edwards

"Improvisation and Leadership: Exploring Leaders’ Lived Experiences of Soft Skill Development Through Improvisational Training"

Date: November 02, 2026
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: Virtual - Teams

Anirban Biswas

"DEVELOPING A SAFETY CULTURE CODEBOOK FOR OCCUPATIONAL INJURY NARRATIVES AND COMPARING LLM AND RULE-BASED CODING"

Date: November 02, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Cherry 2606

Tiffany Ailene Flores

"A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF SECOND-CAREER TEACHERS’ EXPERIENCES WITH WORKPLACE SUPPORTS AND RETENTION AT SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN CENTRAL TEXAS"

Date: November 02, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Virtual

Nakul Bakchi

"Semantic Retrieval of Maritime Injury Narratives for Safety Analysis Using Vector Databases with AI Refinement"

Date: November 03, 2026
Time: 12:35 AM
Location: 2205/Cherry Engineering

Sheikh Sad Habib A Rasul

"BENCHMARKING CONVENTIONAL AND AI-DRIVEN APPROACHES FOR JOINT TRANSPORTATION-INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION IN RETAIL"

Date: November 03, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Cherry 2205

Claude Hoke IV

"EXPLORING THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF STUDENT VETERANS WITH DIAGNOSED PTSD: PERSISTENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION"

Date: November 04, 2026
Time: 9:30 AM
Location: Virtual

Bianca Vinson

"Intergenerational Legacy: A Narrative Study of the Lived Experience of First-Generation African American Women Graduates and Their Intergenerational Influence"

Date: November 04, 2026
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: Online

Alexandra Peoples

"Bridging Awareness and Action: A Qualitative Inquiry into Elementary Educators’ Perceptions of Cultural Competence and Support Structures"

Date: November 04, 2026
Time: 10:45 AM
Location: Virtual

Ripan Kumar Prodhan

"Development of a Risk-Based Quality Control Framework for Identifying and Prioritizing Gaps Between Work Specifications and Third-Party Inspection Reports"

Date: November 04, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Cherry Building, Room 2206

Umar Saleem

"High-Throughput Generation of 100,000 Structures and Machine Learning Screening of Graphene Quantum Dots for Energy Applications"

Date: November 04, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: MAES 218

Umar Saleem

"High-Throughput Generation of 100,000 Structures and Machine Learning Screening of Graphene Quantum Dots for Energy Applications"

Date: November 04, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Maes 218

Ronish Shrestha

"CONSTRUCTION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND EXTERNAL VALIDATION OF A COUNTY-LEVEL CHRONIC ILLNESS VULNERABILITY INDEX USING INTERPRETABLE MACHINE LEARNING"

Date: November 04, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Maes 218

Umme Salma Jabin

"A NONLINEAR DIFFERENCE EQUATION MODEL FOR BIPOLAR DISORDER DYNAMICS"

Date: November 05, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Lucas Building Room-212

Molly E Crespo

"STUDENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ACTUALIZED IN SELF ARTICULATION: A PROGRAM EVALUATION STUDY"

Date: November 06, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Microsoft Teams Meeting

Md Imran Hossain

"PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF AN AI-BASED INDUSTRIAL FLOOR HAZARD DETECTION AND SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM USING COMPUTER VISION"

Date: November 06, 2026
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: Cherry 2606

Md Imran Hossain

"PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF AN AI-BASED INDUSTRIAL FLOOR HAZARD DETECTION AND SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM USING COMPUTER VISION"

Date: November 06, 2026
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: Cherry 2606

Lissete Zavala

"SCHOOL COUNSELORS' PERCEPTIONS OF ROLES, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND BARRIERS IN DELIVERING SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL COUNSELING SERVICES"

Date: November 06, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: Online

Prashant Thapa

"COLD-START PRODUCT SUBSTITUTION ESTIMATION FOR ASSORTMENT OPTIMIZATION USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS"

Date: November 06, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Cherry 2606

FNU Liza

"Rapid Prototyping of textile defect detection using AI assistance"

Date: November 06, 2026
Time: 1:45 PM
Location: Cherry 2606

Gopi Raju Makkena

"Extraction and Degradation of PAHs and PFAs in Aqueous Systems"

Date: November 06, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Lucas 101 A Conference room

Ashton Peddy

"BRIEF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ON GIFTED AND TWICE-EXCEPTIONAL GIRLS WITH INTERNALIZING CHARACTERISTICS"

Date: November 09, 2026
Time: 10:15 AM
Location: TEAMS

Ana Fernandez

"ELEMENTARY TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF LITERACY INSTRUCTION IN A 50/50 ENGLISH–SPANISH DUAL-LANGUAGE PROGRA"

Date: November 09, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: Online

Laura Trevino

"MAKING SENSE OF LESSON INTERNALIZATION: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF SECONDARY CORE CONTENT TEACHERS"

Date: November 10, 2026
Time: 11:30 AM
Location: Online

Curtis Lee White

"Does District Poverty Matter? Economic Disadvantage and Instructional Modality in Dual Credit Mathematics: A Two-Level Analysis"

Date: November 12, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Virtual