OIST PhD Graduates
Theses are published in the OIST Institutional Repository and are available online.
Graduated in AY2024 (Total as of September 2024: 3)
Masato Hirota
Supervisor Name: Hiroki Ishikawa
Research Unit: Immune Signal Unit
Thesis: Vps37b and Ramp3 Regulate CD8+ T Cell Response by Facilitating Adaptation to Plasma Membrane Damage
Graduation Date: 2024 September 30
Gulfiya Kadyrzhanova
Supervisor Name: Hiroki Ishikawa
Research Unit: Immune Signal Unit
Thesis: Aging Effects on Murine Adoptive T cell Therapy for Solid Tumor
Graduation Date: 2024 September 30
Salvatore Andrea Lacava
Supervisor Name: Marylka Yoe Uusisaari
Research Unit: Neuronal Rhythms in Movement Unit
Thesis: The Role of Tails in Maintaining Balance: Neuronal and Behavioral Insights from the Mouse
Graduation Date: 2024 September 30
Graduated in AY2023 (Total as of July 2024: 34)
Aditi Sunil Pophale
Supervisor Name: Samuel Reiter
Research Unit: Computational Neuroethology Unit
Thesis: Sleepy Heads: Active and Quiet Sleep in Octopus laqueus
Graduation Date: 2024 August 31
Charlotte Rebekah Denman
Supervisor Name: Bernd Kuhn
Research Unit: Optical Neuroimaging Unit
Graduation Date: 2024 August 31
Dongpeng Hu
Supervisor Name: Ichiro Masai
Research Unit: Developmental Neurobiology Unit
Thesis: Dscamb Regulates Zebrafish Cone Mosaic via Filopodium-Mediated Homotypic Recognition
Graduation Date: 2024 August 31
Lina Mohamed Koronfel
Supervisor Name: Bernd Kuhn
Research Unit: Optical Neuroimaging Unit
Thesis: Dendritic Voltage Signaling in Cerebellar Purkinje Neurons during Associative Motor Learning
Graduation Date: 2024 August 31
Wataru Ohata
Supervisor Name: Jun Tani
Research Unit: Cognitive Neurorobotics Research Unit
Thesis: Investigation of the Sense of Agency in Human–Robot Interaction Based on the Free Energy Principle
Graduation Date: 2024 July 31
Santanu Mondal
Supervisor Name: Fujie Tanaka
Research Unit: Chemistry and Chemical Bioengineering Unit
Thesis: Development of Catalytic Asymmetric Reactions of Pyruvates as Nucleophiles
Graduation Date: 2024 July 31
Minh Hoan Dinh
Supervisor Name: Julia Khusnutdinova
Research Unit: Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit
Graduation Date: 2024 June 30
Yang Mi
Supervisor Name: Hiroki Ishikawa
Research Unit: Immune Signal Unit
Graduation Date: 2024 June 30
Muhammad Sirajul Hasan
Supervisor Name: Thomas Busch
Research Unit: Quantum Systems Unit
Thesis: Dynamics of Complex Quantum Systems - Engineering and Control in Cold Atomic Systems
Graduation Date: 2024 June 30
Prasanna Vijayaraghava
Supervisor Name: Jun Tani
Research Unit: Cognitive Neurorobotics Research Unit
Thesis: Free Energy Based Neural Network Model to Study Embodied Language
Graduation Date: 2024 June 30
Leilee Margaret Chojnacki
Supervisor Name: Nic Shannon
Research Unit: Theory of Quantum Matter Unit
Thesis: Analogues of Light and Gravity in the Collective Excitations of Quantum Magnets and Cold Atoms
Graduation Date: 2024 June 30
Rio Kashimoto
Supervisor Name: Vincent Laudet
Research Unit: Marine Eco-Evo-Devo Unit
Graduation Date: 2024 May 31
Miles Josef Desforges
Supervisor Name: Kenji Doya
Research Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Thesis: Characterisation of Serotonin, Noradrenaline and Dopamine Release in the Motor Cortex
Graduation Date: 2024 May 31
Berta Hudak
Supervisor Name: Liron Speyer
Research Unit: Representation Theory and Algebraic Combinatorics Unit
Thesis: On the Representation Theory of Cyclotomic KLR Algebras
Graduation Date: 2024 April 30
Mohamed Amine Boubakour
Supervisor Name: Thomas Busch
Research Unit: Quantum Systems Unit
Thesis: Control of Cold Atomic Systems for Quantum Heat Engines
Graduation Date: 2024 April 30
Billy Connor Moore
Supervisor Name: Timothy Ravasi
Research Unit: Marine Climate Change Unit
Graduation Date: 2024 March 31
Kojiro Suda
Supervisor Name: Keiko Kono
Research Unit: Membranology Unit
Graduation Date: 2024 March 31
Florian Lalande
Supervisor Name: Kenji Doya
Research Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Thesis: Planetary Systems Insights through Numerical Data Imputation Algorithms and Machine Learning
Graduation Date: 2024 March 31
Zhehao Cheng
Supervisor Name: Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama
Research Unit: Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit
Graduation Date: 2024 March 31
Hung-Ju Chiang
Supervisor Name: Ichiro Masai
Research Unit: Developmental Neurobiology Unit
Graduation Date: 2024 March 31
Maki Maeda
Supervisor Name: Sile Nic Chormaic
Research Unit: Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit
Thesis: Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Optical Nanofiber Cavities
Graduation Date: 2024 March 31
Hsiao-Chiao Chien
Supervisor Name: Hiroki Ishikawa
Research Unit: Immune Signal Unit
Thesis: JunB is Essential for Chromatin Regulation in Pathogenic Th17 Cells
Graduation Date: 2024 March 31
Shukla Sarkar
Supervisor Name: Hiroki Ishikawa
Research Unit: Immune Signal Unit
Thesis: Analysis of the Function of JunB in Regulation of CD8+ T Cell Response
Graduation Date: 2024 March 31
Sergey Zobnin
Supervisor Name: Kenji Doya
Research Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Thesis: Investigation of the Bayesian Sensory-Motor Integration in the Cerebral Cortex
Graduation Date: 2024 March 31
Kota Ishikawa
Supervisor Name: Satoshi Mitarai
Research Unit: Marine Biophysics Unit
Thesis: Effects of Mean Flow and Turbulence on Planktivory by Anchored Garden Eels and Site-Attached Fish
Graduation Date: 2024 February 29
Markel Pardo Almanza
Supervisor Name: Yoshinori Okada
Research Unit: Quantum Materials Science Unit
Thesis: Fabrication and Spectroscopic Investigation of a Tunable Magnetic Material and its Heterostructures
Graduation Date: 2024 January 31
Sara Emad Mohamed Elagamy Abdelaal
Supervisor Name: Marco Terenzio
Research Unit: Molecular Neuroscience Unit
Thesis: Dynein Light Chain Roadblock 1 Regulates FMRP Axonal Transport and Degradation
Graduation Date: 2024 January 31
Anjana Krishnadas
Supervisor Name: Yoshinori Okada
Research Unit: Quantum Materials Science Unit
Graduation Date: 2023 December 31
Sarah Yukie Nagasawa
Supervisor Name: Erik De Schutter
Research Unit: Computational Neuroscience Unit
Graduation Date: 2023 December 31
Ianto Samuel Cannon
Supervisor Name: Marco Edoardo Rosti
Research Unit: Complex Fluids and Flows Unit
Thesis: Simulations of Multiphase Turbulent Flows
Graduation Date: 2023 November 30
Qiao Lu
Supervisor Name: Simone Pigolotti
Research Unit: Biological Complexity Unit
Thesis: Biophysical Modeling of Cas9 Target-searching and Recognition
Graduation Date: 2023 October 31
Vivek Pareek
Supervisor Name: Keshav Dani
Research Unit: Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit
Graduation Date: 2023 September 30
Hunter Daniel Barbee
Supervisor Name: Keiko Kono
Research Unit: Membranology Unit
Graduation Date: 2023 September 30
Anzhelika Koldaeva
Supervisor Name: Simone Pigolotti
Research Unit: Biological Complexity Unit
Thesis: Population Dynamics of Microorganisms in Spatially Structured Environments
Graduation Date: 2023 September 30
Graduated in AY2022 (Total as of August 2023: 30)
Barnaby Smith
Supervisor Name: Yoshinori Okada
Research Unit: Quantum Materials Science Unit
Thesis: Imaging Electronic States in the Charge Density Wave Material CeTe3
Graduation Date: 2023 August 31
Rachapun Rotrattanadumrong
Supervisor Name: Yohei Yokobayashi
Research Unit: Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Engineering Unit
Thesis: Machine Learning Guided Exploration of an Empirical Ribozyme Fitness Landscape
Graduation Date: 2023 August 31
Osamu Horiguchi
Supervisor Name: Hiroshi Watanabe
Research Unit: Evolutionary Neurobiology Unit
Graduation Date: 2023 August 31
Thomas Francis Burns
Supervisor Name: Tomoki Fukai
Research Unit: Neural Coding and Brain Computing Unit
Thesis: Geometry and Topology in Memory and Navigation
Graduation Date: 2023 July 31
Shubham Deolka
Supervisor Name: Julia Khusnutdinova
Research Unit: Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit
Graduation Date: 2023 July 31
Ali Rahmani
Supervisor Name: Eliot Fried
Research Unit: Mechanics and Materials Unit
Thesis: The Landau–Levich Problem for a Uniaxial Nematic Liquid Crystal
Graduation Date: 2023 June 30
Otis Davey Brunner
Supervisor Name: Satoshi Mitarai
Research Unit: Marine Biophysics Unit
Graduation Date: 2023 June 30
Theodoros Bouloumis
Supervisor Name: Sile Nic Chormaic
Research Unit: Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit
Thesis: Metamaterial Plasmonic Tweezers for Enhanced Nanoparticle Trapping
Graduation Date: 2023 May 31
Nadine Wirkuttis
Supervisor Name: Jun Tani
Research Unit: Cognitive Neurorobotics Research Unit
Thesis: Social Interaction Under the Free Energy Principle: A Cognitive Robotics Approach
Graduation Date: 2023 April 30
Stefano Pascarelli
Supervisor Name: Paola Laurino
Research Unit: Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit
Thesis: Protein Sequence, Structure, and Dynamics Reveal Insights in the Divergence of Protein Functions
Graduation Date: 2023 April 30
Tsung-Yen Huang
Supervisor Name: Hiroki Ishikawa
Research Unit: Immune Signal Unit
Thesis: Phosphoenolpyruvate Regulates the JunB-Dependent Pathogenic Th17 Transcriptional Program
Graduation Date: 2023 March 31
Yuna Hattori
Supervisor Name: Pinaki Chakraborty
Research Unit: Fluid Mechanics Unit
Graduation Date: 2023 March 31
Friederike Metz
Supervisor Name: Thomas Busch
Research Unit: Quantum Systems Unit
Thesis: Machine Learning Applications for the Study and Control of Quantum Systems
Graduation Date: 2023 February 28
Qiong Huang
Supervisor Name: Kenji Doya
Research Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Thesis: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Distributed Solar-Battery Energy Systems
Graduation Date: 2023 January 31
Aleksandra Bliznina
Supervisor Name: Nicholas Luscombe
Research Unit: Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit
Thesis: Cross-genome Comparison of Global Oikopleura dioica Populations
Graduation Date: 2022 December 31
Christopher Campbell
Supervisor Name: Thomas Busch
Research Unit: Quantum Systems Unit
Thesis: Supersymmetry and Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics
Graduation Date: 2022 December 31
Mohamed Atwa
Supervisor Name: Yoshinori Okada
Research Unit: Quantum Materials Science Unit
Thesis: Doping Evolution of Magneto-Transport Properties in the Layered Magnetic Semimetal Cr(1+δ)Te2
Graduation Date: 2022 December 31
Lewis Ruks
Supervisor Name: Thomas Busch
Co-Supervisor: Sile Nic Chormaic
Research Unit:Quantum Systems
Thesis:Wave Propagation and Light-Matter Interactions in Optical Nanofibers and Discrete Media
Graduation Date: 2022 November 30
Kimberly Remund
Supervisor Name: Nic Shannon
Research Unit: Theory of Quantum Matter Unit
Thesis: Spin–1 Magnets and Their Excitations
Graduation Date: 2022 November 30
Manana Kutsia
Supervisor Name: Ichiro Masai
Research Unit: Developmental Neurobiology Unit
Graduation Date: 2022 November 30
Maki Kohata Thomas
Supervisor Name: Satoshi Mitarai
Research Unit:Marine Biophysics Unit
Thesis: Role of Island Systems in Mangrove Biogeography
Graduation Date: 2022 November 30
San To Chan
Supervisor Name: Amy Shen
Research Unit: Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit
Thesis: Torsional Instability of Rheologically Complex Liquid Bridges
Graduation Date: 2022 October 31
Ainash Garifullina
Supervisor Name: Amy Shen
Research Unit: Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit
Thesis: Estimating Protein-Protein Interactions with High Aspect Ratio Plasmonic Nanopillars
Graduation Date: 2022 October 31
Mizuki Kato
Supervisor Name: Erik De Schutter
Research Unit: Computational Neuroscience Unit
Graduation Date: 2022 October 31
Christine Joy Guzman
Supervisor Name: Hiroshi Watanabe
Research Unit: Evolutionary Neurobiology Unit
Thesis: Investigating the Role of Neurexins in the Early Evolution of the Nervous System
Graduation Date: 2022 October 31
Sofiia Kosar
Supervisor Name: Keshav Dani
Research Unit: Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit
Thesis: Characterization of Nanoscale Defects in Hybrid Perovskite Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications
Graduation Date: 2022 September 30
Aliya Mari Purser
Supervisor Name: Izumi Fukunaga
Research Unit: Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit
Thesis: Designing a Tractable Behavioral Paradigm for Investigating Olfactory Figure-ground Segregation
Graduation Date: 2022 September 30
Dongqi Han
Supervisor Name: Jun Tani
Research Unit: Cognitive Neurorobotics Research Unit
Graduation Date: 2022 September 30
Takeshi Ricardo Tabuchi Yagui
Supervisor Name: Yohei Yokobayashi
Research Unit: Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Engineering Unit
Thesis: High-Throughput Screening of Cell-Free Riboswitches for Chemical Communication between Microdroplets
Graduation Date: 2022 September 30
Saahil Acharya
Supervisor Name: Akihiro Kusumi
Research Unit: Membrane Cooperativity Unit
Graduation Date: 2022 September 30
Graduated in AY2021 (Total as of August 2022: 23)
Tim Keller
Supervisor Name: Thomas Busch
Research Unit: Quantum Systems Unit
Thesis:Controlling Superfluid and Insulating States in Interacting Quantum Gases
Graduation Date: 2022 August 31
Dmitrii Koldaev
Supervisor Name: Eliot Fried
Research Unit: Mechanics and Materials Unit
Thesis: Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis of Unstretchable Elastic Ribbons
Graduation Date: 2022 August 31
Alexandru Mihai
Supervisor Name: Eliot Fried
Research Unit: Mechanics and Materials Unit
Graduation Date: 2022 August 31
Shan Zou
Supervisor Name: Denis Konstantinov
Research Unit:Quantum Dynamics Unit
Thesis: Detection of the Rydberg States of Electrons on Superfluid Helium Confined in Microchannel Devices
Graduation Date: 2022 August 1
Agneesh Barua
Supervisor Name: Vincent Laudet
Research Unit: Marine Eco-Evo-Devo Unit
Thesis: The Evolutionary Genetics of Venoms: How Nature Created the Perfect Chemical Weapon
Graduation Date: 2022 July 1
Makoto Tokoro Schreiber
Supervisor Name: Matthias Wolf
Research Unit: Molecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Unit
Graduation Date: 2022 July 1
Ratnesh Kumar Gupta
Supervisor Name: Sile Nic Chormaic
Research Unit: Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit
Thesis: Evanescent Field Mediated Interactions of Cold Rubidium Atoms with Optical Nanofiber Guided Light
Graduation Date: 2022 June 1
Mai Omar Abdulrahman Ahmed
Supervisor Name: Ichiro Masai
Research Unit:Developmental Neurobiology Unit
Graduation Date: 2022 March 31
Swathy Babu
Supervisor Name: Ichiro Masai
Research Unit: Developmental Neurobiology Unit
Graduation Date: 2022 March 31
Jigyasa Arora
Supervisor Name:Tom Bourguignon
Research Unit: Evolutionary Genomics Unit
Thesis:Functional Metagenomics and Evolution of Termite Gut Microbiome
Graduation Date: 2022 March 31
Mohieldin Magdy Mahmoud Youssef
Supervisor Name:Tadashi Yamamoto
Research Unit: Cell Signal Unit
Thesis: Role of TOB in the Brain: An Insight into Stress Coping Machinery
Graduation Date: 2022 March 31
Larisa Sheloukhova
Supervisor Name: Hiroshi Watanabe
Research Unit:Evolutionary Neurobiology Unit
Thesis: Molecular Dissection of Ancestral Glia
Graduation Date: 2022 March 31
Xunwu Hu
Supervisor Name: Ye Zhang
Research Unit:Bioinspired Soft Matter Unit
Thesis: Developing Integrin-targeted Peptide Assemblies to Direct Cancer Cell migration
Graduation Date: 2022 January 31
Evropi Toulkeridou
Supervisor Name: Evan P. Economo
Research Unit: Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit
Graduation Date: 2022 January 31
Masakazu Taira
Supervisor Name: Kenji Doya
Research Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Thesis: The Role of Serotonin Neurons in Mouse Reward-based Behaviors
Graduation Date: 2022 January 31
Yuka Suzuki
Supervisor Name: Evan P. Economo
Research Unit: Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit
Thesis: The effects of dispersal network structure on biodiversity pattern and stability in metacommunities
Graduation Date: 2022 January 31
Menglin Wang
Supervisor Name: Tom Bourguignon
Research Unit: Evolutionary Genomics Unit
Thesis: Worldwide Historical Biogeography of Termites (Blattodea: Isoptera)
Graduation Date: 2021 December 31
Ivan Mbogo
Supervisor Name: Hiroshi Watanabe
Research Unit: Evolutionary Neurobiology Unit
Thesis: The Evolution of Dual Functionality of β-catenin in Metazoans
Graduation Date: 2021 December 31
Po-Shun Chuang
Supervisor Name: Satoshi Mitarai
Research Unit: Marine Biophysics Unit
Thesis: From Polyps to Colonies: Applying Polyp Bail-Out to Study Coral Coloniality
Graduation Date: 2021 December 31
Tsung-Han Hsieh
Supervisor Name: Hiroki Ishikawa
Research Unit: Immune Signal Unit
Thesis: Deciphering the Role of AP-1 Transcription Factor JunB in CD4+ T Cells
Graduation Date: 2021 October 31
Dong Cao
Supervisor Name: Ichiro Maruyama
Research Unit: Information Processing Biology Unit
Thesis: Investigation of Circular RNA Regulation by Cis and Trans Elements in Caenorhabditis Elegans
Graduation Date: 2021 September 30
Joel Perez Urquizo
Supervisor Name: Keshav Dani
Research Unit: Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit
Thesis: Terahertz Patch Antenna Microcavity Lasers with Integrated Beam Control
Graduation Date: 2021 September 30
Kun-Lung Li
Supervisor Name: Hiroshi Watanabe
Research Unit: Evolutionary Neurobiology Unit
Thesis: A Study of Horizontally Transferred Glycosyl Hydrolase Family 6 Genes in Tunicate Genomes
Graduation Date: 2021 September 30
Graduated in AY2020 (Total as of August 2021: 17)
Awarded at AY2020 Graduation Ceremony on May 21 2021
2021 Graduation Ceremony webpage
YouTube Video of Graduation Ceremony
Andreas Thomasen
Supervisor Name: Nic Shannon
Research Unit: Theory of Quantum Matter Unit
Thesis: Topology of Band-Like Excitations in Frustrated Magnets and Their Experimental Signatures
Graduation Date: 2021 August 31
Jason Robert Ball
Supervisor Name: Denis Konstantinov
Research Unit: Quantum Dynamics Unit
Thesis: Investigating Color Centers in Diamond for Microwave Quantum Technologies
Graduation Date: 2021 August 31
Afshan Jamshaid
Supervisor Name: Yabing Qi
Research Unit: Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit
Thesis: Scanning Probe Microscopy Studies of Metal Halide Perovskite Materials
Graduation Date: 2021 May 31
Mathias Mikkelsen
Supervisor Name: Thomas Busch
Research Unit: Quantum Systems Unit
Thesis: Quenched and Driven Dynamics of One-Dimensional Quantum Systems
Graduation Date: 2021 April 30
Seyedeh Sahar Seyed Hejazi
Supervisor Name: Thomas Busch
Research Unit: Quantum Systems Unit
Thesis: Atom-Light Interactions via Evanescent Fields
Graduation Date: 2021 April 30
Shoko Igarashi (Ota)
Supervisor Name: Kenji Doya
Research Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Thesis: Intrinsic Motivation in Creative Activity
Graduation Date: 2021 April 30
Sandrine Burriel
Supervisor Name: Tadashi Yamamoto
Co-Supervisor: Professor Nicholas Luscombe
Research Unit: Cell Signal Unit
Thesis: Functional analysis of LMTK1 in lung adenocarcinoma
Graduation Date: 2021 March 31
Shivani Sathish
Supervisor Name: Amy Shen
Research Unit: Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit
Thesis: Surface-based Microfluidic Systems for Enhanced Biomarker Detection
Graduation Date: 2021 March 31
Kamila Mustafina
Supervisor Name: Yohei Yokobayashi
Research Unit: Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Engineering Unit
Thesis: Engineering Synthetic Riboswitches for Mammalian Cells
Graduation Date: 2021 February 28
Sakurako Watanabe
Supervisor Name: Jeff Wickens
Research Unit: Neurobiology Research Unit
Thesis: Interaction of multiple inputs in plasticity of the corticostriatal synapses
Graduation Date: 2021 January 31
Ayaka Usui
Supervisor Name: Thomas Busch
Research Unit: Quantum Systems Unit
Thesis: Control and measurement of non-classical properties of cold atomic and optical systems
Graduation Date: 2020 December 31
Lin Li
Supervisor Name: Pinaki Chakraborty
Research Unit: Fluid Mechanics Unit
Thesis: Storm moisture and landfalling hurricanes
Graduation Date: 2020 December 31
Christina Ripken
Supervisor Name: Síle Nic Chormaic
Co-Supervisor: Professor Noriyuki Satoh
Research Unit: Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit
Graduation Date: 2020 November 30
Adrian David
Supervisor Name: Shinobu Hikami
Co-Supervisor: Professor Yasha Neiman
Research Unit: Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit
Graduation Date: 2020 November 30
Shijin Zhang
Supervisor Name: Ye Zhang
Research Unit: Bioinspired Soft Matter Unit
Thesis: Design and Synthesize Small Molecular Self-Assembling Peptides for Biomedical Applications
Graduation Date: 2020 November 30
Andrew Winchester
Supervisor Name: Keshav Dani
Research Unit: Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit
Thesis: Spatially and temporally resolved microscopy of traps in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites
Graduation Date: 2020 October 31
Krishna Priya Subramonian Rajasree
Supervisor Name: Síle Nic Chormaic
Research Unit: Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit
Thesis: Rydberg Excitation and Other Multiphoton Processes in Cold Rubidium Atoms Near an Optical Nanofibre
Graduation Date: 2020 September 30
Graduated in AY2019 (Total as of August 2020: 25 )
Awarded at AY2020 Graduation Ceremony on May 21 2021
2021 Graduation Ceremony webpage
YouTube Video of Graduation Ceremony
Hong Huat Hoh
Supervisor Name: Tadashi Yamamoto
Co-Supervisor: Professor Ye Zhang
Research Unit: Cell Signal Unit
Thesis: Study on Alteration of Cellular Phenotypes and Processes in Cancer Using Exogenous Biological Agents
Graduation Date: 2020 August 31
Sebastien Lapointe
Supervisor Name: Julia Khusnutdinova
Research Unit: Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit
Thesis: Nickel Complexes of New Electron-Rich, Sterically-Hindered PNP Pincer Ligands
Graduation Date: 2020 August 31
Ankur Dhar
Supervisor Name: Tsumoru Shintake
Co-Supervisor: Professor Nic Shannon
Research Unit: Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit
Thesis: Imaging Monopoles in Spin Ice via Electron Holography
Graduation Date: 2020 August 31
Farzana Rahman
Supervisor Name: Kenji Doya
Co-Supervisor: Professor Alexander Mikheyev
Research Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Graduation Date: 2020 June 30
Hemanta Sarmah
Supervisor Name: Tadashi Yamamoto
Co-Supervisor: Professor Yohei Yokobayashi
Research Unit: Cell Signal Unit
Thesis: Molecular and Physiological function of the mammalian CCR4-NOT subunit CNOT9
Graduation Date: 2020 May 31
Margaret Mars Brisbin
Supervisor Name: Satoshi Mitarai
Research Unit: Marine Biophysics Unit
Graduation Date: 2020 May 31
Sona Rani Roy
Supervisor Name: Ye Zhang
Co-Supervisor: Professor Mitsuhiro Yanagida
Research Unit: Bioinspired Soft Matter Unit
Thesis: Design Integrin-targeted Molecular Self-assembling Peptides for Studying Cancer Migration Inhibition
Graduation Date: 2020 May 31
Nishtha Ranawat
Supervisor Name: Ichiro Masai
Research Unit: Developmental Neurobiology Unit
Graduation Date: 2020 April 30
Collin Stecker
Supervisor Name: Yabing Qi
Research Unit: Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit
Graduation Date: 2020 April 30
Noa Burshtein
Supervisor Name: Amy Shen
Research Unit: Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit
Thesis: Flow Instabilities and Vortex Dynamics in Intersecting Flows
Graduation Date: 2020 April 30
Han Yan
Supervisor Name: Nic Shannon
Research Unit: Theory of Quantum Matter Unit
Thesis: Fracton States of Matter: From Holography to Frustrated Magnetism
Graduation Date: 2020 April 30
Tadashi Kozuno
Supervisor Name: Kenji Doya
Research Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Graduation Date: 2020 March 31
Leonidas Georgiou
Supervisor Name: Bernd Kuhn
Research Unit: Optical Neuroimaging Unit
Thesis: Astrocyte calcium activity mapping in behaving mice using anterograde axo-astrocytic AAV transfer
Graduation Date: 2020 March 31
Shohei Takaoka
Supervisor Name: Tadashi Yamamoto
Co-Supervisor: Professor Hiroaki Kitano
Research Unit: Cell Signal Unit
Thesis: Role of 5’ - 3’ exoribonuclease Xrn1 in energy expenditure and control of obesity
Graduation Date: 2020 March 31
Viktoras Lisicovas
Supervisor Name: Keshav Dani
Research Unit: Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit
Graduation Date: 2020 March 31
Stefan Pommer
Supervisor Name: Jeff Wickens
Research Unit: Neurobiology Research Unit
Graduation Date: 2020 February 29
Hsieh-Fu Tsai
Supervisor Name: Amy Shen
Research Unit: Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit
Graduation Date: 2020 February 29
Dina Mostafa
Supervisor Name: Tadashi Yamamoto
Research Unit: Cell Signal Unit
Thesis: Functional Analysis of CCR4-NOT Complex in Pancreatic β Cell
Graduation Date: 2020 February 29
Paavo Parmas
Supervisor Name: Kenji Doya
Research Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Thesis: Total stochastic gradient algorithms and applications to model-based reinforcement learning
Graduation Date: 2020 January 31
James Schloss
Supervisor Name: Thomas Busch
Research Unit: Quantum Systems Unit
Graduation Date: 2019 December 31
Mayank Aggarwal
Supervisor Name: Jeff Wickens
Research Unit: Neurobiology Research Unit
Thesis: The Role of Ventral Tegmental Area and Nucleus Accumbens in the Kamin Blocking Effect
Graduation Date: 2019 November 30
Bianca Sieveritz
Supervisor Name: Gordon Arbuthnott
Co-Supervisor: Professor Jeff Wickens
Research Unit: Brain Mechanism for Behaviour Unit
Thesis: Ventral motor thalamic projections to prelimbic cortex in cost-benefit decision-making
Graduation Date: 2019 November 30
Simon Peter Mekhail
Supervisor Name: Síle Nic Chormaic
Co-Supervisor: Professor Gordon Arbuthnott
Research Unit: Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit
Thesis: Optical Fiber Probes for in-Vivo Neuronal Compressive Microendoscopy and Mode Analysis in Nanofibers
Graduation Date: 2019 September 30
Neil Dalphin
Supervisor Name: Bernd Kuhn
Research Unit: Optical Neuroimaging Unit
Thesis: Two-Photon Voltage Imaging of Supragranular Barrel Cortex in Mice: Oscillations and Responses
Graduation Date: 2019 September 30
Sho Kasumie
Supervisor Name: Síle Nic Chormaic
Research Unit: Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit
Thesis: Hollow Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators: from Fabrication to Application
Graduation Date: 2019 September 30
Graduated in AY2018 (Total as of August 2019: 15)
Awarded at AY2018 Graduation Ceremony on May 25, 2019
2018 Graduation Ceremony webpage
YouTube Video of Graduation Ceremony
Jiabao Chen
Supervisor Name: Denis Konstantinov
Co-Supervisor: Professor Thomas Busch
Research Unit: Quantum Dynamics Unit
Thesis: Coherent control of charged particle systems strongly interacting with microwave photons
Graduation Date: 2019 August 31
Thomas Nieddu
Supervisor Name: Síle Nic Chormaic
Research Unit: Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit
Thesis: Optical Nanofibers for Multiphoton Processes and Selective Mode Interactions with Rubidium
Graduation Date: 2019 July 31
Girish Beedessee
Supervisor Name: Noriyuki Satoh
Research Unit: Marine Genomics Unit
Thesis: Genomic insights on secondary metabolism in symbiotic dinoflagellates
Graduation Date: 2019 April 30
Yafei Mao
Supervisor Name: Noriyuki Satoh
Co-Supervisor: Professor Evan Economo
Research Unit: Marine Genomics Unit
Graduation Date: 2019 April 30
Nilupaer Abudukeyoumu
Supervisor Name: Gordon Arbuthnott
Research Unit: Brain Mechanism for Behaviour Unit
Graduation Date: 2019 March 31
Haytham Mohamed
Supervisor Name: Tadashi Yamamoto
Research Unit: Cell Signal Unit
Thesis: Post-transcriptional regulation of circadian rhythm: Involvement of the CCR4-NOT complex
Graduation Date: 2019 March 31
Irina Reshodko
Supervisor Name: Thomas Busch
Research Unit: Quantum Systems Unit
Thesis: State engineering in one-dimensional quantum gases
Graduation Date: 2019 March 31
Kazuto Kawamura
Supervisor Name: Ichiro Maruyama
Research Unit: Information Processing Biology Unit
Graduation Date: 2019 March 31
Tosif Ahamed
Supervisor Name: Ichiro Maruyama
Co-Supervisor: Professor Greg Stephens
Research Unit: Information Processing Biology Unit
Thesis: Capturing the nonlinear dynamics of animal behavior with applications to the nematode C. elegans
Graduation Date: 2019 March 31
Masakazu Igarashi
Supervisor Name: Jeffery Wickens
Research Unit: Neurobiology Research Unit
Thesis: The role of interhemispheric cortico-cortical connections in bimanual coordination in the rat
Graduation Date: 2019 February 28
Hiroaki Hamada
Supervisor Name: Kenji Doya
Co-Supervisor: Professor Greg Stephens
Research Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Thesis: Serotonergic control of brain-wide dynamics
Graduation Date: 2019 January 31
Jessica Verena Schulze
Supervisor Name: Kenji Doya
Research Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Thesis: Spatial and modular regularization in effective connectivity inference from neural activity data
Graduation Date: 2018 December 31
Patricia Himeka Wepfer
Supervisor Name: Satoshi Mitarai
Co-Supervisor: Professor Evan Economo
Research Unit: Marine Biophysics Unit
Graduation Date: 2018 November 30
Ray Xin Lee
Supervisor Name: Bernd Kuhn
Co-Supervisor: Professor Greg Stephens
Research Unit: Optical Neuroimaging Unit
Graduation Date: 2018 November 30
Jui-Yin Lin
Supervisor Name: Denis Konstantinov
Research Unit: Quantum Dynamics Unit
Thesis Title: Transport properties of strongly correlated 2D electrons confined in microchannels
Graduation Date: 2018 September 30
Graduated in AY2017 (Total as of August 2018:13)
Awarded at AY2017 Graduation Ceremony, February 24 2018
2017 Graduation Ceremony page
YouTube Video of Graduation Ceremony
Kalale Chola
Supervisor Name: Tsumoru Shintake
Research Unit: Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit
Thesis: Development of an SPH variant of implicit LES for studying wave energy transport
Graduation Date: 2018 August 31
Tsai-Ming Lu
Supervisor Name: Noriyuki Satoh
Research Unit: Marine Genomics Unit
Graduation Date: 2018 August 31
E Laine Wong
Supervisor Name: Keshav Dani
Research Unit: Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit
Thesis: Ultrafast spatiotemporal control of photocarriers in doped semiconductors
Graduation Date: 2018 July 31
Chris Reinke
Supervisor Name: Kenji Doya
Research Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Thesis: The Gamma-Ensemble - Adaptive Reinforcement Learning via Modular Discounting
Graduation Date: 2018 June 30
Dongrong Zhang
Supervisor Name: Gustavo Gioia
Research Unit: Continuum Physics Unit
Thesis: Spectral theory of turbulent flows
Graduation Date: 2018 June 30
Lashmi Piriya Ananda Babu
Supervisor Name: Tomoyuki Takahashi
Co-Supervisor: Professor Jeff Wickens
Research Unit: Cellular & Molecular Synaptic Function Unit
Thesis: Functional roles of microtubules in a giant presynaptic terminal
Graduation Date: 2018 May 17
Daisuke Takahashi
Supervisor Name: Hirotaka Sugawara
Research Unit: Advanced Medical Instrumentation Unit
Graduation Date: 2018 February 21
Keita Ikegami
Supervisor Name: Noriyuki Satoh
Research Unit: Marine Genomics Unit
Graduation Date: 2018 February 9
Nino Espinas
Supervisor Name: Hidetoshi Saze
Co-Supervisor: Professor Ulf Skoglund
Research Unit: Plant Epigenetics Unit
Thesis: rCBP-dependent regulation in rice innate immunity
Graduation Date: 2018 February 9
Cong Liu
Supervisor Name: Evan Economo
Research Unit: Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit
Graduation Date: 2018 January 31
Caroline Starzynski
Supervisor Name: Mitsuhiro Yanagida
Research Unit: G0 Cell Unit
Graduation Date: 2017 December 31
Zafer Hawash
Supervisor Name: Yabing Qi
Research Unit: Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit
Graduation Date: 2017 December 20
Rico Pohle
Supervisor Name: Nic Shannon
Research Unit: Theory of Quantum Matter Unit
Thesis: Signatures of novel spin liquids in kagome-like lattices
Graduation Date: 2017 December 7
Graduated in AY2016 (Total as of August 2017: 7)
Awarded at AY2016 Graduation Ceremony, February 24 2018
Kenneth Baughman
Supervisor Name: Noriyuki Satoh
Research Unit: Marine Genomics Unit
Thesis: Decoding and analysis of the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Acanthaster planci Genome
Graduation Date: 2017 August 25
Dongxin Zhang
Supervisor Name: Fujie Tanaka
Research Unit: Chemistry and Chemical Bioengineering Unit
Thesis: Amine catalyzed functionalization of enolizable ketones
Graduation Date: 2017 August 14
Yi-Jyun Luo
Supervisor Name: Noriyuki Satoh
Research Unit: Marine Genomics Unit
Graduation Date: 2017 August 14
Mart Toots
Supervisor Name: Ulf Skoglund
Research Unit: Structural Cellular Biology Unit
Graduation Date: 2017 July 18
Faisal Mahmood
Supervisor Name: Ulf Skoglund
Co-Supervisor: Professor Hiroaki Kitano
Research Unit: Structural Cellular Biology Unit
Thesis: Algorithmic and architectural developments for cryo-electron tomography
Graduation Date: 2017 March 10
Lee O'Riordan
Supervisor Name: Thomas Busch
Research Unit: Quantum Systems Unit
Thesis: Non-equilibrium vortex dynamics in rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates
Graduation Date: 2017 March 10
Mark Daly
Supervisor Name: Síle Nic Chormaic
Research Unit: Light-Matter Interactions Unit
Thesis: Light-induced interactions using optical near-field devices
Graduation Date: 2017 March 10