OIST PhD Graduates
Graduated in 2018 (Total as of August 2018: 4)
Lashmi Piriya Ananda Babu
Supervisor: Professor 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
Dongrong Zhang
Supervisor: Professor Gustavo Gioia
Research Unit: Continuum Physics Unit
Thesis: Spectral theory of turbulent flows
Graduation Date: 2018 June 30
Chris Reinke
Supervisor: Professor Kenji Doya
Research Unit: Neural Computation Unit
Thesis: The Gamma-Ensemble - Adaptive Reinforcement Learning via Modular Discounting
Graduation Date: 2018 June 30
E Laine Wong
Supervisor: Professor Keshav Dani
Research Unit: Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit
Thesis: Ultrafast spatiotemporal control of photocarriers in doped semiconductors
Graduation Date: 2018 July 31
Graduated in 2017 (Total as of February 2018: 14)
2017 Graduation Ceremony page
Mark Daly
Supervisor: Professor Síle Nic Chormaic
Research Unit: Light-Matter Interactions Unit
Thesis: Light-induced interactions using optical near-field devices
Graduation Date: 2017 March 10
Lee O'Riordan
Supervisor: Professor Thomas Busch
Research Unit: Quantum Systems Unit
Thesis: Non-equilibrium vortex dynamics in rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates
Graduation Date: 2017 March 10
Faisal Mahmood
Supervisor: Professor 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
Mart Toots
Supervisor: Professor Ulf Skoglund
Research Unit: Structural Cellular Biology Unit
Graduation Date: 2017 July 18
Dongxin Zhang
Supervisor: Professor 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: Professor Noriyuki Satoh
Research Unit: Marine Genomics Unit
Graduation Date: 2017 August 14
Kenneth Baughman
Supervisor: Professor 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
Rico Pohle
Supervisor: Professor Nic Shannon
Research Unit: Theory of Quantum Matter Unit
Thesis: Signatures of novel spin liquids in kagome-like lattices
Graduation Date: 2017 December 7
Zafer Hawash
Supervisor: Professor Yabing Qi
Research Unit: Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit
Graduation Date: 2017 December 31
Caroline Starzynski
Supervisor: Professor Mitsuhiro Yanagida
Research Unit: G0 Cell Unit
Graduation Date: 2017 December 31
Cong Liu
Supervisor: Professor Evan Economo
Research Unit: Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit
Graduation Date: 2018 January 31
Nino Espinas
Supervisor: Professor 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
Keita Ikegami
Supervisor: Professor Noriyuki Satoh
Research Unit: Marine Genomics Unit
Graduation Date: 2018 February 9
Daisuke Takahashi
Supervisor: Professor Hirotaka Sugawara
Research Unit: Advanced Medical Instrumentation Unit
Graduation Date: 2018 February 21