Doctoral students are required to undergo mid-term evaluations towards the end of first and second year of their program. Now is a period for evaluation for the D1 and D2 students enrolled in October. Evaluation presentations are public, so please join some of the presentations if you want to learn from your seniors. Schedule is updated regularly.

July 18 (Friday)

XU Yulin (D1 / SRE) Date&Time: 18 Jul 2025, 14:00-15:00 Room: C403 Title: Developing an Explainable AI Architecture for Geological and Excavation Risk Assessment in Underground Mining

August 8 (Friday)

Shen Andong (D2 / AP) Date&Time: 8 Aug 2025, 16:30-18:00 Room: C3-19 Title: Investigating the dynamics of the large nuclear spin polarization in bulk n-AlGaAs

August 29 (Friday)

ZHOU ZhiYi (D2 / AP) Date&Time: 29 Aug 2025, 11:00-12:00 Room: A3-62 Title: Structural Rearrangement & Ring-Opening Reaction of Excited-State Thiophene Studied by Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy

September 1 (Monday)

BULATHGAMAYALAGE Uthpala Kaushalya (D1 / EE) Date&Time: 1 Sep 2025, 16:30-17:45 Room: A4-04 Title: Optimizing Activated Sludge Process: Minimizing Biomass Washout through Quantifying Protruding Filaments and Investigating Bacterial Attachment

September 18 (Thursday)

CHENG Yen－Chieh (D2 / MSE) Date&Time: 18 Sep 2025, 10:00-11:30 Room: MC526 Title: The in-situ observation of Copper electrodeposition by high speed AFM

September 19 (Friday)

XU Qi (D1 / HES) Date&Time: 19 Sep 2025, 15:00-16:00 Room: ZOOM https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81591386058?pwd=FoVVxMhpIEIQpdDbSa4otRHeGhIxWB.1 Title: Exploration of Class F Fly Ash as a Material for CO2 Sequestration

September 22 (Monday)

	AHMED ABD ALRAHEEM SULIMAN ESSA (D1 / EE) Date&Time: 22 Sep 2025, 10:00-10:45 Room: A456 Title: Oxyfuel combustion of MSW in a vertical type waste incinerator for carbon capture and utilization
	PHANNAKHAM NOPPHANAN (D2 / FEE) Date&Time: 22 Sep 2025, 11:00-12:00 Room: A4-04 Title: Application of unsupervised AI-assisted acoustic wave sound analysis for non-destructive detection of steel corrosion induced deterioration
	PANDUM Jeero (D1 / FEE) Date&Time: 22 Sep 2025, 12:00-13:00 Room: A4-04 Title: Application of the Impact-Echo Method with AI for Integrity Assessment of Conventional and 3D-Printed Concrete
	NITHIMETHAPORN Nicharin (D1 / FEE) Date&Time: 22 Sep 2025, 16:00-17:00 Room: A4-04 Title: Vibrational Energy Harvesting in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems Integrated with Sacrificial Anode Metal Sheets for Detecting Steel Corrosion in Concrete

September 24 (Wednesday)

	Limaluka Angelo Kennedy Lino (D2 / SRE) Date&Time: 24 Sep 2025, 10:00-11:00 Room: A102 Title: Multi-Gas Underground Storage Modeling with MRST & PHREEQC
	AMIR UBAIDAH BIN MOHD ZUKI (D1 / SRE) Date&Time: 24 Sep 2025, 11:00-12:00 Room: A102 Title: Evaluation of water weakening and carbon storage in depleted chalk reservoir through geochemical modeling
	CHEN Yuru (D1 / SRE) Date&Time: 24 Sep 2025, 13:00-14:00 Room: A4-56 Title: Investigation of Multispecies MICP Systems under Vacuum and Microgravity for Space Construction Applications

September 25 (Thursday)

	SHAH FAHEEM (D2 / FEE) Date&Time: 25 Sep 2025, 10:30-12:00 Room: A404 Title: Evaluation of penetration resistance, vertical bearing capacity and pull-out resistance of small diameter spiral piles subjected to positive and negative alternating loads in various grounds and conditions
	LI Zheng (D2 / SRE) Date&Time: 25 Sep 2025, 13:00-14:30 Room: s301 Title: Roadway deformation around room-and-pillar mining panels at Kushiro Coal Mine, Japan

September 29 (Monday)

	LIANG MINGXUAN (D2 / FEE) Date&Time: 29 Sep 2025, 10:00-11:00 Room: Room A404 Title: Strength of Frozen Clay with Different Ice lens and Crack Intensities
	Zhang Haozhe (D2 / EE) Date&Time: 29 Sep 2025, 13:00-14:00 Room: A404 Title: Oxygen Defending and Scavenging Strategy of the Anammox Bacteria Candidatus Scalindua species
	ERSULO ABEL ABEBE (D2 / SRE) Date&Time: 29 Sep 2025, 13:00-14:30 Room: A102 Title: Integration of Conventional Simulations and Artificial Neural Networks for Predictive Modeling of Complex Hydrogeological Systems at Abandoned Mining Sites
	HO XUAN NGOC CHAU (D1 / MSPE) Date&Time: 29 Sep 2025, 15:00-9:30 Room: A5-66 Title: Modeling of Nonlinear Viscoelastic-Plastic Behavior of Epoxy Resin Considering Polymer Network

September 30 (Tuesday)

	ARIF SUGIHARTO (D2 / HMSD) Date&Time: 30 Sep 2025, 0:00-0:00 Room: A6-63 Title: Rolling-contact Bioinspired Compliant Joint Design for Prosthetic Wrist Applications
	ZHANG Mingquan (D1 / HMSD) Date&Time: 30 Sep 2025, 13:00-15:00 Room: A6-63 Title: Biomechanical Modeling and Optimal Control of Human Locomotion

October 16 (Thursday)

Hirvonen Erkki Matias (D2 / HES) Date&Time: 16 Oct 2025, 11:00-13:00 Room: A2-56 Title: Transparent vacuum insulation panels: thermal conductivity and vacuum pressure longevity stress test, and attenuation of electromagnetic spectrum

October 23 (Thursday)

	PHAM Hai Viet (D1 / MSE) Date&Time: 23 Oct 2025, 9:00-10:00 Room: MC527 Title: Ca2Mn3O8 as a stable bifunctional electrode catalyst for Zinc-air battery
	ZHOU PENG (D2 / MSE) Date&Time: 23 Oct 2025, 10:00-11:00 Room: MC527 Title: High-entropy Alloy Nanoparticle Catalysts Synthesized by Flash Lamp Annealing for Ethanol Oxidation Reaction
	AZMI ALVIAN GABRIEL (D1 / MSE) Date&Time: 23 Oct 2025, 11:00-12:00 Room: Room 527 Title: Tunable Electrosteric Stabilization of ZnO Nanoparticles via Citric Acid–Crosslinked Canna edulis ker. Starch for Saline-Resistant Biocolloids

October 30 (Thursday)

RIO OCTOVINARY PRAMANAGARA (D1 / EES) Date&Time: 30 Oct 2025, 0:00-0:00 Room: A3-71 Title: Study on Migration Behavior of Iodine in Cementitious Materials with Different Water-Cement Ratio

To be announced

	LIU Xin (D2 / MSPE) Date&Time: Room: Title:
	Delfin Jerric Rojas (D2 / MSPE) Date&Time: Room: Title:
	DUHA Ali Falah Al-Mallahi (D1 / HMSD) Date&Time: Room: Title:
	POJSILAPACHAI Waruth (D2 / FEE) Date&Time: Room: Title:

Written by: Kenji Satoh

Events / Reports /  12.05.2025