{"id":1148,"date":"2021-12-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:34:51","slug":"phd-candidate-gerry-chan-successfully-defends-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/2021\/phd-candidate-gerry-chan-successfully-defends-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Candidate Gerry Chan Successfully Defends Thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        PhD Candidate Gerry Chan Successfully Defends Thesis\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">December 2nd, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/05\/News-20211202-PhD-Candidate-Gerry-Chan-Successfully-Defends-Thesis-320x353.png\" alt=\"News 20211202 - PhD Candidate Gerry Chan Successfully Defends Thesis\" class=\"wp-image-1149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/05\/News-20211202-PhD-Candidate-Gerry-Chan-Successfully-Defends-Thesis-320x353.png 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/05\/News-20211202-PhD-Candidate-Gerry-Chan-Successfully-Defends-Thesis.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our 2nd PhD candidate, Gerry Chan, successfully defended his thesis this week! Gerry has been with us since his Master&#8217;s, achieving much over his years here, such as publishing two journal papers and three conference papers and mentoring and teaching MIT students. Congratulations, Dr. Gerry Chan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 2nd, 2021 Our 2nd PhD candidate, Gerry Chan, successfully defended his thesis this week! Gerry has been with us since his Master&#8217;s, achieving much over his years here, such as publishing two journal papers and three conference papers and mentoring and teaching MIT students. Congratulations, Dr. Gerry Chan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}