{"id":1179,"date":"2024-01-28T15:39:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T15:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2025-04-19T15:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T15:56:26","slug":"congratulations-dawood-on-a-wonderful-phd-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/congratulations-dawood-on-a-wonderful-phd-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Dawood on a wonderful PhD defense!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dawood made a truly impressive thesis defense, presenting his innovative work in TDDFT that has injected new energy into challenging problems in the area, and is spurring new directions! He masterfully fielded questions, in particular from Prof. Kieron Burke from UC Irvine who had joined the PhD committee.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1183\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_143251-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_143251-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_143251-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_143251-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_143251-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_143251-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1184\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_143926-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_143926-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_143926-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_143926-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_143926-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_143926-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1185\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_155738-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_155738-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_155738-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_155738-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_155738-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_155738-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1186\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_160039-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_160039-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_160039-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_160039-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_160039-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_160039-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1187\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_175759-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_175759-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_175759-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_175759-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_175759-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/maitra-group\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/354\/2025\/04\/20250128_175759-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawood made a truly impressive thesis defense, presenting his innovative work in TDDFT that has injected new energy into challenging problems in the area, and is spurring new directions! 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