Dereje Bekele Tekliye gave his PhD colloquium in the Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science on 27th February, 2026, at 10am Indian time, The venue was the KP Abraham auditorium in the Department of Materials Engineering. Her thesis is titled, “Discovery and Evaluation of Cathode Materials for Calcium-ion Batteries through First-Principles and Machine Learning”. The group wishes him a smooth defense and a quick graduation.