Upcoming SJSU Computer Science Master's Defenses

The list of students is ordered by the date of defense.

Student Name: Brian C. Tran
Defense Title: "Extraction and Analysis of Biomedical Relationships using LLMs"
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos
Date: May 12, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Maanak Arora
Defense Title: "On the Adversarial Robustness of Quantized Neural Networks Against Common Adversaries in Time-Series Forecasting"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: May 12, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Manav Bhasin
Defense Title: "Real-time Adaptive Framework for Topic Modeling in Social Engineering Attacks"
Advisor: Dr. Faranak Abri
Date: May 12, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Student Name: Milind Anand Pathak
Defense Title: "Enhancing Robustness of CNN Model for Malware Detection using GAN-Based Data Augmentation and Transfer Learning"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: May 12, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Phanidhar Sai Sravan Chandana
Defense Title: "Synthetic Malware Generation Using Generative AI"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: May 12, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 233

Student Name: Rahul Thakur
Defense Title: "CCA Analysis using Computer Vision Techniques"
Advisor: Dr. Philip Heller
Date: May 12, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Ojas Ankush Naik
Defense Title: "AI-Enabled Anticipatory Handover Predictions in 5G Networks"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: May 13, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Rajiv Karthik Reddy Kodimala
Defense Title: "MediLightRAG: A System for Medical Query Response Using Fine-Tuned LLMs and Graph Based Retrieval"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun
Date: May 13, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Tanay Godse
Defense Title: "Faux Capabilities: A novel approach for code analysis"
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Austin
Date: May 13, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Sahil Salim
Defense Title: "Optimization of Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Using an Island Genetic Algorithm for Makespan Minimization"
Advisor: Dr. Katerina Potika
Date: May 13, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Chinmay Nilesh Mahagaonkar
Defense Title: "Transformer Integration, Fine-tuning and Zero-Shot Learning for State of Health Estimation in Li-ion Batteries using Large Language Models"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: May 14, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Sakshi Garg
Defense Title: "Improving Contextual Retrieval for Long Documents"
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos
Date: May 14, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Fahad Siddiqui
Defense Title: "Comparative Analysis of Adversarial Permeability in CPU-native, QAT and ONNX-based Quantized Transformer Models"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: May 14, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Soham Choudhury
Defense Title: "Reinforcement Learning-based E2E Monitoring Path Selection in Multi-domain Optical Networks"
Advisor: Dr. Genya Ishigaki
Date: May 14, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Martin Mihailov Bojinov
Defense Title: "Link Failure Localization in Hierarchical, Multidomain Optical Networks"
Advisor: Dr. Genya Ishigaki
Date: May 14, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 233

Student Name: Crystal Kwong
Defense Title: "Unconditional-to-conditional Transfer and Optimization for Web-based Skybox GAN"
Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett
Date: May 14, 2025
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Pranavi Chaturvedula
Defense Title: "Physiotrack: A Gamified Physiotherapy System"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 233

Student Name: Natesh Karingula Reddy
Defense Title: "Transforming Chatbot Text: A Sequence-to-Sequence Approach to Human-Like Text Generation"
Advisor: Dr. Mark Stamp
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: ISB 130

Student Name: Kush Alkesh Patel
Defense Title: "Transformers in Time-Series Forecasting: Enhancing Robustness via Dynamic Attention Mechanisms"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Naisheel Amit Shah
Defense Title: "Dynamic Pricing for Revenue Maximization in 5G Networks with Elastic NetworkSlicing and Reinforcement Learning"
Advisor: Dr. Genya Ishigaki
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: George Chia-Chih Ku
Defense Title: "Effects of Data Augmentation on Sponge Identification Using Computer Vision Models"
Advisor: Dr. Philip Heller
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Mrunmayee Vijay Dhapre
Defense Title: "Traffic Forecasting with VSET-Nets: A VGAE Spatial Embedding for Temporal Networks Approach"
Advisor: Dr. Katerina Potika
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Gopi Prajeev Battula
Defense Title: "Adaptive Phishing Detection with Continual Learning and Large Language Models"
Advisor: Dr. Ching-Seh Wu
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Rithika Dhamala
Defense Title: "Moving Target Defense with Quantized Morphence: Defense Quantification Against Common Adversaries in Image and Time Series Problems"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Anusha Kukreja
Defense Title: "Simple vs. Complex Human Activity Classification via Hybrid  Machine Learning Models"
Advisor: Dr. Sayma Akther
Date: May 16, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Thomas Odem
Defense Title: "Toward Strategy Identification and Subtask Decomposition In Task Exploration"
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Austin
Date: May 16, 2025
Time: 12:50 PM - 1:50 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Pruthviraj Manohar Urankar
Defense Title: "PhotoProof: A Mobile Application for Verifying the Authenticity of Images"
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Austin
Date: May 16, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Srimanth Reddy Ummenthala
Defense Title: "Reinforcement Learning for Optimizing Integrated Access and Backhaul Topology in 5G Networks"
Advisor: Dr. Genya Ishigaki
Date: May 19, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Barry Ng
Defense Title: "Identifying Red Sponges on ARMS Plates by Preprocessing Images using Histogram Equalization"
Advisor: Dr. Philip Heller
Date: May 19, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Parth Bimal Joshi
Defense Title: "RIFT - Reddit Information Falsity Tagger"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun
Date: May 19, 2025
Time: 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Location: MH 233

Student Name: Ryan Saini
Defense Title: "PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF MACHINE LEARNING ACROSS METAL, CUDA, AND NEUROMORPHIC FRAMEWORKS"
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos
Date: May 20, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Devi Surya Kumari Akula
Defense Title: "SemanticGraphRec: Lightweight Hybrid Recommendations Powered by Semantic Item Representations and Graph Collaborative Filtering"
Advisor: Dr. Katerina Potika
Date: May 20, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 210