Upcoming SJSU Computer Science Master's Defenses

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

Student Name: Sai Anoushka Kokku 
Defense Title: "VisionMate: AI-Powered Image Captioning Web Application"
Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett
Date: May 14, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: MH 225

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: Suryakangeyan Kandasamy Gowdaman
Defense Title: "Augmenting Missing Sensor Data for Robust Human Activity Recognition"
Advisor: Dr. Sayma Akther 
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 229

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: 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: Zixiao Fan
Defense Title: "Image-to-Text Transcription: Analyzing and Describing Visual Content"
Advisor: Dr. Faranak Abri
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Pavan Myana
Defense Title: "SECURED DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT WITH DEDUPLICATION IN CLOUD COMPUTING AND LOCAL GPT INTEGRATION"
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 233

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: Liqiang Mei
Defense Title: "Energy Considerations for Large Pre-trained Neural Networks"
Advisor: Dr. Mark Stamp
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 422

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: Harrison Hwang
Defense Title: "FRAMEWORK FOR IDENTITY PRIVACY THROUGH GENDER BASED SKELETONIZATION"
Advisor: Dr. Nada Attar
Date: May 16, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 210

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: Riddhik Santosh Tilawat
Defense Title: "Adaptive Cobot Interaction via Smartwatch Data Fusion for Car Assembly Automation"
Advisor: Dr. Sayma Akther
Date: May 16, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 233

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: Swift Ruijie Sheng
Defense Title: "Proxy cap - La Lua Protector"
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Austin
Date: May 19, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Prathmesh Pethkar
Defense Title: "RUL Estimation of N-CMAPSS Turbofan Engines using Deep Learning with Customized Penalty and Expanded Sensors"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: May 19, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Qadeerullah Syed
Defense Title: "DISEASE DIAGNOSIS USING RAG LLM WITH SMART PROMPT ENGINEERING"
Advisor: Dr. Ching-Seh Wu
Date: May 19, 2025
Time: 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Location: MH 233

Student Name: Parth Bimal Joshi
Defense Title: "RIFT - Reddit Information Falsity Tagger"
Advisor: Dr. Katerina Potika
Date: May 19, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Mayur Choudhary
Defense Title: "GaLoRA: A Lightweight Graph-Aware LLM Framework for Node Classification on Text-Attributed Graphs"
Advisor: Dr. Katerina Potika
Date: May 19, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Jyothi Vaidyanathan
Defense Title: "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Cancer Survival Analysis on the Surveillance Epidemiology, and End Results Database"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: May 19, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Bala Murali Krishna Reddy Komatireddy
Defense Title: "MyCelia: Cross-chain Data Oracle using Frost Signatures"
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Austin
Date: May 20, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: MH 229

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: Kush Alkesh Patel
Defense Title: "Transformers in Time-Series Forecasting: Enhancing Robustness via Dynamic Attention Mechanisms"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: May 20, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 229

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

Student Name: Aditya Abhay Chandras
Defense Title: "Large Language Model powered ETL Pipeline Development"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun
Date: May 21, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Sai Mounika Peteti
Defense Title: "EMOTION PERCEPTION BEYOND THE FACE: Human vs. LLM: Interpreting Emotion from Neutral Faces in Contextually Charged Backgrounds"
Advisor: Dr. Nada Attar
Date: May 21, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 422

Student Name: Jennifer Chun
Defense Title: "RIASEC GPT Chatbot and Eye Tracking: Conscious vs Subconscious Vocational Interest Inventory"
Advisor: Dr. Nada Attar
Date: May 21, 2025
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: MH 422

Student Name: Venkata Satya Swathi Mattaparthi
Defense Title: "Clustering Organ Cell Types"
Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett
Date: May 21, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 233

Student Name:  Akshat Krishna
Defense Title: "Advanced Knowledge Extraction with Biomedical Data Using LLMs"
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos
Date: May 21, 2025
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Sumukh Naveen Aradhya
Defense Title: "Enhancing Code Review Automation with Large Language Models using QLoRA Fine-Tuning and RAGs"
Advisor: Dr. Melody Moh
Date: May 29, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 225