Upcoming SJSU Computer Science Master's Defenses

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

Student Name: Kalindi Vijesh Parekh
Defense Title: "Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Chatbots: A Comparative Study of Claude, GPT-4o, DeepSeek, and Llama"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: April 28, 2025
Time: 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Prabhat Edupuganti
Defense Title: "Machine Learning based Network Traffic Classification with Cosine-Similarity based  Out-Of-Distribution Detection"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: April 28, 2025
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Mihir Dhirajlal Satra
Defense Title: "TraceAI: Intelligent Distributed Tracing Using Large Language Models"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: April 30, 2025
Time: 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Rashmi Ravi Sonth
Defense Title: "SMART: Semantic Mapping and Analysis for Regional Terrain Using Multi-Scale U-Net and TOPSIS"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: April 30, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Sanket Shekhar Kulkarni
Defense Title: "Application of Advanced Convolutional Neural Network with Robust Hashing on Obfuscated Image Based Malware Dataset"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: May 1, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Lilou Sicard-Noel
Defense Title: "DETECTING AI-GENERATED NEWS ARTICLES USING UNSUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS"
Advisor: Dr. Ching-Seh Wu
Date: May 2, 2025
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Geethika Vadlamudi
Defense Title: "EduRAG - Improving AI Teaching Assistants with Retrieval-Augmented-Generation"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun
Date: May 5, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Jade Webb
Defense Title: "Social Engineering Scenario Generation for Awareness-Based Attack Resilience"
Advisor: Dr. Faranak Abri
Date: May 5, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom