Upcoming SJSU Computer Science Department Master's Defenses

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

Student Name: Sakshi Sanskruti Tripathy
Defense Title: "A Modular Enhancement Pipeline for Improving Code Generation in Small Language Models"
Advisor: Dr. Amith Kamath Belman
Date: April 16, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 226

Student Name: Jerry Lewis Liu
Defense Title: "Reason, Review, Repeat: Hybrid Chain of Thought to Mitigate Hallucinations in Large Language Models"
Advisor: Dr. Teng Moh
Date: April 24, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 422

Student Name: Aditya Prashant Dawadikar
Defense Title: "Selective Fine Tuning for Large Language Models"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: May 4, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 422

Student Name: Amey Bhide
Defense Title: "Agentic AI for Cerebral Tumor Personalized Clinical Decision Support"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: May 4, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 422