Upcoming SJSU Computer Science Department Master's Defenses

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

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: Manvendra Sandip Chavan
Defense Title: "Large Language Models for Bacterial Genomic Analysis"
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos
Date: May 19, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: MH 233

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: Mohit Satish Kunder
Defense Title: "EvoRGCN: Harnessing ESM-2 Evolutionary Embeddings with Relational GCNs forHigh-Fidelity Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction"
Advisor: Dr. Katerina Potika
Date: May 20, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 210

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: Rashmi Vishwanath Bhat
Defense Title: "GeneGate: Genetic Gating in a Mixture-of-Experts for Real-Time Multi-ObjectiveTraffic Signal Control"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: May 20, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 233

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: Sujith Kakarlapudi
Defense Title: "Optimizing Analytics Storage Strategies for Search Engines and Wiki Platforms"
Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett
Date: May 20, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Quang Duy Tran
Defense Title: "MAPLE: Malware Analysis through Projection of Low-dimensional Embeddings"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: May 20, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 233

Student Name: Ikbal Singh Gurdev Singh Dhanjal
Defense Title: "Suicidal Ideation Detection on Reddit using LLM-Annotated Data and Graph Neural Networks"
Advisor: Dr. Katerina Potika
Date: May 20, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Farhan Ansari
Defense Title: "Multilingual sentiment analysis using ensemble learning"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: May 21, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: MH 225

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: Hina Dawar
Defense Title: "Statistical Relevance of SIRT6 Mutation in Pancreatic Cancer and Smoking"
Advisor: Dr. Leonard Wesley
Date: May 21, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 225

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