Project Showcase

Student presentation showcase 2026

Industry-sponsored capstone projects at San José State University’s College of Information, Data and Society will give students opportunities to apply their knowledge of artificial intelligence and data science to real-world challenges. Through teamwork, faculty guidance and mentorship from industry partners, students develop solutions, refine their ideas and build valuable professional skills. Explore the projects below to see the types of work our students are capable of.

2026 Presentations

Lexus - A Legal Analysis System Using AI

Presented by: Kushal Adhyaru, Brendan Chao, Mayuka Kothuru, Albert Ong and Prem Shah

Project Advisors: Dr. Simon Shim and Dr. Lee C. Chang

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Personalized Education with Semantic Memory & RAG

Presented by: Basanth Periyapatna Roopa Kumar, Manav Rajesh Anandani, Nandhakumar Apparsamy, Nischitha Nagendran and Nitya Rondia

Project Advisors: Dr. Simon Shim and Dr. Lee C. Chang

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Graph-based Few-shot Threat Detection Using RAG Models

Presented by: Smith Ardeshana, Devarsh Patel, Dharmitkumar Patel, Lovely Priya and Mansi Tanna

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim

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Real-Time Sentiment Analysis & Customer Support Automation

Presented by: Anshu Reddy Dhamana, Srithareddy Devireddy, Akhil Kumar Gudapuri, Vinuthna Papana and Chandana Sreya Reddy

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim and Dr. Lee C. Chang

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AI-Driven Autonomous Career Mentorship & Market Analyzer

Presented by: Edara Bindu Madhavi, Eadara Harika, Katakam Hemanvitha, Madapati Sai Swetha and Gode Sri Gopi Sarath

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim and Dr. Lee C. Chang

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Guardrail-First Drug Information Assistant

Presented by: Aayushi Shah, Amaan Khan, Dhruva Joshi, Rohit Dhole and Sneha Guravannavar

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim

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A Unified XAI Toolkit for Question-Answering Language Models in High-Stakes Domains,

Presented by: Jeff Chong, Anne Ha, Jiyoon Lee, Mathew Leffler and Nairui Lius

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim

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AI-Powered Autonomous Workforce Assistants

Presented by: Rutuja Kadam, Shatayu Thakur, Shreyas Mohite and Shubham Naik

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim and Dr. Lee C. Chang

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Multi-Agent Decision Support System for Retail Operationsp

Presented by: Victor Dumaslan, Dongmei Han, Niranjan Rao Saraf Srinivas and Thi Thao Thien Tien

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim

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Presented by: Pranav Reddy Gaddam, Pulkit Srivastava, Shweta Shinde and Gayatri Patil

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim

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Guardrail: Hallucination Detection and Prevention in LLMs

Presented by: Sreenidhi Hayagreevan, Shivani Atul Beri, Laxmi Thrishitha Kalvakota and Bhavana Meravanige Veerappa

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim and Dr. Lee C. Chang

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Presented by: Deeksha Chauhan, Moksh Aggarwal, Shivam Mahendru and Rajarjeswari Premanand

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim

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WeaveNet: Interactive Hierarchical Custom Built Graph Database

Presented by: Anvay Bhanap, Chetana Muralidharan, Kedar Prashant Vichare, Meera Alpesh Dedhia and Mounashree Prasanna

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim

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Evaluating Neural Operator Architectures for Datacenter Digital Twin Surrogate Models

Presented by: Sai Ranga Reddy Nukala, Shaila Reddy Kankanala, Sadhvi Singh and Akshith Reddy Jonnalagadda

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Presented by: Jayam Shah, Thejes Raj Gangadhar, Yashwanth Reddy Katipally and Winston Chen

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim

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Atlas: AI-Powered Customer Support Automation for E-Commerce

Presented by: Chandana Rondla, Himaja Sree Thota, Suharsha Cheedala and Meetkumar Patel

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SpartanGuard: Enterprise LLM Guardrails Hallucination Detection and Prevention

Presented by: Shashidhar PVD Babu, Vimalanandhan Sivanandham, Nakshatra Desai, Vineeth Rayadurgam and Harshita Sayala

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim and Dr. Lee Chang

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Presented by: Drashti Bhingradiya, Divya Vipulbhai Thakar, Nikhil Swami and Suyog Jadhav

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim

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AI-Powered Autonomous Workforce Assistants

Presented by: Aishanee Sinha, Debika Choudhury, Ketki Maddiwar, Leela prasad Dammalapati and Utkarsh Tripathi

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim and Dr. Lee C. Chang

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NexusTrace: Multi-Agent Collaboration System for Kubernetes Error Log Analysis

Presented by: Najai Alarcon, Chalssa Jaculina, Mrunali Katta, Devesh Singh and Aksah Thiagarajan

Project Advisor: Dr. Simon Shim and Dr. Lee C. Chang

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