Upcoming SJSU Computer Science Master's Defenses

If you would like to attend a defense listed below, please RSVP to the department office (jutomue.quenavah@sjsu.edu) or to the project advisor to receive the password. 

Student Name: Prayuj Pillai
Title of the Project: Echo: A Browser Extension that runs Experimental JavaScript
Date: May 13, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. Thomas H. Austin

Student Name: Abishek Padaki
Title of the Project: Sudoku as a Proof of Useful Work Protocol on the Blockchain
Date: May 14, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 225
Advisor: Dr. Thomas H. Austin

Student Name: Likhith Nemani
Title of the Project: Fine-tuning Large Language Models for Folder Structure Generation
Date: May 14, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos

Student Name: Vinay Vilas Khade
Title of the Project: Multiclass lung disease classification in chest X-ray images: A fine-tuned hybrid CNN-GNN approach using transfer learning and feature extraction
Date: May 14, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 210
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena

Student Name: Kevin Rotunni
Title of the Project: NoteBlockLib: A Library for Physics and Animation-Based Virtual MIDI Instruments for Use in Video Games
Date: May 14, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Austin

Student Name: Amrutha Dondemadahalli Ramegowda
Title of the Project: Domain Expert Bot
Date: May 14, 2024
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00 PM
Location: MH 210
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun

Student Name: Ashish Khanchandani
Title of the Project: ZooKeeper Through the Ages: A Comparative Performance Analysis of Evolutionary Versions
Date: May 15, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. Genya Ishigaki

Student Name: Yash Dattatrey Bhamare
Title of the Project: Optimization of Satellite Routing using LSTM-based Path Prediction Model
Date: May 10, 2024
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena

Student Name: Pranathi Kunadi
Title of the Project: Satellite Handover Optimization Using Predicted Satellite-to-Base-Station Proximity
Date: May 10, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena

Student Name: Navaneeth Sai Nidadavolu
Title of the Project: Resume Content Generation Using Llama 2
Date: May 15, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 210
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos

Student Name: Athira Kumar
Title of the Project: Exploring Gender Bias In Large Language Models: Cross-linguistic Comparisons And Evaluation Letters Analysis
Date: May 16, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 210
Advisor: Dr. Nada Attar

Student Name: Gauri Anil Godghase
Title of the Project: Distinguishing Chatbot from Human
Date: May 17, 2024
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 225
Advisor: Dr. Mark Stamp

Student Name: Ankith Indrakumar
Title of the Project: Ensemble Model with Meta-Learning for DDoS Attack Classification in SDN
Date: May 16, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. Genya Ishigaki

Student Name: Tien Nguyen
Title of the Project: Deception Detection Models from Speech
Date: May 15, 2024
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: MH 225
Advisor: Dr. Faranak Abri

Student Name: Fei Pan
Title of the Project: Ranking-based Hashtag Recommendation with Collaborative and Content-based Filtering
Date: May 20, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos

Student Name: Saieswar Reddy Vaka
Title of the Project: Fake Malware Generation using GANs as API Calls
Date: May 14, 2024
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia

Student Name: Ganesh Regoti
Title of the Project: Secured Data Storage Management With Deduplication In Cloud Computing
Date: May 16, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos

Student Name: Sai Sameer Yanamandra
Title of the Project: Intelligent Caching using Continuous Machine Learning in Named Data Networking
Date: May 14, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. Genya Ishigaki

Student Name: Jovian Anthony Jaison
Title of the Project: Reinforcement Learning-based Dynamic Pricing for Revenue Maximization with Elastic Network Slicing
Date: May 16, 2024
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 210
Advisor: Dr. Genya Ishigaki

Student Name: Ivan Hernandez
Title of the Project: Integrating ChatGPT with A-Frame for User-Driven 3D Modeling
Date: May 13, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett

Student Name: Anushree Jayesh Shah
Title of the Project: Base Station Selection Based on the Predicted Dwell Time in 5G-V2X Handover
Date: May 15, 2024
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena

Student Name: Nidhi Zare
Title of the Project: Novel Approach to Music Analysis using Apache Spark
Date: May 13, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 210
Advisor: Dr. Ching-Seh Wu

Student Name: Rahul Sanjay Morishetti
Title of the Project: Enhancing Restaurant Sales Prediction: The Dynamic Forecasting Engine
Date: May 15, 2024
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun

Student Name: Chinmayi Hegde
Title of the Project: Multi-Platform Cyberbullying Detection and Prevention using NLP and Machine Learning
Date: May 14, 2024
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 210
Advisor: Dr. Ching-Seh Wu

Student Name: Bhargavi Chevva
Title of the Project: Personalized Medical Predictions
Date: May 20, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos

Student Name: Eric Ngo
Title of the Project: Mitigating the Risk of Reentrancy Attack in Smart Contract Development
Date: May 15, 2024
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 225
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Austin

Student Name: Nithish Reddy Agumamidi
Title of the Project: Gesture Recognition Dynamics: Unveiling Video Patterns with Deep Learning
Date: May 14, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. Sayma Akther

Student Name: Shanmukha Sri Harsha Anivilla
Title of the Project: Frame Rate Enhancement using GANs: A Deep Learning Approach
Date: May 17, 2024
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. Sayma Akther

Student Name: Akhil Patil Bagili
Title of the Project: NFT Price Prediction using Machine Learning
Date: May 20, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 229
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos

Student Name: Mrunal Deepak Zambre
Title of the Project: Emulating Human Personality with Large Language Models through Contextual Prompts and Fine-tuning
Date: May 17, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 210
Advisor: Dr. Ching-Seh Wu

Student Name: Lakshmi Prasanna Gorrepati
Title of the Project: Instagram Data Analysis Using Machine Learning
Date: May 17, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 225
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun

Student Name: Swatisri Chavali
Title of the Project: Enhancing Medical Chatbots with Image Diagnosis
Date: May 15, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 210
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun

Student Name: Samyak Jagdish Kumbhalwar
Title of the Project: Mitigating Learning Bias in HealthCare Datasets
Date: May 20, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 210
Advisor: Dr. Sayma Akther

Student Name: Srujith Rao Ambati
Title of the Project: Deciphering Speech through Vision: A Deep Learning Lip Reading System
Date: May 20, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 210
Advisor: Dr. Sayma Akther

Student Name: Hemish Veeraboina
Title of the Project: Domain Switch on Sentiment Analysis using Gradient Reversal Layer
Date: May 20, 2024
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 210
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia 

Student Name: Jyotika Hariom Patil
Title of the Project: Community Detection using Deep Learning: Variational Autoencoder enhanced with Leiden and K-truss techniques 
Date: May 14, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 210
Advisor: Dr. Katerina Potika

Student Name: Venkata Satya Swathi Mattaparthi
Title of the Project: Clustering Organ Cell Types
Date: May 21, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 210
Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett