Upcoming SJSU Computer Science Master's Defenses

If you would like to attend a defense listed below, please RSVP to the department office (chan.lee@sjsu.edu) or to the project advisor to receive the password. The list of students is ordered by their date of defence.

Student Name: Akshay Sunil Gurnaney
Project Title: Unlearning Hidden Bias between Refugees : An Initial Empirical Investigation
Date: Thursday, December 7, 2023
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: MH-225
Project Advisor: Dr. Nada Attar

Student Name: Shashidhar Rahul Ranganath
Project Title: Visual Scene Classification using Ensemble of Machine Learning Classifiers
Date: Thursday, December 7, 2023
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Nada Attar

Student Name: Ikshaku Goswami 
Project Title: Serverless Architecture for Machine Learning
Date: Thursday, December 7, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun

Student Name: Brian Tran 
Project Title: Poriferal Vision - Using MobileNet to Classify Sponge Spicules through Transfer Learning
Date: Monday, December 11, 2023
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Phillip Heller

Student Name: Bhavya Reddy Kotla
Project Title: Uncertainty-aware and Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Identification of Human Errors in Nuclear Power Plants
Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Melody Moh

Student Name: Gursimran Singh
Project Title: Gesture Recognition of Sign Language Alphabet Using Machine Learning Techniques 
Date: Friday, December 11, 2023 
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 
Location: MH-225
Project Advisor: Dr. Mike Wu

Student Name: Damanpreet Kaur
Project Title: EvalSQL - Automated Assessment of Database Queries 
Date: Thursday, December 7, 2023 
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM 
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett

Student Name: Jihan Yehia
Project Title: Evaluation of the Effect of Walnut Extract on Sp1-Related Pathways 
Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Wendy Lee

Student Name: Sumeet Arvind Ghegade
Project Title: Ensemble Transformer Architecture for Efficient and Real Time Sign Language Translation 
Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 
Location: MH229
Project Advisor: Dr. Mike Wu

Student Name: Brandon Palomino
Project Title: Image-Based Malware Detection using Convolutional Neural Network Techniques
Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia

Student Name: Nishant Yadav
Project Title: MultiMap Implementation in OpenJDK 
Date: Monday, December 11, 2023 
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 
Location: MH-225
Project Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun

Student Name: Siddhita Sandip Joshi
Project Title: Malware Classification using Opcode N-grams and Word Embeddings
Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia

Student Name: Gargi Sheguri
Project Title: Enhancing the Queuing Process for Yioop’s Scheduler 
Date: Friday, December 15, 2023 
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM 
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett

Student Name: Nishanth Uchil 
Project Title: SpartanDark: Anonymity Model Integration with a Blockchain Network using SpartanGold 
Date: Thursday, December 7, 2023 
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 
Location: MH-225
Project Advisor: Dr. Thomas Austin

Student Name: Cleoma Arnold
Project Title: Differential Gene Expression Analysis of Rodent Mammary Tissue Reveals Dysregulation of Greb1 and an Age-dependent Response to Spaceflight
Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Philip Heller

Student Name: Vinay Vilas Khade
Title of Defense: A Deep Learning Approach to Predict Diabetes and Associated Complications: A Multi Dataset Approach for Enhanced Risk Assessment 
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2023 
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 
Location: MH-225
Project Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena

Student Name: Rachana Ravindra
Title of Defense: Analyzing the Benthic Cover of Crustose Coralline Algae using Mark-R CNN
Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Philip Heller

Student Name: Chaz Chang 
Title of Defense: Gesture Recognition with Deep Learning 
Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM 
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Chris Tseng

Student Name: Aarsh Patel 
Title of Defense: Database Benchmarking Suite for Survival Analysis Data 
Date: Monday, December 11, 2023 
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM 
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett

Student Name: Daniel Salter
Project Title: Metagenomic Survey of Marine 16S Bacterial Communities off Palmer Station in Antarctica 
Date: Thursday, December 14, 2023 
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM 
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Philip Heller

Student Name: Rishika Pamanji
Project Title: Advances in Robustness of Image-based Malware Detection
Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Time: 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Location: MH-225
Project Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia

Student Name: Divyarajsinh Chauhan
Title of Defense: Graph Based System For Evidential Reasoning 
Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 
Location: Room No: 626, 6th Floor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
Project Advisor: Dr. Leonard Wesley

Student Name: Venkata Sai Sathwik Nadella
Title of Defense: Image-Based Malware Classification on Noise Extraction
Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00PM
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia

Student Name: Xiaoqian Yang
Title of Defense: Temporal Dilation in Video ResNet for Sign Language Translation 
Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2023 
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM 
Location: MH-229
Project Advisor: Dr. Chris Tseng