Upcoming SJSU Computer Science Department Master's Defenses

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

Student Name: Andy Kuei
Defense Title: "Classifying and Generating Externally Visible Characteristics from Human DNA using Transformer Architectures and Neural Networks"
Advisor: Dr. Teng Moh
Date: April 30, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 324

Student Name: Abhi Jain
Defense Title: "ScholarConnect: An AI-Powered Research Discovery Platform for Graduate Students"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: April 30, 2026
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: MH 422

Student Name: Prudhvi Sai Raj Dasari
Defense Title: "AV-AGENT-INSPIRED HYBRID MALWARE DETECTION WITH EXPLAINABLE ENSEMBLES AND LLM
REASONING ON BODMAS"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: May 4, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 225

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

Student Name: Maiqi Zhang
Defense Title: "ENHANCED AUTONOMOUS SPATIAL TRANSCRIPTOMICS ANALYSIS: DEMONSTRATING PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS THROUGH CLUSTERING, BIOLOGICAL ANNOTATION, AND AI-DRIVEN DISCOVERY"
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos
Date: May 4, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: ISB 130

Student Name: Huy Gia Ong
Defense Title: "Network Intrusion Detection Using Benford’s Law and Statistical Distance Functions"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: May 5, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 324

Student Name: Harshitha Vipparthy
Defense Title: "Evaluating Log-Based Anomaly Detection under Distribution Shift using CAShift"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: May 6, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 322

Student Name: Udayan Atreya
Defense Title: "Cross-Reflection Evaluator-Optimizer Feedback Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Framework"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: May 6, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 422

Student Name: Sai Pranav Sripathi
Defense Title: "Enhancing JPEG-Domain Malware Classification with LSH-Guided Knowledge Distillation in Vision Transformers"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: May 11, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 422

Student Name: Prasanna Sai Rohit Durbha
Defense Title: "SYNTHETIC MALWARE EMBEDDING GENERATION USING BYTE ENTROPY IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS AND GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: May 11, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 422

Student Name: Lok Man Chu
Defense Title: "Stepwise Sudoku Reasoning Training using Transformers"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun
Date: May 12, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 422

Student Name: Michael Nguyen
Defense Title: "Modeling Sealed Deck Construction in Collectible Card Games Using Learning-to-Rank Approach"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun
Date: May 13, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 322

Student Name: Suneel Chandra Vanamu
Defense Title: "ADMIC Hardening Malware Image Classifiers Against Adversarial Evasion Attacks"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: May 13, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 422

Student Name: Vaibhav Reddy Panyala
Defense Title: "Benford’s Law for Malware Detection: Class-Aware Feature Selection with Cascade Hybrid Classification"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: May 13, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 422

Student Name: Shreyas Bhoyar
Defense Title: "When Agents Disagree: A Multi-Agent Debate Approach to Clinical Reasoning"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: May 13, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Jakob Gregory Kauffmann
Defense Title: "Audio Deepfake Detection with Grouped Layer Adversarial Domain Adaptation"
Advisor: Dr. Faranak Abri
Date: May 14, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 424