Upcoming SJSU Computer Science Department Master's Defenses

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

Student Name: Ajeet Kotturu
Defense Title: "Detection and Mitigation for Poisoned Textual Datasets"
Advisor: Dr. Teng Moh
Date: December 5, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Christofer Washington Berruz Chungata
Defense Title: "Selective Model Retraining for Malware Detection Using Drift Detection"
Advisor: Dr. Mark Stamp
Date: December 5, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: ISB 130

Student Name: Eshaq Jamdar
Defense Title: "SyntheticPop: An Investigation Into Poisoning Automated Speaker Verification Systems"
Advisor: Dr. Amith Kamath Belman
Date: December 5, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Jason Li
Defense Title: "Evaluating Conditional Diffusion-Based Data Augmentation in InsightFace Based Facial Recognition Systems"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: December 5, 2025
Time: 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Naveen Kumar Potta
Defense Title: "AI-Powered User Activity Prediction and Contextual App Recommendation System"
Advisor: Dr. Sayma Akther
Date: December 8, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Jhanvi Lotwala
Defense Title: "On the Effectiveness of Large Language Models for Classifying Malicious URLs"
Advisor: Dr. Mark Stamp
Date: December 8, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Johny Xiong
Defense Title: "Dual Stream Transformer based Architecture for Multimodal User Verification"
Advisor: Dr. Amith Kamath Belman
Date: December 8, 2025
Time: 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Aniruddha Prabhash Chakravarty
Defense Title: "PREDICTENGINELIFE: RUL ESTIMATION OF C-MAPSS TURBOFAN ENGINE USING LLM4TS & LOW-RANK ADAPTATION"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun
Date: December 10, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Sandeep Shandilya Katna
Defense Title: "Predicting Sleep Stages from Daily Activity Patterns"
Advisor: Dr. Sayma Akther
Date: December 10, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 422

Student Name: Shwethal Sayeeram Trikannad
Defense Title: "Characterizing Somatic Variants in Nanopore Data with Machine Learning"
Advisor: Dr. Wendy Lee
Date: December 11, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Yan Chen
Defense Title: "BlindDefender – An Educational Game for the Visually Impaired"
Advisor: Dr. Teng Moh
Date: December 11, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Fatema Salameh
Defense Title: "Epigenetic Insights into TDP-43: Uncovering Mechanisms Behind Resilience to Alzheimer's Diagnosis Regardless of Aβ and Tau buildup"
Advisor: Dr. Leonard Wesley
Date: December 12, 2025
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Phuoc Dai Le
Defense Title: "GraphHTAP-Bench - HTAP Benchmarking for Graph Databases"
Advisor: Dr. Suneuy Kim
Date: December 12, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Sadaf Sadre Arhami
Defense Title: "AUTOMATED CORAL DETECTION USING MASK R-CNN FOR RESTORATION MONITORING AT THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM"
Advisor: Dr. Philip Heller
Date: December 15, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Pawan Sarma
Defense Title: "Improving Gemini’s Ability to Generate Mermaid Code"
Advisor: Dr. Melody Moh
Date: December 15, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Diana Emily Valderrama
Defense Title: "Coral Vision: A Machine Learning Approach to Aid Coral Restoration"
Advisor: Dr. Philip Heller
Date: December 16, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Jonathan Jia-Ling Chen
Defense Title: "Linear Algebra Concepts Through Virtual Environment"
Advisor: Dr. Melody Moh
Date: December 18, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 225