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. The list of students is ordered alphabetically by their first name.


Student Name: Alexandru Tol
Project Title: "Cloud Provisioning and Management with Deep Reinforcement Learning"
Date of Defense: Tue December 6, 2022 at 1:30PM-2:30PM
Location: MH 229
Project Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia


Student Name: Austin Anderson
Project Title: "CoDiS: Community Detection via Distributed Seed-Set Expansion on Graph Streams"
Date of Defense: Mon December 12, 2022 at 4:00PM-5:00PM
Location: MH 210
Project Advisor: Dr. Katerina Potika


Student Name: Evan Chopra
Project Title: "Enabling Use of Signal in a Disconnected Village Environment"
Date of Defense: Fri December 9, 2022 at 12:00PM-1:00PM
Location: MH 229
Project Advisor: Dr. Ben Reed


Student Name: Kevin Schumacher
Project Title: "Benchmarking NewSQL Database VoltDB"
Date of Defense: Thur December 1, 2022 at 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: MH 210
Project Advisor: Dr. Suneuy Kim


Student Name: Meet Dineshbhai Patel
Project Title: "Image and Caption based Next-Word Auto-Completion"
Date of Defense: Mon December 12, 2022 at 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: MH 229
Project Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos


Student Name: Mustafa Yesilyurt
Project Title: "Using Machine Learning to Maximize First-Generation Student Success"
Date of Defense: Thur November 17, 2022 at 11:00AM-12:00PM
Location: MH 229
Project Advisor: Dr. Teng Moh


Student Name: Parth Amrutbhai Patel
Project Title: "Improving User Experiences for Wiki Systems"
Date of Defense: Mon December 12, 2022 at 2:00PM-3:00PM
Location: MH 210
Project Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett


Student Name: Peter Knight
Project Title: "5G Mobility Management using Satellites in LEO (low earth orbit)"
Date of Defense: Fri December 9, 2022 at 4:30PM-54:30PM
Location: MH 210
Project Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena


Student Name: Pooja Shyamsundar
Project Title: "A novel handover method using destination prediction in 5G-V2X Networks"
Date of Defense: Wed November 30, 2022 at 1:30PM-2:30PM
Location: MH 229
Project Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena


Student Name: Sida Zhong
Project Title: "Jparsec - a parser combinator for Javascript"
Date of Defense: Mon December 12, 2022 at 10:00AM-11:00AM
Location: MH 210
Project Advisor: Dr. Thomas Austin


Student Name: Siyu Chen
Project Title: "Abstractive Text Summarization for Tweets"
Date of Defense: Fri December 16, 2022 at 3:00PM-4:00PM
Location: Via Zoom
Project Advisor: Dr. Chris Tseng


Student Name: Srilekha Nune
Project Title: "Adversarial Attacks on Android Malware Detection and Classification"
Date of Defense: Tue December 13, 2022 at 12:00PM-1:00PM
Location: MH 210
Project Advisor: Dr. Mark Stamp


Student Name: Sriramm Muthyala Sudhakar
Project Title: "A Study on Human Face Expressions using Convolutional Neural Networks and Generative Adversarial Networks"
Date of Defense: Thur December 15, 2022 at 12:30PM-1:30PM
Location: Via Zoom
Project Advisor: Dr. Nada Attar


Student Name: Vrinda Malhotra
Project Title: "Graph Neural Networks for Malware Classification"
Date of Defense: Tue December 13, 2022 at 11:00AM-12:00PM
Location: MH 229
Project Advisor: Dr. Mark Stamp


Student Name: Wangcheng Yuan
Project Title: "Proxy Re-encryption in Blockchain-based Application"
Date of Defense: Tue December 13, 2022 at 2:00PM-3:00PM
Location: MH 229
Project Advisor: Dr. Thomas Austin


Student Name: William Wang
Project Title: "Virtual Machine for SpartanGold"
Date of Defense: Mon December 12, 2022 at 1:00PM-2:00PM
Location: MH 210
Project Advisor: Dr. Thomas Austin