Upcoming 91³Ô¹Ï Computer Science Master's Defenses

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


Student Name: Geethika Vadlamudi
Defense Title: "EduRAG - Improving AI Teaching Assistants with Retrieval-Augmented-Generation"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun
Date: May 5, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 210


Student Name: Jade Webb
Defense Title: "Social Engineering Scenario Generation for Awareness-Based Attack Resilience"
Advisor: Dr. Faranak Abri
Date: May 5, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Student Name: Sai Sashank Peddibhotla
Defense Title: "An Efficient Dynamic Spectrum Allocation in Wireless Networks using Reinforcement Learning"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: May 5, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 229


Student Name: Ayush Koul
Defense Title: "Comparative Analysis of Embedding Techniques with Clustering Algorithms for Malware Opcodes"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: May 7, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 229


Student Name: Prabaljit Walia
Defense Title: "Mitigating Cold Start Problem through Metadata Integration and User Preference Analysis"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun
Date: May 7, 2025
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: MH 229


Student Name: Mohith Sai Venkat Ankem
Defense Title: "Landslide Prediction Using Time-Series Decomposition, ReinforcementLearning-based Feature Selection and ML Models"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: May 8, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: MH 229


Student Name: Omkar Yadav
Defense Title: "Domain-Specific Graph RAG Pipelines: Optimized Approaches for Building Efficient Personal Knowledge Repositories"
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos
Date: May 8, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 229


Student Name: Atishay Jain
Defense Title: "Malware Opcode Embedding and Quality Assessment of Generative Sample Embeddings"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: May 9, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 229


Student Name: Aneesh Maturu
Defense Title: "Gen Ai for Malicious Network Data"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: May 9, 2025
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: MH 229


Student Name: Ryan Tseng
Defense Title: "Coral Vision – Crustose Coralline Algae Detection with Computer Vision"
Advisor: Dr. Philip Heller
Date: May 9, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 210


Student Name: Brian C. Tran
Defense Title: "Extraction and Analysis of Biomedical Relationships using LLMs"
Advisor: Dr. William Andreopoulos
Date: May 12, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 210


Student Name: Maanak Arora
Defense Title: "On the Adversarial Robustness of Quantized Neural Networks Against Common Adversaries in Time-Series Forecasting"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: May 12, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 210


Student Name: Milind Anand Pathak
Defense Title: "Enhancing Robustness of CNN Model for Malware Detection using GAN-Based Data Augmentation and Transfer Learning"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: May 12, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 229


Student Name: Rahul Thakur
Defense Title: "CCA Analysis using Computer Vision Techniques"
Advisor: Dr. Philip Heller
Date: May 12, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 229


Student Name: Ojas Ankush Naik
Defense Title: "AI-Enabled Anticipatory Handover Predictions in 5G Networks"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: May 13, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: MH 210


Student Name: Rajiv Karthik Reddy Kodimala
Defense Title: "MediLightRAG: A System for Medical Query Response Using Fine-Tuned LLMs and Graph Based Retrieval"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun
Date: May 13, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 210


Student Name: Naisheel Amit Shah
Defense Title: "Dynamic Pricing for Revenue Maximization in 5G Networks with Elastic NetworkSlicing and Reinforcement Learning"
Advisor: Dr. Genya Ishigaki
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 229