Upcoming SJSU Computer Science Department Master's Defenses

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

Student Name: Alan Chuang
Defense Title: "A STUDY OF PRIVACY-PRESERVING PREDICTIVE AUTOSCALING IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS"
Advisor: Dr. Teng Moh
Date: April 23, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 226

Student Name: Jerry Lewis Liu
Defense Title: "Reason, Review, Repeat: Hybrid Chain of Thought to Mitigate Hallucinations in Large Language Models"
Advisor: Dr. Teng Moh
Date: April 24, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 422

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: DH 318

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: 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: DH 318