Upcoming SJSU Computer Science Department Master's Defenses

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

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: Dan Le
Defense Title: "Diffusion Model On API Call Classification"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: December 12, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 422

Student Name: Aditya Jagdishkumar Prajapati
Defense Title: "Enhancing Communication Features in Yioop"
Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett
Date: December 15, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: MH 225

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: Abhishek Bhardwaj
Defense Title: "Layer-Specific Perturbations for Generating Morphence Students in Time-Series Moving Target Defense"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: December 15, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 225

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: Murun Enkhtaivan
Defense Title: "Dynamic Moving-Target Defense with Morphence for Transformer-Based Time-Series Forecasting"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: December 15, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Revanth Reddy Shada
Defense Title: "A Hierarchical Two-Stage Adversarial Training Framework for Defending LLMs Against Jailbreak Attacks"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: December 16, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 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

Student Name: Sai Bhargav Vallabhaneni
Defense Title: "Multimodal Deception Detection"
Advisor: Dr. Faranak Abri
Date: December 18, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 233