Defense Notices
All students and faculty are welcome to attend the final defense of EECS graduate students completing their M.S. or Ph.D. degrees. Defense notices for M.S./Ph.D. presentations for this year and several previous years are listed below in reverse chronological order.
Students who are nearing the completion of their M.S./Ph.D. research should schedule their final defenses through the EECS graduate office at least THREE WEEKS PRIOR to their presentation date so that there is time to complete the degree requirements check, and post the presentation announcement online.
Upcoming Defense Notices
Daniel Herr
Information Theoretic Waveform Design with Application to Physically Realizable Adaptive-on-Transmit RadarWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 129 (Ron Evans Apollo Auditorium)
Committee Members:
James Stiles, ChairChristopher Allen
Carl Leuschen
Chris Depcik
Past Defense Notices
Matthew Heintzelman
Spatially Diverse Radar Techniques - Emission Optimization and Enhanced Receive ProcessingWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 129 (Ron Evans Apollo Auditorium)
Committee Members:
Shannon Blunt, ChairChristopher Allen
Patrick McCormick
James Stiles
Zsolt Talata
Anjana Lamsal
Self-homodyne Coherent Lidar System for Range and Velocity DetectionWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Rongqing Hui, ChairAlessandro Salandrino
James Stiles
Michael Neises
VERIAL: Verification-Enabled Runtime Integrity Attestation of LinuxWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Perry Alexander, ChairDrew Davidson
Cuncong Zhong
Matthew Moore
Michael Murray
Ibikunle Oluwanisola
Towards Generalizable Deep Learning Algorithms for Echogram Layer TrackingWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 317 (Richard K. Moore Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Shannon Blunt, ChairCarl Leuschen
James Stiles
Christopher Depcik
Durga Venkata Suraj Tedla
AI DIETICIANWhen & Where:
Zoom Defense, please email jgrisafe@ku.edu for defense link.
Committee Members:
David Johnson, ChairPrasad Kulkarni
Jennifer Lohoefener
Mohammed Atif Siddiqui
Understanding Soccer Through Data ScienceWhen & Where:
Learned Hall, Room 2133
Committee Members:
Zijun Yao, ChairTamzidul Hoque
Hongyang Sun
Amalu George
Enhancing the Robustness of Bloom Filters by Introducing DynamicityWhen & Where:
Zoom Defense, please email jgrisafe@ku.edu for defense link.
Committee Members:
Sumaiya Shomaji, ChairHongyang Sun
Han Wang
Asadullah Khan
A Triad of Approaches for PCB Component Segmentation and Classification using U-Net, SAM, and Detectron2When & Where:
Zoom Defense, please email jgrisafe@ku.edu for defense link.
Committee Members:
Sumaiya Shomaji, ChairTamzidul Hoque
Hongyang Sun
Zeyan Liu
On the Security of Modern AI: Backdoors, Robustness, and DetectabilityWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Bo Luo, ChairAlex Bardas
Fengjun Li
Zijun Yao
John Symons
Abhishek Doodgaon
Photorealistic Synthetic Data Generation for Deep Learning-based Structural Health Monitoring of Concrete DamsWhen & Where:
LEEP2, Room 1415A
Committee Members:
Zijun Yao, ChairCaroline Bennett
Prasad Kulkarni
Remy Lequesne