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
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
Sana Awan
Towards Robust and Privacy-preserving Federated LearningWhen & Where:
Zoom Defense, please email jgrisafe@ku.edu for defense link.
Committee Members:
Fengjun Li, ChairAlex Bardas
Cuncong Zhong
Mei Liu
Haiyang Chao
Arin Dutta
Performance Analysis of Distributed Raman Amplification with Dual-Order Forward PumpingWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 250 (Gemini Room)
Committee Members:
Rongqing Hui, ChairChristopher Allen
Morteza Hashemi
Alessandro Salandrino
Hui Zhao
Past Defense Notices
YAO HE
Characteristics of SOA-based Tunable Ring Laser for OCT ApplicationWhen & Where:
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Ron Hui, ChairSwapan Chakrabarti
Luke Huan
MARTIN KUEHNHAUSEN
A Framework for Knowledge Derivation Incorporating Trust and Quality of DataWhen & Where:
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Victor Frost, ChairLuke Huan
Bo Luo
Gary Minden
Tyrone Duncan
JOHN GIBBONS
Modeling Content Lifespan on Social Networks Using Dating MiningWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 1
Committee Members:
Arvin Agah, ChairPerry Alexander
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
James Miller
Brian Potetz
WESLEY PECK
Hardware/Software Co-Design via Specification RefinementWhen & Where:
129 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Perry Alexander, ChairXin Fu
Andy Gill
Prasad Kulkarni
Caroline Bennett*
WESLEY PECK
Hardware/Software Co-Design via Specification RefinementWhen & Where:
129 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Perry Alexander, ChairXin Fu
Andy Gill
Prasad Kulkarni
Caroline Bennett*
PATRICK CLARK
Novel Data Structures and Algorithms for Modeling, Analysis, and Human-Comprehension of Firewall PoliciesWhen & Where:
2001B Eaton Hall
Committee Members:
Arvin Agah, ChairSwapan Chakrabarti
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Bo Luo
Prajna Dhar*
JUSTIN METCALF
Detection Strategies and Intercept Metrics for Intra-Pulse Radar-Embedded CommunicationsWhen & Where:
317 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Shannon Blunt, ChairErik Perrins
Glenn Prescott
ASHWINI SHIKARIPUR NADIG
Statistical Approaches to Inferring Object Shape form Single ImagesWhen & Where:
2001B Eaton Hall
Committee Members:
Brian Potetz, ChairShannon Blunt
Xue-Wen Chen
Luke Huan
Paul Selden*
HONGLIANG FEI
Learning from the Data with Structured Input and OutputWhen & Where:
317 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Luke Huan, ChairArvin Agah
Xue-Wen Chen
Bo Luo
Hongguo Xu*
BING HAN
etecting Cancer-Related Genes and Gene-Gene Interactions by Machine Learning MethodsWhen & Where:
317 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Xue-Wen Chen, ChairArvin Agah
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Luke Huan
Gerald Lushington