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
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
Babak Badnava
Joint Communication and Computation for Emerging Applications in Next Generation of Wireless NetworksWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Morteza Hashemi, ChairVictor Frost
Taejoon Kim
Prasad Kulkarni
Shawn Keshmiri
Arman Ghasemi
Task-Oriented Communication and Distributed Control in Smart Grids with Time-Series ForecastingWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Morteza Hashemi, ChairAlexandru Bardas
Taejoon Kim
Prasad Kulkarni
Zsolt Talata
Neel Patel
Near-Memory Acceleration of Compressed Far MemoryWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 250 (Gemini Room)
Committee Members:
Mohammad Alian, ChairDavid Johnson
Prasad Kulkarni
Durga Venkata Suraj Tedla
Block chain based inter organization file sharing systemWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
David Johnson, ChairDrew Davidson
Sankha Guria
Dang Qua Nguyen
Hybrid Precoding Optimization and Private Federated Learning for Future Wireless SystemsWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Taejoon Kim, ChairMorteza Hashemi
Erik Perrins
Zijun Yao
KC Kong
Sai Narendra Koganti
Real-time Object Detection for Safer Driving Experience in Urban Environment: Leveraging YOLO AlgorithmWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 250 (Gemini Room)
Committee Members:
Sumaiya Shomaji, ChairDavid Johnson
Prasad Kulkarni
Vijay Verma
Binary Segmentation of PCB Components Using U-Net ModelWhen & Where:
Zoom Defense, please email jgrisafe@ku.edu for defense link.
Committee Members:
Sumaiya Shomaji, ChairTamzidul Hoque
Zijun Yao
Ruturaj Vaidya
Exploring binary analysis techniques for securityWhen & Where:
Zoom Defense, please email jgrisafe@ku.edu for defense link.
Committee Members:
Prasad Kulkarni, ChairAlex Bardas
Drew Davidson
Esam El-Araby
Michael Vitevitch
Jianpeng Li
BlackLitNetwork: Advancing Black Literature Discovery Through Modern Web TechnologiesWhen & Where:
LEEP2, Room 1420
Committee Members:
Drew Davidson, ChairSumaiya Shomaji
Han Wang
Aiden Liang
Enhancing Healthcare Resource Demand Forecasting Using Machine Learning: An Integrated Approach to Addressing Temporal Dynamics and External InfluencesWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Prasad Kulkarni, ChairFengjun Li
Zijun Yao
Thomas Atkins
Secure and Auditable Academic Collections Storage via Hyperledger Fabric-Based Smart ContractsWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Drew Davidson, ChairFengjun Li
Bo Luo
Theodore Harbison
Posting Passwords: How social media information can be leveraged in password guessing attacksWhen & Where:
Zoom Defense, please email jgrisafe@ku.edu for defense link.
Committee Members:
Hossein Saiedian, ChairFengjun Li
Heechul Yun
Ethan Grantz
Swarm: A Backend-Agnostic Language for Simple Distributed ProgrammingWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 250 (Gemini Room)
Committee Members:
Drew Davidson, ChairPerry Alexander
Prasad Kulkarni
Johnson Umeike
Optimizing gem5 Simulator Performance: Profiling Insights and Userspace Networking EnhancementsWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 250 (Gemini Room)
Committee Members:
Mohammad Alian, ChairPrasad Kulkarni
Heechul Yun
Adam Sarhage
Design of Multi-Section Coupled Line CouplerWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Jim Stiles, ChairChris Allen
Glenn Prescott
Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi
Contrastive Learning of Temporal Distinctiveness for Survival Analysis in Electronic Health RecordsWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 250 (Gemini Room)
Committee Members:
Zijun Yao, ChairFengjun Li
Cuncong Zhong
Past Defense Notices
DANIEL BROYLES
Benchmarking Wireless Network Protocols: Threat and Challenge Analysis of AeroRPWhen & Where:
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
James Sterbenz, ChairBo Luo
Gary Minden
SERHIY MOROZOV
A Distributed, Architecture-Centric Approach to Computing Accurate Recommendations from Very Large and Sparse DatasetsWhen & Where:
1 Eaton Hall
Committee Members:
Hossein Saiedian, ChairArvin Agah
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse
Bo Luo
Saul Stahl*
YUXIN CHEN
Understanding User Intentions in Vertical Image SearchWhen & Where:
250 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Bo Luo, ChairXue-Wen Chen
Brian Potetz
TYRIAN PHAGAN
A Practical Framework for Configuration of Scheduling and Concurrency Control in LinuxWhen & Where:
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Douglas Niehaus, ChairPerry Alexander
Prasad Kulkarni
RAJPRASAD LOGANATHAN
Textural Analysis of a Fibronectin Network During Early EmbryogenesisWhen & Where:
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Ron Hui, ChairSwapan Chakrabarti
Brian Potetz
Andras Czirok*
KYLE BYERS
Integration of a 15-Element, VHF Bow-Tie Antenna Array into an Aerodynamic Fairing on a NASA P-3 AircraftWhen & Where:
317 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Sarah Seguin, ChairChris Allen
Carl Leuschen
TRISTAN BULL
Forward Error Correction and Functional ProgrammingWhen & Where:
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Andy Gill, ChairPerry Alexander
Erik Perrins
KEVIN MATLAGE
ChalkBoard: A Functional Image Description Language and Its Practical ApplicationsWhen & Where:
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Andy Gill, ChairPerry Alexander
Jim Miller
JENNIFER LOHOEFENER
A Methodology for Automated Verification of Rosetta Specification TransformationsWhen & Where:
250 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Perry Alexander, ChairArvin Agah
Andy Gill
Gary Minden
Craig Huneke*
RAINA RAHMAN
CPM-SC-IFDMA-A Power Efficient Transmission Scheme for Uplink LTEWhen & Where:
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Erik Perrins, ChairShannon Blunt
Sam Shanmugan