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
KUMAR GOUNDAN
An Event-Based Mechanism for Client Synchronization with a DatabaseWhen & Where:
155 Regnier Hall
Committee Members:
Hossein Saiedian, ChairArvin Agah
Prasad Kulkarni
WITOLD RZEPNICKI
Evaluating the Impact of Content Delivery Networks on Performance and Scalability of Content-Rich and Highly Transactional E-commerce WebsitesWhen & Where:
155 Regnier Hall
Committee Members:
Hossein Saiedian, ChairArvin Agah
Prasad Kulkarni
Synthetic Storm Modeling for Millimeter Wave Mesh Networks
BHARATWAJAN RAMANWhen & Where:
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
James Sterbenz, ChairVictor Frost
Alexander Wyglinski
A Modified Version of MLEM2 Rule Induction Algorithm
LIJUN GUOWhen & Where:
2001B Eaton Hall
Committee Members:
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, ChairSwapan Chakrabarti
Jim Miller
VINAYKUMAR MURALIDHARAN
A Unified End-to-End Communication Paradigm for Heterogeneous NetworksWhen & Where:
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
James Sterbenz, ChairVictor Frost
Alexander Wyglinski
MAHMOOD ABDUL HAMEED
Design and Development of Spartan FPGA Based Data Acquisition using PATA InterfaceWhen & Where:
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Chris Allen, ChairCarl Leuschen
Fernando Rodriguez-Morales
BALACHANDRA KUMARSWAMY
Applications of the PAM Representation of CPMWhen & Where:
2001B Eaton Hall
Committee Members:
Erik Perrins, ChairJames Roberts
Alexander Wyglinski
JAYANTH VENKATARAMAN
A Programming Model for Precise Computation of Video PipelinesWhen & Where:
317 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Douglas Niehaus, ChairArvin Agah
Prasad Kulkarni
KIRAN MARATHE
Dual-Band Multi-Channel Airborne Radar for Mapping the Internal and Basal Layers of Polar Ice SheetsWhen & Where:
317 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Chris Allen, ChairPrasad Gogineni
Fernando Rodriguez-Morales
Symbol Timing Recovery for SOQPSK
PRASHANTH RENGASWAMY CHANDRANWhen & Where:
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Erik Perrins, ChairShannon Blunt
James Roberts