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
Elizabeth Wyss
A New Frontier for Software Security: Diving Deep into npmWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Drew Davidson, ChairAlex Bardas
Fengjun Li
Bo Luo
J. Walker
Audrey Mockenhaupt
Using Dual Function Radar Communication Waveforms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Automatic Target RecognitionWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Patrick McCormick, ChairShannon Blunt
Jon Owen
Rich Simeon
Delay-Doppler Channel Estimation for High-Speed Aeronautical Mobile Telemetry ApplicationsWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Erik Perrins, ChairShannon Blunt
Morteza Hashemi
Jim Stiles
Craig McLaughlin
Soumya Baddham
Battling Toxicity: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Models for Content ModerationWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
David Johnson, ChairPrasad Kulkarni
Hongyang Sun
Manu Chaudhary
Utilizing Quantum Computing for Solving Multidimensional Partial Differential EquationsWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Esam El-Araby, ChairPerry Alexander
Tamzidul Hoque
Prasad Kulkarni
Tyrone Duncan
Alex Manley
Taming Complexity in Computer Architecture through Modern AI-Assisted Design and EducationWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 250 (Gemini Room)
Committee Members:
Heechul Yun, ChairTamzidul Hoque
Prasad Kulkarni
Mohammad Alian
Past Defense Notices
Sameera Katamaneni
Revolutionizing Forensic Identification: A Dual-Method Facial Recognition Paradigm for Enhanced Criminal IdentificationWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Prasad Kulkarni, ChairHongyang Sun
Thomas Atkins
Secure and Auditable Academic Collections Storage via Hyperledger Fabric-Based Smart ContractsWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Drew Davidson, ChairFengjun Li
Bo Luo
Christian Jones
Robust and Efficient Structure-Based Radar Receive ProcessingWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 129 (Apollo Auditorium)
Committee Members:
Shannon Blunt, ChairChris Allen
Suzanne Shontz
James Stiles
Zsolt Talata
Shawn Robertson
A secure framework for at risk populations in austere environments utilizing Bluetooth Mesh communicationsWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Alex Bardas, ChairDrew Davidson
Fengjun Li
Bo Luo
Huazhen Fang
Venkata Mounika Keerthi
Evaluating Dynamic Resource Management for Bulk Synchronous Parallel ApplicationsWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Hongyang Sun, ChairDavid Johnson
Prasad Kulkarni
Sohan Chandra
Predicting inorganic nitrogen content in the soil using Machine LearningWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Taejoon Kim, ChairPrasad Kulkarni
Cuncong Zhong
Thomas Woodruff
Model Predictive Control of Nonlinear Latent Force ModelsWhen & Where:
M2SEC, Room G535
Committee Members:
Jim Stiles, ChairMichael Branicky
Heechul Yun
Sai Soujanya Ambati
BERT-NEXT: Exploring Contextual Sentence UnderstandingWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Prasad Kulkarni, ChairHongyang Sun
Swathi Koyada
Feature balancing of demographic data using SMOTEWhen & Where:
Zoom Meeting, please email jgrisafe@ku.edu for defense link.
Committee Members:
Prasad Kulkarni, ChairCuncong Zhong
Jessica Jeng
Exploiting Data Locality for Improving Multidimensional Variational Quantum ClassificationWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Esam El-Araby, ChairDrew Davidson
Prasad Kulkarni