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
Xiangyu Chen
Toward Efficient Deep Learning for Computer Vision ApplicationsWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Cuncong Zhong, ChairPrasad Kulkarni
Bo Luo
Fengjun Li
Hongguo Xu
Past Defense Notices
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
Ashish Adhikari
Towards Assessing the Security of Program BinariesWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Prasad Kulkarni, ChairFengjun Li
Sumaiya Shomaji
Hunter Glass
MeshMapper: Creating a Bluetooth Mesh Communication NetworkWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Alex Bardas, ChairDrew Davidson
Fengjun Li
Abdul Baseer Mohammed
Enhancing Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models with Alignment Adapters and LoRAWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Hongyang Sun, ChairDavid Johnson
Prasad Kulkarni
Laurynas Lialys
Engineering Laser Beams for Particle Trapping, Lattice Formation and MicroscopyWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Shima Fardad, ChairMorteza Hashemi
Rongqing Hui
Alessandro Salandrino
Xinmai Yang
Elise McEllhiney
Self-Training Autonomous Driving System Using An Advantage-Actor-Critic ModelWhen & Where:
Eaton Hall, Room 2001B
Committee Members:
Victor Frost, ChairPrasad Kulkarni
Bo Luo
Shravan Kaundinya
Design, development, and calibration of a high-power UHF radar with a large multichannel antenna arrayWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 317 (Richard K. Moore Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Carl Leuschen, ChairChris Allen
John Paden
James Stiles
Richard Hale
Bahozhoni White
Alternative “Bases” for Gradient Based Optimization of Parameterized FM Radar WaveformsWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Shannon Blunt, ChairChristopher Allen
Patrick McCormick
James Stiles
Michael Talaga
A Computer Vision Application for Vehicle Collision and Damage DetectionWhen & Where:
Zoom Meeting, please email jgrisafe@ku.edu for defense link.
Committee Members:
Hongyang Sun, ChairDavid Johnson, Co-Chair
Zijun Yao
Michael Talaga
A Computer Vision Application for Vehicle Collision and Damage DetectionWhen & Where:
Zoom Meeting, please email jgrisafe@ku.edu for defense link.
Committee Members:
Hongyang Sun, ChairZijun Yao