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
Past Defense Notices
MICHAEL HUGHES
Determination of Glacial Ice Temperature Profiles Using Radar and an Antenna Gain Estimation TechniqueWhen & Where:
250 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Kenneth Demarest, ChairChris Allen
Carl Leuschen
GARRIN KIMMELL
System Synthesis from a Monadic Functional LanguageWhen & Where:
250 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Perry Alexander, ChairAndy Gill
Craig Huneke
Gary Minden
Bill Harrison
MUTHUKUMARAN PITCHAIMANI
Adaptive Cognitive NetworksWhen & Where:
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Joseph Evans, ChairGunes Ercal-Ozkaya
Christine Jensen Sundstrom
Victor Frost
Prasad Kulkarni
DANIEL FOKUM
Optimal Communications Systems and Network Design for Cargo MonitoringWhen & Where:
250 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Victor Frost, ChairJoseph Evans
Tyrone Duncan
Gary Minden
David Petr
SANDHYA BELDONA (GABBUR)
Reputation based Buyer Strategies for Seller Selection in Electronic MarketsWhen & Where:
246 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Arvin Agah, ChairCostas Tsatsoulis
Gunes Ercal-Ozkaya
Prakash Shenoy
Prasad Kulkarni
JOHN LEDFORD
Development of an 8 Channel Waveform Generator for Beam-forming ApplicationsWhen & Where:
317 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Chris Allen, ChairCarl Leuschen
Sarah Seguin
SUPRIYA VASUDEVAN
Handling Missing Attribute Values in Decision Tables Using Valued Tolerance ApproachWhen & Where:
2001B Eaton Hall
Committee Members:
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, ChairJun Huan
Prasad Kulkarni
AARON SMALTER
Kernel Functions for Graph ClassificationWhen & Where:
250 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Jun Huan, ChairXue-Wen
Gerald Lushington
Mahesh Visvanathan
DAVID JOHNSON
Human Robot Interaction Through Semantic Integration of Multiple Modalities, Dialog Management, and ContextsWhen & Where:
250 Nichols Hall
Committee Members:
Arvin Agah, ChairSwapan Chakrabarti
Xue-Wen Chen
Brian Potetz
Sara Wilson
ANDREW KANNENBERG
A Streamlined, Cost Effective Database Approach to Managing Requirements TraceabilityWhen & Where:
155 Regnier Hall
Committee Members:
Hossein Saiedian, ChairGunes Ercal-Ozkaya
Prasad Kulkarni