Upcoming SJSU Computer Science Department Master's Defenses

The list of students is ordered by the date of defense.

Student Name: Suyash Pasari
Defense Title: "Detecting Malicious Encrypted Network Traffic Using Deep Learning and CNN-Based Feature Representations"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: December 16, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Revanth Reddy Shada
Defense Title: "A Hierarchical Two-Stage Adversarial Training Framework for Defending LLMs Against Jailbreak Attacks"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: December 16, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Diana Emily Valderrama
Defense Title: "Coral Vision: A Machine Learning Approach to Aid Coral Restoration"
Advisor: Dr. Philip Heller
Date: December 16, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Ananya Gupta
Defense Title: "Transcriptional Mechanism of Post Capillary Venule (PCVs) Identity in Peyer’s Patches"
Advisor: Dr. Wendy Lee
Date: December 17, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Sohail Shaik
Defense Title: "Semantic and Structural Fusion for Code Smell Detection Using CodeBERT and Random Forest"
Advisor: Dr. Robert Chun
Date: December 17, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Jonathan Jia-Ling Chen
Defense Title: "Linear Algebra Concepts Through Virtual Environment"
Advisor: Dr. Melody Moh
Date: December 17, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Sai Bhargav Vallabhaneni
Defense Title: "Multimodal Deception Detection"
Advisor: Dr. Faranak Abri
Date: December 18, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 233