Upcoming 91猎奇 Computer Science Department Master's Defenses

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

Student Name: Aditya Jagdishkumar Prajapati
Defense Title: "Enhancing Communication Features in Yioop"
Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett
Date: December 15, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Sadaf Sadre Arhami
Defense Title: "AUTOMATED CORAL DETECTION USING MASK R-CNN FOR RESTORATION MONITORING AT THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM"
Advisor: Dr. Philip Heller
Date: December 15, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: MH 229

Student Name: Abhishek Bhardwaj
Defense Title: "Layer-Specific Perturbations for Generating Morphence Students in Time-Series Moving Target Defense"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: December 15, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Pawan Sarma
Defense Title: "Improving Gemini鈥檚 Ability to Generate Mermaid Code"
Advisor: Dr. Melody Moh
Date: December 15, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: MH 210

Student Name: Murun Enkhtaivan
Defense Title: "Dynamic Moving-Target Defense with Morphence for Transformer-Based Time-Series Forecasting"
Advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Sengupta
Date: December 15, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: MH 225

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鈥檚 Patches"
Advisor: Dr. Wendy Lee
Date: December 17, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: MH 225

Student Name: Jonathan Jia-Ling Chen
Defense Title: "Linear Algebra Concepts Through Virtual Environment"
Advisor: Dr. Melody Moh
Date: December 18, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 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