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
Ahmet Soyyigit
Anytime Computing Techniques for Lidar-Based Perception in Cyber-Physical SystemsWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 317 (Richard K. Moore Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Heechul Yun, ChairMichael Branicky
Prasad Kulkarni
Hongyang Sun
Shawn Keshmiri
Andrew Mertz
Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) Receive Processing Techniques for Linear Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Frequency Diverse Array (LFMCW-FDA) Transmit StructuresWhen & Where:
Nichols Hall, Room 246 (Executive Conference Room)
Committee Members:
Patrick McCormick, ChairChris Allen
Shannon Blunt
James Stiles
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