Upcoming SJSU Computer Science Department Master's Defenses
The list of students is ordered by the date of defense.
Student Name: Dheeraj Kumar Alla
Defense Title: "Smart-Glasses-Based Human Activity Recognition: Effects of Temporal
Windowing, Activity Labels, and Learning Models"
Advisor: Dr. Sayma Akther
Date: November 13, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: MH 226
Student Name: Fudong Huang
Defense Title: "Comparing TLSH, IMPHash, and SSDeep with Partition-Based and Density-Based
Clustering for Malware Family Recovery"
Advisor: Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Date: November 17, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: ISB 130
Student Name: James Russell Dixon
Defense Title: "Automatic Cluster-Count Selection for Multicast Scheduling in Precoded
GEO Multibeam Satellite Systems"
Advisor: Dr. Navrati Saxena
Date: November 19, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: MH 226
Student Name: Aditya Sanjaykumar Patel
Defense Title: "Pedestrian Action Anticipation Using V-JEPA2"
Advisor: Dr. Amith Kamath Belman
Date: November 23, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: CL 412