Thesis & Dissertation Defenses
| Time & Place | Student & Advisor | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 07/23/2025 9:00 AM PGH 550 |
Raunak Sarbajna Advisor: Dr. Christoph F. Eick |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Spatial Computing Frameworks for Adaptive Disaster Response and Visual Place Recognition |
| 07/22/2025 9:00 AM Health1/HBS1 350 |
Fettah Kiran Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Reducing Stress in Math Tests through Video-Based Question Formats: A Multimodal Affective Study |
| 07/21/2025 11:00 AM PGH 550 |
Abdollah Zakeri Co-Advisors: Dr. Sen Lin, Dr. Fatima Merchant |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Exploring the Intersection of Computer Vision and Smart Agriculture: Towards the automation of Mushroom Harvesting, 3D Pose Estimation, and Yield Forecasting |
| 07/17/2025 3:00 PM PGH 550 |
Nguyen Phan Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Towards Accessible and Robust Methods for Curve-Based Visualization, Analysis and Synthesis |
| 07/15/2025 10:00 AM PGH 550 and Zoom |
Rabimba Karanjai Advisor: Dr. Weidong (Larry) Shi |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Teaching AIs to Reason and Code, Confidentially |
| 07/14/2025 1:00 PM PGH 550 |
Lei Si Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Enhancing Hex-dominant Meshes: Generation, Evaluation, and Simplification |
| 06/30/2025 10:00 AM PGH 591 |
Nour Diallo Advisor: Dr. Weidong (Larry) Shi |
Ph.D. Dissertation: Machine Learning-Augmented DAG-Based BFT Consensus: GNN and RL-Driven Approaches for Adaptive, Scalable, and Fault-Tolerant Protocols |
| 05/30/2025 9:00 AM Health1/HBS1 315 |
Athina Bikaki Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Kakadiaris |
Ph.D. Proposal: A Framework for End-to-End Feature Selection in the Era of Generative AI Agents |
| 05/16/2025 1:30 PM PGH 501B |
Michail Koumpanakis Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos |
Ph.D. Proposal: A Framework for Learning and Discovering Partial Differential Equations Using Meta-Learning and Physics-Informed Neural Networks |
| 05/16/2025 1:00 PM PGH 550 |
Aayush Gupta Advisor: Dr. Gopal Pandurangan |
Ph.D. Proposal: Fully-Distributed Construction of Byzantine-Resilient Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Networks |
| 05/05/2025 3:00 PM PGH 392 |
Rauf Momin Advisor: Dr. Jaspal Subhlok |
M.S. Thesis: Multi-Modal Automatic Video Chaptering using Large Language Models |
| 04/28/2025 11:00 AM PGH 550 |
Samiha Mirza Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah |
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| 04/24/2025 1:00 PM PGH 501B |
Khang Tran Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos |
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| 04/22/2025 1:00 PM PGH 550 |
Yuan Tian Advisor: Dr. Stephen Huang |
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| 04/21/2025 11:30 AM PGH 550 |
Abdollah Zakeri Co-Advisors: Dr. Sen Lin and Dr. Fatima Merchant |
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| 04/18/2025 1:30 PM PGH 550 and MS Teams |
Shireesh Kumar Poral Ashok Kumar Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah |
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| 04/16/2025 3:00 PM PGH 501B |
Sadat Shahriar Advisor: Dr. Arjun Mukherjee |
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| 04/16/2025 1:00 PM PGH 550 |
Mohammad Javadi Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos |
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| 03/28/2025 11:00 AM PGH 501B and MS Teams |
Jennifer Csicsery-Ronay Advisor: Dr. Christoph Eick |
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| 03/28/2025 10:00 AM PGH 550 and MS Teams |
Vuong (Dustin) Nguyen Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah |
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| 03/21/2025 1:00 PM PGH 550 |
Alireza Ansaripour Advisor: Dr. Om Gnawali |
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| 03/07/2025 9:00 AM PGH and MS Teams |
Christina Morales Mojica Advisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos |
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| 02/13/2025 10:00 AM Health1/HBS1 350 and MS Teams |
Huda Alghamdi Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis |
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| 12/06/2024 11:00 AM PGH 591 |
Dana Alsagheer Advisor: Dr. Weidong (Larry) Shi |
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| 12/04/2024 3:00 PM PGH 591 |
Nour Diallo Advisor: Dr. Weidong (Larry) Shi |
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| 12/02/2024 5:15 PM PGH 550 |
Raunak Sarbajna Advisor: Dr. Christoph Eick |
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| 11/25/2024 4:30 PM PGH 550 |
Melis Ilhan Co-Advisors: Dr. Jinyang Liu, Dr. Ricardo Vilalta |
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| 11/21/2024 2:30 PM PGH 550 |
Lei Si Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen |
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| 11/21/2024 2:00PM PGH 501B |
Sara Bouhali Advisor: Dr. Fatima Merchant |
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| 11/21/2024 2:00 PM PGH 392 |
Aftab Hussain Advisor: Dr. Amin Alipour |
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| 11/20/2024 3:30 PM PGH 501B |
Nguyen Phan Advisor: Dr. Guoning Chen |
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| 11/12/2024 1:00 PM Health1/HBS1 302 |
Fettah Kiran Advisor: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis |
Ph.D. Proposal: Exploring the Impact of Humorous Video Format on Students' Stress and Score Performance in Math Tests |
| 11/11/2024 4:00 PM PGH 550 |
Meng-Chen Lee Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Deng |
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| 11/08/2024 3:30 PM PGH 392 |
Fatima Zahra Qachfar Advisor: Dr. Rakesh Verma |
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| 11/06/2024 10:00 AM PGH 550 |
Dustin Nguyen Advisor: Dr. Shishir Shah |
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| 11/04/2024 3:00 PM PGH 550 |
Sadat Shahriar Advisor: Dr. Arjun Mukherjee |
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| 11/01/2024 1:30 PM PGH 550 |
Md Mahin Advisor: Dr. Christoph Eick |