Thesis & Dissertation Defenses Submit Your COSC Defense Announcement COSC Defense Guidelines NSM Defense Deadlines Time & Place Student & Advisor Title 11/25/202512:00 PMPGH 501B Matin AmoozadehAdvisor: Amin Alipour Ph.D. Proposal: Understanding Student-AI Interaction in Introductory Computing Courses 11/21/20252:00 PMPGH 550 Aayush GuptaAdvisor: Gopal Pandurangan Ph.D. Dissertation: A Fully-Distributed Protocol for Constructing Byzantine-Resilient Peer-to-Peer Networks 11/18/20251:30 PMPGH 501B and Google Meet Mohammad JavadiAdvisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos Ph.D. Dissertation: Investigating Deep Learning for Low-Quality MRI Enhancement: From Loss Functions to Temporal Modeling 11/12/20251:00 PMPGH 501B and MS Teams Michail KoumpanakisAdvisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos Ph.D. Dissertation: A Framework for Learning and Discovering Partial Differential Equations Using Meta-Learning and Physics-Informed Neural Networks 11/07/20251:00 PMPGH 392 Khang TranAdvisor: Dr. Nikolaos Tsekos Ph.D. Dissertation: Towards Real-Time Collaborative Immersion with Large-Scale Virtual Environments and Digital Twins via Multiuser, Multimodal Holographic AR/XR Interface 11/06/20252:00 PMPGH 550 Michael YantoscaAdvisor: Dr. Albert M. K. Cheng Ph.D. Proposal: ARTIC/Phonotomizer: A Compact, Unsupervised, Real-Time, Multilingual Phonetic Segmenter 10/10/202510:00 AMPGH 392 Dana AlsagheerAdvisor: Dr. Weidong (Larry) Shi Ph.D. Dissertation: Building Trust in AI: Auditing Consistency and Cross-Domain Generalization in Large Language Models Thesis & Dissertation Defenses Archive