Cal Poly’s College of Engineering offers 10 master’s degree programs. Come and support our CENG graduate students as they present their graduate thesis work.
Luis Garcia, Computer Science
Real-Time Network Simulations for ML/DL DDoS Detection Using Docker
8 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 23
Building 14, Room 232b
Luis Herrera-Delgado, Mechanical Engineering
Simulation and Practical Control of a Shaft Supported by a Radial Active Magnetic Bearing
1:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 15
Building 13, Room 124b
Jake Alt, Computer Science
Hardware Control Unit for Trusted Program Verification System
8 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 25
Building 14, Room 232b
Cameron Jones, Mechanical Engineering
Design, Manufacturing, and Testing of a Cold Gas Thruster System with Minimized Actuators
1:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 24
Building 13, Room 124b
German Jack Ellsworth, Mechanical Engineering
Validation of Mobile Devices in Arbitrary Locations Against Force Plate Standard for Balance Assessment
9:30 a.m., Friday, Aug. 30
Building 13, Room 109
Luisa Chiu, Mechanical Engineering
Dynamic Maze Puzzle Navigation Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
11:10 a.m., Friday, Aug. 23
Building 192, Room 121
Jake Alt, Computer Science
Hardware Control Unit for Trusted Program Verification System
10 a.m., Friday, June 14
Building 14, Room 232b
Lovro Dukic Computer Science
Optimal False Data Injection (FDI) in Simulated Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) Systems
2 p.m., Thursday, June 13
Building 14, Room 232b
Nick Hausman, Computer Science
KGScore-Open: Leveraging Knowledge Graph Semantics for Open-QA Evaluation
10 a.m., Thursday, June 13
Building 14, Room 232b
Eli Bakshi, Computer Science
Performance Interference Detection for Cloud-Native Applications using Unsupervised Machine Learning Models
2 p.m., Wednesday, June 12
Building 14, Room 232b
Maanav Patel, Computer Science
Anomaly Detection in Heterogeneous IoT Systems: Leveraging Symbolic Encoding of Performance Metrics for Anomaly Classification
10 a.m., Wednesday, June 12
Building 14, Room 232b
Eben Sherwood, Computer Science
Sequential Memory Generation for Cognitive Models
2 p.m., Wednesday, June 12
Building 14, Room 232b
Nicholas Hansen, Computer Science
Contrastive Filtering and Dual-Objective Supervised Learning for Novel Class Discovery in Document-Level Relation Extraction
10 a.m., Wednesday, June 12
Building 14, Room 238b
Jacob Gunderson, Computer Science
MORP: Monocular Orientation Regression Pipeline
4 p.m., Wednesday, June 12
Building 14, Room 232b
Briana Kuo, Computer Science
Balancing Darkness and Visibility: An Algorithmic Approach to Light Placement in Low-Light, Ray-Traced Scenes
4 p.m., Tuesday, June 11
Building 14, Room 232b
Ethan Wolfe, Computer Science
The Effect of Watts-Strogatz and Barabasi-Albert graphs on Memory Formation
2 p.m., Tuesday, June 11
Building 14, Room 232b
Lee Conway, Computer Science
A Study on Privacy over Security and Privacy Enhancing Networks
11 a.m., Monday, June 10
Building 14, Room 232b
Andrew Estrada, Computer Science
Exploring Gender Disparities inn Collaboration Networks: An Analysis of h-Indices and Collaborator Proximity
2 p.m., Friday, June 7
Building 14, Room 232b
Ryan Maier, Computer Science
Generative Data Augmentation: Using DCGAN to Expand Training Datasets for Chest X-Ray Pneumonia Detection
4 p.m., Friday, June 7
Building 14, Room 232b
Claire Franz, Mechanical Engineering
Product Design for Reparability: Identifying Failure Modes with Topic Modeling and Designing for Electronic Waste Reuse
8 a.m., Friday, June 7
Building 13, Room 124B
Evan Brown, Mechanical Engineering
Design and Assembly of a Variable Buoyancy System for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
8 a.m., Friday, June 7
Building 13, Room 107
Morgan Swanson, Computer Science
Data Analytics System for Farm Machinery Management
2 p.m., Thursday, June 6
Building 14, Room 255
Nam Nguyen, Computer Science
Instant HDR-NeRF: Fast Learning of High Dynamic Range View Synthesis With Unknown Exposure Settings
4 p.m., Thursday, June 6
Building 14, Room 301
Lucas Li, Computer Science
Sonifind: A Sonified Micro-guidance Interface for the Visually Impaired
3 p.m., Thursday, June 6
Building 14, Room 238b
Juan Luna, Mechanical Engineering
Design and Implementation of a Vision-Based Deep-Learning Protocol for Kinematic Feature Extraction with Application to Stroke Rehabilitation
1 p.m., Wednesday, June 5
Building 13, Room 124b
Rachel Izenson, Computer Science
Investigation of Social Networks in University upon Belongingness and Mental Health
12 p.m., Wednesday, June 5
Building 14, Room 232b
Daniel Tisdale, Computer Science
Accessible Real-time Eye-gaze Tracking for Neurocognitive Health Assessments, A Multimodal Web-based Approach
4 p.m., Tuesday, June 4
Building 14, Room 238b
Erik Luu, Computer Science
Semantic Structuring of Digital Documents: Knowledge Graph Generation and Evaluation
2:30 p.m., Monday, June 3
Building 14, Room 232b
Kenny Lau, Computer Science
FILTER: Framework for Integrated Legislative Transparency and Exploratory Research
10:10 a.m., Thursday, May 30
Building 14, Room 232b
Blake Ward, Computer Science
A Federation of Sentries: Secure and Efficient Sentry-to-Sentry Communication
3 p.m., Wednesday, May 29
Building 14, Room 232b
Bharath Senthilkumar, Computer Science
A User-centric Continuous Authentication Modality Evaluation and Selection Scheme
8 a.m., Wednesday, May 29
Building 14, Room 232b
Connor Getz, Mechanical Engineering
Modeling the Acoustic Transmission Line with Applied Damping
3 p.m., Thursday, May 23
Building 13, Room 124B
Nathan Dodd, Mechanical Engineering
Using Muscle Activation Data and Deep Learning to Monitor Post-Stroke Individuals
12 p.m., Tuesday, May 21
Building 13, Room 124B
Iris Ho, Computer Science
Pain Points: Cluster Analysis in Chronic Pain Networks
2 p.m., Monday, May 13
Building 14, Room 232B
Kaanan Kharwa, Computer Science
Seal Counting On Our Plages (SCOOP)
10:10 a.m., Friday, May 10
Building 14, Room 232B
Cagan Sevencan, Computer Science
Optimizing Web Delivery: The Impact of Rendering Methods on User Experience Across Network Conditions
5 p.m., Thursday, May 9
Building 14, Room 232B
Brett Gowling, Computer Science
Deep Learning Using Vision and LiDAR for Global Robot Localization
4 p.m., Friday, May 3
Building 14, Room 232B
Troy Uysal, Biomedical Engineering
A Novel Concussion Detection System Utilizing Pressure Transducers
12 p.m., Thursday, May 2
Zoom: https://calpoly.zoom.us/j/86993846848
Andrew Maas, Mechanical Engineering
Non-Linear Modeling of Hysteresis in Piezoelectric Actuated Cantilevel Beam Using the Bouc-Wen Model
9 a.m., Tuesday, April 30
Building 13, Room 109
Anna Kiefer, Computer Science
Improving Automatic Transcription using Natural Language Processing
3 p.m., Friday, March 22
Building 14, Room 238b
Xinran Zhao, Computer Science
Insights into Cellular Evolution: Temporal Deep Learning Models and Analysis for Cell Image Classification
1 p.m., Friday, March 22
Building 14, Room 232b
Aidan Barbieux, Computer Science
Coralai: Emergent Ecosystems of Neural Cellular Automata
10 a.m., Friday, March 15
Zoom: https://calpoly.zoom.us/my/rcanaan
Damond Li, Mechanical Engineering
Development of Electrical Impedance Tomography Data Acquisition System and Deep Learning Based Reconstruction Algorithms for Spatial Damage Detection
1 p.m., Monday, March 11
Building 13, Room 117
Shivam Asija, Computer Science
3D Pano Inpainting: Scene Construction Using a Single Input Panorama
1 p.m., Tuesday, March 5
Building 14, Room 238b
Past Thesis Defenses:
Saurav Gupta, Computer Science
A Comparative Study of the NPM, PyPl, Maven, and RubyGems Open-Source Communities
11 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 14
Zoom: https://calpoly.zoom.us/j/89011033403
Jordan Chew, Computer Science
A Study on Ethical Hacking in Cybersecurity Education within the United States
9 a.m., Friday, Feb. 9
Building 14, Room 232b
Chandradeep Chowdhury, Computer Science
Foundations of Memory Capacity in Models of Neural Cognition
12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 13
Building 14, Room 232b
Nicholas Brunet, Computer Science
Disruption-Tolerant TCP and Decentralized Wi-Fi for Small Systems of Autonomous Vehicles
8:30 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 12
Building 14, Room 232b
Nikhil Sridhar, Computer Science
Decentralized Machine Learning on Blockchain: Developing a Federated Learning Based System
12 p.m., Friday, Dec. 8
Building 14, Room 238b
Aimee Chiem, Mechanical Engineering
Discourse Analysis in Engineering: Investigating Patterns in Brainstorming Conversations
10:10 a.m., Friday, Dec. 8
Zoom Link: https://calpoly.zoom.us/j/89946977793
Nikki Arm, Mechanical Engineering
Deep Ocean Vehicle Applications & Modifications
9:10 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 16
Building 13, Room 124B
Hadi Asemi, Computer Science
A Study on API Security Pentesting
5 p.m., Monday, Oct. 30
Building 14, Room 232a
Darrick Oliver, Computer Science
Smartphone Based Object Detection in Shark Spotting
Noon, Thursday, Oct. 26
Building 14, Room 255
Amanda Elizabeth Olla, Mechanical Engineering
Design and Scale Model of Wave Generator for the Testing of Wave Energy Conversion Devices
3:10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26
Building 13, Room 124B