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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • ASH: Agents that Self-hone via Embodied Learning

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Benjamin Schneider, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Wenhu Chen, Florian Kerschbaum

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Information Retrieval • Breaking Information Silos: Advancing Search Systems for Unified Information Seeking

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in M3 4001 and online.

Xueguang Ma, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Friday, July 24, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Symbolic Computation • Sobolev Regularized Polynomial Features for Robust Handwritten Symbol Recognition

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Deepak Singh Kalhan, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Stephen Watt, Robert Corless

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computational Finance • Data Scarcity and the Decumulation Problem: Two Challenges in Finance

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2310.

Yuk Hei Boris Leung, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Yuying Li, Peter Forsyth

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Semantics-Behavior Coupled Bayesian Optimization for Efficient Black-Box Prompt Search

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Ruotian Wu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Monday, July 27, 2026 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Human–Computer Interaction | Artificial Intelligence • Scaling Foundation Models & Agentic AI that Supports Healthy Living

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304.

Daniel McDuff
Senior Staff Research Scientist and Manager, Google
Affiliate Professor, University of Washington

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • From Verifiable Rewards to Tool-Using Agents: VerlTool for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Dongfu Jiang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Wenhu Chen