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

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Beyond Semantic Similarity: Direct Corpus Interaction for Agentic Search

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Wenhu Chen

Wednesday, August 5, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • OpenResearcher: Reproducible Training for Long-Horizon Deep Research Agents

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Wenhu Chen

Thursday, August 20, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering • Decoupling CLI Agent Scaffolding to Internalize Planning Across Scaffolds

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Kishanthan Thangarajah, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Meiyappan Nagappan


 

Wednesday, August 5, 2026 9:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Bioinformatics • Generative Synthetic Data for Pre-Clinical Drug Discovery

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Bing Hu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Helen Chen & Anita Layton

Thursday, August 6, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • Algorithms for Analytic Combinatorics: Positivity Bounds and D-finite Operators

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2306C and online.

John Smith, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Stephen Melczer & Rafael Oliveira