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Monday, July 10, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • Eggly: Designing Mobile Augmented Reality Neurofeedback Training Games for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 1331 and online.

Yue Lyu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Jian Zhao, Keiko Katsuragawa

Tuesday, July 4, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction • Investigating New Forms of Single-handed Physical Phone Interaction with Finger Dexterity

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 1331 and online.

Yen-Ting (Allen) Yeh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel

Tuesday, June 20, 2023 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • AdvEx: Interactive Visual Explorations of Adversarial Attacks

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Yuzhe You, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Tuesday, June 13, 2023 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Trade-off Exploration for Acceleration of Continuous Integration

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 1304 and virtually.

Zhili Zeng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Continuous Integration (CI) is a popular software development practice that allows developers to quickly verify modifications to their projects. To cope with the ever-increasing demand for faster software releases, CI acceleration approaches have been proposed to expedite the feedback that CI provides.

Thursday, June 15, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Software Engineering • Security Evaluations of GitHub’s Copilot

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

Owura Asare, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mei Nagappan, N. Asokan

In this thesis, we perform two security evaluations of GitHub’s Copilot with the aim of better understanding the strengths and weaknesses with of Code Generation Tools.

photo of Jimmy Di
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Jimmy Di awarded 2023 Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence

Incoming master’s student Jimmy Di has received a 2023–24 Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence from the Vector Institute. These merit-based entrance scholarships provide $17,500 for one year of full-time study and are awarded to top students who have been admitted into an AI-related master’s program in an Ontario university. 

Friday, June 2, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy • CVE-2022-23491, or Why PO Boxes Can’t be Root Certificate Authorities Anymore

Please note: This talk will take place in DC 3317 and online over Zoom.

Joel Reardon, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary

Mozilla curates a set of root certificate authorities to validate hostnames for TLS in the Firefox browser. Many other software projects, such as Tor Browser and ca-certificates simply follow Mozilla’s list; other entities, such as Apple and Microsoft, make their own decisions for inclusion with considerations for Mozilla’s decisions and the associated public discussion.

Tuesday, June 27, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Cache Me If You Can: Accuracy-Aware Inference Engine for Differentially Private Data Exploration

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Miti Mazmudar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg

photo of Professor Justin Wan in the Davis Centre
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Justin Wan receives Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award from CAIMS

Professor Justin Wan has received the 2023 Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award from CAIMS, the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society. Named after its first recipient, the award was established in 1987 to honour Waterloo Applied Mathematics Professor Arthur Beaumont for his many years of service to the society.