Current students

Please note: This distinguished lecture will take place in DC 1302 and virtually over Zoom.

Tim Roughgarden, Professor
Computer Science Department, Columbia University
Head of Research, a16z crypto

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.

Yongqiang (Victor) Tian, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2310 (not in DC 2584 as originally advertised) and virtually over Zoom. 

Joshua Jung, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

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

Khaled Ammar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Tamer Özsu, Semih Salihoglu

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.

Mariam Guizani, PhD candidate
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University

Diversity and Inclusion in Open-Source Software (OSS) has a significant impact on the OSS ecosystem and society. The low state of diversity and inclusion in OSS (e.g., women participation ranging from 1.5% to 11%) has unfortunate effects on OSS projects, individual contributors, and society.

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.

Victor Zhong, PhD candidate
Natural Language Processing Group, University of Washington

Traditional machine learning systems are trained on vast quantities of annotated data or experience. These systems often do not generalize to new, related problems that emerge after training, such as conversing about new topics or interacting with new environments.

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.

Barrett Ens
Data Visualisation and Immersive Analytics Research Group
Monash University

Steven Jeromy Carriere
Senior Vice President, Engineering, Datadog

“Scale” is a complex notion that encompasses some easy-ish-to-measure factors such as the resource footprint or transaction rate of a system, but also substantially more subtle considerations such as service dependencies that influence the cost of making changes and team behaviors that affect how long it takes to resolve a production issue.

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.

Damien Masson, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin