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Thursday, December 1, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering • Visualizing Analysis Results of Industrial Automotive Software Product Line Models

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Rafael F. Toledo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Joanne Atlee

Friday, December 9, 2022 9:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Towards an Enhanced Dependency Graph

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

Mehran Meidani, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Friday, November 25, 2022 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • Improved Bayesian Network Structure Learning in the Model Averaging Paradigm

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Zhenyu (Alister) Liao, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Peter van Beek

Monday, November 28, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing • Better Language Model with Curriculum Learning via Hypernym Class Prediction

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

He (Richard) Bai, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ming Li

photo of students participating in Waterloo.AI data challenge
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Cheriton School of Computer Science undergrads and grads among winners at Waterloo.AI’s Data Challenge

On November 12, 2022, the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute with industry host Musashi AI held a data challenge focused on computer vision open to all Waterloo students. 

Wednesday, December 7, 2022 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Scientific Computation • Biological Plausibility in Modern Hopfield Networks

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

Mallory Snow, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jeff Orchard

Thursday, January 12, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Computer Graphics | Computer-aided Geometric Design • A Generalized Blending Scheme for Arbitrary Order of Continuity

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2310.

Xiang Fang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Stephen Mann

Monday, November 21, 2022 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • VibEmoji: Exploring User-authoring Multi-modal Emoticons in Social Communication

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

Ziqi Zhou, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Friday, November 18, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Compiling Equality in an Abstract Relational Model via Preference Tables and Translation Tables

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

Ensieh Mollazadeh, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Grant Weddell

Borgida et al. have introduced a refinement to the relational model (RM) which they call the abstract relational model (ARM) that extends the former in the following three ways: