Current students

Subscribe to Current students
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 9:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Multimodal Spoofing and Adversarial Examples Countermeasure for Speaker Verification

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

Karthik Ramesh, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor N. Asokan

Authentication mechanisms have always been prevalent in our society — even as far back as Ancient Mesopotamia in the form of seals. Since the advent of the digital age, the need for a good digital authentication technique has soared stemming from the widespread adoption of online platforms and digitized content.

Friday, July 8, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • Quantum Game Theory and the Complexity of Approximating Quantum Nash Equilibria

Please note: This master’s research paper presentation will be given online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Richard Cleve

Wednesday, July 6, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Natural Language Processing • Learning Contextual Representation for Semantic Parsing

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Peng Shi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Thursday, July 7, 2022 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CrySP) • Security and Ownership Verification in Deep Reinforcement

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Ching-wen Wang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor N. Asokan

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has seen many successes in complex tasks such as robot manipulation, autonomous driving, and competitive games. However, there are few studies on the security threats against DRL systems. In this thesis, we focus on two security concerns in DRL.

Monday, August 15, 2022 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Software Engineering | Machine Learning • Improving the Reliability of Deep Learning Software Systems

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Hung Viet Pham, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Lin Tan, Yaoliang Yu

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CrySP) • Towards Effective Measurement of Membership Privacy Risk for Machine Learning Models

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Vasisht Duddu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor N. Asokan

photo of David Radke and Professor Tim Brecht
Monday, June 27, 2022

Cheriton researchers develop new passing models with NHL tracking data, win best research paper award at LINHAC 2022

PhD candidate David Radke, Professor Tim Brecht, and their colleague (and David’s brother) Daniel Radke have received the best research paper award at LINHAC 2022, the Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference held in Sweden.

Thursday, July 14, 2022 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • Generalized Dynamic Cognitive Hierarchy Models for Strategic Driving Behavior

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Atrisha Sarkar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki