Current students

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Jiayi Chen, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Urs Hengartner

Akshay Ramachandran has received two awards for his doctoral research — the 2022 Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award as well as second place in the 2022 Mathematics Doctoral Prize for his thesis titled “Geodesic convex analysis of group scaling for the Paulsen problem and tensor normal model.”

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

Rory Soiffer, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shalev Ben-David

Quantum query complexity measures the minimum number of queries a quantum algorithm needs to make to some input string to compute a function of that input. Query complexity models are widely used throughout quantum computing, from setting limits on quantum algorithms to analyzing post-quantum cryptography.

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

Supervisor: Professor Peter van Beek

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

Supervisors: Professors Mark Giesbrecht, Arne Storjohann

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Pamela Wisniewski, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida

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Lizhe Chen, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Olga Veksler

In recent research, the self-supervised video representation learning methods have achieved improvement by exploring video’s temporal properties, such as playing speeds and temporal order. These works inspire us to exploit a new artificial supervision signal for self-supervised representation learning: the change of video playing speed.

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Charupriya Sharma, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Peter van Beek

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Soroosh Gholamizoj, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Bin Ma

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Xinda Li, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Current students

PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Adaptive User Authentication on Mobile Devices

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Recent PhD graduate Akshay Ramachandran awarded 2022 Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award and 2022 Mathematics Doctoral Prize

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Quantum Computing • A Generalized Adversary Method for Quantum Query Complexity

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PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • An Empirical Study of Scoring Functions for Learning Bayesian Networks in Model Averaging

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Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Algebra | Symbolic Computation • Fast Algorithms for Sparse Decomposition and Sparse Series Solutions to Differential Equations

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CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy • Risk and Resilience: Promoting Adolescent Online Safety and Privacy through Human-Centered Computing

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Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Self-supervised Video Representation Learning by Exploiting Playing Speediness Changes

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PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • Scalable Bayesian Network Structure Learning with Splines

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Master’s Thesis Presentation • Bioinformatics • Predicting the Spectrum Quality and Digestive Enzyme for Shotgun Proteomics

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Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CrySP) • Improved Model Poisoning Attacks and Defenses on Federated Learning with Clustering

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