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Tuesday, April 14, 2026 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Systems and Networking • Mitigating Risks to Dependability from Vibe-Coding C for Embedded Systems

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Murray Dunne, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Sebastian Fischmeister

Friday, March 20, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages • Linear Scala is All You Need for Safe Static Memory and Alias Management

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Amirhossein Pashaeehir, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ondřej Lhoták

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Training and Evaluating Semantic Segmentation Models with Soft Labels

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Nima Jamali, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Olga Veksler, Yuri Boykov

Friday, March 13, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning | Multi-armed Bandits • A Practical Algorithm for Feature-Rich, Non-Stationary Bandit Problems

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2584 and online.

William Loh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • From Heuristics to Principles in Machine Learning Optimization

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

Frederik Kunstner, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria)

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing | Information Retrieval • Resources for Automated Evaluation of Assistive RAG Systems that Help Readers with News Trustworthiness Assessment

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 3301.

Dake Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Mark D. Smucker