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Wednesday, March 18, 2026 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Threshold Cryptosystems • Practical Distributed Key Generation and Signatures

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

Chelsea Komlo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Ian Goldberg, Douglas Stebila

Wednesday, January 21, 2026 9:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Ancestry Deconvolution via Differential Privacy

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

Raiyan Chowdhury, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Mitigating the Modality Gap: Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection with Multi-modal Prototypes and Image Bias Estimation

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in E7 5419 and online.

Yimu Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki

Wednesday, January 21, 2026 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • HAWAII: Hierarchical Visual Knowledge Transfer for Efficient Vision-Language Models

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in E7 5419 and online.

Yimu Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki

Wednesday, January 21, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Information Retrieval • Breaking Information Silos: Advancing Search Systems for Unified Information Seeking

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

 Xueguang Ma, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Friday, January 23, 2026 9:30 am - 10:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics | Human–Computer Interaction • Computational Methods for Colour Palette Comparison

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Andreea Pocol, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Lesley Istead, Craig S. Kaplan