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Tuesday, March 23, 2021 9:00 am - 9:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Computer Graphics | Scientific Computing — Efficient Liquid Animation: New Discretizations for Spatially Adaptive Liquid Viscosity and Reduced-Model Two-Phase Bubbles and Inviscid Liquids

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Ryan Goldade, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty

Thursday, March 11, 2021 9:30 am - 9:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing — UmlsBERT: Clinical Domain Knowledge Augmentation of Contextual Embeddings Using the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Georgios Michalopoulos, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Ian McKillop and Helen Chen

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Thursday, February 11, 2021

CS student Keer Liu pays it forward for the next-generation of women in computing

Cheriton School of Computer Science student dreams of being a tech leader and building bridges for marginalized groups in tech

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Keer Liu was 18 years old when she left China to study computer science at the University of Waterloo with a dream of becoming a leader in the tech industry. She wanted an exceptional foundation in computing, but her real dream has always been to lead.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Master's student Amelia Holcomb uses mobile phone sensors to calculate how much carbon a forest sequesters

Amelia Holcomb, a master’s student at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, wanted more than a great job at a large tech company. She is now researching how technology can measure forest carbon.

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Amelia Holcomb was working at one of the biggest tech firms in the United States after graduating from Yale University when she started to grow restless.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence — Convergence of Gradient Methods on Bilinear Zero-Sum Games

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

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

Supervisors: Professors Pascal Poupart and Yaoliang Yu