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Thursday, January 21, 2021 10:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning — Wasserstein Autoencoders with Mixture of Gaussian Priors for Stylized Text Generation

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

Amirpasha Ghabussi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Olga Vechtomova

Thursday, January 14, 2021 11:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar • Software Engineering — Expanding the Reach of Fuzzing

Please note: This seminar will be given online.

Caroline Lemieux, Department of Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

Software bugs are pervasive in modern software. As software is integrated into increasingly many aspects of our lives, these bugs have increasingly severe consequences, both from a security (e.g. Cloudbleed, Heartbleed, Shellshock) and cost standpoint. Fuzzing refers to a set of techniques that automatically find bug-triggering inputs by sending many random-looking inputs to the program under test.

Friday, January 15, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction — Augmented Augmented Reality: Augmenting a Wearable Augmented Reality Display with an Actuated Head-Mounted Projector

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Jeremy Hartmann, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel

photo of Professors Ihab Ilyas and Gautam Kamath
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers named Vector Institute Faculty Affiliates

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professors Ihab Ilyas and Gautam Kamath are among the 72 faculty members appointed as 2020 Faculty Affiliates at the Vector Institute. The 2020 cohort includes both new faculty affiliates as well as those returning for a second term.

The Vector Institute’s Faculty Affiliates program brings together professors who conduct research in deep learning, machine learning and artificial intelligence across universities in Ontario.

Tuesday, January 12, 2021 11:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Natural Phenomena Simulation — Data Acquisition for Simulation: With Applications to Computer Graphics and Remote Sensing

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Petri Varsa, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Gladimir Baranoski

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Monday, December 21, 2020

Cheriton School of Computer Science alumnus Ulkar Akhundzada gives you 15 minutes of virtual fame on Instagram and TikTok

image depicting a screen grab from Hype Simulator
Cheriton School of Computer Science alumnus Ulkar Akhundzada (BCS 2015), a software development manager at Mappedin, has developed an app that gives people a taste of fame, and has received recognition of her own in the process.
Monday, January 11, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) — Generalizations of All-or-Nothing Transforms and Their Application in Secure Distributed Storage

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Navid Nasr Esfahani, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Doug Stinson