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Monday, December 14, 2020 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence — Approximating Dynamical Systems in Neural Networks: Constructing a Biologically Plausible Adaptive Filter Model of the Cerebellum

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Andreas Stöckel, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chris Eliasmith

Thursday, December 10, 2020 11:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence — AlphaStar: Considerations and Human-like Constraints for Deep Learning Game Interfaces

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

Monday, December 7, 2020 10:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute • UC Non-Interactive, Proactive, Threshold ECDSA with Identifiable Aborts

Please note: This Waterloo CPI seminar will be giving online.

Nikolaos Makriyannis, Cryptography researcher
Fireblocks

Building on the Gennaro & Goldfeder and Lindell & Nof protocols (CCS '18), we present two threshold ECDSA protocols, for any number of signatories and any threshold, that improve as follows over the state of the art: 

Friday, December 11, 2020 10:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems — Scaling Machine Learning Data Repair Systems for Sparse Datasets

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

Omar Attia, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ihab Ilyas

Machine learning data repair systems (e.g., HoloClean) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for the data repair problem on many datasets. However, these systems still face significant challenges when applied to sparse datasets.

Tuesday, December 1, 2020 9:00 am - 9:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Symbolic Computation — Solving Structured Determinantal Systems using Homotopy Methods with an Application to Computing Isolated Critical Points for Invariant Systems

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Thi Xuan Vu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors George Labahn, Éric Schost, Mohab Safey El Din

Monday, December 7, 2020 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics | Scientific Computing — Divergence-Free and Boundary-Respecting Velocity Interpolation Using Stream Functions

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Jumyung “JC” Chang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty

Friday, December 11, 2020 12:30 pm - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Software Engineering Investigating the Effectiveness of Pair Programming in Industrial Domains: A Systematic Literature Review

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

Alex Pawelczyk, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel M. Berry

Friday, December 11, 2020 12:30 pm - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning — Generalization on Text-based Games using Structured Belief Representations

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

Ashutosh Devendrakumar Adhikari, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin