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Monday, December 7, 2020 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Software Engineering — Case Study on University of Waterloo’s Quest — A Requirement Engineering and User Experience Investigation and Lessons Learned

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Daniel M. Berry

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 11:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning — Cross-Lingual Entity Matching for Knowledge Graphs

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

Hsiu-Wei Yang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Multilingual knowledge graphs (KGs), such as YAGO and DBpedia, represent entities in different languages. The task of cross-lingual entity matching is to align entities in a source language with their counterparts in target languages. 

an illustration depicting a partial network partition
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Cheriton computer scientists create a Nifty solution to a catastrophic network fault

Partial network partitions are a peculiar type of network fault that disrupts communication between some but not all nodes in a computer cluster. And for what has recently been found to be a surprisingly catastrophic source of computer system failures, partial network partitions have not been studied comprehensively by computer scientists or network administrators.

Friday, December 4, 2020 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering — Documentation-Guided Fuzzing for Testing Deep Learning API Functions

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

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

Supervisors: Professors Lin Tan, Mike Godfrey

photo of Professors Shalev Ben-David and Eric Blais
Friday, November 20, 2020

Shalev Ben-David and Eric Blais receive a prestigious best paper award at FOCS 2020 for their work that extends Yao’s minimax theorem

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professors Shalev Ben-David and Eric Blais have received a prestigious best paper award at FOCS 2020, the 61st Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. FOCS and its counterpart — the Symposium on Theory of Computing — are the top international meetings in theoretical computer science.

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 10:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Symbolic Computation — Homotopy Algorithms for Solving Structured Determinantal Systems

Please note: This PhD defence 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

photo of postdoc researcher Mohammad Mazaheri and master’s student Alex Chen
Monday, November 16, 2020

mmTag, toward a battery-free 5G networking device

The main difference between current wireless networks and 5G networks comes down to two words — speed and latency.

5G networks are expected to be up to 100 times faster than current networks. And at that speed, 5G drastically cuts latency when connecting to the network, the lag between instructing a computer to perform a task and its execution. One thing we know with certainty — by delivering mountains of data at warp speed wirelessly, the impact of 5G will be enormous and it will be felt across all sectors of society.