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Wednesday, August 26, 2020 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity — Monotonicity Testing for Boolean Functions over Graph Products

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Eric Blais

We establish a directed analogue of Chung and Tetali’s isoperimetric inequality for graph products. We use this inequality to obtain new bounds on the query complexity for testing monotonicity of Boolean-valued functions over products of general posets.

Tuesday, August 18, 2020 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning — Dialog Response Generation Using Adversarially Learned Latent Bag-of-Words

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

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

Dialog response generation is the task of generating response utterance given a query utterance. Apart from generating relevant and coherent responses, one would like the dialog generation model to generate diverse and informative sentences.

Thursday, August 20, 2020 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning — Entropy-Based Aggregate Posterior Alignment Techniques for Deterministic Autoencoders and Implications for Adversarial Examples

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

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

Monday, August 24, 2020 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering — Personality Traits of GitHub Maintainers and Their Effects on Project Success

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

Seonghu (Alex) Yun, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

Friday, August 7, 2020 11:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics — AnimationPak: Packing Elements with Scripted Animations

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Reza Adhitya Saputra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

We present AnimationPak, a technique to create animated packings by arranging animated two-dimensional elements inside a static container. We represent animated elements in a three-dimensional spacetime domain, and view the animated packing problem as a three-dimensional packing in that domain. Every element is represented as a discretized spacetime mesh.