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Friday, February 13, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking • Cache Your Prompt When It’s Green: Carbon-Aware Caching for Large Language Model Serving

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1302.

Henry Tian, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Sihang Liu

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Dimension Independent and Computationally Efficient Shadow Tomography

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in QNC 1201.

Pulkit Sinha, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ashwin Nayak

Thursday, February 5, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Human–Computer Interaction | Artificial Intelligence • Towards Transparent Code Evaluation and Understanding

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Xuye Liu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human–Computer Interaction • Semantic Ink: Annotation-as-Command for Steerable, Reusable AI Graphics Editing

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2310 and online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Friday, February 27, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Threshold Cryptography • Golden: Lightweight Non-Interactive Distributed Key Generation

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Chelsea Komlo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Ian Goldberg, Douglas Stebila

Friday, February 6, 2026 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Computer Algebra | Symbolic Computation • Heights and Resultants of Determinantal Varieties

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2306C and online.

Sriram Gopalakrishnan, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Éric Schost

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 9:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Software Engineering • Exploring and Visualizing Fact-Based Software Models to Improve Program Comprehension

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2310.

Rafael F. Toledo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jo Atlee