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Friday, December 5, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics • Genome-wide Pervasiveness and Localized Variation of k-mer-based Genomic Signatures in Eukaryotes

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Niousha Sadjadi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lila Kari

Friday, December 19, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Path Reduction and Coverage Complexity for Fuzzing

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Meng Xu

Friday, January 16, 2026 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Integrating Symbolic Reasoning into Large Language Models

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314 and online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Chris Eliasmith

Friday, January 30, 2026 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity | Quantum Computing • Lower Bounds on Average-Case and Non-Local Quantum Computation

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in QNC 2101 and online.

Vahid Reza Asadi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Richard Cleve, Mohammad Hajiabadi

Thursday, December 18, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics • Time Stepping Methods for Coupled Fluid-rigid Body Simulation

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314 and online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Coloring Graphs with Few Colors in the Streaming Model

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and online.

Helia Yazdanyar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Sepehr Assadi

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Human–Computer Interaction • Haptic Retargeting with World-in-Miniature in Virtual Reality

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Junhyeok Kim, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mark Hancock, Daniel Vogel

Friday, December 12, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning • A Unifying Framework for Gradient Aggregation in Multi-Objective Optimization

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

Zeou (Theo) Hu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • A Framework for Explaining LLM Reasoning with Knowledge Graphs

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Lukasz Golab