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Wednesday, November 19, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Explainable AI • Counterfactual and Rule-Based Explanations for Retrieval-Augmented LLMs

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 3301.

Joel Rorseth, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lukasz Golab

Friday, November 21, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics | Sampling • Generating Low-Discrepancy Point Sets and Sequences via Optimization

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Ege Ciklabakkal, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Toshiya Hachisuka

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

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Recursive Lattice Reduction — A Simple Framework for Finding Short Lattice Vectors

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

Noah Stephens-Davidowitz, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Cornell University

Thursday, December 11, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Parallel Oblivious Joins using Radix Partitioning

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Sujaya Maiyya

Wednesday, January 7, 2026 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Contextual AI: Integrating Macro-Context with Transformer Architectures for Social Media Analysis, Federated Learning, and Recommender Systems

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Liam Hebert, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Robin Cohen, Lukasz Golab

Thursday, December 4, 2025 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity • Algebraic Geometric Methods for Algorithms in Satisfiability, Irreducibility of Varieties, and Identity Testing

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Abhibhav Garg, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Rafael Oliveira

Friday, November 28, 2025 10:00 am - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence• Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Platform Security • Hardware-Assisted Defenses for Data Integrity and Confidentiality

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Hossam ElAtali, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor N. Asokan

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 9:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Natural Language Processing | Information Retrieval • Democratizing and Modernizing Information Access: From Open Rerankers to Scalable RAG Evaluation

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Ronak Pradeep, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin