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Wednesday, October 8, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Systems and Networking • From Pixels to Kernels: Architecting Efficient and Scalable Systems for Visual Computing

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

Nandita Vijaykumar, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Friday, October 10, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics | Rendering • Deep Residual Combiner: A Learned Fusion of Spatial, Temporal, and Multiscale Correlated Pixel Estimates

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

Weijie Zhou, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Toshiya Hachisuka

Thursday, November 13, 2025 11:00 am - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Human–Computer Interaction • Exploring how User Interface Constraints Can Improve User Outcomes while Reading and Writing

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Nikhita Joshi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel

Friday, November 7, 2025 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Computer Graphics | Rendering • Correlation-Aware Rendering: Improving Sampling and Denoising for Realistic Image Synthesis

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

Weijie Zhou, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Toshiya Hachisuka

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • InsPIRe: Communication-Efficient PIR with Server-side Preprocessing

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 3333.

Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Monday, October 20, 2025 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Applied Category Theory | Machine Learning • Categories as a Foundation for Both Learning and Reasoning

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

Nolan Shaw, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jeff Orchard