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Tuesday, August 25, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Inferred Author Gender as a Variable Affecting LLM Behaviour

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

Avery Hiebert, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor George Labahn

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • An Empirical Study of Transitive Vulnerability Exposure in PyPI

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2564 and online.

Mohammad Jaffer Iqbal, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Michael Godfrey, Pengyu Nie

Thursday, August 20, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human–Computer Interaction • The Design and Development of a Virtual Patient System for Medical Education

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Aakanksha Khandwaha, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Edith Law

Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:00 am - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Computer Algebra | Symbolic Computation • On the Effective Algebraic Geometry of Determinantal Varieties

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Éric Schost

Thursday, August 13, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Upgrading Security Properties for Updatable Public-Key Encryption through Modular Transformations

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

Pranshu Kumar, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mohammad Hajiabadi, Douglas Stebila

Friday, August 14, 2026 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • Bipartite Density: From Mixing Time to Local Algorithms for Dense Subgraphs

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

Raymond Liu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lap Chi Lau

Friday, August 14, 2026 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • On the Black-Box Impossibility of Hardness in TFNP from One-Way Functions

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

Anas Ibrahim, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Mohammad Hajiabadi