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Wednesday, July 23, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Formal Methods • Local Theories and Efficient Partial Quantifier Elimination

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

Estifanos Getachew, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Arie Gurfinkel, Richard Trefler

Friday, July 11, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking • Dynamic SLA-aware Network Slice Monitoring with Programmable Data Planes

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

Niloy Saha, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba

Friday, July 11, 2025 10:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction • Concerto: Elementary VR/AR Interactions Augmented by Bimanual Input

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

Futian Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Jian Zhao, Keiko Katsuragawa

Three young men in different outdoor settings: one by a waterfall, one in a forest, and one in a snowy landscape.
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Stuck on that paper? AI tool suggests citations and autocompletes writing

Ever spent hours browsing through multiple websites because you can’t find the right source for your essay?

Fortunately, a Waterloo-led research team has created ScholarCopilot, an AI-powered software that can make writing papers faster, smoother, and less stressful.

Users can write or upload on ScholarCopilot’s interface. When they click on the “search citations” button, it will analyze their content and generate a list of academic sources. If the user chooses one of the recommendations, ScholarCopilot will automatically create in-text citations.

Thursday, August 7, 2025 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Software Engineering • Precise and Scalable Constraint-based Type Inference for Incomplete Java Code Snippets in the Age of Large Language Models

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

Yiwen Dong, Ph D candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun

Composite Photo of Yuzhe (An Asian woman in a black dress and gloves leans against a stone wall outdoors Taken at Cambridge University) and Professor Jian Zhao (right an Asian man in a blue-striped sweater stands in an indoor setting with modern architecture in the background)
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Yuzhe You wins best student paper award at GI 2025 for novel cybersecurity tool

PhD student Yuzhe You has won the Michael A.J. Sweeney Award for Best Student Paper at Graphics Interface 2025. Held annually by the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, GI is the nation’s top conference on computer graphics and visualization, and human-computer interaction.

The award recognizes Yuzhe’s paper, Exploring Comparative Visual Approaches for Understanding Model Trade-offs in Adversarial Machine Learning, co-authored with Professor Jian Zhao, her supervisor.

Friday, July 18, 2025 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity • Optimal Graph Streaming Algorithms and Further Advances in Modern Models of Computation

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

Vihan Shah, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Sepehr Assadi

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning | Deep Learning • Continuation KD: Improved Knowledge Distillation through the Lens of Continuation Optimization

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Aref Jafari, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ali Ghodsi