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Thursday, July 17, 2025 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Machine Learning • Improving Automated Lung Ultrasound Interpretation with Self-Supervised Learning

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

Blake VanBerlo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Jesse Hoey, Alexander Wong

Friday, May 30, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages • Language Design for Scalable, Extensible Proof Engineering

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

Oghenevwogaga Ebresafe, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yizhou Zhang

Monday, May 26, 2025 - Tuesday, May 27, 2025 (all day)

Inria Workshop • University of Waterloo • Université de Bordeaux

This two-day workshop, organized jointly by Inria (Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique), the University of Waterloo, and Université de Bordeaux, brings together researchers from across disciplines to explore collaborative opportunities in digital health, artificial intelligence, security and privacy, human-computer interaction, and applied mathematics.

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Realizing Privacy Design Strategies for Back-end Web Architectures

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Miti Mazmudar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction • Materials-Driven CAD: Leveraging Craft Practices to Design Computational Tools for Sustainable Manufacturing

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

Ritik Batra, PhD student, Information Science Department
Cornell Tech, New York City

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Optimal Differentially Private Sampling from Unbounded Gaussians

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

Argyris Mouzakis, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Gautam Kamath

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 10:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity • Directed Isoperimetry and Monotonicity: Property Testing in the Analytic Setting

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

Renato Ferreira Pinto Jr., PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Eric Blais