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Thursday, June 11, 2026 10:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity • The Sample Complexity of Differentially Private Statistical Estimation

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Gautam Kamath

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • The Grain of Truth Problem for (Bayesian) Game Theory and Reinforcement Learning

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Cole Wyeth, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ming Li

Friday, May 15, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Enhancing Symbolic Regression with Dimensional Analysis

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

Lena Podina, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mohammad Kohandel, Ali Ghodsi

Friday, May 8, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Visual Segmentation with Explanations for Medical Decision Making: A CNN Architecture with a Transformer-Attention Extension

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

Mahmoud Khalaf, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Robin Cohen

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Deployment Concerns in Machine Learning Systems: Unintended Interactions and Accountability

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Vasisht Duddu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor N. Asokan

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 10:00 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

DLS: Margaret-Anne Storey — How Generative and Agentic AI is Disrupting Software Development

Please note: This distinguished Lecture will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Margaret-Anne Storey, Professor
Canada Research Chair in Human and Social Aspects of Software Engineering
Computer Science, University of Victoria

Friday, April 24, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Scaling a Hierarchical Coordination Fabric for Geo-Distributed Consensus

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

Shashank Joshi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Bernard Wong, Wojciech Golab