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Thursday, June 25, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • UniMaia: Steering Chess Policies with Language for Human-like Play

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

Sherman Siu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Lesley Istead, Jeff Orchard

Monday, June 8, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • The Evolution of Differentially Private Clustering

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

Thomas Humphries, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Thursday, June 18, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Parallel Efficient Secure DBSCAN Approximation

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

Mohannad Shehata, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Friday, June 5, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Talk, Judge, Cooperate: Gossip-Driven Indirect Reciprocity in Self-Interested LLM Agents

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

Shuhui Zhu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Monday, June 22, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • LLM-Based Frameworks for Information Retrieval Evaluation

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

Shivani Upadhyay, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Friday, June 5, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Human–Computer Interaction • DuckDuckTalk: Conversational Agent Teams to Support Active Externalization during Collaborative Data Analysis

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

Mohammad Hasan Payandeh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Friday, June 5, 2026 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Computer Algebra | Symbolic Computation • Signature-based Gröbner basis Algorithms for Determinantal Ideals

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2306C and online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Éric Schost