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Wednesday, December 18, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • Augmenting Digital Media Consumption via Critical Reflection to Increase Compassion and Promote Prosocial Attitudes and Behaviors

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

Ken Jen Lee, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Edith Law

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Solution Discovery for Source Problems in P

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Stephanie Maaz, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Naomi Nishimura, Amer E. Mouawad

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning • Statistical Analysis of Local Graph Clustering with Side Information

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Shenghao Yang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Kimon Fountoulakis

Computer Science Professor Victor Zhong in DC atrium
Friday, November 15, 2024

Meet Victor Zhong, a computer scientist who seeks to make machine learning more general and efficient through natural language understanding

Victor Zhong joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August 2024. He also serves as a CIFAR AI Chair and faculty member at the Vector Institute.

His research is at the intersection of machine learning and natural language processing, with an emphasis on using language understanding to learn more generally and efficiently. His research covers a range of topics, including dialogue, code generation, question answering, and grounded reinforcement learning.

Thursday, December 12, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction • TacTalk: Personalizing Haptics Through Conversation

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

Anchit Mishra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Matthew Brehmer, Oliver Schneider, Daniel Vogel

Friday, November 29, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking • Cephalo: Harnessing Heterogeneous GPU Clusters for Training Transformer Models

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

Runsheng (Benson) Guo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Khuzaima Daudjee

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • A Study of the Opportunities and Challenges of Using Edge Computing to Accelerate Cloud Applications

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

Hala Qadi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Samer Al-Kiswany