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Thursday, October 3, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing • MixSumm: A Topic-based Data Augmentation for Text Summarization

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Gaurav Sahu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Olga Vechtomova

Monday, September 30, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing • Computational Modeling of Artistic Inspiration in the Context of Short Lyric Lines

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Gaurav Sahu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Olga Vechtomova

Monday, September 30, 2024 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing • PromptMix: A Class Boundary Data Augmentation Method for Text Classification and LLM Distillation

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Gaurav Sahu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Olga Vechtomova

a collage of images from the Cheriton Research Symposium
Friday, September 27, 2024 10:00 am - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

2024 Cheriton Research Symposium

Join us for the 2024 Cheriton Research Symposium, a showcase of research excellence made possible by the generous support of David R. Cheriton.

Morning Session
Presentations by Cheriton Fellows Semih Salihoğlu and Eric Blais, followed by a panel discussion on the future of computer science education, moderated by Dave Tompkins

Afternoon Session
Graduate student poster presentations

Professor Nils Lukas in Waterloo's Davis Centre
Monday, September 16, 2024

Nils Lukas receives Waterloo’s 2024 Alumni Gold Medal

The University of Waterloo has recognized recent PhD graduate Dr. Nils Lukas with the 2024 Alumni Gold Medal for his exceptional academic performance in a doctoral program. This prestigious award, conferred by Alumni Relations, features a custom-crafted, 24-carat gold-plated medal embossed with the university’s seal. Since 1970, the Alumni Gold Medal has been conferred to top graduating students from Waterloo’s six faculties at convocation.

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning • Locally Optimal Message-Passing on Feature-Decorated Sparse Graphs

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Aseem Baranwal, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Kimon Fountoulakis, Aukosh Jagannath

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics • CGRclust: Chaos Game Representation for Twin Contrastive Clustering of Unlabelled DNA Sequences

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Fatemeh Alipour, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Lila Kari, Yang Lu