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Friday, September 13, 2024 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering • Bug Localization Tools in Practice: User Perspectives and Expectations

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Partha Chakraborty, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Mei Nagappan

Friday, September 13, 2024 9:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering • Revisiting the Performance of Deep Learning-Based Vulnerability Detection on Realistic Datasets

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Partha Chakraborty, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Mei Nagappan

Monday, September 16, 2024 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning • On Classifying the Outcomes of Legal Motions

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

Oluwaseun Cardoso, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Maura R. Grossman

Thursday, September 5, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • TacTalk: Personalizing Haptics Through Conversation

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

Anchit Mishra, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professor Oliver Schneider, Daniel Vogel

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics • Efficient Image-space Shape Splatting for Monte Carlo Rendering

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

Xiaochun Tong, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Toshiya Hachisuka

Professor Ihab Ilyas
Monday, August 19, 2024

Ihab Ilyas receives C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award for advancing computer science

Professor Ihab Ilyas has been awarded the prestigious 2024 C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award in recognition of his contributions to building large-scale machine learning systems for data integration, data cleaning and knowledge construction.

Team 42-b3yond-6ug at DEF CON 32
Friday, August 16, 2024

Waterloo CS student and professor on international team winning $2 million in DARPA AIxCC Cybersecurity Challenge

The AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, awarded seven semi-finalist teams $2 million USD each at DEF CON 32, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity conferences.

Among the semi-finalists was 42-b3yond-6ug, a team with students and professors from six universities led by Northwestern University along with the University of Waterloo, University of Utah, University of Colorado Boulder, Johns Hopkins University, and University of New Hampshire.

Friday, September 6, 2024 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Towards Robust Control in Visual Generation and Manipulation

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

Max Ku, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Wenhu Chen