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Friday, April 17, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Human–Computer Interaction • Revealing a Concealed Eye Disorder in Children: Designing a Solution Grounded in HCI Principles

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Alessandra Luz, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • NeuralOS: Towards Simulating Operating Systems via Neural Generative Models

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

Luke Rivard, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yuntian Deng

Monday, April 13, 2026 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • On the Statistical Query Complexity of Learning Semiautomata: A Random Walk Approach

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

George Giapitzakis Tzintanos, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Kimon Fountoulakis

Monday, April 20, 2026 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Systems and Networking | Quantum Computing • Quantum Computing Systems: Toward Scalable and Efficient Quantum Computation

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

Hezi Zhang, PhD candidate
Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of California, San Diego

Thursday, April 16, 2026 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Facilitating Game Development From Requirements to Code with LLMs

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

Ahmed El Shatshat, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Derek Rayside, Daniel Berry

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Systems and Networking • AI Efficiency Across the Computing Stack: Model Efficiency, Software Tooling, and Hardware Architecture

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

Mohamed Abdelfattah, Assistant Professor, Cornell Tech
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University

Monday, April 13, 2026 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Post-Training Large Language Models as Software Engineering Agents

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

Zhiheng Lyu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Wenhu Chen

Thursday, April 16, 2026 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Understanding the Impact of Inputs on LLM-Based Automated Test Generation

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

Saarang Agarwal, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Pengyu Nie, Mei Nagappan

Friday, April 10, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking • Root Cause Analysis in Networked Systems via Latent Cause Inference and Prior Knowledge

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1302.

Soheil Johari, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba