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Thursday, August 15, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning • Asymmetric Clustering in Federated Continual Learning

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

Zehao Zhang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Professor Jo Atlee, postdoctoral researcher Rungroj Maipradit, recent master’s graduate Joy Idialu, master’s student Noble Saji Mathews and Professor Mei Nagappan
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers awarded ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at MSR 2024

A team of software engineering researchers from the Cheriton School of Computer Science has received an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at MSR ’24, the 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, held in Lisbon, Portugal. The prestigious award was conferred for their paper titled “Whodunit: Classifying Code as Human Authored or GPT-4 generated — A Case Study on CodeChef Problems.”

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Information Retrieval | Machine Learning • UniRAG: Universal Retrieval Augmentation for Multi-Modal Large Language Models

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

Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Monday, July 8, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction | AR/VR | Visualization • Exploring Visualizations for Precisely Guiding Bare Hand Gestures in Virtual Reality

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Xizi (Lucy) Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Bare hand interaction in augmented or virtual reality (AR/VR) systems, while intuitive, often results in errors and frustration. However, existing methods, such as a static icon or a dynamic tutorial, can only inform simple and coarse hand gestures and lack corrective feedback.

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 9:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Information Retrieval | Natural Language Processing • Pretrained Transformers for Efficient and Robust Information Retrieval

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Minghan Li, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Thursday, July 25, 2024 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • CrySP (Cryptography, Security, and Privacy) • Raising the Bar on Lowering Barriers: Improving Ease of Research and Development Contributions to Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Justin Tracey, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg

Wednesday, July 3, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Counterexample-Driven Learning for Rule-Based Systems

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Frédéric Bouchard, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki

Thursday, June 20, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Information Retrieval | Natural Language Processing • Nearest Neighbor Speculative Decoding for LLM Generation and Attribution

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Minghan Li, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Compute Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin