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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics • Application of Machine Learning to Taxonomic Classification of Emerging Astroviruses

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

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

Supervisors: Professor Lila Kari, Yang Lu

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics • Efficient Protein Inference with Graph Neural Networks

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Zheng Ma, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Ali Ghodsi, Ming Li

The integration of deep learning approaches in biomedical research has been transformative, enabling breakthroughs in various applications. Despite these strides, its application in protein inference is impeded by the scarcity of extensively labeled datasets, a challenge compounded by the high costs and complexities of accurate protein annotation.

Friday, April 26, 2024 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages • Type-Aware Optimizations with Imperfect Types

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

Jeremiah Ikosin, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Gregor Richards

Friday, May 10, 2024 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Machine Learning | Deep Leaning • Symbolic Regression and Sequence Modelling with Conditional and Dynamic Language Models

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Mojtaba Valipour, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ali Ghodsi

Friday, May 10, 2024 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Bioinformatics • Deep Unsupervised Learning for Biodiversity Analysis: Representation Learning and Clustering of Bacterial, Mitochondrial, and Barcode DNA Sequences

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2310 and online.

Pablo Millán Arias, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lila Kari

Friday, April 19, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Size Constraints in Segmentation and Size Predictions

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

Xingye Fan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yuri Boykov