William Wang, a third-year undergraduate student, earned one of the top prizes at ETHDenver, held from February 23 to March 3, 2024.
Mahsa Derakhshan, Assistant Professor
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
In this talk, we discuss the stochastic vertex cover problem. In this problem, G is an arbitrary known graph, and G* is an unknown random subgraph of G containing each of its edges independently with a known probability p. Edges of G* can only be verified using edge queries. The goal in this problem is to find a minimum vertex cover of G* using a small number of queries.
Professor Daniel Vogel at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, Professor Géry Casiez at France’s University of Lille, and researchers Mathieu Nancel and Sylvain Malacria at the Inria centre at the University of Lille, have been funded to create an Associate Team at Inria — France’s National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology.
Janani Sundaresan, a PhD candidate at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been awarded a Faculty of Mathematics Graduate Research Excellence Award. Conferred annually to two graduate students who have authored or coauthored an outstanding research paper, the prestigious recognition comes with a prize of $5,000.
Andy Yu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Lukasz Golab
Waterloo’s Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience supports the development of robust explanatory theories of mind and brain through education and research.
In pursuit of that goal the CTN has invited four internationally renowned speakers to present generally accessible lectures from each of the perspectives of neuroscience, computational neuroscience, psychology and philosophy on the ideas of mind, brain, theories and models.
Ahmed Alquraan, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Samer Al-Kiswany
Juba Ziani, Assistant Professor
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech
In this talk, I will be discussing “personalized” (or “individualized”) differential privacy, where different individuals can be offered different epsilons simultaneously within the same computation. I will be presenting two of my recent works on personalized DP in the central model:
Sarah Cen, PhD candidate
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, MIT
We have begun grappling with difficult questions related to the rise of AI, including: What rights do individuals have in the age of AI? When should we regulate AI and when should we abstain? What degree of transparency is needed to monitor AI systems? These questions are all concerned with AI accountability: determining who owes responsibility and to whom in the age of AI.
Kathrin Hövelmanns, Tenured Assistant Professor
Applied and Provable Security group, TU Eindhoven