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Wednesday, January 31, 2024 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar • Computer Graphics • Stochastic Computer Graphics

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

Silvia Sellán, PhD candidate
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Computer Graphics research has long been dominated by the interests of large film, television and social media companies, forcing other, more safety-critical applications (e.g., medicine, engineering, security) to repurpose Graphics algorithms originally designed for entertainment.

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Shai Ben-David, Ian Goldberg named 2023 ACM Fellows

Professors Shai Ben-David and Ian Goldberg have been named 2023 ACM Fellows. The Association for Computing Machinery is recognizing Professor Ben-David for his contributions to and research leadership in machine learning theory, and Professor Goldberg for his contributions to the development and deployment of privacy enhancing technologies.

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Monday, January 22, 2024

Ming Li receives 2024 IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award

University Professor Ming Li is the 2024 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award, a prestigious honour conferred for his pioneering and enduring contributions to modern information theory and bioinformatics.

Wednesday, January 24, 2024 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Data Systems • Efficient Dense Representation Learning for Information Retrieval

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

Sheng-Chieh (Jack) Lin, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Contrastive learning is a commonly used technique to train an effective neural retrieval model; however, it requires much computation resources (i.e., multiple GPUs or TPUs).

composite photo of Matthew Yang, Ruidi Wei, Jiawen Zhu, Alex Zhuang
Thursday, January 18, 2024

Cheriton School of Computer Science students receive 2024 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards

Four students at the Cheriton School of Computer Science are recipients of the Computing Research Association’s 2024 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards. The annual CRA awards program recognizes students from universities across North America who have distinguished themselves by conducting exceptional computer science research as undergrads.

This year, Matthew Yang was a finalist, and Ruidi Wei, Jiawen Zhu and Alex Zhuang each received honourable mentions for their research.

Wednesday, January 24, 2024 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar • Bioinformatics • Science and Engineering in Bioinformatics

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

Ibrahim Numanagić
Canada Research Chair in Data Science and Computational Biology
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Victoria

Friday, February 2, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Affective Computing • Computational Models of Emotions in Decision-Making Agents: A Systematic Review

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Aarti Malhotra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Daniel Vogel named 2023 ACM Distinguished Member

The Association for Computing Machinery has named Professor Daniel Vogel a Distinguished Member for his fundamental contributions to human-computer interaction and applications of novel forms of interaction. He is among 52 individuals recognized internationally by ACM for their outstanding scientific contributions to computing.