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

PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Fast Algorithms for Directed Graph Partitioning Using Flows and Reweighted Eigenvalues

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

Robert Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lap Chi Lau

Thursday, January 25, 2024 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Analyzing Leakage of Personally Identifiable Information in Language Models

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

Nils Lukas, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Friday, February 2, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy • PrivaCI — Privacy through Contextual Integrity

Please note: This talk will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Yan Shvartzshnaider, Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lassonde School of Engineering, York University

Wednesday, January 17, 2024 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Information Retrieval • Enhancing Zero-Shot Text Retrieval with Large Language Models

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Neural retrieval systems have proven effective across a range of tasks and languages. However, creating fully zero-shot neural retrieval pipeline remains a challenge when relevance labels are not available.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Bioinformatics • Advancing Antibody Design: Integrating Protein Language Models for Enhanced Computational Strategies

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

Benyamin Jamialahmadi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Ali Ghodsi, Mohammad Kohandel

photo of Professor Lila Kari, PhD student Pablo Millán Arias
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Microbial organisms living in extreme environments have similar genomic signatures even though they are unrelated

Extremophiles are species that are adapted to live at the edges of biological tolerance, in a range of environments that seem inhospitable to life by human standards. These extremely hardy organisms are found in all three domains and all six kingdoms of life, the highest and second highest levels of classification biologists use to categorize living things based on common ancestry.

Monday, January 22, 2024 9:30 am - 10:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Website Fingerprinting on LEO Satellite Internet

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

Prabhjot Singh, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Diogo Barradas

Although encrypted channels, like those provided by anonymity networks such as Tor, have been put into effect, network adversaries have proven their capability to undermine users’ browsing privacy through website fingerprinting attacks.