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Friday, January 19, 2024 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Disk-based Indexing for NIR-Trees using Polygon Overlays

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

Fadhil Abubaker, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Khuzaima Daudjee

Friday, January 26, 2024 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • A Fault Injection Tool for Testing Distributed System with Network Faults

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

Seba Khaleel, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Samer Al-Kiswany

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

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Re-encoding Resistance: Towards Robust Covert Channels over WebRTC Video Streaming

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317.

Adrian Cruzat La Rosa, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Diogo Barradas

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

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • Learning Voting Rules Using Neural Networks

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Ben Armstrong, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Kate Larson

We present our work using machine learning models to approximate social choice functions, a.k.a. methods of voting. Voting rules are functions that are given voter preferences and produce a winning candidate.

Tuesday, January 9, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • Proving Properties of Fibonacci Representations via Automata Theory

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

Sonja Linghui Shan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Shallit

Friday, January 12, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Analyzing Adversarial Examples: A Framework to Study Adversary Knowledge

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314, not DC 3317. 

Lucas Fenaux, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

photo of CS professor Dan Brown in the Davis Centre
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Cheriton researchers find that large language models validate misinformation

New research into large language models shows that they repeat conspiracy theories, harmful stereotypes, and other forms of misinformation.

In a recent study, researchers at the Cheriton School of Computer Science systematically tested an early version of ChatGPT’s understanding of statements in six categories: facts, conspiracies, controversies, misconceptions, stereotypes, and fiction. This was part of the researchers’ efforts to investigate human-technology interactions and explore how to mitigate risks.

Thursday, January 4, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Formal Methods | Software Engineering • Towards Formal Analysis of Parametric Cooperative Cyber-Physical Systems

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Raniah Alghamdi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Richard Trefler

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

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Software Engineering • GIT-PIR: Private Cloning Protocol for Remote Git Repositories

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

Muhammad Arsalan Khan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh