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Monday, December 4, 2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

DSG Seminar Series • Structured Knowledge and Data Management for Effective AI Systems

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1302.

Ihab Ilyas
Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
NSERC-Thomson Reuters Research Chair on Data Quality
Distinguished Engineer, Apple

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • The Impact of Code Ownership of DevOps Artefacts on the Outcome of DevOps CI Builds

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

Ajiromola Kola-Olawuyi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Mei Nagappan

This study focuses on factors that may significantly influence the outcomes of CI builds triggered by commits modifying and/or adding DevOps artefacts to the projects, i.e., DevOps-related CI builds. In particular, code ownership of DevOps artefacts is one such factor that could impact DevOps-related CI builds.

Thursday, December 7, 2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning • Multilingual Grammatical Error Detection and its Application to Prompt-Based Correction

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2585 and online.

Gustavo Sutter Pessurno de Carvalho, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Evaluating the Ability of Commercial Search Engines to Help People Answer Health Questions

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3102.

Kamyar Ghajar, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mark Smucker, Charles Clarke

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • An In-Depth Exploration of the High-Quality Entity Linking for Information Retrieval: MMEAD

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

Luyun Lin, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

photo of David Taylor, Catherine He and Raouf Boutaba
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

CS student Catherine He, winner of 2023 Concerto and Aria competition, gives stellar performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor

Catherine He is a master of the keyboard.

She is not only a computer science student in her third year, but also an accomplished musician who began playing the piano at the age of 4 — an award winner of many regional, national and international piano competitions, among them orchestra@uwaterloo’s 2023 Concerto and Aria Competition, a contest open to Waterloo students and recent grads every other year.

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Computational Neuroscience • Toward a Model of Associative Memory via Predictive Coding

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

Ehsan Ganjidoost, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jeff Orchard

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • New Codes on High Dimensional Expanders

Please note: This seminar will take place in M3 4206 and online.

Rachel Yun Zhang, PhD student
CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A code, which is a set of strings called codewords, is locally testable if one can test whether a given word is close to a codeword by reading only a few bits. Locally testable codes have been studied since the 1990s as key ingredients in the construction of probabilistically checkable proofs.