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Friday, November 24, 2023 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering • Characterizing the Impact, Distribution, and Duration of Stale Reviewer Recommendations

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2564 and online.

Farshad Kazemi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Friday, November 24, 2023 9:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering • Exploring the Notion of Risk in Code Reviewer Recommendation Systems

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2564 and online.

Farshad Kazemi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

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

PhD Defence • Machine Learning | Quantitative Finance • A General Neural Network Methodology for Multi-period Portfolio Optimization

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

Chendi Ni, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Yuying Li, Peter Forsyth

Tuesday, November 21, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning | Differential Privacy • DP-LFlow: Differentially Private Latent Flow for Scalable Sensitive Image Generation

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

Dihong Jiang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Yaoliang Yu, Sun Sun

Thursday, December 14, 2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Retrieving Supporting Evidence for Generative Question Answering

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

Siqing Huo, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Charles Clarke

Monday, November 20, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • VisConductor: Affect-Varying Gestural Widgets for Animating Data Visualization in Augmented Video Presentations

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

Temiloluwa Femi-Gege, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Thursday, November 23, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy • Private Information Retrieval: Improvements and Limitations

Please note: This CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy talk will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Kevin Yeo
Research Engineering Manager, Google
PhD candidate, Columbia University

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a very promising cryptographic tool that enables privacy-preserving data querying that has endless implications to real-world applications. Unfortunately, PIR’s high cost remains a hindrance in widespread adoption.

photo of the four Waterloo teams and coaches at 2023 ICPC East Central North America Contest
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Waterloo dominates at 2023 ICPC East Central North America Contest

Four Waterloo teams, each with a triad of exceptional algorithmic programmers, took the first, third, fourth and 20th place spots at the recent 2023 ICPC North America East Division Contest held at the University of Windsor.

Waterloo Black, consisting of Max Jiang (3A CS), Wen Yuen Pang (4A CS) and Kevin Wan (4A CS and C&O) finished first, solving 10 out of 12 problems. 

Monday, November 13, 2023 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics • Alignment-Free Genomic Analysis of Microbial Organisms in Extreme Environments: Uncovering Convergent Evolution through Deep Learning

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Pablo Millán Arias, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lila Kari