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photo of PhD candidate Blake VanBerlo in the Davis Centre
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Blake VanBerlo awarded prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

Blake VanBerlo, a PhD candidate at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, is one of five recipients at Waterloo of a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Valued at $150,000 over three years, Vanier Scholarships recognize doctoral students who have exhibited academic excellence, research potential and leadership.

Monday, September 25, 2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

DSG Seminar Series • Class Expression Learning with Multiple Representations

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

Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Professor of Data Science
Paderborn University

RDF knowledge bases are now first-class citizens of the Web with over 100 billion RDF assertions in the 2022 WebDataCommons crawl. Developing explainable machine learning approaches tailored towards this data is hence a task of increasing importance.

Friday, October 13, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Theoretical Neuroscience • Exploiting Semantic Information in a Spiking Neural SLAM System

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in E7 6323 and virtually.

Nicole Sandra-Yaffa Dumont, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Jeff Orchard, Chris Eliasmith

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Hidden Permutations to the Rescue: Multi-Pass Semi-Streaming Lower Bounds for Approximate Matchings

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

Sepehr Assadi, Associate Professor
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Friday, November 10, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Software Engineering • Adaptive Human-Chatbot Interactions: Contextual Factors, Variability Design and Levels of Automation

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2310 and virtually.

Glaucia Melo dos Santos, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Paulo Alencar, Daniel Berry, Donald Cowan

Thursday, September 21, 2023 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Cracking the Code: Unraveling Gender Disparities in Open-Source Contributions

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

Norhan Abbas, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mei Nagappan, Diogo Barradas

Friday, September 29, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • Perceptual Allowances of Anamorphic Cues in Spatial Augmented Reality

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

Cheryl Lao, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Daniel Vogel, Craig Kaplan