Presentations this week
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Finding Maximum Matchings in RDV Graphs Efficiently
Prashant Gokhale, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2306 | Online seminar
Thursday, July, 18, 2024
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning
Strategic and Adversarially Robust Learning with Unknown Manipulation Capabilities
Tosca Lechner, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Shai Ben-David
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction
A Comparison of Unsupervised Topic Modelling Techniques for Qualitative Data Analysis of Online Communities
Amandeep Kaur, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor James R. Wallace
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning | Differential Privacy
Functional Rényi Differential Privacy for Generative Modeling
Dihong Jiang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:30 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2102 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professors Yaoliang Yu, Sun Sun
Friday, July 19, 2024
PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking
Side-Channel Attacks on Open vSwitch
Daewoo Kim, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 1304
Supervisor: Professor Sihang Liu
PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning
Mission Impossible: Post Editing to Reduce Errors in ASR Transcripts
Ankit Vadehra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • DC 2102
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart
Upcoming presentations
Monday, July 22, 2024
PhD Seminar • Data Systems
Rumour Evaluation with Very Large Language Models
Dahlia Shehata, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor Charles Clarke
PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics
DeLUCS: Deep learning for unsupervised clustering of DNA sequences
Fatemeh Alipour, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Lila Kari & Yang Lu
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Body Language for VUIs: Exploring Gestures to Enhance Interactions with Voice User Interfaces
Liwei Alan Wu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao
Thursday, July 25, 2024
PhD Defence • CrySP (Cryptography, Security, and Privacy)
Raising the Bar on Lowering Barriers: Improving Ease of Research and Development Contributions to Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Justin Tracey, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg
Friday, July 26, 2024
PhD Seminar • Systems and networking
Analysis of LLM-Generated Code for Embedded Systems Networking
Murray Dunne, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
09:00 a.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor Sebastian Fischmeister
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Neural Architecture Search for Website Fingerprinting
Shreya Arun Naik, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:30 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Diogo Barradas
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Software Engineering
Revisiting the Impact of Crash Report Deduplication on Bug Fixing — A Case Study of Mozilla Firefox
Wen Cui, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2564 | Online master’s research paper presentation
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
PhD Defence • Information Retrieval | Natural Language Processing
Pretrained Transformers for Efficient and Robust Information Retrieval
Minghan Li, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:30 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin
PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence | Reinforcement Learning
Policy Learning under Uncertainty and Risk
Yudong Luo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Privacy-Preserving Communications from Privacy-Preserving Computations
Sajin Sasy, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Visualization for Human-Centered AI Tools
Niklas Elmqvist, PhD
Villum Investigator and Professor of Computer Science
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online seminar
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning
Asymmetric Clustering in Federated Continual Learning
Zehao Zhang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart
Friday, September 20, 2024
PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction
Pervasive Desktop Computing by Direct Manipulation of an Augmented Lamp
Yuan Chen, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • DC 3317
Supervisors: Professors Daniel Vogel, Géry Casiez, Sylvain Malacria
