Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.
Charupriya Sharma, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Peter van Beek
Please note: This distinguished lecture will take place in DC 1302 and virtually over Zoom.
Tanya Berger-Wolf
Director, Translational Data Analytics Institute
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
Director, Imageomics Institute
Ohio State University
Please note: This PhD defence will take place in MC 5417 and virtually.
Catherine St-Pierre, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Éric Schost
This thesis presents an algorithm to find the local structure of intersections of plane curves.
Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.
Silvia Sellán, PhD candidate
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317.
Matt D’Souza, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Ondřej Lhoták
Parametric polymorphism, also known as generics, is an abstraction that lets programmers define code that behaves independently of the types of values it operates on. Generics is a useful abstraction to enable code reuse and improve the maintainability of software projects.
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317 and virtually over Zoom.
Eva Feng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor David Toman
Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2564 and virtually over Zoom.
Wenhan (Cosmos) Zhu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Michael Godfrey
Yuhao Dong, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.
Alessandra Luz, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1331.
Nolan Peter Shaw, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Jeff Orchard
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2564.
Yongqiang (Victor) Tian, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun

Sponsored by the Faculty of Math Data Science Graduate Programs, please join University of Waterloo expert in artificial intelligence, Professor Pascal Poupart, for a public talk in which he will describe the key technological advances in recent years that were behind, and ultimately facilitated, breakthroughs such as AlphaGo and ChatGPT.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.
Daewoo Kim, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Trevor Brown
Memory management in multicore systems is a well studied area. Many approaches to memory management have been developed and tuned with specific hardware architectures in mind, capitalizing on hardware characteristics to improve performance. In this thesis, the focus is on memory allocation and reclamation in multicore systems.
Please note: Brain Day 2023 will take place in Engineering 7, various rooms.
The University of Waterloo’s Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience supports the development of robust explanatory theories of mind and brain through education and research.
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1331 and virtually over Zoom.
Ken Jen Lee, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Edith Law
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.
Abhinav Bora, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Srinivasan Keshav, Lukasz Golab
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2310.
Linh Nhi Phan Minh, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Mark Smucker
Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.
Zhicong Lu, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong
The proliferation of video-sharing and livestreaming platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch has catalyzed the growth of online creative communities, promoting cultural expression and preservation.
Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.
Florian Rabe
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.
Matthew Lakier, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.
Zhiying Jiang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are often used for text classification due to their high accuracy. However, DNNs can be computationally intensive, requiring millions of parameters and large amounts of labeled data, which can make them expensive to use, to optimize, and to transfer to out-of-distributed (OOD) cases in practice.
Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.
Nicholas Spooner, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.
Ali Saheb Pasand, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Ali Ghodsi
Please note: This seminar will take place virtually over Zoom.
Tanvir Ahmed Khan, PhD candidate
Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Billions of people rely on web services powered by data centers, where critical applications run 24/7. Unfortunately, data center applications are extremely inefficient, wasting more than 60% of all processor cycles, and causing millions of dollars in operational expenses and energy costs.
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2564.
Wenhan (Cosmos) Zhu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Michael Godfrey