Events - February 2023

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Tim Dockhorn, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2584 and virtually over Zoom.

Joshua Jung, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.

Victor Zhong, PhD candidate
Natural Language Processing Group, University of Washington

Traditional machine learning systems are trained on vast quantities of annotated data or experience. These systems often do not generalize to new, related problems that emerge after training, such as conversing about new topics or interacting with new environments.

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Khaled Ammar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors M. Tamer Özsu, Semih Salihoglu

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.

Kaiyu (Kevin) Wu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor J. Ian Munro

We present succinct distance oracles for (unweighted) interval graphs and related classes of graphs, using a novel succinct data structure for ordinal trees that supports the mapping between preorder (i.e., depth-first) ranks and level-order (breadth-first) ranks of nodes in constant time.