Events - September 2023

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

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 3102.

Akshay Ramachandran, Postdoctoral Researcher
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

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.

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

Saralin Zassman, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Daniel Vogel, Craig Kaplan

We design and evaluate Mindless Scroll, a mobile application for mindfulness that encourages a slow and deliberate approach to colouring. The app provides a visually immersive user experience in contrast to the majority of mindfulness-based mobile apps that focus on audio-based methods.

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2102.

Theodore Vanderkooy, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Khuzaima Daudjee

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

Robert Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Sorry, this PhD seminar has been POSTPONED because of illness. A new date and time will be posted when available.

Sajin Sasy, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2102.

Christopher West, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Anita Layton, Justin Wan

Kidney cancer is a well-studied and highly prevalent cancer in which tumors grow and obstruct the functional tissues of the kidney. Medical imaging is commonly used to diagnose and verify the presence of these kidney tumors and can give some qualitative intuition on the scope of their proliferation.

Please note: This seminar will take place online.

Armando Santos
Well-Typed/Haskell Consultants

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

Colby Parsons, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Peter Buhr

Concurrent programs are notoriously hard to program and even harder to debug. Furthermore, concurrent programs must be performant, as the introduction of concurrency into a program is often done to achieve some form of speedup.

Please note: This seminar will take place online.

Mojtaba Valipour, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ali Ghodsi

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

Abdelrahman Ahmed, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum