Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3102 and online.
Arman Hafizi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel
Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304.
Andrew C. Thomas, Data Science Group
SportsMedia Technology Inc.
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317 and online.
Peter Cai, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Martin Karsten
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.
Miti Mazmudar, 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 3317.
Yaoyu Zhao, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Ondřej Lhoták
Scala is a multi-paradigm programming language combining the power of functional and object-oriented programming. While Scala has many features promoting immutability, it lacks a built-in mechanism for controlling and enforcing reference immutability.
Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.
David Radke, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Kate Larson, Tim Brecht
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.
Asim Waheed, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor N. Asokan
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.
Bailey Kacsmar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317 and online.
Yuzhe You, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao
Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304.
Eunsuk Kang, Assistant Professor
Software and Societal Systems Department
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.
Ankit Vadehra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and 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 1302 and online.
Oscar Zhao, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Ali Mashtizadeh
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.
Owura Asare, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Mei Nagappan, N. Asokan
In this thesis, we perform two security evaluations of GitHub’s Copilot with the aim of better understanding the strengths and weaknesses with of Code Generation Tools.
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 1304 and virtually.
Zhili Zeng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh
Continuous Integration (CI) is a popular software development practice that allows developers to quickly verify modifications to their projects. To cope with the ever-increasing demand for faster software releases, CI acceleration approaches have been proposed to expedite the feedback that CI provides.
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.
Bailey Kacsmar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.
Ende Jin, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Yizhou Zhang, Ondřej Lhoták
With the growing practice of mechanizing language metatheories, it has become ever more pressing that interactive theorem provers make it easy to write reusable, extensible code and proofs.
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually.
Yiwei Lu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu
Indiscriminate data poisoning attacks aim to decrease a model’s test accuracy by injecting a small amount of corrupted training data. Despite significant interest, existing attacks remain relatively ineffective against modern machine learning (ML) architectures.
Please note: This seminar will take place online.
John Speed Meyers
Security Data Scientist, Chainguard
Please note: This talk will take place in DC 3317 and online over Zoom.
Joel Reardon, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary
Mozilla curates a set of root certificate authorities to validate hostnames for TLS in the Firefox browser. Many other software projects, such as Tor Browser and ca-certificates simply follow Mozilla’s list; other entities, such as Apple and Microsoft, make their own decisions for inclusion with considerations for Mozilla’s decisions and the associated public discussion.
Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1302.
Oana Balmau, Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science, McGill University
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.
Joshua Hildred, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Khuzaima Daudjee
Distributed deterministic database systems support OLTP workloads over geo-replicated data. Providing these transactions with ACID guarantees requires a delay of multiple wide-area network (WAN) round trips of messaging to totally order transactions globally.
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317.
Sara Qunaibi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Samer Al-Kiswany
We present a comprehensive empirical study of the impact partial network partitions have on cluster managers in data analysis frameworks. Our study shows that modern scheduling approaches are vulnerable to partial network partitions. Partial partitions can lead to a complete cluster pause or a significant loss of performance.
Please note: This seminar will take place online.
Alex Wein, Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1302.
Arijit Khan, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University