Events - 2023

Please note: This CrySP Speakers Series on Privacy talk will take place in DC 1302 and virtually.

Marina Blanton, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and online.

Shufan Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Xi He

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Ali Ghodsi

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and online.

Mrinal Kumar, Faculty member
School of Technology and Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Please note: This PhD seminar will take palce in M3 4206 and online.

Kam Chuen Tung, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lap Chi Lau

We derive Cheeger inequalities for directed graphs and hypergraphs using the reweighted eigenvalue approach that was recently developed for vertex expansion in undirected graphs. The goal is to develop a new spectral theory for directed graphs and an alternative spectral theory for hypergraphs. 

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

Kaave Hosseini, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester

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