Events - 2024

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Minghan Li, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Xizi (Lucy) Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Bare hand interaction in augmented or virtual reality (AR/VR) systems, while intuitive, often results in errors and frustration. However, existing methods, such as a static icon or a dynamic tutorial, can only inform simple and coarse hand gestures and lack corrective feedback.

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Dan Brown

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Frédéric Bouchard, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Zhiying Yu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shalev Ben-David

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

Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2585 and online.

Yudong Luo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Please note: This CPI talk will take place in the Arts Lecture Hall, room 113.

Nicolas Papernot, Assistant Professor
Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Toronto

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Farshad Kazemi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Raymond Chang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun

Please note: This distinguished lecture will take place in DC 1302.

Bhramar Mukherjee
John D. Kalbfleisch Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan

Despite several proposed roadmaps to increase diversity in scientific research, most of the world’s research data are collected on people of European ancestry. We rely on summary statistics from historically privileged populations and then devise clever statistical methods to transfer/transport them for cross-ancestry use.