Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.
Ali Saheb Pasand, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Ali Ghodsi
Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.
Nicholas Spooner, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.
Zhiying Jiang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are often used for text classification due to their high accuracy. However, DNNs can be computationally intensive, requiring millions of parameters and large amounts of labeled data, which can make them expensive to use, to optimize, and to transfer to out-of-distributed (OOD) cases in practice.
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually.
Matthew Lakier, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel
Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.
Florian Rabe
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.
Zhicong Lu, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong
The proliferation of video-sharing and livestreaming platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch has catalyzed the growth of online creative communities, promoting cultural expression and preservation.
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2310.
Linh Nhi Phan Minh, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Mark Smucker
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.
Abhinav Bora, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Srinivasan Keshav, Lukasz Golab
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2314 and virtually over Zoom.
Ken Jen Lee, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Edith Law
Please note: Brain Day 2023 will take place in Engineering 7, various rooms.
The University of Waterloo’s Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience supports the development of robust explanatory theories of mind and brain through education and research.

Sponsored by the Faculty of Math Data Science Graduate Programs, please join University of Waterloo expert in artificial intelligence, Professor Pascal Poupart, for a public talk in which he will describe the key technological advances in recent years that were behind, and ultimately facilitated, breakthroughs such as AlphaGo and ChatGPT.
Coffee and tea will be provided.
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2564.
Yongqiang (Victor) Tian, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1331.
Nolan Peter Shaw, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Jeff Orchard
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.
Alessandra Luz, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel
Yuhao Dong, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba
Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.
Silvia Sellán, PhD candidate
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Please note: This PhD defence will take place in MC 5417 and virtually.
Catherine St-Pierre, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Éric Schost
This thesis presents an algorithm to find the local structure of intersections of plane curves.
Please note: This distinguished lecture will take place in DC 1302 and virtually over Zoom.
Tanya Berger-Wolf
Director, Translational Data Analytics Institute
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
Director, Imageomics Institute
Ohio State University
Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.
Charupriya Sharma, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Peter van Beek