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Monday, October 17, 2022 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

DSG Seminar Series • Efficient Collaborative Analytics With No Information Leakage: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1302.

Vasiliki (Vasia) Kalavri, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Boston University

Enabling secure outsourced analytics with practical performance has been a long-standing research challenge in the database community. In this talk, I will present our work towards realizing this vision with Secrecy, a new framework for secure relational analytics in untrusted clouds.

Thursday, October 20, 2022 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning | Self-driving AI • A lecture on “Classifying travelers’ driving style using basic safety messages generated by connected vehicles: Application of unsupervised machine learning”

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2568.

Connor Raymond Stewart, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Krzysztof Czarnecki, Paulo Alencar

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Data Systems • Operator Selection and Ordering in a Pipeline Approach to Efficiency Optimizations for Transformers

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Ji Xin, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Jimmy Lin and Yaoliang Yu

Wednesday, August 31, 2022 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction • More Than Just Software Surprises: Purposes, Processes, and Directions for Software Application Easter Eggs

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Matthew Lakier, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel

“Easter eggs” are features hidden inside software, and the practice of developers including them is a long-standing global phenomenon. They have seen some investigation in the context of games, but despite their prevalence in non-game software applications, their nature within this context is less clear.