Thesis defence

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Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • SQLyzr: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Framework for Evaluating Text-to-SQL Systems

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3301, the DSG Lab.

Sepideh Abedini, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Tamer Özsu

Friday, March 20, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages • Linear Scala is All You Need for Safe Static Memory and Alias Management

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Amirhossein Pashaeehir, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ondřej Lhoták

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Training and Evaluating Semantic Segmentation Models with Soft Labels

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Nima Jamali, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Olga Veksler, Yuri Boykov

Thursday, March 19, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human–Computer Interaction • DSCode Comparator: An Interactive Interface for Comparing Models and Evaluating Code for Data Science Tasks

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Anamaria Crisan

Monday, March 2, 2026 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Scaling Two-Party Differentially Private Selection

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

Haoyan Ni, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Monday, March 9, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics • Physically-Based Simulation and Visualization of Optical Phenomena Elicited by Negative Refraction

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

Scott Steinfield, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Gladimir Baranoski