Thesis defence

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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

Monday, March 23, 2026 11:00 am - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Information Retrieval | Natural Language Processing • Benchmarks, Data, and Evaluation for Robust Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Heterogeneous Domains and Languages

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2310 and online.

Nandan Thakur, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Friday, March 13, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Decentralized Traffic Correlation Using Programmable Switches

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

Gurjot Singh, Master’s candidate
David. R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Diogo Barradas

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 10:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Human–Computer Interaction | Artificial Intelligence • Leveraging Interactive Human–AI Collaboration Methods to Enhance Key Stages of Programming Workflows

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Xuye Liu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 9:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • On the Effect of Hyperparameters in Language Modelling for Linguistics

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

Ruoxi Ning, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Freda Shi

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human–Computer Interaction • Semantic Ink: Annotation-as-Command for Steerable, Reusable AI Graphics Editing

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2310 and online.

Cara Li, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Friday, January 23, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Towards Secure and Efficient Route Computation for Cross-Chain Message Delivery

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

Amin Rezaei, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Bernard Wong