Thesis defence

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

Yaoyu Zhao, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ondřej Lhoták

Scala is a multi-paradigm programming language combining the power of functional and object-oriented programming. While Scala has many features promoting immutability, it lacks a built-in mechanism for controlling and enforcing reference immutability.

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 3317.

Ivens Portugal, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Paulo Alencar, Donald Cowan, Daniel Berry

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

Peter Cai, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Martin Karsten

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 1331 and online.

Yue Lyu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Jian Zhao, Keiko Katsuragawa

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 1331 and online.

Yen-Ting (Allen) Yeh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 1304 and virtually.

Zhili Zeng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Continuous Integration (CI) is a popular software development practice that allows developers to quickly verify modifications to their projects. To cope with the ever-increasing demand for faster software releases, CI acceleration approaches have been proposed to expedite the feedback that CI provides.

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

Owura Asare, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mei Nagappan, N. Asokan

In this thesis, we perform two security evaluations of GitHub’s Copilot with the aim of better understanding the strengths and weaknesses with of Code Generation Tools.