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Friday, December 17, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning • Parlez-vous le hate?: Examining Topics and Hate Speech in the Alternative Social Network Parler

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Ethan Ward, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

Thursday, December 16, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Scientific Computation • A Scalable Method for Many Object Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Connor Tannahill, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Justin Wan

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 3:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Dynamic-Occlusion-Aware Risk Identification for Autonomous Vehicles Using Hypergames

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Maximilian Kahn, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki

Friday, December 10, 2021 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • In the New Era of the Internet of Things Even Your Breathing Rate is Not Private

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Zihan Chen, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Omid Abari

This thesis shows a new type of attack that can secretly gather private measurements from the target. Wi-sneak is a stealthy reconnaissance attack which utilizes the ambient WiFi signal and ubiquitous WiFi-enabled devices without compromising any packets or WiFi networks.

Friday, December 10, 2021 10:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Test Collections for Web-scale Datasets Using Dynamic Sampling

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online. Please also note new date: Friday, December 10.

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

Supervisor: Professor Gordon Cormack

Thursday, December 9, 2021 10:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • DPQP: A D-representation-based Pipelined Factorized Query Processor for Graph Database Management Systems

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Xiyang Feng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Semih Salihoglu

Monday, December 6, 2021 11:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Systems and Networking • An Evaluation of Streaming Quantile Algorithms

Please note: This master’s research paper presentation will be given online.

Harsh Bindra, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Khuzaima Daudjee