Thesis defence

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Friday, August 19, 2022 9:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Software Engineering • An Empirical Study of the Proneness of Code Changes to Inducing Build Unreproducibility

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

Muhammad Hassan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Reproducible Builds are software builds that generate identical outputs at each invocation. They are important for security, quality assurance and commercial verifiability.

Monday, August 8, 2022 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Contextualizing Alternative Models of Secret Sharing

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

Shannon Veitch, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: University Professor Doug Stinson

Monday, August 8, 2022 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Quantum Computing • Almost Synchronous Correlations Defined within Tracial Von Neumann Algebras

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

Junqiao Lin, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Richard Cleve

Thursday, July 28, 2022 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • FairBlock: Preventing Blockchain Front-running with Minimal Overheads

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

Peyman Momeni, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Sergey Gorbunov

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence | Autonomous Vehicles • Empirical Game Theoretic Models for Autonomous Driving: Methods and Applications

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

Atrisha Sarkar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki

Monday, July 11, 2022 8:00 am - 9:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Systematically Detecting Access Control Flaws in the Android Framework

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

Zeinab El-Rewini, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yousra Aafer

Android’s permission model is used to regulate access to the Application Program Interfaces (APIs) within the Android system services, which provide access to sensitive system resources, such as the camera and microphone. To successfully invoke sensitive APIs, a caller must hold one or more Android permissions.