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Thursday, December 10, 2020 11:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence — AlphaStar: Considerations and Human-like Constraints for Deep Learning Game Interfaces

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

Friday, December 11, 2020 10:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems — Scaling Machine Learning Data Repair Systems for Sparse Datasets

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

Omar Attia, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ihab Ilyas

Machine learning data repair systems (e.g., HoloClean) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for the data repair problem on many datasets. However, these systems still face significant challenges when applied to sparse datasets.

Friday, December 11, 2020 12:30 pm - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Software Engineering Investigating the Effectiveness of Pair Programming in Industrial Domains: A Systematic Literature Review

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

Alex Pawelczyk, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel M. Berry

Friday, December 11, 2020 12:30 pm - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning — Generalization on Text-based Games using Structured Belief Representations

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

Ashutosh Devendrakumar Adhikari, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Monday, December 7, 2020 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Software Engineering — Case Study on University of Waterloo’s Quest — A Requirement Engineering and User Experience Investigation and Lessons Learned

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Yilun Bai, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel M. Berry

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 11:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning — Cross-Lingual Entity Matching for Knowledge Graphs

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

Hsiu-Wei Yang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Multilingual knowledge graphs (KGs), such as YAGO and DBpedia, represent entities in different languages. The task of cross-lingual entity matching is to align entities in a source language with their counterparts in target languages. 

Monday, November 30, 2020 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) — Efficient Oblivious Database Joins

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

Simeon Krastnikov, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Florian Kerschbaum, Douglas Stebila