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Friday, November 7, 2025 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Computer Graphics | Rendering • Correlation-Aware Rendering: Improving Sampling and Denoising for Realistic Image Synthesis

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Weijie Zhou, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Toshiya Hachisuka

Friday, November 7, 2025 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Computational Linguistics | Artificial Intelligence • A Knowledge Representation for, and an Application to Requirements Elicitation of, Rhetorical Figures of Perfect Lexical Repetition

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

Yetian Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Daniel Berry, Grant Weddell

Monday, September 15, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning • Diffusion-Based Generative Modeling of Financial Time Series

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Justin Wan

Monday, September 15, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Oblivious Multi-Way Band Joins: An Efficient Algorithm for Secure Range Queries

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Friday, September 19, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human–Computer Interaction • ReSlide: Towards Effective Presentation Authoring for Evolving Narratives and Contextual Constraints

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

Linxiu (Linda) Zeng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Exploiting Zero-Entropy Data for Efficient Deduplication

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

Mu’men Al Jarah, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Samer Al-Kiswany

Monday, September 8, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Fine-Grained Visual Entity Linking through Promptable Segmentation: Applications in Medical Imaging

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

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

Supervisors: Professors Robin Cohen, Lukasz Golab


 

Thursday, September 4, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Demystifying Foreground-Background Memorization in Diffusion Models

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Gautam Kamath