Thesis defence

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Thursday, August 14, 2025 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Unifying Foundation Models with Decision Making : A Path Towards Autonomous Self-Improving Agents beyond Rewards and Human Feedback

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Sebastian Fischmeister

Monday, August 11, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Bridging Early and Modern Lattice Cryptosystems: A Theoretical Journey through SVP, LWE and Kyber

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

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

Supervisors: Professors Rafael Oliveira, Mohammad Hajiabadi

Thursday, August 7, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Tracking for Good: Finding Behavioral Biometrics on the Web using Static Taint Analysis

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Urs Hengartner

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

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning • Predicting Cardiovascular Events or Death in People with Dysglycemia Using Machine Learning Methods

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Anita Layton

Friday, August 8, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Adaptive Interrupt Handling for High-Performance Network I/O in Linux and Virtualized Environments

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Martin Karsten

Wednesday, August 6, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Argus: Detecting Access Control Vulnerabilities in Android Framework using Large Language Models

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

Haseeb Ur Rehman Faheem, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yousra Aafer

Monday, July 14, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Compiler Support for Constant-Time Programs in LLVM

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

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

Supervisors: Professors N. Asokan, Meng Xu