Weekly Announcements

Presentations this week

Monday, December 16, 2024

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Writing with AI Lowers Psychological Ownership, but Longer Prompts Can Help
Nikhita Joshi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:30 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering
The Impact of Code Ownership of DevOps Artefacts on the Outcome of DevOps CI Builds
Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2564  |  Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning
Using Domain Adaptation to Improve Water Quality Modeling with Sparse Data
Chi-Chung Cheung, Master candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Anita Layton

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning  |  Applied Category Theory
Reconciling Auto-Differentiation with Traditional Backprop, and Building Neural Networks with just Function Composition
Nolan Peter Shaw, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • DC 3317
Supervisor: Professor Jeff Orchard

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

PhD Seminar • Computer Vision
Multi-frame LiDAR 3D Object Detection using Variable Aggregation
Chengjie Huang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki

PhD Seminar • Computer Vision
Efficient Multi-frame 3D Semantic Segmentation
Chengjie Huang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Algebra | Symbolic Computation
Sparse and Scalable Modular Arithmetic
Benjamin Chen, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:30 p.m. • DC 2310
Supervisors: Professors Eugene Zima, George Labahn

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics
2D Surface-Only Liquid-Solid Coupling
Clara Kim, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:30 p.m. • DC 2314
Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking
Secure and Efficient Message Routing and Delivery Across Blockchain Networks
Solomon Davidson, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
8:00 a.m. • DC 2314
Supervisor: Professor Bernard Wong

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction
Augmenting Digital Media Consumption via Critical Reflection to Increase Compassion and Promote Prosocial Attitudes and Behaviors
Ken Jen Lee, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317  |  Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Edith Law

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering
An Empirical Comparison of Ethnic and Gender Diversity of DevOps and non-DevOps Contributions to Open-Source Projects
Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2564  |  Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Solution Discovery for Source Problems in P
Stephanie Maaz, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Naomi Nishimura, Amer E. Mouawad

Thursday, December 19, 2024

PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics
Towards Cross-domain Few-shot Graph Anomaly Detection
Zheng Ma, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Ali Ghodsi, Ming Li

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Machine Learning
HERL: Tiered Federated Learning with Adaptive Homomorphic Encryption using Reinforcement Learning
Zeshan Fayyaz, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online master’s research paper presentation
Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction
PERSONA: A Tool for Generating Algorithmic Personas for Reflective Annotations
Kris Frasheri, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317  |  Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Edith Law

Upcoming presentations

Friday, January 10, 2025

PhD Defence • Machine Learning
Perspectives of Graph Diffusion: Computation, Local Partitioning, Statistical Recovery, and Applications
Shenghao Yang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Kimon Fountoulakis

Monday, January 13, 2025

PhD Defence • Computational Neuroscience
Symbols, Dynamics, and Maps: A Neurosymbolic Approach to Spatial Cognition
Nicole Sandra-Yaffa Dumont, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Hybrid: E7 6443  |  Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors Chris Eliasmith, Jeff Orchard

Friday, February 7, 2025

PhD Defence • Computer Graphics
A First-Principles Framework for Simulating Light and Snow Interactions
Petri Varsa, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • DC 3317
Supervisor: Professor Gladimir V.G. Baranoski