Presentations this week
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
PhD Seminar • Information Retrieval | Machine Learning
UniRAG: Universal Retrieval Augmentation for Multi-Modal Large Language Models
Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • DC 1304
Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin
Thursday, June 27, 2024
PhD Defence • Computer Vision | Machine Learning
Unsupervised Losses for Clustering and Segmentation of Images: Theories & Optimization Algorithms
Zhongwen (Rex) Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Yuri Boykov
Friday, June 28, 2024
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Quantum Computing
Quantum Query Complexity of Hypergraph Search Problems
Zhiying Yu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Shalev Ben-David
Upcoming presentations
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
Triangle Count Estimation and Label Prediction Over Uncertain Streaming Graphs
Ipsita Mohanty, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:30 a.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor M. Tamer Özsu
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning
Counterexample-Driven Learning for Rule-Based Systems
Frédéric Bouchard, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning
Noise-Aware Algorithm for Heterogeneous Differentially Private Federated Learning
Saber Malekmohammadi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:30 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2102 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction
Technology Design Recommendations Informed by Observations of Videos of Popular Musicians Teaching and Learning Songs By Ear
Christopher Liscio, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • DC 3317
Supervisor: Professor Dan Brown
Friday, July 5, 2024
PhD Seminar • Programming Languages
Simple Reference Immutability for System F<:
Edward Lee, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:30 p.m. • DC 2314
Supervisor: Professor Ondřej Lhoták
Monday, July 8, 2024
PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction | AR/VR | Visualization
Exploring Visualizations for Precisely Guiding Bare Hand Gestures in Virtual Reality
Xizi (Lucy) Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online PhD Seminar
Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao
Thursday, July 25, 2024
PhD Defence • CrySP (Cryptography, Security, and Privacy)
Raising the Bar on Lowering Barriers: Improving Ease of Research and Development Contributions to Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Justin Tracey, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
PhD Defence • Information Retrieval | Natural Language Processing
Pretrained Transformers for Efficient and Robust Information Retrieval
Minghan Li, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:30 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin
PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence | Reinforcement Learning
Policy Learning under Uncertainty and Risk
Yudong Luo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Visualization for Human-Centered AI Tools
Niklas Elmqvist, PhD
Villum Investigator and Professor of Computer Science
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online seminar
