Weekly Announcements

Presentations this week

Monday, July 29, 2024

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
TEEMS: Trusted Execution Environment based Metadata-protected Messaging System
Sajin Sasy, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Software Engineering
Revisiting the Impact of Crash Report Deduplication on Bug Fixing — A Case Study of Mozilla Firefox
Wen Cui, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2564  |  Online master’s research paper presentation
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Upcoming presentations

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

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Privacy-Preserving Communications from Privacy-Preserving Computations
Sajin Sasy, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Substiports: Making 3D Printers More Sustainable by Manually Substituting Supports
Ludwig Wilhelm Wall, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • Hybrid: EC1 1237  |  Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Daniel Vogel, Oliver Schneider

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

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
An Efficient Non-Interactive OT-MP-PSI Protocol for Multi Institution Attack Detection
Onur Eren Arpaci, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. •  Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisors: Professors Florian Kerschbaum and Raouf Boutaba

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

PhD Seminar • Theory
Scalable Algorithm for Finding Balanced Subgraphs with Tolerance in Signed Networks
Jingbang Chen, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2306  |  Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Lap Chi Lau

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence
Uncovering the Reliability and Consistency of AI Language Models: A Systematic Study
Aisha Khatun, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310  |  Online master’s research paper presentation
Supervisor: Professor Dan Brown

Thursday, August 15, 2024

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning
Asymmetric Clustering in Federated Continual Learning
Zehao Zhang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Friday, September 20, 2024

PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction
Pervasive Desktop Computing by Direct Manipulation of an Augmented Lamp
Yuan Chen, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • DC 3317
Supervisors: Professors Daniel Vogel, Géry Casiez, Sylvain Malacria

Friday, September 13, 2024

PhD Defence • Artificial intelligence  |  Machine Learning
Trustworthy Machine Learning with Deep Generative Models
Dihong Jiang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors Yaoliang Yu, Sun Sun