Presentations this week
Monday, February 9, 2026
Seminar • Programming Languages | Quantum Computing
Synthesizing the Quantum Software Stack
Amanda Xu, PhD candidate
Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin–Madison
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Dimension Independent and Computationally Efficient Shadow Tomography
Pulkit Sinha, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • QNC 1201
Supervisor: Professor Ashwin Nayak
PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Pointer Chasing in Fewer Rounds is Even Harder
Parth Mittal, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Sepehr Assadi
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning | Information Retrieval
Rethinking Benchmarks, Data, and Evaluation for Retrieval & Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Nandan Thakur, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • DC 3301
Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Seminar • Artificial Intelligence
Are AI Vision Systems Checking or Looking?
Jianbo Shi, Professor
Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304
Friday, February 13, 2026
PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking
Cache Your Prompt When It's Green: Carbon-Aware Caching for Large Language Model Serving
Henry Tian, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 1302
Supervisor: Professor Sihang Liu
Upcoming presentations
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
PhD Defence • Software Engineering
Exploring and Visualizing Fact-Based Software Models to Improve Program Comprehension
Rafael F. Toledo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:30 a.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor Jo Atlee
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human–Computer Interaction
Semantic Ink: Annotation-as-Command for Steerable, Reusable AI Graphics Editing
Cara Li, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao
Thursday, February 19, 2026
PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics | Human–Computer Interaction
Computational Methods for Colour Palette Generation and the Psychophysiological Impact Thereof
Andreea Pocol, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:30 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Lesley Istead, Craig S. Kaplan
Friday, February 27, 2026
PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Threshold Cryptography
Golden: Lightweight Non-Interactive Distributed Key Generation
Chelsea Komlo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Ian Goldberg, Douglas Stebila
Thursday, March 5, 2026
Seminar • Software Engineering
The True Cost of AI Assistance to Programming of Software
Daniel M. Berry, Professor
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • DC 3317
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning
On the Effect of Hyperparameters in Language Modelling for Linguistics
Ruoxi Ning, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Freda Shi
Thursday, March 12, 2026
PhD Seminar • Human–Computer Interaction
Bare-Hand Continuous VR Locomotion Using Beyond-Field-of-View Unimanual Gestures Around the Head-Mounted Display (HMD)
Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Threshold Cryptosystems
Practical Distributed Key Generation and Signatures
Chelsea Komlo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310 | Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors Ian Goldberg, Douglas Stebila
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
CrySP Speakers Series on Privacy
For All Tomorrow’s Survivors: Computer Security in Interpersonal Threat Models
Thomas Ristenpart, Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
1:30 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online talk
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
PhD Defence • Human–Computer Interaction | Artificial Intelligence
Leveraging Interactive Human–AI Collaboration Methods to Enhance Key Stages of Programming Workflows
Xuye Liu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
PhD Defence • Systems and Networking
Redesigning Datacenter Systems to Leverage Hardware-Acceleration
Sreeharsha Udayashankar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Samer Al-Kiswany