Presentations this week
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Data Protection in Big Data Analysis
Masoumeh Shafieinejad, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum
PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking
Using Vandermonde Matrix and Polynomial Least to Improve the Blending Surface
Xiang Fang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Stephan Mann
Friday, July 30, 2021
PhD Defence • Machine Learning
Prediction and Planning in Dynamical Systems with Underlying Markov Decision Processes
Ershad Banijamali, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Ali Ghodsi
Upcoming presentations
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Can Rust Safely Lower Barriers to Entry?
Justin Tracey, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg
Friday, August 6, 2021
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction
Semantic Search and Visual Exploration of Computational Notebooks
Xingjun Li, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming languages
No Zombie Types: Liveness-Based Justification For Monotonic Gradual Types
Yangtian Zi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:30 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Gregor Richards
Monday, August 16, 2021
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity
Extremely Fast (a,b)-trees at all Contention Levels
Anubhav Srivastava, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Trevor Brown
