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