Presentations this week
Monday, March 17, 2025
Seminar • Artificial Intelligence
Statistical Challenges in Modern Machine Learning and Their Algorithmic Consequences
Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri, Postdoctoral Researcher
CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:30 a.m. • Online seminar
Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Polycubes with Small Perimeter Defect
Gill Barequet, Professor
Department of Computer Science, The Technion
12:00 p.m. • DC 2306
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics
Disentangling the Complex Multiplexed DIA Spectra in De Novo Peptide Sequencing
Zheng Ma, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Ali Ghodsi, Ming Li
PhD Seminar • Quantum Computing
Invariant Theory and Magic State Distillation
Amolak Ratan Kalra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • QNC 1201
Supervisor: Professor Michele Mosca
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Seminar • Artificial Intelligence
Beyond Worst-Case ML
Vasilis Kontonis, Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning, University of Texas at Austin
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning | Reinforcement Learning
Feature Selection for Inverse Constraint Learning in Reinforcement Learning
Ashish Gaurav, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart
Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Vizing’s Theorem in Near-Linear Time
Martin Costa, PhD student
Theory and Foundations Group, University of Warwick
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online seminar
PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence
Learning to Negotiate via Voluntary Commitment
Shuhui Zhu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2584 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart
Friday, March 21, 2025
PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Streaming and Communication Complexity of Load-Balancing via Matching Contractors
Robert Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Lap Chi Lau
Upcoming presentations
Thursday, March 27, 2025
PhD Seminar • Symbolic Computation | Cryptography
Bit Size Estimates for Computing Roadmaps in Smooth Bounded Real Hypersurfaces
Jesse Allister Kasian Elliott, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • DC 2306
Supervisors: Professors David Jao, Éric Schost
Friday, March 28, 2025
PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking
Model-driven Slice Resource Optimization in 5G and Beyond Networks
Muhammad Sulaiman, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 1304
Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba
Monday, March 31, 2025
Data Systems Seminar Series
Database Systems for LLMs: Vector Databases and Beyond
Jianguo Wang, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
10:30 a.m. • DC 1302
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Health Informatics
Bridging Technology and Therapy: Assessing the Quality and Analyzing the Impact of Human Editing on AI-Generated SOAP Notes in Pediatric Rehabilitation
Solomon Amenyo, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 3317
Supervisors: Professors Maura R. Grossman, Dan Brown
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics
A Modular Framework for the Plausible Depiction of the Starburst Patterns
Yuxiang Sun, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:30 p.m. • DC 3317
Supervisor: Professor Gladimir Baranoski
Thursday, April 3, 2025
PhD Defence • Symbolic Computation | Cryptography
On the Complexity of Feasibility, Connectivity, and 2^a-isogeny Computation
Jesse Allister Kasian Elliott, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors David Jao, Éric Schost
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
PhD Defence • 3D Computer Vision
LiDAR-based 3D Perception from Multi-frame Point Clouds for Autonomous Driving
Chengjie Huang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki
PhD Defence • Software Engineering
Program Reduction: Versatility, Insights, and Efficacy
Mengxiao (Max) Zhang, PhD candidate
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun
PhD Seminar • Quantum Computing | Complexity Theory
Oracle Separations for Quantum-Classical Polynomial Hierarchy
Avantika Agarwal, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • QNC 1201
Supervisors: Professors Shalev Ben-David, Eric Blais
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
MIRAGE-ANNS: Mixed Approach Graph-based Indexing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
Sairaj Voruganti, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:30 p.m. • DC 1304
Supervisor: Professor Tamer Özsu
Monday, April 14, 2025
Data Systems Seminar Series
Invisible Yet Powerful: Watermarking to Protect Datasets and Models in Machine Learning
Lingyang Chu, Assistant Professor
McMaster University
10:30 a.m. • DC 1302