Presentations this week
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering
Trade-off Exploration for Acceleration of Continuous Integration
Zhili Zeng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh
Thursday, June 15, 2023
PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing
Approximating Human-Like Few-shot Learning with GPT-based Compression
Yuqing Xie, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Ming Li, Jimmy Lin
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Software Engineering
Security Evaluations of GitHub’s Copilot
Owura Asare, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisors: Professors Mei Nagappan, N. Asokan
Friday, June 16, 2023
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning
Align Your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models
Tim Dockhorn, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu
Upcoming presentations
Monday, June 19, 2023
PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence
Estimating Time Saved by Grammar Error Correction Tools
Ankit Vadehra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Seminar • Software Engineering
Designing Software Systems to be Robust
Eunsuk Kang, Assistant Professor
Software and Societal Systems Department
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
11:00 a.m. • DC 1304
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction
AdvEx: Interactive Visual Explorations of Adversarial Attacks
Yuzhe You, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:30 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao
Thursday, June 22, 2023
PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Mind the Gap: Ceremonies for Applied Secret Sharing
Bailey Kacsmar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum
Monday, June 26, 2023
PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence
The Impact of Teams in Multiagent Systems
David Radke, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
8:30 a.m. • TBD
Supervisors: Professors Kate Larson, Tim Brecht
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages
Adding Reference Immutability to Scala
Yaoyu Zhao, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 p.m. • DC 3317
Supervisor: Professor Ondřej Lhoták
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking
Kernel- vs. User-Level Networking: A Ballad of Interrupts and How to Mitigate Them
Peter Cai, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 3317
Supervisor: Professor Martin Karsten
PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Cache Me If You Can: Accuracy-Aware Inference Engine for Differentially Private Data Exploration
Miti Mazmudar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction
Investigating New Forms of Single-handed Physical Phone Interaction with Finger Dexterity
Yen-Ting (Allen) Yeh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1331 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel
Monday, July 10, 2023
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction
Eggly: Designing Mobile Augmented Reality Neurofeedback Training Games for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Yue Lyu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1331 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisors: Professors Jian Zhao, Keiko Katsuragawa
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
PhD Defence • Machine Learning | Natural Language Processing
Less is More: Restricted Representations for Better Interpretability and Generalizability
Zhiying (Gin) Jiang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • TBD
Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin
Thursday, July 20, 2023
PhD Defence • Scientific Computing
Data-Driven Models: An Alternative Discrete Hedging Strategy
Ke Nian, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Yuying Li
Monday, July 24, 2023
PhD Defence • Software Engineering
Graph-based Spatial-temporal Cluster Evolution: Representation, Analysis, and Implementation
Ivens Portugal, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • DC 3317
Supervisors: Professors Paulo Alencar, Don Cowan, Daniel Berry
Thursday, August 10, 2023
PhD Defence • Information Retrieval
Effective Math-Aware Ad-Hoc Retrieval based on Structure Search and Semantic Similarities
Wei Zhong, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin
Friday, August 11, 2023
PhD Defence • Natural Language Processing | Information Retrieval
Design of Neural Models for Domain-Specific Retrieval-Based Information Access Systems
Yuqing Xie, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors Ming Li, Jimmy Lin
