Presentations this week

Monday, December 4, 2023

DSG Seminar Series
Structured Knowledge and Data Management for Effective AI Systems
Ihab Ilyas, Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science
NSERC-Thomson Reuters Research Chair on Data Quality
Distinguished Engineer, Apple
10:30 a.m. • DC 1302

PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics
BarcodeBERT: Transformers for Biodiversity Analysis
Pablo Millán Arias, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310  |  Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Lila Kari

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Women in Math • Directed Reading Program
Deep Learning for Brain-Computer Interfaces
Akira Yoshiyama, Undergraduate computer science student
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:30 p.m. • DC 1304
Mentor: Lena Podina

Women in Math • Directed Reading Program
An Introduction to Explainable AI
Jaimee Yeung, Sanika Poojary, Undergraduate computer science students
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
4:00 p.m. • DC 1304
Mentor: Trang Bui

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence
Few Shot Image Generation Using Conditional Set-Based GANs
Kira Selby, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:30 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity
Graph Morphing via Orthogonal Box Drawings
Jack Spalding-Jamieson, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisors: Professors Anna Lubiw, Therese Biedl

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning
Multilingual Grammatical Error Detection and its Application to Prompt-Based Correction
Gustavo Sutter Pessurno de Carvalho, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:30 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2585  |  Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning
Annealing Knowledge Distillation
Aref Jafari, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Ali Ghodsi

Friday, December 8, 2023

PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking
MemSnap: Delivering on the Single Level Store Vision
Ryan Hancock, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Ali José Mashtizadeh

Upcoming presentations

Monday, December 11, 2023

DSG Seminar Series
Enabling Emerging Edge and IoT Applications with Edge-Cloud Data Management
Faisal Nawab, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
Director, EdgeLab
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Systems and Networking
Serverless Deployment for Data Plane Functions
Gan Wang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:30 a.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor Martin Karsten

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence
An In-Depth Exploration of the High-Quality Entity Linking for Information Retrieval: MMEAD
Luyun Lin, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
Evaluating the Ability of Commercial Search Engines to Help People Answer Health Questions
Kamyar Ghajar, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:30 p.m. • DC 3102
Supervisors: Professors Mark Smucker, Charles Clarke

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering
The Impact of Code Ownership of DevOps Artefacts on the Outcome of DevOps CI Builds
Ajiromola Kola-Olawuyi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Mei Nagappan

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
Retrieving Supporting Evidence for Generative Question Answering
Siqing Huo, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:30 a.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Charles Clarke

PhD Seminar • Symbolic Computation
On the Bit Complexity of Some Randomized Algorithms in Real Algebraic Geometry
Jesse Elliott, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310  |  Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors David Jao, Éric Schost

Monday, December 18, 2023

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Finding False Assurance in Formal Verification of Software Systems
Ru Ji, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:30 a.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Meng Xu

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence
Graph-Based Mapping for Knowledge Transfer in General Game Playing
Joshua Jung, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity
Compact Routing on Planar Graphs
Newsha Seyedi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation 
Supervisor: Professor Ian Munro

Friday, January 12, 2024

PhD Defence • Machine Learning  |  Quantitative Finance
A General Neural Network Methodology for Multi-period Portfolio Optimization
Chendi Ni, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317  |  Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors Yuying Li, Peter Forsyth

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