Weekly Announcements

Presentations this week

Monday, March 31, 2025

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

Data Systems Seminar Series
Database Systems for LLMs: Vector Databases and Beyond
Jianguo Wang, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
1:30 p.m. • DC 1304

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

CS 889: Human-Computer Interaction for Art and Creativity
Public Exhibit of Student Artworks and Creativity Tools
5:00 p.m. • ECH 1237 (The Flex Studio)

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Foundations of Multi-objective Machine Learning
Nika Haghtalab, Assistant Professor
EECS Department, UC Berkeley
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302  |  Online seminar

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

Upcoming presentations

Monday, April 7, 2025

Brain Day 2025
Accessible lectures exploring the mind, brain, theories and models from the perspectives of neuroscience, computational neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy
8:30 am. to 4:15 p.m. • DC 1302

Seminar • Systems and Networking
Designing the Next Generation of Computer Systems for Sustainable AI
Noman Bashir, Computing & Climate Postdoctoral Impact Fellow
Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Climate & Sustainability Consortium
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304

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 3301
Supervisor: Professor Tamer Özsu

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Scientific Computing
A Deep Learning Approach to Probability of Shortfall in Defined Contribution Plan Optimization
Zeyu Zhang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 2310
Supervisors: Professors Yuying Li, Peter Forsyth

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence
Subject-driven Text-to-Image Generation via Preference-based Reinforcement Learning
Yanting Miao, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:30 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2584  |  Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
NaviX: A Native Vector Index Design for Graph DBMSs With Robust Predicate-Agnostic Search Performance
Gaurav Sehgal, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:30 p.m. • DC 3317
Supervisor: Professor Semih Salihoğlu

Friday, April 11, 2025

PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking
Active Learning for Fault Diagnosis in 5G and Beyond Mobile Networks
Soheil Johari, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 1304
Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba

Seminar • Symbolic Computation
Modular Arithmetic with Trinomial Moduli
Robert Dougherty-Bliss, Applied and Computational Mathematics
Dartmouth College
1:30 p.m. • DC 1302

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
Optimizing ORAM Datastores for Scalability, Fault Tolerance, and Performance
Amin Setayesh, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314  |  Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Sujaya Maiyya

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
What Do You Mean? Using Large Language Models for Semantic Evaluation of NL2SQL Queries
Harrum Noor, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • DC 3301
Supervisor: Professor Tamer Özsu

Monday, May 12, 2025

Data Systems Seminar Series
Where the Database Management System Comes From, and Why it Matters
Thomas Haigh, Professor and Chair
Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
10:30 a.m. • DC 1302

Friday, May 16, 2025

PhD Defence • Machine Learning  |  Reinforcement Learning
Techniques to Learn Constraints from Demonstrations
Ashish Gaurav, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

PhD Defence • Systems and Networking
Leveraging Emerging Data Center Technologies to Build High-Performance Data Stores
Ahmed Alquraan, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317  |  Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Samer Al-Kiswany

Monday, June 2, 2025

Data Systems Seminar Series
The Limitations of Data, Machine Learning & Us
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Professor
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
Department of Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304

Monday, July 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