Presentations this week
Monday, April 1, 2024
Seminar • Artificial Intelligence
Paths to AI Accountability
Sarah Cen, PhD candidate
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, MIT
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Seminar • Artificial Intelligence
The Long Tail of AI: Learning from Algorithms and Diverse Tasks
Misha Khodak, PhD candidate
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304
Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Towards Practical Distribution Testing
Yash Pote, PhD candidate
School of Computing, National University of Singapore
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online seminar
CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy
Fujisaki-Okamoto — A Recipe for Post-Quantum Public Key Encryption
Kathrin Hövelmanns, Tenured Assistant Professor
Applied and Provable Security group, TU Eindhoven
2:00 p.m. • Hybrid: MC 5501 | Online talk
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Seminar • Data Systems
Architecture-Tailored Parallelization for Accessible Large Model Era
Xupeng Miao, Postdoctoral Researcher
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304
CS383 Computational Art Exhibition
Experience novel computational art works and aesthetic experiences using generative agents, advanced computer vision, distributed computing, and more
4:30 to 6:30 p.m. • ECH 1237
Friday, April 5, 2024
PhD Seminar • Data Systems | Artificial Intelligence
How to Train Your DRAGON: Diverse Augmentation Towards Generalizable Dense Retrieval
Sheng-Chieh (Jack) Lin, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin
Dean’s Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture
The Sublinear Lens and the Matching Problem
Sanjeev Khanna, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online distinguished lecture
PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence
Distributions in Semantic Space
Kira Selby, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction
Using AI-Supported Onboarding Systems in Video Games to Improve Player Experience
Lydia Choong, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • DC 2102
Supervisors: Professors Lennart Nacke, Jian Zhao
Upcoming presentations
Monday, April 8, 2024
PhD Seminar • Computational Neuroscience | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning
How Predictive Coding Rescues Traditional Neural Networks on Adversarial Examples
Ehsan Ganjidoost, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Jeff Orchard
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
Explaining Expert Search and Team Formation Systems with ExES
Kiarash Golzadeh, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Lukasz Golab
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
The 16th Annual Waterloo Brain Day
Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience
The Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience has invited four internationally renowned speakers to present generally accessible lectures from each of the perspectives of neuroscience, computational neuroscience, psychology and philosophy on the ideas of mind, brain, theories and models
8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. • DC 1301 and 1302
PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence
Information Transmission on Social Networks with Preference Homophily
Valerie Platsko, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Kate Larson
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
CAMEO: Explaining Consensus and Expertise Across MOdels
Andy Yu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Lukasz Golab
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Use Signal, Use Tor?: Making Messengers Mask Metadata
Justin Tracey, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg
Thursday, April 11, 2024
PhD Defence • Bioinformatics
Deep Learning Methods for Novel Peptide Discovering and Function Prediction
Shaokai Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Bin Ma
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
ProofFrog: A Tool For Verifying Game-Hopping Proofs
Ross Evans, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor Douglas Stebila
Friday, April 12, 2024
PhD Defence • Symbolic Computation
Algorithms for Drinfeld Modules
Joseph Musleh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Éric Schost
PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Peer2PIR: Private Queries for IPFS
Miti Mazmudar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Ghost Recommendations: A Protocol for Efficiently Enhancing User Privacy
Kritika Iyer, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:30 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
PhD Defence • Computer Graphics
Writing My Own Line Drawing Software as an Artist
Greg Philbrick, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Craig S. Kaplan
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
PhD Defence • Scientific Computing | Quantitative Finance | Machine Learning
Efficient Machine Learning Methods for Solving Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations in Finance
Andrew Na, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1314 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Justin Wan