Presentations this week
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics
Application of Machine Learning to Taxonomic Classification of Emerging Astroviruses
Fatemeh Alipour, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Lila Kari, Yang Lu
Seminar • Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience | Artificial Intelligence
Cognitively-inspired AI for Planning in Realistic Scenarios
Marta Kryven, Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:30 p.m. • DC 1302
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
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning
On Learnability with Computable Learners
Tosca Lechner, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Shai Ben-David
Seminar • Data Systems
Building More Reliable and Scalable AI Systems with Language Model Programming
Omar Khattab, PhD candidate
Stanford University
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304
PhD Seminar • Software Engineering
Visualizing Analysis Results for SPL Models — A User Study
Rafael Ferreira Toledo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:30 p.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor Jo Atlee
Friday, April 26, 2024
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages
Type-Aware Optimizations with Imperfect Types
Jeremiah Ikosin, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
4:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Gregor Richards
Upcoming presentations
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 2314 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Justin Wan
Distinguished Lecture Series
Privacy, Learning, and Inference
Adam Smith, Professor
Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online distinguished lecture
Friday, May 3, 2024
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering
Variability in Factors Influencing Pull Request Merge Decisions: A Microscopic Exploration
Nasif Ahmed, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Mei Nagappan
Monday, May 6, 2024
CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy
Profiling the Political Influence Industry in Canada in the Age of AI: Privacy Protection and Democratic Accountability
Colin Bennett, Emeritus Professor of Political Science
Fellow, Center for Global Studies, University of Victoria
2:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online talk
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence
Explore the In-context Learning Capability of Large Language Models
Tianle Li, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Wenhu Chen
Friday, May 10, 2024
PhD Defence • Bioinformatics
Deep Unsupervised Learning for Biodiversity Analysis: Representation Learning and Clustering of Bacterial, Mitochondrial, and Barcode DNA Sequences
Pablo Millán Arias, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Lila Kari
PhD Defence • Machine Learning | Deep Leaning
Symbolic Regression and Sequence Modelling with Conditional and Dynamic Language Models
Mojtaba Valipour, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Ali Ghodsi
