Presentations this week
Monday, March 25, 2024
PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking
Fuzzing Embedded Systems to Detect LLM-Generated Code
Murray Dunne, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor Sebastian Fischmeister
PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking
LoLKV: The Logless, Linearizable, RDMA-based Key-Value Storage System
Ahmed Alquraan, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:30 p.m. • DC 3317
Supervisor: Professor Samer Al-Kiswany
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
CANCELLED • Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
On Personalized Differential Privacy
Juba Ziani, Assistant Professor
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech
3:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online seminar
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Seminar • Artificial Intelligence
Mathematical Foundations for Trustworthy Machine Learning
Lunjia Hu, PhD candidate
Computer Science Department, Stanford University
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304
Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Stochastic Minimum Vertex Cover with Few Queries: A 3/2-approximation
Mahsa Derakhshan, Assistant Professor
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online seminar
PhD Seminar • Differential Privacy | Data Cleaning
Differentially Private Data Generation with Missing Data
Shubhankar Mohapatra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:30 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Xi He
Thursday, March 28, 2024
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning
Indiscriminate Data Poisoning Attacks on Pre-trained Feature Extractors
Yiwei Lu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Yaoliang Yu, Sun Sun
DSG Seminar Series
A Remote Dynamic Memory Cache Using Spot VMs
Philip A. Bernstein, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research
Affiliate Professor, University of Washington
3:00 p.m. • Online seminar
Upcoming presentations
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
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
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
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
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 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