Events

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Ben Armstrong, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer

Supervisor: Professor Kate Larson

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and online.

Jörg Liebeherr, Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

By enabling large-scale in-situ environmental monitoring of remote areas, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) can play a crucial role in quantifying and responding to climate change. Sensing of uninhabited and many rural regions creates a need for inexpensive battery-powered IoT systems that can be deployed across large areas. Today, such systems are woefully unavailable.

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Saif Zabarah, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Raouf Boutaba, Samer Al-Kiswany

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online. Please also note that the start time has changed from 11:00 to 11:30 a.m.

Daniel Erhabor, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mei Nagappan, Samer Al-Kiswany

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Bryant Curto, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Martin Karsten

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Navid Malekghaini, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

He (Richard) Bai, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ming Li

This thesis is about modeling text and speech sequences to achieve lower perplexity, better generation, and benefit downstream language tasks; specifically, we address the problem of modeling natural language sequences (text and speech) with Transformer-based language models. We present three new techniques that improve sequence modeling in different ways.

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Peng Shi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Please note: This distinguished lecture will take place in DC 1302 as well as livestreamed over Zoom.

Sheila McIlraith
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Associate Director and Research Lead, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2310.

Xiang Fang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Stephen Mann