Events

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

Qizhen Zhang, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Weiming Ren, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Wenhu Chen, Jimmy Lin

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in EC1 1237.

Anchit Mishra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Matthew Brehmer, Oliver Schneider

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Cong Wei, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Wenhu Chen

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2310 and online.

Mohammad Hasan Payandeh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Yuzhe You, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 3301.

Xiangru Jian, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Tamer Özsu

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

Cassandra Marcussen, PhD student
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

When can we trust predictions based on random inputs when working with real-world data? I will introduce quality control algorithms, which accept random inputs while rejecting inputs for which a prediction is substantially wrong, with high probability. I will focus on checking whether permutation pattern frequencies in a given sequence are close to those predicted for i.i.d. data. A permutation pattern describes the relative order of entries in a subsequence. For patterns of length k, estimating their frequency on arbitrary inputs requires exponentially many queries. I will show that quality control for these predictions requires only polynomially many queries.

Based on joint work with Ronitt Rubinfeld and Madhu Sudan.

To attend this seminar in person, please go to DC 1304. You can also attend virtually on Zoom.

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in MC 5201.

Siyao Zhao, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ali Mashtizadeh

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2314.

Felicia Feng, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professor Anamaria Crisan, Jian Zhao