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Friday, May 10, 2024 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Navigating Identities in Text: Towards an Approach for Dementia Care

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314.

Jess Gano, Master's candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

Friday, May 10, 2024 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Bioinformatics • Deep Unsupervised Learning for Biodiversity Analysis: Representation Learning and Clustering of Bacterial, Mitochondrial, and Barcode DNA Sequences

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

Pablo Millán Arias, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lila Kari

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Information Retrieval • Improving Text Retrieval via Fine-Tuning Large Language Models

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2585.

Xueguang Ma, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive NLP capabilities, existing information retrieval applications mainly focus on prompting LLMs for query expansions or generating permutations for listwise reranking.

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Parallel Transaction Execution in Public Blockchain Systems

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2310

Rizwan Shahid, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Bernard Wong, Samer Al-Kiswany

Public blockchain systems like Ethereum and Bitcoin suffer from poor transaction through-put, leading to delayed transaction execution and high transaction fees. They execute transactions one by one failing to extract inherent parallelism possible in executing the workload.