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Wednesday, July 22, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Learning to Understand and Generate Multimodal Contents Within a Unified Model

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Wenhu Chen

Wednesday, August 5, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • “Nothing Can Make Device Sharing Feel Safer...” Privacy and Security Challenges in Collectivist Immigrant Families

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317.

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

Supervisors: Professors Urs Hengartner, Leah Zhang Kennedy

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • ASH: Agents that Self-hone via Embodied Learning

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

Benjamin Schneider, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Wenhu Chen, Florian Kerschbaum

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Information Retrieval • Breaking Information Silos: Advancing Search Systems for Unified Information Seeking

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in M3 4001 and online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Friday, July 24, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Symbolic Computation • Sobolev Regularized Polynomial Features for Robust Handwritten Symbol Recognition

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Deepak Singh Kalhan, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Stephen Watt, Robert Corless