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Tuesday, July 28, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics • Machine learning reveals genome-wide DNA sequence patterns associated with thermal adaptation in extremophile microbes

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Monireh Safari, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lila Kari

Thursday, August 6, 2026 9:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages • Transitioning to Explicit Nulls in Scala

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Ondřej Lhoták

Thursday, August 6, 2026 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Towards Auditable Properties of Machine Learning System

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

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

Supervisor: Professor N. Asokan

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Physics-Constrained Learning for Scientific Discovery: Inference in Differential Equations and Inverse Design via Generative Models

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in M3 3001and online.

Lena Podina, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mohammad Kohandel, Ali Ghodsi

Friday, July 24, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Symbolic Computation • A Complete Validated Algorithm for the Initial Value Problem of Ordinary Differential Equations

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Chee Yap, Professor
Department of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University

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