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Monday, November 27, 2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Quantifying, Characterizing, and Leveraging Cross-Disciplinary Dependencies

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Friday, November 24, 2023 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering • Characterizing the Impact, Distribution, and Duration of Stale Reviewer Recommendations

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2564 and online.

Farshad Kazemi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Friday, November 24, 2023 9:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering • Exploring the Notion of Risk in Code Reviewer Recommendation Systems

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2564 and online.

Farshad Kazemi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Friday, January 12, 2024 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Machine Learning | Quantitative Finance • A General Neural Network Methodology for Multi-period Portfolio Optimization

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Chendi Ni, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Yuying Li, Peter Forsyth

Tuesday, November 21, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning | Differential Privacy • DP-LFlow: Differentially Private Latent Flow for Scalable Sensitive Image Generation

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

Dihong Jiang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Yaoliang Yu, Sun Sun

Thursday, December 14, 2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Retrieving Supporting Evidence for Generative Question Answering

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Charles Clarke

Monday, November 20, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • VisConductor: Affect-Varying Gestural Widgets for Animating Data Visualization in Augmented Video Presentations

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

Temiloluwa Femi-Gege, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Thursday, November 23, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy • Private Information Retrieval: Improvements and Limitations

Please note: This CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy talk will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Kevin Yeo
Research Engineering Manager, Google
PhD candidate, Columbia University

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a very promising cryptographic tool that enables privacy-preserving data querying that has endless implications to real-world applications. Unfortunately, PIR’s high cost remains a hindrance in widespread adoption.