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Thursday, October 19, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

CrySP Speakers Series on Privacy • A Bigger Picture of Secure Multi-Party Computation

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

Marina Blanton, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo

photo of PhD candidate Blake VanBerlo in the Davis Centre
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Blake VanBerlo awarded prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

Blake VanBerlo, a PhD candidate at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, is one of five recipients at Waterloo of a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Valued at $150,000 over three years, Vanier Scholarships recognize doctoral students who have exhibited academic excellence, research potential and leadership.

Monday, September 25, 2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

DSG Seminar Series • Class Expression Learning with Multiple Representations

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

Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Professor of Data Science
Paderborn University

RDF knowledge bases are now first-class citizens of the Web with over 100 billion RDF assertions in the 2022 WebDataCommons crawl. Developing explainable machine learning approaches tailored towards this data is hence a task of increasing importance.

Friday, October 13, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Theoretical Neuroscience • Exploiting Semantic Information in a Spiking Neural SLAM System

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in E7 6323 and virtually.

Nicole Sandra-Yaffa Dumont, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Jeff Orchard, Chris Eliasmith

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Hidden Permutations to the Rescue: Multi-Pass Semi-Streaming Lower Bounds for Approximate Matchings

Please note: This seminar will take place in M3 4206 and online.

Sepehr Assadi, Associate Professor
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Friday, November 10, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Software Engineering • Adaptive Human-Chatbot Interactions: Contextual Factors, Variability Design and Levels of Automation

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

Glaucia Melo dos Santos, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Paulo Alencar, Daniel Berry, Donald Cowan

Thursday, September 21, 2023 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Cracking the Code: Unraveling Gender Disparities in Open-Source Contributions

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

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

Supervisors: Professors Mei Nagappan, Diogo Barradas