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Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Meet Yang Lu, a professor who uses machine learning to deduce the structure and function of proteins and genes

Yang Lu joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in 2023. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Professor William Noble’s genome sciences group at the University of Washington. He obtained his PhD in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics under the supervision of Professor Fengzhu Sun at the University of Southern California. Before moving to the United States, he completed his MS and BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.

Monday, April 17, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Enumerating Query Plans via Conditional Tableau Interpolation

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

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

Supervisor: Professor David Toman

Monday, April 3, 2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction • Empowering Online Grassroots Creative Communities through Live Media

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.

Zhicong Lu, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong

The proliferation of video-sharing and livestreaming platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch has catalyzed the growth of online creative communities, promoting cultural expression and preservation.

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 8:30 am - 5:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Brain Day 2023 • Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience

Please note: Brain Day 2023 will take place in Engineering 7, various rooms.

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The University of Waterloo’s Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience supports the development of robust explanatory theories of mind and brain through education and research.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Computational Neuroscience • An Intro to Category Theory for Computer Scientists

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1331.

Nolan Peter Shaw, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jeff Orchard

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • Less is More: Parameter-Free Text Classification with Gzip

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are often used for text classification due to their high accuracy. However, DNNs can be computationally intensive, requiring millions of parameters and large amounts of labeled data, which can make them expensive to use, to optimize, and to transfer to out-of-distributed (OOD) cases in practice.

Monday, April 24, 2023 9:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Computer Algebra • Algorithms in Intersection Theory in the Plane

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in MC 5417 and virtually.

Catherine St-Pierre, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Éric Schost

This thesis presents an algorithm to find the local structure of intersections of plane curves.