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Thursday, April 23, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Behaviorally Grounded User Profiles from the Wild for Personalized Alignment and Multi-Perspective Reasoning

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

Yuxuan Li, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Victor Zhong

Monday, April 20, 2026 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • POET: Power Oracle for Embedded Testing — Detection of State Changes in Automotive Embedded Systems

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in E5 4047.

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

Supervisor: Professor Sebastian Fischmeister

Thursday, May 28, 2026 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Selective MPC: Distributed Computation of Differentially Private Key-Value Statistics

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

Thomas Humphries, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Investigating Membership Inference Attacks under Data Dependencies

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Thomas Humphries, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 9:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Exploring the Effectiveness of Time Series Analysis for Website Fingerprinting

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Michael Wrana, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Diogo Barradas

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 9:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • The Spectre of Surveillance and Censorship in Future Internet Architectures

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Michael Wrana, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Diogo Barradas

Thursday, April 23, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics • A Biophysically-Based Framework for the Simulation and Visualization of Chlorophyll Fluorescence Under Different Illumination Conditions

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Gladimir Baranoski

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Understanding The Impact of Training and Inference Components in Semantic Segmentation

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

Matina Mahdizadeh Sani, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Olga Veksler

Friday, April 17, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Human–Computer Interaction • Revealing a Concealed Eye Disorder in Children: Designing a Solution Grounded in HCI Principles

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Alessandra Luz, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel