Current students

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

He (Richard) Bai, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ming Li

This thesis is about modeling text and speech sequences to achieve lower perplexity, better generation, and benefit downstream language tasks; specifically, we address the problem of modeling natural language sequences (text and speech) with Transformer-based language models. We present three new techniques that improve sequence modeling in different ways.

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

Runcheng (Irene) Liu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online. Please also note that the start time has changed from 11:00 to 11:30 a.m.

Daniel Erhabor, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mei Nagappan, Samer Al-Kiswany

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

Jörg Liebeherr, Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

By enabling large-scale in-situ environmental monitoring of remote areas, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) can play a crucial role in quantifying and responding to climate change. Sensing of uninhabited and many rural regions creates a need for inexpensive battery-powered IoT systems that can be deployed across large areas. Today, such systems are woefully unavailable.

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

Mahbod Majid, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Gautam Kamath

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in MC 1085.

Zhongwen (Rex) Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yuri Boykov

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

He (Richard) Bai, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ming Li

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

Bryant Curto, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Martin Karsten