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Thursday, January 12, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Computer Graphics | Computer-aided Geometric Design • A Generalized Blending Scheme for Arbitrary Order of Continuity

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

Xiang Fang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Stephen Mann

Monday, November 21, 2022 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • VibEmoji: Exploring User-authoring Multi-modal Emoticons in Social Communication

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

Ziqi Zhou, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Friday, November 18, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Compiling Equality in an Abstract Relational Model via Preference Tables and Translation Tables

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

Ensieh Mollazadeh, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Grant Weddell

Borgida et al. have introduced a refinement to the relational model (RM) which they call the abstract relational model (ARM) that extends the former in the following three ways:

Thursday, December 1, 2022 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence • Improved Bayesian Network Structure Learning in the Model Averaging Paradigm

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Zhenyu (Alister) Liao, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Peter van Beek

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 9:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Trifecta: Faster High-throughput Three-party Computation over WAN using Multi-fan-in Logic Gates

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

Sina Faraji, Master’s thesis presentation
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

photo of Wesley Leung, Jason Yuen and Ildar Gainullin
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Trio of Waterloo programmers, top Canadian team, finishes 17th overall at 45th ICPC

A team of three Waterloo students have placed 17th at the 45th International Collegiate Programming Contest, the most prestigious and well-known algorithmic programming competition for university students, held this year in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Tuesday, November 22, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Dean’s Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture • Riding Along with the Time-traveling Networking Researcher

Please note: This lecture will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Mostafa H. Ammar, Regents’ Professor
School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

A networking researcher, traveling forward in time from 1985 to the present, would be shocked by many things — not the least of which is the fact that people are still doing networking research in 2022.

Monday, November 21, 2022 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering • Constraint-based Type Inference for Incomplete Java Code Snippets

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2585 and online.

Yiwen Dong, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun