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Tuesday, September 6, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • KG-Pipeline: An Automated Knowledge Graph Generation Framework

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Alireza Vezvaei, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lukasz Golab

Wednesday, September 7, 2022 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning | Data Systems • POEM: Pattern-Oriented Explanations of CNN Models

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

Vargha Dadvar, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lukasz Golab

Wednesday, August 31, 2022 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction • More Than Just Software Surprises: Purposes, Processes, and Directions for Software Application Easter Eggs

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Matthew Lakier, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel

“Easter eggs” are features hidden inside software, and the practice of developers including them is a long-standing global phenomenon. They have seen some investigation in the context of games, but despite their prevalence in non-game software applications, their nature within this context is less clear.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity • On the Properties and Structure of Bordered Words and Generalizations

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Daniel Gabric, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Shallit

Wednesday, August 24, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics • Editing Fluid Flows with Divergence-Free Biharmonic Vector Field Interpolation

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

Tümay Özdemir, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty

Tuesday, August 23, 2022 9:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Private Two-Party Random Minimum Spanning Forest Computation

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

Marian Dietz, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Wednesday, August 17, 2022 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • DProvSQL: Accuracy-aware Privacy Provenance Framework for Differentially Private SQL Engine

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

Shufan Zhang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Xi He

Thursday, August 18, 2022 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics • On the Sensitivity of Snow Bidirectional Reflectance to Variations in Grain Characteristics

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Petri Varsa, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Gladimir V. G. Baranoski