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Wednesday, March 11, 2026 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering • Discovering Missed Peephole Optimizations with Large Language

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

Hongxu Xu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun

Monday, March 2, 2026 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Scaling Two-Party Differentially Private Selection

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

Haoyan Ni, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Monday, March 9, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics • Physically-Based Simulation and Visualization of Optical Phenomena Elicited by Negative Refraction

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

Scott Steinfield, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Gladimir Baranoski

Friday, March 6, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking • Few-Shot Domain Adaptation for Effective Data Drift Mitigation in Network Management

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1302.

Soheil Johari, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba

Monday, March 23, 2026 11:00 am - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Information Retrieval | Natural Language Processing • Benchmarks, Data, and Evaluation for Robust Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Heterogeneous Domains and Languages

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

Nandan Thakur, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin