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Wednesday, November 16, 2022 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Graduate Inclusivity Group | EDI Trivia Contest

Women in Computer Science and the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee are running Graduate Inclusivity Group events once a month for graduate students.

Everyone is welcome to attend the Graduate Inclusivity Group Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity Trivia Contest! Teams can comprise as many as five to six people and will be formed on the fly at the event. The only rule is that members of the same research lab cannot be on the same team.

photo of Ali Abedi demonstrating Wi-Peep device on a drone
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Can your Wi-Fi devices be used to spy on you?

The many Wi-Fi devices that pervade our homes, workplaces and lives — from phones and smartwatches to TVs and voice assistants to desktops, laptops, tablets, security systems, and more — use an encrypted network to communicate securely, yet despite cryptographic protection they may be leaking sensitive information. 

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 9:30 am - 10:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Offline Evaluation via Human Preference Judgments: A Dueling Bandits Problem

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

Xinyi Yan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Charles Clarke, Mark Smucker

Tuesday, November 8, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Scientific Computation | Quantitative Finance • Optimal Asset Allocation during High Inflation

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Chendi Ni, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Yuying Li, Peter Forsyth

photo of Professor Wenhu Chen in the Davis Centre
Monday, October 24, 2022

Meet Wenhu Chen, a professor who studies natural language processing, deep learning, knowledge representation and reasoning

Wenhu Chen joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science in fall 2022 as an Assistant Professor. Before joining Waterloo as faculty, he was a Research Scientist at Google Research.

Wednesday, October 26, 2022 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • ML-Driven Algorithm Selection and Meta-Solving for Hard Combinatorial Problems

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Joseph Scott, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Vijay Ganesh

Friday, October 28, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • New Lower Bounds for Set Multilinear Formulas

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

Shubhangi Saraf, Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

The recent exciting breakthrough by Limaye, Srinivasan, and Tavenas showing superpolynomial lower bounds for constant-depth algebraic circuits has underscored the importance of studying the complexity of set multilinear formulas.