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

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Differential Privacy for Nearest Neighbor Queries

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

Emily Lepert, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

We examine the problem of providing differential privacy for nearest neighbor queries. Very few mechanisms exist that achieve this, most notable geo-indistinguishability in the context of location privacy. However it uses an extended definition of differential privacy and restricts the sensitivity of queries.

Friday, August 5, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Ape+: A Faster Ape with Static Model Guided Exploration

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

Yaxin Cheng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun

Friday, August 19, 2022 9:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Software Engineering • An Empirical Study of the Proneness of Code Changes to Inducing Build Unreproducibility

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

Muhammad Hassan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Reproducible Builds are software builds that generate identical outputs at each invocation. They are important for security, quality assurance and commercial verifiability.

Professor Daniel Berry in the Davis Centre
Friday, July 22, 2022

Daniel Berry celebrates half a century as a professor of computer science

Any computer scientist 70 or more years of age today knows almost every other computer scientist of those same ages, as few were in the discipline during its fledgling days. One such individual from that era is Daniel Berry, a professor in the Software Engineering group at the Cheriton School of Computer Science.

Monday, August 8, 2022 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Contextualizing Alternative Models of Secret Sharing

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

Shannon Veitch, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: University Professor Doug Stinson

Monday, August 8, 2022 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Quantum Computing • Almost Synchronous Correlations Defined within Tracial Von Neumann Algebras

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

Junqiao Lin, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Richard Cleve

Thursday, July 28, 2022 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • FairBlock: Preventing Blockchain Front-running with Minimal Overheads

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

Peyman Momeni, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Sergey Gorbunov

Tuesday, July 26, 2022 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing • Cross-lingual Text-to-SQL Semantic Parsing with Representation Mixup

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Peng Shi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

We focus on the Cross-lingual Text-to-SQL semantic parsing, where the parsers are expected to generate SQL for non-English utterances based on English database schema. Intuitively, English translation as a side information is an effective way for bridging the language gap, while the noise introduced by translation system may effect the parser effectiveness.