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Friday, April 29, 2022 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • An Empirical Study of Scoring Functions for Learning Bayesian Networks in Model Averaging

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Peter van Beek

Friday, April 29, 2022 11:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Algebra | Symbolic Computation • Fast Algorithms for Sparse Decomposition and Sparse Series Solutions to Differential Equations

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

Saiyue Lyu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mark Giesbrecht, Arne Storjohann

Tuesday, May 17, 2022 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy • Risk and Resilience: Promoting Adolescent Online Safety and Privacy through Human-Centered Computing

Please note: This talk will be given online.

Pamela Wisniewski, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida

Friday, April 22, 2022 11:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Self-supervised Video Representation Learning by Exploiting Playing Speediness Changes

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

Lizhe Chen, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Olga Veksler

In recent research, the self-supervised video representation learning methods have achieved improvement by exploring video’s temporal properties, such as playing speeds and temporal order. These works inspire us to exploit a new artificial supervision signal for self-supervised representation learning: the change of video playing speed.

Thursday, April 28, 2022 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Bioinformatics • Predicting the Spectrum Quality and Digestive Enzyme for Shotgun Proteomics

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

Soroosh Gholamizoj, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Bin Ma

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CrySP) • Improved Model Poisoning Attacks and Defenses on Federated Learning with Clustering

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

Xinda Li, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Worst-Case to Average-Case Reductions via Additive Combinatorics

Please note: This seminar will be given online.

Vahid Asadi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

We present a new framework for designing worst-case to average-case reductions. For a large class of problems, it provides an explicit transformation of algorithms running in time T that are only correct on a small (subconstant) fraction of their inputs into algorithms running in time O(T \log T) that are correct on all inputs.

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 10:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Data Systems • Packed Memory Arrays using Jacobson Index

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

Tamal Adhikary, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Khuzaima Daudjee, Semih Salihoglu