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Wednesday, March 11, 2026 8:00 am - 9:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • On the Effect of Hyperparameters in Language Modelling for Linguistics

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

Ruoxi Ning, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Freda Shi

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Systems and Networking • Redesigning Datacenter Systems to Leverage Hardware-Acceleration

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Sreeharsha Udayashankar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Samer Al-Kiswany

Thursday, February 19, 2026 9:30 am - 10:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics | Human–Computer Interaction • Computational Methods for Colour Palette Generation and the Psychophysiological Impact Thereof

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Andreea Pocol, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Lesley Istead, Craig S. Kaplan

Thursday, March 5, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar • Software Engineering • The True Cost of AI Assistance to Programming of Software

Please note: This seminar is offered twice to accommodate schedules —
at 11 a.m. on March 5 and at 10 a.m. on March 6. Both sessions will be in DC 3317.

Daniel M. Berry, Professor
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning | Information Retrieval • Rethinking Benchmarks, Data, and Evaluation for Retrieval & Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 3301.

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

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Friday, February 13, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking • Cache Your Prompt When It’s Green: Carbon-Aware Caching for Large Language Model Serving

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

Henry Tian, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Sihang Liu

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Dimension Independent and Computationally Efficient Shadow Tomography

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in QNC 1201.

Pulkit Sinha, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ashwin Nayak