Current students

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Kate Larson and her international colleagues have published a commentary in Nature about the need for cooperative artificial intelligence — beneficial AI with social understanding.

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

Shivasurya Sankarapandian, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Mei Nagappan

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

Iman Akbari, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba

photo of Mike Schaekermann, Hong Zhou and Fiodar Kazhamiaka

Recent PhD graduates Mike Schaekermann, Hong Zhou and Fiodar Kazhamiaka have each received a Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award. Established in 2019, the dissertation award was created to recognize excellence in computer science doctoral research. In addition to the prestigious recognition, each awardee receives a cash prize of $1000.

photo of Nalin Chhibbers, Jessy Ceha and NAO, an educational robot

Eliciting curiosity — the intrinsic desire to explore and to find new information — enhances learning, promotes information-seeking and improves memory. Understanding how to elicit and maintain curiosity in students could help us design educational robots that stimulate interest, engagement and a quest for knowledge.

Please note: This master’s research paper presentation will be given online. Please also note that the presentation time has been changed to 4:00 p.m.

Shikhar Sakhuja, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Sebastian Fischmeister

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

Thomas Lu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chris Eliasmith

This thesis explores continuous spatial and temporal representations in machine vision.

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun

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

Mohammadali Niknamian, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ihab Ilyas

PhD candidate Ahmed Alquraan is one of 16 recipients internationally and the only recipient from Canada to receive a prestigious 2021 IBM PhD Fellowship. Established in 1951, these intensely competitive fellowships have supported thousands of PhD students over seven decades.

Current students

Kate Larson and her colleagues publish commentary in Nature about the need for cooperative AI — beneficial intelligence with social understanding

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering — Detecting Exploitable Vulnerabilities in Android Applications

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

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking — Encrypted Web Traffic Classification Using Deep Learning

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Mike Schaekermann, Hong Zhou and Fiodar Kazhamiaka win Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Awards

Does a curious robot elicit curiosity and promote learning in humans?

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Machine Learning — The Boy Who Cried Wolf: On Precision in CAN Bus Intrusion Detection

Please note: This master’s research paper presentation will be given online. Please also note that the presentation time has been changed to 4:00 p.m.

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence — Continuous Spatial and Temporal Representations in Machine Vision

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

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering — An Empirical Study on Bash Language Usage in Github

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Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems Group — Knowledge Graph Imputation

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Ahmed Alquraan awarded a 2021 IBM PhD Fellowship