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Wednesday, December 3, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Data Systems • Maximizing a Practical Utility Objective for Differentially Private Linear Queries

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

Karl Knopf, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Xi He

Thursday, December 11, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human–Computer Interaction • Exploring Gender and Gender-Based Stereotyping in a Voice Agent Running Coach

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

Casey O’Neill, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Edith Law

Wednesday, November 26, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing | Information Retrieval • Étude in Modern Information Access: On Building Effective Rerankers and Benchmarking RAG Systems

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

Ronak Pradeep, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Friday, November 28, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Computational Rhetoric • A Knowledge Representation for, and an Application to Requirements Elicitation of, Rhetorical Figures of Perfect Lexical Repetition

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Yetian Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Daniel Berry, Grant Weddell

Monday, December 1, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • On the Adaptive Security of Key-Unique Threshold Signatures

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Chelsea Komlo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Ian Goldberg, Douglas Stebila

Friday, November 28, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking • Rethinking Telemetry Design for Fine-Grained Anomaly Detection in 5G User Planes

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

Niloy Saha, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • On the Gradient Complexity of Private Optimization with Private Oracles

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

Michael Menart, Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto