Current students

Subscribe to Current students
Monday, July 27, 2026 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Human–Computer Interaction | Artificial Intelligence • Scaling Foundation Models & Agentic AI that Supports Healthy Living

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

Daniel McDuff
Senior Staff Research Scientist and Manager, Google
Affiliate Professor, University of Washington

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • From Verifiable Rewards to Tool-Using Agents: VerlTool for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Dongfu Jiang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Wenhu Chen

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Understanding Hour-Long Videos with Hybrid Mamba-Transformers

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2310 and online.

Weiming Ren, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Wenhu Chen

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • A Unified Perturbation Framework for Analyzing Leaderboard Stability and Manipulation

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314.

Hosna Oyarhoseini, Master's candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Amir-Hossein Karimi & Jimmy Lin

Friday, July 31, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human–Computer Interaction • Technology-mediated Group Idea Generation and Evaluation for Artistic Creations Across Disciplines

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2310 and online.

Anthony Maocheia-Ricci, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Edith Law

Monday, July 6, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Human–Computer Interaction • AI in Mental Health: Clinician Perceptions and the Need for AI Literacy in Participatory Research

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

Carolyn Wang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Maura Grossman, Dan Brown

Monday, July 13, 2026 9:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Evaluating LLM Robustness Under Adversarial and Conflicting Evidence in Health Question Answering and Claim Verification

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

Shakiba Amirshahi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Charles Clarke, Amira Ghenai

Thursday, June 25, 2026 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Multilingual Embeddings: Data, Training, and Understanding

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Xinyu Crystina Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Friday, July 10, 2026 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Symbolic Computation • Stability of Sobolev-Regularized Polynomial Differentiation Matrices

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Deepak Singh Kalhan, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Stephen Watt, Robert Corless