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Friday, May 15, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics • Content-Aware Pixel Art Rendering on Pixels of Multiple Shapes

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Craig Kaplan

Thursday, June 25, 2026 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity • Towards Fast, Safe and Persistent Concurrent Data Structures for Non-experts

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

Gaetano Coccimiglio, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Trevor Brown, Peter Buhr

Friday, May 8, 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Scientific Computing • A Neural Network Approach to Optimal Asset Allocation under Omega Ratio Inspired Objectives

Please note: This master’s research paper presentation will take place in DC 2310.

Sadman Samin Khan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Yuying Li, Peter Forsyth

Monday, June 22, 2026 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Evolving Trade-offs Towards Deployable Private Systems for Data Science

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

Thomas Humphries, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Thursday, June 11, 2026 10:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity • The Sample Complexity of Differentially Private Statistical Estimation

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Anargyros Georgios Mouzakis, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Gautam Kamath

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • The Grain of Truth Problem for (Bayesian) Game Theory and Reinforcement Learning

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Cole Wyeth, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ming Li

Friday, May 15, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Enhancing Symbolic Regression with Dimensional Analysis

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2314.

Lena Podina, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mohammad Kohandel, Ali Ghodsi

Friday, May 8, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Visual Segmentation with Explanations for Medical Decision Making: A CNN Architecture with a Transformer-Attention Extension

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

Mahmoud Khalaf, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Robin Cohen