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Wednesday, March 19, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning | Reinforcement Learning • Feature Selection for Inverse Constraint Learning in Reinforcement Learning

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Ashish Gaurav, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Co-founders crouching in front of the Y Combinator sign (white sign. The "Y" is in an orange block, with white font. Combinator is in orange font). Photo taken outdoors in front of a white building
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Waterloo startup migrates to the Y Combinator

Three childhood friends from the University of Waterloo have secured $500,000 from the Y Combinator (YC) for GALE, an innovative immigration software. 

YC is one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious startup accelerators, with an average acceptance rate of one per cent. Every year, recipients receive $500,000 in seed funding and other resources like alumni talks and mentorship. With alumni including Airbnb, DoorDash, and Twitch, YC can help kickstart a young business. 

Friday, March 14, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Testing Support Size More Efficiently Than Learning Histograms

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

Renato Ferreira Pinto Jr., PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Eric Blais

Thursday, April 3, 2025 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Symbolic Computation | Cryptography • On the Complexity of Feasibility, Connectivity, and 2^a-isogeny Computation

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Jesse Allister Kasian Elliott, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors David Jao, Éric Schost

Monday, March 10, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • Generalization, Memorization, and Privacy in Trustworthy Machine Learning

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

Mahdi Haghifam, Distinguished Postdoctoral Researcher
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Adversarial Machine Learning | Deepfake Detection | Digital Watermarking • UnMarker: A Universal Attack on Defensive Image Watermarking

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Andre Kassis, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Urs Hengartner