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Wednesday, January 8, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning • Constrained Diffusion: Applications to Image Generation, Manifold Learning, and Motion Planning

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

Spencer Szabados, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu

Thursday, January 16, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • SWE-bench-Secret: Automating AI Agent Evaluation for Software Engineering Tasks

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Godsfavour Kio, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Mei Nagappan

Monday, January 13, 2025 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Code Generation and Testing in the Era of AI-Native Software Engineering

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Noble Saji Mathews, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Mei Nagappan

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • DINO Features for Salient Object Detection

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

Albert Ding, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Olga Veksler

Friday, January 10, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages • Type-Safe Tree Transformations for Precisely-Typed Compilers

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317.

Pedro Oliveira, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ondřej Lhoták

Friday, January 10, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Large Language Models for Build System Maintenance: An Empirical Study of CodeGen’s Next-Line Prediction

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

Akinbowale Akin-Taylor, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Shane McIntosh, Mei Nagappan

Friday, January 10, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Exploring High-level Transport Programming Through eXpress Data Path

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317.

Pedro Vitor Valenca Mizuno, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo

Professor Jimmy Lin at Waterloo Data & Artificial Intelligence Institute's Gen AI workshop
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Jimmy Lin named 2024 Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Professor Jimmy Lin has been named a 2024 Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in recognition of his significant contributions to question answering and information retrieval.

Established in 2011 by the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL fellowships are conferred annually to members whose contributions to the field have been extraordinary through their scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community, along with broader educational and outreach activities.