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Wednesday, December 4, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Data Systems • Robust Recursive Query Parallelism in Graph Database Management Systems

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

Anurag Chakraborty, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Semih Salihoğlu

Thursday, December 19, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • PERSONA: A Tool for Generating Algorithmic Personas for Reflective Annotations

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

Kris Frasheri, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Edith Law

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • Augmenting Digital Media Consumption via Critical Reflection to Increase Compassion and Promote Prosocial Attitudes and Behaviors

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

Ken Jen Lee, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Edith Law

Computer Science Professor Victor Zhong in DC atrium
Friday, November 15, 2024

Meet Victor Zhong, a computer scientist who seeks to make machine learning more general and efficient through natural language understanding

Victor Zhong joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August 2024. He also serves as a CIFAR AI Chair and faculty member at the Vector Institute.

His research is at the intersection of machine learning and natural language processing, with an emphasis on using language understanding to learn more generally and efficiently. His research covers a range of topics, including dialogue, code generation, question answering, and grounded reinforcement learning.