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Monday, August 19, 2024 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning • Scaling Pre-training Data and Language Models for African Languages

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

Akintunde Oladipo, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Monday, August 12, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Mitigating Signalling Storms in 5G

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

Bohan Zhang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Uncovering the Reliability and Consistency of AI Language Models: A Systematic Study

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

Aisha Khatun, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Dan Brown

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • CrySP (Cryptography, Security, and Privacy) • An Efficient Non-Interactive OT-MP-PSI Protocol for Multi Institution Attack Detection

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

Onur Eren Arpaci, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Florian Kerschbaum & Raouf Boutaba

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction • Substiports: Making 3D Printers More Sustainable by Manually Substituting Supports

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in EC1 1237 and online.

Ludwig Wilhelm Wall, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Daniel Vogel, Oliver Schneider

Friday, September 13, 2024 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Artificial intelligence | Machine Learning • Trustworthy Machine Learning with Deep Generative Models

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

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

Supervisors: Professors Yaoliang Yu, Sun Sun

Professor Gautam Kamath in DC
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Gautam Kamath and international colleagues win best paper award at ICML 2024

Professor Gautam Kamath, and his colleagues Professor Florian Tramèr, a computer scientist at ETH Zürich, and Nicholas Carlini, research scientist at Google DeepMind, have won a best paper award at ICML 2024, the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, for their paper, “Position: Considerations for Differentially Private Learning with Large-Scale Public Pretraining.” 

Gautam Kamath posing in Davis Centre.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Gautam Kamath and colleagues win 2024 Caspar Bowden PET Award

University of Waterloo Professor Gautam Kamath, along with his colleagues Professor Clément Canonne at the University of Sydney and Thomas Steinke, a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, have been awarded the 2024 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. The prestigious recognition was given to the team for their paper, “The Discrete Gaussian for Differential Privacy,” research that was presented initially at NeurIPS 2020 and published in the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.