Current students

Subscribe to Current students
Friday, May 17, 2024 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Software Engineering • DistApe: Distributed Model-Based Android GUI Testing

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

Boren Zang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun

Thursday, June 27, 2024 11:00 am - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Computer Vision | Machine Learning • Unsupervised Losses for Clustering and Segmentation of Images: Theories & Optimization Algorithms

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Zhongwen (Rex) Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yuri Boykov

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Information Retrieval • Improving Text Retrieval via Fine-Tuning Large Language Models

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2585.

Xueguang Ma, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive NLP capabilities, existing information retrieval applications mainly focus on prompting LLMs for query expansions or generating permutations for listwise reranking.

Friday, May 10, 2024 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Navigating Identities in Text: Towards an Approach for Dementia Care

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

Jess Gano, Master's candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

Thursday, May 9, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Formal Methods | Software Engineering • Compositional Analysis of Parameterized Distributed Hybrid Systems

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2310.

Raniah Alghamdi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Richard Trefler

Monday, May 13, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning • Multivariate Triangular Quantile Maps for Novelty Detection

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu

Monday, April 29, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Not All Pull Request Rejections Are The Same

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

Amirreza Shamsolhodaei, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Mei Nagappan

Tuesday, April 30, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Improving the Precision of Analyses Queries in Factbase Models of Software Systems

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

Xiang Yun (Fa Fa) Ke, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jo Atlee