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

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Variability in Factors Influencing Pull Request Merge Decisions: A Microscopic Exploration

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

Nasif Ahmed, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Mei Nagappan

Thursday, April 18, 2024 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics • Unsupervised and Self-Supervised Learning Approaches to Taxonomic Categorization of DNA Sequences

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online, NOT in person as advertised earlier.

Pablo Millán Arias, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lila Kari

Tuesday, April 23, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics • Application of Machine Learning to Taxonomic Classification of Emerging Astroviruses

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Fatemeh Alipour, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professor Lila Kari, Yang Lu

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics • Efficient Protein Inference with Graph Neural Networks

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

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

Supervisors: Professors Ali Ghodsi, Ming Li

The integration of deep learning approaches in biomedical research has been transformative, enabling breakthroughs in various applications. Despite these strides, its application in protein inference is impeded by the scarcity of extensively labeled datasets, a challenge compounded by the high costs and complexities of accurate protein annotation.

Friday, April 26, 2024 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages • Type-Aware Optimizations with Imperfect Types

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

Jeremiah Ikosin, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Gregor Richards

Friday, May 10, 2024 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Machine Learning | Deep Leaning • Symbolic Regression and Sequence Modelling with Conditional and Dynamic Language Models

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Mojtaba Valipour, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ali Ghodsi