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Wednesday, January 24, 2024 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar • Bioinformatics • Science and Engineering in Bioinformatics

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

Ibrahim Numanagić
Canada Research Chair in Data Science and Computational Biology
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Victoria

Friday, February 2, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Affective Computing • Computational Models of Emotions in Decision-Making Agents: A Systematic Review

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Aarti Malhotra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Daniel Vogel named 2023 ACM Distinguished Member

The Association for Computing Machinery has named Professor Daniel Vogel a Distinguished Member for his fundamental contributions to human-computer interaction and applications of novel forms of interaction. He is among 52 individuals recognized internationally by ACM for their outstanding scientific contributions to computing.

Wednesday, January 24, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Fast Algorithms for Directed Graph Partitioning Using Flows and Reweighted Eigenvalues

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

Robert Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lap Chi Lau

Thursday, January 25, 2024 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Analyzing Leakage of Personally Identifiable Information in Language Models

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

Nils Lukas, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Friday, February 2, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy • PrivaCI — Privacy through Contextual Integrity

Please note: This talk will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Yan Shvartzshnaider, Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lassonde School of Engineering, York University

Wednesday, January 17, 2024 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Information Retrieval • Enhancing Zero-Shot Text Retrieval with Large Language Models

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Neural retrieval systems have proven effective across a range of tasks and languages. However, creating fully zero-shot neural retrieval pipeline remains a challenge when relevance labels are not available.