Please note: This talk will be given online.
Jo Atlee, Professor and Director of Women in Computer Science
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
This talk looks at some of the issues of equity, diversity, and inclusiveness that women in computing face, in K-12, in university, and as junior programmers in the workforce. I’ll discuss some of the best practices for addressing these issues, what WiCS is doing to address these issues, and the considerable amount of work that is left to do.
Please note: This DSG Seminar Series talk will be given online.
Thomas Neumann, Department of Computer Science
Technical University of Munich
Join ordering is one of the core problems of query optimization, as differences in join order can affect the execution time of queries by orders of magnitudes. Unfortunately, the problem is NP hard in general, and real-world queries can join hundreds of relations, which makes exact solutions prohibitive expensive.
Please note: These two talks — the first a seminar, the second a PhD seminar — will be given sequentially online.
Bryant Curto, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Martin Karsten
Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.
Sangho Suh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Edith Law
Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.
Chelsea Komlo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Ian Goldberg, Douglas Stebila
Please note: This seminar will be given online.
Eyal de Lara, Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Professor Karl J. Friston, MB, BS, MA, MRCPsych, FMedSci, FRSB, FRS
Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Scientific Director
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
Institute of Neurology, University College London
Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.
Daniel Gabric, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Shallit
Please note: This seminar can be attended either in person or virtually.
Ayush Sekhari, PhD candidate
Computer Science Department, Cornell University
Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.
Jessy Ceha, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Edith Law
Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.
Gregory Philbrick, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Craig Kaplan
Please note: This seminar will be given online.
Vijay Chidambaram, Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.
Mustafa Abualsaud, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Mark Smucker
Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.
Andreas Stöckel, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Chris Eliasmith
Please note: This seminar will be given online.
Ram Alagappan, Postdoctoral researcher
VMware Research Group
Distributed storage systems form the core of modern cloud services. Like many systems software, these systems are built using layering: system designers use distributed protocols (e.g., Paxos, 2PC) and layer them upon local storage engines (e.g., RocksDB, SQLite). Such layering abstracts details about the storage stack to the layers above, easing development.
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.
Yin Ki Ng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Distinguished Professor Emeritus Frank Tompa
Solving math problems can be challenging, so challenging that one might wish to seek insights from the Internet and search for answers from Community Question Answering sites such as Math StackExchange. However, searching for relevant answers for a math problem is itself not trivial.
Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.
Akshay Ramachandran, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Lap Chi Lau
Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.
Emil Tsalapatis, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Ali Mashtizadeh
Please note: This talk will be given online.
Matthew Brehmer, Senior Research Staff
Tableau Research
At Tableau, our mission is to help people see and understand data. Given this mission, the aim of my research is to explore new ways of seeing and understanding data from someone else’s point of view: i.e., the use of visualization in multimodal communication.
Raquel Urtasun
Founder and CEO, Waabi Innovation Inc.
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Co-founder, Vector Institute for AI
Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.
Georgios Michalopoulos, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Ian McKillop, Helen Chen
Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.
Edward Eaton, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Douglas Stebila
Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.
Petri Varsa, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Gladimir Baranoski
Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.
Kira Selby, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart
Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.
Chendi Ni, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Yuying Li, Peter Forsyth
