Events - March 2023

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

Ali Saheb Pasand, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ali Ghodsi

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Yen-Ting (Allen) Yeh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

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

Khaled Ammar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Tamer Özsu, Semih Salihoglu

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.

Sunoo Park
Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University
Visiting Fellow, Columbia Law School

My research focuses on the security, privacy, and transparency of technologies in societal and legal context. My talk will focus on three of my recent works in this space, relating to (1) preventing exploitation of stolen email data, (2) enhancing accountability in electronic surveillance, and (3) legal risks faced by security researchers.

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.

Jason Hartford, Postdoctoral researcher
Mila, Quebec

Causal inference provides a powerful suite of tools through which economists, epidemiologists, and the social sciences understand the world. But textbook causal inference methods limit the questions that scientists can ask because they rely on classical statistical estimation techniques.

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

Besat Kassaie, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Frank Tompa

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2314 and virtually over Zoom.

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

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

David Radke, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Kate Larson, Tim Brecht

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

Abhibhav Garg, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Rafael Oliveira

Please note: This seminar will take place online.

Saikat Dutta, PhD candidate
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.

Stephanie Wang, PhD candidate
University of California, Berkeley

Scaling applications with distributed execution has become the norm. With the rise of big data and machine learning, more and more developers must build applications that involve complex and data-intensive distributed processing.

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually over Zoom.

Freda Shi, PhD candidate
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago