Events - 2023

Wednesday, August 16, 2023 — 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Enabling Language-specific Transformations in Language-agnostic Program Reduction

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2564.

Gaosen Zhao, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun

Wednesday, August 16, 2023 — 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT

PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Perceptions and Practicalities for Privacy in Machine Learning

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Bailey Kacsmar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Privacy in machine learning holds great promise for enabling organizations to analyze data they and their partners hold while maintaining data subjects’ privacy.

Tuesday, August 15, 2023 — 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT

Seminar • Systems and Networking | Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Current State of Malware Analysis and Limits of Protection Methods

Please note: This seminar will take place online.

Candid Wüest
Global VP of Research, Acronis

In this technical talk, we will navigate through the intricate world of malware analysis and the methodologies employed by cybersecurity professionals, such as reverse engineering and blackboxing. We’ll contrast traditional methods, like signature-based detection, with more adaptive approaches such as behavior detection.

Monday, August 14, 2023 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Flashpoint: A Low-latency Serverless Platform for Deep Learning Inference Serving

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place DC 2310.

Justin David San Juan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Bernard Wong

Friday, August 11, 2023 — 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • The Moderation of Contentious Content on Twitter

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

Wei Hu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Kate Larson

Friday, August 11, 2023 — 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT

PhD Defence • Natural Language Processing | Information Retrieval • Design of Neural Models for Domain-Specific Retrieval-Based Information Access Systems

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Yuqing Xie, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Ming Li, Jimmy Lin

Thursday, August 10, 2023 — 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning | Natural Language Processing • DyLoRA: Parameter Efficient Tuning of Pre-trained Models using Dynamic Search-Free Low-Rank Adaptation

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Ali Ghodsi

Wednesday, August 9, 2023 — 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT

PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics | Physics-based Animation • Simulating Incompressible Fluids Using Power Diagrams

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

Joel Wretborn, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty

Wednesday, August 9, 2023 — 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Formal Methods • Improvements to Many-Sorted Finite Model Finding using SMT Solvers

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2564.

Owen Zila, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Nancy Day

Wednesday, August 9, 2023 — 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Bioinformatics • Spectrum and Retention Time Prediction for N-Glycopeptides Using Deep Learning

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

Shuyang Zhang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ming Li

Wednesday, August 9, 2023 — 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Variability-aware Neo4j for Analyzing a Graphical Model of a Software Product Line

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2564.

Xiang Chen, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jo Atlee

Tuesday, August 8, 2023 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Security and Privacy Analysis of Employee Monitoring Applications

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

Adam Campbell, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Urs Hengartner

Tuesday, August 8, 2023 — 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM EDT

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning • Exploring the Impact of Self-Supervised Pretraining for Diagnostic Tasks in Lung Ultrasound

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1331.

Blake VanBerlo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Jesse Hoey, Alexander Wong

Friday, August 4, 2023 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Proportionality and Fairness in Voting and Ranking Systems

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

Kanav Mehra, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Kate Larson

Thursday, August 3, 2023 — 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Eventual Durability of ACID Transactions in Database Systems

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2568.

Tejasvi Kashi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ken Salem

Thursday, August 3, 2023 — 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • Variants of Pseudo-deterministic Algorithms and Duality in TFNP

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

Mohammad Hossein Ebtehaj, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shalev Ben-David

Wednesday, August 2, 2023 — 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning • Bayesian Federated Learning in Predictive Space

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

Mohsin Hasan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Wednesday, August 2, 2023 — 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT

PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction • Transforming the Reading Experience of Scientific Documents with Polymorphism

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 3102 and online.

Damien Masson, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Daniel Vogel, Géry Casiez, Sylvain Malacria

Monday, July 31, 2023 — 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • On the Data Quality of Remotely Sensed Forest Maps

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

Shadi Ghasemitaheri, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lukasz Golab

Accurate forest monitoring data are essential for understanding and conserving forest ecosystems. However, the remoteness of forests and the scarcity of ground truth make it hard to identify data quality issues.

Friday, July 28, 2023 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • A Bias-Variance-Privacy Trilemma for Statistical Estimation

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

Matthew Regehr, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Gautam Kamath, Shai Ben-David

Friday, July 28, 2023 — 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM EDT

PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity • Succinct and Compact Data Structures for Intersection Graphs

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 1331.

Kaiyu Wu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ian Munro

Friday, July 28, 2023 — 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • The Unspoken Rules of Engagement: Understanding the Impact of Social Norm Violations in Human-Robot Interactions

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2102 and online.

Steven Lawrence, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Kerstin Dautenhahn, Jesse Hoey

As robots increasingly permeate diverse domains such as healthcare, education, service industries, and domestic environments, the significance of understanding and navigating human-robot interactions intensifies.

Friday, July 28, 2023 — 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT