Events - 2024

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

Ipsita Mohanty, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor M. Tamer Özsu

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Zhongwen (Rex) Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yuri Boykov

Please note: This CPI talk will take place in the Arts Lecture Hall, room 113.

Nicolas Papernot, Assistant Professor
Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Toronto

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

Hen-Chen Yen, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

This Distinguished Public Lecture will take place in the Humanities Theatre.

Vinton G. Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist
Google

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

Tianzheng Wang, Assistant Professor
School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University

Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 2306 and online.

Robert Andrews, Postdoctoral Researcher
School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Please note: This colloquium will take place in MC 5501.

Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
Penn State University

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Tosca Lechner, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shai Ben-David

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

John Stasko, Professor
School of Interactive Computing 
Georgia Institute of Technology

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

Rizwan Shahid, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Bernard Wong, Samer Al-Kiswany

Public blockchain systems like Ethereum and Bitcoin suffer from poor transaction through-put, leading to delayed transaction execution and high transaction fees. They execute transactions one by one failing to extract inherent parallelism possible in executing the workload.

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2585.

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

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive NLP capabilities, existing information retrieval applications mainly focus on prompting LLMs for query expansions or generating permutations for listwise reranking.