Events tagged with Current undergraduate students

Friday, December 4, 2020 — 2:00 PM EST

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering — Documentation-Guided Fuzzing for Testing Deep Learning API Functions

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Yitong Li, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Lin Tan, Mike Godfrey

Monday, December 7, 2020 — 10:00 AM EST

Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute • UC Non-Interactive, Proactive, Threshold ECDSA with Identifiable Aborts

Please note: This Waterloo CPI seminar will be giving online.

Nikolaos Makriyannis, Cryptography researcher
Fireblocks

Building on the Gennaro & Goldfeder and Lindell & Nof protocols (CCS '18), we present two threshold ECDSA protocols, for any number of signatories and any threshold, that improve as follows over the state of the art:

Monday, December 7, 2020 — 1:30 PM EST

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Software Engineering — Case Study on University of Waterloo’s Quest — A Requirement Engineering and User Experience Investigation and Lessons Learned

Please note: This master’s research paper presentation will be given online.

Yilun Bai, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel M. Berry

Monday, December 7, 2020 — 2:00 PM EST

PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics | Scientific Computing — Divergence-Free and Boundary-Respecting Velocity Interpolation Using Stream Functions

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Jumyung “JC” Chang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 — 11:00 AM EST

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning — Cross-Lingual Entity Matching for Knowledge Graphs

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Hsiu-Wei Yang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Multilingual knowledge graphs (KGs), such as YAGO and DBpedia, represent entities in different languages. The task of cross-lingual entity matching is to align entities in a source language with their counterparts in target languages.

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 — 11:00 AM EST

Mathematics Education Seminar • Remote Teaching Adventures Inspired by COVID-19

Please note: This seminar will be given online.

Petra Bonfert-Taylor
Dartmouth College

While teaching remotely is more common in other parts of the world, at Dartmouth College and its Thayer School of Engineering all classes used to be taught in person. Until March of 2020 that is when COVID-19 gave us 2 weeks’ notice to switch to 100% remote instruction.

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — 10:00 AM EST

PhD Defence • Symbolic Computation — Homotopy Algorithms for Solving Structured Determinantal Systems

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Thi Xuan Vu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors George Labahn, Éric Schost, Mohab Safey El Din

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — 12:00 PM EST

PhD Seminar • Data Systems — A Semi-supervised Framework of Clustering Selection for De-duplication

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Hemant Saxena, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ihab Ilyas

Thursday, December 10, 2020 — 11:00 AM EST

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence — AlphaStar: Considerations and Human-like Constraints for Deep Learning Game Interfaces

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

Thursday, December 10, 2020 — 1:30 PM EST

PhD Defence • Systems and Networking — On the Importance of Infrastructure-Awareness in Large-Scale Distributed Storage Systems

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Sajjad Rizvi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Bernard Wong, Srinivasan Keshav

Friday, December 11, 2020 — 10:00 AM EST

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems — Scaling Machine Learning Data Repair Systems for Sparse Datasets

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Omar Attia, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ihab Ilyas

Machine learning data repair systems (e.g., HoloClean) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for the data repair problem on many datasets. However, these systems still face significant challenges when applied to sparse datasets.

Friday, December 11, 2020 — 12:30 PM EST