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Wednesday, January 7, 2026 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Contextual AI: Integrating Macro-Context with Transformer Architectures for Social Media Analysis, Federated Learning, and Recommender Systems

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Liam Hebert, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Robin Cohen, Lukasz Golab

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 9:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Natural Language Processing | Information Retrieval • Democratizing and Modernizing Information Access: From Open Rerankers to Scalable RAG Evaluation

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Ronak Pradeep, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Thursday, November 6, 2025 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics | Rendering • RenderFormer: Transformer-based Neural Rendering of Triangle Meshes with Global Illumination

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Weijie Zhou, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Toshiya Hachisuka

Monday, November 10, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Automated Segmentation of Head and Neck Cancer on Computed Tomography Imaging

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Hussam Kaka, Master's candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Olga Veksler