Thesis defence

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Tuesday, February 17, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human–Computer Interaction • Semantic Ink: Annotation-as-Command for Steerable, Reusable AI Graphics Editing

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Friday, January 23, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Towards Secure and Efficient Route Computation for Cross-Chain Message Delivery

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Bernard Wong

Wednesday, March 18, 2026 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Threshold Cryptosystems • Practical Distributed Key Generation and Signatures

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2310 and online.

Chelsea Komlo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Ian Goldberg, Douglas Stebila

Wednesday, January 21, 2026 9:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Ancestry Deconvolution via Differential Privacy

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Wednesday, January 14, 2026 9:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Regression

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Friday, January 9, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • UringCL: A Lightweight io uring Convergence Layer for Adoption in Legacy Event Loops

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 1304 and online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Martin Karsten

Friday, January 23, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Towards Green AI: Evaluating Energy Efficiency for Quantized LLM Inference

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Khuzaima Daudjee

Friday, January 9, 2026 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Software Engineering • Compiler Testing via Literal Value Mutation

Please note: This master’s research paper presentation will take place in DC 2314.

Rui Ming Xiong, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Joanne Atlee, Chengnian Sun

Wednesday, January 7, 2026 10:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • GASTON: Graph-Aware Social Transformer for Online Networks

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

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

Supervisors: Professors Lukasz Golab, Robin Cohen