Thesis defence

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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

Friday, December 19, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics • A Staggered Grid-based Variational Approach for Modeling Elastic Deformation

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty

Wednesday, January 14, 2026 10:00 am - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Practically Efficient Protocols for Private Computation using Homomorphic Encryption

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

Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Systems and Networking • Kernel-Level Threading, User-Level Speed: Optimizing Thread-per-Session I/O via Extensible Scheduler

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Martin Karsten

Thursday, December 18, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Grounded or Guessing? An Empirical Evaluation of LLM Reasoning in Agentic Workflows for Root Cause Analysis in Cloud-Based Systems

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in E7 5419 and online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki

Thursday, December 11, 2025 9:30 am - 10:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • New Methods for Analyzing the Properties of Automatic Sequences

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Shallit