Thesis defence

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Friday, May 8, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Visual Segmentation with Explanations for Medical Decision Making: A CNN Architecture with a Transformer-Attention Extension

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Robin Cohen

Friday, April 24, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Scaling a Hierarchical Coordination Fabric for Geo-Distributed Consensus

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

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

Supervisors: Professors Bernard Wong, Wojciech Golab

Monday, May 4, 2026 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Information Extraction for Low-Resource Schemas

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Monday, April 20, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Formal Methods • Prophecy Variables and Invariants in the Move Prover

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

Dao Bo Yang, Master's candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Arie Gurfinkel, Richard Trefler

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • Computing and Bounding the Scattering Number of Graphs

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

Dinis Arsénio Nunes Vitorino, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Therese Biedl

Friday, April 17, 2026 9:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • State Complexity of Linear Relations and Linear Subsequences of Automatic Sequences

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Jeffrey Shallit

Monday, April 20, 2026 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • POET: Power Oracle for Embedded Testing — Detection of State Changes in Automotive Embedded Systems

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in E5 4047.

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

Supervisor: Professor Sebastian Fischmeister