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Friday, January 12, 2024 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Machine Learning | Quantitative Finance • A General Neural Network Methodology for Multi-period Portfolio Optimization

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

Chendi Ni, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Yuying Li, Peter Forsyth

Monday, November 20, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • VisConductor: Affect-Varying Gestural Widgets for Animating Data Visualization in Augmented Video Presentations

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

Temiloluwa Femi-Gege, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Friday, November 3, 2023 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics • Quantum Ray Marching: Reformulating Light Transport for Quantum Computers

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

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

Supervisor: Professor Toshiya Hachisuka

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Bioinformatics • Improving Peptide Identification in Proteomics Data Analysis through Repeat-Preserving Decoy and Decoy-Free Retraining

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

Johra Muhammad Moosa, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Bin Ma

Friday, November 10, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Software Engineering • Adaptive Human-Chatbot Interactions: Contextual Factors, Variability Design and Levels of Automation

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

Glaucia Melo dos Santos, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Paulo Alencar, Daniel Berry, Donald Cowan

Thursday, September 21, 2023 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Cracking the Code: Unraveling Gender Disparities in Open-Source Contributions

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

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

Supervisors: Professors Mei Nagappan, Diogo Barradas

Friday, September 29, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • Perceptual Allowances of Anamorphic Cues in Spatial Augmented Reality

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

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

Supervisors: Professors Daniel Vogel, Craig Kaplan