Thesis defence

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Tuesday, January 10, 2023 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Natural Language Processing • Novel Methods for Natural Language Modeling and Pretraining

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

He (Richard) Bai, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ming Li

This thesis is about modeling text and speech sequences to achieve lower perplexity, better generation, and benefit downstream language tasks; specifically, we address the problem of modeling natural language sequences (text and speech) with Transformer-based language models. We present three new techniques that improve sequence modeling in different ways.

Friday, December 16, 2022 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Measuring the Performance of Code Produced with GitHub Copilot

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online. Please also note that the start time has changed from 11:00 to 11:30 a.m.

Daniel Erhabor, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mei Nagappan, Samer Al-Kiswany

Friday, December 9, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • Efficient Mean Estimation via a Sum-of-Squares Exponential Mechanism

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

Mahbod Majid, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Gautam Kamath

Friday, December 16, 2022 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Improving Data Locality in Applications through Execution Delegation

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

Bryant Curto, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Martin Karsten

Friday, December 9, 2022 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • A Dependency Tracking Storage System for Low Latency Serverless Applications

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

Suraj Singh, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Bernard Wong, Khuzaima Daudjee

Thursday, December 15, 2022 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Soteria: An Approach for Detecting Multi-institution Attacks

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

Saif Zabarah, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Raouf Boutaba, Samer Al-Kiswany