Thesis defence

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

Dake Zhang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Mark Smucker

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

Mohammad Dehghan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lukasz Golab

Text simplification is a task in the natural language processing field that alters a given text to reduce the structural and lexical complexity of the text while preserving the underlying meaning.

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

Kelechi Ogueji, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

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

Solaiappan Alagappan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Maura R. Grossman

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

Ege Ciklabakkal, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Toshiya Hachisuka

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

Emily Lepert, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

We examine the problem of providing differential privacy for nearest neighbor queries. Very few mechanisms exist that achieve this, most notable geo-indistinguishability in the context of location privacy. However it uses an extended definition of differential privacy and restricts the sensitivity of queries.

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

Yaxin Cheng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun

Please note: This master’s research paper presentation will take place in DC 3317.

Muhammad Hassan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Reproducible Builds are software builds that generate identical outputs at each invocation. They are important for security, quality assurance and commercial verifiability.

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

Dahlia Shehata, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Charles Clarke

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

Shannon Veitch, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: University Professor Doug Stinson