Thesis defence

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Monday, January 10, 2022 10:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Controlled Generation of Stylized Text Using Semantic and Phonetic Representations

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Egill Gudmundsson, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Olga Vechtomova

Friday, January 21, 2022 9:00 am - 9:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity • Related Orderings of AT-Free Graphs

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Jan Gorzny, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Buss

An asteroidal triple (AT) is a triple of independent vertices x, y, z such that between every pair of vertices in the triple, there is a path that does not intersect the closed neighbourhood of the third. A graph without an asteroidal triple is said to be AT-free.

Friday, December 17, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning • Parlez-vous le hate?: Examining Topics and Hate Speech in the Alternative Social Network Parler

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Ethan Ward, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

Thursday, December 16, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Scientific Computation • A Scalable Method for Many Object Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Connor Tannahill, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Justin Wan

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 3:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Dynamic-Occlusion-Aware Risk Identification for Autonomous Vehicles Using Hypergames

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Maximilian Kahn, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki

Friday, December 10, 2021 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • In the New Era of the Internet of Things Even Your Breathing Rate is Not Private

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Zihan Chen, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Omid Abari

This thesis shows a new type of attack that can secretly gather private measurements from the target. Wi-sneak is a stealthy reconnaissance attack which utilizes the ambient WiFi signal and ubiquitous WiFi-enabled devices without compromising any packets or WiFi networks.

Friday, December 10, 2021 10:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Test Collections for Web-scale Datasets Using Dynamic Sampling

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online. Please also note new date: Friday, December 10.

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

Supervisor: Professor Gordon Cormack

Thursday, December 9, 2021 10:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • DPQP: A D-representation-based Pipelined Factorized Query Processor for Graph Database Management Systems

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Xiyang Feng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Semih Salihoglu