Thesis defence

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Friday, September 24, 2021 3:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Computer Graphics | Scientific Computing • Novel Paradigms in Physics-Based Animation: Pointwise Divergence-Free Fluid Advection and Mixed-Dimensional Elastic Object Simulation

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Jumyung “JC” Chang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty

Thursday, September 9, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Weakly-supervised Semantic Segmentation with Regularized Loss Hyperparameter Search

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

Zongliang Ji, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Olga Veksler

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Equality Operators for Constant-weight Codewords, with Applications in (Keyword) PIR

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

Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Thursday, August 26, 2021 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Formal Methods • Smart Contract Analysis Through Communication Abstractions

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

Arthur Wesley, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Richard Trefler, Arie Gurfinkel

Tuesday, August 24, 2021 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning • Unsupervised Syntactic Structure Induction in Natural Language Processing

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

Anup Anand Deshmukh, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Ming Li, Jimmy Lin

Friday, September 17, 2021 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Symbolic Computation • Fast Algorithms for Computing with Integer Matrices: Normal Forms and Applications

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Stavros Birmpilis, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors George Labahn, Arne Storjohann

The focus of this thesis is on fundamental computational problems in exact integer linear algebra. Specifically, for a nonsingular integer input matrix A ∈ Zn×n, we consider problems such as linear system solving and computing integer matrix normal forms.