Weekly Announcements

Presentation this week

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Adversarial Robustness and Privacy Measurements using Hypothesis-tests
Mathias Lécuyer, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
2:00 p.m. • DC 1304

Upcoming presentations

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Finding Behavioural Biometrics Scripts on the Web Using Dynamic Taint Analysis
Alexandru Bara, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314  |  Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Urs Hengartner

Monday, May 12, 2025

Data Systems Seminar Series
Where the Database Management System Comes From, and Why it Matters
Thomas Haigh, Professor and Chair
Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
10:30 a.m. • DC 1302

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Constrained Highlighting in a Document Reader Can Improve Reading Comprehension
Nikhita Vinod Joshi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:30 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering
What Slows Down FMware Development? An Empirical Study of Developer Challenges and Resolution Times
Zitao Wang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314  |  Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Michael Godfrey

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
OasisDB: An Oblivious and Scalable System for Relational Data
Haseeb Ahmed, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • DC 3301
Supervisor: Professor Sujaya Maiyya

Friday, May 16, 2025

PhD Defence • Machine Learning  |  Reinforcement Learning
Techniques to Learn Constraints from Demonstrations
Ashish Gaurav, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

PhD Defence • Computer Graphics
Closest Point Geometry Processing: Extensions and Applications of the Closest Point Method for Geometric Problems in Computer Graphics
Nathan King, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • DC 3317
Supervisors: Professors Christopher Batty, Steven Ruuth

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

PhD Defence • Systems and Networking
Leveraging Emerging Data Center Technologies to Build High-Performance Data Stores
Ahmed Alquraan, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317  |  Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Samer Al-Kiswany

Friday, May 23, 2025

PhD Defence • Machine Learning
Fast, Private and Fair Federated Learning
Saber Malekmohammadi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

PhD Defence • Information Retrieval
Evaluation of Information Access Systems in the Generative Era
Negar Arabzadehghahyazi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Charles Clarke

Monday, June 2, 2025

Data Systems Seminar Series
The Limitations of Data, Machine Learning & Us
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Professor
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
Department of Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

PhD Defence • Software Engineering
Tacit Inefficiencies and Barriers in Continuous Integration
Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • DC 2314
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Monday, July 14, 2025

Data Systems Seminar Series
Invisible Yet Powerful: Watermarking to Protect Datasets and Models in Machine Learning
Lingyang Chu, Assistant Professor
McMaster University
10:30 a.m. • DC 1302