Presentation this week
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
PhD Defence • Data Systems
Development and Evaluation of Assistive AI Systems for Assessing News Trustworthiness
Dake Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • DC 2314
Supervisor: Professor Mark Smucker
Upcoming presentations
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
PhD Seminar • Data Systems
Diversed Model Discovery via Structured Table Discovery
Zhengyuan Dong, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • DC 3301
Supervisor: Professor Renée J. Miller
Thursday, July 9, 2026
PhD Defence • Bioinformatics
Deep Learning for Accurate and Reliable De Novo Peptide Sequencing: From Missing Fragmentation to Open Modification Discovery
Zeping Mao, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Ming Li
Friday, July 10, 2026
PhD Seminar • Symbolic Computation
Stability of Sobolev-Regularized Polynomial Differentiation Matrices
Deepak Singh Kalhan, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Stephen Watt, Robert Corless
Monday, July 13, 2026
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
Evaluating LLM Robustness Under Adversarial and Conflicting Evidence in Health Question Answering and Claim Verification
Shakiba Amirshahi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:30 a.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisors: Professors Charles Clarke, Amira Ghenai
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning
Towards Foundation Models for Text-Rich Multimodal Tabular Data
William Loh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart
Thursday, September 3, 2026
PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning
Gradient-based Methods for Multi-Objective Optimization with Applications in Machine Learning
Zeou Hu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu