Presentations this week
Monday, August 17, 2026
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning
Abstract Reasoning with Vector Symbolic Algebras
Isaac Joffe, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Chris Eliasmith
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Bioinformatics
From Candidates to Evidence: Diagnostics for Trustworthy Biological Discovery
Han Zhou, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Yang Lu
PhD Seminar • Formal Methods
Counterexample Guided Abstraction and Refinement in Dash Models
Aditya Shankar Narayanan, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
4:00 p.m. • DC 2564
Supervisor: Professor Nancy Day
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering
An Empirical Study of Transitive Vulnerability Exposure in PyPI
Mohammad Jaffer Iqbal, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2564 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisors: Professors Michael Godfrey, Pengyu Nie
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking
Runtime Configuration of GPU Workloads for Energy-efficient Execution
Qishen Wu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • DC 2314
Supervisor: Professor Martin Karsten
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Lower Bounds for Private Optimization Via Reconstruction Attacks
Jacob Imola, Postdoctoral Scholar
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online seminar
Thursday, August 20, 2026
PhD Seminar • Software Engineering
Decoupling CLI Agent Scaffolding to Internalize Planning Across Scaffolds
Kishanthan Thangarajah, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Mei Nagappan
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human–Computer Interaction
The Design and Development of a Virtual Patient System for Medical Education
Aakanksha Khandwaha, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Edith Law
Friday, August 21, 2026
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
Efficient Oblivious Query Processing for Property Graph Databases
Bishwajit Bhattacharjee, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisors: Professors Sujaya Maiyya, Renée Miller
PhD Seminar • Software Engineering
SLA-Awareness for AI-assisted coding
Kishanthan Thangarajah, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Mei Nagappan
Upcoming presentations
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning
Inferred Author Gender as a Variable Affecting LLM Behaviour
Avery Hiebert, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor George Labahn
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
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity
Graph Property Testing and the Container Method
Cameron Seth, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Eric Blais
PhD Defence • Computer Algebra | Symbolic Computation
On the Effective Algebraic Geometry of Determinantal Varieties
Sriram Gopalakrishnan, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Éric Schost
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
PhD Defence • Systems and Networking
Data-driven Fault and Performance Management of Virtualized Networks
Seyed Soheil Johari, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1331 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba
Thursday, September 17, 2026
PhD Defence • Software Engineering
Performance Optimizations for AI-assisted Coding with CodeLLMs
Kishanthan Thangarajah, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:30 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Mei Nagappan