Presentations this week
Monday, April 14, 2025
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning
Stochastic Forward–Backward Deconvolution: Training Diffusion Models with Finite Noisy Datasets
Haoye Lu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • DC 2568
Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
Optimizing ORAM Datastores for Scalability, Fault Tolerance, and Performance
Amin Setayesh, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Sujaya Maiyya
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
What Do You Mean? Using Large Language Models for Semantic Evaluation of NL2SQL Queries
Harrum Noor, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • DC 3301
Supervisor: Professor Tamer Özsu
Upcoming presentations
Monday, April 21, 2025
PhD Seminar • Computer Vision
Cross-sensor Domain Adaptation for 3D Object Detection Using Stationary Object Aggregation Pseudo-labelling
Chengjie Huang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity
Efficient Algorithms for RDV Graphs
Prashant Gokhale, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Therese Biedl
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering
Latra: A Template-Based Language-Agnostic Transformation Framework for Program Reduction
Yiran Wang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 2314
Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering
Characterizing Recheck Builds in Continuous Integration
Yelizaveta Brus, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh
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
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
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. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD defence
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