Presentations this week
Monday, December 9, 2024
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning
Copyright Infringement of Generative Models and Countermeasures
Yiwei Lu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:30 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Yaoliang Yu, Sun Sun
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning
Statistical Analysis of Local Graph Clustering with Side Information
Shenghao Yang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Kimon Fountoulakis
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
PhD Seminar • Software Engineering | Program Reduction
LPR: Large Language Models-Aided Program Reduction
Mengxiao (Max) Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • DC 2564
Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun
PhD Defence • Systems and Networking | Operating Systems | Storage Systems
Operating Systems are a Service
Kenneth Ryan Hancock, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor Ali José Mashtizadeh
Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Combinatorial List Decodability of Random Reed–Solomon Codes and Beyond
Zeyu Guo, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2568 | Online seminar
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering
Developer-Applied Accelerations in Continuous Integration: A Detection Approach and Catalog of Patterns
Mingyang Yin, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Software Engineering
Silent Contributors: Categorizing Ghost Commit Patterns with the SZZ Algorithm
Shaquille Pearson, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering
The Cost of Build Tool Downgrades: An Empirical Study of the Kubernetes Project
Gareema Ranjan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:30 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh
PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
TacTalk: Personalizing Haptics Through Conversation
Anchit Mishra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • DC 3317
Supervisors: Professors Matthew Brehmer, Oliver Schneider, Daniel Vogel
Friday, December 13, 2024
Distinguished Lecture Series
A Fine-Grained Approach to Algorithms and Complexity
Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online distinguished lecture
Data Systems Seminar Series
DDS: DPU-optimized Disaggregated Storage
Philip A. Bernstein, Distinguished Scientist
Data Systems Group, Microsoft Research
11:00 a.m. • DC 1304
PhD Seminar • Software Engineering
Fine-Grained Language-Agnostic Program Reduction Guided by Lexical Syntax
Zhenyang Xu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun
PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking
Monarch: Monitoring Architecture for 5G and Beyond Network Slices
Niloy Saha, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 1304
Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba
Upcoming presentations
Monday, December 16, 2024
PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Writing with AI Lowers Psychological Ownership, but Longer Prompts Can Help
Nikhita Joshi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:30 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel
PhD Seminar • Software Engineering
The Impact of Code Ownership of DevOps Artefacts on the Outcome of DevOps CI Builds
Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2564 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning
Using Domain Adaptation to Improve Water Quality Modeling with Sparse Data
Chi-Chung Cheung, Master candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Anita Layton
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning | Applied Category Theory
Reconciling Auto-Differentiation with Traditional Backprop, and Building Neural Networks with just Function Composition
Nolan Peter Shaw, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • DC 3317
Supervisor: Professor Jeff Orchard
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
PhD Seminar • Computer Vision
Multi-frame LiDAR 3D Object Detection using Variable Aggregation
Chengjie Huang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki
PhD Seminar • Computer Vision
Efficient Multi-frame 3D Semantic Segmentation
Chengjie Huang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Algebra | Symbolic Computation
Sparse and Scalable Modular Arithmetic
Benjamin Chen, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:30 p.m. • DC 2310
Supervisors: Professors Eugene Zima, George Labahn
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics
2D Surface-Only Liquid-Solid Coupling
Clara Kim, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:30 p.m. • DC 2314
Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking
Secure and Efficient Message Routing and Delivery Across Blockchain Networks
Solomon Davidson, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
8:00 a.m. • DC 2314
Supervisor: Professor Bernard Wong
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction
Augmenting Digital Media Consumption via Critical Reflection to Increase Compassion and Promote Prosocial Attitudes and Behaviors
Ken Jen Lee, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Edith Law
PhD Seminar • Software Engineering
An Empirical Comparison of Ethnic and Gender Diversity of DevOps and non-DevOps Contributions to Open-Source Projects
Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2564 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh
PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Solution Discovery for Source Problems in P
Stephanie Maaz, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Naomi Nishimura, Amer E. Mouawad
Thursday, December 19, 2024
PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics
Towards Cross-domain Few-shot Graph Anomaly Detection
Zheng Ma, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Ali Ghodsi, Ming Li
Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Machine Learning
HERL: Tiered Federated Learning with Adaptive Homomorphic Encryption using Reinforcement Learning
Zeshan Fayyaz, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online master’s research paper presentation
Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction
PERSONA: A Tool for Generating Algorithmic Personas for Reflective Annotations
Kris Frasheri, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Edith Law
Friday, January 10, 2025
PhD Defence • Machine Learning
Perspectives of Graph Diffusion: Computation, Local Partitioning, Statistical Recovery, and Applications
Shenghao Yang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Kimon Fountoulakis
Monday, January 13, 2025
PhD Defence • Computational Neuroscience
Symbols, Dynamics, and Maps: A Neurosymbolic Approach to Spatial Cognition
Nicole Sandra-Yaffa Dumont, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Hybrid: E7 6443 | Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors Chris Eliasmith, Jeff Orchard
Friday, February 7, 2025
PhD Defence • Computer Graphics
A First-Principles Framework for Simulating Light and Snow Interactions
Petri Varsa, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • DC 3317
Supervisor: Professor Gladimir V.G. Baranoski