Presentations this week
Monday, March 3, 2025
Seminar • Data Systems
From Ad-hoc to Systematic Data System Design: Looking Through Index Dynamization
Dong Xie, Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering Department, Penn State University
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Seminar • Systems and Networking
Improving Reliability of Modern Cloud Systems with Verification in the Loop
Xudong Sun, PhD candidate
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
10:30 a.m. • Online seminar
PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing
Information Seeking Beyond English
Xinyu Crystina Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • DC 1304
Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin
Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Treewidth and Linear Algebra
Luke Schaeffer, Professor
Institute for Quantum Computing
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online seminar
Seminar • Artificial Intelligence
The Postmodern Shift: Generative and Agentic AI in Software Development
Neel Sundaresan, General Manager of Automation and AI, IBM’s software division
Michael Kwok, Vice President, IBM watsonx Code Assistant, Canada Lab Director, IBM
2:00 p.m. • DC 1304
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Seminar • Systems and Networking
Taming Model Incongruities in Networked Systems
Nirav Atre, PhD candidate
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304
Seminar • Artificial Intelligence
Mastering Board Games by External and Internal Planning with Language Models
Marc Lanctot, Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
1:00 p.m. • DC 1302
Friday, March 7, 2025
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning
Differentially Private Clustered Federated Learning
Saber Malekmohammadi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu
PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Space Complexity of Minimum Cut Problems in Single-Pass Streams
Vihan Shah, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Sepehr Assadi
Upcoming presentations
Friday, March 14, 2025
PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction
Paidian Playful Interaction in Non-game User Interfaces
Matthew Lakier, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel
PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking
On the Impact of Learning Rate Schedules on Performance and Transferability of Transformer-Based Traffic Classifiers
Elham Akbari Azirani, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. DC 1302
Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics
Disentangling the Complex Multiplexed DIA Spectra in De Novo Peptide Sequencing
Zheng Ma, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Ali Ghodsi, Ming Li
PhD Seminar • Quantum Computing
Invariant Theory and Magic State Distillation
Amolak Ratan Kalra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • QNC 1201
Supervisor: Professor Michele Mosca
Friday, March 28, 2025
PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking
Model-driven Slice Resource Optimization in 5G and Beyond Networks
Muhammad Sulaiman, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 1304
Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba
Monday, March 31, 2025
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Health Informatics
Bridging Technology and Therapy: Assessing the Quality and Analyzing the Impact of Human Editing on AI-Generated SOAP Notes in Pediatric Rehabilitation
Solomon Amenyo, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 3317
Supervisors: Professors Maura R. Grossman, Dan Brown
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
PhD Defence • 3D Computer Vision
LiDAR-based 3D Perception from Multi-frame Point Clouds for Autonomous Driving
Chengjie Huang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki
PhD Defence • Software Engineering
Program Reduction: Versatility, Insights, and Efficacy
Mengxiao (Max) Zhang, PhD candidate
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun
PhD Seminar • Quantum Computing | Complexity Theory
Oracle Separations for Quantum-Classical Polynomial Hierarchy
Avantika Agarwal, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • QNC 1201
Supervisors: Professors Shalev Ben-David, Eric Blais
Monday, April 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