Presentations this week
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
Facilitating Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Evaluations for African Languages
Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
8:00 a.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin
PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics
Efficient Protein Inference with Graph Neural Networks
Zheng Ma, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Ali Ghodsi, Ming Li
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Ghost Recommendations: A Protocol for Efficiently Enhancing User Privacy
Kritika Iyer, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:30 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg
Thursday, April 18, 2024
PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics
Unsupervised and Self-Supervised Learning Approaches to Taxonomic Categorization of DNA Sequences
Pablo Millán Arias, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:30 p.m. • NEW: Online PhD seminar, not in person
Supervisor: Professor Lila Kari
PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics
Surface-Only Dynamic Deformables using a Boundary Element Method
Ryusuke Sugimoto, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Toshiya Hachisuka, Christopher Batty
Friday, April 19, 2024
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence
Size Constraints in Segmentation and Size Predictions
Xingye Fan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Yuri Boykov
Upcoming presentations
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics
Application of Machine Learning to Taxonomic Classification of Emerging Astroviruses
Fatemeh Alipour, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Lila Kari, Yang Lu
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
PhD Defence • Computer Graphics
Writing My Own Line Drawing Software as an Artist
Greg Philbrick, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Craig S. Kaplan
Seminar • Data Systems
Building More Reliable and Scalable AI Systems with Language Model Programming
Omar Khattab, PhD candidate
Stanford University
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304
PhD Seminar • Software Engineering
Visualizing Analysis Results for SPL Models — A User Study
Rafael Ferreira Toledo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor Jo Atlee
Friday, April 26, 2024
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages
Type-Aware Optimizations with Imperfect Types
Jeremiah Ikosin, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
4:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Gregor Richards
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
PhD Defence • Scientific Computing | Quantitative Finance | Machine Learning
Efficient Machine Learning Methods for Solving Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations in Finance
Andrew Na, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Justin Wan
Distinguished Lecture Series
Privacy, Learning, and Inference
Adam Smith, Professor
Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
10:00 a.m. • DC 1302
Friday, May 3, 2024
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering
Variability in Factors Influencing Pull Request Merge Decisions: A Microscopic Exploration
Nasif Ahmed, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Mei Nagappan
Friday, May 10, 2024
PhD Defence • Bioinformatics
Deep Unsupervised Learning for Biodiversity Analysis: Representation Learning and Clustering of Bacterial, Mitochondrial, and Barcode DNA Sequences
Pablo Millán Arias, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Lila Kari
PhD Defence • Machine Learning | Deep Leaning
Symbolic Regression and Sequence Modelling with Conditional and Dynamic Language Models
Mojtaba Valipour, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • DC 3317
Supervisor: Professor Ali Ghodsi
