Weekly Announcements

Presentations this week

Monday, September 16, 2024

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning
On Classifying the Outcomes of Legal Motions
Oluwaseun Cardoso, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:30 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314  |  Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Maura R. Grossman

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
A Longitudinal Analysis Of Replicas in the Wild Wild Android
Syeda Mashal Abbas Zaidi, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
4:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310  |  Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor
Yousra Aafer

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning
Locally Optimal Message-Passing on Feature-Decorated Sparse Graphs
Aseem Baranwal, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

11:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Kimon Fountoulakis, Aukosh Jagannath

PhD Defence • Empirical Software Engineering
Studying Practical Challenges of Automated Code Review Suggestions
Farshad Kazemi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:30 p.m. • DC 1304
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Pervasive Desktop Computing by Direct Manipulation of an Augmented Lamp
Yuan Chen, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:30 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 (NOTE NEW LOCATION)  |  Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel

PhD Seminar • Programming Languages  |  Algorithms and Complexity
Reclaiming Memory in Concurrent Data Structures: Reactive Synchronization Approach
Ajay Singh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • DC 1304
Supervisors: Professors Trevor Brown, Peter Buhr

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Spectral Sparsification by Deterministic Discrepancy Walk
Lap Chi Lau, Professor
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC
2568  |  Online seminar

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Shaping Human Performance for a Better Technology Future: Explorations in Games, Visualization, Coding, and Mixed Reality
Scott Bateman, Associate Professor
Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304  |  Online seminar

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Exploring Uni-manual Around Ear Off-Device Gestures for Earables
Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Friday, September 20, 2024

PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction
Pervasive Desktop Computing by Direct Manipulation of an Augmented Lamp
Yuan Chen, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • DC 3317
Supervisors: Professors Daniel Vogel, Géry Casiez, Sylvain Malacria

PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking  | Programming Languages
Hardware-Software Codesign Approach to Reclaiming Memory in Concurrent Data Structures
Ajay Singh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 1304
Supervisors: Professors Trevor Brown, Peter Buhr

Upcoming presentations

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

PhD Seminar • Bioinformatics
CGRclust: Chaos Game Representation for Twin Contrastive Clustering of Unlabelled DNA Sequences
Fatemeh Alipour, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:30 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Lila Kari, Yang Lu

Monday, September 30, 2024

PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing
PromptMix: A Class Boundary Data Augmentation Method for Text Classification and LLM Distillation
Gaurav Sahu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Olga Vechtomova

PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing
Computational Modeling of Artistic Inspiration in the Context of Short Lyric Lines
Gaurav Sahu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Olga Vechtomova

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

PhD Seminar • Computer Vision
Evaluating And Improving Disparity Maps Without Ground Truth
Andreea Pocol, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:30 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Lesley Istead, Craig S. Kaplan

Thursday, October 3, 2024

PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing
MixSumm: A Topic-based Data Augmentation for Text Summarization
Gaurav Sahu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m.  • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Olga Vechtomova

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Conference
2024 Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute Annual Conference​​​​​​​
Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. • Federation Hall

Monday, October 21, 2024

PhD Defence • Programming Languages
Safe Memory Reclamation Techniques
Ajay Singh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • DC 2314
Supervisors: Professors Trevor Brown, Peter Buhr

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

PhD Defence • Machine Learning
Statistical Foundations for Learning on Graphs
Aseem Baranwal, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
7:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors Kimon Fountoulakis, Aukosh Jagannath