Presentations this week
Monday, January 19, 2026
Seminar • Bioinformatics
Computational Modeling of Single-cell and Spatial Omics for Insights into Development and Disease
Jia Zhao, Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Biostatistics, Yale University
10:30 a.m. • Online seminar
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Ancestry Deconvolution via Differential Privacy
Raiyan Chowdhury, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum
Seminar • Systems and Networking
Towards Accelerator-Centric Computing
Gerasimos Gerogiannis, PhD candidate
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304
PhD Seminar • Information Retrieval
Breaking Information Silos: Advancing Search Systems for Unified Information Seeking
Xueguang Ma, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • DC 3301
Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin
PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning
HAWAII: Hierarchical Visual Knowledge Transfer for Efficient Vision-Language Models
Yimu Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:30 p.m. • Hybrid: E7 5419 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki
Friday, January 23, 2026
PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics | Human–Computer Interaction
Computational Methods for Colour Palette Comparison
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
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking
Towards Green AI: Evaluating Energy Efficiency for Quantized LLM Inference
Petar Basta, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 am. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Khuzaima Daudjee
PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Δ-coloring in Graph Streams I
Parth Mittal, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 2568
Supervisor: Professor Sepehr Assadi
PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Δ-coloring in Graph Streams II
Parth Mittal, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • DC 2568
Supervisor: Professor Sepehr Assadi
Upcoming presentations
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Seminar • Software Engineering
Requirements Engineering for Artificial Intelligence: What is a Requirements Specification for an Artificial Intelligence?
Daniel M. Berry, Professor
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • DC 1304 (Note: Same seminar also offered at 2:00 p.m. in DC 3317)
CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy
Integrity in a World of AI
Bruce Schneier, Fellow and Lecturer
Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School
University of Toronto
1:30 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online talk
Seminar • Software Engineering
Requirements Engineering for Artificial Intelligence: What is a Requirements Specification for an Artificial Intelligence?
Daniel M. Berry, Professor
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • DC 3317 (Note: Same seminar also offered at 11:00 a.m. in DC 1304)
Friday, January 30, 2026
PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity | Quantum Computing
Lower Bounds on Average-Case and Non-Local Quantum Computation
Vahid Reza Asadi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Hybrid: QNC 2101 | Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors Richard Cleve, Mohammad Hajiabadi
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning
Mitigating the Modality Gap: Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection with Multi-modal Prototypes and Image Bias Estimation
Yimu Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:30 p.m. • Hybrid: E7 5419 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Threshold Cryptosystems
Practical Distributed Key Generation and Signatures
Chelsea Komlo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310 | Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors Ian Goldberg, Douglas Stebila