Events

Tuesday, June 18, 2024 — 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Efficient Memory Allocator for Restricting Use-After-Free Exploitations

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Ruizhe Wang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors N. Asokan, Meng Xu

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 — 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EDT

PhD Seminar • Empirical Software Engineering • Investigating Questions from Automatic Code Reviewers

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Farshad Kazemi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 — 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM EDT

DLS: Nitin Saxena — The Border and its Demystification

Please note: This distinguished lecture will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Nitin Saxena, N. Rama Rao Chair Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Kanpur

Thursday, June 20, 2024 — 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM EDT

CPI Talk • Characterizing Machine Unlearning through Definitions and Implementations

Please note: This CPI talk will take place in the Arts Lecture Hall, room 113.

Nicolas Papernot, Assistant Professor
Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Toronto

Thursday, June 20, 2024 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT

PhD Seminar • Information Retrieval | Natural Language Processing • Nearest Neighbor Speculative Decoding for LLM Generation and Attribution

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Minghan Li, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Compute Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Friday, June 21, 2024 — 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • A Simple Mixture Policy Parameterization for Improving Sample Efficiency of Conditional Value at Risk Optimization

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2585 and online.

Yudong Luo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Friday, June 21, 2024 — 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • An Eventually Durable State Machine

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 1304.

Kriti Kathuria, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ken Salem

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 — 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EDT

PhD Seminar • Programming Languages • Simple Reference Immutability for System F<:

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2314.

Edward Lee, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ondřej Lhoták

Reference immutability is a type based technique for taming mutation that has long been studied in the context of object-oriented languages, like Java. Recently, though, languages like Scala have blurred the lines between functional programming languages and object oriented programming languages.

Thursday, June 27, 2024 — 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM EDT