BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aacad32a2a5b DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260923T100000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260923T130000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-defence -notice-study-effect-acidity-erosion-resistance LOCATION:EIT - Centre for Environmental and Information Technology 200 Univ ersity Avenue West EIT 3145 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:PhD Defence Notice: A Study of the Effect of Acidity on the Erosion \nResistance of Silicone Rubber Composites for Outdoor Insulation CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Safi Ullah Butt\n\nDate: September 23\, 2026\n\nTime : 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM\n\nLocation: EIT 3145\n\nSupervisor: Ayman El-Hag a nd Refat Ghunem DTSTAMP:20260918T031706Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aacad32a3de5 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260923T090000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260923T120000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-defence -notice-high-performance-microleds-flexible LOCATION:EIT - Centre for Environmental and Information Technology 200 Univ ersity Avenue West Room 3142 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:PhD Defence Notice: High-Performance microLEDs on Flexible Substrat es CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Pranav Gavirneni\n\nDate: September 23\, 2026\n\nTim e: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM\n\nLocation: EIT 3142\n\nSupervisor: William Wong DTSTAMP:20260918T031706Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aacad32a4b9a DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260921T093000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260921T123000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-defence -notice-explicit-relation-structures-visual LOCATION:EIT - Centre for Environmental and Information Technology 200 Univ ersity Avenue West Room 3142 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:PhD Defence Notice: Explicit Relation Structures for Visual Content \nGeneration and Quality-Aware Representation Learning CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Mahdi Naseri\n\nDate: September 21\, 2026\n\nTime: 9 :30 AM – 12:30 PM\n\nLocation: EIT 3142\n\nSupervisor: Zhou Wang DTSTAMP:20260918T031706Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aacad32a5a05 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260914T140000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260914T170000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-defence -notice-multifunctional-battery-inspired-solid LOCATION:E5 - Engineering 5 200 University Avenue West Room 5047 Waterloo O N N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:PhD Defence Notice: A Multifunctional Battery-Inspired Solid-State\ nIontronic Platform for Spintronics CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Gabriel De Oliveira Silva\n\nDate: September 14\, 20 26\n\nTime: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM\n\nLocation: E5 5047\n\nSupervisor: Guo-Xi ng Miao DTSTAMP:20260918T031706Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aacad32a68e3 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260916T113000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260916T123000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/masc-thesis -examination-reliable-auditing-linguistic LOCATION:E5 - Engineering 5 200 University Avenue West Room 5047 Waterloo O N N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:MASc Thesis Examination: Reliable Auditing of Linguistic Variation in\nLarge Language Models CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Rebecca Ma\n\nDate: September 16\, 2026\n\nTime:  11:30 AM\n\nLocation: E5 5047\n\nSupervisor: Dr. Elliot Creager DTSTAMP:20260918T031706Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aacad32a7285 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260804T083000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260804T113000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-defence -notice-modeling-mosfet-transport-drift-diffusive LOCATION:EIT - Centre for Environmental and Information Technology 200 Univ ersity Avenue West Room 3142 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:PhD Defence Notice: Modeling of MOSFET Transport: Drift-Diffusive t o\nQuasi-Ballistic and Room-Temperature to Cryogenic CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Dylan Ma\n\nDate: August 4\, 2026\n\nTime: 8:30 AM – 11:30 PM\n\nLocation: EIT 3142\n\nSupervisor: Wei\, Lan DTSTAMP:20260918T031706Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aacad32a7afc DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260731T093000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260731T123000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-defence -notice-data-security-and-privacy-preservation LOCATION:E5 - Engineering 5 200 University Avenue West E5 4106-28 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:PhD Defence Notice: Data Security and Privacy Preservation for Mobi le\nEdge Computing CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Lingshuang Liu\n\nDate: July 31\, 2026\n\nTime: 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM\n\nLocation: E5 4106-28\n\nSupervisors: Shen\, Sherman DTSTAMP:20260918T031706Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aacad32a82ed DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260728T093000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260728T123000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-defence -notice-secure-and-efficient-computation LOCATION:EIT - Centre for Environmental and Information Technology 200 Univ ersity Avenue West Room 3142 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:PhD Defence Notice: Secure and Efficient Computation Offloading in\ nMobile Edge Computing Networks CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Xue Qin\n\nDate: July 28\, 2026\n\nTime: 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM\n\nLocation: EIT 3142\n\nSupervisors: Shen\, Sherman DTSTAMP:20260918T031706Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aacad32a8a93 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260617T100000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260617T130000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-defence -notice-incentive-compatibility-and-equilibrium LOCATION:EIT - Centre for Environmental and Information Technology 200 Univ ersity Avenue West Room 3142 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:PhD Defence Notice: Incentive Compatibility and Equilibrium in\nDec entralized Settings CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Chien-Chih Chen\n\nDate: June 17\, 2026\n\nTime: 10: 00 AM – 1:00 PM\n\nLocation: EIT 3142\n\nSupervisors: Golab\, Wojciech DTSTAMP:20260918T031706Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6aacad32a92e9 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260602T150000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260602T170000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/events/phd-defence -notice-scalable-program-analysis-abstract LOCATION:EIT - Centre for Environmental and Information Technology 200 Univ ersity Avenue West Room 3142 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:PhD Defence Notice: Scalable Program Analysis: Abstract Interpretat ion\nTechniques and Practical Applications CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Yusen Su\n\nDate: June 2\, 2026\n\nTime: 3:00 PM\n\n Location: EIT 3142\n\nSupervisors: Gurfinkel\, Arie DTSTAMP:20260918T031706Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR