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Thursday, June 13, 2019 — 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM EDT

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Join us on Thursday, June 13th for a day of captivating discussions presented by faculty and alumni.

Wes Graham Research Symposium

8:00 am - 10:00 am in DC 1302

Time	Talk/Speaker	Location
8:00 am	Morning Refreshments	DC 1302
8:15 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks Mark Giesbrecht, Professor and Director of the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo	DC 1302
8:30 am	Emotional Identity in Assistive Technology for Aging Jesse Hoey, Inaugural Graham Research Fellow, 2017–2019, University of Waterloo	DC 1302
9:00 am	Improving Perceived Humanness of Virtual Agents Through Emotions Moojan Ghafurian, Inaugural Graham Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo	DC 1302
9:20 am	Early Detection of Cancer (Multiple Myeloma) Relapse from Blood with Mass Spectrometry and Computation Bin Ma, Inaugural Graham Research Fellow, 2017–2020, University of Waterloo	DC 1302

9:55 am - 12:30 pm in DC 1302

Time	Talk/Speakers	Location
9:55	Break	DC 1302
10:10 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks Stephen M. Watt, Dean, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo	DC 1302
10:15 am	Multicore Programming Barbara Liskov - A.M. Turing Award Laureate	DC 1302
11:00 am	Cryptography for Safe Machine Learning Shafi Goldwasser - A.M. Turing Award Laureate	DC 1302
11:45 am	Celebrating Women in Computer Science Moderator: Maura Grossman, Director of Women in Computer Science Panelists: Barbara Liskov - A.M. Turing Award Laureate and Shafi Goldwasser - A.M. Turing Award Laureate	DC 1302

2:00 pm - 4:30 pm in DC 1302

Time	Talk/Speakers	Location
2:00 pm	Welcome and Opening Remarks Stephen M. Watt, Dean, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo	DC 1302
2:10 pm	The Accidental Entrepreneurd: A Pocket MBA in 30 Minutes or Less Eldon Sprickerhoff, 2019 J. W. Graham Medal Recipient Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, eSentire	DC 1302
2:45 pm	How to Sell your Company to Bill Gates for $150M Sam Pasupalak, 2018 Young Alumni Achievement Medal Recipient, Co-Founder & former CEO, Maluuba	DC 1302
3:15 pm	Working with Bright High School Students Eddie Cheng, 2018 Alumni Achievement Medal Recipient Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University	DC 1302
3:45 pm	Where are our Future Global Leaders Going to Come From? Keith Farlinger, 2018 Alumni Achievement Medal Recipient CEO, BDO International Limited	DC 1302