Presentations this week
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Materials-Driven CAD: Leveraging Craft Practices to Design Computational Tools for Sustainable Manufacturing
Ritik Batra, PhD student, Information Science Department
Cornell Tech, New York City
11:00 a.m. • DC 1304
PhD Defence • Systems and Networking
Leveraging Emerging Data Center Technologies to Build High-Performance Data Stores
Ahmed Alquraan, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Samer Al-Kiswany
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Time Lower Bounds for Property Testing
Renato Ferreira Pinto Junior, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Eric Blais
PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Fly the Moon to Me: Bimanual 3D Locomotion in Virtual Reality By Manipulating the Position of the Destination Object
Futian Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Jian Zhao, Keiko Katsuragawa
Thursday, May 22, 2025
À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.AI Job Fair – Spring 2025
Are you a fourth-year undergrad, master’s or PhD student, or a postdoc at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ focusing on AI or data science?
3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. • Davis Centre
Free, but please register by Friday, May 16 at 12 p.m.
Friday, May 23, 2025
PhD Defence • Machine Learning
Fast, Private and Fair Federated Learning
Saber Malekmohammadi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu
Upcoming presentations
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Optimal Differentially Private Sampling from Unbounded Gaussians
Argyris Mouzakis, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Gautam Kamath
PhD Defence • Information Retrieval
Evaluation of Information Access Systems in the Generative Era
Negar Arabzadehghahyazi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Charles Clarke
Monday, June 2, 2025
Data Systems Seminar Series
The Limitations of Data, Machine Learning & Us
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Professor
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
Department of Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
PhD Defence • Software Engineering
Tacit Inefficiencies and Barriers in Continuous Integration
Nimmi Rashinika Weeraddana, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • DC 2314
Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh
Monday, June 9, 2025
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence
Deliberative Machines: From Reflective Dialogue to Fair Consensus with Language Models and Social Choice
Carter Blair, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisors: Professors Kate Larson, Edith Law
Friday, June 13, 2025
PhD Defence • Machine Learning
Trustworthy Machine Learning with Data in the Wild
Yiwei Lu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors Yaoliang Yu, Sun Sun
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecture
Beyond the Horizon: Terahertz Communications Inclusion in 6G Networks
Nizar Zorba, Professor
Electrical Engineering Department, Qatar University
10:00 a.m. • DC 1304
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity
Directed Isoperimetry and Monotonicity: Property Testing in the Analytic Setting
Renato Ferreira Pinto Jr., PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Eric Blais
Friday, June 20, 2025
PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity
Algorithmic Tools for Network Analysis
Jingbang Chen, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 2314
Supervisors: Professors Lap Chi Lau, Richard Peng
Friday, June 27, 2025
PhD Defence • Systems and Networking
Adaptive Live Streaming Strategies for Multi-homed Environments
Sharon Choy, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Bernard Wong
Monday, July 14, 2025
Data Systems Seminar Series
Invisible Yet Powerful: Watermarking to Protect Datasets and Models in Machine Learning
Lingyang Chu, Assistant Professor
McMaster University
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304