Presentations this week
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
PhD Seminar • Software Engineering
Capturing and Representing Heuristics for ML Modeling Selection Based on ChatGPT’s Decision-Making Process
Cristina Tavares, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 3317
Supervisors: Professors Paulo Alencar, Daniel Berry & Donald Cowan
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking
Combining High-Level-Synthesis and Register-Transfer Level Design for Programmable Hardware
Kimiya Mohammadtaheri, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 2314
Supervisor: Professor Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence
Demystifying Foreground-Background Memorization in Diffusion Models
Jimmy Di, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Gautam Kamath
Friday, September 5, 2025
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning
Universal Physics-Informed Neural Networks and their Applications
Lena Podina, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • DC 2314
Supervisors: Professors Ali Ghodsi & Mohammad Kohandel
Upcoming presentations
Monday, September 8, 2025
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence
Fine-Grained Visual Entity Linking through Promptable Segmentation: Applications in Medical Imaging
Kathryn Carbone, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisors: Professors Robin Cohen & Lukasz Golab
PhD Seminar • Mobile Platform Security
Ariadne: Navigating through the Labyrinth of Data-Driven Customization Inconsistencies in Android
Parjanya Vyas, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professor N. Asokan & Yousra Aafer
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
Conjunctive Queries with Negations: Bridging Theory and Practice
Boyi Li, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:30 p.m. • DC 2314
Supervisor: Professor Xiao Hu
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking
Exploiting Zero-Entropy Data for Efficient Deduplication
Mu'men Al Jarah, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • DC 2310
Supervisor: Professor Samer Al-Kiswany
Friday, September 12, 2025
PhD Defence • Programming Languages
Polymorphic Type Qualifiers
Edward Lee, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • DC 2314
Supervisor: Professor Ondřej Lhoták
Monday, September 15, 2025
PhD Defence • Computer Graphics
Toward General-Purpose Monte Carlo PDE Solvers for Graphics Applications
Ryusuke Sugimoto, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:30 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors Toshiya Hachisuka & Christopher Batty