Upcoming presentations
Friday, November 7, 2025
PhD Defence • Computer Graphics | Rendering
Correlation-Aware Rendering: Improving Sampling and Denoising for Realistic Image Synthesis
Weijie Zhou, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Toshiya Hachisuka
PhD Defence • Computational Linguistics | Artificial Intelligence
A Knowledge Representation for, and an Application to Requirements Elicitation of, Rhetorical Figures of Perfect Lexical Repetition
Yetian Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310 | Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors Daniel Berry, Grant Weddell
Monday, November 10, 2025
ML Theory Workshop (SOLT 2025)
Bringing together researchers specializing in mathematical foundations of ML, fostering collaboration and community among learning theorists
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. • DC 1302 and DC 1304
Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence
Automated Segmentation of Head and Neck Cancer on Computed Tomography Imaging
Hussam Kaka, Master's candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Olga Veksler
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Distinguished Lecture Series
The Random Neural Network and its Applications to Image Processing, Network Routing, and Cyberattack Detection
Erol Gelenbe, Professor
Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics
Polish Academy of Sciences
10:00 a.m. • DC 1302
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing | Information Retrieval
Evaluation of Question Generation in Support of News Trustworthiness Assessment
Dake Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • DC 3301
Supervisor: Professor Mark D. Smucker
Thursday, November 13, 2025
PhD Defence • Human–Computer Interaction
Exploring how User Interface Constraints Can Improve User Outcomes while Reading and Writing
Nikhita Joshi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel
Monday, November 24, 2025
PhD Defence • Human–Computer Interaction
VR Streaming as a New Frontier: Investigating Virtual Camera as a Multifaceted Bridge Between Streamers and Viewers
Liwei Wu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao
Monday, December 1, 2025
PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Mobile Security
Cues, Clones, and Cars: Access Control Issues in Customized Android
Parjanya Vyas, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors N. Asokan, Yousra Aafer
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
PhD Defence • Systems and Networking
Mitigating Risks to Dependability from Vibe-Coding Embedded Systems
Murray Dunne, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Sebastian Fischmeister