Weekly Announcements

Presentation this week

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Synthesis and Arithmetic of Quantum Circuits
Amolak Ratan Kalra, PhD candidate
Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
12:00 p.m. • DC 1304  |  Online seminar

Upcoming presentations

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction
Exploring How AI-Suggested Politeness Strategies Influence Email Writing and Social Perception Among Native and Non-Native Speakers
Zibo Selena Zhang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310  |  Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Friday, July 11, 2025

PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction
Concerto: Elementary VR/AR Interactions Augmented by Bimanual Input
Futian Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314  |  Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors Jian Zhao, Keiko Katsuragawa

PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking
Dynamic SLA-aware Network Slice Monitoring with Programmable Data Planes
Niloy Saha, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 1304
Supervisor: Professor Raouf Boutaba

Monday, July 14, 2025

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Compiler Support for Constant-Time Programs in LLVM
Mehdi Aghakishiyev, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisors: Professors N. Asokan, Meng Xu

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

Thursday, July 17, 2025

PhD Defence • Machine Learning
Improving Automated Lung Ultrasound Interpretation with Self-Supervised Learning
Blake VanBerlo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 2314  |  Online PhD defence
Supervisors: Professors Jesse Hoey, Alexander Wong

Friday, July 18, 2025

PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity
Optimal Graph Streaming Algorithms and Further Advances in Modern Models of Computation
Vihan Shah, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2314  |  Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Sepehr Assadi

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Formal Methods
Local Theories and Efficient Partial Quantifier Elimination
Estifanos Getachew, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310  |  Online master’s thesis presentation
Supervisors: Professors Arie Gurfinkel, Richard Trefler

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

PhD Defence • Data Systems  | Differential Privacy
Towards Practicable and Efficient Private Learning
Shubhankar Mohapatra, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310  |  Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Xi He

Thursday, August 7, 2025

PhD Defence • Software Engineering
Precise and Scalable Constraint-based Type Inference for Incomplete Java Code Snippets in the Age of Large Language Models
Yiwen Dong, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 2310  |  Online PhD Defence
Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Realizing Privacy Design Strategies for Back-end Web Architectures
Miti Mazmudar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Ian Goldberg