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Wednesday, March 18, 2026 10:15 am
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## [Data Systems Seminar Series • Efficient Query Processing and Learning on Dirty Data](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/data-systems-seminar-series-efficient-query-processing-and-learning-on-dirty-data)
## Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 3301 | DSG Lab.
**Boris Glavic, Associate Professor**\
*Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago*
- [WebNotice](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/tags/webnotice);
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[Current undergraduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[2]=2), [Current graduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[3]=3);
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Wednesday, March 18, 2026 10:30 am
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11:30 am
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## [Seminar • Systems and Networking • Towards More Trustworthy and Efficient Systems](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/seminar-systems-and-networking-towards-more-trustworthy-and-efficient-systems)
## Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304.
**Hugo Lefeuvre, Postdoctoral Research Fellow**\
*Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia*
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[Current undergraduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[2]=2), [Current graduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[3]=3);
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Wednesday, March 18, 2026 12:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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## [PhD Seminar • Data Systems | Graph Data Management • Empirical Analysis of Locality for Graph Ordering Techniques](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/phd-seminar-data-systems-graph-data-management-empirical-analysis-of-locality-for-graph-ordering-techniques)
## Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 3301.
**Zeynep Korkmaz, PhD candidate**\
*David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science*
**Supervisors**: Professors M. Tamer Özsu, Khuzaima Daudjee
- [WebNotice](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/tags/webnotice);
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[Current undergraduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[2]=2), [Current graduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[3]=3);
- [Research Seminar](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[82]=82);
- [Faculty](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[7]=7);
- [Staff](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[8]=8);
- [Seminar](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/types/seminar)
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 1:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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## [PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Threshold Cryptosystems • Practical Distributed Key Generation and Signatures](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/phd-defence-crysp-threshold-cryptosystems-practical-distributed-key-generation-and-signatures)
## Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2310 and online.
**Chelsea Komlo, PhD candidate**\
*David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science*
**Supervisors**: Professors Ian Goldberg, Douglas Stebila
- [WebNotice](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/tags/webnotice);
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[Current undergraduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[2]=2), [Current graduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[3]=3);
- [Faculty](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[7]=7);
- [Staff](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[8]=8);
- [Thesis defence](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/types/thesis-defence)
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 2:10 pm
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2:50 pm
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## [Seminar • Presentation of the National Institute of Informatics, and Collaboration Opportunities](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/seminar-presentation-national-institute-of-informatics-collaboration-opportunities)
## Please note: This seminar presentation will take place in DC 1304 and online.
**Dr. Emmanuel Planas**\
*Deputy Director, Global Liaison Office*\
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
- [WebNotice](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/tags/webnotice);
- [Faculty](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[7]=7);
- [Seminar](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/types/seminar)
Thursday, March 19, 2026 1:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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## [Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human–Computer Interaction • DSCode Comparator: An Interactive Interface for Comparing Models and Evaluating Code for Data Science Tasks](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/masters-thesis-presentation-hci-dscode-comparator-interactive-interface-for-comparing-models-and-evaluating-code-for-data-science-tasks)
## Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317.
**Xinxin Yu, Master’s candidate**\
*David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science*
**Supervisor**: Professor Anamaria Crisan
- [WebNotice](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/tags/webnotice);
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[Current undergraduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[2]=2), [Current graduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[3]=3);
- [Faculty](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[7]=7);
- [Staff](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[8]=8);
- [Thesis defence](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/types/thesis-defence)
Friday, March 20, 2026 3:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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## [Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages • Linear Scala is All You Need for Safe Static Memory and Alias Management](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/masters-thesis-presentation-programming-languages-linear-scala-all-you-need-for-safe-static-memory-and-alias-management)
## Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314 and online.
**Amirhossein Pashaeehir, Master’s candidate**\
*David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science*
**Supervisor**: Professor Ondřej Lhoták
- [WebNotice](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/tags/webnotice);
- [Current students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[1]=1)
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[Current undergraduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[2]=2), [Current graduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[3]=3);
- [Faculty](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[7]=7);
- [Thesis defence](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/types/thesis-defence)
Monday, March 23, 2026 10:30 am
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11:30 am
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## [Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • Testing AI’s Implicit World Models](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/seminar-artificial-intelligence-testing-ais-implicit-world-models)
## Please note: This seminar will take place in DC 1304.
*Keyon Vafa, Postdoctoral Fellow*\
**Harvard University**
- [WebNotice](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/tags/webnotice);
- [Current students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[1]=1)
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[Current undergraduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[2]=2), [Current graduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[3]=3);
- [Faculty](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[7]=7);
- [Staff](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[8]=8);
- [Seminar](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/types/seminar)
Monday, March 23, 2026 11:00 am
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2:00 pm
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## [PhD Defence • Information Retrieval | Natural Language Processing • Benchmarks, Data, and Evaluation for Robust Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Heterogeneous Domains and Languages](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/phd-defence-ir-nlp-benchmarks-data-evaluation-robust-retrieval-retrieval-augmented-generation-heterogeneous-domains-languages)
## Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2310 and online.
**Nandan Thakur, PhD candidate**\
*David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science*
**Supervisor**: Professor Jimmy Lin
- [WebNotice](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/tags/webnotice);
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[Current undergraduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[2]=2), [Current graduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[3]=3);
- [Faculty](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[7]=7);
- [Staff](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[8]=8);
- [Thesis defence](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/types/thesis-defence)
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 1:30 pm
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2:30 pm
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## [CrySP Speakers Series on Privacy • For All Tomorrow’s Survivors: Computer Security in Interpersonal Threat Models](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/crysp-speakers-series-on-privacy-for-all-tomorrows-survivors-computer-security-interpersonal-threat-models)
## Please note: This talk will take place in DC 1304 and online.
**Thomas Ristenpart, Professor**\
*Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto*
- [WebNotice](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/tags/webnotice);
- [Current students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[1]=1)
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[Current undergraduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[2]=2), [Current graduate students](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[3]=3);
- [Faculty](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[7]=7);
- [Staff](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events?audience[8]=8)