Event Calendar | School of Computer Science

Week of January 19 2025

Time	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
09					Fine-tuning transformer models for medical text classification: a case study on PubMed 20k RCT - MSc Thesis Proposal by: Tamanna Kaiser 9:00am Leveraging Hierarchical Knowledge Structures for Adaptive and Emotional Engaging E-Learning - MSc Thesis Proposal by: Y (Kitty) Duong 9:00am
10			Technical Workshop - Homomorphic Encryption (2nd Offering) by: Safiia Mohammed 10:00am	Optimizing Longitudinal Data Representation to Predict Clinical Scores Using an End-to-End Machine Learning Pipeline: A Case Study in Parkinson’s Disease - MSc Thesis Defense by: Nourin Ahmed 10:00am	Guest Speaker Series - 'New Technology Trends in GenAI' by: Naresh R. Jasotani 10:15am
11			Cybersecurity Workshop Series by: Sterling Inc. - 10 weeks 11:30am	Technical Workshop - Introduction to Recommender Systems: A Comprehensive Overview (1st Offering) by: Bahareh Rahmatikargar 11:00am	Demystifying System Performance - Colloquium Presentation by: Dr. Xiang Ren 11:00am
12			Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models - 10 Week Series 12:00pm
14	Azure Machine Learning Workshop Series - 6 weeks 2:00pm	Technical Workshop - Homomorphic Encryption (1st Offering) by: Safiia Mohammed 2:00pm Job-Resume Compatibility Scoring Using Graph Neural Networks and Large Language Models - MSc Thesis Defense by: Amin Baghbanzadeh 2:30pm	Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models - 10 Week Workshop Series 2:00pm Supporting Management of Issue Reports - MSc Thesis Defense by: Rumman Ali 2:30pm	Technical Workshop - Introduction to Recommender Systems: A Comprehensive Overview (2nd Offering) by: Bahareh Rahmatikargar 2:00pm	Transformer-Based Adaptive Tagging Framework for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction - MSc Thesis Proposal by: Gurpartap Singh Ahluwalia 2:00pm The Fine-Tuning Effect: A Study on Instruction Tuning for Code Generation - MSc Thesis Defense by: Claudia Lois Richard Davidson 2:30pm
15	Azure Machine Learning Workshop Series - 6 weeks 3:00pm			Evaluating VR/AR Security through Continuous Authentication via Eye Tracking Movements - MSc Thesis Defense by: Sai Ganesh Grandhi 3:00pm