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Past Seminars

  • 2017

    2017-18 COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINARS

    • Reinforcing System Assigned Passphrases Using Implicit Learning
      Zeinab Joudaki, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (December 6, 2017)
    • Analysis of Argumentation
      Menna El-Assady, visiting PhD candidate, (November 29, 2017)
    • Business and Research opportunities in Fog Computing: Report from Fog World Congress 2017
      Shahram Heydari, PhD, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (November 22, 2017)
    • Genetic Sun Shadow Positioning Model for Digital Forensics
      Yanwen Zhou, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (November 15, 2017)
    • Secure and Privacy-Preserving Task Announcement in Vehicular Cloud
      Abdulrahman Alamer, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology       (November 15, 2017)
    • Extracting the Names of Products and Brands and their Aspects from Massive Messy Corpus
      En-Shiun Annie Lee, PhD,       VerticalScope (November 8, 2017)
    • Schema Design and Management for NoSQL Databases
      Michael Mior, PhD candidate, University of Waterloo (October 25, 2017)
    • If You Like It, then You Shoulda Put a Sticker on It - A Model for Strategic Timing in Voting
      Alan Tsang, PhD candidate, University of Waterloo (October 10, 2017)
    • Towards Secure e-Health Data Exchanges through Consent Based Access Control
      Abel Bacchus, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (October 4, 2017)
    • Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) for Astronauts and Pilots - a Collaboration Project on the International Space Station (ISS)
      Alex Popov, PhD, AIAA Senior Member (September 27, 2017)
    • Group Decision Making on Social Networks
      Amirali Salehi-Abari, PhD, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (September 13, 2017)
  • 2016

    2016-17 COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINARS

    • Modeling Mobility Patterns
      Adele Hedrick, Master of Science (MSc) candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (August 23, 2017)
    • Adaptive Serious Games for Computer Science Education
      Michael Miljanovic, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (August 16, 2017)
    • Protecting Privacy in Visual Data
      Bernhard Rinner, PhD, Professor, Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems
      Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria (August 10, 2017 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
    • Motion Tracking and User Authentication in Mobile Environments
      Kamen Kanev, PhD, Professor, Shizuoka University, Japan (August 2, 2017)
    • Joint Position Estimation, Packet Routing and Sleep Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks
      Mauricio Bertanha, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (July 26, 2017)
    • Adaptive Engagement of Older Adults’ Fitness through Gamification
      Dennis Kappen, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (July 19, 2017)
    • Design and Performance Evaluation of Data Dissemination and Hovering Information Protocols for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
      Tomo Nikolovski, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (July 12, 2017)
    • Getting Comfortable in the zone with S3DComfortZone
      Wallace Balaniuc, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (July 5)
    • Analysing and Inferring Atomic Structure from Nanoscale Imagery
      David Nemirovsky, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (April 26)
    • Detecting and Classifying Unaware Facial Recognition Using Consumer-Grade Brain-Computer Interface Devices
      Christopher Bellman, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (April 19)
    • Studying Human Factors of Passwords Using Brain-Computer Interfaces
      Ruba Al Omari, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (April 12)
    • An Adaptive Crowdsourced Investigation of Word Abbreviation Techniques for Text Visualizations
      Mariana Akemi Shimabukuro, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (April 5)
    • Community Oriented Architecture for Smart Cities
      Roozbeh Jalali, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (March 29)
    • Who are We Studying in Social Media: Bots or Humans?
      Anatoliy Gruzd, PhD, Canada Research Chair in Social Media Data Stewardship
      Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University (March 24, 2017)
    • The Anatomy of Innovation - What Makes Innovation Succeed in the 21st Century?
      Kamiel Gabriel, PhD, Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (March 22, 2017)
    • Privacy-Preserving Vehicular Crowdsensing Based Road Surface Condition Monitoring System Using Fog Computing
      Sultan Basudan, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (March 15, 2017)
    • A Privacy-Preserving and Truthful Tendering Framework for Vehicle Cloud Computing
      Abdulrahman Alamer, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (March 8, 2017)
    • Component-based Modeling for Android Application Testing
      Yatian Gao, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (March 1, 2017)
    • Vehicular Infotainment Forensics: Collecting Data and Putting It Into Perspective
      Jesse Lacroix, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (February 24, 2017)
    • Q&A Session: Working in Industry
      Dhavide Aruliah, PhD, Senior Computational Scientist, Continuum Analytics (February 9)
    • A Comparison of Seated and Room-Scale Virtual Reality on Serious Games and Virtual Simulation
      Rob Shewaga, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (December 14, 2016)
    • Implicit Learning Based Authentication
      Zeinab Joudaki, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (November 30, 2016)
    • Trust-based Framework for Information Sharing in Health Care
      Saghar Behrooz, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (November 23, 2016)
    • On Graph Layout of Large Data Visualization: Algorithms, Evaluations and Application
      Michael Ferron, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (November 16, 2016)
    • Exploratory Visual Text Analysis in the Scientific Literature Domain
      Florian Heimerl, University of Stuttgart, Germany (November 2, 2016)
    • Understanding and Predicting Method-level Source Code Changes Using Commit History Data
      Joseph Heron, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (October 12, 2016)
    • Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Smart Grid Downlink Communication Using Identity Based Signcryption
      Khalid Alharbi, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (October 5, 2016)
  • 2015

    2015-16 COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINARS

    • Strategies and Applications for Creating More Memorable Passwords
      Brent MacRae, Master of Science (MSc) candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (June 16, 2016)
    • Efficient wireless power transfer for Internet of Things devices
      Waleed Ejaz, PhD, Senior Research Associate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University (February 10, 2016)
    • Detecting Vulnerabilities of Broadcast Receivers in Android Applications
      Di Tian, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (January 20, 2016)
    • Towards Internet Scale Open Data Integration
      Ken Pu, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (January 13, 2016)
    • Applying Wireless Sensor Networks and Machine Learning to forecast flash floods in urban rivers
      Gustavo Furquim, Professor, University of São Paulo, Brazil (December 9, 2015)
    • On the Potential of Intent-based Access Control (IBAC) in Preventing Insider Threats
      Abdulaziz Almehmadi, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (December 2, 2015)
    • Trends and challenges in Cloud Service Security
      Ashar Baig, Director, Technology Strategy Planning and Partnerships, Huawei Technologies (November 25, 2015)
    • Keyword Search in Structured Big Data
      Mehdi Kargar, Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Research Fellow, York University (November 25, 2015)
    • Augmenting Hand-Written Annotations with Digital Metadata for Active Reading of Poetry
      Hrim Mehta, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (November 18, 2015)
    • Towards Parallax-Based Unencumbered Displays Or 'Designing a 3D display without glasses'
      Ryan Shanks, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (November 11, 2015)
    • Bloom Filter Tree for Fast Search of Tree-Structured Data
      Mengyu Wang, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (November 4, 2015)
    • The effects of technologies on the visual presentation of information in the news media
      Isabel Meirelles, Professor, OCAD University (October 21, 2015)
    • Incremental Hierarchical Topic Modeling for Multi-Party Conversation Analysis
      Mennatallah El-Assady, PhD candidate, University of Konstanz, Germany (October 14, 2015)
  • 2014

    2014-15 COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINARS

    • Spatial Peripheral Interaction Techniques for Viewing and Manipulating Off-Screen Digital Content
      Erik Paluka, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (August 5, 2015)
    • Choose your own adventure: How to make your HCI degree relevant in a changing industry
      Kimberly Tee, Design Researcher, Microsoft (July 30, 2015)
    • Beyond the Noise: An Exploration of Informative Sound Design in Video Games
      James Robb, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (July 29, 2015)
    • RoboBUG: A Game-Based Approach to Learning Debugging Techniques
      Michael Miljanovic, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (April 22, 2015)
    • Hamming Distance as a Metric for the Detection of Side Channel in 802.11 Wireless Communications
      Visal Chea, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (April 15, 2015)
    • Breaking the barriers of conventional interfaces: natural interactions with assistive technologies
      Cosmin Munteanu, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Mississauga (April 8, 2015)
    • Query Planning for Evaluating SPARQL Property Paths
      Nikolay Yakovets, PhD candidate, York University (March 6, 2015)
    • Cluster-Based Target Tracking in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
      Sanaz Khakpour, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (February 11, 2015)
    • Playing Is Creating with PlayTIME: Introducing and Evaluating a Tangible UI-Based Interactive Scenario Prototyping System
      Daniel Buckstein, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (February 5, 2015)
    • Adaptive Technologies to Support Language Learning
      Carrie Demmans Epp, PhD candidate, University of Toronto (January 21, 2015)
    • CORE: A Framework for the Automatic Repair of Concurrency Bugs
      David Kelk, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (December 3, 2014)
    • StoryPass: A System for Secure and Memorable Passphrases
      Chris Bonk, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (October 22, 2014)
    • Quantifying Exercise and Motivating Users into Physical Activity 
      Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo, PhD,       Professor, Engineering Faculty, Military Nueva Granada University, Colombia (October 21, 2014)
    • Video Analysis Software: Understanding Human Factors
      Simon Reynolds, Account Manager, Studiocode Business Group (October 15, 2014)
    • An Index Structure for Fast Range Search in Hamming Space
      Ernesto Rodriguez Reina, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (October 8, 2014)
    • A Negotiation Protocol with Conditional Offers for Camera Handoffs 
      Wiktor Starzyk, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (October 1, 2014)
    • A Framework for Video-Driven Crowd Analysis 
      Jordan Stadler, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (September 24, 2014)
  • 2013

    2013-14 COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINARS

    • Object-Centric Temporal Navigation for Dynamic Information Visualizations
      Brittany Kondo, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (August 20, 2014)
    • Towards a Concurrent Implementation of Keyword Search Over Relational Databases
      Richard Drake, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (June 18, 2014)
    • Realtime Disambiguation of Letters and Numbers Using Typographic Strategies
      Kate Sellen and Richard Brath, OCAD University (April 23, 2014)
    • Design Space of Typeface: Using Type Attributes in Data Visualization
      Richard Brath, London South Bank University (March 5, 2014)
    • Information Access in the Information Age
      Hao Le, CEO, Content Interface Corporation (February 26, 2014)
  • 2012

    2012-13 COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINARS

    • Reaction RuleML - Standardize Semantic Reaction Rules
      Adrian Paschke, PhD, Freie Universitaet, Germany (August 7, 2013)
    • Combating Childhood Obesity Using Mobile Devices: UOiFit - A Social Training Partner
      Kei Turner, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (April 24, 2013)
    • Design And Implementation Of The Crypto Assistant: An Eclipse Plugin For Usable Password-Based Column Level Encryption Based on Hibernate and Jasypt
      Ricardo Rodriguez Garcia, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (February 27, 2013)
    • Gathering Residual Data in the Wild: Some Results, Implications and Applications
      Tim Storer, PhD, Lecturer, University of Glasgow (February 14, 2013)
    • Real-Time Global Illumination Techniques
      William Sherif      , MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (January 23, 2013)
    • Detecting Data Fraud
      Kruzslicz Ferenc, PhD      , Faculty of Economics, University of Pécs, Hungary (January 30, 2013)
    • Reliable Multicast Trees
      Sushant Gautam, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (December 5, 2012)
    • Clone Detection to Find Model Patterns
      Thomas R. Dean, PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University (November 28, 2012)
    • Social Game Analysis for Health Games
      Matthias Klauser, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (November 21, 2012)
    • Energy-Efficient GPS Sensing with Cloud Offloading
      Heitor S. Ramos, PhD, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil (November 16, 2012)
    • Exploring Entities in Text with Descriptive Non-photorealistic Rendering
      Meng-Wei Chang, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (November 15, 2012)
    • Automated Video Summarization and the Detection of Notable Events
      Gregory Dudek, PhD      , Professor and Director, School of Computer Science, James McGill Chair, McGill University (November 14, 2012)
    • Using Rabin-Karp Fingerprints and LevelDB for Faster Searches
      Richard Alan Deighton, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (November 7, 2012)
    • Visual Search for an Object in a 3D Environment using a Mobile Robot
      John K. Tsotsos, PhD      , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Centre for Vision Research, York University (October 3, 2012)
    • Seeing the Point: Understanding and Representing Gestures in Surface-Based, Distributed Collaboration
      Aaron Genest      , PhD candidate, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan (October 1, 2012)
    • Physics in Human Estimation and Scene Understanding
      Marcus Brubaker      , PhD, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, Illinois (September 12, 2012)
    • Predicting Mutation Score Using Source Code and Test Suite Metrics
      Kevin Jalbert, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (September 5, 2012)
  • 2011

    2011-12 COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINARS

    • Secure Cloud-based Medical Data Visualization
      Pradeep K. Atrey, PhD, Associate Professor, Applied Computer Science, University of Winnipeg (August 22, 2012)
    • Graph-based Gameplay Analysis
      Guenter Wallner, PhD, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria (August 9, 2012)
    • A Brief History of HCI Accessibility Issues for Persons with Disabilities
    • Fraser Shein, PhD, President and CEO, Quillsoft Ltd. (April 4, 2012)
    • System Support for Agile Cloud Computing
      Eyal de Lara, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (March 28, 2012)
    • Biometric Storyboards: Connecting the Dots
      Pejman Mirza-Babaei, PhD, Visiting Scholar, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (March 21, 2012)
    • Road Boundary Detection in Challenging Scenarios
      Mohamed A. Helala, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (March 14, 2012)
    • Interactive Visualization of the Social Network of Research
      Mohammad Alsukhni, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (March 7, 2012)
    • Modelling Ontario Healthcare System: Case Studies in Cardiac Care
      Jiming Liu, PhD, Chair Professor in Computer Science and Associate Dean of Science, Hong Kong Baptist University (February 13, 2012)
    • Visualization for Search:
 Exploring Complex and Dynamic Information Spaces
      Marian Dörk, PhD candidate, University of Calgary (February 6, 2012)
    • Collaborative Information Visualization
      Petra Isenberg, PhD, Research Scientist, INRIA (January 25, 2012)
    • Leveraging Physical Actions to Interact with Digital Surfaces
      Mark Hancock, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo (January 18, 2012)
    • Identification and Annotation of Concurrency Design Patterns in Java Source Code Using Static Analysis
      Martin Mwebesa, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (December 7, 2011)
    • Ray Tracing Large Distributed Datasets Using Ray Caches
      Christopher Little, MSc candidate,  University of Ontario Institute of Technology (November 30, 2011)
    • Fighting Software Bugs Through Automatic Text Analytics
      Lin Tan, PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo (November 23, 2011)
    • Operational challenges for emerging cognitive radio technologies - Wireless Devices Utilizing TV White Spaces
      Jarkko Paavola, PhD, Business Information Technology, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland (November 16, 2011)
    • Living IT-Landscape Models - Automation Techniques for Enterprise Architecture Model Maintenance
      Matthias Farwick, PhD candidate, University of Innsbruck, Austria (November 9, 2011)
    • Toward a Comprehensive Clone Management System
      Chanchal Roy, PhD, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan (November 7, 2011)
    • ARC: Automatic Repair of Concurrency Bugs
      Kevin Jalbert, MSc candidate and David Kelk, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (November 2, 2011)
    • Measuring Privacy
      Tracy Ann Kosa, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (October 19, 2011)
    • Learning a blind measure for perceptual image quality
      Huixuan Tang, PhD candidate, University of Toronto (October 5, 2011)
    • Extracting 3D blood flight trajectories from videos for forensic analysis
      Luis Zarrabeitia, PhD candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (September 28, 2011)
    • Object Recognition in Range Data
      Michael Greenspan, PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University (September 21, 2011)
  • 2010

    2010-11 COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINARS

    • Component-based development of reactive systems using protocol state machines and model checking
      Juergen Dingel, PhD, School of Computing, Queen's University (April 6, 2011)
    • The representation of complex business processes for data stream mining
      Rishikesan Kamaleswaran, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (April 6, 2011)
    • Model-Based Human Pose Tracking
      David Fleet, PhD, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (March 9, 2011)
    • Will Digital Media Reshape the World?
      Eugene Fiume, PhD, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (February 9, 2011)
    • Facile Interaction with Displays All Over the Place 
      Ravin Balakrishnan, PhD, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (January 26, 2011)
    • On the Impact of Human Factors in Computer Security: Case Studies with Graphical Passwords
      Julie Thorpe, PhD, Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (December 8, 2010)
    • Computer Vision Technologies to Promote Independent Living for the Elderly
      Babak Taati, PhD, Research Associate, University of Toronto, and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (December 1, 2010)
    • Semantic Link Discovery over Web Data
      Oktie Hassanzadeh, PhD candidate, University of Toronto (November 24, 2010)
    • The use of smooth animated transitions and simple interactions in information visualization to support rich visual exploration
      Fanny Chevalier, PhD, Post-doctoral Researcher, OCAD University (November 17, 2010)
    • Online Annotation of Text Streams With Structured Entities
      Ken Pu, PhD, Faculty of Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (November 10, 2010)
    • Fast Superpixels and their Use for Spatio-temporal Segmentation
      Alex Levinshtein, PhD, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, and Philips Healthcare (September 29, 2010)
    • Feature-Based Controllers for Physics-Based Character Animation
      Martin de Lasa, PhD, Autodesk Canada (September 22, 2010)
    • How Good is Static Analysis at Finding Concurrency Bugs?
      Martin Mwebesa, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (September 1, 2010)
  • 2009

    2009-10 COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINARS

    • Majority Spanning Trees and Cotrees and their Applications
      Mohammad Kaykobad, PhD, Professor, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (August 25, 2010)
    • The Role of Intermediate Shape Priors in Perceptual Grouping and Image
      Sven Dickinson, PhD, Professor, University of Toronto (April 7, 2010)
    • Summarizing Speech
      Gerald Penn, PhD, Chief Scientist Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto (March 31, 2010)
    • Multiresolution terrain representation by level curve elimination
      Luis Alberto Zarrabeitia, MSc candidate, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (March 17, 2010)
    • Reasoning About Motion in Two Dimensions 
      Joshua Gross, MSc candidate, Ryerson University (February 24, 2010)
    • Operational Trust Management: Defusing Intrusion Capabilities by Collaborative Anomalous Trust Management 
      Khalil A. Abuosba, PhD, Researcher, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (February 17, 2010)
    • Shh!... Who's There? Using Sonification to Support Network Intrusion Detection
      Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, PhD, Visiting Professor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (January 27, 2010)
    • The Road Ahead for Mining Software Repositories
      Ahmed E. Hassan, PhD, NSERC/RIM Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering for Ultra Large Scale Systems, Queen's University (January 20, 2010)