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We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

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Past CS Seminars

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)