Past Computer Science seminars
2017
- Modeling Mobility Patterns
Adele Hedrick, Master of Science (MSc) candidate, Ontario Tech University (August 23) - Adaptive Serious Games for Computer Science Education
Michael Miljanovic, PhD candidate, Ontario Tech University (August 16) - Protecting Privacy in Visual Data
Bernhard Rinner, PhD, Professor, Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria (August 10 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.) - Motion Tracking and User Authentication in Mobile Environments
Kamen Kanev, PhD, Professor, Shizuoka University, Japan - Joint Position Estimation, Packet Routing and Sleep Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks
Mauricio Bertanha, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (July 26) - Adaptive Engagement of Older Adults’ Fitness through Gamification
Dennis Kappen, PhD candidate, Ontario Tech University (July 19) - Design and Performance Evaluation of Data Dissemination and Hovering Information Protocols for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
Tomo Nikolovski, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (July 12) - Getting Comfortable in the zone with S3DComfortZone
Wallace Balaniuc, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (July 5) - Analysing and Inferring Atomic Structure from Nanoscale Imagery
David Nemirovsky, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (April 26) - Detecting and Classifying Unaware Facial Recognition Using Consumer-Grade Brain-Computer Interface Devices
Christopher Bellman, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (April 19) - Studying Human Factors of Passwords Using Brain-Computer Interfaces
Ruba Al Omari, PhD candidate, Ontario Tech University (April 12) - An Adaptive Crowdsourced Investigation of Word Abbreviation Techniques for Text Visualizations
Mariana Akemi Shimabukuro, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (April 5) - Community Oriented Architecture for Smart Cities
Roozbeh Jalali, PhD candidate, Ontario Tech University (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) - The Anatomy of Innovation - What Makes Innovation Succeed in the 21st Century?
Kamiel Gabriel, PhD, Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Ontario Tech University (March 22) - Privacy-Preserving Vehicular Crowdsensing Based Road Surface Condition Monitoring System Using Fog Computing
Sultan Basudan, PhD candidate, Ontario Tech University (March 15) - A Privacy-Preserving and Truthful Tendering Framework for Vehicle Cloud Computing
Abdulrahman Alamer, PhD candidate, Ontario Tech University (March 8) - Component-based Modeling for Android Application Testing
Yatian Gao, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (March 1) - Vehicular Infotainment Forensics: Collecting Data and Putting It Into Perspective
Jesse Lacroix, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (February 24) - Q&A Session: Working in Industry
Dhavide Aruliah, PhD, Senior Computational Scientist, Continuum Analytics (February 9)
2016
- A Comparison of Seated and Room-Scale Virtual Reality on Serious Games and Virtual Simulation
Rob Shewaga, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (December 14) - Implicit Learning Based Authentication
Zeinab Joudaki, PhD candidate, Ontario Tech University (November 30) - Trust-based Framework for Information Sharing in Health Care
Saghar Behrooz, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (November 23) - On Graph Layout of Large Data Visualization: Algorithms, Evaluations and Application
Michael Ferron, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (November 16) - Exploratory Visual Text Analysis in the Scientific Literature Domain
Florian Heimerl, University of Stuttgart, Germany (November 2) - Understanding and Predicting Method-level Source Code Changes Using Commit History Data
Joseph Heron, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (October 12) - Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Smart Grid Downlink Communication Using Identity Based Signcryption
Khalid Alharbi, PhD candidate, Ontario Tech University (October 5)
2015-2016
- Strategies and Applications for Creating More Memorable Passwords
Brent MacRae, Master of Science (MSc) candidate, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (January 20, 2016). - Towards Internet Scale Open Data Integration
Ken Pu, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (November 18, 2015). - Towards Parallax-Based Unencumbered Displays Or 'Designing a 3D display without glasses'
Ryan Shanks, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (November 11, 2015). - Bloom Filter Tree for Fast Search of Tree-Structured Data
Mengyu Wang, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (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). - Spatial Peripheral Interaction Techniques for Viewing and Manipulating Off-Screen Digital Content
Erik Paluka, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (July 29, 2015).
2014-2015
- RoboBUG: A Game-Based Approach to Learning Debugging Techniques
Michael Miljanovic, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (April 22, 2015). - Hamming Distance as a Metric for the Detection of Side Channel in 802.11 Wireless Communications
Visal Chea, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (February 11, 2015). - Playing Is Creating with PlayTIME: Introducing and Evaluating a Tangible UI-Based Interactive Scenario Prototyping System
Daniel Buckstein, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (December 3, 2014). - StoryPass: A System for Secure and Memorable Passphrases
Chris Bonk, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (October 8, 2014). - A Negotiation Protocol with Conditional Offers for Camera Handoffs
Wiktor Starzyk, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (October 1, 2014). - A Framework for Video-Driven Crowd Analysis
Jordan Stadler, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (September 24, 2014). - Object-Centric Temporal Navigation for Dynamic Information Visualizations
Brittany Kondo, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (August 20, 2014).
2013-2014
- Towards a Concurrent Implementation of Keyword Search Over Relational Databases
Richard Drake, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (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).
2012-2013
- 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, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (September 5, 2012). - 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).
2011-2012
- 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, Ontario Tech University (March 21, 2012). - Road Boundary Detection in Challenging Scenarios
Mohamed A. Helala, PhD candidate, Ontario Tech University (March 14, 2012). - Interactive Visualization of the Social Network of Research
Mohammad Alsukhni, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (December 7, 2011). - Ray Tracing Large Distributed Datasets Using Ray Caches
Christopher Little, MSc candidate, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (November 2, 2011). - Measuring Privacy
Tracy Ann Kosa, PhD candidate, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (September 28, 2011). - Object Recognition in Range Data
Michael Greenspan, PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University (September 21, 2011).
2010-2011
- 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, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (September 1, 2010). - Majority Spanning Trees and Cotrees and their Applications
Mohammad Kaykobad, PhD, Professor, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (August 25, 2010).
2009-2010
- 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, Ontario Tech University (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, Ontario Tech University (February 17, 2010). - Shh! Who's There? Using Sonification to Support Network Intrusion Detection
Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, PhD, Visiting Professor, Ontario Tech University (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).