Past Events

Machine Learning TechniquesTo Identify Mind-Wandering And Predict Hazard ResponseTime In Fully Immersive Driving Simulation Chair:  Dr. Mark Wineberg

A Decision Support Framework for the Surveillance and Prediction of Avian Influenza Samira Yousefi Naghani Chair: Dr. Joseph Sawada Advisory Member: Dr. Rozita Dara Advisory Member: Dr. Zvonimir Poljak [Population Medicine/OVC] Non-Advisory Member: Dr. Yang Xiang External Examiner: Dr. Colin Robertson [Wilfrid Laurier University

Mixing ICI and CSI Models for More Efficient Probabilistic Inference Chair: Dr. Xiaodong Lin Advisor: Dr. Yang Xiang Committee Member: Dr. Pascal Matsakis Non-Advisory Member: Dr. Mark Wineberg

Deep Learning Methods Using Computer Vision Methods for Animal Re-identification Stefan Schneider Chair: Dr. Joseph Sawada Advisor: Dr. Stefan Kremer Advisory Committee Member: Dr. Stefan Linquist (Philosophy) Non-Advisory Committee Member: Dr. Fei Song External Examiner: Dr. Mark Schmidt [University of British Columbia]

A Literature Review on Value Creation from Collaborations enabled by IoT in Agriculture Melanie McCaig Advisor: Dr. Rozita Dara Co-Advisor: Dr. Davar Rezania Advisory Committee: Dr. Daniel Gillis Advisory Committee: Dr. Jing Lu ABSTRACT:

Barriers to Work-Integrated Learning for Students with Disabilities Laura Gatto Advisor: Dr. Luiza Antonie Co-Advisor: Dr. Miana Plesca Advisory Committee: Dr. Dan Gillis Advisory Committee: Dr. Deb Stacey

INVESTIGATING PERCEPTIONS, MOTIVATIONS, AND CHALLENGES IN THE ADOPTION OF PRECISION LIVESTOCK FARMING IN THE BEEF INDUSTRY Ayoola Makinde Advisor: Dr. Stacey Scott Committee Member: Dr. Katie Wood Chair: Dr. Fangju Wang Non-Advisory Member: Dr. Rozita Dara ABSTRACT:

Join us for a fun and activity filled workshop on combatting those feelings of not being ‘good enough’. Julia Hohenadal (facilitator) is a Bachelor of Computing coop student at the University of Guelph.  She has conducted this workshop in-person for coop employers in the past.  Judi McCuaig (host) is a faculty member at the School of Computer Science at the University of Guelph.    

Improving Natural Language Understanding with Graph Neural Network Based Language Modelling Bazyli Debowski Advisor: Dr. Fei Song (Contact Fei Song to join the Zoom call at fsong@uoguelph.ca) Co-Advisor: Dr. Petros Spachos [School of Engineering] Advisory Committee: Dr. Graham Taylor [School of Engineering] Advisory Committee: Dr. Luiza Antonie

Computational Tools for Protein Domain Comparison and Classification Angela Murcia Rios Advisor: Dr. Stefan C Kremer Co-Advisor: Dr. Steffen Graether [Molecular and Cellular Biology] Advisory Committee: Dr. Ying ”Tiffany” He Advisory Committee: Dr. Vladimir Ladizhansky [Physics]