PhD Defense of Chunxiao Li (Waterloo)

26 September 2023

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I had the opportunity to act as an external examiner for Chunxiao Li’s PhD thesis, conducted at the University of Waterloo. His thesis, supervised by Vijay Ganesh, is titled “Understanding and Improving SAT Solvers via Proof Complexity and Reinforcement Learning”. A thesis close to my research interests!

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In this thesis, I acted as the main interrogator (a time-consuming task). This involved not only the report but also almost exclusively the scientific questions during a video interview.

Congratulations to the new doctor!

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