Publications

2019

• Michael Liut. Computing Lyndon Arrays. Ph.D. Thesis, McMaster University, September 2019.
       ​Supervisors: Drs. Antoine Deza and Frantisek (Franya) Franek
  ​     Committee: Drs. Reza Samavi (chair), Emil Sekerinski, Alexander Rosa, Jan Janousek (external)

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• ​​Franya Franek and Michael Liut. Algorithms to Compute the Lyndon Array Revisited.  Proceedings of Prague Stringology Conference (PSC) 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2019. 

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• ​​Michael Liut and Zhongyan (Joe) Guan. A Robust and Dynamic Formulation for Predicting Student Offer Acceptance. Symposium on Data Science and Statistics (SDSS) 2019, Bellevue, Washington, USA, May 2019.​​ 

SDSS 2019 Program

• Franya Franek and Michael Liut. Computing Maximal Lyndon substrings of a string.  AdvOL Technical Report No. 2019/02, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, March 2019.  ​

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​2018

• Frantisek Franek, Michael Liut and William F. Smyth. On Baier's sort of maximal Lyndon substrings. Proceedings of Prague Stringology Conference (PSC) 2018, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2018.​​

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Selected Talks

Content from Computer Science Talks at the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

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Graduate Professional Development Conference at the University of Toronto Mississauga

• Python Skills for Graduate Students. Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre Workshop. Oct 2019.

Workshop Content

Graduate Student Speaker at the Advanced Optimization Laboratory,  McMaster University

• Computing Lyndon Arrays. AdvOL Seminar Series. Mar 2019.

Invited Speaker at the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral. 

• Computing Lyndon Arrays. International Seminars "Optimization and Applications". Feb 2019.
• Effective Teaching; Accessible Content, Effective Communication, and Assessment Methods. Workshops on Effective Teaching and Internships at Technology Companies. Feb 2019.

Workshop Facilitator at the MacPherson Institute, McMaster University

• Increasing Student Engagement with Piazza. Lunch and Learn Workshop Series. Jan 2019.
• Integrate Piazza and Gamify with Quizizz. New Faculty: Teaching and Technology. Nov 2018.​

Invited Speaker at Life in Computing & Software's Academic Seminar Series, McMaster University

• Docker - OS Level Virtualization​. Mar 2018.

Guest Lecturer for CS/SE 3/4/6O03: Linear Optimization, McMaster University

• Fairness: An Optimization Problem. Oct 2017.