@uwcheritoncs.bsky.social
The Bluesky account of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. On a computer near you at https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/
🎉 Congratulations to Datacurve, which was founded by former CS students Serena Ge and Charley Lee 🎉
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L to R: Andrew Kane, Frank Tompa and Besat Kassaie pose with a Best Paper Award certificate the research team received for "Exploiting Query Reformulation and Reciprocal Rank Fusion in Math-Aware Search Engines," research presented at DocEng'25.
Congrats to Postdoctoral Research Besat Kassaie, Dr. Andrew Kane and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Frank Tompa, winners of the Best Paper Award at DocEng’25. Their work combines LLMs for query reformulation with reciprocal rank fusion to improve mathematical IR.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/besat-k...
L to R: Raouf Boutaba, Charmaine Dean, Edith Law, Jochen Koenemann, Vivek Goel, Nolan Quinn, Sabrina Geremia, Jules Walter
Congrats to CS Prof Edith Law, who has been named the Google Chair in the Future of Work and Learning. This Chair is situated within a broader initiative, the Future of Work Institute, in which she’ll lead research on how AI is transforming education & career readiness.
uwaterloo.ca/news/media/g...
Research Professor Maura R. Grossman in the Davis Centre
CS Prof Maura Grossman comments on a recent California case, thought to be one of the first to involve a genAI–fabricated recording submitted as evidence, highlighting the difficulty courts face in verifying authenticity of digital evidence.
Free, subscription required: www.law.com/therecorder/...
L to R: Prach Chantasantitam, Anudeep Das and Gurjot Singh (inset) in the University of Waterloo's Davis Centre.
PhD student Anudeep Das awarded $58.1k USD from Open Philanthropy to lead research on stealthy and resilient backdoors in LLMs. Working with Prach Chantasantitam & Gurjot Singh, he will uncover vulnerabilities in LLMs and develop strategies to improve their security.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/anudeep...
🤖 #UWaterloo researchers have discovered major privacy weaknesses in collaborative robots— calling for stronger defenses.
🏆 This study won the Best Research Paper Award at ARES 2025, one of the biggest conferences in #cybersecurity.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/news/robots-...
Professor Shai Ben David stands in front of a blackboard
Shai Ben-David has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest national recognition for researchers. His work spans an impressive breadth, from ML theory and computational complexity to logic in computer science, mathematical logic and set theory.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/shai-be...
A person in a black velvet dress and gloves sits at a long wooden table in a historical-looking building
🎮 PhD student Yuzhe You is using video games to make AI more accessible to non-technical users.
🏆 She has received $145K from various scholarships to support her game-changing plan.
🔗 Read more at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#womeninstem #UWaterloo #XAI
This is so great, and in part because it's so heartening to see that real scientific research is still alive elsewhere in the world!
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Waterloo sign and Dana Porter Library in mid summer as the sunsets
Enjoy the long weekend.
01.08.2025 17:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At the University of Waterloo, co-op is more than a stepping stone, it’s a launchpad for future leaders 🚀
Two Faculty of Math Co-op Student of the Year alumni shed light on their careers after graduation: uwaterloo.ca/co-operative...
Dr. Don Cowan standing by a van with a license plate that says WATCOM
Dr. Don Cowan (MSc ’61, PhD ’65) and Ian McPhee (BMath ’73, MMath ’79) were among key Waterloo pioneers that transformed the computing world with the creation of WATCOM - Waterloo's first software spinoff.
Today, the technology is still a game-changer.
More: uwaterloo.ca/news/magazin...
University of Waterloo researchers have built a tool that can quickly remove watermarks identifying content as artificially generated — and they say it proves that global efforts to combat deepfakes are most likely on the wrong track.
www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
Professor Diogo Barradas in Waterloo's Davis Centre
Diogo Barradas has won the FOCI Rising Star Award for his contributions to censorship-resistant communications. Presented at the Free and Open Communications on the Internet conference, the award honours early-career researchers whose work advances Internet freedom.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/diogo-b...
Two women stand together near a yellow railing in a modern indoor space. A smaller image of a man is inset in the corner.
🎮 PhD student Yue Lyu is creating AR-based games to equip children with autism spectrum disorder with social and emotional skills.
⭐ Her visionary plan could save $1.4 billion in educational expenses for Ontario.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#womeninstem #UWaterloo
🚀 From Co-op Student of the Year to Silicon Valley.
🧳 Henry Shi (BCS '14), the co-founder of travel app Super.com, discusses how #UWaterloo's co-op shaped his career journey.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/co-operative...
L to R: Chengnian Sun and Hongyang Zhang in the Davis Centre
Chengnian Sun and Hongyang Zhang have each received $60k USD through the Google Research Scholar Program. Professor Sun’s project will focus on enhancing compiler optimizations; Professor Zhang’s project aims to improve the speed and efficiency of reasoning in LLMs.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/chengni...
Aseem Baranwal with Professor Fountoulakis at spring 2025 convocation
Aseem Baranwal has received the 2025 Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award. His PhD thesis, Statistical Foundations for Learning on Graphs, explores the theoretical underpinnings of machine learning methods for graph-structured data.
Congrats, Aseem!
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/aseem-b...
Maura R. Grossman in Waterloo's Davis Centre. She is a Research Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science and an adjunct law professor at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School.
A US federal judge has fined 2 lawyers $3k each for filing a court document with hallucinated cases generated by AI. Research Prof Maura R. Grossman warns that as gen AI becomes more common, so too do the risks. Her advice to lawyers? “Trust nothing — verify everything.”
www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...
Congratulations to my PhD student Matthew Regehr (@matt19234.bsky.social) on winning the University of Waterloo CPI Graduate Excellence Scholarship!
This $10,000 prize recognizes his incredible achievements and potential in privacy research.
@uwcheritoncs.bsky.social
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/matthew...
A banner showing the seven Outstanding Performance Award recipients. Top row (L to R): Toshiya Hachisuka, Xi He, Florian Kerschbaum, Ondřej Lhoták Bottom row (L to R): Shane McIntosh, Victoria Sakhnini, Jian Zhao
Congratulations to Toshiya Hachisuka, Xi He, Florian Kerschbaum, Ondřej Lhoták, Shane McIntosh, Victoria Sakhnini and Jian Zhao, recipients of 2024 Outstanding Performance Awards.
The recognition honours faculty who demonstrate exceptional teaching and scholarship.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cherito...
Professor Xiao Hu at a blackboard
Professor Xiao Hu and her collaborators Binyang Dai and Ke Yi at HKUST have received a 2025 SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for their paper, Reservoir Sampling over Joins. This award marks the third recognition of her research excellence this year!
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/xiao-hu...
PhD candidate Liam Hebert discusses his research with Professor Justin Wan, a poster judge at the Cheriton Research Symposium.
Congrats to Liam Hebert, recipient of the 2025 Nick Cercone Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science. The $7,500 award recognizes doctoral students at a Canadian university who demonstrate exceptional, far-reaching research and a strong commitment to helping others.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/liam-he...
Professor Sepehr Assadi stands by a bench in Waterloo's Peter Russell Rock Garden.
Professor Sepehr Assadi has won the 2025 Presburger Award, a prestigious honour recognizing his exceptional contributions to theoretical computer science, in particular his pioneering work on establishing lower bounds for multi-pass streaming algorithms.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/sepehr-...
Great news as we head into the long weekend ... Professor Craig S. Kaplan has been named a 2025 Fields Institute Fellow, an honour that recognizes his exceptional contributions to math, computational geometry and computer graphics, and their intersections with art.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/craig-k...
In the photo from left to right: Veronika Sustrova, Katarina Makivic and Isabella Di Biasio
Three Waterloo grads — Isabella Di Biasio, Veronika Sustrova and Katarina Makivic — teamed up to automate blood stem cell analysis using ML and a custom scripting language. Their tool, developed with Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, aims to speed up cancer research.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/biochem...
🎉 Five @vectorinstitute.ai scholarship winners are joining our School this year!
⭐ Using #AI, these students will work toward transforming human-computer interaction, information retrieval and natural language processing research.
🔗 Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/meet-ch...
#UWaterloo
📚Ever been stumped on a paper because you can’t find the right academic source?
📝A new AI tool can suggest citations and autocomplete sentences.
Read more about ScholarCopilot at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#UWaterloo #AI #academicwriting
🥳 PhD student Yuzhe You has won the Michael A.J. Sweeney Award for Best Student Paper at Graphics Interface 2025.
🤖 She was recognized for VATRA, a visual analytics tool for adversarial training.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#cybersecurity #GI2025 #UWaterloo
🏆 Jiawen Stefanie Zhu (BCS ’24) has won the Best Poster award at #GI2025, Canada’s top conference on computer graphics and visualization, and HCI.
👨👩👧👦 Her study reveals how technology can help displaced immigrant families bond.
🔗 Read more: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
#uwaterloo
