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Big Brother gets new powers in China with digital ID system China is launching a digital ID system, giving Beijing greater control over online activity and further raising concerns about surveillance and censorship.

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@cs.ubc.ca‬ prof Dr. Nguyen Phong Hoang discusses China's new government-run digital ID system via @washingtonpost.com‬

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

UBC CS Professor Dr. Vered Shwartz and UBC CS student Shruthi Chockkalingam with Outstanding Paper Award at ACL2025 Vienna

Congratulations to Shruthi Chockkalingam, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Raymond Ng & @veredshwartz.bsky.social for receiving an Outstanding Paper Award at the Social Influence in Conversations (SICon) Workshop at the 2025 Association for Computational Linguistics Conference! #ACL2025

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The Security & Privacy Group will be hiring multiple fully-funded Master's and PhD students next year.

For more information about funding: www.cs.ubc.ca/students/gr...

To apply: www.cs.ubc.ca/students/gr...

Explore our latest publications: spg.cs.ubc.ca/publication/

Read about his research on how finding the purpose behind a query can improve large language models: www.dailogues.ai/is-intent-an...

UBC CS student @yuweiyin.bsky.social (from Giuseppe Carenini’s group) was recently interviewed about his work on improving the accuracy and coherency of AI-generated answers.

JOB POSTINGS:
1. Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Ecological Modelling
2. Canadian Excellence Research Chair in AI for Improving Patient Outcomes and Enhancing Health Service Delivery
3. Assistant Professor of Teaching in STEM Public Engagement
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I am pleased to announce that our paper, which attempts to reproduce provenance-based intrusion detection, has been accepted at ACM REP 2025.

This is a collaboration spearheaded by Ashish Gehani from SRI!

Paper: tfjmp.org/publication...

Nature vs. nurture beliefs are still holding women back in STEM New research explores how everyday assumptions—not just policies—can quietly steer women away from system-focused roles in STEM.

🚨 When women aren’t offered technical roles, they stop seeing themselves in them.

New research shows how biased opportunities don’t just limit careers—they reshape ambition.

Full Q&A with the lead researcher: news.ubc.ca/2025/07/tech...

#STEM #GenderEquity

Microbiology and Immunology and the Michael Smith Labs are seeking candidates for an Assistant Professor of Teaching in STEM Public Engagement position.

Learn more and apply at: www.msl.ubc.ca/careers/

#IndigenousinSTEM #BlackInNature #WomenInSTEM #MinoritiesInSTEM #DiversityInSTEM #STEMEducation

Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards!

Jianhao Cao, Rosalyn Carr, Kyle Chin, Finn Hackett, Raymond Liu, Karthik Nishant, Joe Poremba, Pretty Vyas, Yuwen Yin

Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Faculty Incredible Instructor Awards!

Patrice Belleville, Anne Condon, Cinda Heeren, Thomas Pasquier, Bruce Shepherd, Vered Shwartz

@cs.ubc.ca prof Vered Shwartz says she’s taking #AI hype with a grain of salt.

She discusses her book Lost in Automatic Translation, about the widespread adoption of large language technologies like Siri, Alexa and ChatGPT with @thetyee.ca

thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...

Unstructured text data a ‘gold mine’ for AI language processing CLEVELAND — Patients with chronic diseases may have files that include dozens of clinical records that providers may not have time to read thoroughly. A presenter at Cleveland Clinic’s A.I...

“In our health care system, there really is a lot of text data that we never really have the time and the power to dig into,” says Dr. Raymond Ng of @cs.ubc.ca. “This is where AI large language modeling is going to help us.”

www.healio.com/news/pediatr...

Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Student Community Building Awards for Graduate Students!

Sean Bocirnea, Shivam Chandhok, Devyani McLaren, Mayant Mukul, Matt Oddo, Rocco Ruan, Teerpaun Tanprasert

Pictured: Matt Oddo, Sean Bocirnea, Shivam Chandhok, Teerpaun Tanprasert

Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Awards!

Kaiser Chen, Mina Chong, Susan Chung, Leo Foord-Kelcey, Matthew Kang, Ricky Lau, Gary Li, Anna Luo, Thomson Mai, Abigail McPhee, Lucas Qin, Priyanka Sangha, Robert Wang

Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Rajan Family Award in Computer Science, Sandra Radic!

Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Project to Product Award in Computer Science, Cecilia Soroco!

Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Maria Klawe Service Award, Cheryl Chen and Cindy Cui!

Congratulations to the 2025 recipient of the Bit Quill Technologies Award for Women in Computer Science, Yeojun Han!

Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the Rick Sample Memorial Award in Computer Science!

Arun Balamurali, Kuter Bora, Leo Foord-Kelcey, Karen Shen

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Award for Academic Excellence in Computer Science!

Award recipients: William Zhou, Boqiao Zhang, Karen Shen, Arvin Sahami, Elizabeth Earle, Carolyn Huang, Matthew Smith, Kent Chen

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says "we are past the event horizon." Is he right? Researchers from Sakana AI and Google DeepMind have created AI that can improve its own code.

Is humanity close to building digital #superintelligence? Is self-improving #AI safe? Read Sam Altman's take here, and check out Professor Jeff Clune's Darwin Goedel Machine Research.

1) Article: fortune.com/2025/06/19/o...
2) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22954

The Departments of Computer Science and Medicine at #UBCVancouver are recruiting an outstanding researcher to be nominated for the #CERC in AI for Improving Patient Outcomes and Enhancing Health Service Delivery.

Apply here before August 1st: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30195

Delivering AI’s promise of better health care - UBC News Jump-started by a $22.5 million gift, UBC’s new AI and Health Network is deploying powerful artificial intelligence tools to drive health system innovation and improve patient care.

"Jump-started by a $22.5 million gift, UBC’s new AI and Health Network is deploying powerful artificial intelligence tools to drive health system innovation and improve patient care."

Read more here: news.ubc.ca/2025/06/deli...

Can AI safeguard us against AI? One of its Canadian pioneers thinks so | CBC Radio When Yoshua Bengio first began his work developing artificial intelligence, he didn’t worry about the sci-fi-esque possibilities of them becoming self-aware and acting to preserve their existence — un...

"There are many research challenges we need to solve in order to make #AI safe. The important thing is that we are trying, including allocating significant resources to this critical issue," says UBC computer scientist Dr. Jeff Clune. @cs.ubc.ca

www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

System lets robots identify an object’s properties through handling Robots developed at MIT can now learn about an object’s weight, softness, or contents by picking it up and gently shaking it. A robot can accurately guess parameters like an object’s mass in a matter ...

#UBC Assistant Professors and #CAIDA members Peter Yichen Chen and Chao Liu have been featured in the #MIT news for their #robotics research on proprioception.

Read more here: news.mit.edu/2025/system-...

UBC #WiCS was awarded the Club Dynamic Award by the #Science Undergraduate Society.

Led by Co-Presidents Sarah Wong and Sandra Radić, this award represents astounding team relations and smooth operations.

Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions to our community!

Congratulations to undergraduate student Tara Ubović on her Science Student Community Impact award presented by the #Science Undergraduate Society 🎉 Tara is the President of WiDS, and an active member of the #UBC CS community.

Thank you for your contributions!

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Applications for UBC's #DataScience minor are open today! Visit datascience.ubc.ca/minor for more info.