David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
The Cheriton School of Computer Science is named for David R. Cheriton, who earned his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in 1978. In 2005, Professor Cheriton made a transformational gift to the school that supports named chairs, faculty fellowships, and graduate scholarships.
News
- May 8, 2024Two CS-founded startups earn $1 million seed funding
Five current and former David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science students received one million dollars in funding from one of the world's biggest and most prestigious startup accelerators, the Y Combinator (YC).
- May 8, 2024Meet the students that broke the vending machine story
“It won’t get any bigger than this,” says River Stanley, a fourth-year University of Waterloo student in the Computer Science program, as they reminisce about the story they uncovered with three fellow undergraduates that would go on to make national and international headlines.
- May 7, 2024Ruidi Wei and Ava Pun receive the Jessie W. H. Zou Memorial Awards
Two Computer Science students won the Jessie W. H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
This award was created by Computer Science professor Ming Li and his family to honour his late wife Jessie Wenhui Zou. It recognizes excellence in undergraduate research and is valued at $1000.
Events
- May 9, 2024PhD Seminar • Formal Methods | Software Engineering • Compositional Analysis of Parameterized Distributed Hybrid Systems
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2310.
Raniah Alghamdi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer ScienceSupervisor: Professor Richard Trefler
- May 10, 2024Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Navigating Identities in Text: Towards an Approach for Dementia Care
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314.
Jess Gano, Master's candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer ScienceSupervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey
- May 10, 2024PhD Defence • Bioinformatics • Deep Unsupervised Learning for Biodiversity Analysis: Representation Learning and Clustering of Bacterial, Mitochondrial, and Barcode DNA Sequences
Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2310 and online.
Pablo Millán Arias, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer ScienceSupervisor: Professor Lila Kari