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.

Discover our latest achievements by following our news. Upcoming talks on a range of computer science topics are found under events.
 
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News

  1. July 2, 2024Damien Masson wins two dissertation awards for outstanding HCI research
    headshot of Damien Masson

    Damien Masson (PhD ‘23) has received two prestigious dissertation awards: the Prix de thèse L'Association Francophone de l'Interaction Humain-Machine (AFIHM) and the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society’s (CHCCS) Bill Buxton Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). 

  2. July 2, 2024Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers awarded ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at MSR 2024
    Jo Atlee, Rungroj Maipradit, Joy Idialu, Noble Saji Mathews, Mei Nagappan

    A team of software engineering researchers from the Cheriton School of Computer Science has received an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at MSR ’24, the 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, held in Lisbon, Portugal. The prestigious award was conferred for their paper titled “Whodunit: Classifying Code as Human Authored or GPT-4 generated — A Case Study on CodeChef Problems.”

  3. June 21, 2024Vasisht Duddu, Sebastian Szyller and N. Asokan receive Distinguished Paper Award at 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
    photo of Professor N. Asokan and PhD candidate Vasisht Duddu

    PhD candidate Vasisht Duddu, Intel Labs research scientist Sebastian Szyller, and Professor N.

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Events

  1. July 2, 2024Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Triangle Count Estimation and Label Prediction Over Uncertain Streaming Graphs

    Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

    Ipsita Mohanty, Master’s candidate
    David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

    Supervisor: Professor M. Tamer Özsu

  2. July 3, 2024PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Counterexample-Driven Learning for Rule-Based Systems

    Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2314 and online.

    Frédéric Bouchard, PhD candidate
    David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

    Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki

  3. July 3, 2024Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Online Omniprediction

    Please note: This seminar will take place online.

    Sumegha Garg, Assistant Professor
    Computer Science Department, Rutgers University

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