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
CS-led startup secures $17.7M to transform AI training data
As AI companies mature, the industry is now on the hunt for high-quality training data.
“For large language models to work efficiently they must be trained on a lot of data so they can understand how the world works,” says Serena Ge, a former Waterloo computer science student.
Computer Science professors receive $500k+ from the John R. Evans Leaders Fund
Five professors from the University of Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science have received the John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF), one of Canada’s top research grants.
In 1997, the federal government launched the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to spur world-class research and technology development in Canada. One of CFI’s core programs is JELF, which recognizes researchers who have demonstrated excellence in their fields and their proposed project is innovative, high-quality and meets international standards.
Besat Kassaie, Andrew Kane and Frank Tompa win Best Paper Award at DocEng’25
Postdoctoral researcher Besat Kassaie, Dr. Andrew Kane and Distinguished Professor Emeritus Frank Tompa have won a Best Paper Award at DocEng’25, the 25th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering.
Their paper, Exploiting Query Reformulation and Reciprocal Rank Fusion in Math-Aware Search Engines, introduces new methods that improve how search engines handle mathematical queries.
Events
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning • DeepfakeArt Challenge: A Benchmark Dataset for Generative AI Art Forgery and Data Poisoning Detection
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.
Hossein Aboutalebi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Justin Wan, Alex Wong
PhD Defence • Applied Category Theory | Machine Learning • Categories as a Foundation for Both Learning and Reasoning
Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2314 and online.
Nolan Shaw, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Jeff Orchard
PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Artificial Intelligence • SynQP: A Framework and Metrics for Evaluating the Quality and Privacy Risk of Synthetic Data
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 3317 and online.
Bing Hu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Helen Chen, Anita Layton