David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Professor Jian Zhao has received the 2025 Early Career Research Award from CS-Can | Info-Can, the national organization that represents and advocates for computer science research, education and academic leadership across Canada.

Presented annually since 2009, the Early Career Research Award recognizes outstanding contributions to computer science research and is conferred upon exceptional faculty members at Canadian computer science departments, schools, and faculties who are within 10 years of completing their PhD.

On Saturday, May 2^nd, students exhibited technology at the University of Waterloo that tackled real-world problems, from helping Parkinson’s disease patients through augmented reality to creating an emergency alert system for seniors living alone.

Professor Claudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros (PhD ’85) has received a 2026 ACM Presidential Award recognizing her long-standing and significant contributions to the Brazilian and Latin American computing communities as well as to the Association for Computing Machinery.