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.

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Vinayak Bector against an abstract mathematical background
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Vinayak Bector named 2025 Co-op Student of the Year

Among the six 2025 Co-op Student of the Year winners is Vinayak Bector, a fourth-year Computer Science Student. While working at xAI as a web developer, he made significant improvements to the company’s codebase and Grok translation pipeline.

Three people (two men on the left and one woman on the right) stand in front of a whiteboard filled with a flowchart; left wears a green sweater, middle a gray dotted shirt, right a purple top.
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

New AI tool can automate bug reproduction tests

by Mayuri Punithan

A trio of Cheriton researchers have developed an AI-powered tool that can accelerate software debugging via test automation.

One of the first steps in software debugging is bug reproduction, where a programmer will replicate a bug to understand and decipher its behaviour. They can convert their replication instructions into a bug reproducible test (BRT), a test that fails if the bug is present and passes once it’s gone.

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