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 in 1978, and made a transformational gift to the school in 2005. It has become the largest academic concentration of Computer Science researchers in Canada.
News
- June 26, 2022Cheriton researchers develop new passing models with NHL tracking data, win best research paper award at LINHAC 2022
PhD candidate David Radke, Professor Tim Brecht, and their colleague (and David’s brother) Daniel Radke have received the best research paper award at LINHAC 2022, the Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference held in Sweden.
- June 19, 2022Anil Pacaci, M. Tamer Özsu, colleague Angela Bonifati receive best paper award at ICDE 2022
PhD student Anil Pacaci, University Professor M. Tamer Özsu, and their colleague Professor Angela Bonifati from Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University in France have received a best paper award at ICDE 2022, the 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering.
- June 15, 2022Beyond the deepfake: Computer science alum pushing boundaries of AI in cinema and metaverse
A former postdoctoral researcher at the Cheriton School of Computer Science is leading the charge in artificial intelligence in the entertainment and film industry with her company, Kroop AI.
Jyoti Joshi, Kroop AI’s cofounder and CEO, worked as a Waterloo researcher in the specialized fields of computer vision and affective computing in 2016. She collaborated with Professor Jesse Hoey, whose research in emotional artificial intelligence and affective computing complimented her interests.
Events
- June 30, 2022PhD Defence • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • New Design and Analysis Techniques for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.
Edward Eaton, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer ScienceSupervisors: Professors Douglas Stebila, Alfred Menezes
- June 30, 2022PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Mutual Borders and Overlaps
Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.
Daniel Gabric, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer ScienceSupervisor: Professor Jeffrey Shallit
- July 5, 2022Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CrySP) • Towards Effective Measurement of Membership Privacy Risk for Machine Learning Models
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.
Vasisht Duddu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer ScienceSupervisor: Professor N. Asokan
