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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Professor Ihab Ilyas has been awarded the prestigious 2024 C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award in recognition of his contributions to building large-scale machine learning systems for data integration, data cleaning and knowledge construction.

The AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, awarded seven semi-finalist teams $2 million USD each at DEF CON 32, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity conferences.

Among the semi-finalists was 42-b3yond-6ug, a team with students and professors from six universities led by Northwestern University along with the University of Waterloo, University of Utah, University of Colorado Boulder, Johns Hopkins University, and University of New Hampshire.

Professor Gautam Kamath, and his colleagues Professor Florian Tramèr, a computer scientist at ETH Zürich, and Nicholas Carlini, research scientist at Google DeepMind, have won a best paper award at ICML 2024, the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, for their paper, “Position: Considerations for Differentially Private Learning with Large-Scale Public Pretraining.” 

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