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
Ihab Ilyas receives C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award for advancing computer science
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.
Waterloo CS student and professor on international team winning $2 million in DARPA AIxCC Cybersecurity Challenge
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.
Gautam Kamath and international colleagues win best paper award at ICML 2024
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.”
Events
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning • Copyright Infringement of Generative Models and Countermeasures
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 3317 and online.
Yiwei Lu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisors: Professors Yaoliang Yu, Sun Sun
PhD Seminar • Machine Learning • Statistical Analysis of Local Graph Clustering with Side Information
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.
Shenghao Yang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Kimon Fountoulakis
PhD Seminar • Software Engineering | Program Reduction • LPR: Large Language Models-Aided Program Reduction
Please note: This PhD Seminar will take place in DC 2564.
Mengxiao (Max) Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun