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 8, 2023Systems and networking research team receives Best Paper Award at NOMS 2023
Muhammad Sulaiman, Mahdieh Ahmadi, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, and Raouf Boutaba from the Cheriton School of Computer Science and their colleague Aladdin Saleh from Rogers Communications have won the NOMS 2023 Best Paper Award for “Generalizable Resource Scaling of 5G Slices using Constrained Reinforcement Learning.”
- June 7, 2023Two junior division Waterloo teams progress to 2023 Technovation semi-finals
Two teams of Waterloo Region elementary school students have progressed to the semi-finals in the junior division of the 2023 Technovation Girls Challenge. Technovation Girls is an international 12-week program with regional chapters that equips girls and young women, including transgender, non-binary, and gender-fluid individuals ages 10 to 18 with problem-solving, leadership and coding skills to become the next generation of tech entrepreneurs and leaders.
- June 1, 2023Waterloo tops the competition at 2023 ICPC North America Championship, advances to ICPC World Finals
Waterloo does it again.
Just as a trio of coders had in 2021, a team of three Waterloo algorithmic programmers has topped the competition at the 2023 International Collegiate Programming Contest North America Championship held on May 29, 2023 at the University of Central Florida.
Waterloo overcame the competition, including trios of programmers from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, Harvard, and the University of Toronto.
Events
- June 13, 2023Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Trade-off Exploration for Acceleration of Continuous Integration
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 1304 and virtually.
Zhili Zeng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer ScienceSupervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh
- June 15, 2023PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing • Approximating Human-Like Few-shot Learning with GPT-based Compression
Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.
Yuqing Xie, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer ScienceSupervisors: Professors Ming Li, Jimmy Lin
- June 15, 2023Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Software Engineering • Security Evaluations of GitHub’s Copilot
Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.
Owura Asare, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer ScienceSupervisors: Professors Mei Nagappan, N. Asokan
In this thesis, we perform two security evaluations of GitHub’s Copilot with the aim of better understanding the strengths and weaknesses with of Code Generation Tools.
