Our People - Adjunct Professors

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Paulo Alencar
519-888-4567 x33944
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DC 3327
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Degrees

  • Ph.D., Deep Learning & Natural Language Processing, Carleton University

Publications

Ehsan Amjadian on Google Scholar

Dr. Amjadian is the Head of Data Science at the Royal Bank of Canada, where he has led numerous advanced AI products from ideation to production and has filed multiple patents in the areas of Data Protection, Finance & Climate, and Computer Vision applications to Satellite Images. 

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Forbes Burkowski
519-888-4567, ext. 34445
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Gordon Cormack
519-888-4567, ext. 34450
Location: 
DC 2502

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Manitoba (1981)
  • M.Sc., University of Manitoba (1978)
  • B.Sc., University of Manitoba (1977)

Research interests

  • High Recall Information Retrieval
  • Legal and medical applications of Information Retrieval

Publications

Gordon Cormack on Google Scholar

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Don Cowan
519-888-4690 or 519-888-4567, ext. 84690
Location: 
DC 2555C
Degrees
  • D.Sc. (honoris causa), University of Guelph (2011)
  • Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1965)
  • M.Sc., University of Waterloo (1961)
  • B.A.Sc., University of Toronto (1960)
Research interests
  • Software engineering methods for constructing and verifying advanced software systems and applications
  • Development of advanced software systems and applications incorporating novel database systems and artificial intelligence components
Publications

Donald Cowan Publications

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Vic DiCiccio

Degrees

  • MASc, University of Waterloo
  • BASc, University of Waterloo
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Chrysanne DiMarco
Location: 
DC 1308
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Professor Peter Forsyth
519-888-4567, ext. 34415
Location: 
DC 3622
Degrees
  • Ph.D., University of Western Ontario (1979)
  • M.Sc., Australian National University, Australia (1977)
  • B.Sc., University of Western Ontario (1975)
Research interests
  • Computational finance
  • Machine learning methods for optimal stochastic control in finance
Publications

Peter Forsyth on Google Scholar

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Srinivasan Keshav is the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. Previously, he was a Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.

Although he started out as a researcher in computer networking in 1988, since 2010 his focus has been on reducing the carbon footprint of energy generation, transportation, and buildings. For the past couple of years, he also worked on improving the performance of the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain so that it can be used as the foundation for highly-scalable energy systems, such as for transactive energy and renewable energy certificates. 

He has recently turned his attention to the carbon sequestration and biodiversity potential of forests, looking at both conservation and restoration.

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Anna Lubiw
Degrees
  • Ph.D., University of Toronto (1986)
  • M.Math., University of Waterloo (1982)
  • B.Sc., University of Toronto (1979)
Research interests
  • Algorithms, specifically computation geometry, graph algorithms and graph drawing
  • Current topics include reconfiguration, triangulations of planar point sets, shortest path algorithms, and folding and unfolding problems
Publications

Anna Lubiw on Google Scholar

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Ian McKillop
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Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors; Sessional Lecturers
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519-888-4567, ext. 34433
Location: 
DC 2343

Feature article

University Professor Ian Munro’s Golden Jubilee — 50 years at the University of Waterloo

Degrees

  • PhD, Computer Science, University of Toronto (1971)
  • MSc, University of British Columbia
  • BA, University of New Brunswick

Research interests

  • Data structures, particularly fast and space-efficient structures
  • Design, analysis and implementation of algorithms
  • Database systems and data warehousing, particularly efficiency issues

Publications

Ian Munro on Google Scholar

Ian Munro on DBPL

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(412) 992-0090
Location: 
DC 3146

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University (2013)
  • B.Math., University of Waterloo (2009)

Research interests

  • Data structures
  • Numerical analysis
  • Combinatorial optimization

Publications

Richard Peng on Google Scholar

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Ken Salem
519-888-4567, ext. 33485
Location: 
DC 3512

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Princeton University, United States (1989)
  • B.Sc., Carnegie-Mellon University, United States (1983)

Research interests

  • Data systems, especially synchronization, transactions, fault tolerance
  • Distributed systems and cloud computing

Publications

Ken Salem on DBLP

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Doug Stinson
Degrees
  • Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1981)
  • M.Sc., Ohio State University, United States (1980)
  • B.Math., University of Waterloo (1978)
Research interests
  • Cryptography and security: unconditionally secure cryptographic protocols, including secret sharing and authentication
  • Combinatorics: construction and analysis of combinatorial designs, error correcting codes, orthogonal arrays
  • Algorithms: algorithms to construct and analyze combinatorial structures
Publications

Doug Stinson on Google Scholar

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Faculty→Emeritus; Adjunct Professors
Professor Frank Tompa
519-888-4567, ext. 34675
Location: 
DC 1313
Degrees
  • LL.D., Dalhousie University (2013)
  • Ph.D., University of Toronto (1974)
  • M.Sc., Brown University, United States (1970)
  • B.Sc., Brown University, United States (1970)
Research interests
  • Database dependency theory, storage structure selection, query processing, materialized view maintenance, database integration, data retention, and access control
  • Text management systems, text matching, XML processing, information retrieval, structured text conversion, and text classification
  • Mathematics (text and formula) information retrieval
Publications

Frank Tompa on DBLP

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Professor van Beek
519-888-4567, ext. 35344
Location: 
DC 3354
Degrees
  • Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1990)
  • M.Math., University of Waterloo (1986)
  • B.Sc., University of British Columbia (1984)
Research interests
  • Artificial intelligence with a focus on representation and reasoning, constraint programming, constraint satisfaction, backtracking algorithms, planning, scheduling, combinatorial optimization, applied machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, and applications of artificial intelligence
  • A recent additional interest is algorithms and techniques in computational photography
Publications

Peter van Beek Publications

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