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photo of Muhammad Sulaiman, Mahdieh Ahmadi, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Raouf Boutaba
Friday, June 9, 2023

Systems 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.”

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

Two 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. 

Monday, July 24, 2023 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Software Engineering • Graph-based Spatial-temporal Cluster Evolution: Representation, Analysis, and Implementation

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 3317.

Ivens Portugal, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Paulo Alencar, Donald Cowan, Daniel Berry

Thursday, June 22, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Mind the Gap: Ceremonies for Applied Secret Sharing

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Bailey Kacsmar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

Tuesday, September 5, 2023 9:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Information Retrieval • Effective Math-Aware Ad-Hoc Retrieval based on Structure Search and Semantic Similarities

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Wei Zhong, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Tuesday, June 27, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Kernel- vs. User-Level Networking: A Ballad of Interrupts and How to Mitigate Them

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Peter Cai, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Martin Karsten

Friday, June 16, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning • Align Your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and online.

Tim Dockhorn, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu

Tuesday, June 6, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning • Exploring the Limits of Model-Targeted Indiscriminate Data Poisoning Attacks

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually.

Yiwei Lu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu

Indiscriminate data poisoning attacks aim to decrease a model’s test accuracy by injecting a small amount of corrupted training data. Despite significant interest, existing attacks remain relatively ineffective against modern machine learning (ML) architectures.

photo of Kevin Wan, Ramazan Rakhmatullin, Andrew Qi Tang, and Troy Vasiga
Friday, June 2, 2023

Waterloo 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.