Current students

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1331.

Nolan Peter Shaw, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jeff Orchard

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Zhiying Jiang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are often used for text classification due to their high accuracy. However, DNNs can be computationally intensive, requiring millions of parameters and large amounts of labeled data, which can make them expensive to use, to optimize, and to transfer to out-of-distributed (OOD) cases in practice.

Monday, April 24, 2023 9:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Computer Algebra • Algorithms in Intersection Theory in the Plane

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in MC 5417 and virtually.

Catherine St-Pierre, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Éric Schost

This thesis presents an algorithm to find the local structure of intersections of plane curves.

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1331 and virtually over Zoom.

Ken Jen Lee, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Edith Law

Computer Science, the University of Waterloo’s top-ranked subject internationally, has risen three spots in the global rankings to the 22nd position, according to the latest edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject released on March 22, 2023.
    
This is the third year in a row that Computer Science was in the top 25 internationally and the top-ranked subject at Waterloo.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

From AlphaGO to ChatGPT Public Talk

Sponsored by the Faculty of Mathematics Data Science Graduate Programs, please join Cheriton School of Computer Science expert in artificial intelligence, Professor Pascal Poupart, for a public talk in which he will describe the key technological advances in recent years that were behind AlphaGo and ChatGPT and ultimately facilitated these breakthroughs.

In recent years, we have seen the following —