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photo of the four winning teams at Velocity's 5K finals
Thursday, November 24, 2022

Software engineering student among winners at Velocity 5K finals

The excitement was palpable as eight teams made their last effort to convince a panel of judges that their business idea deserved one of four $5,000 awards at Velocity’s $5K pitch competition. Among them was RelayMD, one of four finalists that won a top prize at the Velocity 5K final competition held on November 23, 2022.

photo of Professor Sujaya Maiyya on bench in Waterloo rock garden
Monday, November 28, 2022

Meet Sujaya Maiyya, a professor who builds secure, high-performance data systems

Sujaya Maiyya joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in fall 2022. Her research is in the design of secure, high-performance data systems. She has a PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she developed a series of protocols that enable secure, fault-tolerant data management on both trusted and untrusted computing infrastructure.

photo of Professors Jo Atlee and Krzysztof Czarnecki in the Waterloo rock garden
Friday, November 25, 2022

Jo Atlee, Krzysztof Czarnecki and their former students receive ten-year most influential paper award at VaMoS 2023

Computer Science Professor Jo Atlee, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki, and their former students have been awarded a ten-year most influential paper award to be conferred at VaMoS 2023. Also known as the 17th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, the annual meeting will take place from January 25 to 27, 2023 in Odense, Denmark.

Friday, December 2, 2022 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Shortest Beer Path Queries in Interval Graphs

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

Kevin Wu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ian Munro

Our interest is in paths between pairs of vertices that go through at least one of a subset of the vertices known as beer vertices. Such a path is called a beer path, and the beer distance between two vertices is the length of the shortest beer path.

Thursday, December 1, 2022 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing • Alignment-aware Acoustic and Text Pretraining for Speech Synthesis and Editing

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

He (Richard) Bai, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ming Li

Monday, November 28, 2022 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction • Conductor: Intersection-Based Bimanual Pointing in AR and VR

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

Futian (Caesar) Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Jian Zhao, Keiko Katsuragawa

Pointing is an elementary interaction in virtual and augmented reality environments, and, to effectively support selection, techniques must deal with the challenges of occlusion and depth specification. Most of the previous techniques require two explicit steps to handle occlusion.

Tuesday, November 29, 2022 9:30 am - 10:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • On the Caching Schemes to Speed Up Program Reduction

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Xueyan Zhang, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun

Friday, January 13, 2023 9:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence | Natural Language Processing • Efficient Inference of Transformers in Natural Language Processing: Early Exiting and Beyond

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Ji Xin, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Jimmy Lin, Yaoliang Yu