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Monday, September 19, 2022

Stacey Watson and colleagues win best paper award at MobileHCI 2022

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Stacey Watson, and their colleagues Manisha Kamarushi, Garreth Tigwell, and Roshan Peiris at Rochester Institute of Technology, have received a best paper award at MobileHCI 2022. Held annually, the ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction will take place virtually and in person in Vancouver this year from September 28 to October 1.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 9:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • Designing a Unity Plugin to Predict Expected Affect in Games Using Biophilia

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Mark Hancock

Video games can generate different emotional states and affective reactions, but it can sometimes be difficult for a game’s visual designer to predict the emotional response a player might experience when designing a game or game scene.

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Thursday, September 15, 2022

Meet Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, a professor who researches networked systems that use software-defined networking and programmable data planes

Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in summer 2022. Before coming to the University of Waterloo, she was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, working with Nate Foster and Rachit Agarwal. She received her PhD in computer science from Princeton, where she was advised by Jennifer Rexford. Mina also has a BSc in computer engineering from the Department of Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Studying and Leveraging API Usage Patterns

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

Sruthi Venkatanarayanan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Patrick Lam

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Data Systems • Operator Selection and Ordering in a Pipeline Approach to Efficiency Optimizations for Transformers

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

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

Supervisors: Professors Jimmy Lin and Yaoliang Yu

Monday, September 19, 2022 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • A Las Vegas Algorithm for the Ordered Majority Problem

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

Ben Baral, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: University Professor J. Ian Munro

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Bioinformatics • Modelling Allostery Using a Computational Analysis of Side-chain Interactions

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

Leonard Zhao, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Forbes Burkowski

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • Connectivity Properties of the Flip Graph After Forbidding Triangulation Edges

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

Reza Bigdeli, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Anna Lubiw

The flip graph for a set $P$ of points in the plane has a vertex for every triangulation of $P$, and an edge when two triangulations differ by one flip that replaces one triangulation edge by another.

The flip graph is known to have some connectivity properties:

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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Waterloo welcomes 2022 Schulich Leaders who will be studying computer science and software engineering

For the eleventh year in a row, the University of Waterloo is welcoming ten exceptional first-year students who were awarded a Schulich Leaders Scholarship. Of those who received the prestigious award, six will be studying computer science or software engineering.