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photo of Shihab Chowdhury and Raouf Boutaba, Professor and Director of the Cheriton School of Computer Science
Thursday, October 21, 2021

Shihab Chowdhury awarded 2021 Alumni Gold Medal

Shihabur R. Chowdhury has received the 2021 Alumni Gold Medal for outstanding academic performance in a doctoral program. Conferred by Alumni Relations, the prestigious institutional award, which consists of an individually crafted 24-carat gold-plated medal embossed with the university’s seal on the front, has honoured top graduating students at convocation since 1970. 

photo of Antony Albert Raj Irudayaraj and Nikhita Joshi with PocketView display devices
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

All the information you need could be in your pocket

Smartphones have become an indispensable part of our daily lives and because of their portability we bring them everywhere, but viewing information on our devices isn’t always convenient, safe or possible. 

If your phone is tucked into a briefcase, backpack, pocket or purse, it must be removed or unlocked to see a message or notification. And digging through pockets and packs is awkward during meetings, difficult when carrying items, and possibly hazardous when running, biking or exercising.

photo of Shenghao Yang
Monday, October 11, 2021

PhD student Shenghao Yang tackles the big problems

Part of being a PhD student is about confronting significant issues in a field of study. For Shenghao Yang, a second-year PhD student at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, it’s not just about tackling issues in his field, but also one of the biggest problems facing the world — COVID-19.

photograph of the Davis Centre
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Cheriton School of Computer Science top-ranked CS program in Canada for second year

Waterloo’s Cheriton School of Computer Science has again been ranked first in Canada according to the Maclean’s 2022 university rankings just released. Based on program and research reputation, computer science at Waterloo shared the podium for first place with the University of Toronto and University of British Columbia.

Friday, October 15, 2021 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Systems and Networking • Co-designing Distributed Systems and Storage Stacks for Reliability and Performance

Please note: This seminar will be given online.

Ram Alagappan, Postdoctoral researcher
VMware Research Group

Distributed storage systems form the core of modern cloud services. Like many systems software, these systems are built using layering: system designers use distributed protocols (e.g., Paxos, 2PC) and layer them upon local storage engines (e.g., RocksDB, SQLite). Such layering abstracts details about the storage stack to the layers above, easing development.

Friday, October 15, 2021 11:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • Dowsing For Math Answers: Exploring MathCQA with a Math-aware Search Engine

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

Yin Ki Ng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Distinguished Professor Emeritus Frank Tompa

Solving math problems can be challenging, so challenging that one might wish to seek insights from the Internet and search for answers from Community Question Answering sites such as Math StackExchange. However, searching for relevant answers for a math problem is itself not trivial.

Friday, October 15, 2021 3:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • LTI Systems Generating Temporal Bases: Applications to Machine Learning

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Andreas Stöckel, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chris Eliasmith