PhD Defence • Data Systems — Increasing the Efficiency of High-Recall Information Retrieval
Haotian Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Haotian Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Aaron Voelker, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Aakar Gupta, Postdoctoral research scientist
Facebook Reality Labs
Computing is increasingly embedded in objects on us and around us. And we are increasingly embedded in digital environments. These computing environments limit old but enable new input-output affordances. Utilizing these affordances requires us to move beyond traditional ways of expressing human intention.
Gramoz Goranci, University of Vienna
A team of five students from the University of Waterloo has won the CBC Digital Products Award at CBC/Radio-Canada’s Hackathon 2019, the public broadcaster’s first-ever national bilingual hackathon held simultaneously at the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto and at Maison de Radio-Canada in Montreal.
Aishwarya Agrawal, PhD candidate
School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech
Alexey Karyakin, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Florian Kerschbaum spoke about cybersecurity, privacy and ethics in the age of machine learning and artificial intelligence to high school students at the 2019 World Affairs Conference, held this year on February 4 to 5, 2019 in Toronto.
Yuxin Chen, Postdoctoral scholar, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
California Institute of Technology
How can we intelligently acquire information for decision making, when facing a large volume of data?
PhD candidate Hemant Surale is one of 11 recipients globally and the only candidate from Canada to receive a prestigious 2019 Snap Research Fellowship. These fellowships were established to foster collaboration between Snap Research and exceptional doctoral students across the world.