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Thursday, February 6, 2025

Interop Labs pledges US$1 million to advance blockchain and AI research at University of Waterloo

Interop Labs, the initial developer of the Axelar Web3 interoperability network, announced today a US$1,000,000 donation to grow the Computer Research Endowment at the University of Waterloo.

This generous contribution will support the creation of an AI and blockchain research laboratory at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, the largest and top-ranked academic computer science research centre in Canada. The laboratory will be named the GENESIS Lab, standing for Generative AI for Secure, Interconnected Systems.

David McKinnon, Dave Tompkins and Kareem Alfarra
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

First computer science teach-off a success

The Math Teach-Off was back again last Friday, this time with a focus on computer science.

On January 31, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., three computer science professors — Dave Tompkins, Troy Vasiga and Carmen Bruni — competed to see who could most improve a group of students’ understanding of an unfamiliar concept in only one hour.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • Preventing Arbitrarily High Confidence on Far-Away Data in Point-Estimated Discriminative Neural Networks

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2310.

Ahmad Rashid, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Friday, February 7, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Scientific Computation • A Neural Network Approach to Optimal ARVA Decumulation

Please note: This master’s research paper presentation will take place in DC 2310.

Qinglan Cao, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Yuying Li, Peter Forsyth