David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

The Cheriton School of Computer Science is named for David R. Cheriton, who earned his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in 1978. In 2005, Professor Cheriton made a transformational gift to the school that supports named chairs, faculty fellowships, and graduate scholarships.

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Professor Xiao Hu in Waterloo's Peter Russell Rock Garden
Monday, April 7, 2025

Xiao Hu wins Best Paper Award at PODS 2025

Professor Xiao Hu has received a Best Paper Award at the 2025 ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data for her research on optimizing join-aggregate queries.

Her paper, Output-Optimal Algorithms for Join-Aggregate Queries, addresses a long-standing open problem in database theory, establishing output-optimal bounds on the efficiency with which such queries can be processed.

grad student Helia Yazdanyar and Professor Sepehr Assadi in the Davis Centre
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Helia Yazdanyar and Sepehr Assadi win Best Paper Award at SOSA25

Graduate student Helia Yazdanyar and her advisor, Professor Sepehr Assadi, have received the Best Paper Award at SOSA25, the eighth SIAM Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms.

Their paper, Simple Sublinear Algorithms for (Δ + 1) Vertex Coloring via Asymmetric Palette Sparsification, was recognized for its approach to simplifying sublinear algorithms for graph colouring.

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