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Thursday, August 3, 2023

Sepehr Assadi named 2023 Faculty of Mathematics Research Chair

photo of Professor Sepehr Assadi

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Sepehr Assadi has been named one of three Faculty of Mathematics Research Chairs. Research chairs are conferred to recognize scholarly achievement and pre-eminence in a particular field of knowledge. In addition to the prestigious recognition, research chairs receive $50,000 in research funding and a teaching reduction of one course per year over the three years of the appointment. 

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Gautam Kamath receives Faculty of Math Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award

photo of Professor Gautam Kamath in the Davis Centre

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Gautam Kamath has received a 2023 Faculty of Mathematics Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award. The $2,500 prize, established in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Faculty of Mathematics, is conferred to faculty members who have made outstanding research contributions.

Monday, July 31, 2023

Ende Jin, Yizhou Zhang and colleague Nada Amin receive a Distinguished Paper Award at 2023 Programming Language Design and Implementation Conference

photo of  Ende Jin, Yizhou Zhang and Nada Amin

Recent master’s graduate Ende Jin, his advisor Professor Yizhou Zhang, and their Harvard colleague Professor Nada Amin have received a Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI 2023, the 44th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.

Friday, July 21, 2023

Lindsey Tulloch and Ian Goldberg receive Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award at 2023 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium

photo of Lindsey Tulloch and Professor Ian Goldberg

Master’s graduate Lindsey Tulloch and her advisor Professor Ian Goldberg have won one of three Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Awards for “Lox: Protecting the Social Graph in Bridge Distribution.” Their award-winning paper was presented at PETS 2023, the 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, held this year from July 10–15 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Computer scientists develop a tool to help people use colour better in graphic design

photo of Xinyu Shi and Professor Jian Zhao

A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo, Stony Brook University, and Adobe Research have developed a tool to help people use colour better in graphic design. 

The tool, De-Stijl, uses powerful machine learning technology to suggest intuitive colour palettes for novice designers and inexperienced users. The software combines and improves on the functionalities of existing tools like Figma, Pixlr, and Coolor, allowing users to select important theme colors and quickly visualize how they’ll impact a design.

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