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Friday, April 8, 2022

Company founded by two Cheriton alums named among the 2022 C100 Fellows

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Float, a company that offers corporate credit card and accounting services and was co-founded by Cheriton School of Computer Science alums Griffin Keglevich and Ruslan Nikolaev, has been named among the 2022 C100 Fellows. 

Thursday, April 7, 2022

CS remains Waterloo’s top-ranked subject and 25th internationally according to 2022 QS World University Rankings

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Computer science remains the University of Waterloo’s top-ranked subject internationally, coming in at 25th among the world’s top universities, according to the latest edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by subject released on April 6, 2022.

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Cheriton PhD alumnus Mazen Melibari among the most prominent AI experts in the Arab world according to MIT Technology Review

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Dr. Mazen Melibari, Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Umm Al-Qura University in Saudi Arabia, has been recognized by MIT Technology Review (Arabic version) as among the 30 most prominent experts in artificial intelligence in the Arab world for the year 2022.

Dr. Melibari obtained his PhD in computer science in 2016 at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Cheriton School of Computer Science Professors Pascal Poupart and Edward Lank.

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Cheriton CS alumnus Erik Demaine and colleagues publish mathematical proof on infinite folds

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Erik Demaine (CS PhD 2001) and a team of researchers, including his father, have published a proof on a geometric problem involving infinite folds — that any finite polyhedral manifold in three dimensions can be continuously flattened into two dimensions while preserving intrinsic distances and avoiding crossings.

Friday, April 1, 2022

Software engineering grad tackles the housing crisis

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When Bilal Akhtar graduated from Waterloo’s software engineering program in 2019 he saw a bright future ahead. Not only had he landed a dream job at Cockroach Labs, a database company where he interned during his undergraduate degree, but he also led the company’s expansion to create a Toronto-based office.

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