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Thursday, August 31, 2023

Four new recipients of Canada’s most prestigious scholarship to study computer science

composite photo of the 2023 CS Schulich leaders

This fall, the University of Waterloo is welcoming 10 outstanding first-year students — four of whom will be studying computer science — through the Schulich Leader Scholarships program. Awarded annually to 100 high school students across Canada, the Schulich Leader Scholarships are granted to exceptional students who show great entrepreneurial promise in science, technology, engineering and math.

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.

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