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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

MMath candidate awarded Distinguished Student Author Award at ISSAC.

MMath candidate Shiyun Yang (supervised by Arne Storjohann) was awarded a Distinguished Student Author Award last week at the International Symposium of Symbolic and Algebraic Computing (ISSAC), for her paper Linear Independence Oracles and Applications to Rectangular and Low Rank Linear Systems.
Shiyun Yang has just completed her MMath thesis and is a member of the
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Waterloo's Computer Science ranked 10th in North America by QS

UK firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has ranked the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science 10th, in their 2014 North American University Rankings. Computer Science also ranks 24th in the world – second among Canadian universities in this subject. This is the fourth consecutive year that Computer Science has risen in the international classification. 

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing comes to the University of Waterloo this weekend

The University of Waterloo and David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science will host the fourth annual Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing this weekend.

The conference brings together female professionals from across the province, students and faculty who are interested in, or working in, computing. The conference, on November 8 and 9 helps generate excitement about the field while providing attendees with opportunities for networking, sharing and mentoring.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Derick Wood Graduate Scholarship awarded to Shahin Kamali

Shahin Kamali, a PhD student in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been awarded the Derick Wood  Graduate Scholarship.
Dr. Derick Wood was a Professor in the School from 1982 to 1992. He is widely known for his outstanding research contributions in a number of areas of theoretical Computer Science, including algorithms, data structures, and formal languages.