Ondrej Lhoták
Research interests
Professor Lhoták's research interests are generally in the area of programming languages, compilers, and program analysis, with a specific focus on object-oriented languages.
N. Asokan
N. Asokan will be joining the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science in September 2019 as a Professor and David R. Cheriton Chair.
Dan Brown
Research interests
Professor Brown's primary research area is the understanding of sequential data, joining ideas from evolutionary theory with probabilistic modeling and discrete mathematical ideas.
Mark Giesbrecht
Research interests
Professor Giesbrecht's research interests are in the area of computer algebra, algebraic algorithms and computational complexity. He is a member of the Symbolic Computation Group in Waterloo, and a founding member of the Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra with Waterloo and Western Ontario.
Khuzaima Daudjee
Research interests
Dr. Daudjee's research interests are in database systems, distributed systems and software engineering. He is particularly interested in problems that lie at the intersection of databases and distributed systems.
Olga Veksler
Olga Veksler's research interests are in developing robust and efficient algorithms that automatically interpret visual information. In particular, she is interested in visual correspondence (stereo, motion) and image segmentation. Optimization techniques are of fundamental importance to computer vision problems.
John Brzozowski
Research interests
Professor Brzozowski’s current research interests are in the theory of automata and formal languages, particularly in complexity of regular languages and finite automata.
Daniel Vogel
Research interests
Professor Vogel’s research focuses on human-computer interaction (HCI) in combination with computer graphics and visual art in the pursuit of developing better experiences for people using computers.
Peter Buhr
Research interests
Professor Buhr's research area is programming languages. He studies concurrency, visualization and debugging, polymorphism, and persistence.
Omid Abari
I work in the area of wireless networks and mobile systems, with applications to the Internet of Things (IoT). My research group focuses on the design and implementation of software-hardware systems that deliver ubiquitous sensing, computing, and communications at scale.
Trevor Brown
Trevor Brown joined the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science in the fall of 2018 as an Assistant Professor.
Before joining the Cheriton School of Computer Science, Trevor was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology in Austria. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto.
Anna Lubiw
Research Interests
Professor Lubiw's research is in the area of algorithms, specifically computational geometry and graph algorithms.
Gautam Kamath
Gautam Kamath will be joining the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science in July 2019.
Troy Vasiga
Teaching interests
Dr. Vasiga's teaching interests include introductory computer science, compilers, data structures, algorithms and theoretical computer science.
Kimon Fountoulakis
Kimon Fountoulakis is an Assistant Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science and a member of its Scientific Computation Group.
Ian McKillop
Research Interests
Professor McKillop works in the area of information systems assurance with a focus on data quality, security and performance management issues found in high-availability, mission-critical systems such as those found in banking and healthcare settings.
Xi He
Xi He will be joining the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in spring 2019.
Xi graduated from National University of Singapore with double degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.
Andrew Morton
Teaching interests
Digital Hardware and Systems Programming
Administrative and service responsibilities
Associate Director of Software Engineering
Chengnian Sun
Chengnian Sun will be joining the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in July 2019.
Srinivasan Keshav
Research interests
My research goal for the past several years has been to apply my expertise in computer networking to find innovative solutions to large-scale problems in energy systems. My focus is on using three revolutionary technologies—solar photovoltaic generators, energy storage, and pervasive sensing—to improve the efficiency and reduce the carbon footprint of energy systems.
Ian Goldberg
Research interests
Professor Goldberg's research spans a number of areas in privacy, security, and cryptography, focusing on privacy enhancing technologies for Internet applications.
Nancy Day
Research Interests
Professor Day's research is in developing techniques and methodologies to
ensure correct system behaviour for software and hardware systems. Her
focus is on the use of formal methods, which often uncover subtle bugs
that are very difficult to discover using conventional techniques. For
example, in the analysis of a separation minima used by air traffic
Krista Hrin
Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute
DC 3141
krista.hrin@uwaterloo.ca
Nichola Harrilall
Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute
DC 2597A
nichola.harrilall@uwaterloo.ca
Shalev Ben-David
Shalev Ben-David completed his PhD at MIT under the supervision of Scott Aaronson. He joined the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science on July 1, 2018 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland.
His research interests are in classical and quantum complexity theory.
Yousra Aafer
Yousra Aafer will be joining the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor on January 1, 2020.
Jeffrey Shallit
Research interests
Professor Shallit is interested in the interplay between number theory, algebra, logic, discrete mathematics and the theory of computation. Most of his recent work focuses on combinatorics on words and automata theory, especially on decision procedures.
Lori Case
Teaching interests
I primarily teach introductory computer science courses to both majors and non-majors. I try to connect concepts taught in class to areas outside of computer science, as well as provide a basis for future courses.
William B Cowan
Research interests
Professor Cowan's research is primarily interactive computer graphics. Specifically he is interested in the the perceptual relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional perception, computer-mediated sensory substitution, colour and attention. He is Director of the Computer Graphics Lab, and has been cross-appointed in the Departments of Psychology and Fine Arts. He is also a professorial fellow at the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology where he studies the role of the university in national systems of innovation.
Yuri Boykov
Yuri Boykov will be joining the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science on July 1, 2018.
