Professor profiles

Dan Brown

Professor

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.

Daniel Vogel

Professor

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.

Edward Chan

Associate Professor Emeritus

Research interests

Eric Blais

Assistant Professor

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Forbes Burkowski

Associate Professor Emeritus

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Ian Goldberg

Professor and University Research Chair

Research interests

Professor Goldberg's research spans a number of areas in privacy, security, and cryptography, focusing on privacy enhancing technologies for Internet applications.

Joanne Atlee

Professor and Director of Women in Computer Science

Research interests

Professor Atlee’s research interests are in software engineering with a particular focus on improving the quality of software.

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.

Mark Giesbrecht

Professor and Dean, Faculty of Mathematics

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.

Peter Buhr

Associate Professor

Research interests

Professor Buhr’s primary research area is programming languages, in which he studies concurrency, polymorphism, visualization/debugging, and persistence.