Professor Marina Meila in front of a blackboard while holding a tablet
CS Prof Marina Meila has been named a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, recognizing her expertise in advancing the theoretical foundations of interpretable & explainable machine learning.
In this Q&A, she talks about her research journey, current projects and future directions: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/marina-...
collage of Waterloo CS women researchers and entrepreneurs
π Happy (early) International Womenβs Day! To celebrate, we are recognizing our phenomenal women researchers and entrepreneurs.
β From groundbreaking discoveries to accelerating patient care, #UWaterloo Computer Science women shine!
π Read more: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/interna...
#IWD #womeninstem
Left to right: Professors Luis Ricardez-Sandoval and Pascal Poupart in Waterloo's Davis Centre
CS Professor Pascal Poupart and Professor Luis Ricardez-Sandoval from the Department of Chemical Engineering have received $480k in support from BMO and Mitacs to strengthen Canadaβs supply of critical minerals by applying AI to the recycling of rare earth elements.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/pascal-...
#UWaterloo student, Luka Jovanovic built a website to track the speed of the #TTC streetcars.
π Called the TTCLeaderboard, the app is set up like keeping score of a race, ranking the lines from fastest to slowest π
Read more: uwaterloo.ca/news/mathema...
#toronto
The Secret Math behind the Music: Position-Contents Duality and Symmetry : uwaterloo.ca/news/media/s... #WAICL #GroupTheory
Left to right: Professor Lila Kari and PhD student Monireh Safari, the authors of the study from Waterlooβs Cheriton School of Computer Science.
What if DNA doesnβt record only ancestry but also carries an imprint of the environment in which an organism evolved?
A new genomics study suggests precisely that, revealing compelling evidence of genetic convergence across the deepest divide in the tree of life: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/does-dn...
Left to right: Master's alum Peter Cai and Professor Martin Karsten in a server room.
Professor Martin Karsten and former grad student Peter Cai (MMath β23) uncovered a subtle but powerful way to make data centres more efficient. Their research found that a small modification to the Linux kernel could reduce energy consumption by as much as 30 per cent.
uwaterloo.ca/news/global-...
CS Research Professor Maura R. Grossman in Waterloo's Davis Centre.
In The Walrus, CS Research Prof Maura Grossman warns that genAI could erode trust in the courts, and that Canadaβs justice system isnβt ready for a world where seeing and hearing no longer mean believing. βYou could make a deepfake of my voice in two minutes,β she says.
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Professor Edith Law presenting during the launch of the Future of Work Institute, which she leads as its Executive Director.
Maclean's: Edith Law, Exec Director of the Future of Work Institute, explores a future where students learn by teaching AI agents. Her vision is to use AI to spark collaboration, reflection and curiosity in the classroom. AI's power isn't in shortcuts but deeper learning: macleans.ca/the-year-ahe...
Left to right: Valentio Iverson, Alice Moayyedi and Beihao Zhou in Waterloo's Davis Centre.
Congrats to Valentio Iverson, Alice Moayyedi and Beihao Zhou, recipients of the Computing Research Associationβs 2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards! They are among an outstanding group of research-focused undergrads from universities across N. America.
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π Ring in the new year with #UWaterloo's Computer Science!
π€ Throughout 2025, our faculty, students and alumni have pushed the boundaries of curiosity, from discovering cybersecurity risks to creating novel accessibility technology.
π Check out our recap story at: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/recap-2...
A black and white photo of Maura R. Grossman in Waterloo's David Centre.
In this Girl Power Q&A, Research Prof Maura R. Grossman reflects on a career spanning psychology, law and AI. A pioneer of technology-assisted review with Cheriton colleague Gordon V. Cormack, she now focuses on ethical AI and the threat genAI poses to the courts.
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The Peter Russell Rock Garden at the University of Waterloo during winter.
The year is almost done. Best wishes for 2026.
π΄ #UWaterloo students showed how AI can unlock human learning at the Google-UWaterloo Symposium π
π Read more about the students' projects and the #Google & UWaterlo collaboration at: uwaterloo.ca/news/mathema...
L to R: Yelizaveta Brus, Rungroj Maipradit, Professors Earl T. Barr and Shane McIntosh
Recent masterβs graduate Yelizaveta Brus, former postdoc Rungroj Maipradit, and Profs Earl T. Barr and Shane McIntosh have won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ASE 2025.
Their work examined a common and costly issue in modern software development.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/se-rese...
π @uwaterloo.ca's Prof. Pascal Poupart and #CarletonUniversity's Prof. Sriram Ganapathi awarded Coefficient Giving grant to boost AI safety.
β‘With this funding, they aim to make agentic systems safer and more reliable β driving an AI-integrated future.
π Read more at: uwaterloo.ca/computer-sci...
Professor Florian Kerschbaum
Congratulations to Prof Florian Kerschbaum on being named a 2026 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers! He has been recognized for his contributions to data security and privacy, influencing both academic research and industrial practice.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/florian...
Waterloo Blockchain standing in front of a screen and doing the "W" hand sign
βοΈ Waterloo Blockchain flew to South America for #ETHGlobal Buenos Aires and came home with $25,850 USD π
π Read more about our students' hackathon win at cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/waterlo...
#uwaterloo #laurier #blockchain
L to R: Muhammad Sulaiman, Mahdieh Ahmadi, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Raouf Boutaba
Muhammad Sulaiman, Mahdieh Ahmadi, Mohammad Salahuddin, Raouf Boutaba and Aladdin Saleh have won the 2025 CNOM Best Paper Award. Their research explores how to allocate resources to 5G network slices efficiently while guaranteeing quality of service.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/muhamma...
Professor Craig S. Kaplan juggles chalk in front of a blackboard on which are elements of his research.
Craig S. Kaplan @isohedral.ca has been named a 2025 ACM Distinguished Member in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the design and modelling of computational geometric patterns and non-photorealistic rendering.
Congrats on your 4th major accolade of 2025!
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/craig-s...
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Peter Forsyth in Waterloo's Davis Centre
Aquanty Inc., a Waterloo-based water-modelling company co-founded by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Peter Forsyth, has been acquired by Rocscience. Founded in 2012, Aquanty grew out of years of collaborative research on surface and subsurface water modelling.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/aquanty...
CS Research Professor Maura R. Grossman in Waterloo's Davis Centre
CS Research Professor Maura R. Grossman featured on the Inference Show. She is a pioneer of technology-assisted review and Continuous Active Learning for eDiscovery, and more recently a prominent voice warning about the implications of deepfake evidence in courts.
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Professor Freda Shi in Waterloo's Davis Centre
Freda Shi and her UBC colleagues have won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2025. Their work introduces a new benchmark that evaluates how effectively large language models perform meta-linguistic reasoning β using LLMs to better understand languages themselves.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/freda-s...
L to R: Ian Goldberg, Aniket Kate, Gregory Zaverucha. Ian Goldberg is a Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science and the Canada Research Chair in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Aniket Kate is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and a University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University. Greg Zaverucha is a software engineer in the Microsoft Research Security and Cryptography group.
Congratulations to CS Prof Ian Goldberg and his colleagues Aniket Kate and Greg Zaverucha on winning the 2025 Asiacrypt Test-of-Time Award. Their highly cited 2010 paper introduced constant-size polynomial commitment schemes central in the design of ZK proof systems.
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βοΈ Professors Maura R. Grossman, Yuntian Deng, and Wenhu Chen join CIFAR's Solution Networks to tackle AI safety in the legal system and linguistic inequality π£οΈ
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#uwaterloo
Research Professor Maura R. Grossman in Waterloo's Davis Centre
Al-generated evidence is increasingly appearing in court cases and judges say they are not ready. Research Professor Maura R. Grossman warns that generative Al has democratized fraud and courts must shift from "trust but verify" to "don't trust and verify."
NBC News: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
PhD candidate Cameron Seth in front of a blackboard
Cameron Seth is breaking down the worldβs hardest CS problem piece by piece.
βWhat Iβm doing is looking at a series of smaller problems related to the broader P vs. NP problem. Essentially, what Iβm asking is if we can solve these other related problems,β Cam says.
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Left to right: Professors Meng Xu and Sihang Liu in the Davis Centre
Congrats to Professors Meng Xu and Sihang Liu, recipients of a $254k grant from National Cybersecurity Consortium to strengthen security of LLM agents.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/meng-xu...
The University of Waterloo's campus as seen from the Graduate House.
The Cheriton School of Computer Science is recruiting!
We invite applications for multiple positions in data management and data systems, as well as in other areas of CS β ML, robotics, computer vision, bioinformatics, and computer systems and architecture.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/open-p...
L to R: Professor OndΕej LhotΓ‘k, Kevin Guo, Kevin Yang, Kelly Dance and Professor Troy Vasiga at the 2025 ICPC East Central North America contest
Congrats to Waterloo Black, represented by Kevin Guo (4A CS), Kevin Yang (4A CS) and Kelly Dance (Masterβs C&O). The trio finished second at the 2025 ICPC East Central North America contest. They will represent Waterloo at the ICPC North America Championship in 2026!
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