David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Circle has signed an agreement to acquire the Interop Labs team along with its proprietary intellectual property, the company behind the development of the Axelar Network  

Professor Martin Karsten and his former graduate student Peter Cai (MMath ’23) uncovered a subtle but powerful way to make data centres more efficient. Their research could reduce energy consumption by as much as 30 per cent by rethinking how network traffic is processed.

Valentio Iverson, Alice Moayyedi and Beihao Zhou are recipients of the Computing Research Association’s 2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards, an annual program that recognizes exceptional undergraduate researchers from universities across North America.

All three students received honourable mentions in this year’s competition, placing them among an outstanding group of research-focused undergraduates whose work demonstrates technical depth, originality and intellectual creativity.