The Cheriton School of Computer Science is named for David R. Cheriton, who earned his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in 1978. In 2005, Professor Cheriton made a transformational gift to the school that supports named chairs, faculty fellowships, and graduate scholarships.
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Meet Pengyu Nie, a professor who uses machine learning and natural language processing to improve software engineering
Pengyu Nie obtained his PhD in 2023 and MSc in 2020 from The University of Texas at Austin, where he was advised by Milos Gligoric. He has a BSc from University of Science and Technology of China, which he received in 2017.
International Women’s Day: Celebrating five Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers
Friday, March 8, 2024 marks International Women’s Day, a global holiday recognizing gender-related issues and honouring female achievements. To celebrate, the Cheriton School of Computer Science is highlighting five female students and faculty who paved significant research breakthroughs this past year.
Cheriton researchers find that survey participants duped by AI-generated images nearly 40 per cent of the time
If you have trouble figuring out if an image of a person is real or if it’s been generated using artificial intelligence, you’re not alone.
A new study conducted by Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers found that people had more difficulty than expected distinguishing who is a real person and who is artificially generated.
The study saw 260 participants provided with 20 unlabeled pictures: 10 of which were of real people obtained from Google searches, and the other 10 generated by Stable Diffusion or DALL-E, two commonly used AI programs that generate images.