Omid Abari
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Paulo Alencar
![Paulo Alencar](https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/sites/ca.computer-science/files/styles/thumbnail/public/uploads/images/palencar.jpg?itok=LIFdMNVw)
Ehsan Amjadian
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Degrees
- Ph.D., Deep Learning & Natural Language Processing, Carleton University
Publications
Ehsan Amjadian on Google Scholar
Dr. Amjadian is the Head of Data Science at the Royal Bank of Canada, where he has led numerous advanced AI products from ideation to production and has filed multiple patents in the areas of Data Protection, Finance & Climate, and Computer Vision applications to Satellite Images.
Ebrahim Bagheri
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Jamal Bentahar
Angela Bonifati
Tim Brecht
![Tim Brecht](https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/sites/ca.computer-science/files/styles/thumbnail/public/uploads/images/brecht.jpeg?itok=_jN5R4xW)
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Toronto (1994)
- M.Math., University of Waterloo (1985)
- B.Sc., University of Saskatchewan (1983)
Research interests
- Performance Evaluation, Computer Systems and Networking
- Wireless Networking, The Internet of Things
- Sports Analytics
Publications
Forbes Burkowski
![Forbes Burkowski](https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/sites/ca.computer-science/files/styles/thumbnail/public/uploads/images/fjburkow_1.jpg?itok=AmPdYBtG)
Steven Jeromy Carrière
Géry Casiez
Robert Corless
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Gordon Cormack
![Gordon Cormack](https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/sites/ca.computer-science/files/styles/thumbnail/public/uploads/images/gvcormac.jpg?itok=wUpg1W2J)
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Manitoba (1981)
- M.Sc., University of Manitoba (1978)
- B.Sc., University of Manitoba (1977)
Research interests
- High Recall Information Retrieval
- Legal and medical applications of Information Retrieval
Publications
Donald Cowan
![Don Cowan](https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/sites/ca.computer-science/files/styles/thumbnail/public/uploads/images/doncowan_12.jpg?itok=vZZO26oG)
- D.Sc. (honoris causa), University of Guelph (2011)
- Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1965)
- M.Sc., University of Waterloo (1961)
- B.A.Sc., University of Toronto (1960)
- Software engineering methods for constructing and verifying advanced software systems and applications
- Development of advanced software systems and applications incorporating novel database systems and artificial intelligence components
Vic DiCiccio
![Vic DiCiccio](https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/sites/ca.computer-science/files/styles/thumbnail/public/uploads/images/vicdiciccio_1.jpg?itok=60DhlSP1)
Degrees
- MASc, University of Waterloo
- BASc, University of Waterloo
Chrysanne DiMarco
![Chrysanne DiMarco](https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/sites/ca.computer-science/files/styles/thumbnail/public/uploads/images/chrysannedimarco_2_3.jpg?itok=uzMlI0TY)
Publications
Peter Forsyth
![Professor Peter Forsyth](https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/sites/ca.computer-science/files/styles/thumbnail/public/uploads/images/forsythprofile.png?itok=Owkm5WqM)
- Ph.D., University of Western Ontario (1979)
- M.Sc., Australian National University, Australia (1977)
- B.Sc., University of Western Ontario (1975)
- Computational finance
- Machine learning methods for optimal stochastic control in finance
Vijay Ganesh
![Vijay Ganesh photo](https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/sites/ca.computer-science/files/styles/thumbnail/public/uploads/images/vijay-ganesh-at-mit_0.jpg?itok=Lo4VNMMl)
Amira Ghenai
Anil Goel
Peng Hu
Lesley Istead
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Keiko Katsuragawa
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Srinivasan Keshav
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Srinivasan Keshav is the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. Previously, he was a Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.
Although he started out as a researcher in computer networking in 1988, since 2010 his focus has been on reducing the carbon footprint of energy generation, transportation, and buildings. For the past couple of years, he also worked on improving the performance of the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain so that it can be used as the foundation for highly-scalable energy systems, such as for transactive energy and renewable energy certificates.
He has recently turned his attention to the carbon sequestration and biodiversity potential of forests, looking at both conservation and restoration.
Paul Larson
Ming Li
![Ming Li](https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/sites/ca.computer-science/files/styles/thumbnail/public/uploads/images/mli.jpg?itok=w2cndQBR)
Degrees
- Ph.D., Cornell University, United States (1985)
- M.Sc., Cornell University, United States (1983)
- M.Sc., Wayne State University, United States (1980)
Research interests
- Recently I am working on methods for personalized cancer immunotherapy. A key issue for personalized cancer immunotherapy is to discover neoantigens on the surface of cancer cells. We are developing automatic, highly sensitive and personalized methods to sequence those peptides and validate their immunogenicity.
Publications
Anna Lubiw
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- Ph.D., University of Toronto (1986)
- M.Math., University of Waterloo (1982)
- B.Sc., University of Toronto (1979)
- Algorithms, specifically computation geometry, graph algorithms and graph drawing
- Current topics include reconfiguration, triangulations of planar point sets, shortest path algorithms, and folding and unfolding problems
Carlos Lucena
Sylvain Malacria
Andrew Malton
Alex May
Ian McKillop
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Amer Mouawad
Ian Munro
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Feature article
University Professor Ian Munro’s Golden Jubilee — 50 years at the University of Waterloo
Degrees
- PhD, Computer Science, University of Toronto (1971)
- MSc, University of British Columbia
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BA, University of New Brunswick
Research interests
- Data structures, particularly fast and space-efficient structures
- Design, analysis and implementation of algorithms
- Database systems and data warehousing, particularly efficiency issues
Publications
Yakov Nekrich
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Toacy Oliveira
Richard Peng
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Degrees
- Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University (2013)
- B.Math., University of Waterloo (2009)
Research interests
- Data structures
- Numerical analysis
- Combinatorial optimization
Publications
Steven Ruuth
Mohab Safey El Din
Aladdin Saleh
Ken Salem
![Ken Salem](https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/sites/ca.computer-science/files/styles/thumbnail/public/uploads/images/kmsalem_0.jpg?itok=XBFl2xmc)
Degrees
- Ph.D., Princeton University, United States (1989)
- B.Sc., Carnegie-Mellon University, United States (1983)
Research interests
- Data systems, especially synchronization, transactions, fault tolerance
- Distributed systems and cloud computing
Publications
Stacey Scott
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Jeffrey Shallit
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Degrees
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, United States (1983)
- B.A., Princeton University, United States (1979)
Research interests
- Automata theory and formal languages, combinatorics on words
- Number theory, combinatorics, algebra with a computational flavor
Publications
Doug Stinson
![Doug Stinson](https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/sites/ca.computer-science/files/styles/thumbnail/public/uploads/images/dstinson_0.jpg?itok=isGw-U9u)
- Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1981)
- M.Sc., Ohio State University, United States (1980)
- B.Math., University of Waterloo (1978)
- Cryptography and security: unconditionally secure cryptographic protocols, including secret sharing and authentication
- Combinatorics: construction and analysis of combinatorial designs, error correcting codes, orthogonal arrays
- Algorithms: algorithms to construct and analyze combinatorial structures
Frank Tompa
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- LL.D., Dalhousie University (2013)
- Ph.D., University of Toronto (1974)
- M.Sc., Brown University, United States (1970)
- B.Sc., Brown University, United States (1970)
- Database dependency theory, storage structure selection, query processing, materialized view maintenance, database integration, data retention, and access control
- Text management systems, text matching, XML processing, information retrieval, structured text conversion, and text classification
- Mathematics (text and formula) information retrieval
Massimo Tornatore
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Hieu Tran
Peter van Beek
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- Ph.D., University of Waterloo (1990)
- M.Math., University of Waterloo (1986)
- B.Sc., University of British Columbia (1984)
- Artificial intelligence with a focus on representation and reasoning, constraint programming, constraint satisfaction, backtracking algorithms, planning, scheduling, combinatorial optimization, applied machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, and applications of artificial intelligence
- A recent additional interest is algorithms and techniques in computational photography