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Monday, September 25, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy • Micro-Architectural Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses: CPU Caches, Schedulers, and Beyond!

Please note: This talk will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Gururaj Saileshwar, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Monday, September 18, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering • Pushing the Limit of 1-Minimality of Language-Agnostic Program Reduction

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2564 and online.

Zhenyang Xu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun

Friday, September 15, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Health Informatics • Parameterizing the Spatial Distribution of Renal Tumors using Modified Spherical Coordinates

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2102.

Christopher West, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Anita Layton, Justin Wan

Kidney cancer is a well-studied and highly prevalent cancer in which tumors grow and obstruct the functional tissues of the kidney. Medical imaging is commonly used to diagnose and verify the presence of these kidney tumors and can give some qualitative intuition on the scope of their proliferation.

Professor N. Asokan in the Davis Centre
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Professor N. Asokan named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor N. Asokan has been named a 2023 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the highest national honour a researcher in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences can achieve.

Friday, September 15, 2023 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity • The Pair Cache Problem

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Sayed Mohammad Amin Khodaee, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor J. Ian Munro

Thursday, September 21, 2023 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • Mindless Scroll: Evaluating a Colouring App for Mindfulness

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Saralin Zassman, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Daniel Vogel, Craig Kaplan

We design and evaluate Mindless Scroll, a mobile application for mindfulness that encourages a slow and deliberate approach to colouring. The app provides a visually immersive user experience in contrast to the majority of mindfulness-based mobile apps that focus on audio-based methods.

Tuesday, September 5, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Differentially-Private Multiparty Clustering

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Abdelrahman Ahmed, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum

composite photo of the 2023 CS Schulich leaders
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Four new recipients of Canada’s most prestigious scholarship to study computer science

This fall, the University of Waterloo is welcoming 10 outstanding first-year students — four of whom will be studying computer science — through the Schulich Leader Scholarships program. Awarded annually to 100 high school students across Canada, the Schulich Leader Scholarships are granted to exceptional students who show great entrepreneurial promise in science, technology, engineering and math.

Thursday, September 7, 2023 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CrySP) • Can Watermarking Control the Misuse of Deep Image Generators?

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 3317.

Nils Lukas, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Florian Kerschbaum