Current students

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and online.

Tim Dockhorn, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually.

Yiwei Lu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu

Indiscriminate data poisoning attacks aim to decrease a model’s test accuracy by injecting a small amount of corrupted training data. Despite significant interest, existing attacks remain relatively ineffective against modern machine learning (ML) architectures.

photo of Kevin Wan, Ramazan Rakhmatullin, Andrew Qi Tang, and Troy Vasiga

Waterloo does it again.

Just as a trio of coders had in 2021, a team of three Waterloo algorithmic programmers has topped the competition at the 2023 International Collegiate Programming Contest North America Championship held on May 29, 2023 at the University of Central Florida.

Waterloo overcame the competition, including trios of programmers from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, Harvard, and the University of Toronto.

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Ke Nian, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yuying Li

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 1331 and online.

Yue Lyu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Jian Zhao, Keiko Katsuragawa

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 1331 and online.

Yen-Ting (Allen) Yeh, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel

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

Yuzhe You, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jian Zhao

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 1304 and virtually.

Zhili Zeng, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Shane McIntosh

Continuous Integration (CI) is a popular software development practice that allows developers to quickly verify modifications to their projects. To cope with the ever-increasing demand for faster software releases, CI acceleration approaches have been proposed to expedite the feedback that CI provides.

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

Owura Asare, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mei Nagappan, N. Asokan

In this thesis, we perform two security evaluations of GitHub’s Copilot with the aim of better understanding the strengths and weaknesses with of Code Generation Tools.

Incoming master’s student Jimmy Di has received a 2023–24 Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence from the Vector Institute. These merit-based entrance scholarships provide $17,500 for one year of full-time study and are awarded to top students who have been admitted into an AI-related master’s program in an Ontario university.

Current students

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning • Align Your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and online.

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning • Exploring the Limits of Model-Targeted Indiscriminate Data Poisoning Attacks

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and virtually.

Waterloo tops the competition at 2023 ICPC North America Championship, advances to ICPC World Finals

PhD Defence • Scientific Computing • Data-Driven Models: An Alternative Discrete Hedging Strategy

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 3317 and online.

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • Eggly: Designing Mobile Augmented Reality Neurofeedback Training Games for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 1331 and online.

PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction • Investigating New Forms of Single-handed Physical Phone Interaction with Finger Dexterity

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 1331 and online.

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction • AdvEx: Interactive Visual Explorations of Adversarial Attacks

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

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Trade-off Exploration for Acceleration of Continuous Integration

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 1304 and virtually.

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) | Software Engineering • Security Evaluations of GitHub’s Copilot

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

Jimmy Di awarded 2023 Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence