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photo of Professor Wenhu Chen in the Davis Centre
Monday, October 24, 2022

Meet Wenhu Chen, a professor who studies natural language processing, deep learning, knowledge representation and reasoning

Wenhu Chen joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science in fall 2022 as an Assistant Professor. Before joining Waterloo as faculty, he was a Research Scientist at Google Research.

Wednesday, October 26, 2022 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • ML-Driven Algorithm Selection and Meta-Solving for Hard Combinatorial Problems

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Joseph Scott, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Vijay Ganesh

Friday, October 28, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • New Lower Bounds for Set Multilinear Formulas

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

Shubhangi Saraf, Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

The recent exciting breakthrough by Limaye, Srinivasan, and Tavenas showing superpolynomial lower bounds for constant-depth algebraic circuits has underscored the importance of studying the complexity of set multilinear formulas.

photo of Peyman Momeni in the Davis Centre
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

FairBlock, start-up founded by recent master’s graduate Peyman Momeni, receives $400k USD equivalent funding from Cosmos

FairBlock, a start-up founded by recent master’s graduate Peyman Momeni, has received the equivalent of $400k USD funding from Cosmos, an ecosystem of apps and services that exchange digital assets and data using inter-blockchain communication protocols.

Friday, October 21, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • The Brascamp-Lieb Polytope: Matroid Matching and Rank of Matrix Spaces

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

Akshay Ramachandran, Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Amsterdam and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica