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Wednesday, July 20, 2022 9:00 am - 9:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Data Systems • Models and Algorithms for Persistent Queries over Streaming Graphs

Please note: This PhD defence will take place in DC 2310 and online.

Anil Pacaci, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: University Professor M. Tamer Özsu

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

DLS: Tony Chan — A Personal and Historical View of Computational Mathematics

Please note: This DLS presentation will be given in person in DC 1302 and livestreamed over MS Teams.

Tony Chan
President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

In its modern incarnation, computational mathematics is a discipline that blossomed only after WWII. But even in its relatively brief history, there have been some major shifts in its methodology, emphasis, and applications.

photo of Professor Troy Vasiga, Chris Trevisan, Wen Yuen Pang, and Marian Dietz
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Waterloo programmers place second in east division and fourth overall at 2022 ICPC North America Championship, advance to ICPC World Finals

The top computer programming students across Canada and the United States competed in the prestigious North America Championship round of the 2022 International Collegiate Programming Contest hosted by the University of Central Florida from May 26–31, 2022. 

Tuesday, July 19, 2022 9:30 am - 9:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Natural Language Processing • Innovations in Domain Knowledge Augmentation of Contextual Models

Please note: This PhD defence will take place online.

Georgios Michalopoulos, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Ian McKillop, Helen Chen

Tuesday, June 7, 2022 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Systems and Networking • PerFaaS: A Discrete-Event Simulator for Serverless Computing Platforms

Please note: This master’s research paper presentation will be given online.

Shahzaib Ali, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Tim Brecht

photo of Professor Dan Vogel and Daekun Kim
Monday, May 30, 2022

Daekun Kim receives 2022 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award

Daekun Kim, a third-year software engineering student, has received the 2022 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Established in 2012, the $1,000 annual award recognizes excellence in research conducted by an undergraduate student in the Faculty of Mathematics.

Professor Shane McIntosh in the Davis Centre
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Shane McIntosh receives Early Researcher Award to develop self-sustaining software build systems

Professor Shane McIntosh was awarded $140,000 by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Early Researcher Awards program for his proposal titled “Self-sustaining software build systems.” This amount is matched by an additional $50,000 from the University of Waterloo, bringing the total funding to $190,000.