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Friday, December 3, 2021 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Requirements Engineering and Management Effects on Downstream Developer Performance in a Small Business Findings from a Case Study

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

Chantelle Gellert, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel Berry

photo of Kelechi Ogueji in the Davis Centre
Tuesday, November 9, 2021

AfriBERTa brings the power of natural language processing to African languages

Researchers at the Cheriton School of Computer Science have developed a data-efficient pretrained transformed-based neural language model to analyze 11 African languages. Their new neural network model, which they have dubbed AfriBERTa, is based on BERT — Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers — a deep learning technique for natural language processing developed in 2018 by Google. 

photo of Griffin Keglevich, Ruslan Nikolaev and Rob Khazzam
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Company co-founded by Cheriton School of Computer Science alums attracts $37-million CAD financing round

A company founded by two University of Waterloo graduates is on track to become a giant in the Canadian business-to-business credit card market.

Float, which was co-founded by Cheriton School of Computer Science alums Griffin Keglevich and Ruslan Nikolaev, recently brought in a whopping $37 million CAD in new investments.

The company’s third co-founder and current CEO, Rob Khazzam, who joined Float in March 2021, brings a wealth of experience in business and finance, having previously worked for Uber and various venture capital advisory firms.

Thursday, November 11, 2021 11:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Attacks and Fixes on Distributed Key Generation Protocols

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Chelsea Komlo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Ian Goldberg, Douglas Stebila

Monday, November 22, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction • Affective Expressions in Conversational Agents for Learning Environments: Effects of Curiosity, Humour, and Interjections

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Jessy Ceha, PhD Candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Edith Law