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Wednesday, May 14, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • OasisDB: An Oblivious and Scalable System for Relational Data

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 3301.

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

Supervisor: Professor Sujaya Maiyya

Thursday, May 8, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • Finding Behavioural Biometrics Scripts on the Web Using Dynamic Taint Analysis

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Alexandru Bara, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Urs Hengartner

Friday, April 25, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Research Paper Presentation • Systems and Networking • 5GProvGen: 5G Provenance Dataset Generation Framework

Please note: This master’s research paper presentation will take place in DC 2314.

Amr Abouelkhair, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Noura Limam

Monday, May 12, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction • Constrained Highlighting in a Document Reader Can Improve Reading Comprehension

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Nikhita Vinod Joshi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel

Monday, April 21, 2025 9:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Computer Vision • Cross-sensor Domain Adaptation for 3D Object Detection Using Stationary Object Aggregation Pseudo-labelling

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Chengjie Huang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki

Friday, May 16, 2025 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Computer Graphics • Closest Point Geometry Processing: Extensions and Applications of the Closest Point Method for Geometric Problems in Computer Graphics

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

Nathan King, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Christopher Batty, Steven Ruuth

Monday, April 14, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning • Stochastic Forward–Backward Deconvolution: Training Diffusion Models with Finite Noisy Datasets

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 2568.

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

Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu

9 waterloo students standing behind a yellow bar and doing the "W" sign with their hands
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Waterloo students win nearly $100k USD at ETHDenver 2025

Seventeen students from the University of Waterloo and Wilfred Laurier University dominated ETHDenver, held from February 23 to March 2, 2025.

ETHDenver is the world’s largest and longest-running Ethereum event. Since 2018, it has hosted blockchain-focused events, including panel discussions, workshops, networking sessions, and boot camps. Their main event is #BUIDLathon, a hackathon where attendees can team up to develop their own blockchain projects.