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Friday, September 27, 2024 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CrySP) | Mobile Security • Auditing Framework APIs via Inferred App-side Security Specifications

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Parjanya Vyas, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors N. Asokan, Yousra Aafer

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • Evaluating Container-based and WebAssembly-based Serverless Platforms

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

Abdul Monum, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Martin Karsten

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 9:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Computer Vision • Evaluating And Improving Disparity Maps Without Ground Truth

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Andreea Pocol, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Lesley Istead, Craig S. Kaplan

Monday, September 30, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing • Computational Modeling of Artistic Inspiration in the Context of Short Lyric Lines

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Gaurav Sahu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Olga Vechtomova

Monday, September 30, 2024 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing • PromptMix: A Class Boundary Data Augmentation Method for Text Classification and LLM Distillation

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Gaurav Sahu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Olga Vechtomova

a collage of images from the Cheriton Research Symposium
Friday, September 27, 2024 10:00 am - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

2024 Cheriton Research Symposium

Join us for the 2024 Cheriton Research Symposium, a showcase of research excellence made possible by the generous support of David R. Cheriton.

Morning Session
Presentations by Cheriton Fellows Semih Salihoğlu and Eric Blais, followed by a panel discussion on the future of computer science education, moderated by Dave Tompkins

Afternoon Session
Graduate student poster presentations

Professor Nils Lukas in Waterloo's Davis Centre
Monday, September 16, 2024

Nils Lukas receives Waterloo’s 2024 Alumni Gold Medal

The University of Waterloo has recognized recent PhD graduate Dr. Nils Lukas with the 2024 Alumni Gold Medal for his exceptional academic performance in a doctoral program. This prestigious award, conferred by Alumni Relations, features a custom-crafted, 24-carat gold-plated medal embossed with the university’s seal. Since 1970, the Alumni Gold Medal has been conferred to top graduating students from Waterloo’s six faculties at convocation.