Professor M. Tamer Özsu, a founding member of the Data Systems Group at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been named a University Professor by the University of Waterloo, a distinction conferred to academics of exceptional scholarly achievement and international pre-eminence.
Edward Cheung, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Joel Reardon, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary
Kareem El Gebaly, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Xi He, PhD candidate
Computer Science Department, Duke University
Charles Perin, Department of Computer Science
City, University of London
We live in an increasingly data-driven world, where commercial, societal, environmental, and political decisions are made based on data. However, we also live in a world where most people lack the literacy required to participate in the data-informed debates of modern society. Perhaps the main barrier to improving people’s data literacy is that data is often associated with complexity, large scale, corporatism, and dystopia.
But data is about people.
Haifeng Xu, PhD candidate
Computer Science Department, University of Southern California
Strategic interactions among self-interested agents (a.k.a., games) are ubiquitous, ranging from economic activity in daily life and the Internet to defender-adversary interactions in national security. A key variable influencing agents' strategic decision making is the information they have available about their environment as well as the preferences and actions of others.
Thomas Steinke, Postdoctoral researcher
IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California
As data is being more widely collected and used, privacy and statistical validity are becoming increasingly difficult to protect. Sound solutions are needed, as ad hoc approaches have resulted in several high-profile failures.
The Obelisk has named Research Professor Maura Grossman as one of the top six women in law worldwide who is transforming the legal industry through technology.
Kimon Fountoulakis, Postdoctoral fellow and co-PI
University of California at Berkeley and International Computer Science Institute