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The following is a condensed article by Rose Simone; see original at https://uwaterloo.ca/magazine/fall-2022/feature/cybersecurity-builders

Penelope Schankula (BCS in progress) is a builder. She may not have been aware of that when she took a co-op job at the cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf in Waterloo, but she is part of a new generation helping build the region’s cybersecurity cluster today. 

The following is a condensed article by Bill Bean; see original at https://uwaterloo.ca/news/artificial-intelligence-needs-good-data-grow-future

Sujaya Maiyya joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in fall 2022. Her research is in the design of secure, high-performance data systems. She has a PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she developed a series of protocols that enable secure, fault-tolerant data management on both trusted and untrusted computing infrastructure.

Computer Science Professor Jo Atlee, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki, and their former students have been awarded a ten-year most influential paper award to be conferred at VaMoS 2023. Also known as the 17^th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, the annual meeting will take place from January 25 to 27, 2023 in Odense, Denmark.

The excitement was palpable as eight teams made their last effort to convince a panel of judges that their business idea deserved one of four $5,000 awards at Velocity’s $5K pitch competition. Among them was RelayMD, one of four finalists that won a top prize at the Velocity 5K final competition held on November 23, 2022.

On November 12, 2022, the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute with industry host Musashi AI held a data challenge focused on computer vision open to all Waterloo students. 

A team of three Waterloo students have placed 17^th at the 45^th International Collegiate Programming Contest, the most prestigious and well-known algorithmic programming competition for university students, held this year in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The many Wi-Fi devices that pervade our homes, workplaces and lives — from phones and smartwatches to TVs and voice assistants to desktops, laptops, tablets, security systems, and more — use an encrypted network to communicate securely, yet despite cryptographic protection they may be leaking sensitive information. 

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professors Wenhu Chen and Xi He have been named Canada CIFAR AI Chairs.

Wenhu Chen joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science in fall 2022 as an Assistant Professor. Before joining Waterloo as faculty, he was a Research Scientist at Google Research.