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Dan Vogel, Post Doctoral Fellow with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, is working on a way to communicate with your home. A member of Waterloo's Human Computer Interaction Lab, Vogel, who will join the School of Computer Science as a professor this May, focuses his research on large displays, input technologies and interaction techniques, and aesthetic interaction.

David McKinnon, Henry Shi, and David Taylor

Henry Shi, a 3A Computer Science student, has been awarded both a co-op student of the year award from the University of Waterloo and one of two national awards from the Canadian Association for Co-operative Education.

Doug Stinson, a professor with the School of Computer Science, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and internationally renowned scholar in the fields of cryptography, security, and combinatorics, has been named University Professor. This fantastic honour is the third to be bestowed on a faculty member from the School of Computer Science.

First-year Waterloo Computer Science student Celeste Anderson added another accolade to her glowing resume of accomplishments in the world of math, computer science, and gaming by earning the ultimate title of King as the first-place winner of the popular reality-tv series, “King of the Nerds.” Competing in challenges that required mathematical skills, logic, and problem solvin

Raouf Boutaba, Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, has been named a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC-ICI). Boutaba adds this fellowship to an impressive list of accolades having been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) just over a year ago.

Ondrej Lhotak, Associate Professor with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science has been named an Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher by the Canadian Association of Computer Science. Lhotak joins Associate Professor Ian Goldberg (2010) and Professor Bin Ma (2009) in a growing list of distinguished faculty members who have won this researcher prize.

By Beth Gallagher

Communications and Public Affairs

Yuying Li looks deeply into the unpredictable and sometimes catastrophic events that haunt investors.

While her expertise is managing risk, the University of Waterloo computer science professor specializes in how to avoid huge losses on the stock market when random events hit unexpectedly.

The second 2012 Derick Wood Graduate Scholarship has been awarded to Vinayak Pathak. Pathak is a PhD student at the School who is studying for his PhD with Prof. Anna Lubiw. He previously earned his MMath degree under the supervision of Prof.

Professor Srinivasan Keshav of the Cheriton School has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his contributions to computer communication networks and systems.

At Facebook’s College Hackathon, Waterloo beats 17 other teams with its social version of Siri.

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Post Doctoral Fellow Brings Science Fiction Home

Computer Science student awarded national co-op prize

Doug Stinson named University Professor

“King of the Nerds” champion shows why computer science girls rock

Professor Raouf Boutaba named Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada

CS professor named Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher

Professor Yuying Li warns banks and investment firms to expect the unexpected

Derick Wood Scholar Announced

Keshav Named ACM Fellow

Waterloo wins Facebook College Hackathon