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Professor Sepehr Assadi has won the 2025 Presburger Award, a prestigious honour recognizing his exceptional contributions to theoretical computer science. The honour specifically acknowledges his pioneering work on establishing lower bounds for multi-pass streaming algorithms, a long-standing and challenging problem in the field.

Professor Craig S. Kaplan has been named a 2025 Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, an honour that recognizes his exceptional contributions to mathematics.

Liam Hebert, a PhD candidate in computer science, has been awarded the 2025 IEEE Canadian Foundation Nick Cercone Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science. The award recognizes a doctoral student at a Canadian university who demonstrates exceptional research promise with practical impact beyond the field of computer science, along with a strong commitment to helping others.

Professors Sepehr Assadi and Wenhu Chen have been named recipients of the 2025 Faculty of Mathematics Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Awards.

A trio of recent Waterloo graduates has tackled a long-standing problem in clinical research with an automated solution that could help scientists analyze blood stem cells faster and more accurately.

Professor Craig Kaplan has received this year’s Faculty of Mathematics Awards for Distinction in Teaching. Up to two awards are conference each year to teachers who have consistently demonstrated outstanding pedagogical skills and a deep commitment to our students’ education.

Five incoming graduate students have been awarded Vector Scholarships in Artificial Intelligence (VSAI).

Established in 2017, the Vector Institute supports AI talent, drives research excellence and fosters AI-based innovation in Canada. Its annual VSAI program recognizes top students across Ontario, who are enrolled in Vector-recognized master’s programs and those pursuing individualized AI study paths.

This year’s cohort of 120 scholarship recipients across the province will receive a total of $2.1 million in funding, with each student awarded $17,500.

Ever spent hours browsing through multiple websites because you can’t find the right source for your essay?

Fortunately, a Waterloo-led research team has created ScholarCopilot, an AI-powered software that can make writing papers faster, smoother, and less stressful.

Users can write or upload on ScholarCopilot’s interface. When they click on the “search citations” button, it will analyze their content and generate a list of academic sources. If the user chooses one of the recommendations, ScholarCopilot will automatically create in-text citations.

PhD student Yuzhe You has won the Michael A.J. Sweeney Award for Best Student Paper at Graphics Interface 2025. Held annually by the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, GI is the nation’s top conference on computer graphics and visualization, and human-computer interaction.

The award recognizes Yuzhe’s paper, Exploring Comparative Visual Approaches for Understanding Model Trade-offs in Adversarial Machine Learning, co-authored with Professor Jian Zhao, her supervisor.

Jiawen Stefanie Zhu (BCS ’24) has won the Best Poster award at Graphics Interface 2025, Canada’s top conference on computer graphics and visualization, and human-computer interaction.

Jiawen completed her undergraduate studies at the Cheriton School of Computer Science in 2024. Now, as a PhD student at the University of Washington, her research focuses on interactive systems that can enhance human–human and human–AI collaboration. In particular, she is “exploring ways to help people navigate our multilingual world.”